Post any rumours or spoilers for Season 8 here...... :thumbsup:
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Post any rumours or spoilers for Season 8 here...... :thumbsup:
Dont tease me like that emz.... i thought spoiler had been released....:rotfl:
just found this
and the first 5 episode names are going to beQuote:
A few hours ago I read an article on another site that said CSI will be shooting on location Season 8 in San Francisco!! That is where Sara came from and where she and Grissom first met (at a seminar). I wonder why they are going there?!
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-HARD EVIDENCE, 2-AFTERMATH, 3-EPIPHANY, 4-HIGH ROLLER, 5-DEATH
San Fran for a funeral maybe??? Or a recovery with family??
I hate waiting for news lol - Sept isn't that far away, where are the spoilers ?! lol
Spoilers should be appearing over the next couple of weeks as the cast should begin filming season 8 this month. There is already spoilers up for the first episodes of Miami and NY so Vegas shouldn't be far behind.
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Originally Posted by Chloe O'Brien
And you haven't posted them?! (The New York ones that is)
Where where where?????
Rumors about Jorja's contract do continue to fly online, however. This week, Michael Ausiello at TV Guide had this to say in his column, Ask Auesiello:
Question: I heard that Jorja Fox only signed for the first five episodes of CSI. Is this true?— Alice
Ausiello: That's a new one. Hopefully, I'll get to the bottom of JF's contract sitch at press tour next week.
Little bit more about Jorja and Criminal Minds.
My Name Is Inigo Montoya - Prepare To Pay Me More:
Rumors are flying that "Criminal Minds" star Mandy Patinkin failed to show up for the seasons first table read and now speculation has started to what exactly his future on the show might be. Somewhere between leaving the show and being written out of the season premiere lies his fate with "Criminal Minds".
It's all very reminiscent of Jorja Fox's holdouts with "CSI"and twice now she has played chicken with CBS and won. While Jorja is on the hit series "CSI" she is nowhere near as important to the shows success as Mandy is to the ratings monster "Criminal Minds". One has to think if it's money it won't be more than a few days before CBS is singing... And I need you today, oh Mandy.
I found a spoiler for 8x1 Hard Evidence:
Spoiler:
Is Sara leaving during Season 8 or is she in Season 8 at all? I seen rumours that she dies? Anyone know more?
its not been confirmed yet if shes coming back or notQuote:
Originally Posted by tammyy2j
but there are rumours that she has only signed up to do 5 episodes??????
The eighth season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation picks up right where the previous season left off, and fans will finally learn Sara's fate.
The seventh season of CSI ended with a cliffhanger. The team finally captured the elusive miniature killer, Natalie, and discovered that one of their own was missing. Natalie's final miniature revealed that Sara had been kidnapped and was trapped somewhere in the desert, alive but clearly in danger. Grissom questioned Natalie but was unable to determine Sara's location, and so "Living Doll" ended with Sara's life hanging in the balance.
The first episode of season eight begins where "Living Doll" ended: the team is searching for Sara. Catherine and Greg go to the parking structure where Sara was abducted and speak to the security guard. Catherine has no patience as she questions him, clearly worried about Sara and knowing that their time is running out. He is able to give them a time frame for when Sara had been in the structure, and Greg tells Catherine that he will check the surveillance video for clues.
Meanwhile, Sofia is with a wounded Natalie. They are in an interrogation room, but Sofia won't be getting any information out of the woman. A police psychiatrist explains that Natalie has had a psychotic break. Sofia has Hodges swab the wound on Natalie's scalp and scrape under her fingernails to gather evidence. She is adamant that nothing prevent Natalie from going to jail for what she's done.
Every minute that passes lessens their chances of finding Sara in time. The team races against the clock to ensure that their friend and colleague makes it home alive. Things take a turn in a positive direction when they get a lead from the auto salvage yard where Natalie acquired the red Mustang.
Season 8 is rumoured to begin in the US on 27 September. :thumbsup:
CBS will be capitalising on Without A Trace's return to the post-CSI timeslot next season by airing crossover episodes of the two shows.
Nina Tassler, CBS's entertainment president, made the announcement at the annual summer convention of the Television Critics Association, where the television press gathers to learn more about the coming season. She said the crossover episodes will air on the same night, with Without a Trace star Anthony LaPaglia first appearing on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and then an hour later William Petersen (Gil Grissom) guest-starring on Without a Trace to finish the story.
