The viewership numbers are running about 1 million below last year’s numbers. You would think that TPTB would be asking themselves Why? While I don’t hate Bishop or Emily Wickersham, she isn’t a replacement for Ziva (or Kate). She is a supporting character. To try to force the character into the leading lady position doesn’t work. They have tried and tried but it does not work, in my opinion. So, now we have one man in a leading role. One in a semi leading role. Two men in supporting roles and two women in supporting roles. What worked for NCIS and JAG before was to have a strong leading lady and I don’t know why, for the life of me, that they changed that. It worked for 19 years. (The first year of JAG had a weak leading lady and the series was cancelled at the end of the year and was then picked up by CBS) Why when you are at the top of your game do you want to change and do something that is not working? This is not an accident. This is a choice that was and still is being made by TPTB. It totally baffles me. They finally decided to let Ziva be mentioned. So, maybe they will fix this problem also.