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‘NCIS: Origins’ Returning for Season 3 With Big Change: How Many Episodes Will It Be?
The prequel will return with a shorter 10-episode order and one showrunner after Gina Lucita Monreal exits, Deadline reported.
- With a 10-episode order for fall 2026, CBS renewed Origins for a third season, reducing the episode count from the previous seasons' 18 episodes each.
- Co-Showrunner Gina Lucita Monreal is exiting after the Season 2 finale to focus on new projects, leaving David North as sole showrunner for the prequel series.
- The prequel stars Austin Stowell as Leroy Jethro Gibbs alongside Mariel Molino, Kyle Schmid, Tyla Abercrumbie, Diany Rodriguez, and Caleb Foote, tracking cases and personal lives in Gibbs's early days.
- New spinoff NCIS: New York will debut fall 2026, taking over the 9/8c Tuesday slot after the mothership kicks off the night's programming.
- Producers confirmed their intent to stick with canon as future storylines will incorporate the agency's name change from NIS to NCIS, a historical detail central to the prequel's arc.
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