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• According to Daily Variety, CSI: Miami claimed victory last night in the ratings battle, attracting 19.1 million viewers overall. Miami and its lead-ins helped crown CBS winner for the night.

• CSI: New York is proving to be a smashing hit overseas. The show has been sold to over 200 countries and everywhere it goes it seems to find a strong audience. "The ratings speak for themselves," said Ted Riley, Executive Managing Director, International Television Distribution. "The feedback we have been getting from international audiences proves that viewers around the world were keenly anticipating CSI: NY."

• An online poll recently gave people the chance to choose from five different television bosses (fake and real) and asked them which one of them most resembled their real-life boss. Gil Grissom finished with 10% of the votes, while Martha Stewart took the cake with 32%. The poll revealed most people don't trust their bosses.

• If you live in Los Angeles and have a liking for eating bugs, you can be on an episode of CSI: New York. The show is currently casting for extras that are willing to eat bugs or live octopus in front of the camera for the episode "Fair Game." Visit deep end dining for more information.

• Starting this upcoming week, Nielsen Media Research will begin to measure which shows are most recorded by DVR as part of their TV ratings report. The company has already found that the most successful shows, such as CSI, are most likely to be recorded by DVR (such as Tivo) and watched later.

• If you're a fan of the Lt. Dan Band make sure you check out the band's new merchandise, which includes t-shirts and baseball caps with the bands name printed on them. Proceeds from the sale will benefit the United States Vietnam Arts Program, which is dedicated to develop artistic collaborations between Vietnam and the U.S.

• Remember to set your VCRs tomorrow for the Tony Danza Show, which will have New York's Carmine Giovinazzo (Danny Messer) as a guest. Check your local listings, or visit the actor's official website, for more information.

• Emily Procter (Calleigh Duquesne) has a role in the movie Big Momma's House 2 and the trailer has already been released. Visit Emily Procter Online to see screen caps of it.

• If you want to become a CSI or a police officer, check out The Spectrum's article on what it takes to become a real cop.

• Hollywood made crime shows popular, but in England, shows like Walking The Dead (similar to the American Cold Case) have been on the air before CSI was conceived. The Sydney Morning Gerald did a comparison between the American and British version of such shows, which revealed American lead characters are more likely to be in therapy than their British counterparts.

• Jay Cronley, from ESPN.com, recently revealed he doesn't watch CSI: Miami because it's good, but because it's bad. "I began hating these crime-scene shows with more than a passing eye the night one of the lab geniuses found a mosquito on the floor of a gigantic penthouse apartment and squeezed some telling blood evidence out of it. This wasn't even a big mosquito," he said.

• If you've ever wondered who cleans up all these crime scenes after the blood is shed, meet Arkansas Crime Scene Clean-Up Inc, a company in charge of cleaning up crime scenes. Since CSI became popular, more of these companies have sprung through the country. "You can’t put that stuff on the curb," said Tanya Grubbs, wife of the owner of the company. The company can sometimes get as much as 3,000 dollars to clean up a house after a crime has been committed in it.

• Due to its loss of World Wrestling Entertainment, Spike TV might be in for a rough year in 2006, ratings-wiser. The network currently shows reruns of CSI, which helped spike its ratings, but some critics believe the lack of wrestling matches in the network's schedule might harm it. Spike's honchos, however, have enough faith in their other programs to believe these will keep the network afloat.

• Amy Amatangelo, from TV Guide's TV Gal column, recently listed the CSI episode "Grave Danger" in her list of television's most special moments. "Finally, someone is utterly freaked out when he is buried alive. The tension was palpable. George Eads gave his best performance and I still get stressed thinking about it. I ruined a manicure over this episode," she said.

• Michael Mitchell, who had a guest-starring spot for CSI: Miami, recently told the Star Telegram how he made it to Hollywood.

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