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After being shamed for working at Trader Joe’s, Geoffrey Owens took the high road and said he wasn’t ashamed for making an honest living. Since then, he just continues living his best life and has nabbed a guest-starring role on NCIS: New Orleans. In the sixth episode of the upcoming season of the CBS drama, the Cosby…

Grimm alum Reggie Lee has booked a major recurring role opposite Scott Bakula on the upcoming fifth season of CBS' NCIS: New Orleans. Lee will play Assistant Special Agent in Charge Steven Thompson. Thompson will often butt heads with Pride (Bakula) as each have a very different process to approaching and prioritizing…

Sexual harassment was the dominant topic during CBS’ TCA executive session Sunday, with former NCIS: New Orleans showrunner Brad Kern among the main targets, along with CBS Corp. CEO Les Moonves, recently accused of sexual misconduct by six women in a New Yorker expose. CBS Entertainment president Kelly Kahl…

Even as CBS Television Studios has inked a new two-year deal with NCIS: New Orleans consulting producer Brad Kern, the studio has hired outside counsel to review a previous internal investigation into allegations against Kern of harassment and a hostile work environment, Deadline has confirmed. “The 2016 allegations…

Brad Kern is exiting his role as executive producer/showrunner of NCIS: New Orleans. He will serve as consultant on the series going forward. NCIS: New Orleans executive producer Chris Silber has been named new showrunner. The move comes months after word surfaced in December that Kern had been the subject of two…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains minor details of tonight's episode of NCIS: New Orleans. In January, it was announced that Shalita Grant, who plays Agent Sonja Percy would be bowing out of the CBS series NCIS: New Orleans — and tonight was her big send off. On Tuesday night’s episode, Percy turned in her badge…

D’Wayne Swear, a retired Naval investigator who inspired Scott Bakula’s NCIS: New Orleans character Dwayne Pride, died March 5 at his home in Gulfport, Mississippi after a battle with cancer. He was 60. Swear, who served as a technical advisor on the series, will be honored with an In Memoriam card during the episode…

Dana Loesch, the conservative radio host who spoke for the NRA at this week’s CNN town hall on gun violence – and got a laugh-free response of hisses, boos and groans – once wanted to be a sitcom star. Yes, the woman who told CNN it “loves mass shootings” and that “crying white mothers are ratings gold” apparently…

CBS has inked a deal with TNT for off-network cable rights to drama series NCIS: New Orleans. Under the pact, TNT has the rights to the first three seasons of the praised drama starring Scott Bakula and each subsequent season after the drama has aired on CBS Network.  The deal is not exclusive and the show can be sold…

Brad Kern, executive producer/showrunner of NCIS: New Orleans, has been the subject of two Human Resources investigations by CBS TV Studios while working on the studio’s popular CBS crime procedural, sources said. Both reportedly were triggered by complaints from co-workers about a hostile work environment on the…

NCIS: New Orleans executive producer Chris Silber has signed a two-year overall deal with CBS TV Studios, the studio behind the CBS crime drama that recently was renewed for a fourth season. Under the pact — Silber’s first overall agreement — he will continue on NOLA next season, working with executive…

Snapshot: New series Week 2: This Is Us (2.6 in 18-49, down 0.2, 8.85 million), Bull (1.9, down 0.3, 13.5 million); Returning series all down from their premieres -0.2 with the exception of CBS’ NCIS: New Orleans (1.5, up +0.1), and CBS’ NCIS (2.1. even) and Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1.0, even). NBC's The Voice (3.2 in…