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NCIS season 14, broadcast on M-Net 101 every Saturday at 7.30pm, has been lauded as the number one drama series on US television for the eighth consecutive year. The series is the most watched drama TV series in the world, according to Eurodata TV Worldwide.
Last week at the 57th Monte-Carlo Television Festival, the global powerhouse series received the 12th international television audience award for a drama TV Series. NCIS has now won the award three out of four years.
The annual international audience award is presented jointly by the Monte-Carlo Television Festival and Eurodata TV Worldwide.
It rewards programmes that delivered the highest ratings in 2016 worldwide across five continents in three categories: Drama TV Series, Comedy TV Series and Telenovelas/Soap Operas.
International audience award nominees were pre-selected among the top 15 imported fiction programmes in 61 countries, representing almost three billion potential viewers. NCIS garnered more than 47 million viewers worldwide in 2016.
NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) features liberal doses of humour, while focusing on the sometimes complex dynamics of a team forced to work together in highstress situations. NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, a former Marine gunnery sergeant whose skills as an investigator are unmatched, leads the team which includes NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee, an MIT graduate with a brilliance for computers, and Probationary Agent Eleanor “Ellie” Bishop, a mysterious mixture of analytic brilliance, fierce determination and idealism who specialises in international threat assessment and global preparation.
The newest members to join the team include: NCIS Special Agent Nicholas “Nick” Torres, who has spent most of his career on solo undercover assignments; NCIS Special Agent Alexandra “Alex” Quinn, who left to be an instructor until Gibbs lured her back to the field; and MI6 Officer Clayton Reeves, an international agent who’s on loan to NCIS as a terror liaison during these complicated times. Assisting the team is forensic specialist Abby Sciuto; medical examiner Dr Donald “Ducky” Mallard; and Ducky's protégé, the naive Assistant Medical Examiner, Jimmy Palmer. Overseeing operations is NCIS Director Leon Vance.
From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, these special agents investigate crimes with Navy or Marine Corps ties.
The cast includes: Mark Harmon (NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs), Pauley Perrette (Forensic Specialist Abby Sciuto) and Sean Murray (NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee).