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Про серию 11.10, 11.11 и 250-тую (11.16)HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS | Looking beyond sweeps, the Dec. 10th episode, “Devils Triad,” presents “the third incarnation of the relationship between Gibbs and Fornell and their ex-wife (played again by Melinda McGraw). “The humor that exists when these characters get together is just a blast.” Then on Dec. 17, the Christmas episode “Homesick” revolves around people stricken by virus connected to the military. “It involves Abby, and she brings in the help of her lab tech friend Carol Wilson (played by Pauley Perrette’s real-life BFF Meredith Eaton. “They along with Palmer end up spending a bunch of time trying to get to the root of what’s happening.” And while Tony DiNozzo Sr. won’t be home for the holidays this time around, Robert Wagner will pop back up as the patriarch in Episode 250, a milestone hour “which is a big deal for us,” Glasberg attests.
Еще о 250-омQuestion: Mike, Mike, Mike… What can you tell me about NCIS‘s 250th episode? —Marsha
Ausiello: Marha, Marsha, Marsha… I can tell you that someone from Gibbs’ past will resurface around the time of the CBS phenom’s landmark episode. Sources confirm to me exclusively that Susanna Thompson is set to reprise her role as Jethro’s ex, Hollis Mann, this January. And, show boss Gary Glasberg, teases: “She is coming back in an unexpected way.”
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Спойлеры про Элли Бишоп на русскомПро нового аналитика
Для Элли не планируется романов, потому что она счастливо замужем и никаких измен не планируется. Мы в итоге встретим её мужа, по словам Гласберга, работающего юристом на АНБ, а возможно и её братьев. Это довольно интересные отношения (с мужем), когда ты не можешь рассказать все, что делаешь на работе, а к этому еще и новые обязанности добавятся.
Отношения с Гиббсом Гласберг описывает как отцовское наставление, а с Тони они разовьют отношения как у брата и сестры. Гласберг хочет так же показать событие, кторое привело Бишоп на службу - взрыв в Оклахоме в 1995 году. Тони же после первого свидания в серии от 19 ноября, в 2014 возможно снова начнет встречаться с девушками.
на английскомKeck’s Exclusives: Get to Know the New NCIS Analyst
I’m dying to know who this new NCIS female agent will end up with: Tony (Michael Weatherly) or Gibbs (Mark Harmon)? — Leslie, Portland, Oregon
Try neither. Turns out, analyst Ellie Bishop (Emily Wickersham, who debuts Nov. 19) is happily married, and executive producer Gary Glasberg has no adulterous plans in the works. “We will eventually meet her husband, who is an attorney with the NSA,” says Glasberg, who may also introduce Ellie’s brothers. “This is a very different relationship from anything we’ve had. There’s something interesting in this world when you have a spouse you can’t tell everything to, and taking on the added responsibilities of this new job could come with consequences.”
Though that may sound like the setup for a split, Glasberg describes Ellie’s relationship with Gibbs as a fatherly mentorship, while she and Tony will develop a sibling-like bond. Glasberg also plans to address the tragic 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that influenced Ellie’s desire to work with the NSA. The Nov. 19 episode will find Tony discussing dating for the first time since Ziva’s exit, and 2014 will likely see the eligible bachelor dipping back into the dating pool.
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Как Эмили отпраздновала получение роли Элли Бишоп How Did ‘NCIS”s Newest Recruit Celebrate Landing the Gig?
Emily Wickersham may be the newest series regular on one of the biggest shows on television, but you’d never know it by how she celebrated getting the gig.
The rising star, who appeared on “The Sopranos" and "The Bridge," before landing her role as Ellie Bishop on the CBS hit, “NCIS,” told “omg! Insider" co-anchor Kevin Frazier during a visit to the set that she didn’t exactly go running out to buy a fancy car or a million-dollar home when she learned the news that her three-episode arc had been upgraded to a full time series regular job.
"I was at home learning my lines," she said. "I did celebrate this past weekend. I’m a homebody so I was at home, had a glass of wine, smiling."
The blond bombshell is replacing Cote de Pablo, who played the role of Ziva on the series from 2005 (season 3) until her departure this fall after two episodes (season 11). But, despite being a newbie on the set and filling the big shoes of a beloved character, Wickersham admitted she already feels like a part of the family. “It’s been wonderful, I feel so lucky to be here.”
