CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation intertitle
Also known as	CSI: Vegas CSI: LV CSI Las Vegas CSI Original CSI CSI: Las Vegas
Format	Police Procedural, Drama, Thriller
Created by	Anthony E. Zuiker
Starring	Laurence Fishburne Marg Helgenberger George Eads Eric Szmanda Robert David Hall Wallace Langham Lauren Lee Smith and Paul Guilfoyle
Opening theme	The Who: "Who Are You"
No. of seasons	9 (10th in Production)
No. of episodes	206 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	40–45 Minutes (without commercials); 90 Minutes (1 episode, without commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Picture format	480i (SDTV), 1080i (HDTV)
Original run	October 6, 2000 – present
Chronology
Related shows	CSI: Miami CSI: NY
External links
Official website

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series. CSI premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The ninth season finished airing on May 14, 2009. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It is filmed primarily at Universal Studios in Universal City, California.

CSI trails the investigations of a team of Las Vegas forensic scientists as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths and other crimes. For the first eight and a half seasons, the show starred William Petersen as Dr. Gil Grissom, the night shift supervisor who excels in crime scene investigation. In the middle of the ninth season, Petersen left and was replaced by Laurence Fishburne as Dr. Raymond Langston, a former medical doctor who turns criminalist in an attempt to rid himself of past demons.

Reception of the show is generally good, with ratings making it the number one show on the network several times in its history, although it has been criticized for its inaccurate portrayal of how police investigations are performed and for its often extremely violent depictions of the crime. CSI has been nominated numerous times for industry awards and has won nine awards during its history. The success of the program has led it to be spun off into two additional shows, an exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, a series of books, and several video games. It has reached milestone episodes, such as the 100th, "Ch-Ch-Changes", the 150th Living Legend which starred Roger Daltery from The Who and the 200th, "Mascara", airing on April 2, 2009. On Wednesday, May 20, 2009 the show was renewed for a tenth season which will begin Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 9 pm EST.^[1]

Contents 1 Production 1.1 Overview 1.2 Conception and development 1.3 Filming locations 1.4 Style 1.5 Music 1.6 Plot 2 Characters 2.1 Main characters 2.2 Former main characters 2.3 Recurring characters 2.4 Notable guest stars 3 Episodes 3.1 Crossovers 4 Reception 4.1 Public reaction 4.2 Criticism for violent and sexual themes 4.3 Law enforcement reaction 4.4 LGBT issues 4.5 Franchise 4.6 CSI effect 4.7 CSI: The Experience 5 Ratings 5.1 American ratings 5.2 DVR ratings 5.3 U.K. ratings 6 Awards and nominations 6.1 Awards 6.2 Nominations 7 DVD releases 7.1 Region 1 DVD releases 7.2 Region 2/4 DVD releases 7.2.1 Region 2 7.2.2 Region 4 8 Blu-ray Releases 9 Other Releases 9.1 Books 9.2 Video Games 10 Online sales 11 Parody 12 See also 13 References 14 External links

[edit] Production

[edit] Overview

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Television and CBS Productions, which became CBS Paramount Television in the fall of 2006. Formerly a co-production with the now-defunct Alliance Atlantis Communications, that company's interest in the series is now owned by investment firm GS Capital Partners, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs.^[2] CBS Paramount acquired AAC's international distribution rights to the program.

The show has been heavily criticized—almost since its debut—by police and district attorneys, who feel CSI portrays an inaccurate image of how police solve crimes, and by the Parents Television Council, who note the level and gratuitousness of graphic violence, images and sexual content seen on the show. Nevertheless, CSI became the most-watched show on American television by 2002. The success of the show encouraged CBS to produce a franchise, starting in May 2002 with the spin-off CSI: Miami and then again in 2004 with CSI: NY.

The show is now in syndication and reruns are currently broadcast in the US on the Spike and TV Land cable networks.

CBS renewed the show for a ninth season, which began airing on October 9, 2008. With the departures of William Petersen, Gary Dourdan, and Jorja Fox the ninth season stars new characters played by Lauren Lee Smith and Laurence Fishburne.

As of the fall of 2008, CSI commands an average cost of $262,600 for a 30-second commercial, according to an Advertising Age survey of media-buying firms.^[3]

[edit] Conception and development

During the 1990s, Anthony Zuiker caught producer Jerry Bruckheimer's attention after writing his first movie script. Bruckheimer wanted an idea for a television series. Zuiker didn't have one, but his wife told him about a Discovery Channel show she liked about forensic detectives who used DNA and other evidence to solve cold cases (The New Detectives).^[4] Zuiker started spending time with real-life LVMPD crime investigators and was convinced that there was a series in the concept. Bruckheimer agreed and arranged a meeting with the head of Touchstone Pictures. The studio's head at the time liked the spec script and presented it to ABC, NBC and Fox executives, who decided to pass. The head of drama development at CBS saw potential in the script, and the network had a pay or play contract with actor William Petersen who said he wanted to do the CSI pilot. The network's executives liked the pilot so much that they decided to include it in their 2000 schedule immediately, airing on Fridays after The Fugitive. Initially it was thought that CSI would benefit from The Fugitive, which was expected to be a hit, but by the end of the year 2000 CSI had a much larger audience.^[5]

[edit] Filming locations

CSI was initially shot at Rye Canyon, a corporate campus owned by Lockheed Corporations situated in the Valencia area of Santa Clarita, California. Other shows such as The Unit and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers have also been shot there.^[6]

After the eleventh episode, filming shifted to the Santa Clarita Studios and only second unit photography, such as the shots of the Las Vegas streets are done on location in Las Vegas, Nevada. Occasionally, when required, the cast will also shoot on location in Las Vegas, although more often the locations will be substituted by California locations. Santa Clarita was originally chosen for its similarity to the outskirts of Las Vegas.^[7] Some of the California locations include the Verdugo Hills High School, UCLA's Royce Hall, the Pasadena City Hall and, as of October 2007, the California State University. Shooting has more recently moved away from Santa Clarita, though the city and the surroundings have proven so versatile that CSI still shoots some of its outdoor scenes there.^[8][9]

[edit] Style

Stylistically, the show has drawn favorable comparisons to Quincy and The X-Files.^[10] The show's gadgets and occasional usage of yet-to-be-invented technology have moved the show nominally into the genre of science fiction and garnered it a 2004 Saturn Award nomination for best network television series. The series also occasionally steps into the realm of fantasy, such as a 2006 episode, "Toe Tags" which is told from the point of view of several corpses in the CSI lab who reanimate and discuss their deaths with each other.

