Off Duty: NCIS Rewatch Video Podcast Debuts On June 4th

Rewatch podcasts are almost always a safe investment for a podcast network or indie podcaster. First, you have a built-in audience that loves the TV show, even if it's been off the air for quite a while. Second, the rewatch podcast has several content options, such as reviewing each TV episode on the podcast or having people who worked on the show be interviewed. Or both.

The Psychologists Are In with Maggie Lawson and Timothy Omundson is one of the best TV rewatch podcasts around. That rewatch show has the benefit of two of the principal cast members as co-hosts. Even better, Lawson is terrific.

So it's no surprise that Spotify has announced the launch of a new weekly video podcast, Off Duty: An NCIS Rewatch, with hosts and NCIS castmates Cote de Pablo and Michael Weatherly – set to debut on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. The podcast will reunite the fan-favorite actors from the NCISverse as they rewatch, reminisce, and reveal more from the popular TV series. 

 Here's the marketing pitch: "In each weekly podcast episode, Cote and Michael will invite a special guest to join them as they rewatch iconic NCIS episodes. Former franchise cast and guest stars making appearances include Sean Murray, Sasha Alexander, Eric Christian Olsen, Jon Cryer and many more who will join the hosts to reminisce about the show’s undeniable impact in television and pop culture, and reveal exclusive behind-the-scenes moments from making the cherished TV series."

 NCIS co-stars and apparently, lifelong friends, Michael Weatherly and Cote De Pablo, are hosting the quintessential NCIS rewatch podcast. They played two of NCIS's most memorable characters, agents Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David, AKA "TiVa". Each week, they will break down an episode of NCIS and host a special guest, including stars and key behind the scenes folks from across the NCIS universe, to reminisce about the show’s impact and reveal behind-the-scenes, never-before-shared moments from the making of this beloved franchise.

 

Weatherly was on NCIS for 13 seasons, when he left to star in his own CBS TV series, Bull.  In January 2018, CBS settled for $9.5 million with actress Eliza Dushku after she was fired from a recurring role on Bull after informing producers of Weatherly's inappropriate behavior on the set. According to documents from the official mediation, Weatherly was recorded on video making comments about spanking Dushku over his knee, soliciting a threesome, alluding to sexual assault in his "rape van," and other inappropriate remarks. 

After the settlement was reported, Weatherly publicly apologized for the comments, yet Dushku responded that Weatherly broke the terms of their settlement by speaking to the press and characterized his apology as "more deflection, denial, and spin."

 

Then in 2021, CBS announced that Bull showrunner Glenn Gordon Caron and costar Freddy Rodriguez would be leaving the series after a workplace investigation was conducted by CBS. A rep for CBS Studios declined to share the findings of the investigation at the time, and they've still not been disclosed.

 

 Cote de Pablo played former Mossad agent Ziva David from 2006 until 2013 when she left the show for what she later said was dissatisfaction over the direction of her character arc. In the season 13 finale of the series, it was stated that her character had apparently died in an explosion in Israel. Yet three years later, she was miraculously alive (please thank soap operas for character resurrection).

 

 You can watch the series trailer HERE. 

 

If you're a NCIS fan -- and there are a lot of them -- check out Off Duty: An NCIS Rewatch. You have to give the show credit. In 21 seasons, the show has cycled through a lot of characters -- it just lost Katrina Law as Jessica Knight this month -- and still garners excellent ratings.