{"id":3243,"date":"2025-08-05T16:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:24:08","slug":"team-behind-ncis-in-crisis-mode-amid-low-viewership-hoping-to-tap-mark-harmon-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=3243","title":{"rendered":"Team Behind \u2018NCIS\u2019 in Crisis Mode Amid Low Viewership, Hoping to Tap Mark Harmon to Return"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mark Harmon is being lined up for a full-blown return to NCIS to save its dwindling ratings. The National Examiner can reveal the vet is willing to do whatever it takes to save the beloved franchise that\u2019s defined his career.<\/p>\n

Sources point out that the original series has fallen to No. 10 on the top TV show list, and now bosses are in crisis mode.<\/p>\n

Mark believes he can keep the military action drama that he\u2019s poured his heart into from going down the drain, says an insider.<\/p>\n

The show \u2014 which he also executive produces \u2014 \u201chas sunk in the ratings for the first time, and people are nervous and seeing that as a bad omen of things to come,\u201d the insider says. \u201cMark coming back \u2014 even on a recurring basis \u2014 would save the show.\u201d<\/p>\n

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However, there are some cast members who aren\u2019t exactly keen on Mark returning, says the insider. \u201cPeople are complaining he\u2019ll be throwing his weight around and telling them what to do. He does enough of that already as exec producer.\u201d But those backstage gripes don\u2019t seem to faze the Freakier Friday star.<\/p>\n

\u201cMark doesn\u2019t really care who he pisses off, because if the ratings are bad, then he has every right to come back to save it,\u201d says the insider. \u201cHe worries it\u2019ll go down the drain otherwise. Mark will be making his presence more known than it already is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mark, 73, played Special Agent in Charge Leroy Jethro Gibbs of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service for 18 seasons until leaving NCIS as a regular character in season 19.<\/p>\n

Besides having his executive-producer duties on NCIS, Mark also serves as an executive producer and the narrator on the spinoff NCIS: Origins, which revolves around the younger Leroy Jethro Gibbs, played by Austin Stowell.<\/p>\n

\u201cMark already had one cameo on NCIS: Origins, and it\u2019s been teased that he may appear on that show again,\u201d the insider says. \u201cNow he\u2019s ready to come out of semi-retirement to raise the original NCIS from the dumpster. If anyone can do it, it\u2019s Mark.\u201d<\/p>\n

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