Post by hodaharb on Feb 28, 2008 10:00:54 GMT -5
[glow=navy,2,300][shadow=silver,2,300]CSI[/shadow][/glow]
[glow=navy,2,300]CSI: Crime Scene Investigation[/glow] is a popular, Emmy Award-winning CBS television series that trails the investigations of a team of Las Vegas forensic scientists as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths and other crimes.
CSI is produced in partnership with the Canadian media company Alliance Atlantis. On May 16, 2007, CBS renewed the show for an eighth season. Season 8 began production in July and began airing on Thursday September 27, 2007.
Besides its produced partnership with Alliance Atlantis, CSI is also produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Television and CBS Productions, which became CBS Paramount Television (Fall 2006-present). There are two spin-offs to this show, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY.
Due to the writers strike ending, CBS has announced that the show will return April 3, 2008 with 6 episodes.
[glow=navy,2,300]Plot[/glow]
The show follows the cases of the Crime Scene Investigation division of the Las Vegas Police Department, usually referred to by officers as the "Las Vegas Crime Lab". Anthony E. Zuiker chose to set the series in Las Vegas because—as mentioned in the pilot episode—that city's crime lab is the second most active in the United States, after the Federal Bureau of Investigation lab in Quantico, Virginia. The division solves crimes almost entirely through the means of forensics evidence, which may or may not come to the conclusion of a murder or accidental death. The bizarre conclusions of these cases often force one to question morals and beliefs and possibly human nature in general.
[glow=navy,2,300]Main characters
[/glow]
[glow=navy,2,300]Public Reaction
[/glow]
CSI's popularity has led to websites, online discussion forums and a large amount of fan-made art to be made, they are second in amount of fan fiction (of a TV show) in FanFiction.Net, with over 17 thousand stories, Buffy the Vampire Slayer being the first, with over 30 thousand. On September 27, 2007, after CSI's season eight premiered, a miniature model of character Gil Grissom's office (which he was seen building during season seven) was put up on eBay. The auction ended October 7th, with the prop being sold for $15,600; CBS donated the proceeds to the National CASA Association.
On August 2007, upon rumors of Jorja Fox leaving the show, a grassroots campaign started.[30] Organized by the online forum Your Tax Dollars At Work, many of its nineteen thousand members donated to the cause, collecting over $8,000 for gifts and stunts targeted at CBS executives and CSI's producers and writers. Some of the stunts included a wedding cake delivery to Carol Mendelsohn, 192 chocolate covered insects with the message "CSI Without Sara Bugs Us." to Naren Shankar and a plane flying several times over the Universal Studios of Los Angeles with a "Follow the evidence keep Jorja Fox on CSI" banner.[31][32] Another side of the campaign included mailing the show's producers a dollar, so as to save Fox's contract "one dollar at a time". By October 16, 2007 according to the site's tally, more than 20,000 letters with money or flyers had been mailed to the Universal Studios and to CBS headquarters in New York from forty-nine different countries since the campaign started on September 29, 2007. Fox and Mendelsohn chose to donate the money to CASA, a national association that supports and promotes court-appointed advocates for abused or neglected children. This campaign was reminiscent to CBS's Jericho fans reaction over the show being cancelled. On that occasion, fans sent over 20 tons of nuts to CBS headquarters.
