'New York' Keeps Going

The man behind CSI talks about the Big Apple, then and now.

This week, CSI: New York reached the 100 episode mark. Co-creator and executive producer Anthony Zuiker said going forward will mean trying new things. "People have seen the snapshots, they've seen the re-creations, they've seen the flashbacks, they know what DNA is, this is nothing new," he explained to The Hollywood Reporter. "So we can't replicate what we've done in prior years and expect that to bring us to the promised land."

"The fine line is, how do we evolve the franchise visually, storytelling-wise, character-wise to where it feels as if it's just as fresh as when it first came out, while at the same time not abandoning all of the stuff that makes the franchise great?" Zuiker continued. He also addressed the reason why New York had some trouble in the first season, which he said was due to the style he created for the show.

"It had been my idea to go darker, more rough and raw," he said. "I was a brand-new showrunner, and I was forgetting the biggest rule of television; I was writing for myself instead of for the audience. The turning point in the success of the show was [CBS president and CEO] Les Moonves saying, 'We're no longer going to live in a subterranean world.' Now it's beautiful, multicultural, expansive and there are 8 million people on the island. The second we did that -- turned some lights on and saw the actors' faces -- the audience came back."

The original interview is from The Hollywood Reporter.

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