CSI Las Vegas - Season 8 - Rumours and Spoilers

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hmm... no mention of Sara in episode two. interesting...

Also no mention of Grissom! i guess that might give too much away!

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.

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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.

[Jojo]

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.




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!

[Chloe O'brien]

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?'"

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Found some pictures from Dead Doll:

[Jojo]

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.

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A second promo has now aired featuring a new scene with Sara from Dead Doll, it can be found online!

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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!

[Jojo]

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.

[tammyy2j]

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.