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CSI: NY – Behind the Scenes Photos

Lynn — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:18:34 +0000

The snow on the East Coast has helped to set the scenes for some on-site filming for CSI: NY. Here are some great behind the scenes photos of Melina Kanakaredes & Eddie Cahill working on a scene for the show.

The thing that strikes me as odd is that two of the crew members don’t seem to have dressed for the weather. One is in shorts, one in short sleeves. What’s up with that?

[Photos: Fame Pictures]

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Melina Kanakeredes & Daughter Out Christmas Shopping

Lynn — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:33:27 +0000

Here are some candid photos of CSI: NY star Melina Kanakaredes and her daughter Karina Eleni Constantinides. The two were spotted while out Christmas shopping this week in Hollywood, California.

I’ve seen extremely few photos of Melina’s daughter, so this is a very rare treat. I think she definitely resembles her beautiful mother, don’t you think?

[Photos: Fame Pictures]

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CSI: NY – Melina Kanakaredes Rumor

Lynn — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:36:56 +0000

First of all, I had not heard this rumor. I would have probably freaked out if I had in light of all the cast members who have left the other two CSI series in the past couple of seasons. I really like Melina Kanakaredes and hope she stays on CSI: NY until it completely ends.

That being said, here’s the latest rumor, and the truth:

Question: There’s a rumor going around that Melina Kanakaredes is getting killed off CSI: NY in the very near future. True? —Jess

Ausiello: False. My NY mole tells me that Melina will be around all season. [Source: EW]

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CSI: NY – Episode 6.01: “Epilogue” Recap

Lynn — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:07:32 +0000

Episode 6.01: Epilogue
Air Date: September 23, 2009

The season 6 season premiere of CSI: NY began with a review of the final scene in season 5. The CSIs were having a toast to Jessica Angell, who had been killed. Just then, a car drove by and sent a shower of machine gun bullets through the group as they all hit the floor.
A month later, we see Mac in the office, going over evidence, Flack with a pretty new girl and Stella getting dressed while an undressed Adam watches from the bed. [Wow! I didn’t see that coming!]
Mac gets a phone call and joins Danny (in a wheelchair) at a dark room with very large crystal chandeliers. Soon, a woman joins them. She tells them that her brother is just a scared kid caught up with two others in something. They try to get her to tell them what she knows.
Just then, the elevator doors open and a man in the shadows fires a machine gun at them. They all hit the floor. Danny pulls himself to help the injured woman as Mac goes after the gunman. She dies before she can tell them anything. The gunman gets away.
When Stella & Hawkes show up at the scene, Danny fills them in. the only thing they learned from the woman was a name…Jake.
Flack shows up, just back from a leave of absence and says he’s going to help. He and Mac go over security camera footage…no camera in the elevator.
At the crime scene, Danny flashes back to the night of the bar shooting. Lindsay reminds him that there’s no permanent damage to his spine. He may regain the use of his legs eventually. He’s not so optimistic.
At the office, Stella scolds Mac for taking Danny and going without backup to talk to the woman. He quotes Shakespeare: “Tempt not a desperate man.”
Another phone call and Mac tells Stella that it’s happened again.
The team arrives at the scene where a car drove past a large group of people waiting to get into a club. A car had driven by and fired a machine gun at the crowd. Everyone looks up at a large lighted billboard that reads, “Do we have your attention? Pay us and we’ll stop.”
A reporter at the scene had tipped them to another similar shooting at a closed restaurant two weeks before. The team goes over everything so far and determines that the shootings are not targeting cops, not with the intent to kill because there had only been one fatality and one of the locations was closed. They want to scare people.
Just then, a clean-up crime scene technician tells the CSIs that she found an unreported bloody fingerprint on the ceiling of the elevator at the crime office building. Adam gets defensive because he says that he checked everything.
They realize that Mac must have injured the gunman and that now they may have DNA to identify him.
Haylen, the cleanup tech tells Adam that she wants to work in the lab and he tells her that the job she’s after is his, so he won’t help her.
Sid pulled a piece of tempered glass from the woman’s shoulder that Hawkes examined and found that it put her in the bar, the night of the shooting when they were all there.
Flack shows Stella the body of the missing security guard from the night in the office building. They look at the blood trail to see that the killer tracked the guard there and killed him. The killer was also wounded and took the guard’s sleeve to bandage the wound.
At the lab, they determine that the woman had worked in the building, so they got copies of the voicemail greetings to compare to the tip line for identification.
The blood from the elevator matched the blood on the front of the dead guard’s shirt and Hawkes’ investigation told them that the guard had stabbed the killer with the same knife that killed him. They had an identification of the killer.
The voice recognition software helped them identify the woman as Risa Calaveras. That means that her brother must be Jake Calaveras.
Stella tells Mac that the shooter was dumped at the hospital and died soon after. They decide to study the hospital security camera footage. They got a license plate number and a suspect’s identity.
They show up at the suspect’s apartment in time to see Jake Calaveras pointing a gun at him for killing his sister. They tell him that he shouldn’t shoot him and they will take care of him. Jake tells them it’s too late and shoots the other man. They take him into custody.
In the interrogation room, Jake explained to Mac that the other two had wanted to get the city to “work for them.” He said that Risa had talked him out of going with them the night of the bar shooting. He didn’t know she had been there to try to stop him.
Adam caught up to Stella in the office to talk about the night they were together. She blurted out that it had been wonderful and stupid and memorable and something they should never do again. He acted relived and agreed with her.
The episode ended with Stella helping Mac pack up the case files, Lindsay holding her baby and Danny in the wheelchair trying to move his legs. Suddenly, one of his feet barely moved. He looked up and smiled.

