General Comments about the Show #2

[ucla7]

i saw that it was funny

[mchnelson]

Bones are doing a good job at advertising their show. Amazon.com sent me an email reminding me that season 3 starts tonight at 8. Shame CBS can not do something for our show.

[espritkennels]

I am really surprised that the show does as well as it does considering that CBS does little or no advertising for the show. Anytime I watch anything on CBS, every other commercial is about CSI, Numbers. or Survivor. If they put a third of their budget that they use for those shows on NCIS, we would be number 1 every week. This show does so well but they don't seem to appreciate it. I mean it holds it own against American Idol. OK I will get off my soap box LOL ;D

[vonny67]

espritkennels said:

I am really surprised that the show does as well as it does considering that CBS does little or no advertising for the show. Anytime I watch anything on CBS, every other commercial is about CSI, Numbers. or Survivor. If they put a third of their budget that they use for those shows on NCIS, we would be number 1 every week. This show does so well but they don't seem to appreciate it. I mean it holds it own against American Idol. OK I will get off my soap box LOL ;D

I noticed that when on holidays, hardly any for our show but lots for all of that other rubbish ;D ;D

[Meg]

General rule of thumb for CBS seems to be two or three days in advance. I figured that trend out when I was desperate for NCIS promos. I'd tape CBS every night, then rip through on fast forward to see if I could spot an ad. They don't seem to advertise for NCIS until Saturday or Sunday. So just tape Cold Case and you'll get the promo!

[Sean'sGirl]

Is this the right place for my this CBS website sucks rant???

Not only does innertube only work every other time if that (right now it is skipping part two of Ex-Files) they can't even get the descriptions for the episodes right. Case in point, the Ex-Files description:

Gibbs and Lt. Mann unite for a joint investigation into the murder of a Marine Captain.

Lt. Mann??? Give me a friggin' break. The woman is a Lt. Col., that's quite the difference. O-1 to O-5, that's almost double the pay not to mention the importance of the rank.

Sorry, I'm just exasperated with their sloppiness.

Rant over. Excuse me.

[Sean'sGirl]

Sorry for the double post and double rant. There was a link to some really bad reviews in the Media thread and I ranted there because I was too mad to think when I first read it but AngelZ is right of course, this belongs here.

tweeter said:

Wow, that was pretty offensive. From the blurb at the top of the page, this person likes to offend under the guise of "telling it like it is." It was as if Don Rickles wrote that.

Whatever.

Rarely ever have I read anything as biased, badly researched—Ziva becomes Kate who has been dead for a year at the time the review was written, timelines are changed just to support a weak argument, many of the facts of the respective episodes are obviously lost on this intellectually challenged human being with very limited journalistic abilities (and here I apologize to all real journalist in the world)—and most of all offensive and below the belt. This dribble is obviously geared towards annoying fans of the show and attacking the actors involved on a personal level.

If you can't even keep the characters straight, spell Bellisario right (in this idiot's style I'd have to write something pseudo groundbreaking and pretentious like "the author's complete lack of talent is repeatedly demonstrated by his ongoing failure to spell the name of the show's creator right while trying to belittle him") or remember the actors' names, you really have no place writing anywhere. Fabricating facts when you clearly are simply too dumb to understand a plot line that's oversimplified (or so this 'critic' wants to make us believe) is no achievement. That's just poor writing and bad taste!

And I completely agree with tweeter. That blurb is not witty, it's a sorry excuse of an annoying bunch of @&$^ to give themselves carte blanche to sh!t on others!!!

[shazp]

Those reviews were unbelievable
Mistakes, assumptions and just plain mean. Not everyone has to like what we like of course, but I did wonder if they had watched the same show as us when I was reading that stuff. There are ways to write an intelligent if critical review and this isn't one of them.

SG said it all really, so I won't rant any more.

Nasty people.....

