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‘NCIS: Origins’ Finds Its Young Gibbs: Austin Stowell To Star In CBS Prequel Series


Austin Stowell (Catch-22 TV series) is taking on Mark Harmon's signature NCIS character Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

Stowell has been cast as young 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. In the series, Gibbs (Stowell) starts his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NIS Camp Pendleton office where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks. Origins is one of two newly greenlighted extensions of CBS Studios’ ever-growing NCIS franchise, along with an Europe-set Tony & Ziva spinoff starring Michael Weatherly and Cote De Pablo for Paramount+.

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