'CSI': Anthony Zuiker Looks Back on Adding Sara, Quentin Tarantino's 'Grave Danger,' More for 25th Anniversary (Exclusive) tvinsider.com/1219223/csi-an…
‘CSI: Crime Scene Investigation’ (aka ‘CSI’ • ‘CSI: Las Vegas’) starring William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads, Jorja Fox, and Paul Guilfoyle premiered on CBS this week in 2000. 📺 🔎 🚨 #OTD TRIVIA: While the majority of the techniques and technologies used in the show are accurate and true to reality, the writers and crew readily admit that they "time cheat". Tests that take a few seconds on the show often take several days or weeks in real life. (IMDB) 🖤
🔍 25 Years of #CSI! From Taylor Swift’s unforgettable guest appearance to the show’s wildest crime scenes, we’re celebrating this milestone by listing the series’ most memorable episodes 🍾 tvfanatic.com/csi-25th-anniv…#TaylorSwift#CSIVegas
Behind ‘Vegas’ Cancellation
A billion-dollar franchise, ‘CSI’ has produced 911 episodes across multiple series. The most recent, ‘CSI: Vegas,’ a sequel to the original with William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Jorja Fox and Paul Guilfoyle reprising their roles, was canceled after 3 seasons.
“It was tough, I thought we had some solid episodes, but, in the end, the world was just in a different place, it had changed so much,” Zuiker said. “We already did four ‘CSI’s. We had audience exhaustion, attrition. It was excitable to come back but I will say, without myself, Jerry Bruckheimer, Carol Mendelsohn, Ann Donahue, Jonathan Littman, Danny Cannon, and Pam Veasey, those are the Magnificent 7 of the franchise and what the DNA of ‘CSI’ is. It’s just very difficult to replicate that band to have a future success.”
There were other factors.
“Timing, I think, is everything. And plus, we are in a very fractured world with a fractured audience, where people’s interests are everywhere,” Zuiker said. “So to be making shows for the masses is an extraordinary challenge, especially when you’re already established. You have a better chance to do ‘Squid Game,’. which is a brand new, fresh concept, and gather an audience rather than your seventh rendition of ‘CSI’” tinyurl.com/mr247naw
We concluded our @beyondfest William Petersen Tribute with a sold out screening of Michael Mann’s MANHUNTER (1986) last Saturday at the Egyptian 🙏
Thank you to everyone who joined us + to Katie Walsh for moderating!
“You have to be brave. You have to try harder than you think you should sometimes.”
William Petersen shared the acting advice he received from filmmaker William Friedkin during our @beyondfest TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985) Q&A.
Amazing day yesterday at @BeyondFest. Saw Big Trouble in Little China with the great John Carpenter and Dean Cundey. Then watched Manhunter with the amazing William Peterson after. Thanks @am_cinematheque and @EgyptianLA as well.
Still reeling from yesterday’s Q&As with the legendary William Petersen for @beyondfest’s screenings of TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. and MANHUNTER.
The best advice he ever got from Friedkin: “You have to be brave. You have to try harder than you think you should.”
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