The series is known for its unusual camera angles, percussive editing techniques, hi-tech gadgets, detailed technical discussion, and graphic portrayal of bullet trajectories, blood spray patterns, organ damage, methods of evidence recovery (e.g. fingerprints from the inside of latex gloves), and crime reconstructions. This technique of shooting extreme close-ups, normally with explanatory commentary from one of the characters is referred to in the media as the "CSI shot".^[11] Many episodes feature lengthy scenes in which experiments, tests, or other technical work is portrayed in detail, usually with minimal sounds effects and accompanying music—a technique reminiscent of Mission: Impossible. Often the lighting, composition, and mise-en-scene elements are heavily influenced by avant-garde film^[11]

[edit] Music

There was an instrumental theme song in the first season, which has been replaced in syndication. CSI's theme song is Who Are You, written by Pete Townshend with vocals by Roger Daltrey, both of The Who,^[12] as the title track of their 1978 album. The show's spinoffs also use The Who songs as their theme songs: Won't Get Fooled Again for CSI: Miami and Baba O'Riley for CSI: NY, both recorded by The Who in 1971 for their album Who's Next. This was parodied in an episode of Two and a Half Men, where a CSI parody used Squeeze Box as its theme. The Who's Roger Daltrey made a special appearance in a season seven episode, Living Legend, which also contained many musical references such as the words "Who's Next" on a dry erase board in the episode's opening sequence.

Throughout the series, music plays an important role; artists like The Wallflowers, John Mayer, Method Man, and Akon (with Obie Trice) have performed onscreen in the episodes "The Accused is Entitled", "Built To Kill, Part 1", and "Poppin' Tags", respectively. The Wallflowers' "Everybody out of the Water" can be found on the CSI soundtrack CD. Mogwai is often heard during scenes showing forensic tests in progress (see Style, above) as are Radiohead and Cocteau Twins, but several other artists have lent their music to CSI including Rammstein—used heavily in Lady Heather's story arc. Sigur Rós can be heard playing in the background in Season 2 episode "Slaves of Las Vegas", The Turtles in "Grave Danger"), and Marilyn Manson in Suckers. Industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails have also been featured multiple times throughout the three series'. In the Season 9 episode "For Warrick", The Martin Brothers' "Stoopit" is heard from the club when Grissom discovers Warrick's body and their "Dirtybird Records" label mate Claude Vonstroke's "Chimps" is played from the club while Grissom, Catherine and Nick attempt to recreate the crime scene.

[edit] Plot

The show follows the cases of the Crime Scene Investigation division of the Las Vegas Police Department, usually referred to by officers as the "Las Vegas Crime Lab". Anthony E. Zuiker chose to set the series in Las Vegas because—as mentioned in the pilot—that city's crime lab is the second most active in the United States, after the Federal Bureau of Investigation lab in Quantico, Virginia.^[13] The division solves crimes almost entirely through forensics evidence, which may or may not come to conclusion of a murder or accidental death. The bizarre conclusions of these cases often force one to question morals, beliefs and human nature in general.

[edit] Characters

Season	CSI Night Shift Supervisor	CSI Assistant Night Shift Supervisor	Crime Scene Investigator (CSI)				DNA / Trace Technician	Medical Examiner	Senior Detective	Junior Detective
1	Doctor Gilbert "Gil" Grissom (William Petersen)	Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger)	Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan)	Nicholas "Nick" Stokes (George Eads)	Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox)	Vacant	Greg Sanders (Eric Szmanda)	Doctor Albert "Al" Robbins (Robert David Hall)	Captain James "Jim" Brass (Paul Guilfoyle)	Various
2
3						Greg Sanders (Eric Szmanda)	David Hodges (Wallace Langham)
4
5										Sofia Curtis (Louise Lombard)
6
7
8										Various
9			Riley Adams (Lauren Lee Smith)		Vacant
	Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger)	Nicholas "Nick" Stokes (George Eads)		Doctor Raymond "Ray" Langston (Laurence Fishburne)
10

[edit] Main characters

• CSI Level 1: Doctor Raymond "Ray" Langston (Laurence Fishburne) comes into contact with the CSI team in the course of a murder investigation and joins the Las Vegas Crime Lab as a Level-1 CSI. Langston was once a doctor, working in a hospital. A co-worker murdered 27 patients, and all the evidence showed up before him, but he never put the evidence together. His first day on the job, in The Grave Shift, was troubling for him with retrieving a fingerprint (prompting him to over dust and ruin the print), drops a burnt body and accidentally tears its skin off, gets his necktie stuck in the victim's blood, causing it to become evidence, and draws Riley Adams' criticism when he reprimands a man who strikes his son. He also receives a cold welcome from David Hodges, who is still angry about Gil Grissom's departure but warms up to Langston after the latter demonstrates a cornmeal bomb. Nevertheless, the team accepts him as one of their own, inviting him to a diner with them. In Deep Fried and Minty Fresh, it is revealed he knows some Mandarin Chinese. In episode No Way Out he and fellow CSI Riley Adams are held hostage in the aftermath of a shootout in a quiet Las Vegas neighborhood in which Riley was successfully able to disarm the suspect.

