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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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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July 24th, 2008
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July 11th, 2008
Name : George Eads
Date of birth :
1 March 1967
Place of birth :
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Birth name :
George Coleman Eads III
Height :
5′ 11
George Eads Trivia:
George Eads Detailed Biography:
George Eads was born - said to be on March the 1st and raised in Waco, Texas. The son of a lawyer and a mother who’s a school principal, he was brought up in Texas.
At Belton High School, he was an avid athlete who excelled in football and basketball. He acted in a few plays, but football was his life. Subsequently, he graduated from Belton High School in Belton, TX in 1985 and finished a marketing degree in Texas Tech University in 1990. It was during his college years at Texas Tech that he began to think about pursuing an acting career. “I mentioned it to my mother one day while I was in college, and she said she thought it was a pretty good idea,” he says. “I was close to finishing school, so she wanted me to complete that so I would have something to fall back on.”
George Eads’ immense fondness for playing “make-believe” while growing up should have been a good indication that he would not end up with a career in sales, as was his initial intention.
When an opportunity to teach drama presented itself at a local middle school, Eads jumped at it. He supposedly studied in an Acting School called KD Studio! Honing his acting skills and studies, first in Texas, Eads eventually made the move to Los Angeles with the money he saved doing commercial work.
Right now, at 33, his career is finally starting to take off with the success of CSI. Eads’ television movie credits include The Spring, Broken Crown, and The Ultimate Lie. He has appeared as a guest star in Strange Luck, as well as multiple episodes of ER and starred in the drama Savannah.
Eads’ feature film credits include Only in America and Dust to Dust.
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July 11th, 2008
PERSONAL INFO
Full name : William Louis Petersen
People call him : Billy or Bill
Birthdate : Feb. 21, 1953
Birthplace : Evanston, Illinois
Eye color : Blue
Height : 5′11″
Marital Status : Married to Gina Cirone, June 14, 2003
Children : Maite, born in 1975
Current residence : Los Angeles, California
Favorite residence : Chicago, Illinois ” Chicago is such a blue-collar, middle-American city, it’s just real people, you know? Nobody has an agenda that fits into yours. I get recognized and stuff but they don’t give a shit about that. They just want to know whether or not you’re going to buy them a beer.” - William Petersen
What is he like? : According to some who know him, he can be enigmatic and enjoys his solitude, but he is also well-liked with a generous, charming and magnanimous personality. Owning an adventurous spirit and sharp intellect, he is prone to restlessness and by his own admission, easily bored. He is an excellent horseman, experienced fisherman and avid sports fan, who is especially passionate about Chicago sports.
What some people he’s worked with have to say :
“It’s a dream and a joy to work with William Petersen. He is funny, he is very smart, and he is wild!” ” William Petersen is maybe one of my all time heroes.” Jorja Fox
“Billy is very enigmatic. One day you think you know him, then the next day you realize you don’t.” Marg Helgenberger
“I add things (to scenes), so does everybody. We get it from Billy. Billy is the king of adding things to scenes. He’s a great guy.”
George Eads.
Curt Columbus (Artist Director of Theatre on the Lake) recalls a time when he saw William Petersen, who already had gotten his big break in movies, hanging lights at the old Organic space in the 1980s. Columbus was impressed with Petersen’s lack of ego and commitment to the work at hand. “I thought, if Bill Petersen can hang lights, who am I to think I’m above doing that?,” he points out. “I tell my students, don’t say no to anything that’s reasonable. Even terrible projects are a learning experience.”
“He’s friendly, serious, and very balanced. He cares - alot.” Karen Silas, co-star in The Beast
BACKGROUND
William Petersen is the youngest of 6 children born to 4th generation Danish immigrant furniture retailers. His parents owned a furniture store in Evanston. It was never really expected he would continue in the family business, as he says his father never really held out much hope he could ever hold down a job. He was so much younger than his siblings, he grew up nearly as an only child. He was an excellent athlete who played football, baseball and basketball in high school. He was an admittedly poor student with little interest in school. Possessing a gypsy soul, he moved to Boise Idaho when he was 15 to live with his brother. There he attented Bishop Kelly High School, a Catholic school, where he graduated in 1972. That is also where he met his first wife, Joanne. His energy not yet focused, he was a fairly wild young man who was into rock concerts, drinking and the usual pot smoking. “General brattiness” as he called it.
