This is a four-hour miniseries based on Alice Hoffman's historical novel about the Siege of Masada, and it will air on CBS in 2015. The mini will focus on "four extraordinary women whose intersect in a fight for survival at the siege of Masada," the network said. Masada is the mountaintop fortress near the Dead Sea where the Romans found the last pocket of resistance after they conquered Jerusalem in 70 CE.
Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, an intelligent, highly skilled investigator, leads a team of of special agents at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), whose mission is to investigate any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.