Today CBS announced when its fall shows will premiere, and many of the dates are easy to remember because CBS is essentially launching all of its shows in a single week.  From Monday, September 21 to Sunday, September 27, CBS will premiere all but two of its shows.

Those exceptions include the newest season of Survivor, which premieres one week early to allow a two-hour premiere on Thursday. September 17, and the series premiere of Three Rivers starring Moonlight's Alex O'Loughlin which comes Sunday, October 4, one week late to allow The Amazing Race to have a two-hour premiere.

It's another week, and what I thought would be some serious downtime isn't turning out to be just that.  The biggest news in CSI this week is, well, a lawsuit filed against the producers!  Sure you've heard of this, but I'll have my own take on this later.  Also on this week's case file, Delko talks about girlfriend materials, and Mac talks about why he's happy with having a secure job in New York.

So we meet again.  It's been roughly a week since the CSI season finales, and there've been a lot of things, I know.  While it wasn't that spectacular in Las Vegas (although I thought otherwise, since that's what they usually do anyway), there was a missing cop in Miami, and there was a dead cop in New York--and maybe more.  Now, there's this five month wait before new episodes return in the fall, and that means the news tap would run a little dry, but right now, we still have a few things to deal with: what just happened.  On this edition of the case file, Emmanuelle Vaugier discusses her death in CSI: NY, and possible plans for the tenth season--tenth!--of the mother show, CSI.

Continuing in this exciting week of Fall schedules, CBS revealed its lineup today, and while many shows remain fixed, there are some big moves.  The Mentalist, this past season's top new show, will get the coveted post-CSI timeslot Thursdays at 10pm.

And one day after NBC officially cancelled Medium, CBS scooped it up and Patricia Arquette will now see ghosts right after Jennifer Love Hewitt does the same thing on Ghost Whisperer.

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Somehow, David Bowie was singing in my head before I got down to watch the season finale of CSI.  I guess I prepared a little too much for these words I'm writing now, especially considering that I left everyone with the thought bubble about all the changes that happened to the Las Vegas crime lab just in this season alone.  I thought his song fits, and that's why I'm quoting it in this little ditty's title.

The ninth season was a very tumultuous time for the team in Las Vegas.  Warrick was shot dead, and Grissom, still reeling from Sara's sudden departure in the previous season, decided to leave.  The new people in the team also got their fair share of documentation, most especially that of Raymond Langston, the former physician turned college professor turned level one CSI.  I'm sure you've all seen the adjustments, the subtle (and not so) changes, the shifts in relationships and authority, and all those things that come with it.  I'm sure I'm written about it throughout the weeks I've been covering the show.

Did you ever want to know the story behind CSI?  Click on the link below to watch a video of the show's creators discussing the creative process behind the original CSI's pilot episode.

Writer Anthony Zuiker and Executive Producer Carol Mendelsohn talk about creating the pilot>>