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See Also: 'Pirated' Episode Guide

• CSI: Miami's Monday outing "Pirated" brought in 16.0% of the American audience, which equates to 25% of those households watching TV that night. The show netted a 21.93 million viewers and was not only top of the hour but top of the night. This is comparable to the show's usual ratings. A full report is available at Mediaweek's Programming Insider.

• New York Times columnist Charles McGrath has written an article profiling the three lead CSI investigators (Gil Grisson, Horatio Caine and Mack Taylor) and looking into the minds of each – including a comment from William Petersen that Grissom is an alternate Hannibal Lecter!

• And speaking of William Petersen, the Chicago Sun-Times has heard a stage whisper that he might be starring in an upcoming production of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the article.

• Also, the William Petersen Appreciation Page has recently updated with new screencaps and video footage, including Petersen working on recent 100th episode "Ch-Ch-Changes".

• SFGate has an article that notes that 60% of all American TV shows are set in California or New York state, despite less than a fifth of the US population living in those areas. It makes mention of the CSI shows whose principal locations include Las Vegas and of course, Miami

• Globe and Mail's technology section joins a plethora of media source who have described the "CSI effect", where jurors, judges and the public seem loathe to back sides in a case without DNA evidence.

• It's an explosive result for cable channel TNT as Yahoo! News reveals that they have secured the rerun rights to CSI's fellow procedural crime drama Cold Case, which is another work of CSI executive Jerry Bruckheimer.

• "Some people will do anything to get out of Celine Dion tickets." That's just one of the retorts provided by Bill Frost's CSI random quip generator over at Salt Lake City Weekly's site.

• And finally, CSI: New York's Gary Sinise (Mack Taylor) appears in the latest issue of North Shore magazine, now available in shops.

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