Lucas Black Joins Scott Bakula in New NCIS Spinoff Taking a Quantum Leap on CBS; New NCIS? Is There A City in America Without One?

"Fast & Furious" star Lucas Black will joing Scott Bakula and Zoe McLellan the new NCIS spinoff.

The new NCIS spinoff? Is there a city left in America where there isn't an NCIS CBS office?

Yes, the NCIS New Orleans office.

The spinoff will air in a two-part episode this Spring. Gary Glasberg and Mark Harmon will serve as executive producers.

Lucas Black is from Alabama and should handle the "NCIS: New Orleans" office just fine. Their territory runs from Pensacola through Mississippi and Louisiana to the Texas panhandle

Scott Bakula, Star Trek and Quantum Leap star is also in the new spinoff to the long-running series NCIS.

According to Variety, Scott Bakula will head the NCIS New Orleans team.

Scott Bakula is the lead in the NCIS New Orleans spinoff. Bakula, who also starred on "Quantum Leap" will play NCIS Special Agent Pride. The press release said that Pride is  "a unique federal agent" who is "driven by the need to do what's right and does it all with warmth, passion, strength and humor."

Executive producer Gary Glasberg said "I went to Mark Harmon as I do every year and said, 'I went through some stories and, hey, I came across this scenario. I'd love to try to do an episode. He turned to me and said, 'Gary, that's not a sweeps episode. That's a new show.'"

Bakula is currently playing a recurring role on HBO's "Looking." Bakula also co-starred on TNT's "Men of a Certain Age" from 2009 to 2011. Bakula got an Emmy nomination for his role in the HBO movie "Behind the Candelabra." Scott Bakula helmed the starship enterprise in "Star Trek: Enterprise." The "Star Trek" spinoff  series that ran from 2001 to 2005.

The "NCIS" spinoff pilot was filmed as a test for a potential series. NCIS will air on Tuesdays at  8 p.m. 

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