CSI: NY

CSI: NY
CSI:NY Cast The Cast of CSI: NY (credits: CBS)
Created by	Anthony E. Zuiker Carol Mendelsohn Ann Donahue
Starring	Gary Sinise Melina Kanakaredes Carmine Giovinazzo Anna Belknap Hill Harper Eddie Cahill Robert Joy Claire Forlani Sonya Walger
Country of origin	USA & Canada
No. of episodes	47 as of May 17, 2006
Production
Running time	45 Minutes
Original release
Network	CBS & CTV
Release	May 17, 2004 (on CSI: Miami) September 22, 2004 – present

CSI: NY is an American police procedural television series which premiered on September 22, 2004. The series was the second spinoff from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and was introduced during an episode of CSI: Miami when Horatio Caine journeyed to New York City in pursuit of a murder suspect who fled Miami. It is much bloodier than the Miami version, and was filmed in a hard blue light until Season 2, when CBS President Les Moonves wanted to make the show appear "less cold".

Another crossover (between NY and Miami) was featured on November 7 (CSI: Miami) and November 9, 2005 (CSI: NY), which involved a crashed plane and an escaped serial killer, and included members of both casts.

Like the other two CSI programs, the theme song is by The Who; this time the song is "Baba O'Riley", also (erroneously) known as "Teenage Wasteland".

Cast

Main characters

• Detective 1st Grade Mac Taylor, played by Gary Sinise, is the leader of the CSI team. The death of his wife, Claire, in the 9/11 attacks troubles him to this day, causing chronic insomnia. He served in the USMC, once saying that he had wanted to serve the country more than anything else in the world. He served in Beirut in 1983, which he still has a scar over his heart from. Mac has a close friendship with Stella Bonasera and plays bass guitar at jazz clubs during his off time. This talent was discovered by Lindsay when she discovered the he knew how to hold the bass guitar. In season three, he is revealed to have been dating Dr. Peyton Driscoll, played by Claire Forlani.

• Detective 1st Grade Stella Bonasera, played by Melina Kanakaredes, is absolutely devoted to her job. She is often referred to as the 'Statue of Liberty', due to her strong personality, determination and intelligence. She is a half-Greek, half-Italian orphan, who grew up moving throughout foster homes. She is very close to Mac and constantly worries about his physical and mental well-being. After discovering that her boyfriend Frankie had secretly taped them making love and uploaded the footage to the Internet, she broke off their relationship. She was forced to kill Frankie in self-defense after he stalked her and held her hostage in her own apartment.

• Detective 3rd Grade Danny Messer, played by Carmine Giovinazzo, was born as Daniel Messer. Danny grew up on Staten Island in an "Italian Mafia" family under surveillance (as hinted at in the episode "Tanglewood"), he formed his own set of hybrid ethics, caught between the world of lawbreakers and lawmakers. Mac personally selected Danny for his team, an honor and a responsibility that he attempts to live up to each day. His relationship with Mac is severely tested when Danny goes to Internal Affairs behind Mac's back ("On the Job") and almost loses his job, although he ends up being merely removed from the promotion grid and demoted to CSI second class. He is a very suspicious person; though he gets along well with the rest of the CSI team, Flack is one of the few people he truly confides in. Danny attended college and played minor league baseball until he got into a bar fight and broke his wrist, after which he went to the police academy and graduated first in his class ("The Closer"). Almost a year after the original Tanglewood case, Danny is implicated in a 15 year-old cold case. His older brother Louie, a Tanglewood gang member, is severely beaten by the gang and left in a coma, although he manages to get a taped confession from the real killer which clears Danny of the charge with the help of Mac. Danny also has a budding friendship with crime lab newcomer Lindsay, whom he affectionately calls "Montana".

• Dr. Sheldon Hawkes, played by Hill Harper, formerly a Medical Examiner with the NYC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME). He was a child prodigy who graduated college at eighteen, and by 24 he was a fully board-licensed surgeon. After losing two patients, he abandoned surgery in favor of the medical examiner's office. At the start of season 2, Hawkes has moved from the autopsy room out into the field.

• Detective 1st Grade Don Flack, played by Eddie Cahill, Born Donald Flack .Jr, comes from a long line of law enforcement officials. He bridges the gap between old school NYPD and the new generation of CSI. He is a witty homicide detective who has very little patience with the "bad guy", and his techniques are sometimes considered somewhat borderline, though effective. He is good friends with Danny Messer, and is always willing to lend an ear to Danny's problems (as in the episode "On The Job"). During the season 2 finale, Flack was severely injured in a bomb explosion, and is still in a coma heading into season 3.