Check out this video to see the one thing you might not already know about Emily, and for more of the latest in entertainment news, tune in to “omg! Insider” on television tonight!
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Про новый спин-офф и Диану Нил (никаких обещаний)I heard that NCIS is going to do another spinoff. Any info, please? And are any of the current cast moving to it? –Donald
As previously reported, the prospective offshoot is set in New Orleans and will be introduced via a spring 2014 episode of the mothership. As for its cast, Gary Glasberg – who is exec-producing the planted pilot with NCIS frontman Mark Harmon – says there will “absolutely” be opportunities for familiar faces to swing by NOLA. When I then passed along a reader’s suggestion that CGIS Agent Borin (played by Diane Neal) — whom Gibbs recently sorta-offered a job — be part of the spin-off’s cast, Glasberg hedged, “I haven’t quite put [the list of characters] together yet, but that is an interesting idea!” Speaking of which….
Forget the character Bishop — bring Diane Neal on as an NCIS regular! She has great chemistry with the cast. Please tell me we will see more of her character. –Robin
When I, too, shared with show boss Gary Glasberg my enjoyment of Neal’s most recent visit, he joined in on the fanning. “I really appreciate the fact that everyone responds so well to the guest stars that come in, and Diane Neal is more than that — she’s a part of this family, and we will continue to use her. To have her come back is super-important, and we’ll continue to do that.”
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Заметка об уходе КотеNCIS missing Cote de Pablo but welcoming Emily Wickersham
It took Michael Weatherly to finally explain his former co-star Cote de Pablo’s departure from NCIS.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA—It took Michael Weatherly to finally explain his former co-star Cote de Pablo’s departure from NCIS.
After eight seasons as special agent Ziva David, de Pablo announced last June she would not return to the series. CBS wanted her back. The producers wanted her back, but de Pablo stuck to her guns and walked away from TV’s No. 1 drama. (It airs Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. on Global.)
Ziva and Weatherly’s character, senior special agent Anthony DiNozzo, had a long-running will-they, won’t-they relationship on the show.
“It was really with the arrival of Cote that I think something special happened there,” Weatherly told a gathering of international press earlier this month. While it was “never a love story, never rolling over and pillow talk,” there was always a great deal of chemistry between the characters. He compared the big orange squad room on NCIS to the newsroom in the classic film His Girl Friday, with DiNozzo and Ziva having an intense love-hate connection like Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in the movie.
That connection ended with de Pablo’s departure.
What happens next? Weatherly says his character is finally getting in touch with feelings he never knew he had. “Kind of like you don’t know what you’re missing till it’s gone,” he says. This leads to some soul searching and then, next Tuesday, on the Nov. 19 episode, the arrival of a new actress and a new love interest for DiNozzo: Emily Wickersham, who joins the cast full-time as NSA analyst Eleanor “Ellie” Bishop, a specialist in international terrorism and global preparation.
“I think the audience is going to be extremely interested and rewarded,” says Weatherly. “The chemistry is magical.”
“We’re thrilled to have her,” Mark Harmon, who plays DiNozzo’s boss Leroy “Jethro” Gibbs, told the same reporters one day earlier. “We’re all intrigued and satisfied with the actress.”
Still, Wickersham has some big shoes to fill. De Pablo’s arrival led to a sharp upturn in popularity for the series. As Harmon noted, she had been with the cast eight seasons. “That’s high school and college.”
There was the usual speculation at first that de Pablo’s departure was a negotiating ploy; that she was holding out for more money. All involved insist that that’s not the case. The actress simply wanted a break from the series.
“It’s a very tough commitment,” says Weatherly, who adds, “Boo-hoo, go cry in a bag of money.”
The New York native can never stay serious for too long. He quotes Oscar Wilde’s line, “Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
Weatherly suggested that de Pablo was simply at a different stage in her personal life than some of her more settled cast members, “No weddings, no funerals, no birthdays,” he said of the long hours and total commitment a 22-episode network TV drama demands. “You’re just deployed.”
While Weatherly and others seem to have their lives lined up for now, “Cote’s still figuring out the life part,” he says. “She just wanted a break.”
He says he’ll miss her sense of humour on the set. “She is cosmically funny,” he says. “We never really saw that side of Ziva because she was always kicking people in the face.”
