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Post by ML Fan on Jan 31, 2007 21:13:25 GMT -5
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Post by ML Fan on Feb 1, 2007 13:48:08 GMT -5
NCIS finished 10th in the Nielsen Ratings last week with 14.83 viewers.
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Post by Aerie on Feb 4, 2007 12:41:40 GMT -5
gibbsaholic from Australia posted this at Special Ops. Hmmmmmm where is my magnifying glass.
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Post by x318 on Feb 4, 2007 16:46:17 GMT -5
Does anyone have a link to the stories in that magazine.....cause I'm a huge CSI fan and would like to read the story about Grisome going missing. Anyone?
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Post by ML Fan on Feb 5, 2007 9:51:39 GMT -5
Michael along with the cast of NCIS and a few other shows, can be seen in a Channel Ten ID Spot (Australian channel). You can see it at YouTube @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfrSJlTzRmo&eurl=Thank you to Nici at NCIS Special Ops for the info.
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Post by frankiedaugherty on Feb 5, 2007 20:55:06 GMT -5
Michael is supposed to be interviewed tomorrow, Feb. 6, on "Entertainment Tonight".
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Post by ML Fan on Feb 12, 2007 13:16:06 GMT -5
From the Chicago Sun-Times - February 11, 2007 NCIS: The most popular show nobody talks about BY DOUG ELFMAN Television Critic A decade ago, Lauren Holly co-starred on Picket Fences which won awards, critical acclaim and references in pop culture. But it often hovered around No. 60 in the ratings, she says. Now all that's reversed. She co-stars on a Top 10 series -- but it gets no awards, no press and no buzz. We're like the bad stepchild in the media, Holly says of NCIS, a hit drama based on real sleuthing of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. I sort of miss the attention -- being written about, the ads in all the magazines, all that stuff. Instead, it's like we're out here by ourselves, and we're just glad we have a loyal fan base that follows us. Loyal isn't the half of it. NCIS has remained in the Top 10 even while it's been running repeats in the same time slot as behemoth American Idol. We're like the only show that does well against it, Holly says. There's an online devotion, too. SpoilerFix.com, the site that spoils upcoming episode plots of TV shows, says NCIS is a Top 10 show for drawing Internet traffic to the site. What the cast may not know is this: Critics partly neglect NCIS because CBS doesn't send us DVD screeners of upcoming episodes; we can't review what we don't have. (CBS wouldn't even supply me with new episodes after I said I was writing this big, splashy feature.) The cast, Holly says, thinks non-viewers don't understand what the series is: a character-based show, more than a cop-procedure show. They associate it with JAG, the military show from which it was spun off. (One critic has called NCIS a JAG-off.) Or they think it's a conservative show. To the contrary, Holly says it's not conservative; it has a great cast, it goes for both humor and somber story lines, it's well-shot and quickly paced, and frequently there's a lot of secret sex going on. Yet NCIS is the most popular show on TV that people don't talk about, she says. She fears it could remain that way, "shy of us ripping off our clothes and running down Sunset Boulevard, screaming that our hair's on fire. It'll be like, 'Those are the people from that show --CSI What? ' Mixing humor, innuendo, crimeNCIS," which debuted in 2003, is not another CSI; or Law & Order. It always begins with a caper involving forensics and footwork. Sometimes it's solved, sometimes not. But that's not the thrust. Most of the series focuses on the interaction between the civilian detectives, who flirt with and rag on each other. Granted, the tone is kind of bizarre. One episode this season began with a military vet getting blown up by a terrorist. At times, his death was treated sentimentally and with manipulative patriotism. Other times, a cop cracked crass jokes about the dead vet. Meanwhile, male and female cops checked out each other's butts. That's the NCIS way. It mixes humor and playful innuendo with grim crime cases. One cop shot a mobile-phone video of another cop who was scratching a poison oak patch in his pants; the phone video made it look like the guy was not itching but masturbating. Dialogue can be gung-ho silly. In another episode this season, a character said. These scumbags have been selling weapons to tyrants and terrorists ever since they gave us the slip -- guns and bombs and RPG's used to kill American soldiers and Marines in every hellhole from Mogadishu to Baghdad. It's time it ended! That said, NCIS isn't a frat house. The three smartest and capable characters are women: NCIS Director Jenny Shepard (Holly), Israeli-born cop Ziva David (played by Chile-born Cote de Pablo) and wiry lab detective Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette). Ziva gives the boys hell, calling them on lies and behavior even as they try to impress her into the sack. These women