‘CSI’ to strategy in Vegas sequel with customary stars William Petersen and Jorja Fox
CBS goes attend to a one-time monster hit that helped set its custom of acronym procedural dramas (“NCIS,” “FBI”), Tuesday asserting the revival of its “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” franchise.
“CSI: Vegas,” due in the 2021-22 TV season, is a sequel to the distinctive “CSI” sequence, location in the Las Vegas crime lab and that contains two of the earlier demonstrate’s stars, William Petersen as Gil Grissom and and Jorja Fox as Sara Sidle. Wallace Langham, who accomplished David Hodges in “CSI,” furthermore returns, nevertheless no longer co-famous particular person Marg Helgenberger.
They shall be joined by unique solid contributors Paula Newsome, Matt Lauria, Mel Rodriguez and Mandeep Dhillon.
“Going through an existential risk that might maybe maybe also deliver down the crime lab, a unbiased actual unique physique of workers of forensic investigators must welcome attend used pals and deploy unique suggestions to preserve and assist justice in Sin Metropolis,” the demonstrate description says.
The customary “CSI,” which ran from 2000 to 2015, was as soon as a sizable hit, ranking because the most-watched drama worldwide all the way through diverse of the years it aired, in accordance with CBS. It ran for 335 episodes, earning six Emmy Awards and 39 nominations.
The sequence spawned sizable hobby in forensic science, tantalizing some viewers to crawl into the self-discipline, along with three spinoffs: “CSI: Miami” (2002-12); “CSI: Sleek York” (2004-13); and the short-lived “CSI: Cyber” (2014-16).
The Vegas customary, a surprise hit that first aired on Fridays, closed with a two-hour finale that reunited Petersen, who left as a chain frequent in 2009, and Helgenberger, who departed in 2012 and might maybe maybe maybe now be viewed on CBS’ courtroom drama “All Rise.”
“Twenty-one years up to now, we launched ‘CSI’ and watched in fear as this unique cinematic sequence launched a complete genre and grew to turn out to be a groundbreaking juggernaut that also has global resonance this day,” CBS Leisure President Kelly Kahl mentioned in a press open. “We are extremely satisfied to welcome the next era of forensic criminalists to the ‘CSI’ trace and unite them with the legendary characters from the previous who we aloof like, at the side of the unparalleled Billy Petersen and Jorja Fox.”
Kahl eminent that crime-struggling with know-how has developed in the years since the demonstrate’s departure, leaving unique scientific areas to uncover and combine “with basic ‘CSI’ storytelling” that was as soon as dedicated to fixing puzzles.
“I’m angry to be bringing attend the ‘CSI’ franchise to all our followers who absorb been so actual to us for all these years,” executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer mentioned in a press open. “And to be attend in Las Vegas the place it began over 20 years up to now makes it grand extra particular.”