Cast Update 7-18-2016

Well, when the show ended, I started publishing all of the episodes on Saturdays in this blog. Then, I moved it to Sunday. After that, the blog was briefly changed to Monday. Well, this will be the last of the weekly updates and I'm now going back to irregular monthly updates. You'll see this blog being updated once a month in the future. I won't always know when it will be updated each month, but you will see a new focus of this blog for a while. In fact, my blog may have a new focus forever as updates about what the cast and head writers of this show are doing now.

Here is the first post of cast updates on the three creators and seven main cast members of the show. This will be the main feature of the blog until further notice. I still don’t know if the end of this show means the very end of the franchise of CSI. If there’s more to the franchise, I’ll either post it in this blog or start a new one (of which I’ll share the link here). I don’t know when or if they’ll reboot the franchise. There could be movies. I mean, since CSI: Miami has been gone so long they could reunite the characters that they can get back for a theatrical or made for TV movie. I’ll also keep you updated on when I can get DVDs of this show in the future. I might do more random stuff in these blog posts as well. Anyways, I might as well get to the first of many cast updates. In future updates, any new information will be in comic sans ms instead of times new roman.

Patricia Arquette: The main star of CSI: Cyber only has one future project mentioned on imdb right now (and I’m probably only going to use imdb to track future projects of people). But, this is a pretty notable sequel in the work. While we don’t know what role she might have in the movie, it looks like she will be lending her voice talent to that of Toy Story 4. I don’t know what other roles she might take in the future, but we’ll find out more about that later.

Toy Story 4: I still don’t know what to make of this movie. Most of us probably found the idea of Toy Story 3 to be ridiculous, but loved the movie when we saw it in the end. Fourth installments of movies tend to get intense hatred from critics and fans. I’ll let you know my thought eventually when I’m able to see it. But its release date is a long ways off (at least it has one, though). On June 15^th, 2018, this movie will be released. There is not yet a trailer for it, but they probably aren’t anywhere near that far into making the movie to have even a teaser for it just yet. Likewise, I will keep track of any information about this film as long as it is still has either Patricia Arquette or someone from this movie in it.

Peter Macnicol: This actor left CSI: Cyber after just one season with it and then pretty much nothing interesting has happened with him in either television or movies. He appeared in a video game (which I will not review myself in these updates) and had some guest appearances on shows. The only thing that I can make for him in terms of new projects is Tangled: Before Ever After. Now this will not get its own section yet. Why is that? For now, this is not going to appear as a show until 2017. And that’s provided that it actually becomes a show. Besides that, I’m not convinced at the moment that Peter is going to have a long term role in the show. I’ll have to do more research in the future.

James Van Der Beek: It would appear that nothing new is on the front of this actor at the moment. If there is, imdb doesn’t mention any new projects and only mentions CSI: Cyber as the most recent thing that I did. Hopefully things will change in the future or you’ll never see updates here for him at least.

Shad Moss: Like James, Shad doesn’t seem to have anything new projects that imdb knows about, if he has any at all. So I’ll have to hope for future updates in later months, because he doesn’t have anything new right now.

Charley Koontz: Here is yet another CSI: Cyber actor who doesn’t have anything new yet for me to write about in this blog. So there might be something good in the future for him. There might be something bad in the future as well. But there’s nothing at all to mention for now.

Hayley Kiyoko: Well, here we are at someone who actually does have a future project in the work. She has a movie in the works called XOXO. That’s all the new projects of hers that I know of at the moment. It looks like she has starred in horror films in the past so that might be more of what she’ll be doing in the future. We’ll see if that happens or not.

XOXO: This movie is about six people sharing some strange romantic night of some sort. It looks like a romantic drama of some sort. The release date for it is August 26, 2016. There is not a trailer for the movie yet. Sadly, I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to see it since it appears to be a Netflix exclusive. Well, we’ll see what the future of this movie is and I’ll do more research for the next update.