aren't den mothers or vixens. They're powerful figures who -- like women on other detective shows -- work diligently. They don't giggle or lose composure when men sexualize them. But Holly jokes she wouldn't mind if de Pablo used her off-camera sexuality to draw more public attention to NCIS. She wants me to start dating a celebrity, which is something I would never do -- not for the sake of dating a celebrity; de Pablo says. The women here are being portrayed as smart women she adds. I love the fact that they made the director of 'NCIS' a woman [Holly]. That would never happen in real life. Harmon credits producer, crewArguably, the key character isn't any of the women but Mark Harmon's Gibbs. He's the ostensible lead. But Harmon puts all the credit for the show's ratings on the producer, the ensemble cast and the huge crew. Harmon calls producer Donald Bellisario a demanding force of nature and not for the weak of heart. (Bellisario tries to keep upcoming plots a secret from critics and fans.) Bellisario is a former Marine who previously created and wrote JAG, Magnum, P.I., Quantum Leap and the first Battlestar Galactica. You come here, you bring you're 'A' game. And you bring it every day, Harmon says. We work an average of 16 hours a day, every day, and sometimes Sundays -- [from] July 4th till the end of May. People really put the effort in here. Most hourlong series shoot scripts numbering at about 57 pages, but NCIS scripts are 80 pages, Harmon says. Hard work has garnered fan allegiance, he says. And with no bitterness in his voice, he suggests the show can gain more respect from the press if everyone on NCIS keeps plugging along. I think we're earning you guys who write about us, and I think we're earning the promos on CBS, he says. The only thing we can control here is the work we do every day. Thank you to Nici at NCIS Special Ops for the info.
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Post by ML Fan on Feb 18, 2007 11:11:29 GMT -5
'NCIS' holds its own against juggernaut 'American Idol' by Mike Hughes, Gannett News Service Mark Harmon was looking around his workplace approvingly. "This is a bunch of blue-collar guys who get the work done," he said. He was talking partly about the actors in NCIS. Like Harmon, a former college quarterback, they bring a sensible work ethic. And he was talking about the people they portray. The real Naval Criminal Investigative Service is filled with quiet crime solvers. Appropriately, NCIS has been a quiet, under-the-radar hit. Currently, this is the only show that prospers against "American Idol", even when "Idol" had its top-rated audition episodes. And before "Idol" returned? "There was that three-week stretch," Harmon recalls. "We were No.7, then 4, then 1." Yes, NCIS actually finished No. 1 for a week. The cast celebrated...or would have except that everyone was gone on Christmas break. Part of the show's appeal is basic crime solving but there's more. "People like the characters,"Cote de Pablo said. "And it's multigenerational." At one end is David McCallum, 73, an erudite Scotsman who a popular series (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) 42 years ago. At the other is de Pablo, 27. "She's been terrific for the show, said Harmon, 55. She's a native of Chile and grew up in Miami, where her mother(Maria Olga Fernandez) has been a Spanish-language TV personality. For a time, de Pablo also hosted a Spanish-language show. Now, ironicallly, she plays a liason from the Mossad, the crack Israeli unit. "Once, I had two pages (of dialogue) in Hebrew," de Pablo said. "That was interesting." The role brings a zesty, love-hate relationship with Tony DiNozzo, played by Michael Weatherly. When she was auditioning, Weatherly ad--libbed to throw her off. "She just looked at me and said 'Are you a maniac?' " Weatherly recalls with a grin. "Then she went right on." He's not maniacal, but he does prefer to stay loose. After spending his first series (Dark Angel) in a wheelchair, Weatherly, 38, bristles with physical and verbal energy. "I ad-lib a little," he said. "I might go, 'You know what Tony is spelled backward? 'Y-not?' " The show does manage to keep its balance. "We have a liberal dose of humor and strangeness," Weatherly said. At first, some of that might seem like pure Hollywood. In the life-and-death world of an NCIS unit, we see pretty people being semi-flirtatious. Is that realistic? Apparently. We talked to a real-life NCIS forensics specialist, Rachel McGranaghan, who cuts an unimposing figure at 5-feet, 100 pounds. "Being a short, blonde female sometimes has its advantages," she said. "You're underestimated." Does the show mirror real life though? "I wish the job was as exciting as the show." she said. It's a civilian job where she probes crimes committed by or done to those in the Navy or Marines. She's had cases in American Samoa and New Zealand but her primary turf is California's sprawling Camp Pendleton. McGranaghan has to be at the crime scene quickly with a van filled with equipment. Soon, she's ending evidence to the labs. It's a job of quiet diligence. Mark Harmon would approve. Thank for you to Alethea at NCIS Special Ops for the info.
