NCIS: Los Angeles (
Naval Criminal Investigative Service: Los Angeles) is an
American police procedural television series, which premiered on
CBS on September 22, 2009.
The series airs in the 9:00 p.m. timeslot following
NCIS on Tuesdays.
is the first
spin-off of
NCIS,
which itself was a spinoff of another CBS series,
JAG. The show premiered in the UK on
Sky1 on October 21, 2009.
On October 7, 2009 CBS gave the series a full-season pickup, extending the first season to 22 episodes.
[www.thrfeed.com/2009/10/cbs-picks-up-ncis-la-good-wife.html] The season was extended again on November 4, 2009, when CBS announced its order for an additional two episodes.
Production
The show was known as
NCIS: Legend while in production (referring to the episode of
NCIS in which the spin-off was introduced), and other names considered included
NCIS: OSP (Office of Special Projects) and
NCIS: Undercover.
Filming started in February 2009, with the characters being introduced in the two-part
NCIS episode titled "Legend", the first part of which aired on April 28, 2009.
This episode served as a
backdoor pilot for the series, in a manner similar to the introduction of
NCIS, which was introduced by way of a two-part episode of
JAG.
