What To Know
- Brian Dietzen guarantees that NCIS‘s 500th episode, airing March 24, will be one of the show’s most emotional episodes.
- Dietzen additionally teases upcoming episodes centered on Jimmy and Kasie.
There’s loads to sit up for in case you’re a fan of NCIS — and not simply the collection’ milestone five hundredth episode (airing March 24), although that’s promising to be one you don’t wish to miss.
“People are going to absolutely lose their minds,” Brian Dietzen tells TV Insider whereas discussing the new podcast, NCIS: Partners & Probies, that he and Diona Reasonover host. “Everybody I talked to at the network said it’s probably one of the most affecting and emotional episodes we’ve ever done.”
Also developing within the again half of the season are two episodes — the seventeenth and 18th — it sounds such as you gained’t wish to miss, particularly in case you’re followers of Dr. Jimmy Palmer (Dietzen) and Kasie Hines (Reasonover).
“They’re pretty special,” says Dietzen. “One of the episodes does focus a lot on where Jimmy’s at in his personal life and where he’s giving himself new challenges. And then the next episode focuses quite a bit on Diona, Kasie’s character. But some really wonderful things.”
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He’s additionally learn the script for the penultimate episode of Season 23 and calls it “incredible.” In normal, the second half of the season is “one banger after another.”
And we already know that the collection might be again for extra: NCIS was renewed for Season 24 in January. But though the collection retains going robust and reveals no indicators of slowing down, Dietzen, who has been on it since Season 1, is aware of he can’t take it for granted.
“You don’t [know it will keep going] because I’ll never forget, David McCallum once told me, ‘An entire hit television show can be taken down by four bad episodes,’ and he was speaking from experience,” he shares. “He was on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. He said, ‘We had four bad shows in a row and it was over.’ And so I kind of feel that way about our show. And I’m like, ‘OK, it’s our job to keep that bar up there and really never take anything for granted, never take tomorrow for granted.’ So we just got to keep working hard. And I think we’ve got a great group of people to do it.”
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