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Holy cow! When I just read this spoiler for tomorrow’s return of Sara to CSI: Vegas, I nearly dropped my coffee cup!

We knew they were a couple and that they had gotten engaged, but I guess I just didn’t expect it to work out…it is TV after all. Breakups and unrequited love just seem to be better for ratings. But check this out:

Will we get an update on how Sara and Grissom are doing when Jorja Fox returns to CSI? — Michael

ADAM: What kind of an update are you looking for, Jennifer? A big one? OK, then: Sara and Gil got hitched! Unfortunately, it sounds like married life doesn’t suit Sara. “I think she’s struggling a little bit with being a housewife,” Marg Helgenberger says, explaining why Mrs. Grissom returns to the team. “She comes [to help us] from Paris, where her husband is giving some kind of a lecture series.” Come on, Gil — PowerPoints bore everyone, especially wives. [Source: TV Guide]

Tomorrow night is the season 10 premiere of CSI: Vegas and we know that Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox) will be back for a few episodes. This is a clip showing us a few scenes from the episode, along with Jorja Fox, George Eads, Laurence Fishburne and Marg Helgenberger talking about what it’s like to be back at work and how it feels to have worked on the show for 10 years.

Personally, I can’t believe sometimes that it’s been on for 10 years already. I love the show so much, it always seems new in some way. Here’s what the cast thinks:

Tonight is the season 6 premiere of CSI: NY, but we don’t have to wait until the episode airs to see just a bit of what’s in store. Here’s a short clip from the premiere where Mac is talking to Stella about the aftermath of the horrible shooting we saw in the season 5 finale. Mac mentions that Danny is in “that chair” which we have all deduced means that Danny is in a wheelchair. I can’t wait for the episode tonight!

CSI: Miami – Episode 8.01 – Out of Time
Air Date: September 21, 2009

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• 2009: The season 8 premiere of CSI: Miami begins with the team, dogs and other officers in an all-out search of the Everglades for Eric Delko. Meanwhile, Delko stumbles, blood-covered, through the swamp on foot.
• After he collapses and they find him, he flat-lines in the ambulance. The flashback begins.
• 1997: Eric Delko is driving a wrecker-truck through the Everglades in search of salvage. He finds a submerged car and pulls it out of the swamp. Blood is dripping from the trunk. He finds a dead body in the trunk and calls for the homicide team.
• Horatio shows up and Delko reminds him to get a pair of sunglasses.
• 2009: Alexx Woods is in the hospital and says she’ll oversee his treatment.
• 1997: Horatio explains lividity to Delko, then goes to notify the husband of the woman’s death. The guy is nervous, doesn’t have an alibi, says he pawned the gun and there’s a smell of bleach in the house. Horatio’s partner seems quick to judge the husband, but Horatio wants to wait for the evidence before arresting him.
• Alexx is doing the wife’s autopsy and gives Horatio the 9 mm bullet she extracted from the head. The bullet matches the ammo found in the home. There’s also blunt-force trauma to the head.
• We see Calleigh in the precinct and Jesse Cardoza rescues her from some jerks that were hitting on her. He shows her to the lab and tells her that it’s his last day there. He leaves her there and goes to Horatio to find out how he can help on the case.
• Jesse gets to the home and finds that the place has been wiped down with bleach, but when he takes off a baseboard, he finds blood.
• Back at the precinct, Calleigh questions her new boss’ interpretation of the bullet evidence. Horatio tells her she did the right thing.
• We then see Det. Tripp with hair…not a full head of hair, but at least there’s still some. Horatio asks him about any domestic violence calls for the couple. Tripp says that they were just yelling at each other, no violence. But he told Horatio that he did arrest a peeping Tom in the area and gave him the info. The creep was a landscaper.
• When they bring in the landscaper, he seems guilty, but Horatio’s partner lets him go. He still thinks it’s the husband.
• Calleigh, who has been asked to help with the case, joins Horatio in the parking lot. Before they leave, Delko tries to get her phone number. She tells him she would never date anyone “remotely connected with work.”
• Calleigh & Horatio determine that the car was wrecked before it was pushed into the swamp. Jesse found blood spatter and a blood pool, consistent with blunt force trauma before being shot. Alexx found evidence of sexual assault on the wife’s body. But it was the kind of evidence that happens when the body was desecrated after it was dead.
• Horatio and Calleigh found no evidence that the husband was in the car when it crashed but that the landscaper definitely was there.
• Meanwhile Horatio’s partner has already been to the DA to get an arrest warrant for the husband.
• 2009: Horatio sits at Delko’s bedside and asks him to hold on. He tells him that he’s not ready for him to go yet.
• 1997: Delko & Horatio go back to the swamp where the car was found. They find trace from the car on the guardrail and footprints that suggest that something was thrown into the water. Delko fishes around in the water near a storm drainage pipe and finds a 9 mm gun.
• Jesse & Cardoza go to the house and determine that the air conditioner carried small drops of blood back at the killer and the window behind him. They examine the landscaper and find a small amount of blood in one nostril. They can prove he was in the house and fired the gun.
• Horatio found out that he needed to get a special new kind of DNA test that can determine DNA from only a few cells. The lab tech that does the test is Natalia Boa Vista. The blood from the nostril matches the victim. The landscaper is charged with first-degree murder, the husband is set free, charges dropped against him.
• As Jesse Cardoza leaves with his box of belongings, he congratulates Horatio for being named the head of the new CSI division. Jesse suggests that Horatio call Speedle for his new team.
• Just then, Delko shows up and gives Horatio a new pair of sunglasses. Horatio tells him that he has a great eye for detail and that he should go to the police academy and then look up Horatio.
• 2009: The entire team waits by Delko’s bedside as he gradually wakes up from the coma and smiles at Horatio.

