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CSI: Miami fans know her as Horatio Caine’s really messed up ex, Julia. But Elizabeth Berkely is much more than that. She’s got her own reality TV series in the works right now. It’s being produced by MTV, so I’m assuming that’s the network that will air it, but it’s not confirmed yet. Here’s the high-level info that IMDB has about the series:

And here’s the overview of what the series is all about:

This series follows actress Elizabeth Berkley as she visits various schools and youth groups around the country to facilitate her self-help program, Ask-Elizabeth.

The series already has an official web site and you can find out a lot more there, while listening to my favorite song by Corinne Bailey Rae, Like a Star.

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Episode 7.17 – Divorce Party
Air Date: March 9, 2009

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Horatio is in for more trouble with his ex and his son. (Haven’t we all been there with the domestic issues…?) Poor guy, now he’s going to have to deal with his ex’s strange and unpredictable behavior again. Let’s hope this time, he’s able to get things straightened out for good.

Press Release:
THE CSIs MAKE A SHOCKING DISCOVERY ABOUT THEIR MURDER VICTIM, WHILE HORATIO TRIES TO SAVE HIS SON FROM JULIA’S ERRATIC BEHAVIOR, ON “CSI: MIAMI,” MONDAY, MARCH 9

Elizabeth Berkley (”The L Word”) Returns as Julia Winston

“Divorce Party” – The CSIs make a shocking discovery about their murder victim, while Horatio tries to save his son from Julia’s erratic behavior, on CSI: MIAMI, Monday, March 9 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

SERIES REGULARS:
Horatio Caine……………………….. David Caruso
Calleigh Duquesne………………….. Emily Procter
Eric Delko……………………….. Adam Rodriguez
Ryan Wolfe…………………………. Jonathan Togo
Det. Frank Tripp………………………….. Rex Linn
Natalia Boa Vista……………………… Eva La Rue
Dr. Tara Price…………… Megalyn Echikunwoke
Kyle Harmon……………………….. Evan Ellingson

RECURRING CAST:
Julia Winston……………………. Elizabeth Berkley
Michael Travers……………………. Chris Redman

GUEST CAST:
Amy Lansing…………………………. Christa Miller
Heath Lansing……………… Andrew James Allen
Roger Lansing……………………… Bruce Thomas
Katherine Faber……………………… Kelly Rowan
Brianna Faber………………….. Aimee Teegarden
Glenn Wagner………………………….. Peter Paige
Dave Benton…………………………. Wes Ramsey
Walter Pipkin………………………. Cliff Weissman
Melia……………………………………… Jennie Ford

WRITTEN BY: Corey Evett & Matt Partney
DIRECTED BY: Karen Gaviola [Source: CBS]

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This photo was taken of them at “A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to Cure Parkinsons” to benefit The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinsons Research. Wow! Good looking and supporting great causes too.

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Let’s discuss this season premiere episode! Here are a few thoughts I had when watching the show, but I hope you’ll join in with your thoughts too!

• Was this resolved too fast? Was taking out Saris and Ortega, and removing all the fused alloy rounds all just a little too quick and easy? I know that Saris is technically at large, and will surface again, of course. Still, one episode to tie up so many problems in one big motion seems like a big deal, even for Horatio Caine.
• Do you think it was really necessary for Horatio to fake his own death to accomplish his goal? It just seems a little extreme to me.
• The sentiment among the criminals was that they would have a heyday, with Horatio dead. It seems to me taht the rest of the the team would be able to step up and keep crime under control, after all, Horatio did lead them for so long that surely they learned from him, right?
• Is it just me, or is that Jake character a bit sketchy? I’m not totally sure I trust him at all. Calleigh could do much better…like Delko!
• I’m no ballistics expert, but if the boat blew up, wouldn’t all those bullets start to go off in every direction? It wouldn’t be just one explosion, but a big one, followed by thousands of little ones when the bullets went off…?

Overall, though I really enjoyed the episode. I liked that they left things open for Calleigh and Delko to get together.

What did you think of this episode? Leave a comment and let’s discuss!

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CSI: Miami – Episode 7.01: Resurrection
Air Date: September 22, 2008

This episode answers the question in everyone’s mind with a resounding YES! Horatio Caine DOES, in fact, have an endless supply of those Silhouette Titanium Model 8568 sunglasses!