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Post by ML Fan on Feb 22, 2007 18:04:46 GMT -5
Spoiler SpaceGillian Flynn in "Entertainment Weekly", the Feb.23,2007 issue, has a nice review of the show: (oh, for a scanner!) "Naval Gaze" In its fourth season, CBS' drama about Navy crime fighters stays afloat. TV is so easy, it's like a diligent mama bird chews each episode for me and places it gently in my drooling mouth, right next to those Cheez-Its I forgot to swallow. Yum! Sometimes that's what you want-simple, uncomplicated stuff-and CBS' good-natured crime drama NCIS serves quite well. It never gets very tense: In one recent episode, Israeli bomb expert Ziva (Cote de Pablo) pretended to drop a $20 million weapons system just to create "a little levity." Thanks,Z! Although I was never too nervous-even the show's opening theme music is cruise-ship smooth. Now in it's fourth season, NCIS isn't insulting to the intelligence, but it's not really taxing, either. (For that I turn to NBC's classic Law & Order ) NCIS is more aking to Fox's Bones: The mysteries are fine-serial killers, arms dealers, a dash of terrorism-but the team that solves them is the reason to watch. The NCIS crime busters are stock characters-the stud, the nerd,the perky-Goth-tech-girl-with-pigtails-and-skull-shirts-enlivened by genial writing and game actors. With charming predictability, each episode features at least on of the following: Lead officer Gibbs (St. Elsewhere's Mark Harmon) gets confused about technology (I particularly enjoyed his recent slack stare at an expert who compared an outdated weapon to a Commodore 64);Ziva makes some goof with the English language ("You need to cut the man some slacks"); awkward McGee (Sean Murray) suffers an indignity, like poison ivy on the crotch; and someone-or two or three- in the crew offers up an endearingly square sex joke. The cast pulls it all off by embracing the corniness: Sometimes NCIS feels less like a cimre drama and more like an affable family comedy, with the team teasing each other relentlessly about male manicures, girlfriends and crushes. Speaking of which, the writers have wisely given alpha-male agent Tony (Dark Angel's Michael Weatherly) a serious love interest this season. Weatherly has tile-toothed hot-dude looks that could make him easy to dismiss-particularly if stuck playing to type. Thankfully, that's not the case. Tony has acquired a very un-leading-man-like eagerness around his new doctor girlfriend, phoning her 12 times a day and whispering cheesy medical puns into her ear. And the guy still manages to pull off silly "undercover" gags: Never has an actor serenaded a dog with such gusto. In the end, it's hard not to grin at this series, unless you are a staunch ironist. (In which case, your eyes will be sore from the rolling.) I, for one, declare NCIS to be popcorny good fun, and salute it with my heartiest B. Thank you to Alethea at NCIS Special Ops for the info.
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Post by Aerie on Mar 3, 2007 12:09:58 GMT -5
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Post by dutch on Mar 3, 2007 22:13:52 GMT -5
Just checked, server 29 is still down.
