Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone whose favorite TV genre is the slow burn of middle-aged characters mixed with some espionage frills. (Let’s be friends, btw.)

The “NCIS” franchise is certainly putting in the work to maintain its grip as one of television’s biggest procedural universes. The seventh spin-off to expand the the original series (itself an offshoot of legal drama “JAG”) arrived this week. “NCIS: Tony & Ziva” reacquaints viewers with the flagship series’ beloved will-they, won’t-they pairing, portrayed by Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo, and follows their lives since they left the team. The actors dropped by Guest Spot to fill us in on their adventures.

Also in this week’s Screen Gab, our streaming recommendations include a culinary excursion guided

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