NCIS: Sydney Renewed for Season 2 on CBS

The NCISverse is going strong! NCIS: Sydney has been renewed for Season 2 on CBS.

The sophomore season will begin production this spring in Sydney, Australia, as part of CBS Television Network’s 2024/2025 season. This announcement corresponds with the cross-continent Season 2 order today by Paramount+ Australia.

The NCISverse’s first international expansion successfully launched with NCIS: Sydney Season 1 Episode 1, “Gone Fission,” on Friday, November 10, 2023, on Paramount+ Australia and on Tuesday, November 14, 2023, on CBS in the U.S. and Global in Canada.

According to CBS, the series premiere “reached over 10.2 million viewers on linear in the U.S., including an encore episode.” The broadcast network ranks NCIS: Sydney as the #1 new series of the fall, and it currently stands as the #3 new series of the 2023/2024 season, behind Tracker and Elsbeth.

The show concluded its debut season with quite a cliffhanger on NCIS: Sydney Season 1 Episode 8, “Blonde Ambition,” in January 2024.

“The global power of the NCIS franchise became even stronger on broadcast and streaming with the addition of NCIS: Sydney. Our American viewers have fully embraced these engaging characters, unique stories, and the fabulous Australian scenery,” Amy Reisenbach, president of CBS Entertainment, said.

“We are thrilled to bring this show back to CBS next season and spend even more time down under,” Reisenbach added.

NCIS: Sydney‘s renewal comes after multiple developments in the NCISverse.

CBS announced earlier this month that Austin Stowell would play a young Leroy Jethro Gibb in the prequel series NCIS: Origins, which has previously been ordered to series for the 2024/2025 broadcast season.

Plus, Cote de Pablo and Michael Weatherly are set to reprise their NCIS roles as Ziva David and Tony DiNozzo in an NCISverse spinoff series on Paramount+.

NCIS: Sydney marks the fifth series to air in the global franchise, which includes NCIS and NCIS: Hawai’i, currently in their 21st and third seasons, respectively. The ever-growing franchise, which will reach its 1,000th episode milestone with NCIS‘s April 15th outing, also includes NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans.

The Australian-set series “sees rising international tensions in the Indo-Pacific, where a brilliant and eclectic team of U.S. NCIS agents and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) have been grafted into a multi-national taskforce to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet.”

NCIS: Sydney stars Olivia Swann, Todd Lasance, Sean Sagar, Tuuli Narkle, Mavournee Hazel, and William McInnes.

“We’re beyond stoked with the response to the first season of the show, both in Australia and around the world, and that the team at NCIS: Sydney is returning for a second season,” Morgan O’Neill, executive producer and showrunner for Endemol Shine Australia, said.

“We’re especially thrilled to invite our audience deeper into the lives of our core team, peeling back the layers to find out what really makes them tick,” O’Neill added.

“This will be even more important as we see the bonds of the new family tested to breaking point in the face of a much more potent enemy looming on the horizon…” O’Neill concluded.

CBS Studios and Paramount Australia by Endemol Shine Australia produces NCIS: Sydney. Paramount Global Content Distribution distributes the series outside Australia.

Morgan O’Neill, Sara Richardson, and Michele Bennett executive produce NCIS: Sydney. The series airs on CBS and streams on Paramount+ in the U.S.

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NCIS: Sydney is streaming on Paramount+.

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