NCIS Facts You May Not Have Heard

You can't become the number-one drama on television without generating at least a little drama offscreen. NCIS has had a long time to create those stories; the show first premiered all the way back in 2003! Here are the facts every NCIS fan should know about the CBS series.

Considering NCIS is about the U.S. military, you wouldn't expect the show to be a big hit overseas. But since 2013, no fewer than eight NCIS movies have been shown on British television. If you're wondering why you've never heard of NCIS movies before, don't worry, you haven't actually missed anything: films like NCIS: Judgment Day and NCIS: War on Terror were cobbled together by assembling multi-episode arcs from the TV shows into one continuous story. Binge-watching the old fashioned way!

NCIS is objectively one of the most popular shows on TV right now, if not of all time. And, as a spinoff of JAG, it's one of the few spinoffs to outlive its predecessor. Where most shows' popularity drops off over time, that's just not true for NCIS. In its seventh season, it became the most-watched scripted show on broadcast television. In its tenth, it surpassed the only two shows in front of it, Sunday Night Football and American Idol, to become the number one show on network TV. It's never left the top three since. But as much as viewers love it, it hasn't won very many awards. The show has been nominated for more than a dozen People's Choice Awards and three Emmy Awards: twice for stunt performers and once for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. It did not win any of them. Keep watching the video to see all the NCIS facts you may not have heard.

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NCIS movies on British television | 0:00
Nielsen families love it | 0:48
The "NCIS Sound" | 1:36
Why Michael Weatherly left | 2:14
Why Sasha Alexander left | 2:39
Writing for Gibbs is tough | 3:23
What's really in Caf-Pow | 3:58
Pauley Perrette is a legit criminologist | 4:27
Actual Navy guest stars | 5:04
Stars and spinoffs | 5:46
Why Lauren Holly left | 6:10
Why Pauley Perrette left | 6:59
Bert the Farting Hippo | 8:13
The "Most Wanted" wall | 9:38
A huge TV universe | 10:18
Harrison Ford almost starred | 11:23
Big in Japan | 12:08

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