• Detective 3rd Grade Lindsay Monroe, played by Anna Belknap (season 2 - present), a forensic scientist from Bozeman, Montana who transferred in at Mac's request after Aiden Burn was fired. She joined during episode "Zoo York". Danny teasingly calls her "Montana," which annoys her, but Sid poses the thought that Danny calls her that because he is harboring a crush on her. She has become good friends with Stella, who has given her some advice about living and working in the big city. Lindsay is known for Midwestern manners, such as taking off her shoes before entering a suspect's house. Despite being a newcomer to the crime lab, she seems to work well with the rest of the team. She takes her work seriously, especially when cases involve victims from small towns.

Former characters

• Detective Aiden Burn, played by Vanessa Ferlito (seasons 1-2). Aiden was a Brooklyn native who has the ability to adapt to new situations very quickly. She was dismissed from the team in season two, episode 2 "Grand Murder At Central Station" after becoming obsessed with a rape case and considering planting evidence to implicate a suspect, D.J. Pratt. She did not actually plant the evidence, but broke the seal on an evidence packet, throwing her credibility into question. Because of this, Mac felt he had no choice but to fire her to preserve the integrity of the CSI lab. Aiden agreed with his decision to fire her because she didn't know if she would resist the temptation in the future. After her dismissal from the crime lab, Aiden was apparently working on getting her private investigator's license while she was trying to bring down the rape suspect in the case that haunted her. In the penultimate season 2 episode "Heroes", she was ambushed and murdered by D.J. Pratt and incinerated inside a stolen car. In the heat of the moment, she left behind critical evidence that she knew would help her former colleagues close in on the perpetrator. Aiden's murder devastated Mac and the rest of the team, particularly Danny, to whom she was especially close.

Recurring characters

• Dr. Sid Hammerback (Robert Joy, season 2-), a Medical Examiner described as an "off-the-charts genius" who only recently traded in a career as a chef to become medical examiner.
• Jane Parsons (Sonya Walger), head of the DNA Lab.
• Zack Shannon (David Julian Hirsh, season 2 - ), a tech in the Trace Lab.
• Adam Ross (A.J. Buckley, season 2-)
• Dr. Peyton Driscoll (Claire Forlani, season 3 - ), a new Medical Examiner from London who is a love interest of Detective Mac Taylor. She used to work with both Mac and Hawkes. She will debut in season 3's premiere.
• Detective Jennifer Angell (Emmanuelle Vaugier, season 3 - ), a new detective who helps the CSI's, while Detective Don Flack is recovering from his injuries. She will debut in season 3's premiere.
• Shane Casey (Edward Furlong), season 3 - ), a young man embroiled in a case where a serial killer uses the codes and stories found on a series of trendy t-shirts as inspiration for his grisly killings. Introduced in the fourth episode of season 3.

Former recurring characters

• Detective Kaile Maka (Kelly Hu, season 1-2), sometimes accompanies the CSIs on investigations.
• Leonard Giles (J. Grant Albrecht, season 1), head of the tech lab, former runner now paralyzed from the waist down.
• Chad Willingham (Chad Lindberg, season 1), a lab technician.
• Dr. Evan Zao (Ron Yuan, season 2), who was supossed to replace Dr. Hawkes as Medical Examiner after he took field work, but only appeared in 4 episodes.

Episode list

Main article: List of CSI: NY episodes

U.S. Television Ratings

Seasonal rankings (based on average total viewers per episode) of CSI: NY on CBS.

Note: Each U.S. network television season starts in late September and ends in late May, which coincides with the completion of May sweeps.

Season	Timeslot	Season Premiere	Season Finale	TV Season	Ranking	Viewers (in millions)
1st	Wednesday 10:00PM	September 22, 2004	May 18, 2005	2004-2005	#21	13,5
2nd	Wednesday 10:00PM	September 28, 2005	May 17, 2006	2005-2006	#22	14,0
3rd	Wednesday 10:00PM	September 20, 2006	-	2006-2007	-	-

DVD releases

R1 DVD releases

DVD Name	Release Date
CSI: NY Season 1	October 18 2005
CSI: NY Season 2	October 3 2006
CSI: NY Season 3	TBA

R2 DVD releases

Region 2 DVD releases have followed a pattern whereby each season is progressively released in two parts (each of 11 or 12 episodes, with special features split up) before finally being sold as a single box set.

