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• According to Variety, everybody loved Raymond on Monday night, as 32.2 million viewers sat in front of their television sets to bid goodbye to the Emmy winning sitcom. Miami made history at 10pm with an impressive 23.1 million viewers and 8.2/20 of the share. This makes "Whacked" the most watched episode of CSI: Miami to date. A full ratings report will be available by the end of the week.

• CSI creator Anthony Zuiker recently signed on to appear in the 26th Banff World Television Festival in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The writer will host 60 Minutes With Anthony E. Zuiker, where attendants will learn about his work, on June 13th and will present the Global Television Achievement Award to Alliance Atlantis Communications.

• Strickly Ink has announced it will release a box of trading cards for each of the three CSI shows this upcoming autumn. The company has confirmed the main cast will be autographing some of the cards.

• If you missed Miami's "Whacked", CBS has added an extensive synopsis of the episode to the official CSI: Miami webpage.

• Just Like Me, the music video Gary Dourdan stared in, has finally been completed, according to production company Prime Multimedia Inc. The song is the first single of of DMC's new album, Checks.

• If you like your CSI reviews with a tang of snark, head over to Television Without Pity to read Sobell's review of the latest episode, "Iced."

• CSI: New York cinematographers Dermott Downs and Chris Manley, who was nominated by the American Society of Cinematographers for the episode "A Man a Mile," were featured this week on PRWeb in a story about the Cooke S4 Prime Lenses, which they use to film the show.

• Michael Ausiello, of TVGuide's Ask Ausiello column loves messing around with the minds of his fans. When asked if Nick Stokes will survive the finale, the columnist replied, "Well, let me ask you this: If you were buried alive for 24 hours with nothing but 600 liters of air, a tape recorder, a gun, a glow stick, a piece of bubble gum and about 100,000 flesh-eating creepy-crawly things, would you survive?"

• Real-life CSIs aren't so crazy about CSI. In a recent article, real-life criminalists complained that the shows are, "irritating because they create unrealistic expectations and misguided victims."

• JustAdam.net, a fansite dedicated to Miami's Adam Rodriguez (Eric Delko), has been updated with a media section dedicated to various media appearances by Rodriguez's co-stars. The gallery currently includes pictures of David Caruso, Emily Procter, and Sofia Milos.

• More shots of the CSI season finale wrap party can be found at Skinner Rat's official website.

• Jorja Fox Online has been updated with new modeling pictures of Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle).

• Screen caps of the penultimate episode of CSI, "Iced", can be now found at Erica's CSI Screen Caps.

• And images of the episode "Committed" are now available at the website Playing With Fire.

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