The term "CSI franchise" is commonly used to describe a number of related American television programs created by Anthony E. Zuiker and originally broadcast on CBS, all of which deal with forensic scientists as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths and crimes committed. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a popular Alliance Atlantis/CBS police procedural television series, running since October 2000, about a team of forensic scientists. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Front of new Theatre Anthony E. Zuiker (born August 17, 1968) is the creator and executive producer of the television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. ... This article is about the broadcast network. ...

Overview

As the shows are shown in 200 countries with an audience of 2 billion people,^[1] various spin-offs have been developed to cater for the market, including novels, comic books and computer games. A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ...

The franchise has had a large cultural impact. It has spawned what has been called the CSI Effect, in which juries often have unreasonable expectations of real-life forensics because of what they have seen on CSI. Equally, the new-found popularity of forensics dramas on television has led to an increase in applications for courses dealing with forensic science or archaeological science — in the United Kingdom applications are up by 30%.^[2] In some ways the franchise may also fill a cultural need: The CSI Effect (sometimes referred to as the CSI syndrome) is a reference to the phenomenon of popular television shows such as the CSI franchise, the Law & Order Franchise and Crossing Jordan raising crime victims and jury members real-world expectations of forensic science, especially crime scene investigation and DNA... Forensics redirects here. ... Archaeological science (also known as Archaeometry) is the application of scientific techniques and methodologies to archaeology. ...

"We started in 2000 and it was a success, but our ratings really shot up after the September 11 attacks," Zuiker says in a documentary about the CSI phenomenon to be aired at Christmas. "People were rushing to us for their comfort food. There was a sense of justice in CSI – it helped to know that there were people like our characters out there helping to solve crimes. And, of course, 9/11 was the world's largest crime scene."^[1] Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

Series

There are now three series, the second and third launched with a crossover/pilot episode.

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000-present, 8 seasons)
  • Location: Las Vegas, Nevada.
    • The current cast includes William Petersen as Gil Grissom, Marg Helgenberger as Catherine Willows, George Eads as Nick Stokes, Eric Szmanda as Greg Sanders, Lauren Lee Smith as Riley Adams, Robert David Hall as Al Robbins, Wallace Langham as David Hodges and Paul Guilfoyle as Jim Brass.

• CSI: Miami (2002-present, 6 seasons)
  • Location: Miami, Florida.
    • The current cast includes David Caruso as Horatio Caine, Emily Procter as Calleigh Duquesne, Adam Rodriguez as Eric Delko, Jonathan Togo as Ryan Wolfe, Eva LaRue as Natalia Boa Vista, Rex Linn as Frank Tripp and Boti Ann Bliss as Maxine Valera.
      • CSI Miami first started in the CSI episode "Cross Jurisdictions".

• CSI: NY (2004-present, 4 seasons)
  • Location: New York City.
    • The current cast includes Gary Sinise as Mac Taylor, Melina Kanakaredes as Stella Bonasera, Carmine Giovinazzo as Danny Messer, Hill Harper as Sheldon Hawkes, Anna Belknap as Lindsay Monroe, Eddie Cahill as Donald Flack, Jr.
      • CSI New York first started in the CSI: Miami episode "MIA/NYC NonStop".

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Series Color

Each incarnation of CSI has a distinctive color attained by filming through color filters. The CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is primarily green and blue, CSI: Miami is deep yellow or gold, and CSI: New York is cobalt blue and grey.

Documentaries

Because of the popularity of the CSI franchise in the United Kingdom, Five created two documentaries about CSI. Five, launched in 1997, is the fifth and final national terrestrial analogue television channel to launch in the United Kingdom. ... Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ...

The first one called The Real CSI follows real Crime Scene Investigators as they work on Crime Scenes.

The second documentary entitled True CSI features true tales of how forensic science has helped solve some the world's best known crimes. True CSI had actors re-enacting the crime as well as interviews with people involved in the solving of the crimes themselves. Cases featured included the Sam Sheppard case. For the writer and actor, see Sam Shepard. ...

