Tassler & Zuiker Address Uncertain Future Of ‘CSI’
1 min readCSI: Crime Scene Investigation has been on the air for 15 seasons, but the show’s future is currently up in the air. With the move to Sunday nights, the show has been delayed and preempted multiple times over the course of the season due to NFL overrun, and the network lowered the episode count to 18 in October. At last Monday’s TCA Winter Press Tour, CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler revealed that the network has not yet made a decision about CSI’s future. However, she said:
The show continues to be a strong performer. It does very well in its time period. You look at the journey that show has gone on, and adding Ted Danson and Elisabeth Shue has really taken the show in a whole new direction. So we don’t know yet what is going to happen with the show. We’re just incredibly proud it continues to do well.
CSI creator Anthony Zuiker told reporters that he “would not be satisfied” if the show was cancelled. He added that the producers are “trying to find the best season theme possible” in order to pitch a sixteenth season to the network and “hopefully be invited back”.
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See this is what aggrevates me….move a TV show to a day and time knowing full well that *it could* have lower ratings and then the show gets cancelled. Yes I know it isnt final yet; article clearly says “up in the air” but I kinda knew when it got moved to Sundays all the sport delays would cause lower viewings 🙁 So please consider a different day/time before 100% cancelling it. BTW I looked it up the other day…Gunsmoke lasted 20yrs TV
I think if CBS was willing to renew CSI despite the move to Sundays and all these new dramas they’re pushing this year (three of them renewed), they would’ve said so by now. TV shows can’t last forever, but it would’ve been nice if the show continued or at least got a final season.
FWIW, The Cancellation Bear at TV By The Numbers moved ‘CSI’ to Likely Cancellation when the order was cut (as the last three veteran dramas on CBS with mid-season ep cuts were all axed that season) and has now put it at Certain Cancellation. He has a hit rate of around 95%.
@ Larry Tolman: Net execs do that all the time to kill a show they don’t like; ‘Doctor Who’ fans experienced it in the 1980s.