The show begins with Ryan at the scene of Horatio’s shooting, helping load the body into a vehicle. Calleigh and Eric arrive. They are upset, especially since Ryan said that he’d already released the body. Eric is suspicious of Ryan, but Calleigh quickly turns the focus to the list of Horatio’s obvious enemies.
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Eric goes to the morgue, but doesn’t find Horatio. The tech enters and says that he released Horatio’s body to a federal agent. Upset, Eric questions why he would do that, but the tech says the man was credentialed.

Frank tells Calleigh that a private jet, bound for Puerto Rico, took off about the time of the shooting, and there were no witnesses. He also tells her that Julia and Kyle were on board the jet. Puerto Rican authorities, though, said there was no sign of them.

Eric returns to the airfield, where Boa Vista is processing the scene, and tells her that it was Ryan. Boa Vista, however, points out a footprint and a fleck of coagulated blood in the blood pool. This could be their first good break, assuming it belongs to the shooter.

In the lab, Boa Vista DNA got a match on the coagulated blood in the Codis. It’s Brett Hanson’s blood, but he was killed in jail, the day before. They decide the murderer must have stepped in Hanson’s blood before going to the scene of Horatio’s murder.

They bring in Miguel Diaz, the only inmate released from Miami-Dade detention within the past day, and an associate of Ortega. Diaz claims he took a cellphone photo of Horatio’s body to take credit for the hit.

In Diaz’ photo, Calleigh notices the reflection of a man standing on the roof of a nearby maintenance hangar. At the hangar, Calleigh finds a bandage identical to the one FBI Agent Caldwell was wearing when she talked him that morning.

Calleigh and Eric interview Evan Caldwell. He claims to have no involvement, but they insist that he might have had something to gain, if he could take sole credit for taking Ortega down. They show him that the handwriting of the FBI Agent that took Horatio’s body matches Caldwell’s.

They seize Caldwell’s phone, and find a text –”IT’S DONE”– from the same time as Horatio’s murder. They call the number of the recipient of the text. Ryan, standing right outside the lab, answers his phone.

When Calleigh and Eric confront Ryan, he says he was following orders…from Horatio. He tells them that Horatio is alive, and that he staged his own murder, when Ortega had ordered someone to kill him. Knowing this was the only way to survive, and he planned this ruse with Ryan and Caldwell. Horatio picked Caldwell as the shooter, and had Ryan take care of setting up the blood. Horatio told him to tell no one, until the plan was over.

Horatio tells Julia to go to a safe place to go hide, because he needs a few more hours.

Horatio meets with Miguel, a Cuban-American community leader. Miguel arrives with $10M to help Horatio get the fused alloy rounds off the streets, and out of the neighborhoods.

Caldwell and Eric talk to Ortega to get customer names. Ortega won’t talk, so Eric takes him “for a ride”, in the front of the car, the “informant’s seat.”

Horatio meets with Elena. He asks her to offer the $10M from to Saris, telling him that she works with foreign interests.

The car Eric is driving, with Ortega in the passenger seat, and Frank in back, gets stopped at a light, where an armored truck is gunned down by robbers armed with fused alloy ammo. Frank runs to assist the truck, while Eric jumps out to help a woman trapped in her burning car. Of course, Ortega manages to flee.

The only survivor from the armored car tells Eric about the shooting. He says they were stuck at the light for a long time, and that one man came up to the truck. They didn’t expect bullets to penetrate the vehicle. Eric meets Horatio, and tells him that they lost Ortega.

Calleigh finds epithelial sells on the glass of the armored truck. The robber must have left it, while reaching in for the keys. Boa Vista matches it to Todd Keener, affiliated with a local gang, but not one of Ortega’s. So, the rounds are on the streets. Eric interrogates Keener, but he refuses to talk.

Elena meets with Saris. She offers him the money for a large amount of fused alloy rounds…all of Ortega’s supply. Saris pulls his gun on her, and asks who she works for. She convinces him, though, that she works for a global military consortium. He agrees to buy back all the ammo, and sell it to her for twice the price.

Ryan and Eric check out the armored car scene, following Ortega’s trail of blood. It ends at a space in a nearby parking facility. He must have stolen a car.

Ryan determines that someone used the intelligent traffic light to stall the armored truck. They trace the override emitter to ATF agent (and Calleigh’s old flame), Jake Berkeley. Calleigh interviews Berkeley, who claims to have lost his emitter to the Crip Kings, while undercover. He agrees to find out what he can.

Saris meets with the Crip Kings, and buys their unused fused alloy rounds at $8 each, twice what they paid Ortega the month before.

Ryan and Eric check Diaz’ cellphone to see if Ortega called him, after his escape. He had called the phone from an airstrip at the edge of the Everglades.

The team descends on Ortega. For some reason, which seems unwise to me, Horatio nabs Ortega.

