Home Field Advantage: “NCIS: Origins” Showrunners on How Tax Credits Anchored Their Prequel Series in California

Already renewed for a second season, the NCIS franchise spin-off NCIS: Origins has been capturing a new generation of fans. In addition to the 90s set prequel’s heady mix of powerful storytelling, music, and a dynamic young cast, showrunners David J. North and Gina Lucita Monreal credit a lot of the show’s appeal to the fact that it’s set in and filmed in California.

The CBS show follows a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Austin Stowell),

“Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” Creators Matt Fraction and Chris Black on What Made Season One Roar

Godzilla stories aren’t always known for riveting human characters—often, human beings are ants for Godzilla, or one of his fellow Titans, to stomp on. However, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters creators Matt Fraction and Chris Black have given us a Godzilla series in which the people are as richly realized and central to the drama as the big guy and his Titan siblings are. The Apple TV+ series is set in the monsterverse set up by films such as 2014’s Godzilla and its sequel,