2 NCIS Stars Are Down for Showing Up on the Upcoming Spinoff
The franchise’s vast universe has no way to avoid potential crossovers.
Although nothing like this has been officially confirmed yet, the upcoming NCIS spinoff titled NCIS: Tony & Ziva is still very much expected to feature some familiar faces from the original show.
The new series announced earlier this year will take a closer look at Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David’s personal and professional lives once they’re reunited in Europe years after leaving NCIS.
Unlike the long-standing franchise’s other spinoff NCIS: Origins that will take its viewers back to the time when Leroy Jethro Gibbs was starting his career as a Special Agent, NCIS: Tony & Ziva has no time-traveling planned thus making it a perfect opportunity for other original characters to pop up on Tony and Ziva’s way.
Until NCIS season 22 arrives later this year and finally unveils the mystery surrounding Jessica Knight’s possible departure from the MCRT and the show as a whole, fans think it would be nice for NCIS Chief Medical Examiner and Jessica’s boyfriend Jimmy Palmer to get a vacation in Europe which will occasionally bring him to his friends Tony and Ziva.
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As it turns out, Jimmy Palmer’s actor Brian Dietzen has nothing against such an option as he recently admitted he’d immediately accept the offer if NCIS: Tony & Ziva’s creators would contact him.
The actor also revealed that he’s personally pretty excited about the upcoming show as it stays away from the original series’ case-of-the-week type of storytelling, and, should Jimmy Palmer indeed reunite with his former colleagues, Dietzen would definitely “say hell yes, that’d be fun, I’d do that in a heartbeat.”
As expected, Brian Dietzen isn’t the only one eager to get a European vacation. Special Agent Nick Torres’s actor Wilmer Valderrama also subtly reached out to the upcoming show’s creators, saying that he would love to have a change of scenery even if it means continuing to carry out missions on another continent.
According to the actor, he’d like to “maybe have my character be undercover somewhere in Europe, to leave Washington DC and have my character embedded in Italy, France or London.”
Dietzen and Valderrama thus have made it clear that there is no way for their characters to get into NCIS: Tony & Ziva season 1, but things may change if the series is lucky enough to be renewed for another installment.
NCIS: Tony & Ziva is set to kick it off on CBS this fall.
Source: Deadline