The Plight of NCIS: TV's Biggest Drama Gets No Respect - Jason Lynch - The Atlantic

The Plight of NCIS: TV's Biggest Drama Gets No Respect - Jason Lynch - The Atlantic: Now in its 11th season—its 250th episode airs Tuesday, Mar. 4—the CBS procedural, about a team of special agents (led by Mark Harmon) from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, quietly continues to be one of the biggest shows on TV (second only to The Big Bang Theory, which had 17.73 million viewers last week). Yet it receives only a fraction of the media attention (including magazine covers and talk show appearances) and respect paid to all of those other shows that it soundly trounces, week in and week out.