‘NCIS’ Is Officially Correcting Its Most Obvious Franchise Oversight

For a franchise that’s spent more than 20 years building one of television’s biggest procedural universes, NCIS has managed to avoid one of the most obvious crime drama settings imaginable. Los Angeles got 14 seasons, New Orleans had its turn, Hawai’i, Sydney, and even the franchise’s earliest days have all become part of the expanding NCIS mythology. Yet New York City — arguably the country’s most iconic backdrop for law enforcement stories — has remained strangely absent.