After graduating from high school, he attended Idaho State University in nearby Pocatello in hopes of winning a football scholarship. His grades were too low to allow him to play, so they put him in the theater department in some stagecraft classes to try and raise his grade point average. It was a date with destiny, as he fell in love with the theater. (lucky us!) He and Joanne followed a favorite professor to Spain, where they started a Shakespeare company in the Basque region. They married, and their daughter Maite was born later that year. (His unsettled lifestyle was hard on Joanne, and they divorced four years later. They remain friends to this day)
The tiny family moved back to Idaho, where Billy went from job to job, including some logging work. He acted in plays at night at local colleges. Broke, the family packed up and moved back to Evanston, where they lived with his parents for a while. Burning with desire to be an actor, he pursued roles in the blossoming Chicago theater scene. He gained his Actor’s Equity card in 1979 at the Victory Gardens Theater in the title roll of Dillinger. He realized the best way to get cast in a play was to start his own theater company. (He hates auditioning) Billy and some friends, including long time associate and friend Cindy Chvatal and fellow actor Gary Cole, founded the Remains Theater Company, where he not only acted, but was Artistic Director for many years. After financial difficulties and the death of Co-Artistic director Larry Sloan, the company was disbanded in 1995.
The small company produced experimental pieces that soon began to attract attention in Chicago theater circles. The Remains Theater was well on it’s way to legendary status and Billy on his way to the very top of the theater world in Chicago. His Joseph Jefferson award for best actor for his portrayal of Jack Henry Abbott in Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison, sealed his status. The Chicago theater scene at that time was bold, fresh, exciting and bursting with extraordinarily talented writers, actors and directors. Billy not only acted with Remains, but also the Wisdom Bridge, Goodman, Organic and the famed Steppenwolf. His talent also began to attract Hollywood. He was appearing in a Streetcar Named Desire at the Stratford Festival in Ontario Canada, where William Friedkin saw him and asked him to read for a new movie he was making called To Live and Die in LA. Billy read two lines and that was enough for Friedkin, who cast him immediately.
Posessing great talent, a charismatic personality, and boyish good looks, movie stardom was predicted for him, but never happened. This is partially due to the fact that To Live and Die in LA and Manhunter did poorly at the box office (they are both cult hits now), and partially due to the fact that theater is his first love and he has always preferred to do projects that speak to him artistically instead of commercially. He wanted to be an actor, not a star. Hollywood has alway come to him, not the other way around. He and Cindy formed their own film company, called High Horse Films in 1990. Their first project was a movie titled Hard Promises, also starring Sissy Spacek. He has appeared in many theatrical and made for television movies, as well as dozens of plays through out his ecletic career, making him recognizable to some, but it wasn’t until he was cast as Gil Grissom in the smash television hit CSI that he became recognizable to millions. Staying true to his personality, he is not only the star of the show, but a producer as well.
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July 11th, 2008
Name: Mary Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows)
Birthday: November 16, 1958
Birthplace: North Bend, Fremont, Nebraska
Where she lives now: Santa Monica, California
Height: 5 feet, 6 inches tall
Fan forum: http://www.allaboutmarg.com/suspectonlocation // TV.com: We Support Catherine Willows! // CSI Files: Marg/Catherine ~ Totally Thud Worthy
Fan clubs: Theseever are closed for right now.
Fan sites: www.margamania.net, www.experts-csi.skyblog.com
Family/Relationships:
- Husband: Actor Alan Rosenberg (married September 9, 1989, who has a semi-recurring role as lawyer Adam Novak on the show)
- Son: Hugh Howard, born on October 21, 1990
- Pet: a dog named Momo (deceased)
- In laws: Mark Rosenberg, Paula Wienstien
- Niece: Hannah Rosenberg
- Father: Hugh Helgenberger
- Mother: Kay Snyder
- Brother: Curt Helgenberger
- Sister: Ann Helgenberger
Memorable Quotes (on/off the set):
“This is the best day job I’ve ever had. What’s even more exciting is that when a show goes to the top, you become a part of the pop culture landscape. Your character becomes an icon, a role model. It is very special to me that women of all ages find me inspiring, because I play someone strong and smart who doesn’t have to squander her femininity in the workplace.” -when asked about her role as Catherine Willows on CSI, Midwest Today Magazine
“I’m more willing to sit back and let things come to me, but this business is too competitive, and one has got to be more aggressive and go for things. Those are the ones that succeed. Talent is such a small fraction of what makes a successful movie star, because it’s so much about other things: drive and passion in whatever you want to be.” -interview from MyInky.com
“I’m relatively squeamish in civilian life. I’ve been very fortunate not to have to deal with such things in my immediate family. When we’re filming autopsy scenes, I actually feel sad. Behind each of these death’s there’s usually a back story of unhappiness and loss. We use a guidebook the Las Vegas police put together that’s incredibly graphic. Looking at the pictures can make me turn white. If I’m going over the script at home, my husband will ask, ‘Are you all right?’” -Marg on Parade magazine, when asked about the squeamish scenes on CSI
“Once I come home, I need to compensate, or overcompensate, for the time I’ve spent away. But then again, I’m Catholic.” She laughs. “I draw guilt out of the air.” -More Magazine October 2007 Interview, when asked about how she balances her family life and busy career.
