We are thrilled to bring this show back to CBS next season and spend even more time down under ... agreed to a swap of a wanted criminal (Georgina Haig‘s Ana Nimus, not her real name ...

NCIS: Sydney was part of CBS’s primetime schedule last fall (when, due to the writers and actors’ strikes, there wasn’t much in terms of scripted content) and took over the mothership’s old time slot ...

and took over the mothership’s old time slot, Tuesdays at 8/7c. (NCIS moved to Mondays at 9/8c in Season 19.) After the finale aired in January, it was renewed in March.