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• Eddie Cahill (Det. Don Flack) has a small part in the new movie Lords of Dogtown, which will hit theatres next week. The movie tells the story of the skateboarding and surfing trends that surfaced in the 70s in Venice, California. Head over to Eddie Cahill Online to see two pictures of the actor at the premiere.

• Khandi Alexander's sitcom NewsRadio is now available on DVD. The 1995 comedy series followed the whacky antics of a group of eccentric people that worked at a news radio station in New York City. Alexander played feisty news anchor Catherine Duke. NewsRadio starred Celebrity Poker Showdown's Dave Foley, ER's Maura Tierney and the late Phil Hartman.

• Two new faces have been tapped to exec the drama series development department at CBS. Robert Zotnowski and Christina Davis will now work under Laverne McKinnon, senior VP of the department. Zotnowski, the network announced, has been partly responsible for the CSI franchise's success, while Davis brought the show Without a Trace to the network's attention, and helped launch CSI, Without a Trace, and Cold Case.

• CBS head honcho Les Moonves recently discussed the possible split of Viacom. Moonves announced the network could benefit from the separation. "I can tell you if this happens, it will be very positive for us," he told the Hollywood Reporter. "The key here is we have a much better control of the creative process."

• While the Hollywood Reporter sees two major Emmy nominations in CSI's future (news), TV Guide has guessed the procedural drama will receive no nominations this year. The magazine's dream ballot includes Best Drama series nominations for Deadwood, Lost, 24, Veronica Mars, and The Wire, and Lead Drama Series Actress nomination nods for Kristen Bell, Glenn Close, Evangeline Lilly, Molly Parker, and Joely Richardson. The Emmy nominations will be announced on July 14th.

• Screencaps of the Miami episodes "Stalkerazzi" and "Cross-Jurisdiction" are now available at the David Caruso Online Gallery. The pictures feature Caruso's character Horatio Caine. The website's updates also includes promo pictures of the episode "Hurricane Anthony."

• Jenna Boyd, otherwise known as Sasha Rittle from the CSI/Miami cross over "Cross-Jurisdictions" can now be seen in the new movie Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. "It was fun filming with Amber Tamblyn because I've never really worked with teenage girls. I've always worked with adults. It was definitely fun and Amber was a very nice girl," she told Coming Soon.

• Adam Rodriguez (Eric Delko) centered screencaps of the episode "Recoil" can now be found at Just Adam.net.

• Richard Lewis, director, writer, and producer for CSI, recently visited Westbrook Walnut Grove to teach students what it's like in the filmmaking arena. "It has been quite an experience working with Richard," one of the students said. "It has been amazing. I didn't realize how many shots a single scene takes. We re-do a lot of stuff. I wasn't expecting to film that many things."

• Past My Shoulder has been updated with screencaps of the CSI: New York finale "What You See Is What You See."

• The Boston Police Department will this summer create a CSI unit compromised of six criminalist. Until now, the BPD had relied on its police officers to collect evidence, which delayed the crimes' investigative process. Experts revealed that the creation of the unit in Boston is long overdue.

• School's out for summer, but that doesn't mean children will stop learning. In Bogalusa, Louisiana, several schools will be offering a Summer Forensic Investigations Camp, or CSI camp, to students entering 6th and 7th grade. And in Grand Rapids students aren't just learning the art of crime scene investigation, they're building careers around it.

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