“Catherine’s relationship with Grissom: somebody described this to me, they have this incredible chemistry without them doing it.” -Five US video Interview, December, 2006
“I either play cops or criminals - I’m either on the right side of the law or the wrong side. I gravitate toward edgier material because it suits my nature. I find it fascinating to play. I’m just that kind of person.” -From Askmen.com interview
About Madonna: “Life will always be good as long as Madonna is around. I don’t think of her as a guilty pleasure anymore - she’s an outright pleasure” -In Style magazine, Sept. 2006.
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What her colleagues say about her:
“I thought she was the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen. And really talented.” -Alan Rosenberg
“The sexiest redhead on television.” -Gary Dourdan, People Magazine
“She’s got just the right blend of hormones.”
-William Petersen on ESPN radio
“She’s great with the crew, she makes everybody feel comfortable. There’s no diva thing going on…
the best thing about Marg is that she gets all my jokes, so of course I am completely endeared to her.” - William Petersen, A&E Biography Interview
“Marg is one of the strongest and toughest women I’ve ever met… She’s a badass.” -Jorja Fox on Playboy magazine
“Marg! Marg is awesome. I love her, I love being around her.” -George Eads, when asked who is his favorite person to
work with on CSI, Yahoo interview
“She’s drop-dead gorgeous, and she’s got something going on underneath. She’s got a bit of the devil inside her. She’s a rock-and-roll chick from the Midwest, with a ribald sense of humor. She cracked me up the whole time we were shooting.” -Liev Schreiber, MORE magazine, October 2007
“She has a kinda punk thing to her, a rock ‘n roll edge. But she’s really a family girl.” -Dana Delany, China Beach co-star
“She’a a real, organic and genuine person” - Gary Dourdan, Lifetime Intimate Portrait Interview
” I have always been a huge fan of Marg’s. And really like working with her. It seems like a lot of the fans have picked up on our chemistry together. And that puts a big ole’ smile on my face. Played in a golf tournament/breast cancer fund raiser she hosts with her hubby Alan Rosenberg (the current SAG president) up in Omaha. It was a great experience. Met her mom. ANDDDD - my team came in second place! Rock on!” -CSI co-star Gerald McCullough, 2006 AOL Elyse CSI site interview
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When she’s not acting:
- When she comes home from the set of CSI she plunges into homework and housework and gets involved with her son Hughie’s school activities.
- Marg has been actively involved with the fight against breast cancer and other charities for several years now.
- Teamed up with “Women’s Voices, Women Vote” for a PSA campaign that encourages women to show their strength in numbers at the polls.
Before she was a star:
- She once had a job as a weather girl at a TV station in Nebraska, and her name was shortened to Margie McCarty. (McCarty is her grandmother’s last name)
- Marg played the french horn in her high school (North Bend Central High School) marching band.
- Marg can also play the piano.
- Started working in the soybean fields at the age of 11
- Worked part-time in a meat packing plant while a teenager.
Fascinating facts:
Marg loves the song “Babylon Sisters” by Steely Dan for the lyrics “Drive west on sunset to the sea” which she and her husband Alan did on their first date.
- She’s the object of adoration of Buddy in Mark Heath’s “Spot the Frog” comic strip.
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- Was named one of People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People and
Esquire magazine’s Women We Love in 2002
- Is number 4 on TV Guide Magazine’s Sexiest Stars on TV for 2007.
