Even before NCIS: Sydney came along, the NCIS franchise was quite popular in Australia.
But in a case of bad news, NCIS: Hawai’i was cancelled after three seasons.
According to Deadline, the show’s producers had agreed to this and “other concessions,” but in the end, CBS cancelled it anyway.
Dan Monaghan, the Senior Vice President Content & Programming at Paramount ANZ, said as much back in May 2023, around the time Sydney started shooting.