Weatherly’s life became a lot more settled after he met his second wife, Bojana Jankovic, at a rock concert in Vancouver in 2009. The couple have two children, a 19-month old girl named Olivia and a baby boy named Liam, born just a few weeks ago.
Having two children under the age of 2 “is like having 30,” he says. “It’s like running a pre-school. Good thing I married a doctor.”
The new boy only has eyes for his mom, says the 45-year-old actor. “When you’re not lactating, you’re not interesting.”
Weatherly is part of what his co-star, Pauley Perrette (forensic specialist Abby Sciuto), calls the “Core Four” of the series. She, Weatherly, Harmon and veteran actor David McCallum (chief medical examiner David “Ducky” Mallard) have been with the popular drama all 11 seasons.
Perrette told reporters she got the news de Pablo was leaving one morning when she woke up to several text messages from fellow cast members and producers. “I thought somebody died,” she said. She called Harmon first and got the news.
“At the end of the day, not only can you not make decisions for other people, but often you can’t understand theirs,” says Perrette, who says she would not leave her “dream job” under any circumstances. “Part of the problem with the rest of us being left or saddled with answering this question to other people is that it’s really not an answer.”
There’s no cover-up, there’s no drama, “I guess it was just a life decision,” says Perrette.
Weatherly says he’s looking forward to his character’s own “lightning bolt moment” on the series. Fans should not be surprised to see DiNozzo settling down. It may even be time — as Weatherly’s “dad” on the series, Robert Wagner, apparently suggested — for some little DiNozzos. “I think the dude is ready for some love,” Weatherly says.
Asked what he thought de Pablo should do next, Weatherly, once again, went for the funny.
“I’d put her in a space suit: a very tight space suit,” he says. “Oh, oh, somebody just optioned that. We just sold, ‘Sci-Fi Ziva.’”
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Что ждет МакГи, Тони и ВэнсаQuestion: Was wondering if you got any scoop on a McGee-centric episode of NCIS this season. –Barb
Ausiello: There is indeed some McGoodness on the horizon, though show boss Gary Glabserg at this time is mum on details. All he’d tell us is, “We always like to come back from the holidays doing something fun, and McGee will play a really big part in that.”
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Any new NCIS scoop? What’s in store for my favorite special agent DiNozzo? I love that the show still acknowledges Ziva’s absence and I hope it doesn’t disappear completely as I’m not ready to move on. — Cheryl
It won’t. 1) Michael Weatherly seems to be enjoying having so much to sink his teeth into. 2) EP Gary Glasberg says it won’t. And 3) Nos. 1 and 2 are enough. “We’re letting the character continue on this natural path of dealing with the ups and downs of Ziva’s absence,” says Glasberg. “Those ups and downs will continue. Slowly but surely — just as in the real world — he’s getting refocused and getting his life together. He’s figuring things out.”
NCIS scoop! Where was Vance last week?! — Terri
Don’t worry, he’s around. And look for him to have a huge storyline in a December episode that will [SCOOP!] guest-star BEN VEREEN as a relative of the late Jackie Vance. “Vance and his kids have to get through the holidays with all the emotion that comes with it, and part of it is to introduce this character and the interaction that Vereen’s character will have with Vance,” says Glasberg.
Еще МакГи и 11.11Any McGee scoop? I don’t feel like he’s gotten enough to do on NCIS lately.– Jacinda
“He’s going to play a really big part after the holidays,” EP Gary Glasberg assures me. “And Delilah’s still around. He’s got his work cut out for him in some stuff coming up.” And speaking of the holidays, you won’t want to miss the Dec. 17 outing. It’s a nail-biting hour that will find the team trying to crack the case of a strange outbreak occurring within military families. “It’s an Abby-centric story. So it’s Abby and Carol [Meredith Eaton] and Palmer really focused in the lab to try to focus on what’s going on,” Glasberg teases. There’s also a “really, really loving” story involving Vance, who is celebrating his first Christmas without his wife. Tissues, please!
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Марк Хармон о шоу и том, как оно меняетсяMark Harmon on NCIS: ‘You change and you grow, or it kills you’
By Alex Strachan, Postmedia News - November 4, 2013 11:52 AM
I don’t think I could be doing this show after 11 years — I don’t think any of us could — if we weren’t enjoying it,’ says Mark Harmon.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Life is a mystery, and that goes double for hit TV series.
