July 20, 2008 The announcement this past week that William Petersen will depart "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" could leave the top-rated forensics drama minus three major characters in the coming season. Jorja Fox, who plays Sara Sidle, left last season, although she will return for multiple episodes in the fall, in a story line paving the way for the departure of Petersen's character, Gil Grissom.
The television news here Wednesday was all about comings and goings: Amy Poehler is leaving "Saturday Night Live" but joining a new prime-time comedy on NBC, which will be the next project of the creative team behind "The Office" but is not now expected to be a direct spinoff of that series.
The television news here Wednesday was all about comings and goings: Dana Edelson Amy Poehler on "Saturday Night Live" Monty Brinton/CBS William Petersen on "CSI" Amy Poehler is leaving “Saturday Night Live” but joining a new prime-time comedy on NBC, which will be the next project of the creative team behind “The Office” but is not now expected to be a direct spinoff of that series.
Crime Scene Investigation star William Petersen will stop being a regular on the series about 10 episodes into next season, Entertainment Weekly's http://www.EW.com reports. Petersen, who plays Gil Grissom on the show, will remain an executive producer and will appear from time to time as a guest star, show insiders told EW's Michael Ausiello . ''I'm in a great place in terms of knowing that I'll be more free to make choices,'' said Petersen, who once took a long break from the show to appear
William Petersen by Robert Voets/CBS I think I hear CSI fans everywhere screaming. We teased casting changes for the CBS drama in a recent Mega Minute , and alas, those changes include William Petersen , whose recently signed contract only guarantees his appearance until the upcoming season's 10th episode, a rep for CBS confirms, following a report from EW 's Ausiello .
Television critic Philip Wakefield chooses the 10 best shows on the box this week, for Tuesday, June 3 to Monday, June 9...Jekyll: Inexplicably, TV One is pre-empting mid-run the excellent James Nesbitt serial, Murphy's Law, for this six-part, ultra-modern take on the Robert Louis Stevenson split personality classic in which, ironically, he also stars.
Dourdan could have served up to three years and eight months behind bars. "Once Gary completes 30 hours of a diversion programme, his case will be entirely dismissed," lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley said. The 41-year-old actor was arrested after police found him asleep in his car outside Palm Springs, last month.
Snow became White House press secretary in April 2006 and served until August. In April, he was hospitalized in Spokane and canceled a lecture at Eastern Washington University. Dourdan pleads guilty Actor Gary Dourdan , 41, pleaded guilty to two of three counts of felony drug possession Wednesday but will not face prison after his April 28 drug arrest outside Palm Springs, Calif., according to his lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley .