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• Now available in the United Kingdom is the Official CSI DVD Collection magazine, featuring articles on the genetic analyser and celebrity killers, as well as an interview with CSI researcher and star David Berman (David Phillips). The accompanying DVD includes the episodes "Revenge Is Best Served Cold" and "The Accused Is Entitled."

• Melina Kanakaredes (Stella Bonasera) is scheduled to be a guest on Live With Regis & Kelly this Wednesday. Thanks go out to Divine Providence for this!

• CBS has posted a 60-second trailer of Category 7: The End Of The World, the TV movie starring Adam Rodriguez (Eric Delko) that's airing on CBS this Sunday. Meanwhile, several of the stars of the TV movie recently spoke with Zap2It.

• E! Online's Answer Bitch recently examined how much companies pay to have their products featured on CSI, and why they're so eager for product placement. The somewhat surprising answer is that ordinarily, companies don't pay a penny, at least according to a representative for those companies.

• The Catholic League has taken issue with last Thursday's CSI episode "Secrets & Flies" for its portrayal of anti-abortion activists. "A talented writer could easily spin an interesting who-done-it from this plot, but CSI chose to advance a pro-abortion rights agenda by portraying those who are opposed to abortion as religious nuts not to be taken seriously," said Catholig League president Bill Donohue. "Americans who respect human life in all of its stages have become the target of public ridicule. Enough is enough."

• Presumably unaware of the marriage between Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows) and Alan Rosenberg, Louisville Courier-Journal columnist Tom Dorsey recently included Helgenberger in an article listing older female stars he'd like to see hook up with younger guy.

• Euroweb reports Gary Dourdan (Warrick Brown) is featured in a new art book called "More Body, More Soul: Beautiful Black Men."

• DavidCarusoFans.com has posted the write-up David Caruso (Horatio Caine) received from People Magazine in its 2003 special honoring the 100 greatest TV stars of our time.

• Jorja Fox Online has posted photos of Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle) appearing on last Friday's edition of The Early Show, as well as screencaps from Secrets & Flies.

• According to DigitalSpy, the new seasons of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: New York will start in the UK on Living TV and Five, early next year.

• WHO TV in Des Moines has a report on the influence CSI has had on juries, featuring comments from local attorney John Sarcone.

• And screencaps from that episode are also available at Erica's CSI Caps page.

• Close To Home, a new CBS show by CSI producer Jerry Bruckheimer, is being temporarily moved to Fridays by CBS in an effort to boost its ratings. The show will be swapping places with Threshold.

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