Mark Harmon, looking laid-back, casual and relaxed on an uncharacteristically warm November morning in southern California, still can’t wrap his head around the phenomenon that is NCIS, a police procedural that has lasted 11 seasons and is network television’s most-watched weekly drama — even in Canada, where a thriller focusing on the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps would not seem to be tailor-made for an audience more inclined to watch NHL hockey and The Big Bang Theory. More than two million Canadians watched the Oct. 21 episode, making NCIS the third most-watched program in Canada that week.
Harmon still hasn’t forgotten the early days — Nov. 23, 2003, to be exact — when NCIS couldn’t get arrested, no pun intended, when ER, Law & Order, Without a Trace and Cold Case led the drama ratings charts. Cold Case bowed in the same week as NCIS, also on CBS, and for a while Cold Case was the more popular program by far.
Cold Case left quietly in 2010; NCIS is still there.
NCIS has become a ratings phenomenon in its own right. The idea that a TV drama — any TV drama — could be more popular in its 11th year than at any other time during its run isn’t just unprecedented: It’s unthinkable.
Harmon, soft-spoken to the point of being shy, is confident in his abilities and in the work of his colleagues. He’s been an executive producer, after all, since 2008, in addition to acting.
Even so, what happened — and, more to the point, why — remains a mystery to him, a mystery possibly not even his onscreen character Leroy Jethro Gibbs could solve.
Eleven seasons, 241 episodes. What’s that all about? Yes, People magazine once named Harmon “the Sexiest Man Alive” — a source of acute embarrassment for him at the time — but that was back in 1986, for heaven’s sake.
Whatever’s going on, Harmon says, it’s not about him.
“To continue anything, and do it well, for 11 years takes a lot of effort from a lot of people,” he says quietly, after a long pause. “I’ve always thought this show looks easier to do than it is. And because of that you need to give a lot of people credit for it. There’s a large group of people who come to work every day on this show and do extraordinary work, and I’m part of that.
“I don’t think I could be doing this show after 11 years — I don’t think any of us could — if we weren’t enjoying it. It’s a gift to be able to come to work every day and work with friends who are there to help and protect you. ‘Oh, and by the way, its ratings are terrific’ — that’s a side note.
“There’s a lot to be thankful for. Here we are in year 11, still pushing new storylines, still pushing character development. Nobody’s bored. There’s nothing wrong with loving your job. I love my job.”
Cote de Pablo’s sudden departure at the outset of the season, after playing Israeli agent Ziva David for eight years from 2005 to 2013, has been keenly felt, Harmon admits. All long-running shows must deal with change at some point in their lives, though.
“We were all surprised by this,” Harmon said quietly, measuring his words. “It’s not like we knew it was coming. We didn’t. She was there for eight years. I mean, that’s high school and college. In this business you spend more time with your cast than you do your family. It was a pleasure to have her for eight years and now it’s time to move on, and I think it’s important for this show to move on as much as it is for me to move on, and the cast to move on.
“For me, this all happened back in June. Now we’re in November, nine shows in and moving forward. So far this year, our ratings are stronger than they’ve ever been. This show, over 11 years, has had many changes. So at some point you just have to give credit to the people who run the show.”
Harmon has played Gibbs for 11 years now — “Believe me, I’m aware,” he says dryly — but he has yet to tire of the character.
“I’ve always been attracted to the underbelly of this character. He’s an odd guy, in many ways. He’s an uneasy guy, even when he’s alone, by himself. And that’s always fun for an actor to play.
“After 11 years we’ve accumulated quite a backstory for all the characters. We have a whole ensemble of people who’ve returned from year four, year five, year seven. It’s become like a big theatre company in a lot of ways.”
“Our writers are wonderful about taking the initiative to search and push and change. In fairness, I couldn’t keep doing it if I didn’t feel I was coming to a different dance every day I go to work. As long as it stays that way, it’s a nice thing.”
As for NCIS’s continuing success, he says, “I don’t know that I know the answer to that any more than you do, and I don’t know I can shed any more light on it.
“I do know that, from the beginning, the show was pinned on these four characters, the original core group. I’ve always looked on that as the hub of the wheel.”
The beginning was a nightmare, Harmon admits.
“The first day on the set, filming was 21 hours. The second day was 20 hours. And it didn’t get better quickly.