Without a Trace was originally launched in the post-CSI timeslot five years ago, and quickly became one of CBS's biggest hits. Last season, the network moved the show away to Sunday nights alongside Cold Case, and tried to launch the legal drama Shark in the Thursday 10pm timeslot. The failure of that show meant that CBS is now moving Trace back to Thursdays.
At the TCA press tour, Tassler said little else about the original CSI, but did reveal that CSI: New York will feature an episode next season that will delve into the popular online world of Second Life to solve a mystery. In addition, she confirmed that on CSI: Miami, Horatio Caine will find about a family member he never knew he had -- his own biological son. For more information on the circumstances surrounding that discovery, check out our recent spoiler report of the CSI: Miami premiere. Much of Tassler's time at the press conference was spent discussing recent controversies involving the cast members of several CBS shows. The most prominent of these was the unexpected walkout of Mandy Patinkin from Criminal Minds, but she was also asked about an incident whereby CSI star Gary Dourdan (Warrick Brown) was filmed as he attacked a cameraman. As the incident had only occurred shortly before that, Tassler refused to comment, saying she first had to get more information.
OOOHHH Jack Malone and Gil Grissom on screen at the same time swoon :wub: :wub:
It is currently being reported online at seat42f.blockspot.com, csi.blogdadmedia.com, and Hal Boedeker - The TV Guy at the Orlando Sentinel that the Grissom and Sara Romance will be ending early this season:
"The Sara-Grissom storyline is going to conclude," Jonathan Littman, an executive producer for Jerry Bruckheimer's production house, tells the Orlando Sentinel. "Don't take it in that definitive term. It's very smartly done. We have a big storyline finish at the start of the season," he says. "It will play out for a few episodes. ... The ambition of their [the writers'] stories is once again extremely high and extremely quirky. That arc worked so well with Grissom and Sara, that we are going to let these characters breathe this year. Everyone has their moments. The characters are going to have their journeys."Again, we don't know anything at all about the people who post on these blogs, so we can't say how reliable this info is. However, it does sound pretty legitimate considering they are quoting Jonathan Littman who has been associated with CSI from the very beginning. If this is true it certainly sounds like bad news for GSR 'shippers, but it could just as well mean a possible 'Happy Ending'...
OH GOD NO. Please don't kill her off :crying:
:( I will cry if they kill her off :p. Don't really want GSR to end either, it's only subtle so you can't really notice it too much, let them be happy ;-)
Here's more:
Eric Szmanda gave some details about the new season at the 2007 CBS TCA All Star Party, on Thursday July 19, 2007
Eric Szmanda says, he's about to meet with producers in hopes of finally getting a love interest for his character. "I do need a love interest or something," he said. "People need to see how Greg lives outside of work. We've gotten to see that from every other one of the CSIs." The first episode of the new season he describes as "probably the most suspenseful and violent episode we've ever had."
I hope he does not get a love interest, But I would like to see how Greg is outside of CSI. Also if the wait wasn't bad enough to see what happens now he tells us it's going to be the most suspenseful & violent episode ever!! That's not cool!
Ahhh the best news I've seen since the beginning of Season 7 - GSR to be over! Back to the real stories - the crime and the investigation :cheer:
Hmm true, but to be fair, there has always been some kind of GSR element in CSI, maybe not as obvious, but I think it always has. Even if/when it does end, I dare say TPTB will create a new love - fun fun :rolleyes:
I think it was more on Saras side though - I'll always remember my confusion when Sara came on to Grissom massively and he immediately turned her down and said it would never happen etc - then suddenly they're together :confused: And were supposed to be together for a long time too (according the TPTB who were saying about how comfortable they were supposed to appear together in Grissoms place etc).
Give me the gritty storylines and the cunning forensic work etc - thats what I watch for.
Haha true. I admit I got confused in that episode where he said something like "I don't know what to do about this" and she said something like "I do, and by the time you work it out it will be too late" or something like that.. but I do think he always had some sort of soft spot for her, which grew over series.. but maybe that's just what the GSR fans want to believe :lol:.
I do agree though, take Miami for instance, the episodes that I've watched haven't really had any of the CSI's interested in the others, just friends like. The cases are what make the CSI shows.
