Nancy Travis isn’t simply reuniting with Tim Allen on Shifting Gears — she may even play an vital function on the most recent season of NCIS.
Season 23 of the CBS sequence goes to introduce Travis, 63, as Alden Parker’s (Gary Cole) sister, Navy Vice Admiral Harriet Parker. The siblings will reunite to grieve following their father’s surprising homicide.
“The Alden Parker that we all know and see now shouldn’t be what Alden Parker was as a toddler,” showrunner Steven D. Binder instructed TVLine on Thursday, August 21. “We’ve gotten into his historical past a bit — he was a troubled child, he was in a juvie dwelling, he stole issues — and that’s the dynamic that his sister grew up with. He was the ‘dangerous’ child and she or he was the nice child.”
Harriet’s introduction ought to give viewers extra of an thought as to who Alden is outdoors of the office.
“They’re going to relive that between the 2 of them,” Binder added. “She’s this tremendous squared-away Navy admiral, and you then’ve acquired Alden Parker, who’s acquired this ‘dangerous child‘ seed. These two are going to come back to a head, and what’s humorous about that’s it’s one factor to have it occur over Thanksgiving dinner, it’s an entire different factor to occur in the course of a worldwide disaster! The bickering is, I’d say, very NCIS.”
Along with becoming a member of NCIS, Travis can be reprising her function as Charlotte on season 2 of Shifting Gears. The challenge reunited her with former sitcom husband Allen, 72, after they labored collectively on Final Man Standing from 2011 to 2021.
“Tim is nothing if not loyal. So it was nice to stroll on that set and see many of the crew was from Final Man Standing,” Travis solely instructed Us Weekly in February. “The director John Pasquin did so many episodes of Final Man Standing and is a private buddy. It was simply so nice to really feel this sense of reunion.”
Travis didn’t rule out extra Final Man Standing alums making cameos on Shifting Gears. “I wouldn’t be shocked if everyone from Final Man Standing reveals up on Shifting Gears in a method or one other. If Tim has his approach, he’ll guarantee that everyone from [costar Kat Dennings’ show] 2 Broke Women comes on too,” she added.
On the time, Travis defined why she didn’t see herself reprising her function as Allen’s spouse.
“It was actually enjoyable to have the ability to simply are available in and have an entire wealth of data and rapport working with Tim,” she continued. “By way of comedic rhythm, understanding find out how to arrange a joke and find out how to inform a narrative collectively, it was nice to have the ability to take that and apply it to Charlotte. I do take pleasure in working with him, however I feel that it’s enjoyable to discover new and completely different relationships between characters. It is rather meta — possibly too meta.”
Shifting Gears returns to ABC Wednesday, October 1, at 8 p.m. ET earlier than streaming the following day on Hulu. NCIS returns for season 23 on CBS Tuesday, October 14, at 8 p.m. ET.
