LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Long-running TV alternation
"CSI:Crime Scene Investigation" will booty on a beneath austere accent
this division as above "Cheers" amateur Ted Danson joins the casting of
argumentative detectives, producers said on Wednesday.
But in a abruptness announcement, advance extra
Marg Helgenberger told reporters that she affairs to leave at the end
of the accessible 12th division of what CBS says is the best watched TV
alternation in the world.
Helgenberger, who plays above CSI administrator
Catherine Willows, said she had advised abrogation at the end of
aftermost season, but absitively she was "having a adamantine time
absolution go and that I was not yet done arena this character. That's
why I absitively to extend (my contract) a little bit."
Danson, 63, takes over from the abandonment
Laurence Fishburne (Dr. Raymond Langston), arena a fresh appearance
D.B. Russell -- a ancestors man with four children, an anarchistic
hippie upbringing, and a acceptable sex life.
Executive ambassador Carol Mendelsohn said
Russell has his own different action for analytic crimes, abacus that
"the division will be a little lighter. There is added amusement than
there was aftermost season.
"Season 12 -- that's a lot of years, and we
capital to accelerate the admirers and accelerate ourselves as
writers," Mendelsohn added of the change of tone.
"CSI" is one of the best admired franchises at
CBS and is accountant in 200 countries. But U.S. audiences accept
collapsed by about four amateur admirers in the accomplished two years
back aboriginal amateur William Petersen larboard the appearance in
2009 and Fishburne took over, bringing a far added austere bend to the
series.
CBS ball arch Nina Tassler accustomed that
Peterson's abandonment had been "impactful". But she said that Danson
brings a huge fan abject and could allure fresh audiences for the
series.
"It is a acknowledged show, continued running, and I anticipate it is a abundant befalling for us," Tassler said.
Emmy-award acceptable amateur Danson -- best
accepted as the skirt-chasing bar buyer Sam Malone on the 1980s ball
"Cheers" -- said he was afraid but admiring at the adventitious of
abiding to a arch role on a top-rated arrangement TV series.
"I was thrilled, happy... My jaw is still blind bottomward a little bit from the addition of all this.
"I adulation activity to work. I am so blessed
to adhere with this cast...to be able to footfall into that atmosphere
is a joy," he said.
Danson additionally appear another, little
accepted accomplishment for his fresh role. "I grew up about skulls. My
ancestor was an archeologist in Arizona and I would go on address with
my dad as a kid."
Danson makes his admission in the fresh division premiere on September 21
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