CSI: 9.07: Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda
November 15th, 2008
“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” brings back the miniature killer to the screen in an episode called “Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda”. One of the most notorious killers who produces the biggest mystery for the CSI team, Natalie Davis aka The Miniature Killer is being decided on her fate when Grissom is called to testify at the competency hearing of her.
Also, the murder of a mother and her young child appears to be connected to a suspect in a CSI investigation from over a decade ago. The murdered woman was once married to a man who went for a killing spree. “The West Wing” Joshua Malina guest stars in the November 20 episode.
On other news, it has been announced through a press release that Laurence Fishburne will enter the show as well-known criminal pathologist Dr. Raymond Langston in the December 11 episode which is called “19 Down”. In the episode, the team will discover a link between a new murder and the infamous “Dick and Jane Killer”. Fishburne is added to the cast in preparation of short-handedness the quarter will experience when William Petersen who plays Gil Grissom quits the show the end of this year.
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CSI: Say Uncle
November 10th, 2008
Season: 9
Episode: 6
First Aired: 11/13/2008
Prod Code: 906
The CSI team investigates a shooting at a Koreatown neighborhood party, in which the mother and uncle of a small boy, Park Bang, are murdered.
Writers:
Dustin Lee Abraham
Director:
Richard J. Lewis
Stars:
William Petersen (Gil Grissom)
Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows)
George Eads (Nick Stokes)
Paul Guilfoyle (Captain Jim Brass)
Eric Szmanda (Greg Sanders)
Robert David Hall (Dr. Al Robbins)
Lauren Lee Smith (Riley Adams)
Wallace Langham (David Hodges)
David Berman (David Phillips)
Liz Vassey (Wendy Simms)
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CSI: Leave Out All the Rest
November 1st, 2008
Season: 9
Episode: 5
First Aired: 11/6/2008
Prod Code: 905
When the CSI team investigates a case involving the world of domination, Grissom pays a visit to Lady Heather to help find some answers.
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CSI: Art Imitates Life
October 23rd, 2008
Nothing was happy about “The Happy Place,” the last episode of CSI. A woman about to get married leaped out of her apartment to a roaring bus, a woman is beaten blue by her formerly underage lover, and a man pulls the plug on her wife, who was a rape victim. With “For Warrick” as precedent, however, this is quite easy to understand, as everyone is still predictably reeling from the death of Warrick (Gary Dourdan).
Another surprising (or not-so-surprising) thing that happened in this episode is Sara (Jorja Fox) validating her belief that, indeed, this CSI life was just too depressing for her. She upped and left, somehow ending whatever it was she and Grissom (William Petersen) had – once again. However, unlike the last time, there wasn’t so much as a ruckus when she left on this episode, not a letter, nothing, she just did. Then again, Grissom himself has some eight episodes to go before he leaves so it’s unclear if it remotely matters.
On tonight’s episode of CSI called “Art Imitates Life,” a series of dead bodies are found in what it seems to be in the middle of their everyday activities, such as a woman who, while talking on her phone at the park falls dead – “without falling.” According to Grissom, they seem to have died in their positions, so the team must determine what is causing them to remain upright even after death. They suspect an artist who have people pose as dead for his pictures.
Other things happening in Vegas include the hiring of a new CSI, Riley Adams to be played by Lauren Lee Smith. A counselor also comes in to help everyone who seems to still be reeling from Warrick’s death.
Don’t forget to catch “Art Imitates Life” tonight 9pm on CBS. Here’s the promo.
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CSI: - S9E02 The Happy Place
October 12th, 2008
Episode Number: 02
Season 9
Original Air Date: October 16, 2008
Writer(s): Sarah Goldfinger
Director(s): Nathan Hope
Synopsis: Nick and Catherine investigate why a woman who was about to be married would have taken a swan dive off of her balcony. Also Grissom investigates the brutal murder of a woman found in an alley. The investigation gets tougher with the discovery that her two-year-old was with her when she was murdered.
Guest Stars: Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle); Ryan Doom (Brett Davidson); Linara Washington (Grace Powell); Connie Sawyer (Old Lady); Adrienne Smith (Day Care Worker); Bambadjan Bamba (Bellman); Mark Nelson (Clucker #1); Martin Chow (Clucker #2); Baadja-Lyne Odums (Clucker #3); Ivar Brogger (Jacob Wolf); Aldis Hodge (Tony Thorpe); Glenne Headly (Viviana Conway aka Madame Marvelous); Sam Murphy (Scott Bonfilio); Bruno Campos (Randy Hopper); Gabriel Casseus (Det. Williams); Kristin Dattilo (Paula Bonfilio); Ricki Noel Lander (Sprig Grenigier); Michelle Anne Johnson (Pamela Adler); Ntare Mwine (Tom Adler); Nicole Vicius (Trixie); Bruce Weitz (Leon Slocomb)
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CSI: For Warrick (S9 E1) - Season Premiere
October 6th, 2008
Check out a promo from CSI’s Season 9 premiere episode, “For Warrick” airing Thursday, Oct. 9 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on CBS.
Episode Synopsis: “For Warrick” - The CSI team comes together after Warrick is shot in a Las Vegas alleyway, on the ninth season premiere of CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION.
