Will NCIS tv show be returning next year for another season?”
In February 2008 CBS announced that NCIS would be renewed for a sixth season. It is rumored that the new season will be 28 episodes, up from the standard 22. Unless the actors union goes on strike and CBS changes their scheduling NCIS is set to premiere the sixth season on Tuesday September 23, 2008. The fifth season DVD set is scheduled to be released August 26, 2008. The 2007-2008 season saw NCIS reach its highest overall Nielson ranking at number 10 as well as its largest average audience, 15.65 million viewers. Mark Harmon and series producer Don Bellisario have been feuding and Harmon had threatened to quit the show. In the end, Bellisario decided to step back from running the show day to day and will remain as executive producer. Co-executive producer (and longtime Bellisario collaborator) Chas. Floyd Johnson and headwriter Shane Brennan will take over running the production. Apparently in July Michael Weatherly (who plays Tony) told a reporter that someone dies in the season pre