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Monday, October 11, 2004
Entire 'CSI' cast still back for new season on Studio 23
IT WASN'T so long ago that CSI: Crime Scene Investigation fans were left shocked by the sudden and shocking firing of two of the show's original cast members, Jorja Fox and George Eads. After all, CSI, which just started its third and most successful season on Studio 23 last Wednesday, had just become America's number one drama, beating out the aging ER, which was itself in the process of losing cast members and most of its dramatic tension.
In comparison, young whippersnapper CSI, which also features stars William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, Paul Guilfoyle and Eric Szmanda, was considered a legend-in-the-making: a flashy, dramatic and fast-paced drama with a brain.
As such, the loss of the two actors - who, rumor had it, were deliberately missing working days in an attempt to force the network to give them a raise from their usual US$100,000 per episode rate - was a hot-button topic for fans and critics alike.
After all, Fox played Sarah Sidle, the youngest and most sensitive member of the hit show's fictional Las Vegas' forensic team. And Eads was the tall, dark and hunky Nick Stokes, who brought sex appeal into the show's dry, scientific environment.
Losing them, their supporters argued, would mean a great loss of heart for the exciting show, which had also emerged as a valuable new franchise for CSI's US network CBS, with one CSI spin-off already on air and another one on the way.
Soon, rabid online fans were mounting letter campaigns and signing petitions to get Fox and Eads back to the show. Even Eads got his own word in, publicly apologizing for his missed workday by saying "I woke up white as a sheet three and a half hours after I was supposed to be on the set," he told the writers, insisting that his failure to show up was not related to his demands. Soon, CBS caved to the pressure, and rehired Fox and Eads back - but without giving them the yearly increase the CSI normally got.
So are they worth it? Find out for yourself in the exciting new third season episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, airing every Wednesday at 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. only on Studio 23. (PR)
(October 11, 2004 issue)
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