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• USA Today's Robert Bianco recently praised CSI: Crime Scene Investigation's current season. "In its sixth season, CBS' CSI has not just strengthened its grip on the top spot in the rating, it also has solidified its position as one of TV's most reliably entertaining hours," Bianco wrote. "And it has done so by improving its scripts and finding interesting new ways to tell its stories."

• MacLeans.ca worries that CSI and shows like it are helping educate criminals eluding capture.

• Now available in the United Kingdom is issue 25 of the official British CSI Magazine. Unfortunately we can't tell you what kind of articles are included, as the magazine's web site is still erroneously listing the contents of issue 24, but the magazine will in any case include a DVD with the episodes "Let The Seller Beware" and "A Little Murder."

• Ahead of the Australian airing of the CSI fifth-season finale, News.com.au has posted an article on "Grave Danger," including quotes from several CSI actors. "I was really surprised at how emotional [the episode] was," Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle) said. "There were a couple of times I just had to sort of not cry and I didn't ever imagine that I would get like that."

• The JFO notes that Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle) and actress Darryl Hannah will celebrate Thanksgiving with a unique celebration called the "Feed A Turkey Ceremony" at a newly opened farm animal sanctuary.

• CSI novelist Max Allan Collins has posted a list of dates on which he will be signing copies of his new non-CSI book Road to Paradise.

• The AP today examined the ever-rising body count on television. "I think one of the drawing cards of CSI is that it is depicted very real and sort of gross," the article quoted WB entertainment president David Janollari. "It's part of why the audience comes to see it."

• According to Variety, CBS affiliates are feeling rather worried about CBS's plan to sell CSI episodes directly to consumers via Comcast.

• Carmine Giovinazzo (Danny Messer) notes on his web site that he has been chosen as one of the Sexiest Men Alive by People Magazine.

• The European CSI forum reports that the Norwegian band Illumination had its song Palestine, Texas, from their album "The Poppy Rocks," featured in the original CSI's "Gum Drops."

• Melina Kanakaredes (Stella Bonasera) will be a guest on the Tony Danza Show this Monday, rather than Wednesday, as originally planned. Thanks go out to Divine Providence for this!

• Out-Law.com recently complained about CSI getting computer forensics wrong.

• The Hollywood Reporter recently printed a review of Snow Wonder, the CBS telemovie starring Eric Szmanda (Greg Sanders). s

• The web site of Gary Sinise's Lt. Dan Band has photos of the Mac Taylor actor and his band performing at a CSI: New York party and at an event to benefit the United States Vietnam Arts Program.

• David Caruso Online has new screencaps from the CSI: Miami episode "Nailed."

• And Erica's CSI Caps Page has new screenshots of "A Bullet Runs Through It, Part Two."

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