October 9, 2008
Tonight's season premiere of CSI is more than just a brand new season. For a lot of its fans who've been with it for the past eight seasons, William Petersen will have ten episodes and up until January before he bids goodbye to CSI, or at least in the lead's capacity. Laurence Fishburne, meanwhile, will make his big entrance on this season's ninth episode in December, which means the two will be sharing a couple of episodes. In fact, Petersen recently gave Fishburne a tour of the CSI set to introduce him to his new home.
"That was the hardest show any of us have done," Petersen said, in reference to filming these two episodes. "It was hard to do, hard to shoot and hard to deal with for two weeks."
October 7, 2008
When we last saw the forensic drama CSI, Warrick was shot and left for dead by Undersheriff McKeen. The shocking finale left fans shocked and distressed over the long wait they have to endure before the next season airs. While we already know that Warrick's portrayer, Gary Dourdan, will be leaving the CBS series, we are still not quite sure how this audio-video analyst will exit the canvas.
If you can't wait to find out, read on for spoilers.
October 2, 2008
"We've had a lot of changes in the show these past years, and this is a big one. Everyone feels on unsteady ground right now," Marg Helgenberger probably said it best, talking about William Petersen's leaving CSI after the tenth episode of this upcoming season.
For his part, while Petersen, who plays the inimitable Gil Grissom on the hit CBS show, is really quite set on leaving the show, he admits that it won't be easy. "The hard part is saying goodbye to the cast and crew and writers. It's the people you've been with for nine seasons. It'll be very hard not going in the morning into one of those rooms and seeing them."
September 29, 2008
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A barrage of pretty major changes has confronted CSI, one of the world's most watched shows, as it returns for its ninth season this October.
Some characters left, some came in, while some still will leave then return from time to time. "It's natural for shows to go through change," CSI executive producer Shankar assured fans. "The beauty of CSI is that internally, it's very strong. We'd like to think that as much as the cast has created wonderful characters, the show is the star too. People tune in to mysteries, complex characterizations, plot twists, and great crime solving. That will continue.
September 25, 2008
Here's something. During Emmy night when William Petersen presented an award with Laurence Fishburne, Jorja Fox, who plays Sara Sidle on CSI before leaving last season, told Entertainment Weekly that she will be “in and out” of the hit CBS show on its ninth season. Judging from the comments from our previous reports explaining her departure from CSI, a lot of fans won't be happy with this news. Most of them was not very fond of Sara, to put it mildly.
"I'll be visiting a little bit," the newly engaged Fox said. "I'll be in and out, and it's kind of fun. I knew that might happen. I didn't know it was going to happen so soon, so it was a surprise. It's always a surprise, really, and it's been really great. It's been great to be there."
September 22, 2008
Jorja Fox, who plays Sara Sidle on CSI, will return on the premiere of the hit CBS show, the first of a reportedly three-episode story arc. In the promo, she is seen hugging Grisson (W.lliam Petersen) obviously disheartened at what happened to Warrick (Gary Dourdan). Her leaving CSI last season seemed to have opened the floodgates of changes that now hound the show as it returns for its ninth season in October.
If we remember, Fox left in last season's episode called “Goodbye and Good Luck,” suffering from what looked like psychological burnout. Sara just snapped after a particularly difficult case. She left without saying goodbye to her fellow investigators especially Grissom, save for a note saying something about confronting about the ghosts of her past, something that she couldn't do in Vegas. Recently, the CSI producers and Fox herself revealed the inspiration behind this farewell episode.
September 18, 2008
As far as CBS is concerned, it appeared that it had a good thing with CSI. For years it did well on the ratings and maintained almost flawlessly its roster of dependable characters. As things started to change, however, remember that it wasn't the intention of the people behind CSI to hit the show with these changes. Petersen, for instance, plans to do more theater and in fact already has a production of Dublin Carol scheduled this fall at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater. Now regarding his impending departure, Petersen previously said "W. need to have new life, new blood (and) it will be good for the show. And that will be good for the audience."
After reportedly being turned down by John Malkovich, Lawrence Fishburne finally said yes to joining the show, despite admitting that he hasn't been exactly a fan. Now according to CBS, the Matrix films actor will play “a former pathologist who is now working as an itinerant college lecturer, teaching a course in criminalistics.” This dispels earlier rumors that Fishburne will play a serial killer. In an interview, CSI executive producer Naren Shankar reveals more details about this still unnamed character.
September 9, 2008
Perhaps it's safe to say that not a lot of people were happy about the way CSI got rid of Gary Dourdan's character on the CBS show. And since it was mostly personal stuff that caused Dourdan's exit, CSI fans thought it was probably better if his character was just sidelined until the problem was solved, instead of just totally killing him off. TV Guide's Matt Roush has this to counter this accusation: “I felt the producers gave him (Dourdan) some great material as Warrick struggled with personal demons and, as he reached a moment of triumph, was shockingly felled by someone within the department."
This is only one of the major shifts on CSI as it prepares to debut its ninth season on October 9. In fact, the season premiere is called “For Warrick” and both he and Jorja Fox, who plays Sara Sidle, will also be back for the first episode. Both formally agreed to leave the show last season.