Yes I'm rambling about nothing I know :lol:.
Although CSI hasn't even pronounced Sara dead yet, it sounds suspiciously like the powers-that-be are already planning to breathe new life into the show by introducing a replacement for Jorja Fox's hot cop.
Executive producer Carol Mendolsohn has told me exclusively that a new female character will turn up in this season's third episode. "[She] may be a CSI or lab tech," the boss said. And, according to my casting spies, the junior detective will be in her mid-twenties, fresh out of college and lacking the capacity for self-censorship.
Of course, this isn't conclusive proof that Sara won't emerge unscathed from her, um, car wreck. But it certainly seems plausible, even likely, considering what else we've learned this week. In an interview with the Orlando Sentinel, CSI exec producer Jonathan Littman said the "Sara-Grissom story line is going to conclude." And you don't get much more definitive closure than death, now do ya?
In any case, at least this much is certain: Fox will appear in the premiere. Says Mendolsohn: "We're certainly going to be seeing her under the car in the premiere." Whether that will require her to act or just to lie very, very still remains to be seen.
Source TV Guide
I think the bosses at CSI are just trying to play mindgames with us (And they're winning) Vegas is now in its 8th year if the bosses didn't want to have on screen romance with Grissom and Sara or anyone else they wouldn't have written it in the series, no matter how many fans want it. They are the ones who are holding the cards. As for rumours replacing Jorja. Again, if the writers wanted to write her character out of the programe they would do regardless of her asking for more money or not. My opinion is that Sara will return next series the conclusion of her and grissom's relationship will be how long they have been together possible that they may even be married and that will be that.
If there is a new actress joining the show I think she will be a new lab rat or cop as is Louise Lombard (Sofia) not in another show at the moment so they could be covering the episodes she is not in.
I watch CSI mainly for the science and the crimes but I love a wee bit of romance. So let's us keeep our subtle looks across the morgue table.
"À La Cart" follows the case of a man murdered in a restaurant where the lights are turned off. Restaurant owner Pippa Sanchez explains that when the patrons are deprived of sight, their other senses are heightened, creating a sensual eating experience. The very thing that makes the restaurant unique makes the murder investigation more difficult. Despite the room being full of people, nobody actually saw the murder take place.
Warrick, Catherine and Brass try to piece together what happened to the victim, Hampton Huxley. Huxley was stabbed in the temple at his table. The three young women who were dining with him had no idea that he was dead until they were getting ready to leave the restaurant. April Kissimee, who has blood on her shirt, explains that she thought Huxley, an older man, had just fallen asleep after their meal.
Pink angora fibers from April's dress lead the CSIs to Frankie Vannucci, who was dining in the restaurant with his brothers at the same time as Huxley's group. When Brass questions him about the fibers, Vannucci admits that he used the darkness as a chance to get close to Huxley's table and play a perverse joke on one of the "kitties" who were dining with the older man. The waiter, a blind man named Michael Bowie, tells Brass that he escorted Vannucci back to his table.
Bowie explains that he has an advantage working in the restaurant since other people rely on their eyes and need help getting around. Brass asks whether Bowie heard anything unusual, but he says that he didn't know that anything had gone wrong until April couldn't wake Huxley up and called for help. In the restaurant, Warrick and Catherine examine the rest of the room and find evidence of a struggle at a different table.
Meanwhile, Nick and Greg investigate the decapitation of Peter Bastille. They visit a go-cart track where the young man had been racing the day before. When they get a list of the race results, they discover that Peter had consistently beat 19-year-old Rodney "Hot Rod" Anderson. Nick goes to talk to Rodney and notices that he is wearing an Army Ranger belt--a belt that belonged to Peter Bastille.
"À La Cart" is expected to air October 4, 2007.
Seems like they have changed the episode name from the original "Aftermath"
hmm... no mention of Sara in episode two. interesting...
Question: Do you have any CSI spoilers?
Ausiello: Although there won’t be a miniature-type serial killer plot this season, exec producer Carol Mendelsohn reveals that Grissom will immerse himself in a season-long project. "Grissom will begin to study colonization in Episode 3," she reveals. "We're going to do this very dark, scary episode set in a haunted house. While there, Grissom is going to find a live beehive, and he is going to take this beehive back to [the lab] and he is going to study it all season. He's trying to figure out why these honey bees are dying around the world. It's really about Grissom looking outside the lab… to see the problems of the world. It's Grissom's science experiment for the year."
