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• CSI Files previously noted where CBS stood in relation to the other major networks halfway through November sweeps. Now three weeks into the sweeps period (October 30-November 19), CBS remains on top in overall viewers with 11.74 million. The network is now tied with ABC in the 18-49 demographic with a 3.1 rating/8 share. (Source: Adweek)

• Pictures of Laurence Fishburne as Dr Raymond Langston on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation can be viewed on the Chicago Tribune website. (Please note that the link contains an episode description.)

• Hollywood insiders got together to discuss how to successfully weave issues of climate change into storytelling. CSI writer and supervising producer David Rambo said it is possible, citing last season's "The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carp" as an episode that wove an environmental topic into a compelling story, without offending advertisers and public officials. Rambo said:

  It is a challenge. A lot of the industries that we point the finger at when we talk about climate change are the very ones that make our livelihoods possible, but there's so much pressure on the corporations that advertise to be responsible world citizens, at this point, they pretty much make their own case for the things they're doing.

• Levi Buchanan from IGN.com gave the CSI: Miami game for the iPhone a 7 out of 10. The game itself is "solid", Buchanan said, the backdrops and character portraits are "excellent", and the "music and effects are fine". The voicework, however, is "distractingly dreadful" according to Buchanan, and the "tilt controls are off".

• CSI's Wallace Langham (David Hodges) plays a marijuana-growing father in the coming-of-age comedy Growing Op. (Source)

• CSI creator Anthony Zuiker served as keynote speaker and auctioneer at a fundraiser for Bridgeways, an organization in Washington state geared toward helping adults with mental illnesses. The event raised more than $125,000, and Zuiker and his wife matched the amount, bringing the total to more than $250,000.

  The original information is from HeraldNet.

• Miami star Rex Linn (Frank Tripp) is expected to participate in the Seena Magowitz Celebrity Golf Classic December 5-6. The event raises money for pancreatic cancer research. "Pancreatic cancer is the most lethal cancer in the United States, with a five-year survival rate of just 5 percent. We urgently need funding for pancreatic cancer research to give patients a fighting chance," Julie Fleshman, President and CEO of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, told Furniture World Magazine. "Funds raised through events like this will help us advance research, which can lead to finding more effective treatment options and early detection methods."

• CSI: New York will face new competition in January when ABC moves Life on Mars to 10:00pm Wednesdays, according to Media Life Magazine. Mars will run after Lost, which will air it's fifth season at 9:00pm starting in January. (Thanks to goddess_loki on LiveJournal for the link.)

• The Venture Brothers voice actor James Urbaniak will appear the upcoming Miami episode "Power Trip". "I just did an episode of CSI: Miami," Urbaniak told Creative Loafing, "and the director was this guy in his 50s who said, 'I love The Venture Brothers, and so does my son!' He asked me to call his son on his cell phone, and when the son picked up, I said 'Hi, it's Dr. Thaddeus Venture!' When we were done talking, the father got back on the phone and said 'You owe me one.'"

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