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• MediaLog reports that CSI: New York will debut on the Dutch TV channel Yorin in March. Yorin already airs CSI: Miami, and is a sister channel of the largest Dutch commercial TV channel RTL 4, which airs CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - currently the most popular foreign show in the Netherlands.

• According to an article in the Orlando Sentinel, Fox is currently preparing Point Plesant, a supernatural thriller that will get a place in the Fox schedule directly opposite the original CSI on Thursday night. Fox will attempt to give the show a successful launch by airing the first episode directly after American Idol, and then hopes that the Buffy-like show will steal away younger viewers from CBS.

• An article on the official web site of cable channel TNT contains a few quotes from William Petersen about the success of CSI, and the effect it has had on real-life forensic experts. "When we started creating the pilot," Petersen said, "I believe a lot of criminalists in this country were called CSAs. In the old days, they were 'crime scene ANALYSTS.' And I think in many ways the success of the show changed it. I have a feeling now everybody goes around saying, 'I'm a CSI.'" Read on here. Thanks go out to Al Forno for this!

• Remember "Fur and Loathing?" Many furries still do. Dan Reed and Truong Phuoc Khánh, staff writers for Knight Ridder, suggest in an article about a recent furries convention that many furries were a bit dissatisfied with the infamous instalment of the original CSI show, as it exclusively focused on the sexual aspects of furry-loving. In reality, only about 5% of all furry-lovers are apparently interested in this, and the rest just enjoy dressing up as animals and socialising with each other.

• A new DVD review column at HamptonRoads.com features a look at the recently released second-season DVD box set of CSI: Miami. According to reviewer Bill Kelley III, the set is worth 4 out of 4 stars for its audio and video quality, and 3 stars for its bonus features.

• Officials at Utah Valley State College are hoping to win an extra $1 million from Congress this year in order to set up a new forensic science program. According to UVSC business school dean Jim Fenton, at least a 100 students would be interested in enrolling. Their inspiration? You guessed it - shows like CSI: Miami. Read more here.

• According to a short blurb in the New York Daily News, who are basing this on the February issue of Runners World, Emily Procter (Calleigh Duquesne) is an avid runner. So avid, she'd like to start her own sporting event. "I have this dream of starting my own triathlon," she said. "I feel like the world would be a better place if people knew how happy doing these things makes you." Thanks again to Al Forno!

• Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows) is winning praise for her role in the new Dennis Quaid movie In Good Company. Helgenberger "plays beautifully," according to Paul Clinton at CNN, while Jay Bobbin at WNYT in Albany presumably also thought of Helgenberger when he wrote that the "performances are terrific on all counts." Well-known film reviewer Roger Ebert didn't specifically praise Helgenberger in his review, but did award the movie 3 out of 4 stars - a definite thumbs-up, it seems. In Good Company is now playing throughout the country.

• The people at the Pennsylvania-based Times Leader are not fans of the CSI board game. "Watch the TV show instead [of playing]," they write. "There might be a new crime committed; the designers of this game might be found face down in a pool of water." In their full review, the game doesn't get more than a D.

• Skin, the failed drama show created by CSI producer Jerry Bruckheimer, has been acquired by SOAPNet. Starting in the Spring, the cable channel will begin airing the series during the weekend, showing not just the four episodes that originally aired on Fox, but also the four that were filmed but never shown after the series' cancellation. More at the Futon Critic.

• Indian Hills Community College in Ottumwa, Iowa, is yet another school jumping on the forensic science bandwagon - but they're providing a CSI course with a twist, focusing only on computer forensics. "On CSI, [crime scene investigators] find a dead body that can tell them, using science, what happened," College spokesman Daniel Terrian said in an article in the Ottumwa Courier. "Our 'dead body' is the [computer's] hard drive."

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