‘NCIS’ Icon Officially Returning for LL COOL J’s ‘New York’ Spin-Off

The latest NCIS spin-off isn’t wasting any time bringing in more familiar faces. Ahead of the premiere of NCIS: New York next month, it’s been confirmed that the LL COOL J-led series will welcome one of the flagship’s longest-serving members, Brian Dietzen, to the fold for the first episode. He’ll reprise his role as Jimmy Palmer, marking his third appearance in one of the procedural’s offshoots after previously showing up in New Orleans and Hawai’i. Dietzen has been with the series since the beginning, and now will be an integral part of expanding it to one of America’s most iconic port cities.