Discussion Points:

What do you think of the hookup between Stella & Adam? Did you see it coming?
I really liked how supportive and optimistic Lindsay was about Danny’s injury. What are your thoughts about them?
What was your opinion of this episode? Was it a satisfying result after the shooting and the cliffhanger?
Do you like the new character, Haylen?

Leave a comment to share your thoughts about it!

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CSI: NY – Episode 6.02 – “Blacklist Featuring Grave Digger” Spoiler Photos

Lynn — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:49:42 +0000

Episode 6.02: Blacklist Featuring Grave Digger
Air Date: TBD

After we finally get to see the aftermath of the season 5 cliffhanger, the second episode of CSI: NY will give us even more to enjoy. In that episode, Mac has something more from his family’s past come back to haunt him and the team. These photos from the episode look like the team is going to be very serious about solving this one!

When Det. Stella Bonasera, (Melina Kanakaredes), and Det. Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) investigate a case of a cyber killer, it turns personal when the suspect invokes the name of Mac’s father who had died nearly two decades earlier
[Photo: Cliff Lipson/CBS ©2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved]

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CSI: NY – Episode 6.01 – “Epilogue” Spoiler Photos

Lynn — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:56:34 +0000

Episode 6.01: Epilogue
Air Date: September 23, 2009

I’m thrilled to bring you the very first episodic photos for CSI: NY’s 6th season. We see the newest cast member for the show and see most of the old regulars. The caption tells us that there will be one person’s life that will change forever. I’ve heard the rumors about that too but will only confirm once I know the true situation.

But the good news is that it’s clear that Mac, Stella, Hawkes, Adam and Lindsay have all survived the shooting. But what about Sid, Danny & Flack….? Here’s the description and name for the new character:

Sarah Carter (“Shark”) Joins the Cast as Haylen Becall, a Forensic School Graduate Who Works As a Crime Scene Clean Up Technician and Has Aspirations of Being a CSI

Following a spray of machine gunfire, Det. Stella Bonasera, (Melina Kanakaredes), and Det. Mac Taylor rise from the chaos. But when one member’s life is significantly changed, it proves to be the emotional motivation they need to piece together their lives and ultimately find the shooter, on the sixth season premiere of CSI: NY, Wednesday, September 23 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT)
[Photo: Monty Brinton/CBS ©2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved]

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CSI: NY – Will Stella & Mac Get Together?

Lynn — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:12:56 +0000

For fans of CSI: NY, there has always been the question about whether or not Stella (Melina Kanakaredes) and Mac (Gary Sinise) will ever start dating. It’s obvious that they care about each other, but fans wonder if there’s more than co-worker caring between them.

Right now, the bigger question needs to be about who was killed off during the season 5 finale? I’m dying to know, aren’t you?

In this video clip, TV Guide’s Matt Mitovich gets the answers for us. He sat down with Melina Kanakaredes and asked her the question of Mac & Stella romance. She tells us how she sees it:

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Melina Kanakaredes is Spending Her Summer Filming

Lynn — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:28:08 +0000

[Photo: Zuma Press]

CSI: NY star Melina Kanakaredes is currently filming a new movie that seems perfect for her. Here’s the IMDB listing for it:

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief …. Athena

2010

(filming)

The synopsis for the film says that it’s related to the idea of Greek gods, and since she is Greek, it seems perfect that she would play Athena:

A young boy discovers he’s the descendant of a Greek god and sets out on an adventure to settle an on-going battle between the gods. Based on the book by Rick Riordan.

She’s in very auspicious company in the film too, with the other stars including Rosario Dawson, Uma Thurman & Pierce Brosnan also playing Greek gods. It sounds like an interesting film and I’ll let you know as details are released.

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Melina Kanakaredes at a Premiere

Lynn — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:07:16 +0000

CSI: NY star Melina Kanakaredes looks amazing in these photos of her! The brown makes her eyes look incredible!

These photos were taken at the premiere of My Life in Ruins last month. I think it’s cool that the actors get the time off to go enjoy themselves between shooting the seasons. It’s almost like summer break from school, only better.

[Photo: Zuma Press]

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CSI: NY Episode 5.24 – “Grounds for Deception” Spoiler Photos

Lynn — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:04:56 +0000

Episode 5.24 – Grounds for Deception
Air Date: May 13, 2009

Tomorrow night is the much-anticipated episode of CSI: NY that was written by Melina Kanakaredes. In it, Stella picks up the case of the Greek artifacts again and turns in her badge so she can work on it. We already saw that she got Angell involved in the case and that it’s involving some very dangerous people. It should be interesting to see how the case wraps up.

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