NCIS: Tony & Ziva may have just premiered with its first three episodes on Paramount+, but it is the latest spinoff in a long-running franchise. NCIS, on which both Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo originated their characters, is going into its 23rd season. Both stars know how “lucky” they were on that show and would love to continue playing their characters.

“I think we’d be lucky to play these characters for — look, I’ll say this: Season 1 was like a dream. It was so much fun to go back and revisit these characters. Where this goes, we know not,” de Pablo tells TV Insider. “All we know is that we had to do this. Michael and I felt we owed it to the fans. And so we’re really happy about this just being able to happen. We manifested it. It came together beautifully. We had [showrunner] John McNamara leading this. He came up with a world that is beautiful. I mean, visually. You saw how beautiful the backdrop of Europe is and how it almost is like a character in itself, like how that backdrop is its own sort of romantic character that allows the story to so beautifully be played out.”

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