• CSI Level 3 Night Shift Supervisor: Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger) is the night shift team supervisor for the Las Vegas CSI unit. She was promoted to this position with the resignation of Gil Grissom in the episode One to Go (2). An early subplot involved Catherine constantly requesting promotions or ways to spend more time with her daughter Lindsey. Catherine was horrified to discover that she accidentally caused an explosion which nearly killed Greg Sanders in Season Three episode Play With Fire and spent her week of suspension with Greg at the hospital. Catherine's ex-husband Eddie and her father were murdered on episodes of the program. She supported herself through college by working as an exotic dancer. This character is loosely based on real life CSI Yolanda McCleary.^[14]

• CSI Level 3 Assistant Night Shift Supervisor: Nicholas "Nick" Stokes (George Eads) is second in command of the Las Vegas CSI unit. When Catherine moved on to supervisor after Grissom left, Nick took assistant supervisor. Nick is an easygoing and friendly former college baseball player and fraternity member from Dallas, Texas, with a degree in criminal justice from Texas A&M University and speaks fluent Spanish. Nick has shown to be an emotional person through the series: He nearly cried when being held at gunpoint in Who Are You?, Gum Drops when he got very emotional searching for the missing little girl who was thought to be dead, broke down and was on the verge of committing suicide when buried alive in a glass coffin in Grave Danger, and broke down once again in Turn, Turn, Turn when discussing the death of the victim with Raymond Langston, and how he should have seen the danger signs over the year he had known her, and done something to prevent it. He was also stalked in "Stalker" when a repairman named Nigel Crane thought that Nick was his best friend. He helped a prostitute with whom he later had a relationship. She was murdered, making him a suspect in Boom. Because of being molested at a young age, his character is portrayed as more empathetic than his co-workers, which has drawn several rebukes from others.

• CSI Level 3: Greg Sanders (Eric Szmanda) was formerly the lab's DNA technician. Greg entered field training and in the season five episode "Who Shot Sherlock?" became a full-fledged CSI. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of DNA and trace analysis. In the season 3 episode "Play with Fire" he was involved in a lab explosion, which he survived and in the season 7 episode "Fannysmackin'", Greg is brutally beaten by a gang of youths while rescuing a victim. Greg is an Eagle Scout. He also wrote a book about the history of Las Vegas, and often becomes intrigued with cases that date back to "old Las Vegas" when it was run by the mob. Greg is promoted to CSI level 3 in the episode "19 Down".

• Chief Medical Examiner: Doctor Albert "Al" Robbins (Robert David Hall) is the head county coroner. He is married with three children, and is close friends with David Phillips, the assistant coroner who works for him. Since Grissom's departure, Robbins has also been shown to be developing a similar sort of friendship with new CSI, Raymond Langston. He has two prosthetic legs, and it has been implied that he lost them in an accident while trying to dig up a floor at a crime scene; this disability is drawn from actor David Hall himself, who lost his legs in a road traffic accident.

• Trace Technician: David Hodges (Wallace Langham) is a lab technician who transferred to the Las Vegas crime lab from the Los Angeles crime lab. Hodges' appearances provide some comic relief, though most of the team finds him obnoxious and irritating. Hodges' first appearance was in the third season episode "Recipe for Murder", and he became billed as a regular cast member starting with the season 8 episode "Dead Doll". He has had a crush on fellow lab technicians Mia Dickerson and Wendy Simms, and once got all the other lab workers to collaborate and try to solve The Miniature Killer case, discovering a key clue. It is also noted that Hodges has an uncanny sense of smell, and is able to identify many key chemical compounds by their scent alone, such as cyanide, which to those who possess the gene like Hodges does, smells like bitter almonds. The majority of humans possess the ability to smell the bitter almond odor of cyanide. Hodge's sense of smell for this chemical, however, is more acute than that of the average person.

• CSI Level 2: Riley Adams (Lauren Lee Smith) is a former St. Louis police officer who became a crime scene investigator. She comes in as a second-level CSI to the understaffed Las Vegas unit, replacing former CSI Sara Sidle, who left in the eighth season. Her first episode is the third episode of the ninth season, Art Imitates Life in which she meets most of the team. She seems to share a friendly, flirting relationship with colleague Greg Sanders. She now shares office space with him and Nick Stokes after Nick accepted an offer to have Gil Grissom's old office after his retirement. Riley has shown a personal interest in a case in the episode Miscarriage of Justice when she was talking to a woman whose husband had killed himself and it was not clear what happened in Riley's past but she has a connection with the widow. In episode No Way Out her and fellow CSI Raymond Langston are held hostage in the aftermath of a shootout in a quiet Las Vegas neighborhood, but Riley was successfully able to disarm the suspect and allow all of them to walk away unharmed.

• LVPD Homicide Detective: Captain James "Jim" Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) was the head of the CSI unit in Las Vegas until he was moved back to the police homicide division in the second episode. He is originally from New Jersey. He continues to work with CSI's despite problems in season two with his daughter, Ellie, who is a drug addict and a prostitute in Los Angeles. It was discovered in the season 2 episode "Ellie" that he is not Ellie's biological father. From the second episode onwards, Brass remains a captain in the homicide division and works closely with the graveyard shift CSI team. He very often conducts witness and suspect interviews. In the season 6 episode "Bang Bang", Brass was shot twice by William Cutler after convincing him to release his hostage. At the end of the seventh season premiere, Built To Kill, Part 1, Brass is seen in a tattoo parlor, having the date of his shooting (May 11, 2006) tattooed just below the bullet scar. While Brass could never be accused of being a "soft cop", he has shown regard for the rules throughout the years. In the episode Who and What, after the FBI's Jack Malone slams a suspect's head on the table, Brass rushes in and pulls him off, saying "If you want to rendition him to Gitmo, be my guest. But in this house, we play by the rules." In the episode You Kill Me, after a lab tech creates a fictional story in which Brass uses his night stick on a suspect, another tech comments "Captain Brass isn't the type of cop that smacks suspects around."

[edit] Former main characters

• CSI Level 3 Night Shift Supervisor: Doctor Gilbert "Gil" Grissom (William Petersen) was the night shift team supervisor for the Las Vegas CSI unit, and a forensic entomologist with a degree in biology from UCLA. He is known for being a very thorough and methodical scientist, as well as a bit of a quirky introvert. Grissom is proficient in sign language and used to have otosclerosis (inherited from his mother), but he underwent corrective surgery.^[15] He was raised Catholic and is now lapsed.^[16] It was revealed to the viewers on the sixth season finale "Way To Go" that he has been in a relationship with Sara Sidle. He successfully proposed marriage to her in the eighth season. This character is loosely based on real life criminalist Daniel Holstein.^[14] William Petersen was originally reported to have renewed his contract for the show's ninth season, but the Associated Press reported on July 15, 2008, that Petersen was leaving the show as a regular following Season 9's tenth episode in order to pursue more stage acting opportunities. He will return for guest spots during the show's run, as needed.^[17] In his final scene as a regular, he is shown meeting his fiancee, Sara Sidle, in the rain forest of Costa Rica. They kissed in the end of season 9 episode 10.

• CSI Level 3: Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox) was a materials and element analyst. Sidle was a physics major at Harvard University, and previously worked for the San Francisco coroner and crime lab. She replaced Holly Gribbs after helping investigate her death. She is completely devoted to her job and will go to almost any lengths to make sure that justice is served, for both victims and criminals. She is often very cold in her tone and demeanor. Sara's alcoholic father used to beat her and her mother Laura, until one day Laura snapped and stabbed him to death; as a result, Sara has emotional difficulties when dealing with abuse cases against women and children in her job. She was placed into foster care following her father's death and her mother's subsequent institutionalization. Sidle accepted a marriage proposal from co-worker Gil Grissom in the season 8 episode "The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carp". A few episodes later, in "Goodbye and Good Luck", Sara leaves the team following a difficult case. She did not say good bye to her fellow CSIs or Grissom, for whom she only left a note stating that she had to go face the ghosts of her past, something that she could not do in Las Vegas. She returned for a guest appearance in the season 9 premiere for Warrick's death. She also appeared in episodes 902, 905 and 910.^[18] She is shown in a guest appearance in Grissom's last episode when he meets her in the Costa Rican jungle.

• LVPD Homicide Detective: Sofia Curtis (Louise Lombard) was a CSI who became part of Grissom's team after the mid–season five split, decided by the Assistant Director of the crime lab, Conrad Ecklie. She soon considered resignation, upset at the fact that she had been demoted from acting day shift supervisor. In season six, Curtis makes a career shift from CSI to detective. Sofia was a recurring character in season five, and became a regular character in season seven, and Louise Lombard was billed in the opening credits. Sofia appeared in the season eight premiere, "Dead Doll", where Louise Lombard was billed as a "Special Guest Appearance". She has never been seen since "Dead Doll".

• CSI Level 3: Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan) was an audio-video analyst. Warrick was a Las Vegas native and a chemistry major from UNLV. A major facet of Warrick's character portrayed in the show is that he was a recovering gambling addict, his recovery hindered by the fact that he worked in Las Vegas. New CSI Holly Gribbs was killed at a scene in CSI's first episode, while Warrick was out laying a bet. He almost lost his job for not being with her at the time. Grissom's friendship and support had helped him a great deal in overcoming his addiction, but his compulsion was one of the reasons used by Conrad Ecklie to investigate and then split up the night shift team in season five. Warrick had a deep affection for his hometown and used his experience as a former gambler and casino runner in his investigations. Warrick was married in season six, but divorced by season eight. Warrick's character did not return in Season 9, since actor Gary Dourdan and CBS could not come to terms on a contract. In the episode "For Gedda", Gary Dourdan's character, Warrick Brown, was shot and left to die; it was confirmed in the season 9 premiere, "For Warrick", that Dourdan's character was killed by the gun shot of the corrupted Undersheriff Jeff McKeen^[19] In the opening moments of the Season 9 premiere, he dies in Gil Grissom's arms. It was also revealed in the Season 9 premiere that he had a child.

[edit] Recurring characters

CSI: has utilized an extensive cast of recurring characters on the show. Recurring characters can be found as technicians in the crime lab, as homicide detectives, as family members of main characters, and as villains, among others.

