Here’s When NCIS’ New 2025 Episode Will Air (Confirmed)

NCIS‘ new episodes from 2025 are heading back to the small screen as all three series prepare to return from their winter hiatus.

The NCIS franchise showed no signs of slowing down when it returned in October 2024, highlighting different branches and eras of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Originally developed as a spin-off of I in 2003, the franchise is now in its 22nd year and has spawned five spin-off series.

Three of these series are still running as of 2025, including the original NCIS and two newer series that have debuted in recent years.

When will NCIS return in 2025?

Paramount and CBS officially confirmed when the newest seasons of NCIS, NCIS: Originsand NCIS: Sydney will return to the small screen in 2025.

Second part of NCIS Season 22 is back on CBS beginning Monday, January 27th, running in the hour-long 9:00 PM ET timeslot.

An hour later at 10pm ET Monday January 27th will be NCIS: Originswhich is in the middle of its first season.

Then Fridays become home NCIS: Sydney as season 2 makes its debut at 8:00 PM ET on Friday, January 31st. These will be the first new episodes for this series since Season 1 ran from November to December 2023.

NCIS season 22

Originally developed as a I spin-off, NCIS‘ first season aired on CBS in September 2003. The series follows a team of special agents in the Naval Criminal Investigative Service’s Major Case Response Team based in Washington DC (who were compromised early in NCIS Season 22 after Agent McGee’s near exit).

Over the past two decades, this team has consistently investigated crimes linked to the US Navy, mostly the deaths of soldiers and marines. However, some of their cases are far larger in scope, as the fate of the geopolitical world sometimes hangs in the balance.

Last seen handling a Christmas-inspired case in Season 22, Episode 9, the team will continue to deal with a transition of power at NCIS. Following Gabrielle LaRoche’s promotion to NCIS Deputy Director, there will continue to be tension between him and the team as McGee continues to lead his colleagues.

NCIS: Origins season 1

CBS is halfway through the first season of its newest NCIS spin-off, NCIS: Originswhich will return to air in January. It tells the story of the original NCIS starring Leroy Jethro Gibbs, first played by Mark Harmon, as Harmon returns to take viewers through his early days as an NCIS special agent.

The younger Gibbs is portrayed by Austin Stowell, capturing the iconic TV character’s younger years. This version of the character is seen as he begins his time at the NIS’ Camp Pendleton office and finds his place on a ragtag team of agents led by NCIS regular Mike Franks.

In this story, Gibbs is still trying to process the murder of his wife and daughter, which was detailed in a flashback-centric episode from the end of NCIS Season 3 in 2006. Fans see many of the gaps in Gibbs’ life filled in long before his 19-year stint as the leading man of this franchise’s original series.

NCIS: Sydney season 2

NCIS: Sydney will return to air for Season 2 after the first run of episodes concluded in December 2023. It follows a joint task force of NCIS agents and Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers working together on a case involving US military personnel .

This team is led by Olivia Swann’s Michelle Mackey, NCIS Special Agent-in-Charge. Joining her in the cast are Todd Lasanse (AFP Deputy Commander Jim “JD” Dempsey), Sean Sagar (NCIS Special Agent DeShawn Jackson), Tuuli Narkle (AFP Liason Officer Constable Evie Cooper) and more.

Last season, the team set out to rescue JD’s nine-year-old son from an international assassin who kidnapped him, putting the entire NCIS and AFP team in danger. The season then ends on a cliffhanger as the team learns about the mysterious Colonel Rankin through a mysterious phone call.

The NCIS franchise returns to CBS starting Monday, January 27. Old seasons and new episodes can be watched on Paramount+.