According to Chicago Tribune’s Maureen Ryan, we’ll see some interesting returns and plot centers:

• In the season’s episode 5, dominatrix Lady Heather (Melinda Clarke, Reaper) will be back. Grissom will “spend the night”, apparently. They’re not saying what he’s doing over there, but they promise this will be the “most provocative” episode the Lady Heather has been in.
• Episode 7 will revolve around Natalie, the Miniature Killer.
• William Friedkin will return to direct the 200th episode.

These are very interesting developments, for sure. I’m sure we’re in for a great season.

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As sad as I was to hear that William Petersen was moving on from his starring role on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, I’m sad to hear that it didn’t work out with one of his potential replacements, John Malkovich. Malkovich has proven his capacity for portraying brilliant, yet unstable, characters. It’s really very scary. According to Maureen Ryan of The Chicago Tribune, executive producer Naren Shankar couldn’t share details on other actors they are talking to.

Asked about similarities between the new character and Dexter, the lovable serial killer of serial killers, Shankar made it sound like the CSI character is more the converse of Dexter. Dexter is a serial killer trying to discover his own humanity. The academic joining CSI in episode 9 will be a man trying to understand if he could be a serial killer. Knowing that he has genetic characteristics known among killers, he feels he must explore the nature of real killers to understand himself.

Of course, the way things pan out for the character will depend a lot on who the actor will be. They still have a little time to cast him, since they won’t begin production on episode 5 and beyond, until mid-August. Next thing you know, though, we’ll be watching him.

Who would you like to see play the new character?

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With the Emmy nominations out, the other day, the CSI franchise garnered three nods. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has two of them, while CSI: New York has the third.

The listings look like this:

• Outstanding Makeup For A Single-camera Series (non-prosthetic)
  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Dead Doll, CBS, CBS Paramount Network Television in association with Jerry Bruckheimer Television
    Melanie Elaine Levitt, Department Head Makeup Artist
    Tom Hoerber, Key Makeup Artist
    Matthew Mungle, Additional Makeup Artist
    Clinton Wayne, Additional Makeup Artist
• Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series
  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Cockroaches, CBS, CBS Paramount Network Television in association with Jerry Bruckheimer Television
    Mace Matiosian, Supervising Sound Editor
    Ruth Adelman, Supervising ADR Editor
    Jivan Tahmizian, Dialogue Editor
    David Van Slyke, Sound Effects Editor
    Chad Hughes, Sound Effects Editor
    Joseph Sabella, Foley Artist
    Zane Bruce, Foley Artist
    Troy Hardy, Music Editor
• Outstanding Stunt Coordination
  • CSI: NY Playing With Matches, CBS, CBS Paramount Network Television in association with Jerry Bruckheimer Television
    Norman Howell, Stunt Coordinator

That’s impressive, but did they not see how fabulous David Caruso’s sunglasses were in Going Ballistic?!?

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No first pitch action, here, but good fan-love.

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In this CSI novel, by Jerome Preisler, Grissom, Catherine, Warrick, and the rest of the team investigate two deaths. One is a John Doe, discovered on a world-class Vegas golf course, and the possible victim of a bad case of sibling rivalry. The other, “Nevada Rose” Demille, a beautiful sports groupie, and heavily sought-after barfly, well-known at the trendiest casinos and clubs. When her nude body is found, Willows and Warrick find a trail that seems to lead to “The Fireball”, a major leaque pither, who’s a future Hall of Famer, and a womanizer, who had a recent, very public affair with “Nevada Rose”.

Order CSI: Nevada Rose from Amazon.com.

Have you read CSI: Nevada Rose, yet? Let us know what you thought of it.

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 on DVD will hit store shelves October 14, 2008.

• All 17 episodes.
• Bonus episode: Without a Trace crossover.
  Sorry, no mention of the Two and a Half Men crossover episode. Darn it!
• Format: Widescreen.
• Audio: English 5.1. Spanish.
• Six featurettes.
• Rare deleted scene.
• Two cast and crew commentaries.
• MSRP: $84.98 (USD)

You can pre-order CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Complete Eighth Season at Amazon, to receive it October 14.

• CSI: Miami Season 6 on DVD Hits Shelves September 9, 2008.
• CSI.: NY Season 4 on DVD September 23, 2008.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 on DVD will hit store shelves October 14, 2008.

Okay, who has already pre-ordered all three DVD box sets?

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I loved this scene, when the couple take their angst out on their pleasure boat.

Okay. That made me hungry for the next season. How about you?

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What a rock star! Have you spotted Lt Dan Band out lately? Let’s hear what you thought in the comments.

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Have you watched the film, yet? What do you think of it, and especially of Gary Dourdan’s performance?

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Most parents would take exception with a summer camp where their children were looking at methamphetamine and cocaine, maybe even if they were fake. Not so, however, for parents of Camp CSI: Birmingham attendees. Last week, campers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, all of them high school students from the Birmingham area, spent five days engrossed in the real-life science behind the three CSI television series.

For the first four days, campers at the program, hosted by UAB’s Department of Justice Sciences, spent the morning being briefed by grad students and forensic science/criminal justice faculty, and working in six different teams collecting samples from different crime scenes. Then, they spent the afternoons in the lab with UAB grad students, testing blood samples, extracting DNA, and matching simulated meth and cocaine samples to a substance database. On Friday, the the teams work together on one big case. Each team collected evidence from a different part of the scene. In the afternoon, they testified about their evidence in a mock trial.

This sounds like an great opportunity for students turned on by chemistry and biology. The camp cost $199, plus a $50 registration fee, and included lunch and a snack, daily.

The camp curriculum lists the following objectives:

• Help students develop their analytical skills;
• Help students learn (by doing) the steps involved in the scientific method;
• Teach students how to collect, preserve, secure, analyze, and present evidence;
• Expose students to current generation equipment and methods used in forensic-based laboratories;
• Expose students to the reality of forensic-based investigations of crime scenes;
• Allow students to have fun while learning about such topics as DNA, fingerprints, criminalistics, and related forensic-based concepts.

Birmingham area students interested in this program for 2009, should check out the UAB Department of Justice Sciences website, especially the Camp CSI Birmingham: 2008 page.

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