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Mel Rodriguez is exiting CBS’ CSI: Vegas as a series regular ahead of Season 2, Deadline has confirmed. He is the latest star to announce his departure following Jorja Fox and William Petersen. Rodriguez lplayed Chief Medical Examiner Hugo Ramirez in Season 1. It is unknown if he will make occasional appearances in…

CBS has renewed freshman drama CSI: Vegas, a sequel to the groundbreaking 2000 series, for a second season to premiere during the 2022-2023 broadcast season. Season 1 of CSI: Vegas was led by the original series’ stars William Petersen and Jorja Fox. Petersen had only signed on to reprise his role as Gil Grissom in…

Like the Tokyo Olympics and Euro 2020 soccer championships, CSI’s revival tied to the series’ 20th anniversary was delayed by a year amid the pandemic. CBS’ CSI: Vegas, headlined by original stars William Petersen and Jorja Fox, premieres October 6, exactly 21 years to the day after the debut of CSI: Crime Scene Invest…

CBS’ CSI revival, CSI: Vegas, features a cast mixing original stars William Petersen, Jorja Fox and Wallace Langham, joined by several newcomers, Paula Newsome, Mandeep Dhillon, Matt Lauria and Mel Rodriguez. In addition to Petersen, Fox and Lanhgam, original cast member Paul Guilfoyle is set to reprise his role as…

William Petersen, a longtime ‘CSI’ player and star of CSI Vegas, was taken by ambulance to the hospital Friday after falling ill on the set. TMZ reports that Petersen was working when he began to feel ill, and asked for a break. But he apparently took a turn for the worse, and was rushed by ambulance to a nearby…

The venerable CSI franchise is officially coming back. CBS has given a straight-to-series order to CSI: Vegas, a sequel to the mothership CSI series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, for the 2021-21 season. Headlined by returning CSI stars William Petersen and Jorja Fox, joined by new series regulars Paula Newsome…

CBS’ CSI event series has been quietly moving forward, I have learned. William Petersen and Jorja Fox are in negotiations to star in CSI: Vegas, which serves as a sequel to the mothership CSI series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Casting is under way for four new characters who will join Petersen’s Gil Grissom and…

EXCLUSIVE: One of television’s biggest drama series franchises is plotting a comeback. I hear CBS is mulling a CSI event series to mark the 20th anniversary of the original series’ October 2000 premiere. The idea is for new installment, from writer Jason Tracey (Elementary), CBS TV Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer TV, to…

The first footage from the second season of WGN America’s nuclear drama Manhattan confirms actress Neve Campbell on board in a recurring role. Creator Sam Shaw’s fictionalized rendering of the 1940s’ Manhattan Project in Los Alamos and the build-up to the detonation of the Trinity A-bomb returns October 13, 9 PM…

CBS this morning confirmed that CSI: Crime Scene Investigation will end its 15-season run with a two-hour finale, featuring original stars William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger. The two-hour movie will air Sept. 27, the first Sunday of the season. Additionally, current CSI leading man Ted Danson will be transitioning…

As CBS continues to hammer out plans for a finale to its long-running crime drama CSI, the big question is whether original star William Petersen will return. No one is commenting but I hear that is very much a possibility. The network is expected to unveil its plans for CSI‘s final chapter, believed to be a TV movie…

Former CSI star William Petersen is returning to television with a series regular role on the second season of the WGN America drama series Manhattan. Created and written by Sam Shaw and directed by Thomas Schlamme, Manhattan is set against the backdrop of the mission to build the world’s first atomic bomb and follows…