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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.

  • Kirsten Dunst, Ted Danson Get Ready Do Their Best Fargo Accents

    Kirsten Dunst, you’ve got red on you.

    Dunst and Ted Danson have signed on to the new season of Fargo, and although two new trailers give us glimpses at what we’re in for, they really don’t give away too much, leaving us itching to find out more.

    The teasers live up to their names, with one showing Dunst’s character washing her hands at a beauty shop and the other giving us a look at Danson, who sports a big beard and a Fargo accent. Adam Arkin, Patrick Wilson, Brad Garrett, Jean Smart, Michael Hogan, and Jeffrey Donovan also star in the new season, which looks to pack just as much violence as the last. Dunst plays the wife of Breaking Bad actor Jesse Plemons, and according to Entertainment Weekly, the couple gets get “caught in a brutal war of crime”.

    The new season will take place nearly 30 years in the past, and will see Patrick Wilson take on the role of the younger Lou Solverson, who was played by Keith Carradine in season one. Lou will focus on a local gang and their criminal exploits.

    Kirsten started the rumor mill churning earlier this year when she began stepping out in baggy sweatshirts, prompting speculation that she was expecting with her beau Garrett Hedlund. She also said in an interview that she was in “baby mode” because she has friends who are starting families.

    ‘I’m in baby mode because two of my really good friends are pregnant right now. One of them is pretty chilled and the other’s like, ‘I can’t wait to have a glass of wine!’ I love it though. We’ve already picked her girl’s name, it’s done! I think 33 is a good age to have your first baby,” Kirsten Dunst said.

  • William Petersen Back on CSI; CSI Canceled

    Well, crap. The fine folks that run the CSI franchise series of shows are finally bringing back Gil Grissom. William Petersen, who has only appeared on the show in absentee form for several seasons now, will reprise his role as the former leader of the original CSI team in Las Vegas.

    The bad news is that this won’t happen until a feature-length movie that closes out the series’ 15-year run.

    This announcement comes at a time when television networks are dropping tons of dead weight, giving the axe to shows that some thought were going to be around forever. Even American Idol is being shown the door.

    When the announcement came down that CSI was headed out to pasture, the buzz was all about whether or not William Petersen would never end up showing his face again. If they wanted to rescue the show, all they would have to do is bring Gil back. But William Petersen has not been interested in returning to the show full time.

    Oh, and they’re having Marg Helgenberger drop back in too.

    But didn’t hey just do a new spin-off, CSI: Cyber, with Patricia Arquette? Yep. And Ted Danson is moving over to that show.

    Maybe, just maybe, they show William Petersen on a roller coaster in the finale. Maybe he’ll get to visit his favorite dominatrix again. Maybe he’ll do more of that gross talk about bugs and pig cadavers.

    Maybe we should just go back and binge watch the first few seasons. But, hey. They had a 15-year run.

    The two-hour TV movie finale will air on Sept. 27.

  • Elisabeth Moss Shares 25 Things Fans Might Not Know About Her

    Elisabeth Moss, 32, has a new Indie film, The One I Love , opening in theaters on Aug. 22. In an interview with Us Weekly, the Mad Men actress shared 25 things her fans might not know about her.

    Here is her list:

    1. I have an extraordinary amount of shorts. I wear them all the time.
    2. I can’t swim underwater without holding my nose.
    3. I love showers and take them twice a day.
    4. I like traveling alone.
    5. Red wine is my friend.
    6. I swallow my gum. Like, all the time.
    7. I don’t like tea.
    8. I dry-clean my pajamas so they stay soft and perfect.
    9. New York is my favorite city in the world.

    10. I’m a great napper.
    11. My least favorite thing is having to get up early.
    12. J.D. Salinger is my favorite author.
    13. I love TV and watch a lot of it.
    14. I contemplated being a country singer when I was about 11 years old.

    15. I am obsessed with sushi.
    16. I don’t have any tattoos. I think about getting one every day, but then I get scared.
    17. I prefer brunet men to blonds, but I prefer being blonde rather than brunette.
    18. Every two years, I take up knitting. I’ve never finished a scarf, but I love buying yarn.
    19. Disneyland makes me extremely happy.
    20. I have two cats, named Lucy and Ethel. They are sisters, and I adore them.