Berkeley shows up with all the firearms from the armored car job. He tells Calleigh that he was seen taking them, and she’s impressed that he made that sacrifice for this case. He tells her he’s going on another assignment, and wants her to wait for him. She says she can’t wait around.

Saris tells Julia about the bullets, and his plan to sell them to a South American buyer. After he lays out his plan to her, she says she wants a divorce, then walks off, as Horatio reveals himself, gun in hand. After a very quick exchange of only a couple of bullets, Horatio’s shot hits a propane canister, blowing up Saris’ yacht, and presumably all of the contraband ammo, and Saris himself. After the rest of the police arrive, and scour the scene, though, Eric tells Horatio that they found no body.

Eric: This never ends, does it?
Horatio: And it never will.

What do you think about Resurrection and its resolution? Leave a comment to let us know what you think.

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CSI: Miami – Episode 7.01: Resurrection
Air Date: September 22, 2008

CBS has released some details about the season premiere of CSI: Miami. I know there are a lot of people who are eagerly awaiting the episode so they can find out Horatio’s fate. But if you want the news, click on “Read More”.

THE CSI TEAM WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO FIND WHO SHOT HORATIO CAINE AND THE EVIDENCE LEADS THEM TO ONE OF THEIR OWN, ON THE SEVENTH SEASON PREMIERE OF “CSI: MIAMI,” MONDAY, SEPT. 22

Elizabeth Berkeley Returns as Julia Winston and Sofia Milos Returns as Yelina Salas

“Resurrection” – The CSI team will stop at nothing to find who shot Horatio Caine and the evidence leads them to some of the most dangerous people in Miami, including one of their own, on the seventh season premiere of CSI: MIAMI, Monday, Sept. 22 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

SERIES REGULARS:

Horatio Caine……………………….. David Caruso
Calleigh Duquesne………………….. Emily Procter
Eric Delko……………………….. Adam Rodriguez
Ryan Wolfe…………………………. Jonathan Togo
Det. Frank Tripp………………………….. Rex Linn
Natalia Boa Vista……………………… Eva La Rue
Kyle Harmon……………………….. Evan Ellingson

RECURRING CAST:

Julia Winston……………………. Elizabeth Berkley
Yelina Salas…………………………….. Sofia Milos
Ron Saris………………………………. Kim Coastes
Valera……………………………………….. Boti Bliss
Jake Berkeley…………………. Johnny Whitworth
Thomas Wellner…………………………. Kurt Long
Agent Evan Caldwell………………… David Keith
Juan Ortega…………………………….. Jose Zuniga

GUEST CAST:

Miguel Diaz……………………………… Saul Huezo
Todd Keener………………………… Alex Solowitz
Woman………………………………. Helena Barrett
Guard………………………………… Keith Chandler
Driver………………………. Christopher Goodman

WRITTEN BY: Barry O’Brien
DIRECTED BY: Joe Chappelle

[source: CBS]

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TVGuide.com spoiler provider, Michael Ausiello has this little spoiler for us about CSI: Miami.
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Question: Got anything on CSI Miami? — Shakera
Ausiello: As you know, Elizabeth Berkley has been cast as Horatio’s ex-wife and the mother of his teenage son. Well, what you may not know, is that she’s trouble with a capital T that rhymes with P that stands for Prevaricator. Not only does she have a history of con artistry, but she may also be a murderer.

Source: TV Guide

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She will play Julia Winston — Horatio Caine’s (David Caruso) former wife and the mother of his recently discovered teenage son, Kyle (Evan Ellingson) — who becomes part of an investigation when her billionaire husband is murdered.

Berkley has guest-starred on the mothership “CSI” series, “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” which spawned “CSI: Miami.”

The actress, whose feature credits include “Any Given Sunday,” “Curse of the Jade Scorpion” and “Rodger Dodger,” is repped by Innovative Artists and Kritzer/Levine/Wilkins Entertainment.

Source: Hollywood Reporter / SpoilerTV

Editorial: I got the information for this post from SpoilerTV and The Hollywood Reporter, both very reliable sources. However, a reader left this comment for me: “Please correct your erroneous information. Elizabeth Berkley will be playing Julia, Kyle’s mother; she was NEVER married to Horatio.” I really don’t know which is the truth. Samantha, if you or anyone else out there can give me a source I can quote with the correct information, I’ll happily make the change. In the mean time, folks, Let’s just say that we may have to wait to find out exactly how this character fits into the scheme of things at CSI: Miami. (Samantha, thanks for the comment.)

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