“We didn’t have scripts. You’d come to work and they’d give you 10 pages of dialogue and say, ‘Do this.’ You couldn’t prepare, because there was nothing to prepare.
“I always said we wouldn’t be here if we didn’t want to be here. We believed. You have to change and you have to grow — or it kills you.”
NCIS airs Tuesdays on Global and CBS at 8 ET/PT, 9 MT.
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Еще о 250-омQuestion: Mike, Mike, Mike… What can you tell me about NCIS‘s 250th episode? —Marsha
Ausiello: Marha, Marsha, Marsha… I can tell you that someone from Gibbs’ past will resurface around the time of the CBS phenom’s landmark episode. Sources confirm to me exclusively that Susanna Thompson is set to reprise her role as Jethro’s ex, Hollis Mann, this January. And, show boss Gary Glasberg, teases: “She is coming back in an unexpected way.”
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Спойлеры про Элли Бишоп на русскомПро нового аналитика
Для Элли не планируется романов, потому что она счастливо замужем и никаких измен не планируется. Мы в итоге встретим её мужа, по словам Гласберга, работающего юристом на АНБ, а возможно и её братьев. Это довольно интересные отношения (с мужем), когда ты не можешь рассказать все, что делаешь на работе, а к этому еще и новые обязанности добавятся.
Отношения с Гиббсом Гласберг описывает как отцовское наставление, а с Тони они разовьют отношения как у брата и сестры. Гласберг хочет так же показать событие, кторое привело Бишоп на службу - взрыв в Оклахоме в 1995 году. Тони же после первого свидания в серии от 19 ноября, в 2014 возможно снова начнет встречаться с девушками.
на английскомKeck’s Exclusives: Get to Know the New NCIS Analyst
I’m dying to know who this new NCIS female agent will end up with: Tony (Michael Weatherly) or Gibbs (Mark Harmon)? — Leslie, Portland, Oregon
Try neither. Turns out, analyst Ellie Bishop (Emily Wickersham, who debuts Nov. 19) is happily married, and executive producer Gary Glasberg has no adulterous plans in the works. “We will eventually meet her husband, who is an attorney with the NSA,” says Glasberg, who may also introduce Ellie’s brothers. “This is a very different relationship from anything we’ve had. There’s something interesting in this world when you have a spouse you can’t tell everything to, and taking on the added responsibilities of this new job could come with consequences.”
Though that may sound like the setup for a split, Glasberg describes Ellie’s relationship with Gibbs as a fatherly mentorship, while she and Tony will develop a sibling-like bond. Glasberg also plans to address the tragic 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that influenced Ellie’s desire to work with the NSA. The Nov. 19 episode will find Tony discussing dating for the first time since Ziva’s exit, and 2014 will likely see the eligible bachelor dipping back into the dating pool.
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Как Эмили отпраздновала получение роли Элли Бишоп How Did ‘NCIS”s Newest Recruit Celebrate Landing the Gig?
Emily Wickersham may be the newest series regular on one of the biggest shows on television, but you’d never know it by how she celebrated getting the gig.
The rising star, who appeared on “The Sopranos" and "The Bridge," before landing her role as Ellie Bishop on the CBS hit, “NCIS,” told “omg! Insider" co-anchor Kevin Frazier during a visit to the set that she didn’t exactly go running out to buy a fancy car or a million-dollar home when she learned the news that her three-episode arc had been upgraded to a full time series regular job.
"I was at home learning my lines," she said. "I did celebrate this past weekend. I’m a homebody so I was at home, had a glass of wine, smiling."
The blond bombshell is replacing Cote de Pablo, who played the role of Ziva on the series from 2005 (season 3) until her departure this fall after two episodes (season 11). But, despite being a newbie on the set and filling the big shoes of a beloved character, Wickersham admitted she already feels like a part of the family. “It’s been wonderful, I feel so lucky to be here.”
Check out this video to see the one thing you might not already know about Emily, and for more of the latest in entertainment news, tune in to “omg! Insider” on television tonight!
