For a leading man in a massive series, Mark Harmon got to play Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs as a bit of a man of mystery on the “NCIS” franchise mothership series, at least up to the point that it had to exhaust whatever it was that put that haunted look in his baby blues. […]

Mark Harmon holds Jethro Gibbs close to his heart. After 18 years of playing the special agent on “NCIS,” Harmon exited the show as a series regular in 2021 but remained a series regular. However, he was never far away — he cared too much to fully put it in his rearview mirror. So when […]

“I truly am Gibbs at this point.” Austin Stowell arrives at this conclusion 90 minutes into an emotional conversation about taking on the leading role in “NCIS: Origins,” the prequel series to the long-running procedural. Set in 1991, four months after special agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs’ wife and daughter are murdered, “Origins” (which premieres on […]