Carol Mendelsohn To Create New TV Series

This is from Entertainment Weekly:

Jim Belushi Nabs CBS Drama PilotTV Guide - February 22, 2010 11:59 PM PST

Jim Belushi | Photo Credits: Duffy-Marie Arnoult/WireImage.comTV Guide
Jim Belushi is handing in his comedy card. The According to Jim star has been cast as the lead in the CBS legal drama The Defenders, Entertainment Weekly reports.


The series, from CSI's Carol Mendelsohn, follows two Las Vegas defense attorneys. Belushi will play Nick, a lawyer who likes to fight for the underdog.

That's all there was for now.

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Hmmm, does this mean she's leaving CSI? Will we get some new blood and the show will get better? Or does she think CSI is on its last legs.

Let's face it Marg is leaving the show and we don't know if Fishburne signed on for anymore. Contract talks should be going on now.

I don't know, I hope it's not the end.

So who knows.

 

Thank's speedy I saw this on Tx Dollars, how the H can she run two shows? but who knows what's up? I think we've had enough 'new blood', please, and as far as Marg leaving, that's not been on this board as news..yet.. but on LF, he did only sign up for 1-1/2 seasons, which would mean his contract is up after S/10 finishes~And he's got 3 movies on the table HMMM, I hope this isn't the proverbial handwriting on the wall

LF CONTRACT

 

Producing is NOT the same as show-running.

 

On her wikipedia site it says she is the Executive Producer, and show-runner, she does it all~

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Mendelsohn

 

Yes, she is the co-show-runner of CSI (along with Naren Shankar), but producing the new show does not necessarily mean she is running it.

 

WHAT? I have not seen anything about marg leaving Then again most viewers have been posting that this is the last season ( 10) Speedy where do you get your info please let me know Cause if this is true I will be crushed I have followe this wome since Ryan's Hope( not to age myself)

 

Nothing is 'for sure', I guess, but here is a link to a translation of an excerpt from a French interview with Jorja and Marg; credit to JFO and Margamania for the article and its translation.

http://www.margamania.net/2009/12/27/is-marg-finally-leaving-csi/

Again, it's nothing definite, but I think this is what most people are referring to when they speculate that she is leaving. And in the interview she also states that CSI will go on for many more years.

As far as Carol Mendelsohn goes, I think that NCIS and NCIS:LA share a showrunner, so she can do both. And Naren Shankar is a co-showrunner for CSI, so I doubt anything will change, even if CM's new show gets picked up.