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Crossovers

Crossovers are possible between CSI series, as well as with other programs within the same creative stable. It has been suggested that Gaming crossovers be merged into this article or section. ...

Between series

The baton is passed to the new CSI series via a crossover/pilot and cases have overlapped and personnel have been shared. Such episodes include: A television pilot is a test episode of an intended television series. ...

• "Cross Jurisdictions", an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and the pilot of CSI: Miami.
• "MIA/NYC NonStop", an episode of CSI: Miami and the pilot of CSI: NY.
• A two-part story started in CSI: Miami ("Felony Flight", aired November 7, 2005) and concluded in CSI: NY ("Manhattan Manhunt", aired November 9, 2005).

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Other shows

There are a family of police procedural programs on CBS (some produced by Jerry Bruckheimer) which could be crossed over with CSI or set in the same fictional universe. Currently the crossovers include: The police procedural is a sub-genre of the mystery story which attempts to accurately depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. ... This article is about the broadcast network. ... Jerome Leon Bruckheimer (born September 21, 1945) is a film and television producer in the genre of action, drama, and science fiction. ...

• Cold Case and CSI: NY - episode "Cold Reveal" (aired May 2, 2007) featured Detective Scotty Valens from Cold Case, which is also produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.^[3]

• Without A Trace and CSI (both are also produced by Jerry Bruckheimer) had a crossover episode, "Who and What," airing on November 9, 2007. The first hour used CSI's timeslot and the second part aired during Without A Trace.

• The popularity of the series has also spawned a slew of forensic based reality television/documentary programs, including A&E's The First 48 and truTV's North Mission Road.

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Soundtrack

The title songs are all performed by The Who: The Who are an English rock band that formed in 1964. ...

• "Who Are You" for CSI.
• "Won't Get Fooled Again" for CSI: Miami.
• "Baba O'Riley" for CSI: NY.

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Crime Labs

• The Las Vegas Lab has a very dark feel to it, and although the sets have changed, they lab is virtually the same as CSI's pilot episode. It is headed up by CSI Supervisor Gil Grissom and his left hand Catherine Willows. The director of the crime lab is Conrad Ecklie.

• The Miami Lab is the most modern of them all, with slanted walls and state of the art technology, this lab has stayed exactly how it was in the crossover episode with CSI: cross jurisdictions. It is headed up by CSI Supervisor Calleigh Desquence and CSI Level 3 (Lt.) Horatio Caine.

• CSI: NY is the only show to have had two labs, the first an old building in which rustic brick contrasts against new, flat panalled walls and top of the range lab equipment. The second lab is a 35th floor office building, with glass walls and state of the art equipment. The second lab was blown up in the Season 3 Finale Snow Day, but has since been restored. Both labs were ran by Detective Mac Taylor, his partner Detective Stella Bonasera and CSI Danny Messer.

Conrad Ecklie is a fictional character on the television series CSI played by Marc Vann. ...

Spin-offs

Comics

Main article: CSI (comic book)

There have been a number of comic books based on all three series, published by IDW Publishing. Writers include Max Allan Collins. The CSI comics are comic book tie-ins with CSI, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY TV shows. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... IDW Publishing (a division of Idea and Design Works) is an American comic book company. ... Max Allan Collins in 1982, posing with a drawing of Dick Tracy. ...

Computer games

Main article: CSI (video games)

The CSI Franchise has spawned a number of computer games, with four based around the Las Vegas team and a fifth set in Miami. CSI has been the basis of a number of video game: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2003) CSI: Dark Motives (2004) CSI: Miami (2004) CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder (2006) CSI: Hard Evidence (2007) Shows CSI: Crime Scene Investigation • CSI: Miami • CSI: NY Creators: Categories: | ...

Websites

The website onthescenenews.com mentioned in the episode Bloodline, Series 5 episode 9, is a 'secret' website containing extra footage from the show.

