Most Common Present Of The Final 5 Years

NCIS has reached a staggering milestone after 23 seasons, cementing its standing as a formidable TV franchise. It has been a blended yr for the long-running police procedural. Despite the fact that the prequel NCIS: Origins goes sturdy, NCIS: Tony & Ziva has been cancelled after only one season.

As for the primary NCIS collection, it has made TV historical past this yr by celebrating its five hundredth episode. It is a quantity that has solely been achieved 4 different instances earlier than by classics like Gunsmoke and different trendy popular culture staples equivalent to The Simpsons and Legislation & Order: SVU. Its large episode rely performs an enormous function within the newest milestone that the collection has completed.

In keeping with a brand new report from Bloomberg,NCIS is the most well-liked present of the final 5 years. The information factored within the minutes watched, as reported in Nielsen’s Weekly Streaming Prime 10 charts, with the CBS well-liked drama logging an enormous 151 billion minutes considered. It beats out Gray’s Anatomy, one other long-running drama, as seen within the desk beneath.

The numbers come from Nielsen, with the closing date being November 9, 2025. There are a couple of caveats to notice, chief of which is that Nielsen solely tracks streaming viewers watched within the U.S. Nielsen’s methodology of monitoring of minutes watched naturally favors TV collection with lots of episodes (Gray’s, Fits, and Felony Minds) or often-watched kids’s applications like Bluey.

However even with these distinctions, the dominance of NCIS stays spectacular. The CBS present has managed to maintain its viewers, even with large modifications to the NCIS solid and the lack of lead star Mark Harmon. It additionally possible advantages from being accessible on numerous platforms, together with Netflix, Hulu, and Paramount+.

It’s uncommon for any drama to nonetheless be capable of generate curiosity after greater than 20 years. Whereas there was some hypothesis that CBS could also be beginning to think about the endgame for NCIS, this newest bit of information proves why the procedural continues to be as priceless because it’s ever been. It additionally proves the purpose that having extra episodes provides the viewers one thing to sink their tooth into over the lengthy haul.

NCIS season 23 returns Tuesday, February 24, at 8 PM ET on CBS

Launch Date

September 23, 2003

Showrunner

Donald P. Bellisario

Administrators

Dennis Smith, Terrence O’Hara, Tony Wharmby, James Whitmore Jr., Thomas J. Wright, Michael Zinberg, Arvin Brown, Rocky Carroll, Diana Valentine, Leslie Libman, Tawnia McKiernan, Colin Bucksey, William Webb, Bethany Rooney, Alrick Riley, Jeff Woolnough, Alan J. Levi, Lionel Coleman, Martha Mitchell, Peter Ellis, Michael Weatherly, Edward Ornelas, Stephen Cragg, Tom Wright

Writers

George Schenck, Frank Cardea, Jesse Stern, John C. Kelley, Jennifer Corbett, Christopher Silber, Reed Steiner, Nicole Mirante-Matthews, Jack Bernstein, Scott J. Jarrett, Matthew R. Jarrett, Kimberly-Rose Wolter, Don McGill, Gil Grant, Frank Navy, Nell Scovell, Steven Kriozere, Brian Dietzen, Kate Torgovnick Could, Jeff Vlaming, Sydney Mitchel, Katie White, Richard C. Arthur, Laurence Walsh

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  Sean Murray

  Timothy McGee

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  David McCallum

  Dr. Donald ‘Ducky’ Mallard