    21. I love the sound of rain, and I love lying in the sun.
    22. It’s best not to speak to me pre-morning coffee.
    23. I want to live inside an Anthropologie store.
    24. I text way too much.
    25. I love flowers and wish I owned a flower shop.

    The One I Love is the story of Ethan (Mark Duplass) and Sophie (Moss), who are struggling with their marriage. Deciding to embark on a journey to figure things out, they seek a therapist (Ted Danson), who suggests they take a special retreat. Telling the couple the retreat has helped countless other couples, the couple heed his advice and off they go.

    “When they get there, weird sh– happens,” said first time director Charlie McDowell to Entertainment Weekly, unwilling to share more for fear of divulging spoilers.

    “It’s an in-depth relationship study,” said Duplass. “When you first start dating someone, or are trying to date someone, you present yourself as this person who is probably a lot cooler, smarter, more sensitive, more well read than you really are. And then you get to know them and you feel more comfortable, then you start to reveal that you are petty and a little jealous and a little snarky. That is a fascinating thing to us. How do you maintain that relationship and that love when the people you’re with start to change? We try to use a very pointed, odd plot device to examine that.”

    Image via Wikimedia Commons

  • Ted Danson Will Always Be Sam Malone, Even To Himself

    Ted Danson has had a long and fruitful acting career, but many of us still identify him with the role that catapulted his career: Sam Malone, the womanizing former baseball player-turned bar owner on “Cheers”. But he probably won’t hold it against us, because he feels the same way.

    “I am forever grateful for Cheers. It’s the reason why I’m sitting here now. Plus I think of everything I do as Sam Malone – Sam Malone sees dead people now, Sam Malone becomes a doctor,” he said.

    Indeed, the characters on “Cheers” quickly became some of the most beloved in television history, with the iconic theme song and opening credits landing a place in our nostalgia center. The actor–whose latest role is that of D.B. Russell on “CSI”–recently got the chance to reunite with former castmate John Ratzenberger (“Cliff”) when he landed a guest starring role on the show, and said he was impressed with his old friend.

    “As we were running lines, I was sitting there going ‘Wow. He’s good.’ I didn’t even know my lines, and he’s really good,” Danson said.

    Danson’s wife, actress Mary Steenburgen, has had some success of her own in the world of film and television, but most recently began turning to music and just signed a record deal with Universal. Steenburgen says she had never been musical until an “epiphany” she had after undergoing surgery. Soon after, she had written 40 songs.

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  • Ted Danson’s Daughter To Appear On ‘CSI’

    Ted Danson’s Daughter To Appear On ‘CSI’

    Last week, CBS Entertainment announced that actor Ted Danson has signed on for two more years on the network TV show CSI. His character, D.B. Russel, will continue to be on the crime mystery show during season 14, along with co-stars Elisabeth Shue, George Eads, and others. This week, an actress Danson is very close to personally revealed that she will also be guest-starring on CSI this season.

    Speaking with WENN, Kate Danson, daughter of Ted Danson, stated that she will be guest-starring in an upcoming episode of CSI. The 33-year-old actress said that shooting the appearance was “fun” and that it was the first time the father-daughter couple had worked together professionally.

    In her appearance on CSI, Kate Danson will play a lawyer who challenges the CSI team over legal issues. The episode is scheduled to air in April.

    (Image courtesy BankingBurn/Wikimedia Commons)

  • Ted Danson to Return to CSI in Season 14

    CBS Entertainment today announced that CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has been renewed for its 14th season, which will air in 2013 and 2014. The hit show has been airing on CBS since 2000.

    The studio also announced that star Ted Danson will be returning to the show. The Cheers actor has signed on for two more years with the network show. Actress Elisabeth Shue will also return for the show’s 14th season.

    “CSI is synonymous with CBS, and we are so proud of the series’ creative and commercial legacy and its continued success on our Network,” said Nina Tassler, president of CBS Entertainment. “The writers and producers have done an amazing job evolving CSI, reinventing the show around an incredible leading man in Ted Danson, the acclaimed Elisabeth Shue and our beloved and talented core of original cast members.”

    Danson has played the character D.B. Russel on the crime mystery show for the past two seasons. Other returning cast members include George Eads, Jorja Fox, Eric Szmanda, Paul Guilfoyle, Robert David Hall, Wallace Langham, Elisabeth Harnois, David Berman and Jon Wellner.

    (Image courtesy BankingBurn/Wikimedia Commons)