TV GUIDE: Ask Matt: Nashville and More Cancellation Anxiety, Downton, Justified, Big Bang
Feb 19, 2013
by Matt Roush
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... Question: How much longer do you think CSI will last? I'm fine with the new characters, but it is not as good as it used to be. The show was always at its best when it dealt with the forensics aspect of the show, but lately, they have been dealing too much with characters' personal lives, especially Sara's marriage to Grissom. — Connie
Matt Roush: I can't say the CSI mothership (which may be the last one standing after this season, we'll see) will endure as long as the original Law & Order and make it to a 20-year milestone — this is currently down the stretch of its 13th season — but I wouldn't be surprised if CBS didn't try to keep it going to make some sort of TV history, barring some sort of collapse. Which they did a pretty good job of forestalling with the new recastings. It doesn't look like a show on its last legs.
But I am always intrigued by what fans find to take issue with, whether it's too much personal stuff getting in the way of the forensics, or the case of Smokey, who wrote in to observe: "Is George Eads still a cast member on CSI? Because I hardly ever see him on there anymore. It's all Ted Danson and Elisabeth Shue with a bunch of Jorja Fox thrown in for good measure as she and her off-screen/out-of-town/sometimes appears on the phone husband, the gone-for-years-now Gil Grissom. Is there any chance of Eads' character, Nick Stokes, getting any kind of storyline in the near future? Eads is the only actor on the show besides Paul Guilfoyle who has been there since the very first episode, and it seems a shame that he and his character are relegated to basically supporting roles in favor of brand new actors and characters. I know during the break in filming last summer he worked on a movie, Gutshot Straight, so is there a chance he might leave CSI after this season to pursue other interests? And when can we look forward to seeing the movie?"
Matt Roush: Don't know about the movie (no release date that I can tell), or any movie for that matter, and I wouldn't want to speak for the actor, but I would think he'd have to consider himself one of the luckiest guys in the business to be riding the CSI train as long as he has. I'm sure he'd enjoy more stories like the one earlier this season involving the K-9 dog, but he's part of a fairly large ensemble that just acquired two new stars recently, so this is nothing new for him or the rest of the underused co-stars...
CSI airs Wednesday at 10/9C on CBS. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE EPISODE TRAILER FOR 'FORGET ME NOT' AIRING FEBRUARY 20, 2013.
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