[glow=navy,2,300]Full Cast
[/glow]
William L. Petersen .................... Gil Grissom
Marg Helgenberger .................... Catherine Willows
Gary Dourdan ............................ Warrick Brown
George Eads .............................. Nick Stokes
Jorja Fox .................................... Sara Sidle
Paul Guilfoyle ............................. Captain Jim Brass
Eric Szmanda ............................. Greg Sanders
Robert David Hall ....................... Dr. David Robbins
[glow=navy,2,300]Awards
[/glow]
[li]Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series - 2007
[/li][li]Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-camera Series - 2006
[/li][li]Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series - 2003
[/li][li]Outstanding Makeup For A Series (Non-Prosthetic) - 2002
[/li][/ul]
[glow=navy,2,300]Nomination
[/glow]
[li]Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (Origanal Dramatic Score) - 2007
[/li][li]Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Miniseries Or Special - 2007
[/li][li]Outstanding Makeup For A Series (non-prosthetic) - 2007
[/li][li]Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series - 2007
[/li][li]Outstanding Single-camera Sound Mixing For A Series - 2006
[/li][li]Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series - 2006
[/li][li]Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series - 2005: Quentin Tarantino
[/li][li]Outstanding Makeup For A Series (non-prosthetic) - 2005
[/li][li]Outstanding Single-camera Sound Mixing For A Series - 2005
[/li][li]Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series - 2005
[/li][li]Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series - 2004
[/li][li]Outstanding Drama Series - 2004
[/li][li]Outstanding Makeup For A Series (Non-Prosthetic) - 2004
[/li][li]Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing For A Series - 2004
[/li][li]Outstanding Drama Series - 2003
[/li][li]Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series - 2003: Marg Helgenberger
[/li][li]Outstanding Makeup For A Series (Non-Prosthetic) - 2003
[/li][li]Outstanding Makeup For A Series (Prosthetic) - 2003
[/li][li]Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing For A Series - 2003
[/li][li]Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series - 2002
[/li][li]Outstanding Drama Series - 2002
[/li][li]Outstanding Makeup For A Series (Prosthetic) - 2002
[/li][li]Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing For A Series - 2002
[/li][li]Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series - 2002
[/li][li]Outstanding Art Direction For A Single-Camera Series - 2001
[/li][li]Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series - 2001
[/li][li]Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Series - 2001
[/li][li]Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series - 2001
[/li][/ul]
[glow=navy,2,300]CSI: Crime Scene Investigation[/glow] is a popular, Emmy Award-winning CBS television series that trails the investigations of a team of Las Vegas forensic scientists as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths and other crimes.
CSI is produced in partnership with the Canadian media company Alliance Atlantis. On May 16, 2007, CBS renewed the show for an eighth season. Season 8 began production in July and began airing on Thursday September 27, 2007.
Besides its produced partnership with Alliance Atlantis, CSI is also produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Television and CBS Productions, which became CBS Paramount Television (Fall 2006-present). There are two spin-offs to this show, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY.
Due to the writers strike ending, CBS has announced that the show will return April 3, 2008 with 6 episodes.
[glow=navy,2,300]Plot[/glow]
The show follows the cases of the Crime Scene Investigation division of the Las Vegas Police Department, usually referred to by officers as the "Las Vegas Crime Lab". Anthony E. Zuiker chose to set the series in Las Vegas because—as mentioned in the pilot episode—that city's crime lab is the second most active in the United States, after the Federal Bureau of Investigation lab in Quantico, Virginia. The division solves crimes almost entirely through the means of forensics evidence, which may or may not come to the conclusion of a murder or accidental death. The bizarre conclusions of these cases often force one to question morals and beliefs and possibly human nature in general.
[glow=navy,2,300]Main characters
[/glow]
- Dr. Gilbert Arthur "Gil" Grissom, Ph.D. (William Petersen): The night shift team supervisor for the Las Vegas CSI unit, and a forensic entomologist with a degree in biology from UCLA. Grissom was born August 17, 1956. He is known for being a very thorough and methodical scientist, as well as for being a bit of a quirky introvert. Grissom was raised Catholic, and although he stops short of denying the existence of a Creator, he is devoted to his beliefs that religion is of little use in today's society and has had theological/philosophical debates with more than one member of the cloth. Gil is proficient in sign language and used to have otosclerosis (inherited from his mother) but he underwent corrective surgery. It has been confirmed that he has a relationship with Sara Sidle to the viewers on the sixth season finale "Way to go" and to the rest of the lab on the seventh season finale "Living Doll", when Sara was kidnapped. He proposed marriage to Sara in the season eight episode, "The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carp", to which she accepts. This character is loosely based on real life criminalist Daniel Holstein.
- Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger): Blood spatter analyst. She was second-in-command of the night shift for the first four seasons, assuming command when Grissom was out of town or otherwise on leave, and has often quarreled with Grissom and Ecklie when she feels her authority is compromised. She has often requested promotions or ways to spend more time with her teenage daughter. Catherine's ex-husband, Eddie, and her father, Sam, were both murdered on episodes of the program. Willows holds a Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology from UNLV. She supported herself through college by working as an exotic dancer. This character is loosely based on real life CSI Yolanda McCleary.
- Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan): Audio-video analyst. A Las Vegas native and a chemistry major from UNLV, Brown is an audio/visual analyst. Warrick is also a recovering gambling addict which is hindered by the fact he works in Las Vegas. He was in fact gambling when new CSI Holly Gribbs was killed at a scene in CSI's first episode, and almost lost his job because of not being with her at the time. Grissom's friendship and support has helped him a great deal in overcoming his addiction. Warrick seemingly goes through life with a bit of a chip on his shoulder, rarely smiling, though he does have a deep affection for his hometown and uses his experience as a former gambler and casino runner in his investigations. Warrick was married in season six, but divorced in season eight.
- Nicholas "Nick" Stokes (George Eads): Hair and fiber analyst. An easygoing and friendly former college baseball player and fraternity member with a degree in criminal justice from Texas A&M University, Stokes is a hair and fiber analyst from Dallas, Texas. Stokes tends to "empathize instead of sympathize" with the victims, which has drawn several rebukes from others, and tends to get more emotional about cases than his coworkers. He also seems to speak fluent Spanish, and becomes more personally involved in cases involving Latin Americans.
- Det. Capt. James "Jim" Brass (Paul Guilfoyle): Homicide captain. Brass was the head of the CSI unit in Las Vegas until he was moved back to the police homicide division in the second episode. He was originally from New Jersey. He continues to work with CSI despite problems in season two with his daughter, who is a drug addict and a prostitute in Los Angeles. It was discovered in the season 2 episode Ellie that he is not Ellie's biological father. He is now captain in the homicide division and works closely with the CSI team. He is very often the one that leads questionings, and his sarcastic attitude makes these questionings darkly humorous, keeping in step with the show's feel. In the season 6 Episode Bang Bang, Brass was shot twice by William Cutler after convincing him to release his hostage. In the season 7 episode Built To Kill, Part 1, he has the date of his shooting tatooed just below the bullet wound.
- Gregory "Greg" Sanders (Eric Szmanda): He was the newest field worker on the CSI team, first becoming a field worker in the season five episode "Who Shot Sherlock?", but Ronnie Lake is now the newest. He idolizes Grissom, once had a crush on Sara Sidle and is known for his "wacky" behavior. He is also known for being naive about forensics field work, despite an encyclopaedic knowledge of DNA and trace analysis. Greg, a very intelligent child prodigy, grew into a man with an unconventional look and funny attitude. He is known to listen to heavy metal music such as Marilyn Manson while working, supposedly to help his concentration. Despite his rebellious image, he did not challenge Sara's assertion that he was a virgin upon entering college. He has hinted at romantic interest in numerous women, both in and out of the lab, during his tenure on the program, including a bit of a "crush-war" with Hodges over Mia Dickerson. In the season 7 episode Fannysmackin', Greg is brutally beaten by a gang of youths (responsible for attacks earlier in the episode) while rescuing a victim. Greg is an Eagle Scout.
- Dr. Albert "Al" Robbins (Robert David Hall): The head county coroner. Married with three children, he is close friends with Grissom, who is often the only one who understands him, and vice versa. He has two prosthetic legs, and it has been implied that he lost them in an accident while trying to dig up a floor at a crime scene.
- David Hodges (Wallace Langham): A lab technician who was transferred to the Las Vegas crime lab from the Los Angeles crime lab. Hodges' appearances provide some comic relief, though most of the team finds him obnoxious and irritating. He always tries to ingratiate himself to Grissom, who occasionally does acknowledge Hodges' expertise, albeit grudgingly. Hodges' first appearance was in the third season episode "Recipe for Murder", and he became billed as a regular cast member starting with the season 8 episode "Dead Doll." He had a crush on fellow lab technician Mia Dickerson, and once got all the other lab workers to collaborate (behind Grissom's back) and try to solve the miniature killer case, coming up with a theory which Grissom unhappily admitted was likely quite accurate.
- Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox): A materials and element analyst. A physics major at Harvard University, Sidle previously worked for the San Francisco coroner and crime lab and replaced Holly Gribbs after helping investigate her death. She is completely devoted to her job and will go to almost any lengths to make sure justice is served, for both the victims and the criminals. Sara's alcoholic father used to beat her and her mother Laura, until one day Laura snapped and stabbed him to death; as a result Sara has difficulties with dealing with abuse cases against women and children in her job and has obvious emotional problems. Following her father's death and her mother's subsequent institutionalization, she was placed into foster care. She was engaged to co-worker Gil Grissom, which was shown in the season 8 episode "The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carp". In the episode "Goodbye and Good Luck," Sara leaves the team following a case in which she was forced to tell a fourteen-year old girl her brother had killed himself after the girl had framed him for a murder. She did not say good bye to her fellow CSIs nor Grissom, for whom she only left a note stating she had to go face the ghosts of her past and she could not do it there. She left a note to Ronnie Lake played by actress Jessica Lucas), who has been mentioned as a possible replacement for Sidle, wishing her good luck with the CSI Las Vegas team.
