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• Gary Sinise (Mac Taylor) will visit airmen at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona on January 28 on his 13th USO tour. The actor will give out a free show with his Lt. Dan Band for the airmen and their family members.

• Images of Jonathan Togo (Ryan Wolfe) in the CSI: Miami episode "The Score" can now be found at the Jonathan Togo Online Gallery.

• More Golden Globe clips, featuring William Petersen (Gil Grissom) presenting, can be found at GSR.com.

• In the latest issue of TV Guide, which features Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows) on the cover, the actress and the show's producers talk about Catherine's upcoming storyline in the episode "Kiss-Kiss, Bang-Bang," about her never-ending family troubles, and the possibility of seeing Helgenberger's husband, Alan Rosenberg, on another episode of CSI. "We would love to have his sleazy lawyer come back and complicate Catherine's life again," said David Rambo. The issue also contained a juicy spoiler, turn your heads if you're spoiler free: it looks like Catherine's parents, Sam and Lily, have been dating behind her back. Thanks to poster LadySaraButterfly from our message boards for the heads-up.

• Actress Jill Killian, who had a small role on an episode of CSI, has opened up an acting school in her hometown Valrico. The actress uses the school to both teach and give child actors and their parents advice about the industry. "The best way to teach somebody is to have lived it. This can be a scary industry," she said. "I try to educate parents about what to expect. This is a business and you have to know the business end of it or you'll end up heartbroken with empty wallets."

• In Florida, criminal justice students joined real life investigators to solve a staged murder, which professors hope will prepare students for real investigations once they graduate. The popularity of shows like CSI has gotten students all riled up about crime scene investigation. "The good comes from the fact that the shows let the public know about the different types of science out there that can be used to solve crimes," said professor Heather Walsh-Haney. "The bad comes into play in the selection of jury pools," she added. "People now have the unreasonable expectation that we can always solve the case quickly and easily. Sometimes, the fact is that we just can't find the answer."

• CBS announced recently it has developed a new 'micro series' that will only be available online and through cell phones. The Courier is a drama about a man risking his life to rescue his kidnapped wife, and the network will air the first installment during one of CSI: Miami's commercial breaks next week.

• Chuck Lamb would really like to play a dead guy on CSI and other shows, and to achieve this, he has launched deadbodyguy.com. The site has been a huge success, but has so far failed to get Lamb the role of a corpse on CSI: Miami. "Just once," he said, "I want to have my name in the credits of a movie or a TV show."

• Santa Clarita, California, has been the setting for many CSI scenes, but the show isn't the only one who has discovered the benefits of shooting there. Production companies have spent more than $16 million filming scenes from various shows in the city. "I think the successes we've seen over the past couple years are due to a combination of things, but first and foremost it's the city's strong pro-filming attitude and our proximity to Los Angeles without feeling like Los Angeles," said Jason Crawford, the city's film administrator.

• CBS president Leslie Moonves yesterday announced the re-naming of Paramount Pictures to CBS Paramount Television. "When we brought together CBS Productions and Paramount Television, we created one of the premiere television production, syndication and distribution companies in the industry," said Moonves. "Now, as we move forward, we're very proud to see the CBS name reflected in this one-of-a-kind business." The new CBS Paramount Television is comprised of CBS Paramount Network Television, CBS Paramount Domestic Television and CBS Paramount International Television.

• CBS and Walt Disney Co.'s Touchstone Television have been busy lately fighting over who gets the profits from the new on-demand service that will be made available to Comcast subscribers. With the service, viewers will be able to purchase and view episodes of shows such as CSI whenever they want for 99 cents. "Right now, it's a low-money but a high-stakes game," said Rick Rosen, a partner at Hollywood talent agency Endeavor. "There's not much money involved at this point, but in the future it will be a tremendous amount. So any deal could be precedent-setting."

• CBS has seen a disappointing loss on Wall Street. Stocks for the company have dropped as much as 6 percent in the last weeks, when conglomerates such as Sony, Disney and News Corp, saw gains of 5% or more. Anthony Noto, from Goldman Sachs, a global investment banking firm, said, "we expect CBS Corp. to underperform our entertainment coverage universe given the combination of its weak fundamentals, unfavorable themes and our implied value of $21."

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