{"id":4020,"date":"2025-12-19T16:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:35:14","slug":"why-ncis-ncis-sydney-are-taking-nearly-3-months-off-from-new-episodes-when-theyll-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=4020","title":{"rendered":"Why \u2018NCIS\u2019 &#038; \u2018NCIS: Sydney\u2019 Are Taking Nearly 3 Months Off From New Episodes &#038; When They\u2019ll Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong>\u00a0After publication, it was revealed that\u00a0<em>NCIS: Sydney<\/em>\u2018s episode has been delayed. TV Line reports a rerun will air instead. See below for the original info.<\/p>\n<p><em>NCIS<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>NCIS: Sydney<\/em>\u00a0are going on hiatus after brand new episodes air on Tuesday (December 16).<\/p>\n<p>At 8pm ET, the flagship series will air a new episode, \u201cHeaven and Nature,\u201d and then at 9pm ET, the\u00a0<em>Sydney\u00a0<\/em>spinoff will air an ep titled \u201cSouth of Nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4021\" src=\"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FB_IMG_1766162060597-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FB_IMG_1766162060597-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FB_IMG_1766162060597-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FB_IMG_1766162060597.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After tonight\u2019s eps, we won\u2019t see new episodes of either show for weeks and weeks. Why is this happening and when will they return?<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__child-0 ad__align ad__slot--wrapper ad__w300 ad__h250\" data-instance-child=\"7CbsOi82Tl\">\n<p>All three\u00a0<em>NCIS<\/em>\u00a0shows, including\u00a0<em>Origins<\/em>, will return from their fall finale hiatuses on Tuesday, February 24, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>So, why the long wait? While it may seem like a bummer, it\u2019s actually very common for TV shows to take breaks for the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year\u2019s holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the\u00a0<em>NCIS\u00a0<\/em>episode description for tonight: McGee and Torres try to recover a stolen truck filled with toys for the Navy\u2019s annual Christmas drive while the truth about Parker\u2019s mother is finally revealed. Also, Knight is given her first NCIS: Elite mission, which involves tracking down a former member of the team.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the logline for tonight\u2019s<em>\u00a0NCIS: Sydney<\/em>: The team races to an Antarctica research base to investigate why a climate scientist killed a colleague on Polar Night Eve \u2013 and make it out before their plane engine freezes and they\u2019re trapped in darkness for six months.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in tonight to CBS, and next day on Paramount+ to catch the action.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE:\u00a0After publication, it was revealed that\u00a0NCIS: Sydney\u2018s episode has been delayed. TV Line reports a rerun will air instead. See below for the original info. NCIS\u00a0and\u00a0NCIS: Sydney\u00a0are&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4020","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\/4020","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=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4022,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions\/4022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}