Ted Danson: This is the only actor who would for sure not have been on a potential season 3 of the show. And his pilot was picked up so it’s good that he can still be on TV for now. It looks like he’s going back to comedies. He will be appearing on The Good Place on NBC. Now it appears that imdb didn’t mention the show on Ted’s page possibly because of how new it is. I would have to say that this is potentially good news for the people that I couldn’t find information about.

The Good Place: This will be an NBC comedy on at 8:30/7:30 Central on Thursdays. It will debut on September 19^th and move to its normal time slot on September 22^nd. It appears to be an afterlife based comedy for some sort and that Ted will appear on it in some sort of supporting role. I don’t think that there will be anything to say about it until its premiere so I guess I’ll just have it in these updates until I can actually review it.

Anthony E Zuiker: It would appear that for now there are no future projects in the work for this franchise creator. I have the feeling that if the franchise is rebooted, he’ll probably have some sort of role in it returning. They’d probably want him before they’d want someone else as it is his franchise. But the problem then becomes whether or not the franchise is actually dead. Whether or not a franchise can actually die is debatable at best. I have the feeling that he might be best suited trying to write something new like movies or a new type of drama. But we’ll see what future, if any, he has in Hollywood.

Carol Mendelsohn: She appears to have a project in the works called In the Line of Fire. I don’t know much about this project. It’s possible that it was a rejected pilot that she did. But I don’t know much information about it yet. Hopefully it can get its own section in the future. I don’t know much about In the Line of Fire except that it is a TV show. I don’t know a plot, what network it would be on, who would be in it, what type of show it is, or anything like that. I will tell you more about it (should it even be a real project, that is) in future updates.

Ann Donahue: There’s no new information about this writer. I’m sure that she’ll probably find something, but I’m not sure when. Can she split ways with her CSI writers and launch out on her own? Does she need to? There will probably be something of hers to look out for in the future, but not at the moment. Hopefully she does in future updates or, like so much of this blog from here on out, you’ll just see a useless paragraph with no new updates.

Well, that’s all for this update. I’ll be back in the future with more updates. This will be a monthly update, but I won’t always know when in the month it will be in advance. Hopefully, I’ll be able to come up with a good time for some future updates. The new focus of this blog will be a work in progress. But when aren’t blogs works in progress? I’ll be back sometime next month with the next update. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

CSI: Cyber Send-off Post

CSI: Cyber- March 3^rd 2015 to March 13^th 2016: may the show rest in peace. We had a good run of this show, even though it is over now. With no new episodes to blog about, you might be wondering how I’d continue this blog. Well, this transition post will explain more about what will happen next in terms of this blog. And I'll explain in the next post why this update is a day late.

One of the things that I could use this blog for is a simple rewatch of the series. I’ll keep you updated with what I get of this show on DVD in the future. I will add this and four other cancelled shows from the main season to my wishlist (or, at least try to since I know I won’t add more than a certain number of shows to the list so I’ll have to wait until other stuff is gotten by me or other people) and I might keep you updated about that in the future. I’ll also keep you updated on what shows are now airing in place of what was once in the franchise. As stated many times before, I’ll mention more updates about this franchise (if any) in this blog as they happen. Since I’m speaking of the franchise...

On my wish list, you will find shows in the CSI franchise. I do plan on getting all of the seasons of all of these shows and watch them. Well, I will be getting both seasons of this show, all seasons of CSI, all seasons of CSI: Miami, all seasons of CSI: New York, and all seasons of Without a Trace. If there are new shows in the franchise, I will probably create a blog about it. I’ll be sure to post the link here if I ever decide to retroactively get into blogging about those seasons. But keep an eye out for me blogging about those old shows that aren’t on the air anymore. But where one show ends, another begins as something has to take over its time slot. That comes up with my next planned set of blogs.

