NCIS season 24: How many episodes should you expect?
Heading into the final episodes of NCIS season 23 on CBS, we do consider ourselves lucky when it comes to the future. A season 24 has already been greenlit, and it will occupy the same Tuesday-night timeslot that we saw for the 2025-26 season.
So now that we do have clarity on this, why not look to the next order of business? By that, we mean having a larger conversation about episode count. Over the years, this franchise has been a model of consistency. For many years, it produced a good 22-24 installments a season. However, that changed once we got to the global health crisis of 2020 / 2021. Following that and a number of cost-cutting measures, we have entered an era where 20 episodes appears to be the new normal.
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So is that still the case moving forward? The simple answer appears to be yes, though there is not much more confirmation out there. According to a report from Deadline, the upcoming NCIS: New York is poised to be 20 episodes and given that it will share a timeslot with the mothership, it feels fair to assume the same thing here. There is no real reason for CBS to do less with a show that matters to them as much as this one.
As for whether or not NCIS proper could ever do 24 episodes again, never say never — but it does feel unlikely. The only way we foresee that happening is if there is suddenly some bump in the live + same-day ratings. While the series does make a good bit of money from streaming, that alone does not seem to be a radical driver behind companies wanting to do more episodes a season. If that was the case, odds are a number of shows in that medium would be doing more than 8-10 stories a season.
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This article was written by Jessica BunBun.