In "Go to Hell", a couple is found dead in a hotel room, and the team finds fingerprints that belong to a pedophile at the scene--bad news for the couple's missing daughter.
The episode opens with footage of the seedier side of Las Vegas. Desperate souls--hookers, drunkards, homeless people--line the street on a sweltering hot day. One homeless man staggers, making his way into an alley, but he can't go any farther. He falls to the ground. Meanwhile, Reverend Johnnie Rhodes gives a sermon. His voice is strong as he speaks of judgment. Hell will not come when we die, he says, because Hell is already here--in Las Vegas. Sex, drinking, gambling--mankind imbibes but does not even realize that judgment isn't waiting for death. The human race, he says, is already damned.
That night, Warrick and Catherine are on their way to a crime scene. They must park two blocks from the hotel where the murders took place because of Sanitation work. As they walk by an alley on their way to where they really need to be, Warrick notices something strange. When he goes to investigate, he finds the body of the homeless man. Confirming that the man is dead--the body count is forever rising--Catherine calls it in and leaves a uniformed officer to wait with the body.
A hotel is the site of a double murder. A man and his wife, the Macalinos, are dead, and Brass questions the desk clerk. They paid in advance for a week, he says. He hands over a register with the license plate number of the car, but Brass is unable to read the handwriting--and so is the clerk. He can decipher only enough of his own writing to see an "N" and a "V", which he is sure must mean "Nevada". This isn't terribly helpful.
The team discovers that couple's youngest daughter, Elizabeth, has been killed in their home, shot in the head. Their other daughter, however, is missing. This is no longer just about murder--now they have the kidnapping of Amy Macalino to deal with. As if the news could get any worse, the fingerprints they lifted from the hotel room come back to a convicted pedophile: Reverend Johnnie Rhodes.
Catherine works the case of the dead homeless man, Eddie Kaye, with her new swing-shift partner Vivian Lee. A 20-something CSI level one, Vivian is extremely curious and talkative--to the point that Catherine announces that she is limiting the other woman to 20 questions per case. Together, they have to discover what happened to the old man. He has clean socks, the cellophane wrapper to a sandwich, and a bundle of papers wrapped in rubber bands. Although the license that they find in Eddie's pocket is his own, the man in the picture seems worlds away from the man they see laying in front of them. They hope that fingerprints found on the license will lead them to their killer, but instead the prints come back to a police officer.
This was originally billed to be name Epiphany, but the title is now Go to Hell
Question: Have you found out anything definitive about Jorja Fox staying or going on CSI?
Ausiello: Yes, I have.
Grrr - why can't he just say she is or she isn't then....
I think they are keeping quiet to win the ratings in the US. Last year CSI Vegas was aired the same time as Grey's Anatomy and GA had more viewers. If they keep everything underwraps in may attract more viewers for the premier and beat GA.
Totally agree with you Kath - she's alive, they're just "attempting" to keep it under wraps to get the viewers inQuote:
Originally Posted by Chloe O'Brien
When the producers of CSI started to look for an actress to join the cast, many thought that the character would be a replacement for Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox), whose fate was unknown at the end of last season's cliffhanger finale. It has been confirmed that this is not the case. Instead, Lucas has been chosen as an addition to the cast rather than a substitute.
Lucas will be playing a young CSI named Veronica Lake (originally reported to be Vivian Lee). "Ronnie", as she is also called, is smart and vivacious. Although she was offered several jobs, Veronica chose Las Vegas because of the rising crime rate. The 21-year-old actress has been in a number of previous movie and television roles including The Covenant, She's the Man and the ABC series Life as We Know It. Veronica Lake will first make her appearance during the third episode of CSI's eighth season, titled "Go to Hell".
Also no mention of Grissom! i guess that might give too much away!Quote:
Originally Posted by wizardthecat
i personaly think Sara will be coming back, there's been so much hype about it, it makes people want to come back and watch it and if Jorja Fox had been fired or whatever i think it would have been leaked!
The conclusion to the GSR story doesn't necessarily mean a conclusion of the romance, so i'm still holding out for them, i like the romance!