Every time that a show ends, another show by nature has to replace it. Without a Trace, for instance, was replaced by The Good Wife. Now there will be two comedies on the air in place of The Good Wife. Supergirl won’t be on CBS anymore. That show ultimately aired in place of Two and a Half Men and half of CSI: New York. The other half of CSI: New York is currently The Odd Couple. Meanwhile, two comedies are replacing Supergirl and they are Kevin Can Wait and Man with a Plan. CSI is basically Code Black now. Cold Case and CSI: Miami were replaced with Hawaii Five-0 and Elementary respectively. As for CSI: Cyber, it was replaced by Rush Hour for a while until that was also cancelled and will now be replaced by Pure Genius. Any of these shows that I like could make a good future blog. I’ll post the link here if any of those are ever created.

It appears that the PR Jedi are doing their regular ways. They are mentioning that the franchise might not be over. Also, did you know that Trust us with Your Lives was never cancelled? I wonder why they haven’t aired it anymore or made new episodes since they told us that. Oh, wait: I’m smarter than that. In all seriousness, though, I do expect there to be attempts at new shows in the CSI franchise. I’m unsure of when or if this will happen. If they make any movies in the CSI universe, either for television or theatrically, it will be blogged about in this blog. If there are any new shows, I’ll probably create a new blog for it and share the link here. I'll keep updates about the franchise in this blog.

I should get to what the actual blog will be about in the future. There are seven main characters in this show. I will tell you what the actors who played them are now doing. I’ll also keep you updated on the three creators of the show as well. That will be the point of this blog for the foreseeable future. I’ll review what shows and movies that cast will be doing, whenever I can. I’ll tell you about what they are doing if I can’t actually watch it for one reason or another. Here are the people I’ll update you about.

Patricia Arquette

 Peter MacNicol (picture unavailable)

James Van Der Beek

Shad Moss

Charley Koontz

Hayley Kiyoko

Ted Danson

Anthony Zuiker, Carol Mendelsohn, Ann Donahue (shared picture of names only)

I hope that you enjoy the future of this blog. I also hope that I can get caught up on the other shows in this franchise by getting them on DVD. All I have to do is get all the seasons of CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, Without a Trace, and CSI: Cyber. That’s a lot of TV to watch. Wish me luck. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Season 2 Episode 18

I am convinced that CBS hates this show and probably has for some time. First they give it the worst time slot on their network. Then, they basically burn off episodes throughout the season. It won’t even give this show a full episode order. It should have at least four more episodes, but it doesn’t. It seems likely that this is the series finale of the show. And don’t even give me the argument that they promoted this as a season finale so it can’t be the series finale. I’ve known that type of ad was bullshit for some time now. I’m not sure if I can remember all of the shows that promoted their last episode as season finale instead of series finale. I just know that there was a lot.

Another nail in the coffin is that this is the only new CBS show tonight outside of 60 Minutes. There aren’t even new things leading into this episode. Can you believe that? This will be the least shocking/surprising cancelation of the season. The shock will be if this show gets renewed. But I will post future updates of the CSI franchise, if there are any. I can guarantee you that at least. And I promise at least one more post after this episode even if it is cancelled which it probably will be. Of course, you probably know that by the time that I’ve posted this.

Anyways, when it comes to series finales, there are only three different kinds of it in my mind. There are good finales, bad finales, and everything in between or average finales. What’s interesting is so far, each of the members of this franchise that has ended so far has, in my mind at least, represented each of the three finales. The ending to CSI: Miami seemed rushed and forced. It wasn’t a good way to end the series. But it wasn’t as bad as some of them and did not ruin the series for me the way an episode like China Syndrome did. CSI: New York did a good finale in my mind. It wasn’t as good as it could have been (the previous season finale was much better as a potential last episode, but I heard that the ending would have been different had the show actually been cancelled and it might not have been as good then), it certainly ended the show well enough. Then there was the original CSI’s ending, one especially made possible by a TV movie. While it was definitely better than not having that movie, it was simply an average ending that is neither good nor bad in the long run.

