It has been 5 years since Catherine Bell reprised her fan-favorite JAG function of Sarah “Mac” MacKenzie in NCIS: Los Angeles, however she’s prepared for a correct return to the function. After initially debuting within the authorized drama’s debut season as Diane Schonke, a Navy officer with whom David Elliot James’ Hurt was in love earlier than her homicide, Bell proved herself a formidable authorized companion to Hurt throughout the present’s 9 seasons earlier than they ultimately turned a correct couple within the remaining season.
The pair have been initially left off on a cliffhanger in JAG‘s collection finale, as the 2 flipped a coin to see who would resign or retire whereas the opposite would proceed their Naval posting, although the result was left a thriller. That was till NCIS: Los Angeles‘ season 10 finale, during which they returned and have been revealed to have damaged up after Hurt misplaced the coin flip, however was drawn again into the service, not seeing one another for some 9 years previous to their spinoff return.
Whereas their season 11 returns left the door open for a extra hopeful future for the JAG characters, Mac and Hurt haven’t been seen within the NCIS franchise since, and Catherine Bell is prepared for that to alter. Throughout Motor Metropolis Comedian Con’s From The Courtroom To A Magical Enchantress panel, moderated by Joe Deckelmeier for ScreenRant, Bell confessed that her and Elliott’s NCIS: LA return “was a bit disappointing,” significantly given followers of the collection “needed us to be collectively“.
Nevertheless, regardless of this disappointment, Bell can be wanting to deliver Mac and Hurt again for extra tales. Acknowledging the “open” vary of potentialities for the pair, the JAG star pitched a wide range of her personal concepts for the way they might return, specifically that “Mac continues to be working with the federal government“. “She’s nonetheless ready of energy, a powerful girl, possibly Hurt and Mac are again collectively,” Bell mentioned with a smile.
To Bell’s level, her and Elliott’s final appearances as Mac and Hurt in NCIS: LA season 11 did give a modicum of hope for followers of JAG who have been disenchanted the couple had break up. Within the premiere, they mentioned reconciling their relationship after lastly seeing one another in individual once more, whereas that season’s finale solely introduced Bell again and noticed her nonetheless within the Navy as a lieutenant colonel.
Very like Bell, Elliott has additionally expressed his curiosity in coming again for a possible JAG revival, stating in a latest interview for the collection finale’s twentieth anniversary that “there’s at all times an opportunity” for the present return, significantly given creator and franchise producer Donald P. Bellisario continues to be alive and broadly overseeing issues.
One of many few hurdles {that a} JAG revival in the end faces is that its successor, NCIS, has usually overtaken the unique collection in recognition to the purpose of being a problem to promote CBS Studios on a brand new incarnation of the authorized drama. The primetime community and its sister streaming service, Paramount+, proceed to see main success with the franchise.
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Nevertheless, whereas initially having expanded the titular company to different areas of the nation with spinoffs, NCIS has notably centered its spinoff improvement again on the mainline present’s characters, together with the Gibbs-focused Origins prequel collection and the Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo-led Tony & Ziva on Paramount+. The previous, particularly, just lately noticed Mark Harmon return after retiring because the character, and is presently aiming to solid a younger model of Scott Bakula’s Dwayne Satisfaction from New Orleans.
That being mentioned, between Elliott and Bell’s continued curiosity, and the dearth of an ending in sight for the franchise, the door actually is not closed for JAG to make a comeback in some unspecified time in the future. NCIS: Origins, particularly, might pave the way in which for the authorized drama to make a standalone return, fleshing out Gibbs’ relationship with the lawyer department of the Navy and constructing each towards his preliminary introduction within the authentic collection, and tales that may parallel with fashionable circumstances for Mac and Hurt.
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1995 – 2005
- Administrators
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Bradford Might, Tony Wharmby, Alan J. Levi, Jeannot Szwarc, Terrence O’Hara, Greg Beeman, Kenneth Johnson, Scott Brazil, Ray Austin, Dennis Smith, Jim Johnston, Joe Napolitano, Mark Horowitz, David James Elliott, Michael Schultz, Rod Hardy, Duwayne Dunham, James Whitmore Jr., Jerry London, Oz Scott, Richard Compton, Les Landau, Alan Myerson, Arthur W. Forney
- Writers
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Stephen Zito, R. Scott Gemmill, Paul J. Levine, Don McGill, Darcy Meyers, Ed Zuckerman, Jack Orman, John Schulian, Philip DeGuere Jr., Evan Katz, Matt Witten, Robert Cochran, Tom Towler, David Ehrman, David Zabel, Greg Strangis, Richard Levine, Thomas L. Moran, Jonathan Robert Kaplan, Mark Saraceni, Lynnie Greene, Robert McCullough, Eric Morris, Patrick Labyorteaux
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David James Elliott
Harmon Rabb
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Patrick Labyorteaux
Bud Roberts
