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UPDATED: April 3rd 2008 6:26pm
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Seems to be William Petersen Day in the news today as the articles just keep on rolling in!
Earlier today we stated that we wouldn't be surprised if this was William Petersen's last season on
CSI considering the latest news regarding his theatrical appearances scheduled for the 2008-2009 season. Looks like our speculation was premature, as it has just been announced (via
TV Guide's Ausiello Report) that William Petersen has signed on for at least one more season of the show. We still think that we won't be seeing as much of Grissom as we're used to each week in order to accommodate Billy's theatrical schedule, but for a lot of Billy's fans, a little Grissom is better than no Grissom. Personally, we so enjoyed seeing him live on stage in
A Dublin Carol, that we're willing to miss a little Grissom each week in exchange for the possibilities of seeing him in the theater more frequently in the future.
Here's an excerpt from the article at
TV Guide:
"The evidence is in and it's irrefutable: Grissom will remain on the CSI beat for at least one more season — albeit with an asterisk.
Sources confirm to me exclusively that William Petersen — whose pact with the show was set to expire in May — has agreed to stick around through the 2008-09 TV season (and perhaps beyond). Although the specifics of his new deal were not disclosed, a
CSIinsider tells me it's both lucrative (read: $$$) and brimming with "out" clauses (read: the asterisk I spoke of earlier).
In fact, Petersen already has his first "out" lined up: This fall, the actor will return to the stage in Conor McPherson's
A Dublin Carol, which kicks off a six-week run in his hometown of Chicago in mid-November. As you'll recall, Petersen missed four episodes of
CSI in early 2007 to headline a Rhode Island production of
Dublin Carol. Shakespearean thesp Liev Schreiber stepped in to fill the Grissom void, only to get shot to death in his final episode."
Speaking of William Petersen in TV Guide, a fan here at
GSR: wants us to share with everyone that William Petersen is currently a nominee for TV Guide's 2008 Sexiest TV Star under the category Sexiest CSI. The entire poll can be found at
Vote For The Sexiest Stars. We might add that he's currently winning (but you knew that, right?!)
Thanks Chantal******************************************************************************************
According to
Playbill.com:
"Victory Gardens Theater, the Tony Award-winning Chicago company with a unique mission to produce works by a stable of in-house playwrights, announced its 2008-09 season March 31.Actor William L. Petersen (TV's "CSI") will return to VGT in the coming season (in a to-be-announced project),"
Considering the recent news that Billy will also be
performing on the Steppenwolf Theatre stage during the 2008-2009 season, returning to the role of John Plunkett in Connor McPherson's A Dublin Carol which he starred in at Providence's Trinity Repertory Theater during a
sabbatical from CSI in 2006-2007, one has to wonder if Petersen is going to get a lot more time off from his role as Gil Grissom on CSI next season, or might be leaving the show all together. Of course, he could perform only during the summer and holiday hiatuses in order to continue starring as Grissom on CSI, but knowing how much time and effort goes into acting in a theatrical production, we at GSR: wouldn't be surprised if this turned out to be Billy's last season on the show. Only time will tell...
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William Petersen Owns Highly-Prized Top 'Q Score' For TV Actors
According to a recent article found in the
Miami Times:
"Television's top Q score -- a rating of a star's name recognition and likability, little known outside the industry but highly prized within it -- belongs not to any of the buff young cast members of
Grey's Anatomy but to
CSI's comfortable old shoe of a leading man, William Petersen, 55."
Jorja Fox didn't fare to poorly either. She's ranked 5th on the TV Actress Q score list. CSI as a whole did very well. George Eads and Marg Helgenberger's Q scores also placed them in the top five respectively:
Prime-time TV's top Q-score personalities and their ages:
ACTORS
1. William Petersen, CSI (55)
2. Hugh Laurie, House, (48)
3. Christopher Meloni, Law & Order: SVU (47)
4. Sam Waterston, Law & Order (67)
5. George Eads, CSI (41)
ACTRESSES
1. Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU (44)
2. Marg Helgenberger, CSI (49)
3. Reba McEntire, Reba (53)
4. Katherine Heigl, Grey's Anatomy (29)
5. Jorja Fox, CSI (39)
You can read the entire article at
MiamiTimes.com.
