NCIS: Los Angeles season 4
season of television series
The fourth season of NCIS: Los Angeles an American police procedural drama television series originally aired on CBS from September 25, 2012, to May 14, 2013. The season was produced by Shane Brennan Productions and CBS Television Studios, with Shane Brennan as showrunner and executive producer. The episodes, "Red" and "Red-2" were intended to be a backdoor pilot for a purposed series titled NCIS: Red associated with the NCIS franchise. However, NCIS: Red was not picked up to series by CBS on May 15, 2013.
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Development
NCIS: Los Angeles was renewed for a fourth season on March 14, 2012. In November 2012, NCIS: Los Angeles introduced a potential spin-off titled NCIS: Red. Written and produced by Shane Brennan, the series would follow "a mobile team of agents who live and work together as they go across the country to solve crimes". The pilot episodes, titled "Red" and "Red-2", which aired on March 19 and March 26, 2013, during the fourth season of the series. On May 15, 2013, it was announced that NCIS: Red would not be picked up to series by CBS.
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Season four of NCIS: Los Angeles premiered on September 25, 2012.
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