Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Casting News - Mark Harmon Returning for First 'NCIS' and 'NCIS: Origins' Crossover Event; Plus 2 More Updates!

Casting News - October 28, 2025

CBS' NCIS & NCIS: Origins; NBC's Brilliant Minds; and Netflix's Running Point.





CBS' NCIS and NCIS: ORIGINS
  • Mark Harmon will return as Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the first crossover event between the dramas set for November 11. He serves as an executive producer on both series. He starred for the first eighteen on the original series. He last appeared on NCIS in 2021 and made a brief appearance in the series premiere of NCIS: Origins last year.
  • The Veterans Day crossover will feature the younger Gibbs (Austin Stowell) and his team investigating the small-town death of a naval officer in the 1990s on Origins - a case that will be unexpectedly reopened in the present day on NCIS. For one night only, Origins will air at 8/7c. with NCIS following at 9/8c.
NETFLIX's RUNNING POINT
  • Ray Romano has booked a recurring role on the comedy's upcoming second season. He previously starred for nine seasons in CBS' Everybody Loves Raymond, winning three Emmy Awards as an actor and producer. He also starred for two seasons in TNT's Men of a Certain Age, three seasons in Epix's Get Shorty, and two seasons in HBO Max's Made for Love.
  • He will play Coach Norm Stinson, a basketball savant-turned-social recluse who will team with Isla (Kate Hudson) to re-discover his love for the game, and life. Romano will succeed Robert Townsend in the role after the character was reimagined.
NBC's BRILLIANT MINDS
  • Mädchen Amick will guest star on an upcoming episode of the drama's second season. She previously starred for two seasons in ABC's Twin Peaks, two seasons in Lifetime's Witches of East End and seven seasons in The CW's Riverdale.
  • She will play Alicia Ramati, a strong-willed woman who wears her emotions on her sleeve, especially when it comes to her firefighting ex-husband, Matthew (guest star Eric Dane). She's not afraid to state her opinion and care for the ones she loves.