William Petersen drops out of CSI -sorta
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The 9th season of CSI will be the last for William Petersen as a full-time series regular.
“Billy is leaving,” confirms the show’s executive producer. “But he will remain throughout the run of the series an executive producer. And he will, whenever CBS asks, come back. I don’t think you’ve seen the last of Gil Grissom.”
“I’m in a great place in terms of knowing that I’ll be more free to make choices. And I’m responsible enough to not do it in a way that would hurt [the show],” Petersen said.
“I want it to work for the writers, I want it to work for the cast, and, most importantly, I want it to work for the audience,” he told Michael Ausiello. “I don’t want them to abandon the show.”
With Jorja Fox and Gary Dourdan’s exits, this brings to three the number of original cast members CSI will have lost in a year’s time.
“This will be a year of transition for the show,” concedes Mendehlson. “We always knew it was coming, and I’m glad it didn’t come until now.” At this point, she’s confident that, like Law & Order and ER, CSI is a franchise that can weather such cast shifts.
Ep 10 of Series 9 will make the end of his fulltime run.
Source: EW.com
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Who’s going to become the main character after he leaves?
Maybe they shouldn’t have killed Liev Schreiber’s character. Not to say his being shot wasn’t awesome—it was—but he could have been a great replacement for Gil.