This show is being replaced on the schedule by Rush Hour. Meanwhile, The Good Wife, which replaced Without a Trace, a show that had a crossover with CSI and is thus connected to the franchise, is going to end and thus be replaced with another show. I won’t know what until the upfronts happen from May 16^th to May 19^th. The news of cancellations, including this show’s probable cancellation, will be on May 13^th. With Elementary the new CBS punching bag by being put in the 10/9 Central time slot on Sundays, there is the possibility that I wind up creating a blog about it. I’m not sure yet if I will, but with it also a replacement for part of the CSI franchise (it effectively replaced CSI: Miami), it would be a better blog than other choices might be. I still don’t know if I’ll do one on Bob’s Burgers yet or not. But I know that midseason will probably not have the type of tape delay that would lead me to create a blog about it unless it airs at the same time next season. I don’t know how the ratings would change by a move to Sunday, but it looks likely to survive into at least one more season for now.

If I had to take a guess as to who would die in this episode, I’d go with Brody. I think that he is the most likely person. I don’t think that it would be Avery or D B. It could potentially be Elijah, but I’m not too sure about that. Daniel is a possibility, but I don’t see that as happening. It could be Raven, but I’m just not sure about that one. Meanwhile, they could be tricking us and it could be no major character on the show that dies. I remember when SVU promoted that a character would die and it was one that was only important to that episode. Why’d they promote a death anyways?

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with a random dead body in a pool that at first seems to have nothing to do with the rest of the episode. But they’ll probably get back to that. Anyways, Avery’s ex’s fiancé talks to Avery about her man and how she doesn’t feel as close to him as she should be. I wish that I knew names so hopefully you know who I’m talking about. Elijah is missing at first, but it seems like he is just out with his father or some family member. The hack for good program is ending which affects Raven. They look at a family responsible for a possible hack and it appears that the kid of the family becomes the suspect.

The second part brings us the focus of today’s episode: legacy footprints- A digital data trail you unintentionally leave online. Jake, the kid they are looking for, may have left back-up information that Daniel tries to find. Daniel thinks that Jake may be a white hat hacker instead of a black hat hacker. I realize that there are different storylines that need to be wrapped up. I mean, there’s the Nina thing, D B’s lover, Avery’s ex, the hack for good thing falling apart, and possibly more that I can’t remember. But they look for more information relating to the case and find an injured person while Jake runs away.

The third part has more of the case and it seems that Jake is on the run from a criminal. Meanwhile, Avery wants her ex back, but he doesn’t seem to share these thoughts. D B uses the skin from the finger of the dead black guy (the one they call wizard) in order to access a computer. I’m not sure what else there is to say about this at the moment.

The fourth part has Jake escaping to a pool area. The team uses wi-fi in order to find him. D B calls him on his phone. Jake gets shot and winds up in the pool. He might have been the person in the pool earlier. But he isn’t dead as Daniel is able to rescue him. Avery reconnects with her ex by the looks of things. The criminal after Jake is caught. Nina confronts Elijah with a gun and D B ends up shot. At first one might think that D B is dead, but the last scene proves that he isn’t. I guess that nobody dies. I was worried there for a minute. I wonder why they lied to us in the promo. Brody becomes an agent officially while Raven gets to be a consultant. D B appears to have retired from the team with his lover. So it all ends well and I give this potential end to the show a good grade.

If this was the last episode, you might be wondering what will happen to this blog. Would I simply discontinue it with this being the last post? Well, if there is a season three, then we don’t have to worry about what might change. If there’s not, then I’ll be doing monthly updates of what happens with the cast and the three creators of the show. They will probably continue their careers in Hollywood. Meanwhile, if there is more to the franchise like a CSI: St. Louis that I’m pretty sure might get created or at least considered, then I’ll be sure to create a blog about that. We’ll see what happens. There will be more information in the next blog post. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.