Back in September 2021, Mark Harmon exited NCIS early into Season 19, bringing his run as Leroy Jethro Gibbs that stretched all the way back to JAG’s backdoor pilot episodes for the show to a close after nearly 20 years. While it still remains to be seen if Harmon will ever reprise Gibbs on this procedural franchise’s flagship show, word’s come in that we’re not done spending time with this character. It’s been officially announced that a Gibbs prequel show is on the way, and Harmon is involved with it.
CBS has given a straight-to-series order for NCIS: Origins for the 2024-2025 broadcast TV season. Beginning in 1991, the prequel will chronicle Leroy Jethro Gibbs beginning his career as a “newly-minted” field agent at the NCIS Camp Pendleton office. It’s there that he’ll forge his place on “a gritty, ragtag team” that’s led by Mike Franks, who was played by Muse Watson on the original NCIS. In addition to narrating NCIS: Origins, Mark Harmon is executive producing alongside his son Sean, who previously played a younger Gibbs for flashbacks in various NCIS episodes, as well as Gina Lucita Monreal and David J. North.
