CSI - Where Did Everybody Go?

Ok. Here is it. I may be a little late in addressing this Earth-shattering news, but Wm Peterson apparently has taken a page out of David Duchovny's book and is leaving CSI as the show remains on the air.

Can I just say how disappointed but does not surprised I am?

According to reports dating back to early July, William Peterson signed a new contract for the 2008/09 season (Season 10 of CSI) that states Grissom will be exiting the show by the tenth episode as a "full-time" series regular.

William Peterson announced in a July 11th interview that "return on occasion as a (very special) guest star". He will, in fact, stay on as an executive producer.

Executive producer of what? Who is left?

This makes three main characters exiting the show within two-years (Jorja Fox , Gary Dourdan )and now, Wm Peterson). There is not going to be much of a show left to produce.





I was so ticked when I read this that it has taken me days to sit down and write a blog that did not have expletives every other word.

Mr. Peterson also states in the same interview that he is "smart enough to know what will hurt the show". I would think leaving it as its main lead character would pretty much do it!

"I want it to work for the writers, I want it to work for the cast, and, most importantly, I want it to work for the audience," he added. "I don't want them to abandon the show."

Possible replacements are: John Malkovich, Kurt Russell, Tim Daly and Laurence Fishburne. Someone has jestingly suggested Duchonvy.

Thank God for Californication's success so that rumor can be squished immediately. However, can you imagine so of the other actors mentioned? John Malkovich? That just seems a little to top-heavy.

In the meantime, executive producer Carol Mendelsohn is plotting one hell of a send-off for her leading man. Just as this is a year of transition for CSI, so too is it for Grissom. The events of last season's finale -- specifically the death of Dourdan's Warrick -- will push Grissom to the breaking point.

So they are going to make the Grissom character mentally unbalanced due to the lose of Sara, which I thought Grissom took way to lightly, and the "death" of Warrick (there is rumor that his character may be pulling a Bobby Ewing stunt).

"It's all of a sudden becoming more difficult for him to do his job," William Peterson continued. "What had been a sort of fun job for him to do, because he loved the solving of the riddle, has become ever more taxing and difficult."

Helping Grissom through the crisis will be his true love, Sara, played by Fox, who is returning for multiple episodes, starting with the season premiere. While Petersen confirms that Sara will figure into Grissom's final arc, he stops just short of saying the couple will ride off into the desert together at the end of episode 10. "I wouldn't want to say exactly what we're going do -- I want people to watch, certainly," he chuckled. "But Sara is involved... It's often darkest just before the dawn."






I get that actors get bored after a time playing the same old character and want to move onto other these - that is human nature. But here is the deal. As a young actor, you struggle to find good work, make a decent paycheck and with a little luck, some recognition along the way. However, it appears to me, more and more, as soon as actors can afford that 5th Porches and 4th house, they drop the part that got them all those goodies to 'move on' while the fans a left with WTF.

They actors state that it is expand their horizons - to look for more challenging and fully work or even more money. The actors are happy that there is a fan-base to their shows or even to them- but it is time to move on. B.S.

In my humble opinion, if actors, especially the lead ones, want to leave the show, then the show should could to a graceful end. Lets not drop it from a 30-story building into tar and then kick the shit out of it while it rolling around on the ground. Let the show retire as a whole with respect and dignity.

I am predicting by the end of this season, Robert David Hall will be preforming an autopsy on the show as its own latest victim.

This is not happening just in TV. Actually, I think it happens more with music bands. The Eagles break for like a quarter of a century, get back together for a "reunion" when they say 'Hey, thanks for sticking with us while the band was in a sandbox brawl - you never know if we will do it to you again.'

Journey and Fleetwood Mac to name a few are having similar issues while the fans are going, 'Hey, we bought your records, we stood in line at 2am for wristband just to return the later to stand in line at 7am to purchase tickets with that wristband, we bought your t-shirts, and, now, even have our favorite songs as ring tones - where's the loyalty to us? Who is looking out for the fans? You take our money, have fight, break-up, and like a bad-marriage, you leave the 'kids' to deal with the mess.'

Do these break-ups of both bands and TV shows tick anyone else off but me?





Three out of five "regulars" gone by the end of this coming season. Althought this is Vegas, I am not liking the odds of survival.