Telemystery: NCIS To Air Backdoor Pilot for Potential Spin-Off Set in New Orleans

CBS Studios is going to try again to develop a spin-off from its NCIS franchise. Last year it aired a back-door pilot as part of its NCIS: Los Angeles crime drama, which the network passed on. Later this season it will air an as yet untitled two-part episode as part of NCIS set in New Orleans that it hopes will be picked up by the network for the Fall 2014 schedule.

Here's the storyline: The NCIS New Orleans office handles cases from Pensacola through Mississippi and Louisiana to the Texas panhandle. New Orleans with its rich setting of music, fun and debauchery is a magnet for military personnel on-leave. And with fun comes trouble. It is a natural backdrop for a unique character driven spin-off.