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Про новый спин-офф и Диану Нил (никаких обещаний)I heard that NCIS is going to do another spinoff. Any info, please? And are any of the current cast moving to it? –Donald
As previously reported, the prospective offshoot is set in New Orleans and will be introduced via a spring 2014 episode of the mothership. As for its cast, Gary Glasberg – who is exec-producing the planted pilot with NCIS frontman Mark Harmon – says there will “absolutely” be opportunities for familiar faces to swing by NOLA. When I then passed along a reader’s suggestion that CGIS Agent Borin (played by Diane Neal) — whom Gibbs recently sorta-offered a job — be part of the spin-off’s cast, Glasberg hedged, “I haven’t quite put [the list of characters] together yet, but that is an interesting idea!” Speaking of which….
Forget the character Bishop — bring Diane Neal on as an NCIS regular! She has great chemistry with the cast. Please tell me we will see more of her character. –Robin
When I, too, shared with show boss Gary Glasberg my enjoyment of Neal’s most recent visit, he joined in on the fanning. “I really appreciate the fact that everyone responds so well to the guest stars that come in, and Diane Neal is more than that — she’s a part of this family, and we will continue to use her. To have her come back is super-important, and we’ll continue to do that.”
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Заметка об уходе КотеNCIS missing Cote de Pablo but welcoming Emily Wickersham
It took Michael Weatherly to finally explain his former co-star Cote de Pablo’s departure from NCIS.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA—It took Michael Weatherly to finally explain his former co-star Cote de Pablo’s departure from NCIS.
After eight seasons as special agent Ziva David, de Pablo announced last June she would not return to the series. CBS wanted her back. The producers wanted her back, but de Pablo stuck to her guns and walked away from TV’s No. 1 drama. (It airs Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. on Global.)
Ziva and Weatherly’s character, senior special agent Anthony DiNozzo, had a long-running will-they, won’t-they relationship on the show.
“It was really with the arrival of Cote that I think something special happened there,” Weatherly told a gathering of international press earlier this month. While it was “never a love story, never rolling over and pillow talk,” there was always a great deal of chemistry between the characters. He compared the big orange squad room on NCIS to the newsroom in the classic film His Girl Friday, with DiNozzo and Ziva having an intense love-hate connection like Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in the movie.
That connection ended with de Pablo’s departure.
What happens next? Weatherly says his character is finally getting in touch with feelings he never knew he had. “Kind of like you don’t know what you’re missing till it’s gone,” he says. This leads to some soul searching and then, next Tuesday, on the Nov. 19 episode, the arrival of a new actress and a new love interest for DiNozzo: Emily Wickersham, who joins the cast full-time as NSA analyst Eleanor “Ellie” Bishop, a specialist in international terrorism and global preparation.
“I think the audience is going to be extremely interested and rewarded,” says Weatherly. “The chemistry is magical.”
“We’re thrilled to have her,” Mark Harmon, who plays DiNozzo’s boss Leroy “Jethro” Gibbs, told the same reporters one day earlier. “We’re all intrigued and satisfied with the actress.”
Still, Wickersham has some big shoes to fill. De Pablo’s arrival led to a sharp upturn in popularity for the series. As Harmon noted, she had been with the cast eight seasons. “That’s high school and college.”
There was the usual speculation at first that de Pablo’s departure was a negotiating ploy; that she was holding out for more money. All involved insist that that’s not the case. The actress simply wanted a break from the series.
“It’s a very tough commitment,” says Weatherly, who adds, “Boo-hoo, go cry in a bag of money.”
The New York native can never stay serious for too long. He quotes Oscar Wilde’s line, “Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
Weatherly suggested that de Pablo was simply at a different stage in her personal life than some of her more settled cast members, “No weddings, no funerals, no birthdays,” he said of the long hours and total commitment a 22-episode network TV drama demands. “You’re just deployed.”
While Weatherly and others seem to have their lives lined up for now, “Cote’s still figuring out the life part,” he says. “She just wanted a break.”
He says he’ll miss her sense of humour on the set. “She is cosmically funny,” he says. “We never really saw that side of Ziva because she was always kicking people in the face.”
Weatherly’s life became a lot more settled after he met his second wife, Bojana Jankovic, at a rock concert in Vancouver in 2009. The couple have two children, a 19-month old girl named Olivia and a baby boy named Liam, born just a few weeks ago.
Having two children under the age of 2 “is like having 30,” he says. “It’s like running a pre-school. Good thing I married a doctor.”
The new boy only has eyes for his mom, says the 45-year-old actor. “When you’re not lactating, you’re not interesting.”
