Production
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.