As a fan of the NCIS franchise, which currently contains the shows on NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, MacGyver, and Magnum P.I. while also containing the ended shows of JAG, Hawaii Five-0, and Scorpion, it is worth noting that it had decided to do something that would affect the whole franchise. As the title would already tell you, that thing was writing the coronavirus pandemic onto the show. If one show did it, then all of the other shows in the franchise had to adapt as well.
Of course, there first comes the point of making use of old scripts from the rest of the previous planned season that they might as well do. I have no idea just how much different shows did this, if they did this at all in the end. I know that NCIS did this as did NCIS: Los Angeles. I am pretty sure that MacGyver would have been forced to do this as well.
The original show seems to be the most recent of the ones of it (that I’ve seen) that addressed the pandemic by having the most recently aired of the episodes (as of this post) talking about it and being set after the pandemic had started, which one could tell by the characters being in masks. There were even hints about this throughout a lot of the season that they were going to do this because they had set the older episodes in the past with a title card mentioning an old date and time. This was like how the show of JAG set episodes before 9/11 before writing that onto the show.
The Los Angeles based show seemed to go through their planned episodes first and then did some of the pandemic in the storyline. It didn’t seem to have any notable episodes that focused solely on it like some of the others that are on TV that aren’t in the franchise.
The New Orleans based show started the season strong with a two parter on the pandemic. I do not have any idea that it started off with any unmade episodes and it is possible that it didn’t from the previous season that they did. Maybe it was worked into future episodes.
MacGyver seemed to be a bit strange based on some of the timeline. But it wanted to make use of the unmade episodes from the previous season first by setting itself after the pandemic (said to be in 2021 at one point, which we can only hope will be right in the end) but obviously using the old scripts with a few minor tweaks. I say that the timeline was strange as they did a pandemic episode that seemed to be set earlier in the timeline, but didn’t air until recently. I do believe that this somehow had the most unmade episodes because of the pandemic the last season so maybe it was supposed to air through the whole summer at some point.
Magnum P.I. hasn’t seemed to do much with it, other than doing obligatory mentions that there was a pandemic or is one as it is normal otherwise in the plots outside of it. There wasn’t much else to say about this in the end other than that it has covered it some.
And that’s about it for this post. You see, the shows of the remakes of Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver, and Magnum P.I. are considered part of something called Lenkov-verse and are more connected to each other than the rest of the NCIS franchise, but I don’t feel like calling it like that other than at least now for clarity’s sake since Mr. Peter Lenkov was fired for causing a toxic work environment. Since they are connected, then there isn’t much reason to call it much else.
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