Discussion Points:

1. Was it a satisfying explanation for how the team started?
2. Do you like the new character, Jesse Cardoza?
3. Is it just me, or is it significant that Delko looked at Horatio, but not at Calleigh as he woke up?
4. Also, did it look like the scenes from 2009 seemed like they were shot before David Caruso got a facelift and the flashback scenes afterward?
5. What did you think of the bubbly, vivacious Calleigh vs. the all-business, tough as nails Calleigh of today?

Leave a comment and let us know what you think!

CSI: Miami – Episode 8.03 – Bolt Action
Air Date: October 5, 2009

Well, I have to say that the press release for this episode of CSI: Miami tells us nothing more than the captions for the photos did.

I do think that Tia Carrere and Cheryl Ladd will be interesting guest stars and the premise of the case sounds interesting. But I don’t like that Calleigh will have to testify against Eric. I guess I’ll just have to wait to find out how it goes before forming much of an opinion.

Press Release:
THREE VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS MYSTERIOUSLY DROP DEAD ON THE COURT WHILE CALLEIGH’S TESTIMONY AGAINST DELKO THREATENS HIS FUTURE AS A CSI, ON “CSI: MIAMI,” MONDAY, OCT. 5

Cheryl Ladd (”Charlie’s Angels”) and Tia Carrere (”Dancing With the Stars”) Guest Star

“Bolt Action” – Three volleyball players mysteriously drop dead on the court while Calleigh’s testimony against Delko threatens his future as a CSI, on CSI: MIAMI, Monday, Oct. 5 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

SERIES REGULARS:

• Horatio Caine……………………….. David Caruso
• Calleigh Duquesne………………….. Emily Procter
• Jesse Cardoza………………………. Eddie Cibrian
• Ryan Wolfe…………………………. Jonathan Togo
• Sgt. Frank Tripp………………………….. Rex Linn
• Natalia Boa Vista……………………… Eva La Rue
• Eric Delko……………………….. Adam Rodriguez

RECURRING CAST:

• Rick Stetler………………………. David Lee Smith

GUEST CAST:

• Amanda Collins………………………. Cheryl Ladd
• Hailey Collins………………… Kate Lang Johnson
• Dean Collins……………………………… John Terry
• Chad Bowen………………………….. Ben Milliken
• Peter Markham……………………… Jason Hasting
• Troy Billings………………………….. Blair Redford
• Jacqueline Parsons……………………. Tia Carrere
• Dr. Tom Loman……………. Christian Clemenson
• Walter Simmons…………… Omar Benson Miller
• Krystal…………………………………….. Lori Lively
• Hazmat Team Leader…………… Stephen Bishop

WRITTEN BY: Melissa Scrivner
DIRECTED BY: Gina Lamar [Source: CBS]

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Well, at least they didn’t decide to kill off another of the CSI: Miami team. It was hard enough seeing Speedle get killed on the show. But if you check out this from Michael Ausiello, they almost decided to kill off Delko too!

And there’s even some more surprising news about Adam Rodriguez. He’s going to be in ten episodes this season instead of the seven we heard about already. And fans of Adam should plan to watch him on Ugly Betty in five episodes this season too.

Question: CSI: Miami scoop, please! —Jordan

Ausiello: Delko was originally going to turn up dead in the season premiere. It’s true! When Adam Rodriguez failed to come to terms on a new contract over the summer, CBS allegedly recommended that producers simply write it in that Delko didn’t survive last May’s cliffhanger. “But I wasn’t comfortable with that,” says Rodriguez. “And I spoke to [exec producer] Ann Donahue and she wasn’t comfortable about this either; we really wanted to make sure that the character had a proper sendoff. So she petitioned CBS to make this work.” Now Rodriguez will return for a total of 10 episodes (not the seven I reported last week), during which he’ll change professions and sort out his complicated relationship with Calleigh. “Like any great love story, I don’t know that the books will ever be closed on them,” says Rodriguez of Calleighko. Housekeeping note: Rodriguez has shot three of his 10 Miami episodes so far. He’ll juggle the remaining seven with his five-episode arc on Ugly Betty. [Source: EW]

Episode 6.02: LAT 40° 47′ N/Long 73° 58′W
Air Date: October 7, 2009

This episode of CSI: NY looks very creepy. And if you don’t want to see the body that they find, be sure not to click to see the rest of the photos. It really is a bit of a spoiler.

