CSI is my new favourite TV programme

can you watch tv on trains in the US? where can you watch tv on trains?

Good to have you back, Mark.

It's not on CBS Josh it's on Channel 5.

William Petersen is GRATE in 'To Live and Die in LA' and 'Manhunter' - he's so wooden and uptight and bland!

angel is back on terrestrial after TWO YEARS and when the themetune played i got all TEARY!! i am not NOT DRUNK!!

the characters are trite and the science is totally weak

also it redeems the who's previously crappy "who are you"

as mark s noted this 'allowed' grissom to say "i need a piece of zephyr" and slip a corpse's finger onto his own to verify a fingerprint, popping the fingerbone out daintily beforehand. why is this not standard procedure?!

Strikeouts are fascist, yes.

I'd rather have to agree.

Recently watched Thief, in which Grissom shows up for 1/2 a second as a svelte bartender who starts a fight with Tuesday Weld-groping James Caan.

Has there ever been a thread dedicated to Grissom?

CSI ?

DON'T get me started.

This is exactly why I cannot watch tv. It's so unrealistic and inaccurate.

And the people who do it/have done it in real life are far far better looking if I do say so myself.

Horatio: (after analyzing peep-show murder) "He came and went... He came... and then he went."

Also, there was a recent episode during which he declared himself the Fiber King.

He sounds like Michael Gira.

"Batman's a scientist!"

Could it be because he is David Caruso?

Well, Sweetie, I certainly wouldn't watch tv for *drama*...working on the street provided far more of that than I *ever* would need to get from a boob tube. CSI is *not* dramatic. It is ho-hum sleepy tame. I only became *excited* by watching it due to the high level of irritation with, well, basically everything that happened on the one episode I attempted to watch because my mom was going so nuts about how freaking great she thought it was.

Believe me, it's far far more dramatic when you have real people involved in real life. Just because someone is dead doesn't mean you aren't dealing with many very alive people at the scene. No one would watch *that* show because they would think that's too *unreal*.

"He came and went... He came... and then he went."
He sounds like Michael Gira.

-- Ned Raggett

Ned, I am so freaking casting Mike Gira in an episode of my tv mini-series that I am sure to have someday! I have no idea what it will be about, but I'm sure I'll need Mike Gira in it.

david caruso is the ringworm of television
-- mark s

= best visual I have had all day and made me feel a lot better about the skin disease I have.

at least it ain't ringworm.

and NO I don't have scabies!

You be quiet there in the back!

(Is it me or does Grissholm or however you spell his name really have a thing for kinky spooky vampire type women?)

Yes, he does. I have noticed that too.

is there a thread where we pick the science bits in CSI to pieces? this week's ulna measuring from a cctv photograph to 3 decimal places must be up there with extrapolating the bullet path taken from a dead copper on a horse in the middle of central park to the 3rd office along on the ninth storey of a building half a mile away.

come back quincey, all is forgiven.

doesn't this happen every week on CSI? not that i know what 'ulna measuring' is.

it wz like me proving peckham is nearer hackney than waterloo by pointing at a small map of europe

the best bit abt csi:nyc is the helicopter shots vertically down into the street-grid which they use as punctuation (also the weird grey gotham-esque pall cast across the city)

I want to see medieval CSI now. "Gadzooks Sir Grissom! Yonder knight saw his maker even before he was trampled by his horse. Hand me the leeches and crime-woad and this corpse shall speak by daybreak."

If I only I was as smrat as Mark S, then I'd still like CSI. But alas I can't muster up the passion anymore. :-(

Also, every time I look around my house, I'm glad that CSI doesn't have any crimes to solve there, because there's all kinds of hair and shit all over the place.

I was annoyed by the ulna-radius thing, because she clearly was just poking random bits of trouser fold that could be any old "glad to see me".

in CSI: Cosmos they use string theory to solve all crimes

AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRBWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!!!

Stop that. Put that brain away, no one wants to see that first thing in the morning. ;-)

haha i'm not sure how to finish this post

I don't think I watch it because I'm fascinated by my own impending death... I watch it more because I like the idea that there is the team of Scientists who go around watching every sparrow that falls out of every tree and picking up every stray hair around every crime scene. It's kind of comforting, like a modern equivalence of science (or at least the CSI scientists) with god.

That's really overplayed with Autopsy Woman on CSI Miami (the whole of Miami is quite overwraught compared to Classic's subtlety) but still somehow comforting.

JG is just projecting his own fictional universe onto the TV when watching CSI, in re anonymous hotel rooms etc, and ignoring stuff that doesn't fit e.g. Faecal matter and toilet paper are never shown, perhaps reflecting American squeamishness, err except when they are, of course. Also, was there no editor winkling out the constant self-contradictions in that article? Cripes.

excelesoir-what?

Fantastic show! I may never need to rent a snuff film again.

Channel Five release Five:US on digital next week, showing more CSI and stuff. cool.

i think you mean 'showing the same CSI stuff again'. from the beginning apparently. there aren't enough hours in the day to be watching CSI repeats.

