After one week without a new CSI episode, the Vegas team comes back with a bang tonight with a crime that looks like it's linked to something that happened more than 50 years ago.  On “Young Man with a Horn,” a young and popular singer is found dead outside an infamous Las Vegas nightclub.  During investigation, they find a connection between the murder and a murder from over 50 years back.  As can be seen on the promo, a singer is being booed on stage that was followed by a dead body.  Young Man with a Horn is also in reference to a 1950 biographical drama starring Kirk Douglas.

The CSI timeslot during Thanksgiving featuring a repeat ranked first on its timeslot last week, with 10.63 million viewers.  As far as the total viewers are concerned, it lorded over the movie Click on Fox with 5.34 million and a repeat of Grey's Anatomy with 5.09 million.  Further down the line, we have The Incredibles on NBC with 4.82 million and a Supernatural repeat with 1.69 million.  Speaking of ratings, the lead-out program of CSI, freshman Eleventh Hour recently received an order for five more episodes after an average of 12 million viewers, upping its total to 18.

In other news, CSI top gun William Petersen (Gil Grissom) was awarded the 2008 Heritage Award at the Larry Sloan Awards in Chicago.  Petersen, who will be making the much-dreaded exit this January, will spend an extra week performing Dublin Carol in Steppenwolf's Upstairs Theater, after the play had been extended up until January 4.

Petersen has previously cited wanting to do more theater for his decision to leave CSI.  Recently, he became the 42nd member of the Steppenwolf Theater Company's ensemble.  "I've known many of these Steppenwolf guys for 30 years," he tells the Chicago Tribune.  "The place feels like home for me.  I was very honored to be asked."

Catch CSI tonight at 9pm on CBS.


-Glenn L. Diaz, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: CSI Files, CBS
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