The CSIs will have to use a GPS device this time to try to figure out what’s happening…

When two bodies are discovered at the North and South ends of the city, Det. Stella Bonasera, (Melina Kanakaredes), Det. Mac Taylor and the team deftly begin to navigate the trail of evidence left behind by the killer, on CSI: NY, October 7 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT)
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Episode 6.03: LAT 40° 47′ N/Long 73° 58′W
Air Date: October 7, 2009

This episode sounds really creepy and fun. After all, there’s a guest charactr called Grave Digger. It doesn’t get any creepier than that! The good news is that all of the characters are back…except Danny is in a wheelchair.

Press Release:
THE TEAM HUNTS FOR A SERIAL KILLER WITH A DEADLY SENSE OF DIRECTION, ON “CSI: NY,” WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7

Skeet Ulrich (”Jericho”) Guest Stars in a Recurring Role as Hollis Eckhart, a Mastermind Killer, Who Takes the CSI Team on the Ride of Their Careers

Sarah Carter (”Shark”) Returns as Haylen Becall

“LAT 40° 47′ N/Long 73° 58′W” – When two bodies are discovered at the North and South ends of the city, Mac and the team deftly begin to navigate the trail of evidence left behind by the killer, on CSI: NY, Wednesday, Oct. 7 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Skeet Ulrich (”Jericho”) guest stars in a recurring role as Hollis Eckhart, a mastermind killer, who takes the CSI team on the ride of their careers. Sarah Carter (”Shark”) returns as Haylen Becall.

SERIES REGULARS:

• Det. Mac Taylor…………………… …. Gary Sinise
• Det. Stella Bonasera……… Melina Kanakaredes
• Danny Messer………………. Carmine Giovinazzo
• Dr. Sheldon Hawkes………………….. Hill Harper
• Det. Don Flack……………………….. Eddie Cahill
• Lindsay Monroe……………………. Anna Belknap
• Adam Ross……………………………… AJ Buckley
• Dr. Sid Hammerback…………………. Robert Joy

GUEST CAST:

• Haylen Becall…………………………. Sarah Carter
• Hollis Eckhart…………………………. Skeet Ulrich
• Calliope Eckhart……………………….. Josie Davis
• Tour guide……………………………… Amara Cash
• Kimball Saks……………………… Benjamin Benitz
• Cute girl………………………………. Kelly Kolatac

WRITTEN BY: Trey Callaway
DIRECTED BY: Matt Earl Beesley [Source: CBS]

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You may be interested to know about a site called the Forensic Files. It’s a site for people looking into the study of forensic sciences. It just released a list of the top 25 sites for fans of the three CSI series. This blog, CSI: Fanatic is listed as #4, under the official CSI show site.

It’s a very distinguished list of sites and you might want to go check out the other ones too. Each site has its own types of information available to fans of the shows and it never hurts to check multiple sites.

I’m honored that this blog was included with the other great resources!

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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: Letterman’s interview with oddly-behaving Joaquin Phoenix (CBS)
• Desperate Housewives: Edie’s tragic death (ABC)
• Grey’s Anatomy Finale: Meredith is shocked to find out disfigured patient is George (ABC)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: The shocking death of Warrick (CBS)
• Bachelor: The bachelor surprises the country by picking Molly over Melissa (ABC)
• Real Housewives of NJ: A frustrated Teresa flips a table (Bravo)
• GRAMMYs: Jennifer Hudson sings “You Pulled Me Through” (CBS)
• Saturday Night Live: Sarah Palin’s appearance on SNL
• ER – Final Season: George Clooney returns for the final season (NBC)
• Gossip Girl: Chuck finally professes his love to Blair (CW)
• Obama Inauguration: Beyonce sings “At Last” as the Obamas have their first dance (ABC)
• Dancing With the Stars: Former Bachelorette Melissa steps in as last minute replacement (ABC)
• Entourage: Vincent Chase gets a call from Martin Scorsese offering him a part in the Great Gatsby, saving his career (HBO)
• American Idol Finale: Kris Allen wins over Adam Lambert (FOX)
• True Blood: Bill Compton meets waitress Sookie Stackhouse at Merlotte’s Bar for the first time (HBO)

Be sure to go vote for Warrick on this site, then return to vote for the best of the Top 10 Finalists on September 14, and again on September 20 to vote for the Top Three Finalists. Then watch for the award to be presented on the Emmys that night.