[Fette Katze]

Season 4 is just over in Germany and I'm waiting for the dvds to be released but I'm also wondering if they would do a special edition without the la tadpole scenes.

Well, a girl can dream, can't she?

[navyresgirl]

Okay. I may have been promoted to Agent status, but I've no clue where to put this so, I'm putting it here.

TV Guide article about Navy NCIS. It's in the January 10, 2004 issue.
Found it in one of my closets as I was doing a spring cleaning purge.

Article Title:Murders, Mysteries and the Military.
Sub-title: If Navy NCIS strikes you as 'JAG' with a touch of 'CSI', maybe you, too, could be a Hollywood producer.
Author: Mary Murphy

There are 4 photos over 2 side by side pages. From left to right:
Pauley/Abby wearing a black t-shirt with the word Cruel written in red on the front. She wearing a short necklace with a dangling star. Hair in pigtails.
Michael/Tony: Short hair, kind of messy. Wearing a white shirt with a black tie and suite.
Sasha/Kate: Brown dressy sweater, off-shoulder. Hair down. Possibly a brown/tan print skirt.
Mark/Jethro: White t-shirt, black polo shirt and a grayish suit jacket.

BLAME THE CONFUSION on Donald Bellisario. He's just too good a salesman.
Last year, Bellisario, the executive producer and creator of 'JAG', was pitching an idea for a new show to CBS chief Leslie Moonves. "I know how to sell an idea", boasts Bellisario (whose successful sales have included 'Magnum, PI', and 'Quantum Leap'). "So I told Les I would give him 'JAG' meets 'CSI' in a way in which we might even be able to do crossover shows (with 'JAG')". In an era of such powerful TV franchises as 'Law and Order' and 'CSI', the prospect of a 'JAG' spin-off was a no-brainer. In Hollywood, imitation is the sincerest form of imitation, particularly if accompanied by solid ratings and advertising dollars.
Thus was 'Navy NCIS' born, starting life on two episodes of 'JAG' last spring.
Bellisario was good to his word. Maybe too good. A hybrid of 'JAG' (murders and other mysteries played out in a military, patriotic setting) and 'CSI' (mandatory medical examiner scenes peppered with pathological patios), 'Navy NCIS' has been seen as their very calculated, very derivative offspring ever since the series was first announced. Hence confusion among some critics and viewers: What exactly is 'Navy NCIS?

"IT'S MY FAULT," ADMITS BELLISARIO, settling into an office near the soundstages outside Los Angeles where 'Navy NCIS' and 'JAG' are shot. "To sell a show, you sometimes say things different than what you're going to make."
The production insists that despite the similarities between those other CBS hits, 'Navy NCIS' stands on it's own. For one thing, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents are civillians. They don't wear uniforms, although the are empowered to investigate crimes connected to teh Navy and Marines. Says Bellisario: "NCIS is different [in] the writing, the style, the editing. Does it have forensics? Sure. But are they driving the show? No. This show is character driven. But I told them [CBS] it was 'JAG' meets 'CSI', so that's the way they promote it now. I'm a victim of my own salesmanship."

A VICTIM LIKELY TO BE LAUGHING ALL the way to the bank. Inheriting 'JAG's' Tuesday-night slot when 'JAG' moved to Fridays, 'NAVY NCIS' has become the most promising new drama on the CBS schedule after 'Cold Case'. With 12.5 million viewers, 'NAVY NCIS' has been flirting with the Nielsen's Top 20 and ironically, has pulled ahead of 'JAG' in the ratings. No surprise, then that the network quickly ordered up a full season.
Credit should be given to Bellisario for assembling an appealing cast that combines established actors (Mark Harmon, David McCallum) with younger somewhat familiar faces (Sasha Alexander of the ill-fated 'Presidio Med' and Michael Weatherly of 'Dark Angel') and relative newcomers (Pauley Perette, a tattooed scene stealer who plays a feisty forensic scientist in McCallum's medical examiners office).
"I think the series has a lot of staying power," says Steve Sternmerg, a media analyst with MAGNA Global. "Mark Harmon has tremendous appeal to female plus-35 audience."

