外電Rumor:本店可能重啟 - CSI

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/csi-limited-series-revival-works-at-cbs-1278325

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這是前幾天的外電，已經有人簡要翻譯
總之是有傳聞眼睛台要重啟兩部經典影集
其中一部是本店
而且是初代班底
但雷打樹否認了

總之，如果有，就撿起來懷念一下下
最近看到Marg女王在新影集還是很耀眼啊>////////<

The two-time most-watched show in the world will mark its 20th anniversary
in October.

CBS is looking to toast the 20th anniversary of one of its most successful
franchises with a revival.

The network is in talks with CSI: Crime Scene Investigation original series
creator Anthony Zuiker, Jerry Bruckheimer and the show's creative team to
bring back the procedural with a new limited series, sources tell The
Hollywood Reporter. CBS and producers CBS TV Studios declined comment as the
potential project is still in the dealmaking stages. Reps for Jerry
Bruckheimer Television also declined comment.

Jason Tracey (Elementary) will write the script for what sources say will be
a limited series designed to help celebrate CSI's 20th anniversary. The
flagship series, which ran for 15 seasons and spawned the spinoffs Miami, New
York and Cyber, originally premiered on Oct. 6, 2000. Bruckheimer is
spearheading the revival and selected Tracey for the job after the latter
started his career on the prolific producer's Just Legal and Cold Case.

Sources say the potential limited series will be set in Las Vegas, like the
flagship that started it all. As for the cast, William Petersen — who led
the series for 10 seasons as Gil Grissom and returned for CSI's two-hour
series finale in 2015 — is said to be among the original stars being eyed
for a possible return for the untitled drama.

Talks for a CSI revival first started in July 2018 when rumors circulated
that a new take could be produced for CBS All Access, the subscription
streaming service that is controlled by ViacomCBS-owned CBS TV Studios. Then,
last summer, executives at Bruckheimer's company reminded the studio that
2020 was the flagship's 20th anniversary. JBTV then reached out to Tracey,
who developed the pitch with the company and Zuiker. It was taken to CBS in
October, with the broadcast network engaging. What remains unclear, for now,
is if any CSI update would be a short-order and closed-ended one-off series
or if it would be a show that could live on (again) for multiple seasons.

During its 15-season run, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was recognized twice
as the most-watched TV show in the world. (CBS' NCIS — which is now in its
17th season and has birthed two spinoffs, L.A. and New Orleans — now holds
that honor.) With its long run and three spinoffs, CSI was a cash cow and
became a multibillion-dollar franchise for CBS. A revival could also bring
new interest to the massive CSI franchise library (parts of which are
streaming on Hulu) at a time when programs with a sizable fan base and
episode tally are being used to help launch new platforms. (To that end, Dick
Wolf just cashed in with a streaming deal with Peacock that covered six of
his shows and is said to be worth between $300 million-$400 million.)

All told, Zuiker, Bruckheimer and JBTV president Jonathan Littman and
executive vp TV KristieAnne Reed as well as Tracey are said to be attached to
the CSI limited series. Former CSI co-creators Carol Mendelsohn and Ann
Donahue, who both have a sizable ownership stake in the franchise, will
likely also be credited as exec producers, though they will not be involved.
(Mendelsohn, for her part, has not had an overall deal with CBS TV Studios in
six years and is currently set up at Universal TV.)

At the time CBS ended CSI, Zuiker told THR that he had hoped the flagship
series — which outlived two of the three of its spinoffs — would continue
on for multiple seasons. Instead, CBS opted to conclude the series with a
two-hour sendoff featuring original stars Petersen and Marg Helgenberger. The
TV movie was one of two prevailing CSI wrap-up plans that surfaced heading
into the 2015 upfronts, with a short-order episodic run also briefly on the
table.

The news arrives as CBS has only made one early drama series renewal for the
2020-21 broadcast season (rookie Evil). The network traditionally renews the
bulk of its scripted originals with one massive announcement but has yet to
do so this season. In terms of pilots, CBS has already ordered six dramas
with two of them (Silence of the Lambs sequel Clarice and a reboot of The
Lincoln Lawyer) having a series production commitment (meaning if neither go
to series, producers would be paid a steep financial fee as if they had).
Still, the network's drama pilot crop is particularly strong this season,
with a Queen Latifah-led reimagining of The Equalizer and a legal drama
starring Grey's Anatomy alum Patrick Dempsey also in the works, among others.

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