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Real Shame if this show goes away


This series will be really missed, if it is stopped permanently. The acting,script, storyline/plotlines, pacing, direction, and of course, the characters, are unmatched, with only "Criminal Minds" rivalling it.


Last night, there was an episode shown( obviously a repeat), that I hadn't seen before. It was about a gunman who walks into a bar and kills 3 people, and abducts a girl. The motive is something to do with a cover-up of the use of fake medicines. At first, the CSI thinks the young lady is herself the one hoarding fake pharmaceuticals. It turns out( SPOILER) that she was taking them from a crooked private medical clinic, who were using them out of sheer greed. The(partial) humanity of the gunman in sparing her life on two separate occasions, is made believable and appropriate. Just superbly done, as are the majority of the episodes.

May it return one day.

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Sorry, but it's not an "if". CSI: NY has ended for good. The series was on for nine years, a long life for any TV show. But whether we like it or not, the series wasn't going to dodge the ax forever. Inevitably, every TV show comes to an end.

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That's true, but CBS stopped caring about this show after Season 6. The huge mistake was moving it out of its successful Wednesday night 10pm time slot and putting it on Friday nights. What was so wrong with Wednesday nights. Up to that point, the show had six solid seasons, with good ratings. Moving it out of that slot was the death nail. And then they didn't even let the show get to 200 episodes. All they needed was two solid 20 episode seasons for this show to get to the 200-episode mark, like the other 2, and they couldn't even do that. They ordered a reduced episode list for Season 8, and then a reduced episode count in its last season. And even with that, they reduced it even further, from 18 episodes to 16.

CSI:NY was a lot more watchable than the original CSI. CSI:NY still had the realism factor. CSI was beginning to pull away from that aspect with outrageous cases. CBS drove this show to cancellation when they moved it out of its prime Wednesday spot and then reduced the episode count for the last 2 seasons. This was a good show that was thrown to the dogs by CBS. If it was still on Wednesdays, it would not have been cancelled.

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If it was still on Wednesdays, it would not have been cancelled.

I wouldn't be so sure of that. Even if CSI: NY had remained on Wednesdays, there would have been no guarantee that it would not have been canceled. At some point, it would have slipped in the ratings to the point where the network would have had to either change the time slot or cancel the series. Besides, the series had run its course anyway.

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You're right, it does look final, but we can always hope, can't we? I agree with the reader who said that it was more realistic than the other CSI's, which sometimes get weird or outlandish. Hawaii Five-0 was revived, albeit after 30 years, and with of course an entirely different cast. Hope springs eternal.

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