Ronnie sounds like an interesting character, someone who talks more than Catherine - that will be interesting!! also she seems like she's going to be a funny character since Gregs gotten much more serious recently.
i just found this article
Looks like CSI’s newest cast member isn’t a permanent cast member. She’ll only appear in four episodes. Here is the official press release from CBS.
JESSICA LUCAS TO GUEST STAR ON “CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION”
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 - Jessica Lucas (”The Covenant,” “She’s the Man”) will guest star on four episodes of CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION, beginning Thursday, Oct. 11 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Lucas plays Veronica Lake, aka “Ronnie,” a young, vivacious, curious and smart new CSI in training who chose to go to Vegas because of the increase in crime rates there.
Lucas’s credits include the feature films “Split Decision,” “The Covenant” and “She’s the Man.” She has appeared on the television series “Secrets of a Small Town,” “Life As We Know It” and “The L Word.”
i guess this confirms shes not a replacement for sara
also there is a promo out now for season eight, no new footage though.
Question: Don't play coy, TV gossip god! What's the word on Jorja Fox staying/going on CSI?
Sorry, but I've been sworn to secrecy. What I can say is that the answer is complicated.
:confused::confused:
The latest rumor on the CSI forums is that Marg Helgenberger isn't planning to renew her contract at the end of the season. Do you have any info on that?
No, but I do believe this is the last season on her current contract (ditto William Petersen), so her moving on is entirely possible. Speaking of Helgenberger, there's a big episode early in the season that will dig deeper into her family drama — specifically Sam's legacy to her. We'll also see her venture outside the lab in an episode that features the return of her real-life husband, Alan Rosenberg. "One of the things he's going to offer Catherine is sort of an opportunity to be on a dream-team-type defense on a high-profile case," explains executive producer Carol Mendelsohn. "And she gets a little touch of the high life doing that. You get paid well, you get to stay in nice hotels, you get to have nice meals.... It's going to be a little tantalizing for her." I guess we'll find out how tantalizing when Marg's contract comes up for renewal next May!
Question: Any scoop about the possibility of Lady Heather returning to tangle with Grissom on CSI?
No plans that I know of at the moment, but some of CSI's other semi-regulars will be getting a little more airtime this season, per Carol Mendelsohn. "We're going to see more of the lab rats this year," she says. "We love our lab rats. We're going to play up our friendship and their rivalry." She adds, "This is a year in which Nick is going to step forward. The question has always been, 'Grissom is the supervisor, but who's the supervisor in waiting?'" I guess we'll find out when Billy's contract comes up for renewal next May!
Carol Mendelsohn, executive producer of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, dishes on the upcoming season.
While Sara Sidle's (Jorja Fox) fate is being kept secret, Mendelsohn was more open about what will happen with other characters in season eight. Fans will once again see Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger) interact with Adam Novak (Helgenberger's real-life husband, Alan Rosenberg). She will be outside of the lab for this storyline. "One of the things he's going to offer Catherine is sort of an opportunity to be on a dream-team-type defense on a high-profile case," Mendelsohn said. "And she gets a little touch of the high life doing that. You get paid well, you get to stay in nice hotels, you get to have nice meals.... It's going to be a little tantalizing for her."
In other Catherine-related news, Ask Ausiello revealed that the show will delve into more of her family issues, specifically the legacy left to her by Sam Braun (Scott Wilson). Helgenberger's contract will run out at the end of season eight, as will William Petersen's (Gil Grissom), but there is no information at this point about whether Catherine (or Grissom) will be leaving the show. As for the other characters, Mendelsohn revealed that some of the semi-regular cast members would be getting a bit more focus this season. "We're going to see more of the lab rats this year," she said. "We love our lab rats. We're going to play up our friendship and their rivalry." And it's not just the semi-regulars that will be pushed to the forefront. Nick Stokes (George Eads) will also be in the spotlight in season eight. "This is a year in which Nick is going to step forward," Mendelsohn said. "The question has always been, 'Grissom is the supervisor, but who's the supervisor in waiting?'"
The seventh season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ended with Sara's life hanging in the balance. While she was trapped beneath a car somewhere in the desert as rain poured down, the rest of the team had only a miniature of the scene for guidance--and the knowledge that Sara would die if they did not find her in time. The cliffhanger ending will be resolved in the eighth season premiere, "Dead Doll".
