"professionals, some studies have suggested that crime shows are unlikely to cause such an effect, although frequent ""CSI"" viewers may place a lower value on circumstantial evidence. As technology improves and becomes more prevalent throughout society, people may also develop higher expectations for the capabilities of forensic technology. The CSI effect is named for """", a television program which first aired in 2000. In ""CSI"", a fictional team of crime scene investigators solve murders in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. In each episode, the discovery of a human corpse leads to a criminal investigation by members of the team, who"
"CSI (franchise) CSI is a media franchise of American television programs created by Anthony E. Zuiker. The first three ""CSI"" series follow the work of forensic scientists as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious deaths, while the fourth series, """", emphasizes behavioral psychology and how it can be applied to cyber forensics. "","" began on October 6, 2000, and ran for fifteen full seasons. Starring William Petersen, Ted Danson, Marg Helgenberger, Elisabeth Shue, and Laurence Fishburne, the series concluded its run with a two-hour finale entitled """" on September 27, 2015. The series original lead characters, Gil Grissom and Catherine"
"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 1) The first season of """" premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000, and ended on May 17, 2001. The series stars William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger. It's all change at the Las Vegas Crime Lab following the shooting death of Holly Gribbs (""Pilot""), yet the team still find themselves tasked with solving the bizarre, the brutal, and the impossible. Under the supervision of new Supervisor Gil Grissom, and his second-in-command Catherine Willows, the team investigate the suicide of a casino jackpot winner (""Cool Change""), the abduction and burial of a young woman (""Crate 'n"
"in the 4:3 aspect ratio. It was, however, filmed in 16:9, and the widescreen versions of the episodes are present on the Blu-ray release. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 1) The first season of """" premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000, and ended on May 17, 2001. The series stars William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger. It's all change at the Las Vegas Crime Lab following the shooting death of Holly Gribbs (""Pilot""), yet the team still find themselves tasked with solving the bizarre, the brutal, and the impossible. Under the supervision of new Supervisor Gil Grissom, and his second-in-command"
"the confidence of Detective William Hanhardt, who put him in touch with undercover officers in Chicago. They sent him on meetings with organized crime figures. Reininger risked wearing a body microphone and recorder. After visiting the crime scene of the gruesome gangland slaying of bookmaker Al Brown, Reininger backed off his Mob interviews. Adamson claimed that the stories depicted in the series were composites rather than actual events that happened, ""but they'll be accurate"". In a June 1986 press conference, Mann said that the first season of the show would go from Chicago in 1963 to Las Vegas in 1980."
"the prospect of frozen corpses."" CSI: Miami CSI: Miami (Crime Scene Investigation: Miami) is an American police procedural drama television series that premiered on September 23, 2002, on CBS. Starring David Caruso as Lieutenant Horatio Caine, Emily Procter as Detective Calleigh Duquesne, and Kim Delaney as Lieutenant Megan Donner, the series is the first direct spin-off of """", ""transplanting the same template and trickery — gory crimes, procedural plot and dazzling graphics — into [a new city] while retaining the essence of the original idea"". ""CSI: Miami"" is executive produced by Carol Mendelsohn, Anthony E. Zuiker, and Ann Donahue, with"
"City. Scenes set inside the Major Case Squad department were filmed in a studio at Chelsea Piers, Manhattan. The season was nominated for four awards and was described by some reviewers as the most impressive of all the ""Law & Order"" series. It was sold to numerous television stations around the world, and it has been adapted into localized foreign versions in Russia and France. It has been syndicated in the US on a number of cable channels. A DVD box set of Season 1 was released in America on October 21, 2003, and episodes are available for purchase at"
"nomination for Best Edited One-Hour Series for Television from the American Cinema Editors. Pilot (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) ""Pilot"" is the and the series premiere of the American crime drama """". It first aired on October 6, 2000 on the CBS network in the United States. The premise of the show revolves around the crime scene investigators working for the Las Vegas Police Department. The pilot introduces the main characters of Gil Grissom (William Petersen), Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger), Nick Stokes (George Eads), Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan) and Jim Brass (Paul Guilfoyle). The pilot was written by series creator Anthony"