[glow=navy,2,300]Public Reaction
[/glow]
CSI's popularity has led to websites, online discussion forums and a large amount of fan-made art to be made, they are second in amount of fan fiction (of a TV show) in FanFiction.Net, with over 17 thousand stories, Buffy the Vampire Slayer being the first, with over 30 thousand. On September 27, 2007, after CSI's season eight premiered, a miniature model of character Gil Grissom's office (which he was seen building during season seven) was put up on eBay. The auction ended October 7th, with the prop being sold for $15,600; CBS donated the proceeds to the National CASA Association.
On August 2007, upon rumors of Jorja Fox leaving the show, a grassroots campaign started.[30] Organized by the online forum Your Tax Dollars At Work, many of its nineteen thousand members donated to the cause, collecting over $8,000 for gifts and stunts targeted at CBS executives and CSI's producers and writers. Some of the stunts included a wedding cake delivery to Carol Mendelsohn, 192 chocolate covered insects with the message "CSI Without Sara Bugs Us." to Naren Shankar and a plane flying several times over the Universal Studios of Los Angeles with a "Follow the evidence keep Jorja Fox on CSI" banner.[31][32] Another side of the campaign included mailing the show's producers a dollar, so as to save Fox's contract "one dollar at a time". By October 16, 2007 according to the site's tally, more than 20,000 letters with money or flyers had been mailed to the Universal Studios and to CBS headquarters in New York from forty-nine different countries since the campaign started on September 29, 2007. Fox and Mendelsohn chose to donate the money to CASA, a national association that supports and promotes court-appointed advocates for abused or neglected children. This campaign was reminiscent to CBS's Jericho fans reaction over the show being cancelled. On that occasion, fans sent over 20 tons of nuts to CBS headquarters.
[glow=navy,2,300]Full Cast
[/glow]
William L. Petersen .................... Gil Grissom
Marg Helgenberger .................... Catherine Willows
Gary Dourdan ............................ Warrick Brown
George Eads .............................. Nick Stokes
Jorja Fox .................................... Sara Sidle
Paul Guilfoyle ............................. Captain Jim Brass
Eric Szmanda ............................. Greg Sanders
Robert David Hall ....................... Dr. David Robbins
[glow=navy,2,300]Awards
[/glow]
[li]Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series - 2007
[/li][li]Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-camera Series - 2006
[/li][li]Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series - 2003
[/li][li]Outstanding Makeup For A Series (Non-Prosthetic) - 2002
[/li][/ul]
[glow=navy,2,300]Nomination
[/glow]
[li]Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (Origanal Dramatic Score) - 2007
[/li][li]Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Miniseries Or Special - 2007
[/li][li]Outstanding Makeup For A Series (non-prosthetic) - 2007
[/li][li]Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series - 2007
[/li][li]Outstanding Single-camera Sound Mixing For A Series - 2006
[/li][li]Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series - 2006
[/li][li]Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series - 2005: Quentin Tarantino
[/li][li]Outstanding Makeup For A Series (non-prosthetic) - 2005
[/li][li]Outstanding Single-camera Sound Mixing For A Series - 2005
[/li][li]Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series - 2005
[/li][li]Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series - 2004
[/li][li]Outstanding Drama Series - 2004
[/li][li]Outstanding Makeup For A Series (Non-Prosthetic) - 2004
[/li][li]Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing For A Series - 2004
[/li][li]Outstanding Drama Series - 2003
[/li][li]Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series - 2003: Marg Helgenberger
[/li][li]Outstanding Makeup For A Series (Non-Prosthetic) - 2003
[/li][li]Outstanding Makeup For A Series (Prosthetic) - 2003
[/li][li]Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing For A Series - 2003
[/li][li]Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series - 2002
[/li][li]Outstanding Drama Series - 2002
[/li][li]Outstanding Makeup For A Series (Prosthetic) - 2002
[/li][li]Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing For A Series - 2002
[/li][li]Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series - 2002
[/li][li]Outstanding Art Direction For A Single-Camera Series - 2001
[/li][li]Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series - 2001
[/li][li]Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Series - 2001
[/li][li]Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series - 2001
[/li][/ul]