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• According to the website Divine Providence, Melina Kanakaredes will be on Live with Regis and Kelly on March 1st. Check your local listings for more information.

• CSI: Miami recently donated 25 thousand dollars to the California Forensic Science Institute. To see pictures of the cast handing over the big check, head over to the Emily Procter (Calleigh Duquesne) website EPO.

• Singer DMC talked to MTV about his two new music videos, among other things, and revealed one of them, called Machine Gun stars the vocals of Gary Dourdan (Warrick Brown). The video is predominantly an Iraq war commentary.

• A special peek at the 32nd issue of the CSI: Official DVD collection is now available. With Warrick Brown on the cover, the issue includes a profile on Dr. Robbins, a closer look at the rape kit, and an analysis on car crashes. Other issues are available for purchase at this British site.

• Pick up the last issue of TV Guide to see a picture of Gary Sinise (Mac Taylor) and Melina Kanakaredes (Stella Bonasera) from an upcoming episode of CSI: New York. Thanks to Elyse for the heads-up.

• If you're a fan of Louise Lombard (Sofia Curtis), check out the new website Lombard Support. The site includes information on Ms. Lombard as well as her roles on CSI and others, and a multimedia section that will be up and running soon.

• The Huffington Post has published a detailed incident report of the Cheney shooting from the point of view of a CSI, had one been able to thoroughly investigate the accident. You can find it here.

• CSI continues to annoy real-life law enforcers around the country, this time in Allen County Indiana, where prosecutor Karen Williams blamed the show for the jury's unrealistic idea of how a crime is investigated. "Jurors end up with unreasonable expectations based on TV show. Now they want fingerprints and DNA and in a lot of cases that's not going to exist. Also when the Prosecutor has a confession and eyewitnesses they don't do scientific testing. The lab has a finite number of people and hours and we have to prioritize what's sent to lab."

• NBC executives recently explained why they decided to move Law and Order away from CSI: New York and to the 9 o'clock timeslot. They believe that the show could provide a strong lead-in for the new series of the network, Heist. The show is described as an, "action crime series." Another crime series coming up ahead is The Evidence on ABC. This show will show viewers the evidence collected at various crime scenes and give them the opportunity to solve the crimes even before the detectives check in. The show will air at 10 pm against New York. The network heads are hopeful these two new shows will be able to tackle New York in the ratings, the critics are not.

• Sofia Milos (Yelina Salas) attended the wedding of Police Commissioner Joe Veronese to Julie Gilman. Pictures of the affair can be found here.

• The National Institutes of Health in Washington, D.C., has a new exhibit called Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body, which takes a look into forensic medicine and its history. If you live in DC or any of its adjoining states, make sure to check it out.

• The real-life inspirations behind characters Gil Grissom and Catherine Willows were interviewed by the Tampa Bays. Daniel Holstein and Yolanda McLary claim not to watch the show too often, and didn't even know the actors who portrayed them until the show came around. Still, McLary admitted there is a little bit of Gil and Catherine in them. "We work at really different speeds. I'm really high strung and I like to go real fast, and Daniel is real methodical and takes his time looking at things."

• Norm Hatch, a former Marine combat, reacted to the comments actor Gary Sinise made about the negative media portrayal of the war in Iraq (news). "I am happy that because of his trips to Iraq he has become deeply involved in the welfare of the troops. However, his attack on the national news gatherers, especially TV is not well thought out for a person in his position. You may remember that all of the major anchorpersons made several week long trips to Iraq to investigate the progress in schools, infrastructure repair, maintenance and a myriad of other subjects all of which were put on the air, good or bad, in addition to the daily news. The real problem is that the networks a long time ago gave up making investigative documentaries in half hour and hour lengths, because the audiences had such short attention span."

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