As followers proceed to mourn NCIS Hawai'i after its stunning cancellation, one of many present's alums has formally moved over to a different hit CBS sequence.
Noah Mills was forged as a recurring visitor star on season 2 of CBS' hit sequence Watson. The function reunites Mills, 42, with Morris Chestnut after they beforehand labored collectively on NBC's short-lived sequence The Enemy Inside.
In accordance with Deadline, Mills will play Beck Wythe, who “has newly returned to his hometown of Pittsburgh after blowing up a profession in Silicon Valley with reckless, risk-seeking conduct.” Beck then meets Eve Harlow‘s Ingrid in group remedy for folks making an attempt to handle their Cluster B character issues. The duo “kind a bond that could be precisely what they should rebuild their lives — or could be simply the most recent harmful indulgence for each.”
Mills' new function comes after Robert Carlyle was not too long ago forged to play Sherlock Holmes.
Primarily based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‘s Sherlock Holmes tales, Watson takes place six months after James Moriarty killed the legendary detective. Watson should come to phrases with the lack of his greatest good friend and associate by resuming his medical profession as the top of a clinic devoted to treating uncommon issues.
Watson discovered success on CBS after premiering in January, however different reveals — comparable to NCIS Hawai'i — didn't have as a lot luck. NCIS: Hawai'i premiered in 2021 as a derivative of NCIS, which continues to be airing new episodes on CBS. The present was the primary NCIS spinoff to characteristic a feminine lead, with Vanessa Lachey taking part in Particular Agent in Cost Jane Tennant, who ran a crew of elite naval prison brokers on the island of Oahu.
Us Weekly confirmed in April 2024 that CBS was not renewing NCIS: Hawai'i for a fourth season. The island-centered present aired its sequence finale one month later, however writers Jan Nash, Christopher Silber and Matt Bosack made it clear they nonetheless had loads of tales left to inform.
“We have been clearly stunned. If we'd identified it was coming, we in all probability wouldn't have ended the sequence on a cliffhanger,” the group instructed TVLine in a joint e-mail interview in July 2024. “The truth that the studio and the community didn't cease us makes it appear to be they won't have seen it coming both.”
Nash, Silber and Bosack stated “it nonetheless stings” that NCIS Hawai'i got here to an finish regardless of having such a powerful fanbase.
“We liked our present and know different folks liked it, too, however the TV enterprise is a fickle mistress and one can't take enterprise choices personally,” the trio continued. “We did what we got down to do. We created a present with a powerful feminine lead and a forged that mirrored the range of Hawai'i and the world. We instructed attention-grabbing Navy crime tales. All whereas sustaining a office the place folks might hopefully do their greatest work and be valued for it. That provides us lots to be happy with.”
Regardless of fan backlash, president of CBS Leisure Amy Reisenbach merely stated “no” in Might 2024 when requested at a community occasion about NCIS: Hawai'i probably returning.
“It's incumbent on us to at all times maintain the schedule recent, maintain momentum going,” she defined. “Every little thing got here again [from the Hollywood strikes] actually robust, however in the end, we've to take a look at the cohesiveness of the schedule circulation. We have now to guage the financials and the efficiency total, and we make powerful choices.”
Watson is at the moment streaming on Paramount+.