[edit] Notable guest stars

• Dakota Fanning, in one of her earliest roles, played a molestation victim in Season 1's episode "Blood Drops."
• Misha Collins appeared in Season 5's episode "Nesting Dolls", as Vlad.
• Marcia Cross, most notable for portraying Bree Hodge on Desperate Housewives, appeared in the episode "Organ Grinder" from Season 2.
• Clueless star Stacey Dash played a "newbie" lab tech who flirted with Warrick in "Slaves of Las Vegas" from Season 2.
• Kelly Rowan (Melinda Clarke's co-star on The O.C.) also appeared in "Slaves of Las Vegas" as Eileen Nelson, the wife of a man who hated her. He made a girl from an underground fetish club act like her, and his violence resulted in him killing her. Coincidentally, Clarke and Rowan appeared in the same episode prior to working together in 'The O.C.', though they did not appear in scenes together.
• The Usual Suspects star Stephen Baldwin appeared as Jesse Acheson, who was investigated in Season 5's "Compulsion."
• The Who frontman Roger Daltrey guest starred as a missing mob boss who comes back to Las Vegas to pay back his would-be killers in Season 7's episode "Living Legend."
• Ugly Betty and Disney Channel star America Ferrera had a guest starring role in the Season 5 episode "Harvest."
• Frank Gorshin made his last ever TV appearance in "Grave Danger", the season 5 finale.
• Faye Dunaway played a prominent ex-showgirl and mob mogul's former flame in the episode "Kiss-Kiss, Bye-Bye" in Season 6.
• Danny Bonaduce appeared as Izzy Delancy, the Miniature Killer's first victim, in the two-part Season 7 opener "Built to Kill" as well as "Loco Motives".
• Kevin Federline made his guest appearance in the Season 7 episode "Fannysmackin'", starring as a street hoodlum 'Pig.'
• Ned Beatty made a guest appearance in the episode "Sweet Jane" in Season 7, playing a serial killing dentist.
• Lost stars Ian Somerhalder, Josh Holloway, Elizabeth Mitchell, M.C. Gainey, Harold Perrineau and William Mapother have all guest starred. Somerhalder portrayed a murder suspect name Tony Del Nagro in Season 3's "Revenge Is Best Served Cold." In Season 4, Holloway played Kenny Richmond in "Assume Nothing," a casino valet who was Nick's college baseball teammate. Both episodes were the third and fourth season premieres respectively. Mitchell appeared as Melissa Winters, a wheelchair-bound prosecutor and friend of Sara's with a deadly secret in Season 3's "One Hit Wonder." M.C. Gainey was a deceased bounty hunter in the 4th season episode Homebodies. Perrineau played a reverend with a sordid past and an exorcism patient who is missing in "Go To Hell" in Season 8. Mapother played a snuff film maker in the aptly named Season 3 episode "Snuff."
• Before becoming a regular on CSI: NY, Carmine Giovinazzo made a guest appearance in "Revenge Is Best Served Cold", making him one of the several actors to be in all three CSI shows.
• Summer Glau of Firefly & Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles played Mandy Cooper in the Season 5 episode "What's Eating Gilbert Grissom?".
• Juliette Goglia played Hannah West in two episodes, a child prodigy who muddied the waters in two murder cases her half-brother was involved in. Her cold, calculating actions made Sara Sidle rethink her career choice and she left at the end of the Season 8 episode "Goodbye and Good Luck." Sara left her duty vest for new CSI Ronnie Lake, after removing her name tag and throwing it into the garbage. The first appearance was in the episode "The Unusual Suspect" from Season 6.
• Constance Marie played detective Carolina Flores in "Two and a Half Deaths" from Season 8.
• Guest appearances have been made by no less than four of The Shield cast members, namely: Catherine Dent (Danny) in "Who Shot Sherlock?" in Season 5 as Kay Marquette. Kenny Johnson (Lem) in "Time of Your Death" in Season 6 as Randy Bolen. Walton Goggins (Shane) in "Empty Eyes" in Season 7 as Marlon Frost. Jay Karnes (Dutch) in "For Gedda" in Season 8 as IA Detective Dutch Wagenbach.
• Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage of MythBusters appeared as scientists-observers in the Season 8 episode "The Theory of Everything."
• Pauley Perrette acts as an aspiring singer who befriends Catherine Willows' husband in "Lady Heather's Box."
• Ally Sheedy as Sharon Turner in Season 7 episode "Leapin' Lizards".
• Method Man, as Drops, appeared in the episodes "Poppin' Tags", "Big Shots" & "Drops Out".
• Travis Barker played a rapper also in the Season 6 episode "Poppin' Tags."
• Shanna Moakler, Former Miss USA, appeared in the same episode as now ex-husband Travis Barker.
• Taylor Swift as Haley Jones in the Season 9 episode "Turn, Turn, Turn."
• Holt McCallany was in the Season 9 episode "Young Man with a Horn." He previously played Det. John Hagen on CSI: Miami.
• Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia played Bobby in the Season 1 episode "Friends & Lovers." Star Zachary Quinto, the villain Sylar, appears in the second season episode "Anatomy of a Lye" as Mitchell Sullivan, a greasy chop-shop attendant.
• The Office co-stars John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson,and Melora Hardin have all made guest appearances. Krasinski in the Season 5 episode "Who Shot Sherlock." Wilson appeared as a purse snatching thief in the Season 1 finale "Strip Strangler." And Hardin appeared as the sports book manager in season 5's "Big Middle."
• Carlos Alazraqui as a Reno cop in Season 9's "Let it Bleed" (a nod to his role in Reno 911!).
• Allison Scagliotti-Smith, known for her role in Drake & Josh, played fast food restaurant employee Mindy Crenshaw in the Season 9 episode "Deep Fried and Minty Fresh."
• Wil Wheaton guest-starred as homeless murder suspect Walter in Season 5 episode "Compulsion."
• Battlestar Galactica producer Ronald D. Moore along with Galactica actors Grace Park and Rekha Sharma, make cameo appearances in the 2009 episode "A Space Oddity". (The three appear in a science fiction convention scene, with Moore shouting angrily at a man while Park and Sharma play audience members). Another Galactica alumnus, Kate Vernon, is a major guest star in the same episode. Tricia Helfer also appears as dead model "Ashleigh James" in the final episode of Season 2 "The Hunger Artist."
• Kellan Lutz played Chris Mullins in "Empty Eyes".
• Willie Garson plays the "sexy kitty" in season 4's "Fur and Loathing."
• D.B. Woodside from Buffy and the second President Palmer from 24 plays a convicted sex offender in the season 5 episode "Harvest."
• Nana Visitor who plays Kira Nerys from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine appears as a wrongly convicted murderers' ex-wife in the fifth season episode "Mea Culpa"
• Robia LaMorte, Buffy's Jenny Calendar played murder victim Joan Marks in season 2's "You've Got Male"
• Jennette McCurdy from Nickelodean's show iCarly guest starred as the sister of a girl who killed and elderly woman for a cat. The episode was "Cat's Cradle" from season 2.
• Cory Hardrict guest starred as Ross Davis, a character in whose bike is stolen. The episode was "Early Rollout" from season 4.

[edit] Episodes

There were twenty-three episodes in the first season, including the two part pilot episode written by Anthony Zuiker, the series' creator. There were twenty-three episodes each of the three following (Seasons two to four). There were twenty-five episodes in Season five and twenty-four in Seasons six and seven. There were only 17 episodes in Season 8, due to the WGA strike. The total number of aired episodes to date is 206. There have also been crossover episodes with its CSI sister shows, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY.

The 200th episode of CSI aired on April 2, 2009.