- Marg is #41 on Entertainment Weekly’s “The EW 100 Stars We Love Right Now” in summer 2007.
- In 2008 Marg joined the ranks of the celebrities who sported the famousmilk mustache, as she was chosen as an endorser of the Got Milk? campaign.
- Local officials of North Bend Nebraska renamed Locust Street into Helgenberger Avenue when the actress went home to celebrate the little town’s 105th anniversary in the summer of 2006.
- Six years before CSI, she and Gary Dourdan starred together in a TV movie called Keys (1994).
- CSI co-star Gary Dourdan’s nickname for Marg is “Margalicious“.
- During breaks on the CSI set, Marg and her co-stars Jorja Fox, Gary Dourdan and Robert David Hall jam together and play different musical instruments.
- Marg is known for throwing great parties.
- Her Hollywood home once belonged to silent movie star William S. Hart
- Middle of 3 children. Her older sister is Ann Helgenberger (jazz musician) and her younger brother is Curt Helgenberger (a meat inspector).
- She was a huge fan of the TV show Mission: Impossible when she was young.
- Her mother, Kay, is an Irish American and her father, Hugh, was a German American.
- Meet husband Alan in 1984 and they started dating in 1986.
- Daughter of Hugh Helgenberger, who was a meat inspector, and Kay Helgenberger, who was a nurse. Marg originally wanted to be a nurse like her mother.
- Sister-in-law of Mark Rosenberg and Paula Weinstein.
- In her personal life, Helgenberger is the daughter of a cancer survivor and is very active in supporting research for breast cancer.
- Her birth name is Mary Marg Helgenberger.
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Notable credits:
She got her start on the daytime drama Ryan’s Hope in the early ’80s after being discovered in the acting program at Northwestern University.
Television:
- Recurring guest role on ER as Karen Hines, Doug’s (George Clooney) love interest
- China Beach as KC Koloski
- Guest star in Frasier, as Emily
 Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder as Patsy Ramsey
- Mini-Series: “The Tommyknockers”
- Partners as Eve Darrin
- Shell Game as Nathalie Thayer
- Starred in In Sickness and in Health, a 1992 made for TV movie
- Played as Ellen Farris in the 1999 made for TV movie Lethal Vows
- Appeared in the made for TV movie Happy Face Murders. She played Jen Powell.
- She co-starred with her husband, Alan Rosenberg in the 1998 made for TV movie Giving Up the Ghost.
- Portrayed the character Jerrilynn Folz in the 1998 made for TV movie Thanks of a Grateful Nation
- Starred in the 1997 made for TV movie Murder Live! as Pia Postman
- Played Vanessa Meyer Vernon Scott in Where Are My Children? a made for TV movie based on a real life story
- Kate Nessen in the made for TV movie Lie Down with Lions.
- Mini-Series: When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn, as Debbie Banister
- Played Georgeanne Bidwell in the made for TV movie Partners
- TV movie: Through the Eyes of a Killer as Laurie Fisher
- Starred in Death Dreams a made for TV movie
- Played Virginia Whitelaw in the made for TV movie Blind Vengence
- Portrayed the character Laura Norwood in Matlock
- Starred opposite Gary Dourdan in Keys, a TV movie
- Co-starred with David Caruso (from CSI Miami) in Gold Coast in 1997. She played Karen DiCilia
- Co-stared with Jimmy Smits in “The Tommyknockers” in 1993. Based on a novel by Stephen King.
Movies:
- Alongside Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich (played Donna Jensen, the mother of two children who were poisoned by the PGE pollution.)
- Starred opposite Dennis Quaid and Scarlett Johansson in In Good Company (as Ann Foreman, Dennis Quaid’s wife)
- Species and Species II (as Doctor Laura Baker, one of the more human scientists in the alien breeding program)
- Played the character Capt. Alison Sinclair in the 1995 action movie Bad Boys, starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.
- Starred opposite Steven Segal in the 1997 movie Fire Down Below, as Sarah Kellogg.
- Played the role of Jennetta in the drama Crooked Hearts starring Peter Berg, Vincent D’Onofrio, Noah Wyle and Joshua Jackson.
- Plays Emma, the wife of Kevin Costner in Mr. Brooks, a crime suspense thriller released June of 2007. The movie also features William Hurt, Demi Moore and Dane Cook.
