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  • Elisabeth Shue: ‘CSI’s’ Finlay Won’t Join Cast for 2-Hour Fall Finale Movie

    Elisabeth Shue has played the role of Julie Finlay on the CBS hit drama CSI since 2012, but that doesn’t mean she will appear in the show’s movie finale.

    CBS has plans to air a 2-hour finale to wrap CSI in a special this fall. Elisabeth Shue has no plans to take part in the filming of the TV movie.

    Several CSI regulars plan to continue or reprise their roles for the show’s finale. Marg Helgenberger will reprise her role as Catherine Willows. William Peterson will return in his role as Gil Grissom. Ted Danson, who will appear in the finale, is staying with the CSI franchise. He will move over to the network’s newest CSI spinoff, CSI: Cyber.

    It’s uncertain how CBS plans to handle the absence of Elisabeth Shue in the CSI finale. Julie Finlay has long been an integral part of the story lines. It will seem odd without her in the show’s last hurrah.

    Elisabeth Shue appeared in CSI’s season 15 finale. Called The End Game, that episode was shot before the network announced the cancellation of the show. Julie Finlay was in a coma when fans last saw her on CSI. Will the 2-hour special find her counterparts mourning her passing?

    Why do you suppose Elisabeth Shue won’t appear on the series finale of CSI? Might there be some unreported bad blood there–or has the actress got something new and even more exciting up her sleeve?

    The 2-hour CSI finale will air on CBS on September 27.

  • Marg Helgenberger To Do Extended Guest Role On “Under The Dome”

    Marg Helgenberger will be joining Under the Dome for its third season beginning this summer.

    The drama, based on the Stephen King novel, will premiere June 25th with a two-hour premiere from 9-11 p.m.

    Then Under the Dome, with Marg Helgenberger on for a good part of the summer, will move to its regular slot at 10 p.m. Thursday, July 2, after Big Brother.

    The slot after Big Brother pretty much guarantees lots of viewers, as Big Brother is extremely popular in the summer and is in its 17th season.

    Marg Helgenberger will be in good company as she makes her appearance on Under the Dome.

    The show is from showrunner Neal Baer of ER and Law & Order: SVU fame.

    As a CSI: Crime Scene Investigation alum and current star on Intelligence, Marg Helgenberger is no stranger to suspenseful dramas, but Under the Dome should be an exciting new experience.

    While details on Marg Helgenberger’s role are not available yet, she is sure to be outstanding and will definitely be seen and appreciated by a large audience.

    After all, Under the Dome was last summer’s most-watched show with 11.3 million viewers. It was also the highest-rated show among adults ages 18-49.

    I mean, what’s not to love? Stephen King, Neal Baer, and Marg Helgenberger all involved in one project!

    If you haven’t watched yet, you’re missing out. The premise of the show is so interesting.

    Under the Dome is about a perfect small town that is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an enormous transparent dome. Then human nature slowly takes over.

    This next season, the mysteries of what the dome’s purpose is and what it wants will be fully and dramatically explored. And there will be lots of Marg Helgenberger.

    What do you think? Do you watch Under the Dome?

    Do you think Marg Helgenberger will be a great addition?

  • Marg Helgenberger Back with ‘Intelligence’

    Marg Helgenberger Back with ‘Intelligence’

    Marg Helgenberger returns to television in a new CBS drama costarring Lost‘s Josh Holloway.

    The drama, which premieres Tuesday at 9 p.m., centers on Holloway, who plays a high-tech intelligence operative named Gabriel.

    Helgenberger plays Lillian Strand, head of a top-secret US government agency in charge of cyber security. She is tasked with the mission of protecting and supervising Gabriel who is capable of mentally infiltrating enemy strongholds thanks to a nano computer chip implanted in his brain. The problem is he could be hacked or infected with a computer virus.

    The show highlights moral issues associated with our high-tech way of life.

    “I love the questions it’s bringing up because they’re questions we face every day,” said Holloway. “What’s the relationship between our humanity and technology? Do we need a gadget to communicate now? If you’re a teenager, the answer is ‘yes.’ It’s changing the way we relate to the world and how patient or impatient we are with information.”

    The 55-year-old actress left CSI in 2012 to explore other acting opportunities, especially on the stage.

    “Certainly I adored the cast, crew and writers,” she says. “It wasn’t that I was needing to get out of that situation. But creatively, I felt like I needed to switch it up. I didn’t think about going back into [another TV] series until later because I was really hoping to find a play.”

    The redheaded beauty, who’s as well known for her own intelligence as the character she plays, eventually was drawn back to television with the challenging role of Lillian Strand in ‘Intelligence’.

    “I have a fair amount of dialogue, and sometimes, it’s not the easiest stuff. There’s a lot of ‘spy speak’ and terminology and acronyms. I’m not bored on this show, not at all.”

    Image via Wikimedia

  • Marg Helgenberger Intelligent Star of ‘Intelligence’

    Marg Helgenberger, who became almost as equally known by her TV character’s name of Catherine Willows, recently reflected on the best moments of the popular television show, CSI, with TV Guide. After all, it is a pretty big deal for a television show to film 300 episodes.

