Austin Stowell (Catch-22 TV collection) is taking over Mark Harmon’s signature NCIS character Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Stowell has been forged as younger Gibbs in CBS‘ new drama NCIS: Origins, a prequel to the venerable procedural, which has a straight-to-series order for the 2024-2025 broadcast season. CBS Studios is producing.
Narrated by Harmon, the brand new collection begins in 1991, years previous to the occasions of NCIS, and chronicles Leroy Jethro Gibbs’ youthful years. Within the collection, Gibbs (Stowell) begins his profession as a newly minted particular agent on the fledgling NIS Camp Pendleton workplace the place he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag crew led by NCIS legend Mike Franks.
Mark Harmon and his son Sean Harmon, who portrayed Gibbs in flashbacks on NCIS and was a driving power behind the prequel, govt produce alongside David J. North and Gina Lucita Monreal who’re co-writing the premiere episode and serving as co-showrunners.
Origins is one in every of two newly greenlighted extensions of CBS Studios’ ever-growing NCIS franchise, together with an Europe-set Tony & Ziva spinoff starring Michael Weatherly and Cote De Pablo for Paramount+. They be a part of the mothership collection, now in its twenty first season, NCIS: Hawai’i, now in Season 3 and the franchise’s first worldwide installment, NCIS: Sydney.
Stowell’s TV credit additionally embrace A Pal of the Household, Public Morals and the upcoming Three Girls. In options, he has been seen in Battle of the Sexes, Bridge of Spies, Whiplash, Swallow, the Fantasy Island horror reboot in addition to The Hating Recreation romantic comedy reverse Lucy Hale, which he additionally govt produced.