"San Diego, California, where the show was filmed for the first season. Due to the production costs and low ratings, filming and production moved to Los Angeles, although the show continued to be set in San Diego for the course of its eight-year run on CBS. The series was created by executive producer Philip DeGuere, who credited his inspirations as a request from a CBS executive to create something like a modern ""Butch and Sundance"", and a spec pilot DeGuere had recently read about a divorced husband and wife detective team written by Bob Shayne, whom DeGuere hired to write"
"CSI: NY CSI: NY (Crime Scene Investigation: New York, stylized as CSI: NY/) is an American police procedural television series that ran on CBS from September 22, 2004, to February 22, 2013, for a total of nine seasons and 197 original episodes. The show follows the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified as ""Crime Scene Investigators"" (instead of the actual title of ""Crime Scene Unit Forensic Technicians"" (CSU)) as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths, as well as other crimes. The series is an indirect spin-off from the veteran series """""
"a thinly veiled copy of ""Perry Mason""."" Unlike ""Perry Mason"", whose adventures took place in Southern California, the daytime series was set in the fictional Midwestern city of Monticello. A frequent backdrop for the show's early scenes was a restaurant called the Ho-Hi-Ho. The state capital, however, was known generically as ""Capital City""; the state in which Monticello was located had never been identified. From its beginning in 1956 until roughly 1980, the downtown skyline of the city of Cincinnati stood in as Monticello. Procter & Gamble, which produced the show, is based in Cincinnati. In later years, the Los"
"(David Lee Smith), States Attorney Rebecca Nevins (Christina Chang), Medical Examiner Tom Loman (Christian Clemenson), and newly minted detective Sam Owens (Taylor Cole). On April 17, 2002, CBS Television Studios announced plans to launch a series originally titled ""CSI: Miami-Dade"", a spin-off to the hit procedural ""CSI"". On the location choice, co-creator Carol Mendelsohn stated that ""[she, Anthony E. Zuiker, and Ann Donahue] felt Miami was the most happening place [...] Miami is so rich as a character. There is so much water. There are so many different cultures here all colliding. Its politics are so interesting. All that gives"
"CSI: Miami CSI: Miami (Crime Scene Investigation: Miami) is an American police procedural drama television series that premiered on September 23, 2002, on CBS. Starring David Caruso as Lieutenant Horatio Caine, Emily Procter as Detective Calleigh Duquesne, and Kim Delaney as Lieutenant Megan Donner, the series is the first direct spin-off of """", ""transplanting the same template and trickery — gory crimes, procedural plot and dazzling graphics — into [a new city] while retaining the essence of the original idea"". ""CSI: Miami"" is executive produced by Carol Mendelsohn, Anthony E. Zuiker, and Ann Donahue, with the latter acting as show-runner."
"crowd shots of the first episode. Despite being filmed in San Francisco Stanley found the show to be ""no more representative than the 1970s cop show ""The Streets of San Francisco"" and might as well be set in Chicago or Kansas City."" Stanley described the characters as the ""too familiar"" tormented guy with his buddy for comic relief. Tim Goodman of the ""San Francisco Chronicle"" began his review by saying that five years ago, in 2001, ""The Evidence"" might have seemed compelling. That was before the CSI franchise set a new standard for the police procedural. ""You'd better give the"
"a 65% approval rating. General NCIS: Los Angeles (season 1) The first season of the American television series """" premiered on CBS on September 22, 2009, and concluded on May 25, 2010. It is the first spin-off series of ""NCIS"". The series is set in Los Angeles, California, and follows the stories of the members of the Office of Special Projects, an undercover division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). The show and its characters were introduced during the sixth-season episodes of ""NCIS"" titled ""Legend (Part I)"" and ""Legend (Part II)"". These episodes served as a backdoor pilot for"
"the pilot in January 2010. The series was created by Shawn Ryan, who grew up in Rockford, Illinois. Regarding the setting of Chicago, Ryan said, ""It's a city I'm very familiar with, and one I haven't seen photographed much, at least on TV,"" and that Chicago is ""the center of the universe."" When describing the show, he stated, ""There will be a few twists that make it different from other cop shows on the air and will make it Fox-like."" When under its original title and concept, Ryan described the show as ""a police show in Chicago that kind of"