Weatherly is part of what his co-star, Pauley Perrette (forensic specialist Abby Sciuto), calls the “Core Four” of the series. She, Weatherly, Harmon and veteran actor David McCallum (chief medical examiner David “Ducky” Mallard) have been with the popular drama all 11 seasons.
Perrette told reporters she got the news de Pablo was leaving one morning when she woke up to several text messages from fellow cast members and producers. “I thought somebody died,” she said. She called Harmon first and got the news.
“At the end of the day, not only can you not make decisions for other people, but often you can’t understand theirs,” says Perrette, who says she would not leave her “dream job” under any circumstances. “Part of the problem with the rest of us being left or saddled with answering this question to other people is that it’s really not an answer.”
There’s no cover-up, there’s no drama, “I guess it was just a life decision,” says Perrette.
Weatherly says he’s looking forward to his character’s own “lightning bolt moment” on the series. Fans should not be surprised to see DiNozzo settling down. It may even be time — as Weatherly’s “dad” on the series, Robert Wagner, apparently suggested — for some little DiNozzos. “I think the dude is ready for some love,” Weatherly says.
Asked what he thought de Pablo should do next, Weatherly, once again, went for the funny.
“I’d put her in a space suit: a very tight space suit,” he says. “Oh, oh, somebody just optioned that. We just sold, ‘Sci-Fi Ziva.’”
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Что ждет МакГи, Тони и ВэнсаQuestion: Was wondering if you got any scoop on a McGee-centric episode of NCIS this season. –Barb
Ausiello: There is indeed some McGoodness on the horizon, though show boss Gary Glabserg at this time is mum on details. All he’d tell us is, “We always like to come back from the holidays doing something fun, and McGee will play a really big part in that.”
From EW.com
Any new NCIS scoop? What’s in store for my favorite special agent DiNozzo? I love that the show still acknowledges Ziva’s absence and I hope it doesn’t disappear completely as I’m not ready to move on. — Cheryl
It won’t. 1) Michael Weatherly seems to be enjoying having so much to sink his teeth into. 2) EP Gary Glasberg says it won’t. And 3) Nos. 1 and 2 are enough. “We’re letting the character continue on this natural path of dealing with the ups and downs of Ziva’s absence,” says Glasberg. “Those ups and downs will continue. Slowly but surely — just as in the real world — he’s getting refocused and getting his life together. He’s figuring things out.”
NCIS scoop! Where was Vance last week?! — Terri
Don’t worry, he’s around. And look for him to have a huge storyline in a December episode that will [SCOOP!] guest-star BEN VEREEN as a relative of the late Jackie Vance. “Vance and his kids have to get through the holidays with all the emotion that comes with it, and part of it is to introduce this character and the interaction that Vereen’s character will have with Vance,” says Glasberg.
Еще МакГи и 11.11Any McGee scoop? I don’t feel like he’s gotten enough to do on NCIS lately.– Jacinda
“He’s going to play a really big part after the holidays,” EP Gary Glasberg assures me. “And Delilah’s still around. He’s got his work cut out for him in some stuff coming up.” And speaking of the holidays, you won’t want to miss the Dec. 17 outing. It’s a nail-biting hour that will find the team trying to crack the case of a strange outbreak occurring within military families. “It’s an Abby-centric story. So it’s Abby and Carol [Meredith Eaton] and Palmer really focused in the lab to try to focus on what’s going on,” Glasberg teases. There’s also a “really, really loving” story involving Vance, who is celebrating his first Christmas without his wife. Tissues, please!
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Марк Хармон о шоу и том, как оно меняетсяMark Harmon on NCIS: ‘You change and you grow, or it kills you’
By Alex Strachan, Postmedia News - November 4, 2013 11:52 AM
I don’t think I could be doing this show after 11 years — I don’t think any of us could — if we weren’t enjoying it,’ says Mark Harmon.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Life is a mystery, and that goes double for hit TV series.
Mark Harmon, looking laid-back, casual and relaxed on an uncharacteristically warm November morning in southern California, still can’t wrap his head around the phenomenon that is NCIS, a police procedural that has lasted 11 seasons and is network television’s most-watched weekly drama — even in Canada, where a thriller focusing on the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps would not seem to be tailor-made for an audience more inclined to watch NHL hockey and The Big Bang Theory. More than two million Canadians watched the Oct. 21 episode, making NCIS the third most-watched program in Canada that week.