[edit] Crossovers

A two-part crossover episode with Without a Trace aired on November 8, 2007. The first episode was on CSI with the second on Without a Trace.^[20]!

On May 8, 2008, the episode "Two And a Half Deaths", written by Two and a Half Men writers Chuck Lorre and Lee Aronsohn, was aired. The episode focused on the death of a sitcom star of a show based on Roseanne, which Lorre wrote some of the episodes. A number of writers of CSI wrote an episode for Two and a Half Men, "Fish In A Drawer", where Charlie's house is investigated following the death of Charlie's stepfather. George Eads (Nick Stokes) was the only actor to appear on both CSI and Two and a Half Men, but portraying different characters. The stars of Two and a Half Men also appeared in part of the CSI episode. They can be seen outside of the dressing trailer, dressed in tuxedos; all three appear to be smoking, but they do not talk.

[edit] Reception

For the 2001 season CBS decided to move CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, along with the hit franchise Survivor, to Thursday night, ending NBC's long dominance of these television hours, because even though they had a long-standing and popular Must See TV lineup (such as Friends and Will & Grace) they could not compete with CSI's numbers per week. CBS became the most-watched network on American television, with CSI being the most-watched program on television for the 2002–2003 TV season,^[21] and the most-watched scripted show for five consecutive seasons, from the 2002–2003 season through the 2006–2007 season. The 2004–2005 season finale, directed by Quentin Tarantino and entitled "Grave Danger", was watched by over 35 million viewers on May 19, 2005, twice that of the nearest competition.^[22]

[edit] Public reaction

CSI's popularity has led to the creation of websites, online discussion forums and a large amount of fan-made art

On September 27, 2007, after CSI's season eight premiered, a miniature model of character Gil Grissom's office (which he was seen building during season seven) was put up on eBay. The auction ended October 7, with the prop being sold for $15,600; CBS donated the proceeds to the National CASA Association.^[23]

On August 2007, upon rumors of Jorja Fox leaving the show, a grassroots campaign started.^[24] Organized by the online forum Your Tax Dollars At Work, many of its nineteen thousand members donated to the cause, collecting over $8,000 for gifts and stunts targeted at CBS executives and CSI's producers and writers. Some of the stunts included a wedding cake delivery to Carol Mendelsohn, 192 chocolate-covered insects with the message "CSI Without Sara Bugs Us." to Naren Shankar and a plane flying several times over the Universal Studios of Los Angeles with a "Follow the evidence keep Jorja Fox on CSI" banner.^[25][26] Other protests included mailing the show's producers a dollar, so as to save Fox's contract "one dollar at a time". By October 16, 2007 according to the site's tally, more than 20,000 letters with money or flyers had been mailed to the Universal Studios and to CBS headquarters in New York from forty-nine different countries since the campaign started on September 29, 2007.^[27][28][29] Fox and Mendelsohn chose to donate the money to CASA, a national association that supports and promotes court-appointed advocates for abused or neglected children.^[30]

[edit] Criticism for violent and sexual themes

CSI has often been criticized for the level and gratuitousness of graphic violence, images, and sexual content. The CSI series and its spin-off shows have pushed the boundary of what is considered acceptable viewing for primetime network television.^[31] The series had numerous episodes on sexual fetishism and other forms of sexual pleasure (see especially the recurring character of Lady Heather, a professional dominatrix). CSI has been ranked as among the worst prime-time shows for family viewing by the Parents Television Council nearly every season since its second,^{[32][33][34][35]} being ranked the worst show for family prime-time viewing after the 2002–2003^[36] and 2005–2006^[37] seasons. The PTC has also targeted certain CSI episodes for its weekly "Worst TV Show of the Week" feature.^{[38][39][40][41][42][43]} In addition, the episode "King Baby" aired in February 2005, which the PTC named the most offensive TV show of the week,^[43] also led the PTC to start a campaign to file complaints with the FCC with the episode;^[44] to date, nearly 13,000 PTC members complained to the Federal Communications Commission about the episode.^[45] The PTC has also asked Clorox to pull their advertisements from CSI and CSI: Miami because of the graphically violent content on those programs.^{[46][dead link]}

[edit] Law enforcement reaction

Another criticism of the show is the depiction of police procedure, which some consider to be decidedly lacking in realism.^[47] For instance, the show's characters not only investigate crime scenes ("process", as their real-world counterparts do), but they also conduct raids, engage in suspect pursuit and arrest, interrogate suspects, and solve cases, which falls under the responsibility of uniformed officers and detectives, not CSI personnel. Although some detectives are also registered CSIs, this is exceedingly rare in actual life. It is considered an inappropriate and improbable practice to let CSI personnel to be involved in detective work as it would compromise the impartiality of scientific evidence and would be impracticably time-consuming. CSI shares this characteristic with similar British drama series, Silent Witness.

The cities of North Las Vegas and Henderson, and other surrounding townships and counties, will not allow Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department or companies contracted for work under them to come into their jurisdictions, unless the crime occurred on a border of the cities and/or townships. Furthermore, CSIs contracted to LVMPD don't travel to other counties, such as Nye County, or Pahrump, or any other places in Nevada, due to each county having different laws in regards to what is considered law enforcement within that particular county.