Vegas is still the only one that I'm really hooked on, though NY is growing on me and Miami is frankly quite hilarious with Ginger, squeaky gun ballistics expert and all the Bruckheimer sunsets.

next time, sarah, stay with the vehicle.

"This is in real time"

"I'll create a GUI interface using Visual Basic, see if I can track an IP address."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_rAamVP2s

WHA

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7509578.stm

o fuck

THIS HAS BEEN MY FAVOURITE PROGRAMME FOR ALL TIME EVER.
There's no fucking way that....A new male character will join CSI in place of Petersen, Mr Shankar added.

"Whoever comes in and joins the team after Grissom is going to be a different guy. But the nature of the show and what fans get out of it, that's not going to change
WHY GOD WHY
I'm actually crushed.
http://foto.rambler.ru/public/elivita/2/babycry6/babycry6-web.jpg
I'm boycotting this fuckery. If it was anyone else but Grissom leaving the fans could grow to accept this but CBS is nuttier than I thought it was if it really thinks people will just lie down and accept this.
BULL.

WHY LES MONOOOVES WHY?!
I'll trade you any of the other two (god love 'em) for Grissom. PLEASE.

let go

you'll always have those 183+ episodes with Grissom.

Yes, i do get the feeling that Petersen was getting a bit bored. And CSI: Sneezy is OK.

Gary Sinise is very decent but I'm not letting go. I agree that Petersen was probably wanting to pursue other avenues but I still think that Grissom is the foundation of CSI. It will be very difficult for the newcomer nigh impossible to be 'accepted' at this late stage.

These will include Grissom's former colleague and girlfriend Sara Sidle, who is played by former ER star Jorja Fox.

Lady Heather and the Miniature Killer - two characters who have featured in long-running storylines - will also be brought back.

good god why not just have a big singalong or something

when liev schreiber guested, did his character get killed or go to prison or something? i forget how that one ended.

he died

the Miniature Killer

i haven't actually watched any csi since this it was so bad :(

* Another new CSI, this time a male, will be brought in later this fall, but "he will not appear on the landscape as a CSI to begin with," teases Mendelsohn. "He's a professor with background in pathology. He will appear when Grissom is investigating what will be a two-part case. He will help Grissom and the team bring the perpetrator to justice, and then this character will stay around and ultimately become a CSI." And although Mendelsohn says the new guy (who will possess a very rare genetic abnormality) will "not necessarily [replace Grissom as] supervisor," he'll inevitably be branded Petersen's replacement -- if for no other reason than the caliber of actor being sought for the role: Kurt Russell, Laurence Fishburne and John Malkovich are said to be at the top of CBS' wish list. Of the three, Mendelsohn would only confirm that Malkovich was approached, adding that "scheduling conflicts" had quickly taken him out of the running.

Really this whole cast chance stands or falls on who gets this role, could be awesome, could be awful.

HOUSE CROSSOVER

chance=change (xpost)

kurt russell, laurence fishburne and john malkovich would all be awesome i think

One part of me is saying "NOOOOOOO WHYYYYYYY!" and the other is going "omg csi malkovich."

csi malkovitch, l&o: goldblum, where will the madness end

srsly tho they should just kill it off or something - nine seasons is a damn fine run for any tv show. or if they really wanted to continue, marg helgenberger could possibly be the new lead? or is she leaving too?

wiki sez she's apparently not leaving for two more years. but I guess they needed another philosophical old dude to head the team.

srsly tho they should just kill it off or something - nine seasons is a damn fine run for any tv show.

They're looking at that Law & Order money, that ER money, something that can dependably fill a prime time spot for well over a decade and keep making a mint in syndication for as long as humanly possible.

A part of me is also drawn in by CSI Malkovich but I'm still sad over Grissom. As for L&O thats beyond random I mean standards are low if Goldblum can get on L&O and the writers think it'll make sense, is he supposed to take on Goren in weirdness? Shit is cracking up in TV detective show land. Ah well at least Gary Sneezy and David-The Unstoppable-Caruso (for the lolz) are still about.

I guess everyone knows by now that Fishburne is taking over once Petersen leaves. He's good, but I'm not fully consoled yet.

It really is too bad they killed off Schreiber's character at the end of his 4-ep guest stint, because I would have gladly welcomed his weirdo anti-Grissom character full time with open arms.

i don't get these shows, the pathos is so out of proportion, the dialogue has like zero feel for language, the labwork montages are like giant spots of lost time, and they have this gross fetish for visualization fx

i think it probably has something to do with ghosts and trauma, but i dunno, maybe it's like music and there's just some kind of drug experience that unlocks it

also how come they just END so many episodes?! what kind of storytelling is that?! 'ok well as long as the lab sez go justice is served'

i feel like these shows were primarily designed as demonstration pieces to sell hi def tvs

kind of like when stereo stores used to whip out the 24-bit mark knopfler discs to wow the customers

Why is there a floodlight on Jo's (csi new york, sela ward) face ALL THE TIME? Hilarious! (almost as funny as the preposterous deus ex machina resolution to every case)