Exhibition

Main article: CSI: The Experience

Chicago’s Museum of Science & Industry opened an exhibit in CSI's honor on May 25, 2007 called: "CSI: The Experience".^[4]There is also a game on the website were you are trained in forensic biology, weapons and tool mark analyses, toxicology and the autopsy. A view from the lagoon behind the Museum of Science and Industry, the only in-place surviving building from the 1893 World Columbian Exposition and a National Historic Landmark. ... is the 145th day of the year (146th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...

Magazine

Titan Magazines will start publishing CSI Magazine in mid November, 2007. It will contain a mix of features and interviews looking into the world of CSI and the people who help create it.^[5] It will initially be available in the UK^[6] and US.^[7] Titan Magazines is a division of the Titan Publishing Group run by Nick Landau, which also owns several Forbidden Planet specialist comics and collector stores (it should not be confused with Forbidden Planet International, which largely owns similar stores, mostly in the North of England). ...

Novels

Main article: CSI (novels)

Various novelizations have appeared based on the series. Authors include Max Allan Collins (CSI), Donn Cortez (CSI: Miami) and Stuart M. Kaminsky (CSI: NY). The CSI novels are novels that tie-ins with CSI, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY TV shows. ... A novelization (or novelisation in British English) is a work of fiction that is written based on some other media story form rather than as an original work. ... Max Allan Collins in 1982, posing with a drawing of Dick Tracy. ... CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a popular Alliance Atlantis/CBS police procedural television series, running since October 2000, about a team of forensic scientists. ... Don DeBrandt is a Canadian author, who also writes under the name Donn Cortez. ... CSI: Miami is a spinoff of the popular CBS network series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. ... CSI: NY (working title CSI: New York) is an American police procedural television series which premiered on September 22, 2004. ...

Partwork

A CSI partwork, CSI: The DVD Collection,^[8] was produced by Ge Fabbri^[9], which was a fortnightly serialization of the series on DVD with an accompanying magazine which looked at the cast, characters, episodes featured on the DVD and general forensic techniques. A partwork is a written publication released as a series of pre-planned magazine-like issues over a period of time. ...

Toys

A range of toys have been developed. These include:

• "CSI: Forensics Lab"
• "CSI: DNA Laboratory"
• "CSI: Forensic Facial"

However, they have been the source of some controversy. The Parents Television Council, who have complained about CSI in general, have released a statement specifically aimed at the toys:^[10] The Parents Television Council (PTC) is a US-based nonprofit organization run and founded by conservative activist L. Brent Bozell III whose stated goal is to promote and restore responsibility to the entertainment industry. ...

In an e-mail to supporters on Tuesday, PTC said this kind of content is entirely inappropriate for children to be exposed to "because the CSI franchise often displays graphic images, including close-ups of corpses with gunshot wounds and other bloody injuries."
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"The PTC doesn't think the recreation of blood, guts and gore should be under a child's Christmas tree this year," PTC concluded. "This so-called 'toy' is a blatant attempt to market CSI and its adult-oriented content directly to children."
Urging its members to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, PTC said CBS parent company Viacom needs to hear from parents who are concerned about the "graphic scenes of blood, violence, and sex" in their product. They are also asking their supporters to contact Target and Toys 'R' Us. | logo_caption = | seal = US-FederalTradeCommission-Seal. ... This article is about the United States retail company. ... Toys R Us (currently typeset as Toys Я Us in the logo) is a toy store chain based in the United States, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, South Africa, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. ...

In popular culture

There are numerous references to CSI including:

Bizarro's CSI:OZ

• "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife", an episode of The Simpsons in which Homer gives an outline of his perception of a typical CSI: Miami plot "There's this guy that got killed; I think it was in Miami, so CSI: Miami investigated, then a family said how much they love the Olive Garden; then I fell asleep. When I woke up, Letterman was talking to Alias."^[11]

• On the 2003 episode of South Park Lil' Crime Stoppers, the boys give a theory to who might have stolen a woman's pie that's, without justification, very violent and complicated. This theory includes a husband dismembering his wife in a bathtub and getting rid of the torso by throwing it into a lake, all this is shown in a way similar to that of CSI's crime reenactments. In shock the woman screams "Oh my God, what kind of television have you kids been watching?!"