The people involved with the show are keeping tight-lipped about whether Sara will live or die. Fox's contract was up for re-negotiation at the end of season seven, and there is still no word on whether or not she'll be sticking around. The first step toward knowing whether Fox will remain on the show is finding out Sara's fate. Executive producer Naren Shankar isn't giving any clues. "Let's just say fans will be very satisfied with how it turns out," he said. "No loose ends will be left dangling at the end of the first episode." The TV Guide reported that there would be a new character on the show starting in episode three, "Go to Hell". Executive producer Carol Mendelsohn said that this woman "may be a CSI or a lab tech," but she would not reveal anything about Sara or whether this character is meant to take her place.
Filming for the premiere involved building a replica of the miniature scene in the show's soundstage. The set includes a car on hydraulics and 28,000 gallons of water. During filming, Shankar admitted that he was nervous about Fox's safety. Since Sara was pinned beneath the car, shooting the scenes required the actress to be surrounded by water. "Jorja was a total trouper and everything was designed for 100 percent safety," he explained, "but when you're watching, you get a little knot in your stomach." Even though the other actors were not involved in those scenes, they still showed up at the soundstage to watch the filming. "The actors were as impressed as anybody by what we built," Shankar said. "They came back from their time off and went, 'Holy crap!' Everybody was pretty knocked out by this." Fans will see the resolution to this cliffhanger on September 27, when season eight of CSI premieres.
A second promo has now aired featuring a new scene with Sara from Dead Doll, it can be found online!
This interview has just been posted on csifiles, i'm not sure when it's from though!
William Petersen (Gil Grissom) and Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle) talk about their characters and the show they create each week.
For Petersen, playing Grissom has allowed him to explore science--something that he was never very good at himself. "I was terrible in school at science," he told WOWOW. One of the things that attracted him to the character in the first place "was that he was so different than me, and so it was interesting for me to be able to try and do something that I was not familiar with. Since then, I've become very attracted to science, so it was a good thing for me." Petersen also admitted to picking up another trait from the scientist. "I don't kill insects anymore," he said. "I used to swat flies and my wife used to make me chase the spiders. I have a whole backyard full of spiders now, webs everywhere. They're just crawling around the house. She won't even go outside in the back. She only goes out the front door because I won't kill spiders."
Petersen also explained that Grissom is "very in touch with his childhood." This child-like spirit allows him to remain distanced from the reality of what he does for a living. "[H]is imagination and his creativity led him into science, so for him science is like playing childhood games and I think that that's always a big part of how he views his work. For him, it's all just wonder, you know, and he doesn't allow himself to become too adult about it." If he approached the job that way, "it would be too difficult for him to do it because it's all tragedy, and there's so much violence and inequity." When the city of Las Vegas was made more family-friendly, Petersen thought that it was interesting to see a "casino, which was basically a gambling house, you know, and then there'd be this roller coaster with kids riding around the outside of it." Petersen said that he thought Grissom would be "interested in being able to release things by going back to a child-like state and letting the roller coaster just clear his brain."
"I actually have a hard time remembering the episodes because we do so many," Petersen admitted. "I sort of only just can think of the episode I'm working on, the case that I'm working on." He said that the first season was special because "it was all fresh and new and we didn't really know what we were doing, we were just making it up as we went along." As a result, he felt that the first season "was very creative." Petersen said that one of the great things about CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is that the fans don't know where it's going or what's going to happen when they're watching it. Instead, the viewers "have to try and figure it out themselves," he said.
Fox said that she feels very lucky to play a character like Sara. She and Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger) are "strong women, and they're professional," she said. "They're completely intellectual and at the same time they feel very real. They feel like real people to me. It feels like a person that somebody could actually be." Fox also said that Sara is "so much smarter than I am, number one, which is really fun. You never get tired of doing that." When it comes to fan mail, Fox said that she gets "a lot of letters from teenagers, which is really nice." However, that wasn't what she anticipated when the show first began. Back then, she "thought we were going to get a lot of mail from jail, from prisoners...I don't know, I thought the mail would be more eccentric than it's been. It's been really nice, supportive, very sane fan mail, which I would have never expected."
