{"id":3667,"date":"2025-10-16T19:12:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2025-10-16T19:12:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:12:44","slug":"ncis-in-trouble-can-mark-harmon-save-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=3667","title":{"rendered":"NCIS in Trouble \u2013 Can Mark Harmon Save It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once a fan favorite,\u00a0<em>NCIS<\/em> is struggling in the ratings \u2013 and original star Mark Harmon may be planning a big comeback to revive the aging series.<\/p>\n<p>The long-running drama about Navy investigators has been on air since 2003, but without its beloved original cast \u2013 including quirky Pauley Perrette, Michael Weatherly, and Harmon as Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs \u2013 audiences are losing interest.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3668\" src=\"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/FB_IMG_1760641930754-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/FB_IMG_1760641930754-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/FB_IMG_1760641930754-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/FB_IMG_1760641930754-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/FB_IMG_1760641930754-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/FB_IMG_1760641930754.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For five straight seasons starting in 2009,\u00a0<em>NCIS<\/em>\u00a0dominated as TV\u2019s top scripted show, even outpacing\u00a0<em>American Idol<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Sunday Night Football<\/em>. But those glory days are gone. The series has slipped out of the top 10, and producers recently shifted it from Monday nights to Tuesdays in a bid to stop the ratings slide.<\/p>\n<p>Harmon, whose career exploded with\u00a0<em>NCIS<\/em>\u00a0after modest film roles and a short-lived big-screen break in\u00a0<em>The Presidio<\/em>\u00a0with Sean Connery and Meg Ryan, has a lot invested in the show. Now, the question is: can his return bring back the magic \u2013 or is it too late for a revival?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a fan favorite,\u00a0NCIS is struggling in the ratings \u2013 and original star Mark Harmon may be planning a big comeback to revive the aging series. The&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3669,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions\/3669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}