• On February 22, 2006, Dan Piraro spoofed CSI on his comic strip Bizarro by making CSI:OZ.

• In the pilot episode of the UK sci-fi show Torchwood (a spin-off from Doctor Who), "Everything Changes", PC Gwen Cooper and her partner Andy discuss whether the mysterious Torchwood team are DNA experts with Andy saying how he would like to see a CSI: Cardiff, where the investigators would measure the velocity of a flying kebab.

Hallmark's CSI:Topeka

• A segment on Sesame Street goes by the name of RSI: Rhyme Scene Investigation.

• In NCIS, another CBS police procedural, there are three references to CSI:
  • In the pilot episode Yankee White, an airport security guard asks Special Agent Tony DiNozzo if NCIS is "anything like CSI"; DiNozzo's curt reply is "only if you're dyslexic". It is unclear whether this is a reference to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation or to crime scene investigators in general. Actor Gerald McCullouch, who plays ballistics expert Bobby Dawson on CSI, also appears in the episode as an FBI agent.
  • In the episode One Shot, One Kill, DiNozzo and Caitlin Todd are collecting evidence in a toy shop (a sniper's bullet had punched through the wall from the neighbouring USMC recruitment office); the shop clerk (ironically, an actor from the show Bones, another forensic drama) observes that "That's not how they do it on CSI", much to Tony's annoyance. This is patently a reference to the CSI TV show, dispelling theories that the two shows might exist in the same fictional universe.
  • In the episode Witch Hunt (S04 E06), DiNozzo and Gibbs storm into a halloween fancy dress party where they are taken to be in-costume and greeted by a giant carrot with the words "Great group costume guys, but you spelt 'CSI' wrong on your hats!". Gibbs responds by pinning the carrot to the wall while DiNozzo comments "It's not easy being a root vegetable". Again, it is unclear whether this is a reference to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation or to crime scene investigators in general, though the fancy dress element may suggest the former.

• On 2005 Hallmark Cards released a controversial card where they made fun of the Kansas capital Topeka while spoofing CSI. The card implies that Topeka is a city where people die of boredom. Many Topekans where rather offended by this implications.^[12]

Hi and Lois's CSI:Cookie Jar

• CSI was parodied on the Lenny Henry show under the name ForenSIC: UK, with Henry playing a Grissom parody by the name of Dagger. The parody also used a CSI-like opening and The Who's 'Who Are You?' as its theme.

• The flash cartoon Weebl and Bob have their own version of CSI called CSI: PIE AMI^[13]

• Weird Al Yankovic refers to a "CSI: Boise" in his parody of Eminem's song "Lose Yourself", called Couch Potato.

• There's also a reference to CSI in the August 23 of 2007 edition of The Wichita Eagle, when in the comic strip Hi and Lois, Lois Flagstone discovers that it was her son that took a cookie from the cookie jar.

• The Season 1 finale of Entourage has Johnny Drama receiving an opportunity to audition as an extra on the pilot of CSI: Minneapolis, starring Don Johnson.

• In the sketch comedy series Blue Collar TV one episode pokes fun at the many CSI spinoffs with "CSI: Greater Greensborough Tricounty Area," in which detectives played by Bill Engvall and Jeff Foxworthy investigate the shooting death of a deer.

• The Looney Tunes do their own version of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation called Cartoon Scene Investigator.

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Further reading

As well as fictional books based on the franchise there have also been a number of guides published:

• "CSI" Companion (by Mike Flaherty and Corinne Marrinan, 302 pages, Pocket Books, September 2004, ISBN 0743467418)
• Ultimate "CSI": Crime Scene Investigation (by Corinne Marrinan and Steve Parker, 144 pages, Dorling Kindersley, October 2006, ISBN 1405316721)
• Investigating "CSI" (by Donn Cortez, 240 pages, Smart Pop series, BenBella Books, December 2006, ISBN 1932100938)

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