Just read that MW will be appearing in some episodes of NCIS: LA?? I’m not sure if it’s this season but I’m assuming it’s next season. That’s probably a big part of his big decisions that he has to make. LOL I guess NCIS: LA is really struggling right now so they are sending good o’ MW to help with the ratings. That’s all I think it is as of now. Maybe he’s excited about working with that cast because I think he’s good friends with them. I don’t watch NCIS: LA but that’s probably what he meant by big decisions in Season 13.

With Kate, it was the shock! I loved Ziva. She was my favorite lady. I really like the character of Bishop but am not sure she is being portrayed as well as she could be. I would hate to see NCIS end because I would miss Gibbs but the plots are becoming very similar. As for LA and NO, I watch them both and enjoy both.

I always get this feeling that tptb dangle potential interesting business for Tony to MW to get him to hype the show but have no sincere intention of following through in anymore than the most perfunctory way. It’s clear that the only character they really want to flatter is almighty Gibbs and I guess since McGee could never really outshine Gibbs, it’s safe to give him drama, danger, flattery, and angst too. Tony’s so called episodes are generally tensionless (unless Tony is somehow being “comically” humiliated) affairs where Tony’s so called dramas are poorly written C plots. Gibbs and McGee have been featured as much or more prominently in the two Senior episodes that we had this year while Tony was made to look somewhat stupid and ineffectual again.

Yeah, but Kate died 10 years ago. It was sad and devastating but I have moved on and I immediately loved Ziva. Two years with her gone and I haven’t gotten over her leaving or how they wrote her off at all. I don’t think I will ever be over that. Kate was good but Ziva made the show #1 for 8 years, with the help of the others. It’s just not the same show anymore and no, I do not like Bishop. With the major dropping of the Demo Ratings, weak storylines, lame new characters, and absolutely no chemistry between the agents, I think the show is at it’s end and Season 13 will be their last.

Seriously, this is all Glasberg has. This is his go to for storylines that will “rattle” the fans. You can rattle fans in may different ways. It doesn’t have to be killing off a character that fans enjoyed having around. I was pretty ticked when they killed off Diane this season. She was a spit fire but there was lots of likeable things about her but most importantly, she was someone’s mother. It just wasn’t necessary. Making that whole storyline about Gibbs and Fornell when it could of been more focused on Ziva…that was it for me. Like you said before, Glasberg is all about what he wants for this show, not about what the fans want and it’s starting to really impact the show. I can’t say that I even know who they will kill off in the finale, although I’m tilting more at Dorneget but that’s not even something that will rattle the fans, just upset them. I give this show 1 more season and also what you stated before, maybe that’s what they want. They know this show is doing terrible and at this point in it, why make things better??

The interview was on someone’s tumblr. I don’t know exactly when it was but MW was already talking about about Zoe and Senior so it must of been pretty recent. He aslo was talking about some big decisions that might be talked about at the end of Season 12 but would go into Season 13. Some people think it might be because Gibbs might retire and he will be taking over Gibbs position at NCIS but that’s highly doubtful. Still, MH has yet to announce if he will be back next season so…who knows?? He seemed genuinely excited about Season 13 but It could be many reasons why this is. I can’t imagine it’s work related based on how this season has gone for him. Yes, it’s very obvious that Glasberg only cares about what MH wants but that’s exactly what’s doing this show in. Season 13 will be their last. I would bed major money on it.

I challenge the writers to write a show full of suspense, action and drama without killing anyone. I’m a little tired of being “rattled”. So many terrorism shows. Where’s the good cases of the week that where written smart, interesting and still with humor. At this point I don’t think anything the writers do would faze me. They’ve used up their limited element of surprise by killing off too many favorites and allowing too many unlikeable characters to continue along their merry way.

I think that Glasburg thinks if he keeps Mr. Harmon happy that is pretty much all that matters. I’m not sure he’s realistic about CBS’s agenda and seems strangely oblivious to the tastes of a fairly significant percentage of faithful and fairly invested viewers. I do think that season 13, if it happens, will be the last and they all know this. I don’t recall MW saying anything about Tony thinking about big decisions for Tony, but maybe I just missed it. I frankly can’t imagine the current PTB writing anything worthy of Tony’s potential. They’ve proven time and time again that they’ve simply written him off as comic distraction so that they can give drama to the actors’ characters who are less complicated and easier to write for.

I too, think Season 13 will be their last and that’s how they’re setting themselves up for. This show has been dropping and bad the last two years but nothing like this year. The Demo Ratings are the lowest they’ve ever been and that will have a big impact for Season 13. Glasberg no longer knows what this show needs and during interviews, when he’s talking about an idea he’s had, he’s always saying how much fun it is for the show and the actors but not that it’s fun for the viewers. It’s all about him and what he thinks works for this show. It’s not working anymore, though. Don’t expect Mark Harmon or Glasberg to admit to any of this because they won’t. I could see Mark Harmon calling it quits and if that happens, maybe that’s the big decisions MW was talking about that Tony would have to make. He said it would start at the end of this season but it would work into Season 13 and he seemed pretty chipper about Tony in Season 13 so…who knows?? The whole PD thing happening on Grey’s proves that shockers happen all the time. Again…if they do decide to kill off Ziva, that’s another reason to believe Season 13 will be their last.

Losing a million or more viewers from one episode to the next is pretty much usual for NCIS. The problem for NCIS is that their average total viewership for the season is the lowest since season 6.

Season 6 had an average viewership of 17.7 million viewers per episode. season 12 has an average of 17.6 million so far. with a 2.49 demo. Compare that with season 10, the last strong season, 19.3 million viewers per episode and a 3.3 18-49 demo.

When people see the difference between 17.7 million and 17.6 million, that looks pretty small, only 0.1 but that represents 100.000 viewers per episode. Over an entire 25 episode season for season 6 and a 24 episode season for season 12, that is a drop of 2.4 million viewers total for the whole season.

There are three episodes to go in season 12 It would take a three episode average of about 18.5 million viewers to pull up to season 6’s average. That is possible but not likely. If you wanted to get back to season 11’s average of 18.5 million, then you would need the last three episodes to average about 24.75 million viewers per episode and NCIS has never had even one episode that high in it’s history.

Another way to look at it is that season 11 had 2 episodes over 20 million viewers. Season 12 has 0 over 20 million. Compare with season 10. It had 8 episodes over 20 million. CBS has tried to explain this drop in live viewership by saying that it’s all about DVR usage. Maybe some of it is but before DVRs we had VCRs.