“We’re trying to address … the idea of trust, and how they move forward… they’re trying to make things work while also parenting and having a lot of challenges thrown at them,” Cote de Pablo, who plays Ziva David, told Deadline at the Monte Carlo TV Festival. “We wanted to take these two characters away from the Agency and put them in a world, and the world that was attractive to us was international.”
“Every choice that Tony and Ziva have to make in their adventure, their child is first and foremost in the front of their mind,” Weatherly told Deadline. “When we were on NCIS, the mothership, we didn’t have children. When you have a child, you have to navigate what is best for them. And then maybe you have a co-parent that you have a tumultuous relationship with… and oh, wait, we also have to save the world.”
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Paramount+ confirmed NCIS: Tony & Ziva will premiere in fall 2025.
Who is in the cast for NCIS: Tony & Ziva?
Michael WeatherlyPhoto Credit: Marcell Piti/Paramount+
Michael Weatherly as Anthony DiNozzo Jr.
Cote de PabloPhoto Credit: Marcell Piti/Paramount+
Cote de Pablo as Ziva David
Top row: Cote de Pablo, Michael Weatherly, Isla Gie, Amita Suman, Maximilian Osinski l-r Bottom row: Nassima Benchicou, Julian Ovenden, Terence Maynard, Lara Rossi and James D’ArcyCourtesy Paramount+
Isla Gie as Tali: Tony and Ziva’s precocious 12-year-old daughter who is sick of being treated like a child. She’s more intuitive and vigilant than the adults around her give her credit for and she’s ready to prove this to them.
Amita Suman and Michael WeatherlyPhoto Credit: Marcell Piti/Paramount+
Amita Suman as Claudette: The Chief Technical Officer at Tony’s private security company and the only reason the place runs as smoothly as it does. There’s no problem Claudette can’t solve or code she can’t crack.
Michael Weatherly, Max Osinski and Cote de Pablo as Ziva DavidPhoto Credit: Marcell Piti/Paramount+
Nassima Benchicou as Martine: A former French intelligence agent with the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE). She is elegant and cunning, playing both sides of any conflict masterfully to protect her own self-interest.
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Lara Rossi as Sophie: A highly skilled professional with a background in the Special Air Service (SAS), Sophie brings a unique blend of maternal warmth and hyper-vigilance to her role as a caretaker for Tali.
Paramount+ released a teaser trailer for NCIS: Tony & Ziva with the added tease that the full trailer will debut during NCIS‘ Season 22 finale airing Monday, May 5 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
NCIS: Tony & Ziva first-look photos
Michael Weatherly, Cote de PabloCourtesy: Paramount+
Michael Weatherly, Cote de PabloCourtesy: Paramount+
Michael Weatherly, Cote de PabloCourtesy: Paramount+
Michael Weatherly, Isla GiePhoto Credit: Marcell Piti/Paramount+
Cote de Pablo, Michael Weatherly and Isla GiePhoto Credit: Marcell Piti/Paramount+
Where did the Tony & Ziva story end on NCIS?
The last time we saw the two together was in the Season 11 opener of NCIS, when we saw Tony and Ziva together at the airport in Israel, where Tony had traveled to find Ziva when she went missing. He did find her and it is obvious that their love for each other has finally been realized—off camera—by their goodbye, which included a passionate kiss.
Then in Season 13, Ziva was reported dead, allegedly killed when the David farmhouse in Israel was bombed. But there’s another bombshell. When Tony showed up for work the day after hearing about Ziva’s death, he discovered he has a daughter named Tali, who Ziva had kept secret from him. As a result, Tony quit his job as an NCIS special agent to raise Tali.
Michael WeatherlyCourtesy Paramount+
But wait! It turned out that Ziva wasn’t dead and she showed up in Gibbs’ basement in the Season 16 finale looking for help, but also upset that Gibbs had never searched for her. The help she needed was to find a woman named Sahar, who wanted her dead. Once that was dealt with and Sahar was no longer a threat, Ziva—after one final issue—was able to travel to Paris to reunite—off-camera— with Tony and Tali.
Here is what we gleaned from an interview that Weatherly and de Pablo did with Variety at the Monte Carlo TV Festival:
Weatherly added, “When you think about Tali, who is really the third character in Tony & Ziva, the idea for her to think that her mother was dead, and then her mother is alive, but was running around the world and didn’t come home to protect her … Trust doesn’t mean truth, doesn’t mean honesty. Just because I’m telling you the truth doesn’t mean you can trust me. And I think that a lot of the relationships inside … I won’t give away anything […] You have a daughter who’s going to question the story. ‘No dad—you told me she was dead, and she just walked through the door.’ ‘Yeah, but your mom had reasons …’ ‘No, no, no. The facts are the facts.’
How many episodes of NCIS: Tony & Ziva will there be?
Paramount+ ordered 10 episodes for the upcoming series.
Could other NCIS characters appear on Tony & Ziva?
Brian Dietzen, who plays Jimmy Palmer told Deadline, “It sounds very atypical for NCIS as far as the storytelling because it won’t be a case-of-the week type of show. That said, if they say: ‘Hey we need Jimmy Palmer on a plasma screen’ at any point, I’d say, ‘Hell yes, that’d be fun,’ I’d do that in a heartbeat.”
Wilmer Valderrama, Brian DietzenPhoto by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
That said, even though the cast members from the mothership have volunteered, CBS Studios President David Stapf said, “In all honesty, as it’s designed now, no, but never say never.”
Will NCIS: Tony & Ziva Air on CBS?
At this point in time, there are no plans to air Tony & Ziva on CBS, but as Stapf said about other cast members guest starring, never say never.
What is the ‘Off Duty: An NCIS Rewatch’ podcast About?
Before Weatherly and de Pablo headed to Budapest this summer to begin filming NCIS: Tony & Ziva, they launched a new weekly video podcast, Off Duty: An NCIS Rewatch, on Spotify. On the weekly NCIS podcast, fan favorites will rewatch, reminisce and reveal more from the popular TV series. And they won’t be alone. Joining them are present and past cast members Sean Murray, Sasha Alexander, Eric Christian Olsen and Jon Cryer, to name a few of the guests that will be joining them to talk about their time on the series and the impact it has had on TV and pop culture.
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