"exotic investigations such as tracing missing people (or in one case, a prize-winning whippet)—meant that he had little idea what a person walking into his office at the start of an episode would want of him. Many of the narratives portrayed in the series conclude imperfectly, often with Marker leaving the situation as it is—for example, in the episode ""The Man Who Didn't Eat Sweets"" he fails to tell his client that she is one of her husband's three wives. The first episode of the series was broadcast (in black and white) in January 1965 and was set in London,"
"first stories were mainly set on the seventh floor of General Hospital, in an unnamed midsize Eastern city (the name of the city, Port Charles, would not be mentioned until the late 1970s). ""They had this concept of the show that it was like a big wagon wheel – the spokes would be the characters and the hub would be the hospital,"" John Beradino (Steve Hardy) later reflected to ""Entertainment Weekly"" in 1994. Launched in 1963, the first stories were mainly set at General Hospital in an unnamed midsized Eastern city. The name of the city, Port Charles, would not"
"family relocates to Seattle, Washington and Dearborn, Michigan. In between seasons six and seven, Nancy serves a prison sentence in Connecticut while her sons and brother-in-law live in Copenhagen, Denmark. At the beginning of season seven, Nancy moves into a halfway house in New York City where she reunites with her family. They live in Manhattan for the duration of the season, but relocate to Connecticut in the season seven finale and throughout season eight. The show debuted on the Showtime cable network on August 7, 2005, earning the channel's highest ratings. The series ended with the eighth and final"
"in Castaic, California. The show was originally filmed at Red Studios, previously known as Ren-Mar studios. The show moved to Universal Studios in Los Angeles for season 7, where it is noted on the studio tour. A version of this Wikipedia page served as the introduction for the season 5 episode titled ""Where the Sidewalk Ends"". Nancy Botwin is a single mother who lives in Agrestic—a fictional suburb of Los Angeles with her two children, Silas and Shane, aged 15 and 10, when the series begins. The pilot opens a few weeks after the untimely death of Nancy's husband Judah,"
"NCIS: Los Angeles (season 1) The first season of the American television series """" premiered on CBS on September 22, 2009, and concluded on May 25, 2010. It is the first spin-off series of ""NCIS"". The series is set in Los Angeles, California, and follows the stories of the members of the Office of Special Projects, an undercover division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). The show and its characters were introduced during the sixth-season episodes of ""NCIS"" titled ""Legend (Part I)"" and ""Legend (Part II)"". These episodes served as a backdoor pilot for the series. Season one was"
"where different police teams each solve crimes in their respective city. Uniqueness in architecture, customs and dialects of the cities is therefore a distinctive part of the series and often the city, not the police force is the real main character of an episode. The concept of local stations only producing a couple of shows per year has also enabled the shows to be longer (90 minutes) and more fleshed out psychologically than other weekly TV dramas. The first episode was broadcast on 29 November 1970. Episodes are broadcast on ARD's main channel Das Erste on Sunday evening at the"
"occasion, been accompanied by Electric Light Orchestra's ""Mr. Blue Sky"". This song was first used in the season-seven episode ""Lab Rats"", and last used during season 10's ""Field Mice"". From ""CSI"", CBS produced a franchise starting in 2002 with a spin-off entitled """". Set in Miami, Florida, and starring David Caruso and Emily Procter, ""Miami"" later launched """" in 2004. Starring Gary Sinise, Sela Ward, and Melina Kanakaredes, ""NY"" was set in New York City and was based upon the idea that ""Everything is Connected"". In 2015, a fourth ""CSI"" series, entitled """", starring Patricia Arquette and Ted Danson, was"
"The series takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana and was shot on location. A New Orleans detective and a female district attorney investigate crimes for the New Orleans police department. The Big Easy (TV series) The Big Easy is an American crime drama series that was based on the 1987 film of the same name. The show premiered on the USA Network on August 11, 1996. Tony Crane played New Orleans police detective lieutenant Remy McSwain, Susan Walters played state district attorney Anne Osbourne and Barry Corbin played police chief C.D. LeBlanc. It was developed by Jacqueline Zambrano, based on"
"or 1968 Chevrolet Camaro RS convertible in the two-part episode, ""Pirate's Key"". Together, they run a private detective service in San Diego, California during the 1980s; the contrasting ways in which the brothers go about their investigations and the subsequent personality conflicts between them provided much of the dramatic dialectic each week. Although Rick is a few years older, in fact McRaney and Parker were both born in 1947 with only a three-month age difference. The original 1978 pilot, called ""Pirate's Key"", was set in Florida. When CBS picked up the show, the characters' home was changed from Florida to"
