CSI: Miami star Adam Rodriguez made a guest appearance this week on the Wendy Williams talk show. He was there to talk about his role on the show Ugly Betty. I have to admit to never having seen that show. I love Adam, but even he isn’t enough to make me watch that one. Sorry. It just looks dumb
He also talks about his nomination for an NAACP Image Award and his role in the movie I Can Do Bad All By Myself. [He's everywhere these days!] He even addresses his departure from CSI: Miami. Here’s a clip of the interview:

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Today, the nominations for the 41st NAACP Image Awards were announced and the CSI series all had notable nominations to boast.
The awards celebrate outstanding work by people of color in a number of different entertainment categories. We won’t know the winners until the show airs on FOX on Friday February 6, 2010. I’ll let you know more as the air date approaches.
CSI: Miami actor Adam Rodriguez, CSI: Vegas actor Laurence Fishburne and CSI: NY actor Hill Harper were among the nominations this year. One of the wonderful CSI: Vegas directors, Paris Barclay was honored with a nomination too.
Here are the …read more

TiVo Alert!

Tomorrow night, CBS airs the People’s Choice Awards. Once again, the show will be hosted by the lovely Queen Latifah and should be a fun show, just in general. But even more importantly, we have to watch to see if CSI: Vegas wins for Favorite TV Drama!
The show airs at 9:00 pm ET, so be sure to watch or record it! Here’s a promo clip of Queen Latifah telling us about this year’s show:

The nominations for this year’s People’s Choice Awards were announced today and the CSI mothership, CSI: Vegas was given a nomination for the Favorite TV Drama category. That’s impressive, since it’s 10 years old. Usually, the newer series get the nod. Here’s the entire list of nominations in the category:
Favorite TV Drama

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Grey’s Anatomy
House
Lost
NCIS

But we all still need to go vote. Here’s where you need to go vote and be sure to go make your choices before voting ends on December 8th!!

Today is the last day to for all of us who love the CSI shows to make our wishes heard. We all need to go vote for our favorites to be included in the nominations for this year’s People’s Choice Awards. Here’s where you can go vote…FAST! Voting ends tonight at midnight!

CSI: Vegas – VOTE NOW!
CSI: Miami – VOTE NOW!
Marg Helgenberger – VOTE NOW!
The top five nominees in each category will be revealed at the People’s Choice Awards annual press conference on November 10, 2009. Only those announced on November 10th have the chance to win a People’s Choice Award …read more

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There’s a category for the Best Breakout Performance of the year in this year’s Emmy Awards and the scene where CSI: Vegas’ Warrick Brown tragically dies is one of the nominations.
TV.com & Vaseline are going to give a special Breakout Performance Award at this year’s Emmy Awards Show. We get to vote for our favorite breakout moment on TV this year and the winning moment will win the Breakout Award during the Emmys on Sunday, September 20 at 8 pm ET.
Here are the moments that have been nominated for the award:

David Letterman: …read more

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I know. I hadn’t ever heard of an EWwy Award either. But it’s a new one given by Entertainment Weekly, thus the EWwy. They know that many of us feel that our favorite actors have done amazing work on their shows for many years, but have never been given an Emmy. They fell it’s time to acknowledge them with an EWwy instead.
There are lots of nominations, but the reason I’m posting this about it is that (finally!) William Petersen, who brilliantly played Gil Grissom on CSI: Vegas for nearly nine years …read more

With all the success of the three CSI series, it’s amazing that none of the shows or their main characters have gotten Emmy Awards. What’s up with that?
The good news is that some of the fantastic folks behind the scenes are nominated for Emmys this year, including the makeup for that episode of CSI: Vegas that did a trbute to Battlestar Gallactica, A Space Oddity. CSI: NY guest star Ed Asner is also nominated for his performance in Yarzeit, the episode about Nazi war criminals.
This year, the usual suspects got a lot of Emmy attention. But we have to …read more

According to Variety, the annual Monte Carlo TV Festival begins on Sunday in Monaco. And just like in years past, two fo the CSI series will compete for the title of most-watched TV drama, worldwide.

[Photo: Newscom]

This year, CSI: Vegas, CSI: Miami & House MD will go head to head for the title. The nominations were chosen by the Producers’ Guld of America and one of them will bring home the title this year. I’ll keep you posted.
The fest has had to develop a new identity since it abandoned its market in 2001. CEO David Tomatis said Tuesday that it now …read more

[Photo: Bauer-Griffin]

It’s official, folks. CSI: NY’s Hill Harper is super-intelligent, totally handsome and he’s a great actor too. And those are just the kind of things that won him his second NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series. Here’s the list of all the nominees in the category:
Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series

Anthony Anderson – “Law & Order” (NBC)
Blair Underwood – “In Treatment” (HBO)
Dennis Haysbert – “The Unit” (CBS)
Hill Harper – “CSI: NY” (CBS) – Winner
Omar Epps – “House” (FOX)

Congratulations, Hill!