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CBS won’t be back to The Big Easy for the 2021-22 television season. The network has decided to cancel the NCIS: New Orleans TV series and end it with the current seventh year.
NCIS: New Orleans stars Scott Bakula, Vanessa Ferlito, Necar Zadegan, Charles Michael Davis, Rob Kerkovich, Daryl “Chill” Mitchell, and CCH Pounder. Set in The Big Easy, the series revolves around a local NCIS field office that investigates criminal cases involving military personnel. Special Agent Dwayne “King” Pride (Bakula) is a New Orleans native, is driven to do what’s right, and leads the office. Pride’s team, inside and out of the office, includes tough and acerbic Special Agent Tammy Gregorio (Ferlito); Forensic Agent Sebastian Lund (Kerkovich); anti-social Special Agent Quentin Carter (Davis); Jefferson Parish Coroner Doctor Loretta Wade (Pounder), Investigative Computer Specialist Patton Plame (Mitchell); and international counter-intelligence expert Special Agent Hannah Khoury (Zadegan).
Airing on Sunday nights, the seventh season of NCIS: New Orleans averages a 0.51 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 4.84 million viewers. Compared to season six, that’s down by 22% in the demo and down by 24% in viewership. Eight episodes have aired thus far.
Of the series coming to a close, Deadline reports that Bakula said, “Sad to end our love affair with this phenomenal city but so grateful for all the friends we made along the way… I will miss the music. Big thank you to CBS for seven years.”
“It has been our sincere pleasure and honor to work on this show and with this incredible cast and crew for over 150 episodes,” said executive producers and showrunners Jan Nash and Christopher Silber. “As disappointed as we are to see NOLA end, we couldn’t be prouder of the work we’ve done and are grateful to the spectacular and resilient Crescent City that embraced us for seven wonderful years.”
It was also announced today that CBS’ Mom sitcom is also ending this season. It’s also been reported that the network is considering a new NCIS spin-off set in Hawaii.
What do you think? Do you like the NCIS: New Orleans TV series? Are you disappointed that it’s been cancelled and wasn’t renewed for an eighth season?
NCIS New Orleans—–my favorite show. Since it has been cancelled, I will not be watching ANY other NCIS show !
I think the network is a bunch of nitwits to cancel this!! I love all of the NCIS programs and this will be a sad day for everyone!!
I love NCIS NO , most of TV today Suck that is why I watch very little, basically NCIS, NCIS NO and prodical son now that NCIS NO an Prodical have been cancelled I have nothing to watch
Who cancels all these good shows? I really like Scott Bakula & this show was one I looked forward to watching.
I loved NCIS NO, one of my favorite shows and all of the actors are great. Bad move CBS
I loved NCIS New Orleans also. Keep it on, I am 74, never written in.
Like I said before, the reality shows suck, big time.
Along with many others I was very, very surprised by CBS’s decision to cancel NCIS: New Orleans. I don’ know who the person or persons are to make this decision, but I think it is a very bad call. You have a proven winner in the NCIS family. It was, in my opinion, a good part of DBS’s leading-the-pack when it comes to television drama. I’m still puzzled by this decision. It might serve to know that in 71 years on this planet I have never taken the time to write a network about one of its programs, so this… Read more »
I was really sorry to hear they cancelled NCIS NO, that is the only NCIS show I watched and really loved. I don’t know who the twits are that cancel the good shows like this, but they don’t have a clue.