- Alongside Val Kilmer and Wilmer Valderrama in Columbus Day, an indie crime drama film directed by Charles Burmeister. Val Kilmer plays a thief who has just one morning to fix what has gone awry in the biggest heist of his life, all while attempting to repair his relationship with his ex-wife played by Marg. The film is set to be released in 2008.
Awards:
- Received 3 Golden Globe nominations so far, and 6 wins and 10 nominations in various award giving bodies
- Two Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations for her role as Catherine Willows
- Winner, People’s Choice Awards Favorite Female Television Star, for her role on CSI as Catherine Willows, 2005
- Won an Emmy for her role in China Beach, 1993
- Nominee, International Press Academy’s Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Series, Drama for her role as Catherine Willows, 2002
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July 11th, 2008
William Petersen
as
Gil Grissom
Birthday: Feb. 21, 1953
Birthplace: Evanston, Illinois
Where he grew up: Evanston and Idaho
Where he lives now:
Los Angeles
Family: Married to Gina Cirone, June 14, 2003
Daughter: Maite (born 1975).
Grandson: Mazrik William (born October 2003).
Height: 5 feet, 10 inches
Nickname: Billy
Pets: Bruno the dog
William Petersen’s bio:
William Petersen television credits include the films “Long Gone,” “The Rat Pack,” “The Kennedys of Massachusetts,” which won a Golden Globe Award, “The Beast” and “Keep the Change.” Petersen also serves as executive producer on CSI and was nominated in 2003 for a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of Gil Grissom, the lead investigator.
His feature film credits include “To Live and Die in L.A.,” “Manhunter,” “Cousins,” “Young Guns II,” “Fear,” “Hard Promises,” which he also produced, and “The Contender.”
Petersen made his Broadway debut in a revival of Tennessee Williams’ “The Night of the Iguana.” In 1979, he founded the Remains Theater Ensemble in Chicago with a group of fellow actors. He has appeared in a number of regional stage productions, including “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “The Time of Your Life,” “Glengarry Glen Ross,” “Fool for Love” and “Speed-the-Plow.”
Petersen discovered acting while on a football scholarship at Idaho State University. He later studied acting in Spain.
He lives in Los Angeles.
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June 28th, 2008
CSI TV Show (Crime Scene Investigation) is an innovative, fast-paced drama that follows a crew of forensic investigators as they solve crimes by analyzing evidence with advanced forensic tools. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which first aired on October 6, 2000, could be described as “Quincy for the 21st century.” Set in Las Vegas, the weekly, 60-minute series focused on the activities of that city’s Crime Scene Investigations Bureau. Working the overnight shift, the principal characters deployed state-of-the-art forensic technology to solve unsolvable crimes. Whenever scientific analysis failed, however, the lab’s “criminalists” relied upon good, old-fashioned logic — logical to them, if not to their superiors. So efficient was the CSI team that it was rated the number two such crime lab in America. The series’ main protagonist was Gil Grissom (William L. Petersen), once the youngest coroner in the history of the L.A. police department, who after 15 years with the Vegas PD, was put in charge of the crime lab when its former skipper, the mercurial Captain Jim Brass (Paul Guilfoyle), was transferred back to the homicide division.
The crew is headed by Gil Grissom (William Petersen), the senior investigator devoted to find the truth through the latest forensic methods combined with old-fashioned research and intuition. Alongside Gil is Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger), a single mother struggling to balance her home life with the rigors of her demanding job; Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan), whose knowledge of the gambling world helps the Las Vegas based crew; Nick Stokes (George Eads), a self-proclaimed ladies man with an objective to find the wrong-doers; and Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox), the newest, outspoken member who often lets her troubled past get in the way of her job. The crew works along side Captain Jim Brass (Paul Guilfoyle), the former head of the graveyard shift turned captain; Greg Sanders (Eric Szmanda), a quirky lab tech working to be part of the CSI crew; and medical examiner Dr. Robbins (Robert David Hall).
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June 27th, 2008
- Under the glass top of Grissom’s desk is a photo of the series’ executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
- All the equipment in the lab is fully functional, and was either purchased outright, or donated/loaned to the show for product placement.
- The original name of William Petersen’s character was Gil Scheinbaum. He changed it to Gil Grissom because of his admiration for astronaut Gus Grissom.
- The extreme popularity of this TV series was credited for a large surge of applications for courses in forensic science.