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- Now that Jorja Fox has officially confirmed the worst kept secret in the TV biz — she's ditching CSI next month after seven years in the forensics lab — we can start to focus on more important things in life. Like, you know, her return to the show! In her only interview, CSI's top gun, Carol Mendelsohn, weighs in on the circumstances surrounding Fox's exit, responds to published reports that she considered killing her off, previews tonight's big marriage proposal, and utters the words grieving fans have been dying to hear: Sara Sidle will be back.
Are you bummed that something couldn't be worked out to keep Jorja around?
Carol Mendelsohn: I am very bummed. You know, it's been something we've been facing for a while now [so] I've given it a lot of thought. When Jorja expressed her desire to move on — even though I would have loved nothing more than to have had her here for Season 8 and Season 9 and on — you [react] as you would in any family: You love the person and respect them and want them to be happy and fulfilled. If this was the very end for Sara Sidle on CSI, I don't think I could have handled the last few months. But it's not. Jorja was always No. 6 on our call sheet. We're retiring No. 6, so it's there for Jorja when she comes back.
She's definitely returning?
Mendelsohn: Yes. You can count on it.
This season?
Mendelsohn: That I can't say. But the fans will not have seen the last of Sara Sidle. Nor will Grissom.
Would you describe her departure as a mutual decision?
Mendelsohn: No. It was, in the end, Jorja's decision. And we accept it. I think sometimes the fans don't really understand that the writers are fans of the show, too. And we love Sara Sidle. We love writing for Sara Sidle. And, as an actor, it doesn't get better than Jorja. She's phenomenal. So, yeah, it's heartbreaking [for me], as well as for the cast and the crew. I'm almost tearing up now because it's very hard to say goodbye, even if it's [just] goodbye for now.
Did you know she was leaving before you shot the season finale last April?
Mendelsohn: Yes. I didn't have a definitive date, but yes.
There were reports that the original plan was to kill her off in the finale, but Jorja refused to show up to work and shoot her death scene. Is that true?
Mendelsohn: No… I don't, as a fan or a writer, embrace killing off characters — especially when you see this outpouring that we have gotten from the fans in support of keeping Jorja and Sara on the show; it has just been mind-boggling. [We] owe the fans so much and I don't think killing off Sara Sidle would have ever been a way to pay a satisfactory ending for Sara.
So what kind of send-off are you giving her?
Mendelsohn: I’m not telling you. [Laughs]
C'mon.
Mendelsohn: As the season unfolds through November, there is a character arc threaded through the episodes for Sara Sidle. And it is something that will build and build and build until the episode in which she departs, sometime in November.
Can you shed any light on the final scene, like who's in it with her?
Mendelsohn: Jorja is in it with Jorja.
She's by herself?
Mendelsohn: Yes.
What do you make of the intensity of the fan reaction to Jorja's exit?
Mendelsohn: It has been astounding. It's incredible how creative our fans are. We got two cases of chocolate covered insects with the message "
CSI without Sara bugs us." We got a bouquet of red, pink and white balloons with Hershey kisses and the message was, "Don't break our hearts, keep Jorja Fox on
CSI." We got two large cases of Lifesavers with the message, "You were Sara's lifesaver, now be ours, keep Jorja Fox on
CSI." They've been sending money in from all over the world [as part of the] Dollars for Sense campaign. One woman named Kim West from Northern Ireland, she and her friends sent in 60 pound notes, and she wrote a four page letter. It's just been overwhelming how many people love Jorja.
Did you go back to her and beg her to reconsider?
Mendelsohn: I had done everything that I could. But in the end, I respect Jorja. This is something that she wanted to do, and I would never stand in her way. She's coming back at some point anyway.
How long before Grissom is ready to move on?
Mendelsohn: Oh my God. I don't think that Gil Grissom is the kind of guy that moves on quickly. I was thinking about how Gil Grissom thinks about time, and there's an Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore, who said, "The butterfly counts not months, but moments." I think Grissom thinks about time that way. I wouldn't count on Gil Grissom moving on.
What about a little fling here and there?
Mendelsohn: Well, you know, gosh, I don't think of Grissom as a flingy kind of guy. Of course, there is Lady Heather... Grissom's family is the team, and moving forward, you know, that's what Grissom will focus on. His team. His family.