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Post by ML Fan on Mar 4, 2007 19:30:28 GMT -5
Just checked, server 29 is still down. The NCIS Special Ops server is back up, here's the message from the NCIS Special Ops mods, Due to the server being down then having to put in a new hard drive (3/3), Proboards had to restore it back to February 28, causing the loss of a few days of posts. Sorry for the inconvenience but that's how it works. Just be happy it's back up and running!
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Post by ML Fan on Mar 21, 2007 17:42:53 GMT -5
One of the usual Tuesday Media blips from "Entertainment Tonight." etonlinePP Crime SceneThanks to k!bbslover at NCIS Special Ops for the info.
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Post by ML Fan on Mar 31, 2007 21:23:16 GMT -5
'NCIS' hooks fans with fun, quality BY NEAL JUSTIN Minneapolis Star Tribune
It's hard to believe, but there are millions of viewers who haven't caught American Idol fever. They're too invested in the adventures of military investigators who spend as much time cracking jokes as they do cracking cases.
NCIS is one of the few shows that Idol hasn't obliterated in the ratings. In fact, it retains from 95 to 100 percent of its audience against not only that juggernaut, but also any other that has come its way, including Dancing With the Stars and Lost.
''I don't think there are a lot of shows that could handle that kind of competition and not only survive, but do well,'' said its star, Mark Harmon, recently on the NCIS set near Los Angeles.
It's an achievement that should bring accolades, if not a medal of honor. But the drama carries all the critical and industry weight of a paper airplane. In four years, it's received only one Emmy nomination (for a guest appearance by Charles Durning) and gets nothing near the promotional support that CBS showers on Two and a Half Men, a program that averages the same number of viewers.
One of the show's most glaring problems is the perception that it's just another crime procedural.
The writers foresaw the confusion in a scene from the first episode, in which an airline security guard asks one of the agents whether NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) is anything like CSI.
The answer: Only if you're dyslexic.
NCIS isn't nearly as dour as CBS' other crime dramas. It's often downright goofy.
Ducky, the coroner, talks to his corpses. Agent Anthony DiNozzo sometimes lapses into a Christopher Walken impersonation. When a charred body is found lodged in a smokestack, the team runs through a series of morbid nicknames, including Beef Jerky and Smokey the Bear.
Polley Perrette, who plays a lab specialist who has more tattoos and piercings than Tommy Lee, said humor was essential from the start.
Cast members said they believe more people would take a chance on them if the network provided more promotion. But while NCIS routinely finishes among the top-15-rated shows when facing Idol or Dancing With the Stars -- and the top five when it doesn't -- its audience is not coveted by advertisers because the average NCIS viewer is older than 55.
''NCIS is the ultimate answer to the reality show,'' said David McCallum, who is enjoying a career resurgence as Ducky, 40 years after The Man From U.N.C.L.E. made him a star. 'This is television in the good ol' fashioned sense. It's corn, the best type of entertainment.''
Thank you to kcbent at NCIS Special Ops for the info.
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Post by ML Fan on Apr 3, 2007 0:12:26 GMT -5
Music To Their EarsCBS stars recall their unforgettable concert experiences “Aphex Twin Richard D. James performing in a warehouse in San Bernardino, 1997. If you were there ... remember the dancing bears? Me, too.” – Sean Murry “When I was very young and living in Georgia, I was standing barefoot in the grass at an outdoor concert venue when Nancy Wilson took the stage with Heart — this hot chick that played guitar better than any dude I had ever seen. I remember everything about that moment when I learned rock ’n’ roll was not just for the boys.” – Pauley Perrette “My most memorable concert going experience has to be my first—one always remembers their ‘first time.’ It was REO Speed wagon and Journey at the Rochester War Memorial. Actually, maybe it’s not only memorable because it was my first concert, but more because it was so awesome!” – Lauren Holly “My father was the principal violin of the Royal Philharmonic. When I was quite young, I had the pleasure of listening and watching one evening as he played the Delius violin concerto with the orchestra. At the end, he shook hands with Sir Thomas Beecham who was conducting. I remember feeling so proud of him.” – David McCallum Info from CBS Watch Magazine
Thanks to wave at NCIS Special Ops for the info.
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