About Headline Season 17, Episode 0 :

When Cote de Pablo left NCIS, many of the fans of the crime drama TV Series were worried that the show might lose most of its viewers and decrease in ratings. Even Mark Harmon, also one of the lead stars of NCIS, said that it is a big challenge for them to keep the ratings of the show and still stay No. 1 even if Cote de Pablo already left them. This was the first time since Cote de Pablo‘s exit from NCIS was announced that star Mark Harmon has shared his thoughts on how the show must move forward without her and the character of Ziva David. “We’ve had a lot of changes, and we’ve managed to get better with the changes both in front of the camera and behind the camera,” Harmon said during Thursday night’s Arsenio Hall Show. “We have another change this year, with Cote leaving,” he continued, “and it’s up to this highly professional group to use that as a springboard, to improve and stay No. 1.” Before Harmon came out of the stage, Arsenio featured a montage of scenes from NCIS’season premiere, including a moment where Ziva sure seems to be leaning in, eyes closed, to kiss Tony goodbye. In the meantime, just this week, the NCIS showrunner Gary Glasberg shared an open letter about “the elephant in the room,” reiterating his shock in de Pablo’s decision to leave yet promising “amazing resolution” for Ziva via a “pretty damn heart-wrenching” storyline. We’ll just have to wait for this moment to come and wait what happens to the show even if de Pablo is already not around.