Speaking of Lady Heather, will she be back this season?
Mendelsohn: You know what? We haven't really talked about it. [But the door is] always open. We love Melinda Clarke.
What can you tell me about tonight's episode — specifically the marriage proposal?
Mendelsohn: It's very
CSI-style. David Rambo wrote the scene and he and Jackie Hoyt wrote the episode. We have been talking for months about how to do this. And, originally at the beginning of the season, we had a plan to take Grissom and Sara back to San Francisco, because, as we all know, that's where they first met. And then last week, Grissom found this beehive and it just occurred to us what the scene should be, and I love it. I love it. And again, there are many, many more scenes between them in the last few episodes and they're all terrific.
PART 2 of TV GUIDE Interview~~~ | Exclusive: More CSI Exits Looming? |
 William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger and George Eads, CSI In Part 1 of my interview with CSI boss lady Carol Mendelsohn, she swore that Grissom "will not have seen the last of Sara Sidle" after Jorja Fox departs next month. But what that statement doesn't address is the fact that by the time Sara returns, Grissom may already be gone. With contracts for the rest of the show's primary cast — William Petersen included — set to expire at the end of this season, he and other CSIers could follow Fox out the door. What does Mendelsohn have to say about that? Find out — and get the lowdown on who'll replace Grissom and Sara as the show's next super-couple — in this, the second part of our Q&A. So, who'll fill the couple void left by Grissom-Sara?
Mendelsohn: The new couple may be [one who] sort of started last season that you may not suspect. We have someone who works in the lab and has an interest in another lab tech. Ahhh… Hodges and Wendy. Interesting. There's been speculation about a possible Catherine-Warrick romance.
Mendelsohn: Clearly, among the team there's a lot of love. But it's kind of familial love. I think Grissom and Sara was a very, very special case. So nothing's going to develop between Warrick and Catherine?
Mendelsohn: I'm not saying it's not. But that is a friendship that we developed from the beginning of the series. We don't sit in the writers room and say, "What relationship are we gonna have now?" We were totally invested, all of us, in Grissom and Sara. It's no secret that the contracts of the rest of your main cast will be expiring soon. Is it possible we may be losing more CSIs in the near future?
Mendelsohn: I suppose anything is possible, but I hope that doesn't happen. I think one of the strengths of CSI and one of the pleasures of doing this job is that we have all been together from the beginning. I would love for us to all continue to be together. Do you know where things stand? I imagine talks have already begun.
Mendelsohn: As show-runners, we're responsible for the creative direction of the show; we are not responsible for contract negotiations. Fair enough. Do you see CSI as the type of show that can weather major cast changes, as ER and Law & Order have?
Mendelsohn: Yes. I felt from Day 1 of CSI that the show itself was a living, breathing entity, separate and apart from any of us.... The show is so strong that it could get along without any one of us. That means me or [fellow executive producer] Naren [Shankar] or any producer or writer or cast member. But Gil Grissom is the soul of the show. Gil Grissom is an incredible character. And, you know, it's hard…. I have difficulty thinking about CSI without Grissom and Catherine and Warrick and Nick. But I do believe that people love the show, too, and it could go on. But that doesn't mean it should or we want it to. It's weird. When a show goes on this long, some people start getting itchy feet and want to move on. And I think all of us realized that creatively — and this is separate and apart from anyone's personal decisions about wanting to try other things — we couldn't be more excited or more inspired to be working on this show. We're very lucky that way. Creatively, it's a good place. And I hope that means we'll all stay together. Will Bill be taking another little mini-hiatus this season?
Mendelsohn: I anticipate as the series goes on, yes, he will want to do that, and we'll figure out a creative way for that to happen. Any plans to extend Jessica Lucas' stay?
Mendelsohn: We haven't made that decision yet. I absolutely love Jessica, and I love the character of Ronnie Lake. We've got some great episodes with Ronnie coming up. I would say it's a pretty good bet there'll be a Ronnie in our future. SPOILER PICTURES FOR EPISODE: 'Goodbye and Good Luck' ATTN: JORJA FOX's LAST EPISODE!   |
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