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‘CSI’ star to play man with sordid sexual past
August 18th, 2008
When “CSI: Crime Scene Investgation” star William L. Petersen returns to the stage of the Victory Gardens Theatre this season, he will be starring in British playwright David Harrower’s “Blackbird,” a hit in London’s West End during the 2006 season and the following year at New York’s Manhattan Theater Club.
Harrower’s drama (not to be confused with Adam Rapp’s play of the same name, performed here several season back by Profiles Theatre) is the story of the “reunion” between Ray, now 55, who 15 years earlier had a sexual relationship with Una, then a 12-year-old neighbor girl. Now, after he has served time in prison and she has endured years of ridicule, she has tracked him down. What transpires is bound to raise many questions.
The production is set to run July 3-Aug. 9, 2009.
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‘CSI’ Eyes Laurence Fishburne as William Petersen’s Replacement
August 13th, 2008
Ever since the news regarding William Petersen’s eventual exit on CSI
emerged, producers of the series have been on the lookout for an additional cast member to the team in an effort to fill the void. Some huge Hollywood names have been reportedly considered such as John Malkovich and Kurt Russell but it seems that Laurence Fishburne has now emerged as the forensic drama’s leading suspect.
Best known for his roles as Jason “Furious” Styles in Boyz n the Hood and as Morpheus, the hacker-mentor of Neo, in the The Matrix science fiction film trilogy, Fishburne is an award-winning actor who has branched out behind the cameras as a playwright, director, and producer. His other credits include Two Trains Running, What’s Love Got to Do with It and Miss Evers’ Boys.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Matrix actor is currently in negotiations to join CSI. The 47-year-old actor will be playing a doctor/scientist who comes into the CSI as an outsider.
“He has an interesting genetic profile that in certain sorts of medical contexts they’ve noticed that many times serial killers have that same genetic profile,” CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler revealed at the TCA press tour.
While Fishburne might be the new face of CSI, but Tassler emphasized that his new character in no way a replacement of William Petersen’s character, as many fans will agree.
“Whoever comes in and joins the team after Grissom is going to be a different guy. But the nature of the show and what fans get out of it, that’s not going to change,” CSI executive producer Naren Shankar added.
As for Petersen, who has played Gil Grissom since the beginning of CSI in 2000, he will carry on as an executive producer to the show, while resurfacing the canvas with the occasional “special” appearance. Petersen’s exit marks the third departure of an original cast member on the show, following Jorja Fox and Gary Dourdan.
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‘CSI’ plans for William Petersen’s departure
August 1st, 2008
As has been widely reported, William Petersen will exit CSI: Crime Scene Investigation mid-way through the hit forensic drama’s upcoming ninth season.
Addressing reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour on Friday (July 18) morning, CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler says that the show’s producers have a plan for the exit of their le
ading man.
“Strategically, we’ve been talking about this for quite some time,” she says. “It started last year. And they have an unbelievable season planned. We’re starting certainly with the resolution of the cliffhanger. Jorja Fox is coming back. We’ve got an unbelievable — I call it the DVR-proof season of CSI.”
Petersen, also an executive producer on the show, is expected to leave after the season’s 10th episode, but don’t expect a tragic end for the popular character. Tassler says that it is “certainly not the last time we’ll see him.” In the meantime, though, CSI will introduce a new male lead, a character who sounds like he’ll bring a fresh dimension to the long-running procedural.
“I don’t think you replace Billy, but you sort of look at adding elements to the show that are really going to invigorate and contribute to the — sort of the alchemy of the show where it is today,” Tassler explains. “They’ve created a great character. He’s a doctor, a scientist who’s got a very interesting DNA that is going to inform the duality of the character. So I think there — like I said, it’s not necessarily replacing Billy, but it’s adding an element that is going to sort of inform the dynamic of the team today.”
Interesting DNA? Like he’s half-frog? No.
“He is an outsider coming into the CSI unit,” Tassler elaborates. “He comes in not immediately as the boss, but he has an interesting genetic profile that in certain sort of medical contexts, they’ve noticed that many times serial killers have that same genetic profile. And this gentleman knows this about himself and is sort of in this journey and — and to discover who his true character will ultimately become.”
Tassler promises that the currently uncast role will be inhabited by an actor of stature. One performer mentioned in previous buzz was John Malkovich, who reportedly turned the network down.
“We never met with him, but we had talked about him,” Tassler says. “Certainly you like at someone like John Malkovich, who is an extraordinary actor and who has got a very interesting sort of internal life to every character he does. And we’re looking for someone who has depth and scope and gravitas.”
Another name that has come up is Laurence Fishburne and, again, Tassler doesn’t issue a denial.
“Did you see his show in New York?” Tassler asks rhetorically of Fishburne’s recent acclaimed performance as Thurgood Marshall. “He was amazing, so certainly a name that had been talked about as well.”
Either way, the exec promises fans will be satisfied.
“[W]ith CSI, it’s such a great time for that show in that you’ve also added Lauren Lee Smith, who is a terrific young actress, who comes in as a new CSI. And this new character is also going to give to the other supporting characters and Marg an opportunity to sort of show parts of their character, show parts of their personality, that the audiences perhaps haven’t seen ever before or at least in a while. So I think it will be a great transition. I promise you.”
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