Matt’s Inside Line: Scoop on NCIS, Chicago P.D., The Way Home, WDYTYA, Shrinking, Silo, Skeleton Crew, Elsbeth, NCIS: Origins and More!

Matt Webb Mitovich
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Could FBI: International star Jesse Lee Soffer pull double duty in the DWTU? What many dramas await NCIS‘ McGee? Are the Skeleton Crew parents a bit sus? Read on for answers to those questions and others! (You can and should email any brand-new Qs to InsideLine@tvline.com.)

Does Jesse Lee Soffer being on FBI: International mean Halstead won’t ever appear again on Chicago P.D.? –Claire
You mean, like, if Jay gets sent an invite to a Burzek wedding? “You know, that’s a really smart question,” Soffer said when asked about possibly pulling double duty in the Dick Wolf Televisual Universe. “I didn’t ask, but I imagine that [my FBI: International role] doesn’t preclude that. I would hope that it doesn’t, because, obviously, Wolf is such a huge production company with so many shows, and I feel very fortunate to get to play two main characters on two of those shows. So never say never!”

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Any scoop on the rest of Shrinking Season 2? –Dee
Cloudy days are up ahead for both Gaby and Jimmy, and how they respond to certain pressures could mean the difference between peace and spiraling out.

Any scoop on Danny or Henry for Blue Bloods‘ series finale? –Adriana
As indicated by the series finale featurette TVLine posted earlier this week, Pops will give Danny what proves to be a potentially (love) life-changing piece of advice.

None of the main Blue Bloods characters will die in the series finale, right? –Joyce
I suppose it depends on how you define “main”…?

Any scoop on The Way Home‘s third season? –Peter
Alice’s upcoming time-trips to 1974 will give her another opportunity to interact with her late grandfather and to get answers. “Alice really thought that her experience spending time with Colton in the past was over,” Sadie Laflamme-Snow tells TVLine. But her travels to the ’70s mean “there’s more time to find out what he knew about all this, and I think that that’s an exciting new task for Alice, but at the same time, she has to not give away who she really is either. So as much as she might want to drill people with all the questions in the world, she has to keep up that sort of ‘I’m from here but not really, and I know this town, but not the way you think I do’ façade, and also build relationships. You can’t just run up to someone and say, ‘What do you know about the pond?’ You have to build that trust.”

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Adore the kids on Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, but the latest episode got me wondering about the parents back home (played by Kerry Condon and Tunde Adebimpe) and their mysterious jobs. Are they up to something? –Peg
As clocked by Win & Co. this week, it does seem that their parents’ long hours spent “analyzing”… something… points to a larger mystery. Series co-creator Jon Watts indeed affirms that when it comes to the At Attin gr’ups having secrets, “There’s more to all of it than meets the eye.”

Is Silo Season 2 going to end the same way that the first [Hugh Howey] book ends? –Craig
“In a slightly different way, but yes. To a degree,” showrunner Graham Yost teases. “There’s a big surprise at the end of the season — and that’s all I’ll say.”

Did Eric Christian Olsen write an episode of Matlock for later this season? –Maria
Olsen did pen the occasional script when playing NCIS: Los Angeles‘ Deeks, but as a Matlock executive producer, no, he did not write any of Season 1’s 18 episodes.

I remember reading quite a while ago that Who Do You Think You Are was moving off of TLC and back to NBC with new episodes.  But then I never saw any new episodes crop up.  Is the show dead? –Toni 
WDYTYA? did return for a six-episode season on NBC during the summer of 2022, but then it was “parked” at the network. Asked for an update, Lisa Kudrow, whose Is or Isn’t Entertainment shingle co-produced the series, told Inside Line, “It IS still in a state of limbo. Not gone, though.”

Was that briefly seen FBI agent Tobias on the Nov. 11 episode of NCIS: Origins the Tobias Fornell? Think we’ll see him again? –Rod
That was the Fornell, yes, and “it’s certainly possible” he will show up again this season, says co-showrunner David. J. North. “We were so excited when we found the actor (Lucas Dixon) to fill the Young Fornell’s shoes,” says the EP, “and he has Joe Spano’s mannerisms down, too. That was pretty cool, so we hope to see him in the future” — especially since mothership NCIS eventually retconned the idea that Gibbs and Fornell didn’t meet until the series premiere “Yankee White.”

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Loving the soundtrack on NCIS: Origins. Any chance we will hear some Nelson in a future episode? –Talans
Co-showrunner David J. North claimed to be unfamiliar with that American rock duo when I ran your question by him, “but If they’re from 1991 or before,” he said there’s always a chance.

Lucy Lawless is out touring her new documentary, and she is scheduled to shoot another Spartacus. Does this mean My Life Is Murder is over? –Richie
I asked around for you, and at this time there is no update — one way or the other — on My Life Is Murder Season 5.

Elsbeth always guesses the killer correctly; mostly by details that are overlooked by official cops. Will we see some variation on that this season? Her getting it wrong, or maybe others around her solving the crime instead of it always being Elsbeth? –Ingmar
“The writers are playing around a bit with [the format],” says series star Carrie Preston. But Elsbeth getting into a situation where she’s not right “doesn’t happen that much. You know, she’s pretty on top of it.” That said, “there are some cases where she isn’t as sure right off the bat as she usually is, and sometimes she gets in situations with rather seductive adversaries, and it gets a little confusing sometimes about how she’s supposed to think or feel about that person. She might sympathize with them, why they did what they did. And so, that’s always interesting layers to add to things, too.”

Any word on what CBS will air after The Talk ends until Beyond the Gates premieres in February? –Joe
Following The Talk‘s swan song on Friday, Dec. 20, CBS will air encore episodes of The Price Is Right in that time slot, until Beyond the Gates — daytime’s first new soap opera in a quarter-century — comes out of the gate on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025.

Why is Sophie Turner’s Joan not streaming A N Y W H E R E but on The CW? You can’t even purchase the series anywhere yet — I don’t understand it…??? And as a follow-up — any idea WHEN (and possibly where, as in which streaming platform) we will be able to purchase it? –Amy
I peppered Joan co-producer All3Media International with your many questions, and all they could report back at this time is that the Sophie Turner starrer is yes, streaming on The CW (being the Stateside co-producer of the series), but that it also recently launched on BritBox.

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Any scoop about any possible romance on the new show On Call? –Nique
A well-placed source (OK, someone on staff who has seen the whole season) tells me that Prime Video’s upcoming short-form crime drama from Dick Wolf contains “zilch” on that front. “There is zero romance, or even a suggestion of romance, in this show,” says my insider two doors down the hall.

Any scoop on what’s coming up for McGee on NCIS? –Natalie 
In a word, lots. Tim will be, in no particular order, facing old enemies; selling coffee; crossing paths with a hitman; dealing with the leaking of new book; and…. Actually, I’ll save the last teaser for a later column.

Do YOU want scoop/have questions about a favorite show? Email InsideLine@tvline.com! Questions plopped in Comments will not be considered and may count against your final score. (With additional reporting by Vlada Gelman, Nick Caruso and Ryan Schwartz)

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