    However, the popular actress is also focusing on her newest project the CBS action drama, Intelligence, which has been created by Michael Seitzman and will also star Josh Holloway of Lost fame. The show will center on an ex-special forces operative who has a microchip embedded into his brain and as such is privy to an unprecedented amount of information. Though tough and powerful, Josh Holloway’s character (Gabriel Black) has a minder, Riley O’Neil, who is played by Meghan Ory. Marg Helgenberger serves as the director, Lillian, who is responsible for overseeing the missions.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz1vtciSRYc

    Marg Helgenberger has become well known for her beauty and onscreen presence as well as her personal intelligence where her Alma Mater is Northwestern University — fitting that she should star in a television show with the title of Intelligence. The show aims to portray many intense action scenes and thought-provoking scenarios relating to global-communication and connectivity.

    However, Helgenberger has also become well-known lately for her personal intelligence as well as her political stance as shown from her vocal support of the ongoing healthcare reform promoted as Obamacare.

    [Images Via Wikimedia Commons And Courtesy of Gage Skidmore]

  • Marg Helgenberger Talks Memorable “CSI” Scenes

    Marg Helgenberger will be reprising her role as Catherine Willows for the 300th episode of “CSI” tonight, and she recently sat down with TV Guide to talk about some of the more memorable moments in the series.

    Although the show focuses on a lot of grisly, dark, and sad stories, there are also some lighter moments between the characters which have stood out over the years. Helgenberger–along with the show’s executive producer, Carol Mendelsohn–says that many of those episodes are ones which include guest stars, such as country star Taylor Swift and Liev Schreiber. But one in particular stands out to Helgenberger because of an element she wasn’t familiar with beforehand: adults dressing up in furry costumes.

    “I didn’t know much about this world, so before we shot the episode, the director and I went to an event where people came wearing tails,” said Helgenberger. “A lot of the extras we used were actually into that. God bless them.”

    The show has not only managed to keep its large and loyal fanbase over the years, it has only grown in popularity. Relative newcomer to the show Ted Danson says that’s because the writing is so good.

    “It’s pretty rare that a show does 300 episodes and is still one of the top one or two in the world,” he said. “The writing attracts the good actors, and then you get the great directors, but it starts in the writing.”

    Mendelsohn picked her top ten episodes, some of which include cases that never got solved; in fact, tonight’s episode will flash back to one of those cases. The show will air on CBS at 10 p.m.

  • Marg Helgenberger Returns To ‘CSI’ For 300th Episode

    Marg Helgenberger, or “Catherine Willows” as she is better known to CSI fans everywhere, is returning to the CBS hit show for the series’ 300th episode. The season beginning Wednesday, September 6 will mark the start of the original Crime Scene Investigation‘s 14th season. (CSI’s avid Las Vegas fan base ignited several other spin-offs of the series.)

    Of Marg’s return, executive producer Don McGill said, “We were just really excited to have Marg come back because, obviously, she’s such an important part of the history of CSI.” He then added, “And she was super excited. It was kismet!” Helgenberger does seem excited, tweeting from the set:

    Helgenberger’s character, forensic scientist Catherine Willows, left the show halfway through the 12th season; she went out in a two-episode bid farewell, “Ms. Willows Regrets,” and “Willows in the Wind,” in which Willows’ hard work on a case earns her a job offer from the FBI and she accepts. “Willows in the Wind,” Helgenberger’s final performance, originally aired on January 25, 2012, drawing a staggering number of spectators.

    Helgenberger’s work on CSI has earned her two Emmy nominations, a Golden Globe nomination, and a cast-wide SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2005. She also went out as one of the two highest-grossing actors on any CSI; she reportedly renewed her 2010 contract with CBS for a sweet sum of $325,000 per episode. (Which was $25,000 more each week than even Laurence Fishburne earned.)

    Asked last January how she felt about leaving CSI after more than ten years and 263 episodes, Helgenberger said, “Letting go of a show that has been an enormous part of my life for 12 years isn’t easy.” Revealing the reason for her decision, she went on to say, “I instinctively felt it was time to end that chapter of my career.”

    It was abuzz that Helgenberger was leaving to pursue more acting jobs on Broadway and in films; she has only now just accepted a job, starring in the pilot episode of a new series, Intelligence, which will air this Fall.

    Willows’ return to the drama will be partly through flashbacks; McGill says, “We will flash back 14 years to seminal moments that show Catherine (Helgenberger), Nick (George Eads), Sara (Jorja Fox), Greg (Eric Szmanda) and Ecklie (Marc Vann) as they were, [and how that] informed the evolution of the characters now. It’s going to be a really fun episode, very emotional, that honors 14 years of CSI.”

    The ‘seminal moments’ McGill is referring to were described as being bits and pieces of a homicide that was never solved in 2000, and has now come back around to haunt the team. Willows has come back to help the original crew solve the case once and for all.

    Helgenberger’s upcoming apperance will most definitely be a blowout as far as viewers are concerned; the second part of Catherine Willows’ two-episode farewell raked in more than 14.26 million audience members. “Willows in the Wind” brought more viewers than any other CSI of the season.

    You can catch Willows and the rest of the gang on CBS on October 23; the 14th season premiere (sans Willows) will air on Wednesday, September 25 at 10 p.m. ET.