- Grissom, et. al. use the Nikon F5 fitted with a multi-control back for photographing crime scene elements. As of the 5th season, this is no longer true. Most have different cameras: e.g. Warrick uses either a Nikon D70 or Nikon D100.
- When asked about a possible CSI feature film, creator Anthony E. Zuiker said he’d like to wait until after the 30th season to make it.
- The choice to place this series in Las Vegas was not random. Among US crime labs, Las Vegas is the second most active, surpassed only by the FBI lab at Quantico, Virginia.
- Before it was acquired by CBS, the show was first offered to ABC in 1999, but was rejected as “too confusing for the average viewer”.
- David Berman, who plays assistant coroner David Phillips, is also a head researcher for the show.
- A scene featuring Willows and Stokes making out was filmed for the first season, but was not aired.
- There were rumors of a fourth CSI series, to be set in London and using “Eminence Front” as its theme tune, but the show never materialized and there are not presently any plans for such a spin-off.
- You often hear the characters referring to a four-nineteen (4-19,4/19, etc.) or sometimes a 4-45. These are the Las Vegas Metro 400 Event codes. The often-used 419 stands for “deceased person”, while the less-used 445 is “explosive device threat”.
- The show utilizes a wide array of tactical flashlights; the most often-used light is the Surefire M4 Devastator.
- Grissom and Catherine are loosely based on real-life LVMPD criminalists Daniel Holstein and Yolanda McCrery.
- While the majority of the techniques and technologies used in the show are accurate and true to reality, the writers and crew readily admit that they “time cheat”. Tests that take seconds in the show often take days or even weeks in real life.
- Marg Helgenberger, George Eads, Jorja Fox have all appeared on “ER” (1994), but not in the same episodes.
- In response to a TV Guide interview that revealed Jorja Fox may leave CSI, fans began a “Dollar for Sense” campaign and sent over 2,000 dollar bills to CBS. The campaign also included three banner flyovers of CBS in Los Angeles, and flowers for her every day for a week.
- In July 2004, co-stars George Eads and Jorja Fox were fired (by direct order of CBS head Leslie Moonves) for breach of contract. CBS said that they were using delay tactics (refusing to show up for shooting) to force a pay raise at the beginning of the fifth season. They were soon rehired, but without a raise. They both denied that there was any contract dispute–Eads says he just overslept on the first day of production, and Fox said she didn’t know about the letter of intent she reportedly failed to sign.
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June 23rd, 2008
Oops!!! Missed that, don’t worry as here’s my in-depth review on CSI season 8 finale - For Gedda which will let you go through what happened on finale episode:-
Episode opens with mourners gathered at a funeral which comes to a shocking halt when the coffin reveals not one but two dead bodies. Second man is Leonard Hayner, a former cop. When Warrick recognizes the man, got shocked, this was so natural.
Lou Gedda, a mob with Warrick has matted in past and Archie finds a taped PI session with him from Hayner’s files. Warrick is got arrested in case of murder and is interrogated by IAB officer, Wagenbach. Warrick claims that he doesn’t remember anything after Gedda’s call. Evidences are against him: Warrick’s handcuffs were holding Gedda, he’s covered with his blood and Gedda’s body is having bullets from Warrick’s gun. Even Warrick admits how damning the evidence is, but he sticks to his story that he can’t recall what happened.
Ecklie is asked by Grissom to see the files for the case and Ecklie do agree to make copies for him. Warrick is being encouraged by Catherine. Hodges, Nick and Grissom find a clue indicating that someone could have been holding Warrick from behind and firing. Grissom discovers that handcuffs Gedda was bound with were three millimeter thicker than Warrick’s. Catherine finds chloroform in PI’s body which links his murder to Gedda’s. Finally, Grissom is able to identify fingerprints from one officer at both scenes, and on the coffin the PI’s body was found in: Daniel Pritchard.
Grissom tells CSI that Warrick is going to be freed. So, Warrick, a free man once again, takes the whole team to dive diner for breakfast. Episode was great, how brilliantly they planned each and every thing. Everyone was known that Warrick is innocent but it was so mysterious to see how he’ll be escaped. My best pick of the episode:
Grissom: Is that your gun?
Warrick: Yeah.
Grissom: Are those your cuffs?
Warrick: I guess so.
Grissom: We need to get you a lawyer.
How are you feeling now after watching, I mean reading the season finale.
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