NCIS: New York Aims to Revitalize the Franchise's Recent Declining Spinoffs
Originally published as: CBS's Newest NCIS Is Built To Solve The Franchise's Hardest Problem
Despite being one of the longest-running franchises on the network, CBS' NCIS franchise has been struggling in recent seasons. Kicking off in 2003 as a spinoff of popular '90s military legal procedural JAG, NCIS was once the king of the spinoff.