Some police and district attorneys have criticized the show for giving members of the public an inaccurate perception of how police solve crimes. Victims and their families are coming to expect instant answers from showcased techniques such as DNA analysis and fingerprinting, when in real life processing such evidence can take days or even weeks. District attorneys state that the conviction rate in cases with little physical evidence has decreased, largely due to the influence of CSI on jury members.^[48]

However, not all law-enforcement agencies have been as critical; many CSIs have responded positively to the show's influence and enjoy their new reputation. In the UK, Scene Of Crime Officers (SOCO) now commonly refer to themselves as CSIs. Some constabularies, such as Norfolk, have even gone so far as to change the name of the unit to Crime Scene Investigation.^[49] Also, recruitment and training programs have seen a massive increase in applicants, with a far wider range of people now interested in something previously regarded as a scientific backwater.^[50]

[edit] LGBT issues

The LGBT community has criticized the show for its negative representation of LGBT characters.^[51] Despite the general overall displeasure, the fifth season episode "Ch-Ch-Changes" was received positively by the transgender community in particular.^[52] Furthermore, the season 5 episode "Iced" featured one of very few openly gay characters on the show who were not victims or criminals, as the victim's neighbor.^[52]

[edit] Franchise

Like NBC's Law & Order franchise, CBS went on to produce their own franchise starting in September 2002 with the spin-off CSI: Miami, set in Miami, Florida. Another spin-off debuted September 2004 with CSI: NY, set in New York City. Also, a number of comic books, video games and novels based on the series have been made. The series was found to be in the same "universe" as fellow CBS police-drama Without a Trace during a crossover episodes airing in early November 2007. It is also within the same universe with Cold Case because of the series' crossover with CSI: NY. William Petersen confirmed that a CSI movie is in the works that will star Gil Grissom. ^[53]

[edit] CSI effect

The "CSI effect" (sometimes referred to as the "CSI syndrome") is a reference to the phenomenon of popular television shows such as the CSI franchise, Law & Order, Silent Witness, Crossing Jordan and Waking the Dead raising crime victims' and jury members' real-world expectations of forensic science, especially crime scene investigation and DNA testing.^[54] This is said to have changed the way many trials are presented today, in that prosecutors are pressured to deliver more forensic evidence in court.^[55]

[edit] CSI: The Experience

Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry opened an exhibit in CSI's honor on May 25, 2007 called: "CSI: The Experience".^[56] There is also a supporting Web site designed for the benefit of people who cannot visit the exhibit at CSI: The Experience Web Adventure, designed by Rice University's Center for Technology in Teaching & Learning.

[edit] Ratings

[edit] American ratings

Seasonal rankings (based on average total viewers per episode) of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on CBS.

Note: U.S. network television seasons generally start in late September and end in late May, which coincides with the completion of the May sweeps.

Season	Timeslot (EDT)	Season Premiere	Season Finale	TV Season	Rank	Viewers (in millions)
1	Friday 9:00 pm/8c (from October 6, 2000 – January 12, 2001) Thursday 9:00 pm/8c (from February 1, 2001)	October 6, 2000	May 17, 2001	2000–2001	#10	17.80[57]
2	Thursday 9:00 pm/8c	September 27, 2001	May 16, 2002	2001–2002	#2	23.69[58]
3	Thursday 9:00 pm/8c	September 26, 2002	May 15, 2003	2002–2003	#1	26.20[59]
4	Thursday 9:00 pm/8c	September 25, 2003	May 20, 2004	2003–2004	#1	25.27[60]
5	Thursday 9:00 pm/8c	September 23, 2004	May 19, 2005	2004–2005	#2	26.26[61]
6	Thursday 9:00 pm/8c	September 22, 2005	May 18, 2006	2005–2006	#3	24.86[62]
7	Thursday 9:00 pm/8c	September 21, 2006	May 17, 2007	2006–2007	#5	20.00[63]
8	Thursday 9:00 pm/8c	September 27, 2007	May 15, 2008	2007–2008	#5	19.53
9	Thursday 9:00 pm/8c	October 9, 2008	May 14, 2009	2008–2009	#4	18.760[64]
10	Thursday 9:00 pm/8c	September 24, 2009	N/A	2009–2010	TBA	TBA

[edit] DVR ratings

The show ranked number three in DVR playback (3.07 million viewers), according to Nielsen prime DVR lift data from September 22 to November 23, 2008.^[65]

[edit] U.K. ratings

CSI airs new episodes on UK terrestrial channel FIVE on Tuesday nights at 9:00 pm; viewership is usually around 4 million. Repeats are shown on Five USA throughout the week, with viewing figures around the 2 million mark. Episodes are also shown on the channel Living. CSI is generally top on the network rank. But these ratings on Five barely reach the 2 main U.K. channels, BBC 1 & ITV 1, when their ratings of number 1 are usually around 10–18 million viewers.

[edit] Awards and nominations

[edit] Awards

ASCAP Award:

• Top TV Series – 2006

ASC Award:

• Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Episodic TV Series – 2006
• Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Episodic TV Series – 2005

Emmy:

• Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series – 2007
• Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-camera Series – 2006
• Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series – 2003
• Outstanding Makeup For A Series (Non-Prosthetic) – 2002

Saturn Award

• Best Network Television Series – 2004

Screen Actors Guild Award

• Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series – 2004

[edit] Nominations

Emmy:

• Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (Original Dramatic Score) – 2007
• Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Miniseries Or Special – 2007
• Outstanding Makeup For A Series (non-prosthetic) – 2007
• Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series – 2007
• Outstanding Single-camera Sound Mixing For A Series – 2006
• Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series – 2006
• Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series – 2005: Quentin Tarantino
• Outstanding Makeup For A Series (non-prosthetic) – 2005
• Outstanding Single-camera Sound Mixing For A Series – 2005
• Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series – 2005
• Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series – 2004
• Outstanding Drama Series – 2004
• Outstanding Makeup For A Series (Non-Prosthetic) – 2004
• Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing For A Series – 2004
• Outstanding Drama Series – 2003
• Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series – 2003: Marg Helgenberger
• Outstanding Makeup For A Series (Non-Prosthetic) – 2003
• Outstanding Makeup For A Series (Prosthetic) – 2003
• Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing For A Series – 2003
• Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series – 2002
• Outstanding Drama Series – 2002
• Outstanding Makeup For A Series (Prosthetic) – 2002
• Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing For A Series – 2002
• Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series – 2002
• Outstanding Art Direction For A Single-Camera Series – 2001
• Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series – 2001
• Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Series – 2001
• Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series – 2001

The series has also been nominated for multiple Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Award, Writers Guild of America Award, Directors Guild of America Award, and Producers Guild of America Award

[edit] DVD releases

[edit] Region 1 DVD releases

DVD Name	Release Date
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 1	March 25, 2003
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2	September 2, 2003
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 3	March 30, 2004
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 4	October 12, 2004
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 5	November 29, 2005
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 6	November 14, 2006
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7	November 20, 2007
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8	October 14, 2008
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 9	September 1, 2009

The US box sets are distributed by CBS Home Entertainment, while the Canadian box sets are distributed by Alliance Atlantis. The first season DVD release differs from all subsequent seasons in that it is available only in 1.33:1 or 4:3 full frame, rather than the subsequent aspect ratio of 1.78:1 or 16:9 widescreen, which is the HDTV standard aspect ratio.