PHOTO on this page: From 'Yankee White' - Gibbs is stooping down by the body and showing his badge to Kate.

Up close, it's easy to understand that appeal. Harmon, 52, may not be the youthful hunk who once quarterbacked the UCLA football team, but he remains a very sexy guy as he portrays NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, a tough, taciturn character with a subtle eye for the ladies (check out the 'JAG-like' sexual tension between Gibbs and Alexander's Agent Katie Todd. (MY NOTE: KATIE???)
Harmon, who scored two years ago as a Secret Service Agent on 'The West Wing', is happy to be back on TV. " You start shooting in July," he says. "Working 18-hour days. And suddenly it's September and you're pumping gas and the guy next to you says, "Hey! I saw on TV last night and it was great."
On the set Harmon - who has just returned to the White House, this time as the president, in the movie "Chasing Liberty" - has a rep as a practical joker. "I was shooting my first scene with Mark," Alexander says. "And in it he hands me my briefcase. I just toppled over. Mark had filled it with sandbags. But I got him back. I put vinegar and nuts in his coffee. He took a sip and spewed it all over. We couldn't stop laughing."
Adds Weatherly. "Mark's a goof." Of course, it's not uncommon for successful shows to breed happy sets. What could adversley affect that mood is the return on January 19 of Fox's hit 'American Idol', which goes right up against 'NAVY NCIS'. Moonves says he's not worried. "We did well when 'JAG' was there," he says. "It's the only drama, and it skews older."

PHOTO ON THIS PAGE: Abby's Lab. Gibbs, Kate, Tony and Abby looking at a bunch of vials.

To prevent too much of a ratings dip, Bellisario is writing some ripped-from-the-headlines scripts to take the show through February sweeps. One involves the family of a Navy logistics planner who knows the itinerary of a secret presidential trip, much like George W. Bush's Thanksgiving visit to Iraq.
In the meantime, the cast and crew are pleased to be a part of a show shaping up to become a solid, middle-of-the-road hit. Lunching with Harmon, Alexander admits she "lucked out" with 'Navy NCIS.' "Last year I was in a show with all women and I loved it, but it was canceled. Now I'm on a hit show with mostly all men. All I have to do," she says with a laugh, "is survive the practical jokes."

Now the teaser.
There are two sub-articles. One about the real training the actors received from NCIS agents. The other about David McCallum.
I'll bring these to you tomorrow.

[AngelZ]

The Media Stuff thread in the Data Feed drawer is a good place to put news articles

:-)

[navyresgirl]

Do you want me to move it?

[Meg]

I don't know where to post this, but I thought it was kind of an interesting coincidence. (I know, Gibbs, there are no coincidences )

Jonathan LaPaglia (FBI Agent and former Gibbs' team member Langer on Tribes) and Don Franklin (FBI Agent Slacks Sacks both costarred together on the series Seven Days. And now both have played FBI agents on NCIS. I know two actors from the same series are bound to guest star on other series that are the same (L&O: CI actors Erbe and D'Onofrio did eps of Homicide prior to Criminal Intent starting that aired right after the other), but it's funny that they'd both play similar roles.

Also, there was reference on Internal Affairs to Vance, Gibbs, and Jen working together around 1999. Ironically that was around the same time where Lauren, Rocky, and Mark worked together on Chicago Hope.

[krista232008]

This is a little off topic I guess, But I was watching an old show that was on in the 90's and it was called Once and Again and I never knew that the woman who played gibbs girlfriend The army woman from season four was on this show and once I saw it I was like she played gibbs girlfriend in season four but I can't remember her name.

[Turbo Grom]

I spotted something... about dead people... I'm a little bit embarrassed what I spotted but I think it is quiet improvement. Now it looks much more realistic.

Before (4x13) and after (6x05)
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