Will Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J star in an NCIS spinoff?
This is what I call thinking out of the box. Instead of simply replicating NCIS, the producers seem to be envisioning a completely different show. Reports claim that the CBS spinoff of NCIS may star Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J. Could you find two more different actors to pair in a procedural? (Okay, Ice-T and Richard Belzer on Law & Order: SVU aren't a typical teaming either, but at that's supposedly a New York police squad.)
Anyway, it's still in the talking stages, but it's exciting nonetheless. O'Donnell, best known for playing Robin in two Batman movies, being Al Pacino's young charge in Scent of a Woman, and more recently hunked it up as Dr. Finn Dandridge on Grey's Anatomy, would be playing an investigator for the Navy who's a master of disguise. Apparently, he can fake out everyone around him.
LL's character in the NCIS spinoff would be a former Navy SEAL. The rapper-turned actor starred in the feature Krush Groove and had a successful sitcom called In the House. He's also been all over the dial in episodic TV including House and 30 Rock.
According to Nina Tassler, CBS Entertainment prez, in the same way that NCIS began as an episode of JAG, this new show will be back-door piloted via an NCIS episode later this season. In doing it that way, the pilot will be practically guaranteed a huge audience sampling the product because NCIS has been in the Nielsen top five all season long.

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