Week Ahead: Apr. 26-May 2 Television

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Mike Hale
To think it all started with “JAG.” That steady performer (10 seasons, 227 episodes) begat “NCIS” (6 seasons, 134 episodes and counting), which is now, CBS willing, about to spin off a third series, tentatively titled “NCIS: Legend.” It’s being set up by a two-part episode of “NCIS” beginning this week (8 p.m. Tuesday) that takes the Naval Criminal Investigative Service team led by Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) to Los Angeles, where the famously uncooperative Gibbs must work with the local office to solve the murder of a Marine.
The guest cast — all presumably auditioning for spots as special agents in the new show — includes Chris O’Donnell, L L Cool J, Louise Lombard and Daniela Ruah, an American-born veteran of Portuguese telenovelas.
“100 FEET” (Sci Fi Channel, 9 p.m. Sunday) is not the usual Sci Fi original movie: it began life as a theatrical film, written and directed by Eric Red (a writer of “The Hitcher” and “Near Dark”) and played the genre-festival circuit before being picked up for television. It stars Famke Janssen as a woman transferred from prison to house arrest, where an ankle bracelet limits her movements to the radius described in the title; that’s inconvenient, since the husband she killed in self-defense (Michael Paré) has returned to haunt her. The interesting cast includes Bobby Cannavale and the “Gossip Girl” pretty boy Ed Westwick.