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[CSI Files]

<ul><li> <I>CSI: Miami</I> star <font color=yellow>Emily Procter</font> (Calleigh Duquesne) will <A class="link" HREF="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/susan-g-komen-for-the,704515.shtml">co-host</a> the upcoming 13th Annual <font color=yellow>Susan G. Komen</font> Race for the Cure. More than 13,000 participants will raise awareness about breast cancer at the fundraiser on March 15 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.<p><li> Procter will be a presenter at the upcoming <I>51st Annual Grammy Awards</I>. (Source: <A class="link" HREF="http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/terence-blanchard-neil-diamond-m-i-a-smokey--/de/Unternehmensnachrichten/20028027">Ad Hoc News</a>)<p><li> <font color=yellow>Jay Leno</font> said he is being realistic about his chances in <A class="link" HREF="http://www.csifiles.com/news/101208_03.shtml">primetime</a> next fall, and he's going to have fun. "Are we going to beat shows like <I>CSI: Miami</I>? No. But will we beat them in the reruns? Hopefully, yes," Leno told the <A class="link" HREF="http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/02/jay-leno-.html">Orlando Sentinel</a>.<p><li> National officials for <A class="link" HREF="http://www.crimestopusa.com/">Crime Stoppers</a> were troubled when the <I>Miami</I> episode <A class="link" HREF="http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/miami/season7/tipping_point.shtml">"Tipping Point"</a> showed a young woman being identified after making a call to a tip line. Crime Stoppers board president <font color=yellow>Jim Todd</font> said it would "kill the program" if callers weren't guaranteed anonymity. "That is the underlying brick of this whole foundation: that you'll remain anonymous." Identifying markers like phone numbers and service providers are removed when a tip is submitted, and Todd said that no tip in the history of the Crime Stopper program has been traced back to its originator. (<A class="link" HREF="http://www.kansas.com/news/crime-courts/story/685235.html">Source</a>)<p><li> <font color=yellow>Gary Sinise</font> (<I>CSI: New York</I>'s Mac Taylor) <A class="link" HREF="http://www.starbulletin.com/features/20090204_Sansei_specialties_put_chef_in_winners_circle.html">attended</a> the Mightiest Chef Cook Off held at the USS Missouri Memorial in Hawaii this past weekend. The actor presented the People's Choice Award at the competition, which marked the 10th anniversary of the memorial, and the 65th anniversary of the battleship's launch during World War II.<P><li> <b>Spoiler alert!</b><p>Rapper-turned-actor <font color=yellow>Sean "Diddy" Combs</font> will make his first appearance as a defense attorney named Derek Powell in the next episode of <I>Miami</I>, <A class="link" HREF="http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/miami/season7/presumed_guilty.shtml">"Presumed Guilty"</a>. The team suspects Derek of helping to cover up a murder. In Combs' second appearance on the show, which is <A class="link" HREF="http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00021799.html">reported</a> to air March 2, Derek's fiancé is murdered. However, the case gets derailed when the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) throws Eric Delko (<font color=yellow>Adam Rodriguez</font>) in jail over his forged birth certificate--but he gets no help from his birth father, Alex Sharova.<p><li> "I'm obsessed with crime shows," country singer <font color=yellow>Taylor Swift</font> said on the <I>All Access Grammy Special</I>, according to <A class="link" HREF="http://www.kbsradio.ca/news/music/87/869918">KBS Radio</a>. "All my friends know that my dream is to die on <I>CSI</I>. I've always wanted to like be one of the characters on there that they're trying to figure out what happened to." Swift's dream will come true when she appears in an upcoming episode of <I>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation</I>. The <A class="link" HREF="http://www.enquirerherald.com/371/story/522032.html">Enquirer Herald</a> reports that the episode will take place over the course of a year, and each act will represent a season. Within each season, the episode will show a different case that takes place at the <A class="link" HREF="http://www.csifiles.com/news/030209_01.shtml">seedy motel</a> owned by the parents of Swift's character, Haley.<p><li> According to <font color=yellow>Matt Mitovich</font> at <A class="link" HREF="http://www.tvguide.com/News/MegaMinute-24-CSIMiami-1002377.aspx">TV Guide</a>, an upcoming episode of <I>Miami</I> finds the team looking into a photographer who has been snapping pictures of them. Eric is upset when he sees pictures that indicate Calleigh might be seeing another man.</ul><center></center>

 

[Faylinn]

[random] It's funny how sometimes most of the bullets end up being about just one of the shows. [/random]

Spoiler: The final spoiler bullet about Miami - in case people are avoiding the spoilers

As for that final bullet - unless he and Calleigh are dating, Eric really has no right to be upset if she's seeing someone else. They keep going back and forth about their feeeelings, but unless they act on them, the woman has the right to look elsewhere.

Of course, I'm guessing they're pictures of her with the horse trainer guy from the other week, which was before their little Moment in the last episode.

 

[xfcanadian]

someone needs to tell jay leno that the CSI shows do very well in reruns.

 

[Faylinn]

I think the ratings for his show are going to fluctuate depending on who his guests are. He'll probably also have a lot of people flipping back and forth to his show (or tuning in for the monologue and then changing the channel). It's really not comparable to the other shows it's going to be up against, if you ask me - it's not like everybody who doesn't want to watch a repeat of CSI:NY is automatically going to want to watch Jay's show.

Maybe they're hoping for the people like my family who seem to keep the TV on as background noise - anything remotely interesting is better than nothing (or some crappy show). Mostly for us, though, a repeat of CSI: Miami is a chance to maybe check out a show that airs at the same time that we might normally have missed.