Fox had nothing but good things to say about Petersen. "He's incredibly charming and wonderful," she said. "He's an amazing listener. Creatively, I think he's absolutely brilliant." She explained that Petersen's background in the theater led to an environment of collaboration on CSI. "[T]he only way that he really knows how to work is collectively and communally and where people develop ideas together," she said. She added that "[h]e listens to everyone and everyone's got an opinion that he values." For Fox, "[i]t's been really exciting to take this journey, not only with everyone, but specifically with him. And I think that he and I both feel very, very invested in our characters and wishing that our characters at some point way down the road have a happy ending someway, whatever that looks like."
The original video interviews are from WOWOW Online.
So i'm hoping this means that Sara is alive!
An unusual young man's death leads the CSIs to investigate more than just a possible homicide in the fourth episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
"The Case of the Cross Dressing Carp" finds Grissom and his team examining the circumstances surrounding the death of Brandon Towne. The young man is found hanging from a tree next to a reservoir. There are lacerations across his chest. On further inspection, it is discovered that Brandon has breasts that look as though they belong on a woman. Was this some sort hate crime?
In the autopsy room, Doc Robbins tells Grissom that there are scratches around the ligature furrow in Brandon's neck, indicating that he struggled to free himself from the noose. He also examines the lacerations on Brandon's chest and determines that they were not deep enough to kill him. Grissom looks at the young man's wallet. The eighteen-year-old lived in The Greens, a community that surrounds the reservoir where his body was found.
Brandon shows no physical signs of Klinefelter syndrome. Men with Klinefelter syndrome are born with an extra X chromosome and sometimes exhibit gynecomastia, a condition in which a man develops more breast tissue than normal. Since Klinefelter syndrome does not explain Brandon's enlarged mammary glands, the team will have to do more investigating to discover what caused the abnormality--and whether this contributed to his death in any way.
Brandon worked at a water treatment plant, and as they start to put the pieces of the puzzle together, the team learns that this might be more than a hate crime. There was a hydrologist poking around the reservoir and the nearby water treatment plant--the same plant that Brandon worked for. The hydrologist had been in contact with Brandon and claimed that the young man was helping him work on a project. From the messages that were exchanged between them, Brass suggests that Brandon himself might have been the project.
Meanwhile, Catherine takes part in an investigation at what remains of the Rampart Hotel (which was destroyed in "Built to Kill, Part One"). A human skeleton has been found beneath the rubble. Sofia notices a bracelet on the arm of the skeleton. Veronica says that she bought a necklace at the Indian Market in Santa Fe which looks like it could belong to a matching set. Have they unearthed a Native American burial site, or is this another secret that Sam Braun tried to cover up?
"The Case of the Cross Dressing Carp" is expected to air October 18, 2007.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Will Sara Survive CSI's Season-opener?
by Craig Tomashoff
William Petersen, CSI
Instead of using "Who Are You" as its theme song this season, CSI producers might want to consider the Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go."
In last spring's season finale, Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox) was left trapped under a car in the Nevada desert by a serial killer — with pouring rain threatening to drown her — while Gil Grissom (William Petersen), her boyfriend and boss, and the rest of the CSIs frantically tried to find her. Sara's life hung in the balance because of the car — and the fact that Fox's contract with the CBS hit was up for renewal. So will she be sticking around?
Executive producer Naren Shankar's not telling. "Let's just say fans will be very satisfied with how it turns out," he says. "No loose ends will be left dangling at the end of the first episode."
Rumors have run rampant all summer about Sara's fate, and TV Guide reported that the show will add a new female character come Episode 3 who "may be a CSI or a lab tech," according to exec producer Carol Mendelsohn. She, too, won't say if Sara lives.
Shankar, though, is happy to talk about filming the scene in the Sept. 27 season-opener in which viewers will discover the truth. In the finale the killer had left a miniature version of the crime scene for Grissom. For the first episode of Season 8, set designers built a full-scale replica on the show's Hollywood soundstage, including everything from a car mounted on hydraulics to 28,000 gallons of water.
Shankar says there were moments when he wasn't sure Fox would make it through the filming. For a good portion of it, she was stuck under the car, surrounded by recirculated water, and Shankar says he got "a little nervous. Jorja was a total trouper and everything was designed for 100 percent safety, but when you're watching, you get a little knot in your stomach."
It may be nerve-racking, but even the CSI cast members who aren't in those scenes showed up to watch. "The actors were as impressed as anybody by what we built," Shankar says. "They came back from their time off and went, ‘Holy crap!' Everybody was pretty knocked out by this." It sounds like we will be, too.