Harmon still hasn’t forgotten the early days — Nov. 23, 2003, to be exact — when NCIS couldn’t get arrested, no pun intended, when ER, Law & Order, Without a Trace and Cold Case led the drama ratings charts. Cold Case bowed in the same week as NCIS, also on CBS, and for a while Cold Case was the more popular program by far.
Cold Case left quietly in 2010; NCIS is still there.
NCIS has become a ratings phenomenon in its own right. The idea that a TV drama — any TV drama — could be more popular in its 11th year than at any other time during its run isn’t just unprecedented: It’s unthinkable.
Harmon, soft-spoken to the point of being shy, is confident in his abilities and in the work of his colleagues. He’s been an executive producer, after all, since 2008, in addition to acting.
Even so, what happened — and, more to the point, why — remains a mystery to him, a mystery possibly not even his onscreen character Leroy Jethro Gibbs could solve.
Eleven seasons, 241 episodes. What’s that all about? Yes, People magazine once named Harmon “the Sexiest Man Alive” — a source of acute embarrassment for him at the time — but that was back in 1986, for heaven’s sake.
Whatever’s going on, Harmon says, it’s not about him.
“To continue anything, and do it well, for 11 years takes a lot of effort from a lot of people,” he says quietly, after a long pause. “I’ve always thought this show looks easier to do than it is. And because of that you need to give a lot of people credit for it. There’s a large group of people who come to work every day on this show and do extraordinary work, and I’m part of that.
“I don’t think I could be doing this show after 11 years — I don’t think any of us could — if we weren’t enjoying it. It’s a gift to be able to come to work every day and work with friends who are there to help and protect you. ‘Oh, and by the way, its ratings are terrific’ — that’s a side note.
“There’s a lot to be thankful for. Here we are in year 11, still pushing new storylines, still pushing character development. Nobody’s bored. There’s nothing wrong with loving your job. I love my job.”
Cote de Pablo’s sudden departure at the outset of the season, after playing Israeli agent Ziva David for eight years from 2005 to 2013, has been keenly felt, Harmon admits. All long-running shows must deal with change at some point in their lives, though.
“We were all surprised by this,” Harmon said quietly, measuring his words. “It’s not like we knew it was coming. We didn’t. She was there for eight years. I mean, that’s high school and college. In this business you spend more time with your cast than you do your family. It was a pleasure to have her for eight years and now it’s time to move on, and I think it’s important for this show to move on as much as it is for me to move on, and the cast to move on.
“For me, this all happened back in June. Now we’re in November, nine shows in and moving forward. So far this year, our ratings are stronger than they’ve ever been. This show, over 11 years, has had many changes. So at some point you just have to give credit to the people who run the show.”
Harmon has played Gibbs for 11 years now — “Believe me, I’m aware,” he says dryly — but he has yet to tire of the character.
“I’ve always been attracted to the underbelly of this character. He’s an odd guy, in many ways. He’s an uneasy guy, even when he’s alone, by himself. And that’s always fun for an actor to play.
“After 11 years we’ve accumulated quite a backstory for all the characters. We have a whole ensemble of people who’ve returned from year four, year five, year seven. It’s become like a big theatre company in a lot of ways.”
“Our writers are wonderful about taking the initiative to search and push and change. In fairness, I couldn’t keep doing it if I didn’t feel I was coming to a different dance every day I go to work. As long as it stays that way, it’s a nice thing.”
As for NCIS’s continuing success, he says, “I don’t know that I know the answer to that any more than you do, and I don’t know I can shed any more light on it.
“I do know that, from the beginning, the show was pinned on these four characters, the original core group. I’ve always looked on that as the hub of the wheel.”
The beginning was a nightmare, Harmon admits.
“The first day on the set, filming was 21 hours. The second day was 20 hours. And it didn’t get better quickly.
“We didn’t have scripts. You’d come to work and they’d give you 10 pages of dialogue and say, ‘Do this.’ You couldn’t prepare, because there was nothing to prepare.
“I always said we wouldn’t be here if we didn’t want to be here. We believed. You have to change and you have to grow — or it kills you.”
NCIS airs Tuesdays on Global and CBS at 8 ET/PT, 9 MT.
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