Brian Dietzen Teases Episode 500 and What’s Next for Jimmy Palmer (Exclusive)

Brian Dietzen Teases Episode 500 and What’s Next for Jimmy Palmer (Exclusive)


What To Know

  • Brian Dietzen guarantees that NCIS‘s five hundredth episode, airing March 24, might be one of many present’s most emotional episodes.
  • Dietzen additionally teases upcoming episodes centered on Jimmy and Kasie.

There’s rather a lot to look ahead to for those who’re a fan of NCIS — and not simply the sequence’ milestone five hundredth episode (airing March 24), though that’s promising to be one you do not need to miss.

“People are going to absolutely lose their minds,” Brian Dietzen tells TV Insider whereas discussing the new podcast, NCIS: Partners & Probies, that he and Diona Reasonover host. “Everybody I talked to at the network said it’s probably one of the most affecting and emotional episodes we’ve ever done.”

Also developing within the again half of the season are two episodes — the seventeenth and 18th — it sounds such as you will not need to miss, particularly for those who’re followers of Dr. Jimmy Palmer (Dietzen) and Kasie Hines (Reasonover).

“They’re pretty special,” says Dietzen. “One of the episodes does focus a lot on where Jimmy’s at in his personal life and where he’s giving himself new challenges. And then the next episode focuses quite a bit on Diona, Kasie’s character. But some really wonderful things.”

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He’s additionally learn the script for the penultimate episode of Season 23 and calls it “incredible.” In basic, the second half of the season is “one banger after another.”

And we already know that the sequence might be again for extra: NCIS was renewed for Season 24 in January. But though the sequence retains going robust and reveals no indicators of slowing down, Dietzen, who has been on it since Season 1, is aware of he cannot take it for granted.

“You don’t [know it will keep going] because I’ll never forget, David McCallum once told me, ‘An entire hit television show can be taken down by four bad episodes,’ and he was speaking from experience,” he shares. “He was on The Man from UNCLE He said, ‘We had four bad shows in a row and it was over.’ And so I kind of feel that way about our show. And I’m like, ‘OK, it’s our job to keep that bar up there and really never take anything for granted, never take tomorrow for granted.’ So we just got to keep working hard. And I think we’ve got a great group of people to do it.”

What are you hoping to see in the remainder of Season 23? Let us know within the feedback part under.

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