NCIS branching outside the US

[Bob Jersey]

I always took this show to be based inside the Defense Dept, if not the Navy specifically... and yet Shane Brennan, Aussie by birth, is working on a Sydney-based entry in the franchise, which he intends to film there with actors therefrom, but also show on Paramount+... the streamer also announced a "SEAL Team" feature film...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ncis-sydney-seal-team-movie-coming-to-paramount-1235093708/ (link)

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[Doug Fields]

The show is​ based inside the Dept. of Defense (and inside the Navy).  But that shouldn't prohibit shows set outside the US, in the same manner that the Navy has bases located in foreign countries all around the world.  Anywhere there is a concentration of Navy or Marine Corps personnel, there will also be field offices of most of the support organizations that serve those branches of the military, definitely including the NCIS.

Doug Fields

Tampa, FL

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I always took this show to be based inside the Defense Dept, if not the Navy specifically... and yet Shane Brennan, Aussie by birth, is working on a Sydney-based entry in the franchise, which he intends to film there with actors therefrom, but also show on Paramount+... the streamer also announced a "SEAL Team" feature film...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ncis-sydney-seal-team-movie-coming-to-paramount-1235093708/ (link)

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[Paul Murray]

Yet another NCIS spinoff to ignore. My only idle curiosity is what accents the actors will have. By logic, they should be American, except for any locals they work with.

As one who has regularly watched the original, I tried the LA and NO spinoffs and quickly abandoned them. LA in particular seemed so tenuously connected to the navy as to be laughable; it's just another "unconventional law enforcement team" show.

I still watch the original, although I'm currently weeks behind in streaming it. I think it's the TV equivalent of comfort food for me at this point.

[Doug Eastick]

Canadian here..... I had no idea what NCIS stood for until recently.    I then learned it was something to do with military law enforcement.   Which then made me wonder "how much crime can there be WITHIN the military that they can cover so many stories".  I know the latter half of that question is irrelevant because it's television, but the first question still drove me to google and other searching to learn about the scope of NCIS is larger than just within the military.

Naval Criminal Investigative Service - Wikipedia

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[Jim Ellwanger]

I would bet that the VAST majority of Americans also had no idea what "NCIS" stood for (or even that it existed) until the original TV series debuted.

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[Adam Bowie]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 2:58 PM Paul Murray <pmur...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Yet another NCIS spinoff to ignore. My only idle curiosity is what accents the actors will have. By logic, they should be American, except for any locals they work with.

As one who has regularly watched the original, I tried the LA and NO spinoffs and quickly abandoned them. LA in particular seemed so tenuously connected to the navy as to be laughable; it's just another "unconventional law enforcement team" show.

I still watch the original, although I'm currently weeks behind in streaming it. I think it's the TV equivalent of comfort food for me at this point.

I guess this will either be about:

- American Naval folk in Australia (with mostly Australians putting on US accents for the US characters) or

- A fully-localised show, as various countries have previously done with Law & Order. ie. Australians playing Australian Naval folk. The fact that Australia's military police probably aren't called "NCIS" is no more a barrier than crime scene investigators not being called "CSI" everywhere. 

Now I'm imagining a British version called "NCIS: Portsmouth." Most of the crimes would be about drunken sailors breaking windows and getting into pub fights. 

Adam

[M-D November]

Apparently even CBS wasn't confident in the name when NCIS got spun off from JAG, as when the show premiered, it was titled "Navy NCIS"; the "Navy" got dropped because...well, it's redundant and stupid.

[two...@gmail.com]

My mother loved NCIS and I used to catch snippets of it while visiting her. I used to laugh when they would approach a suspect, show their badges, and shout “NCIS!” and the suspect would know what that meant.

On Feb 16, 2022, at 12:59 PM, M-D November <mdnov...@gmail.com> wrote:

Apparently even CBS wasn't confident in the name when NCIS got spun off from JAG, as when the show premiered, it was titled "Navy NCIS"; the "Navy" got dropped because...well, it's redundant and stupid.

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[Kevin M.]

Similarly, when Law and Order SVU was created, there was no SVU in the NYPD. There was a sex crimes unit, but NBC didn’t want the series titled Law and Order Sex Crimes. 

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[Diner]

Ken Levine wrote on his blog about how on the "Hawaii Five-O" reboot, even tourists from the mainland seem to know what "Five-O" means...

https://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-to-create-hit-network-drama.html

On "Law & Order: Organized Crime," Elliot Stabler works for the "Organized Crime Control Bureau." 

Every time I hear that in the intro, I think of the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) which Vinny Terranova worked for on "Wiseguy."

[Doug Eastick]

Wow the Ken Levine article is just perfect. Really perfect.  

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[two...@gmail.com]

A big part of David Simon’s Homicide book was challenging the tropes of TV crime shows by describing what real cops and the criminal justice system do. Then the Homicide TV series and David Mitch’s NYPD Blue told stories based on a more realistic way of looking at police work. Then CSI came along and reverted to the old tropes and since then the police procedurals are getting consistently more formulaic and less real.

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[M-D November]

I feel like lately they've had to amend that to "NCIS! Federal agents!" because...yeah, people aren't going to know WTF NCIS is.  I mean, if someone shouted "USPIS!" at me, I wouldn't know they're the Postal Inspection Service until AFTER they arrested me. :)

On Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 2:01:52 PM UTC-5 Tom Wolper wrote:

[David Bruggeman]

Now that you mention postal inspectors, I couldn't remember how the actors on their show (creatively titled "The Inspectors" and notably mocked by John Oliver) announced themselves before taking down a perp.

Thankfully the Last Week Tonight episode includes a relevant clip - (2:30 mark) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCjG78McFxQ

David