CBS is tweaking its scheduling plans for NCIS: Sydney.
The network announced Thursday that the first international NCIS offshoot’s eight-episode season will now air on Tuesdays at 8/7c (vs. Mondays at 10/9c) beginning Nov. 14 (vs. Nov. 13). (We’re guessing this is the reason for the change.) The episodes will also be available live and on demand Tuesday nights for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers. (“Regular” Paramount+ Essential subscribers can stream each episode the day after it airs.)
NCIS: Sydney will be followed on Tuesdays by NCIS reruns (at 9/8c) and FBI True (moving an hour later to 10/9c).
The Down Under-set spinoff premieres globally on Paramount+ Australia on Friday, Nov. 10, with additional Paramount+ international markets to be announced at a later date.
The premise for NCIS: Sydney: As international tensions rise in the Indo-Pacific, a brilliant and eclectic team of U.S. NCIS Agents and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are grafted into a multi-national task force, to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet.
The team, as previously reported, is led by NCIS Special Agent Michelle Mackey, played by Legends of Tomorrow alum Olivia Swann, and her 2IC AFP counterpart, Sergeant Jim “JD” Dempsey, played by Todd Lasance (Spartacus: War of the Damned).
They are joined by Sean Sagar (Fate: The Winx Saga) as NCIS Special Agent DeShawn Jackson, Tuuli Narkle (Bad Behaviour) as AFP Liaison Officer Constable Evie Cooper, Mavournee Hazel (Neighbours) as AFP Forensic Scientist Bluebird “Blue” Gleeson, and William McInnes (Blue Heelers) as AFP Forensic Pathologist Dr. Roy Penrose.
