"Rule 13" -- Coverage of the CBS Original Series NCIS: ORIGINS, scheduled to air April 28 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured: Caleb Foote as Bernard “Randy” Randolf Photo: Greg Gayne/CBS ©2026 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Best-bets for May 5: finales for Gibbs, Will & England

1) “NCIS: Origins” season-finale, 9 p.m., CBS. Next week, the other “NCIS” shows wrap their seasons. First, “Origins” (shown here in last week’s episode) gets the focus, amid much confusion. There was Gibbs’ surprise marriage to Diane Sterling. And there are rumors that the office will be closed and the team will be scattered. Read more…

1) “NCIS: Origins” season-finale, 9 p.m., CBS. Next week, the other “NCIS” shows wrap their seasons. First, “Origins” (shown here in last week’s episode) gets the focus, amid much confusion. There was Gibbs’ surprise marriage to Diane Sterling. And there are rumors that the office will be closed and the team will be scattered.

2) “Will Trent” season-finale, 8 p.m., ABC. This is finale week for many of ABC’s dramas, with “The Rookie” on Monday and all three shows Thursday. Today, “Will Trent” wraps, followed by two episodes of “Betrayal: Secrets & Lies”; one is new, one is a rerun, both are non-fiction, with women learning that their men have dark secrets.

3) “The American Revolution,” 9-11 p.m., PBS. Here’s one more finale, albeit of a rerun. As the nation’s 250th birthday nears, Ken Burns’ documentary gem again shows us how the French and Americans combined to defeat the world’s most powerful nation.

4) “NCIS,” 8 p.m., CBS. Parker fumes when a secret immunity deal might let a man free. Then things get complicated when his sister (Nancy Travis), a vice admiral, appears and family secrets resurface. And at 10 p.m., “NCIS: Sydney” follows the death of a Marine who was wanted for murder.

5) “Bear Grylls is Running Wild,” 9 p.m., Fox. MGK — formerly Machine Gun Kelly, and before that Colson Baker — gets his turn. The 6-foot-4 rocker has had seven top-10 albums, two times at No. 1. Now he may need his family’s Norwegian roots, as he heads into the Arctic rainforest.

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