The first season is also the only DVD release of the series not to feature Dolby Digital 5.1 surround audio, instead offering Dolby Digital stereo sound.

[edit] Region 2/4 DVD releases

Region 2 and 4 DVD releases have followed a pattern whereby each season is progressively released in two parts (each of 11 or 12 episodes [with the exception of Season 8, in which part 1 contained 8 episodes and the Without a Trace crossover and part 2 contained the remaining 9 episodes] with special features split up) before finally being sold as a single box set. After having been almost 12 months behind region 2 releases after the first four series, region 4 releases are speeding up, with distributors simply releasing season five as a complete box set.

[edit] Region 2

[edit] Region 4

DVD Name	Release dates
	Full season	Part 1	Part 2
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 1	December 8, 2003	July 1, 2002	October 7, 2002
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2	March 15, 2004	July 28, 2003	October 6, 2003
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 3	July 26, 2004	April 5, 2004	July 5, 2004
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Seasons 1–3	August 23, 2004
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 4	November 21, 2005	May 9, 2005	July 11, 2005
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Seasons 1–4	December 12, 2005
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 5	June 26, 2006	April 24, 2006	June 14, 2006
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Seasons 1–5	October 2, 2006
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Grave Danger – Tarantino Episodes	October 10, 2005
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 6	June 4, 2007	February 26, 2007	June 4, 2007
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7	February 25, 2008	September 3, 2007	February 25, 2008
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8	February 16, 2009	September 22, 2008	February 16, 2009
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 9	September 30, 2009	August 31, 2009	September 21, 2009
DVD Name	Release dates
	Full season	Part 1	Part 2
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 1	November 27, 2003	October 21, 2002	April 9, 2003
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2	October 28, 2004	October 27, 2003	March 30, 2004
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 3	October 4, 2005	March 18, 2005	September 13, 2005
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 4	November 8, 2006	May 12, 2006	August 17, 2006
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 5	January 24, 2007	Not released	Not released
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Grave Danger – Tarantino Episodes	June 6, 2007
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 6	December 5, 2007	Not released	Not released
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7	December 3, 2008	Not released	Not released
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8	July 15, 2009	Not released	Not released

[edit] Blu-ray Releases

CBS Home Entertainment released the first season on High Definition Blu-ray disc on May 12, 2009.[1] Unlike its DVD counterpart[2], this release is in its original 1.78:1 or 16:9 widescreen format and feature 7.1 surround sound.

Season 9 is due for Blu-Ray release on September 1 2009 and, like the Season 1 Blu-Ray release, will feature 1.78:1 widescreen transfer with DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 surround sound. Extras are to include commentaries, featurettes and possibly BD-Live functionality. ^[66]

[edit] Other Releases

The CSI franchise has also been released as a series of mobile games. In Fall 2007, CBS teamed up with game developer Gameloft to bring CSI to mobile phones. The first of the series to be published was CSI: Miami. The game features actual cast members such as Horatio Caine, Alexx Woods and Calleigh Duquesne who are trying to solve a murder in South Beach with the player's assistance.^[67] The game is also available for download on various iPod devices^[68]

In spring 2008, Gameloft and CBS released "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - The Mobile Game" which is based on the original series in Las Vegas, NV. This game introduces the unique ability to receive calls during the game to provide tips and clues about crime scenes and evidence. As for the storyline, the game developers collaborated with Anthony E. Zuiker (the series creator) to ensure that the plot and dialogue were aligned with the show's style.^[69]

[edit] Books

• True Stories of CSI: The Real Crimes Behind the Best Episodes of the Popular TV Show (published 08/09) – Katherine Ramsland follows the evidence and revisits some of the most absorbing episodes of the phenomenally popular C.S.I. television franchise, and explores the real-life crimes that inspired them. She also looks into the authenticity of the forensic investigations recreated for the dramatizations, and the painstaking real-life forensic process employed in every one of the actual cases—from notorious mass-murderer Richard Speck, to the massacre of Buddhist monks in an Arizona Temple, to a baffling case of apparent spontaneous combustion.

[edit] Video Games

[edit] Online sales

Country	Store	Available Season
Philippines	iTunes Store	6, 7, 8 and 9 (after episode airs on TV)
United States	Amazon Unbox	6, 7 and 8
United States	Xbox Live	6 and 7 (approximately one week after airing -- no longer offered)
United States	NetFlix	7, 8 and 9 (streaming with Instant play for Netflix customers)
United Kingdom	Demand Five	6, 7, 8 and 9 (immediately after airing)
Germany	RTLnow	6, 7, 8 and 9 (one week before airing)

[edit] Parody

The show was parodied in the 2009 Chick-fil-A calendar "The Bovines in Blue" where the show in November was referred to as B.S.I.: Bovine Special Investigators, as well as in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and MADtv skits.

[edit] See also

• CSI (franchise)
• CSI: Miami
• CSI: NY

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

• CSI Official U.K. Website
• CSI Official wiki at CBS
• CSI Official Blog
• GSRForeverLove
• CSI Wikia
• CSI at Yahoo! TV
• CSI: The Experience
• Watching CSI
• Full episodes of CSI
• CSI at TVGuide.com
• "CSI" fans unhappy about William Petersen exit
• Petersen's Last Ep: 1/15/09
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation at the Internet Movie Database
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation at TV.com

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