DVD Name	Release Date
CSI: NY Season 1 Part 1	October 24 2005
CSI: NY Season 1 Part 2	March 27 2006
CSI: NY Complete Season 1	March 27 2006
CSI: NY Season 2 Part 1	September 19 2006
CSI: NY Season 2 Part 2	October 23 2006
CSI: NY Complete Season 2	TBA
CSI: NY Season 3 Part 1	TBA
CSI: NY Season 3 Part 2	TBA
CSI: NY Complete Season 3	TBA

Online sales

Country	Store	Avilable Season
USA	iTunes Store	2

International Broadcasters

Country	Name	Translation	TV Network	Series Premiere	Weekly Schedule
United States			CBS	September 22 2004	Wednesday 10:00pm ET
Canada			CTV (first run), TQS (syndication, french version of the show)	September 22 2004 on CTV and September 5 2006 on TQS	Wednesday on CTV and Tuesday 9:00pm ET on TQS
Australia			Nine Network		Tuesday
Austria			ORF	August 29 2005	Wednesday
Belgium			VT4		Thursday
Brazil			AXN	November 4 2004	----
Colombia			AXN, RCN
Costa Rica			AXN		Thursday
Croatia			RTL Televizija	March 15 2005	Wednesday
Czech Republic			AXN		Thursday
Finland	C.S.I. New York		MTV3	March 22 2006	Wednesday
France	Les Experts: Manhattan	The Experts: Manhattan	TF1
Germany			VOX	August 29 2005	Monday
Greece			NET		Thursday
Hong Kong			ATV		Friday
Hungary			Viasat3		Thursday
India			AXN		Sunday
Italy			Italia 1		Thursday
Japan	CSI:ニューヨーク	CSI: New York	WOWOW	January 7, 2006	Saturday 11:00pm JST
South Korea			AXN, Orion Cinema Network, Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation
Latin America			AXN		Wednesday
Malaysia			AXN		Tuesday
Netherlands	CSI: New York		RTL 5	March 6 2005	Thursday 8:30pm
New Zealand			TV3		Wednesday
Norway			TVNorge		Thursday
Philippines			AXN		Tuesday
Poland			AXN	March 5 2005	From Monday till Friday at 8:00 PM
Portugal	C.S.I.: Nova Iorque	C.S.I.: New York	SIC and AXN		Thursday 00:30 AM (SIC)
Romania			AXN	March 5 2005	Thursday
Singapore			AXN		Tuesday
Slovenia			POP TV	September 1 2005	Thursday
South Africa			M-Net		Thursday
Spain	C.S.I.: Nueva York	C.S.I.: New York	AXN and Telecinco		----
Sweden			Kanal 5	April 11 2005	----
Taiwan			AXN		Monday
Turkey			CNBC-e		----
United Kingdom			Five (first run), Five US (syndication)		Saturday 9:00pm
Venezuela	C.S.I.: Nueva York	Escena del Crimen: Nueva York	Televen		----

U.S. syndication

In November 2004, the Spike TV network purchased the syndication rights to the series for a record price of US$1.9 million per episode. The network already owns the rights to CSI:Crime Scene Investigation for which it paid US$1.6 million per episode. CSI: NY joins the Spike line-up on October 1, 2006.

Trivia

• The show's working title was CSI: New York.
• The first two seasons of the show aired in the same time slot as NBC's Law & Order, a much older crime drama also set in New York City.
• Except for Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, and Anna Belknap, all of the cast members are from New York. However, Sinise and Belknap have both lived in NY at some point.
• Andy Garcia was originally offered the lead role, a character who would have been named Detective Rick Calucci. He declined the role, as did Ray Liotta, who later accepted a lead role in another CBS series, Smith.
• Anthony E. Zuiker wanted The Who's "Behind Blue Eyes" to be the show's theme song. However, CBS president Leslie Moonves turned it down in favor of "Baba O'Riley" which was also performed by The Who.
• Stella's name was derived from Stella Kowalski from A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and Salvatore Corsitto's character Amerigo Bonasera from The Godfather (1972).
• The cell phones that are used in the show are Palm Treo 650's.
• The show is the only one of the C.S.I. franchise to not win an Emmy.
• The show is filmed mainly in Los Angeles
• The show inaccurately portrays the NYPD chain of command, bureaus and units.

External links

• CBS CSI: NY official site (Flash required)
• CSI Files - unofficial news site
• CSI Guide - unofficial guide to all of the CSI shows
• CSI: NY at IMDb
• The CSI New York fanlisting
• CSI: NY at the TV IV
• Songs and music featured in CSI: NY
• Crimelab.NL - CSI: NY - Contains an episode guide, quotes, facts, wallpapers, screen shots and message board.
• TV.com: CSI: New York News and Information about the show