"acting as show-runner. Jerry Bruckheimer also executive-produces the series. ""CSI: Crime Scene Investigation"" stars William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger expressed their displeasure at CBS' launch of ""Miami"", with Petersen stating that ""[they] should have waited five years for a ""CSI"" spinoff."" Helgenberger supported Petersen's comments during an Emmy acceptance speech, noting that ""as far as [she was] concerned, there’s only one ""CSI""."" Petersen jestingly referred to the series ""NYPDCSI"", as it initially featured both David Caruso and Kim Delaney, of ""NYPD Blue"" fame. In 2002, ""CSI"" executive producer Anthony Zuiker began casting for the then-unnamed Miami based spin-off. First cast"
"one of the most memorable cliffhangers in television history, leaving viewers wondering whether they were dead or alive, just as the show's creator were wondering if the series itself was dead or alive with NBC. Viewers were surprised to learn in the fall the series had returned to be permanently based in Las Vegas. The principal characters are based on the real life head of the Chicago anti-mob unit, Det. William Hanhardt and on Chicago mobster Anthony Spilotro. Reininger was subpoenaed to Spilotro's trial in Federal Court in Las Vegas as an unwilling material witness for Spilotro, who was alleging"
"was also changed from Los Angeles to New York, taking place at the fictional 125th precinct of the New York City Police Department (NYPD). The script was rewritten, with permission of the original creators, to remove the ""unsatisfying"" ambiguity of Sam's story in favor of a ""mythological element"" and ""deeper mystery"". The series premiered in North America on October 9, 2008, on ABC, following ""Grey's Anatomy"". Internationally, it also aired on Global in Canada, on FX in the UK, and on Network Ten in Australia. On November 20, 2008, ABC ordered four additional episodes to the show's original thirteen episodes."
"includes Hutton breaking the fourth wall, to challenge the viewer to solve the mystery; this is one of the series' most notable features, which has helped it gain a cult following, despite its short run. Set in the post-World War II New York City – more specifically, the first episode is set on New Years’ Eve of 1946 – the show revolved around author and amateur detective Ellery Queen (Jim Hutton), a bachelor who lives with his widowed father, Inspector Richard Queen (David Wayne). Ellery solves various cases while writing his latest book, usually with assistance from his father, and"
"Pilot (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) ""Pilot"" is the and the series premiere of the American crime drama """". It first aired on October 6, 2000 on the CBS network in the United States. The premise of the show revolves around the crime scene investigators working for the Las Vegas Police Department. The pilot introduces the main characters of Gil Grissom (William Petersen), Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger), Nick Stokes (George Eads), Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan) and Jim Brass (Paul Guilfoyle). The pilot was written by series creator Anthony E. Zuiker and directed by Danny Cannon. At the crime lab, Holly Gribbs"
"four Golden Globe awards and 13 Emmy awards, more than any other miniseries in history. Episode 1 opens in Boston 1770 on the cold winter night of the Boston Massacre. It portrays John Adams arriving at the scene following the gunshots from British soldiers firing upon a mob of Boston citizens. Adams, a respected lawyer in his mid-30s known for his dedication to the law and justice, is sought as defense counsel for the accused Redcoats. Their commander, Captain Thomas Preston, asks him to defend them in court. Reluctant at first, he agrees despite knowing this will antagonize his neighbors"
"are rumblings that co-creator Anthony Zuiker and company are planning a third franchise, to be set in New York City"". In 2004, CBS commissioned the New York-set ""CSI"" series, starring Gary Sinise as a detective named Rick Calucci. Calucci, a veteran officer ""who lost his wife during the terror attacks on September 11"", was expected to ""make a guest appearance on ""CSI: Miami"""" in May 2004. On March 23, 2004, Melina Kanakaredes was cast as Stella, ""a crime scene unit detective"". Kanakaredes was cast following her signing a talent deal with CBS in August 2003. The Futon Critic noted that"
"on CBS in that show's last three seasons. While coping with his son's drug problem, O'Connor starred as Sparta, Mississippi, Police Chief Bill Gillespie, a tough veteran cop on ""In the Heat of the Night"". Based on the 1967 movie of the same name, the series debuted on NBC in March 1988 and performed well. He cast his son Hugh O'Connor as Officer Lonnie Jamison. The headquarters of the Sparta Police Department was actually the library in Covington, Georgia. Much like O'Connor himself, Gillespie was racially progressive and politically liberal, but the character of Bill Gillespie was also a smart"