Series like NCIS: Origins

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   CIA

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   2026 · 43 min · Crime · Drama

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   When by-the-book FBI Special Agent Bill Goodman is loaned out to a clandestine CIA/FBI task force, he finds himself teamed up with secretive and roguish CIA case officer Colin Glass. Together they work covert operations in New York, uncovering international plots, terrorist cells, and geopolitical secrets.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • shared themes: criminal investigation and police procedural
   • a closely matched era

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   Scorpion

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   2014 · Action & Adventure · Crime · Drama

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   Eccentric genius Walter O’Brien and his team of brilliant misfits comprise the last line of defense against complex, high-tech threats of the modern age. As Homeland Security’s new think tank, O’Brien’s “Scorpion” team includes Toby Curtis, an expert behaviorist who can read anyone; Happy Quinn, a mechanical prodigy; and Sylvester Dodd, a statistics guru.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • similar audience response
   • shared network: CBS Studios

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   Magnum P.I.

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   2018 · Action & Adventure · Crime · Drama

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   Thomas Magnum, a decorated former Navy SEAL, returns home from Afghanistan and applies his military skills to become a private investigator in Hawaii taking jobs no one else will—with the help of fellow vets T.C. Calvin and Rick Wright, and former MI:6 agent, Juliet Higgins.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • similar audience response
   • shared network: CBS Studios

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   All Rise

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   2019 · 44 min · Crime · Drama

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   A look at the personal and professional lives of the judges, lawyers, clerks, bailiffs and cops who work at an L.A. County courthouse.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • shared network: CBS Studios

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   NCIS: Los Angeles

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   2009 · 45 min · Action & Adventure · Crime · Drama · Mystery

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   The exploits of the Los Angeles–based Office of Special Projects (OSP), an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service that specializes in undercover assignments.

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   • substantial genre overlap
   • similar audience response
   • shared network: CBS Studios

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   Snowfall

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   2017 · Crime · Drama

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   Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • similar audience response

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   Gone

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   2018 · 45 min · Crime · Drama

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   The survivor of a famous child-abduction case joins a special task force dedicated to solving abductions and missing person cases.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap

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   NCIS

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   2003 · Action & Adventure · Crime · Drama

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   From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has any connection to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.

   Why it connects

   • strong shared themes: criminal investigation and navy
   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • similar audience response

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   The Rookie

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   2018 · Comedy · Crime · Drama

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   Starting over isn't easy, especially for small-town guy John Nolan who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of being an LAPD officer. As the force's oldest rookie, he's met with skepticism from some higher-ups who see him as just a walking midlife crisis.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • similar audience response

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    NCIS: Sydney

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    2023 · Action & Adventure · Crime · Drama

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    The brilliant and eclectic team of U.S. NCIS Agents and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are grafted into a multi-national taskforce to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet.

    Why it connects

    • strong shared themes: criminal investigation and navy
    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • a closely matched era

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