In real life, being a CSI is an exciting and demanding profession. If you are interested in learning about what they do along with enjoying fictional accounts of drama, then the CSI Series is for you. There are three current CSI shows on TV and they are all on CBS (and sometimes you can catch older episodes on cable networks as well.) There is an Art to being a CSI and/or portraying one as an actor/actress. Entertainment has never been better with each of the unique CSI programs that have been syndicated. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation a.k.a. CSI Las Vegas, has a very interesting cast along with some very realistic stories and plots for the 2009 tv season. A group that investigates forensic details of objects and psychologically profiles people, these team members examine the evidence any time and anywhere. They reap every crime scene of important proof to hold criminals accountable and prosecute them with every piece of evidence.

Gil Grissom is the shift supervisor (portrayed by William Petersen) and along with Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger), Greg Sanders (Eric Szmanda), Albert Robbins (Albert David Hall), Riley Adams (Lauren Lee Smith), Ray Langston (Laurence Fishburne), Nick Stokes (George Eads), Capt. Jim Brass (Paul Guilfoyle), David Hodges (Wallace Langham), and David Phillips (David Berman) help to determine causes of death as well as figure out who-dun-it. This show airs Thursdays @ 9pm ET/PT.

CSI NY, influenced by the original drama series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, is on Wednesdays @ 10pm ET/PT and stars Gary Sinise- Detective Mac Taylor, Carmine Giovinazzo- Danny Messer, Melina Kanakaredes- Det. Stella Bonasera, Eddie Cahill- Det. Don Flack, as well as Anna Belknap- Lindsay Monroe, A.J. Buckley- Adam Ross, Hill Harper- Dr. Sheldon Hawkes and Robert Joy- Dr. Sid Hammerback. These forensic investigators use superb technology to follow leads and dissect evidence.

The CSIs in New York follow diverse processes from those in Miami or Las Vegas, but they still follow their gut instincts and are steadfast in their critical thinking to eliminate doubt and piece together the keys to locking up criminals for prosecution.

CSI Miami is also inspired by the original CSI Las Vegas series, and is by far my personal favorite of the three. These forensic pathologists won’t be fooled again because they figure out the excruciating details of causes of death. Their cutting-edge techniques and old-fashioned detective work solves hundreds of crimes. Horatio Caine (David Caruso) is the lead investigator and along with Eric Delko (Adam Rodriguez), Calleigh Duquesne (Emily Procter), Natalia Boa Vista (Eva La Rue), Ryan Wolfe (Jonathan Togo), Frank Tripp (Rex Linn), and Dr. Tara Price (Megalyn Echikunwoke) they facilitate the who, what, when, where and why. It airs on Mondays @ 10pm ET/PT.

Together, these individual investors of forensic capabilities collect and analyze every speck of evidence to solve the crimes that have been committed and to obtain justice for those who aren’t able to speak for themselves- the victims.

If you love the mystery and don’t mind the “gross out” factor of some crime scene shows, then chances are you love shows like CSI. I know I do! I have been watching CSI (Grissom) since it first came out on October 6th, 2000. Since then I have been an avid watcher of Willows, Grissom, “Nicky”, Sara, Warrick and the rest of the lot. But there is a ton of different crime scene television shows out there. Some are of the CSI franchise, while others are Bones and Criminal Minds. But really, who is the best of the best? Who gets watched the most? And more importantly who has the most die hard fans? Well, listed below we have the top five best crime scene shows available on TV (now). No, I’m not going to list ones that are 20 years old like Matlock or Murder She Wrote. This isn’t old school! Check it out:

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series. CSI premiered on CBS on October 6th, 2000. The ninth season began airing on October 9th, 2008 and currently airs in the United States on Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It is filmed primarily at Universal Studios in Universal City, California. CSI Las Vegas is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Television and CBS Productions, which became CBS Paramount Television in the fall of 2006. Formerly a co-production with the now-defunct Alliance Atlantis Communications, that company’s interest in the series is now owned by investment firm GS Capital Partners, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs.

Flashpoint is about the dramatic portrayal of an elite tactical unit, called the Strategic Response Unit (SRU), within a Canadian metropolitan police force (styled on the Toronto Police Emergency Task Force, Toronto being where the series is filmed). The SRU are tasked to resolve extreme situations that regular officers cannot handle including hostage-taking, bomb threats and heavily armed criminals. Even though they’re backed with high-tech equipment with an arsenal of explosives, tasers, sub-machine guns, assault and sniper rifles, the SRU operators use intuition and judgement to resolve the situation.

The show Bones begins in the year 2005, and tells the story of a series of case files, solved weekly, by an unlikely alliance between Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan’s forensic anthropology team at the Jeffersonian Institution (a thinly veiled allusion to the Smithsonian Institution) and FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth. By examining the human remains of the murder victims, Dr. Brennan and her team provide scientific expertise and an outsider’s perspective to the world of criminal investigation to the FBI. In addition to the murder cases featured in each episode, the series explores the backgrounds and relationships of the major characters including the developing friendship and possibly romantic relationship between Brennan and Booth.

NCIS is a television show that follows a fictional team of Naval Criminal Investigative Service Major Case Response Team (MCRT) special agents, headquartered at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. It is described by the actors and producers (on special features on DVD releases in the USA) as being distinguished by its comedy elements, ensemble acting and character-driven plots. The “NCIS team” is led by Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon). Gibbs’ team is composed of Special Agent and Senior Field Agent Anthony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly), Special Agent Timothy McGee (Sean Murray) and Mossad Liaison Officer Ziva David (Cote de Pablo). The team is assisted in their investigations by Chief Medical Examiner Donald “Ducky” Mallard (David McCallum), Forensic Specialist Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette) and Assistant Medical Examiner Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen).

The series of Criminal Minds originally centered on Jason Gideon (Mandy Patinkin), one of the BAU’s best profilers. On July 17th 2007, it was announced that Patinkin had been granted a request to be released from his role on the show. Patinkin was replaced by Joe Mantegna, who joined the cast several episodes after Patinkin left the show.[1] The show is also centered around the BAU’s Unit Chief Aaron Hotchner (Thomas Gibson). Hotchner struggles to balance his family life and his job. The rest of the BAU consists of Derek Morgan (Shemar Moore), Dr. Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler), Jennifer Jareau (AJ Cook), Emily Prentiss (Paget Brewster) and David Rossi (Joe Mantegna). The team is headquartered out of Quantico, Virginia at the FBI academy. The show focuses on the BAU traveling around the United States as they catch the most dangerous criminals. Each episode, except for a few, begins and ends with a quote that is relevent to the episode. The quotes were overwhelmingly recited by Gideon until his departure; since then each member has said the quotes.

Crime Scene Investigation, commonly known as CSI, created a new dimension in crime thrillers series and crafted new milestones in uniquely blended forensic science dependent investigation series in television history.

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Exceptionally, CSI was Emmy-nominated number one scripted series on television and a saga about a squad of witty forensic investigators, skilled to unravel crimes by groping the evidences in well equipped forensic laboratories. CSI has invented a brand new era of criminal investigations since storyline starts to take the leap with every forensic breakthrough. CSI, in its episodes take use of advanced gadgets, ultra modern technologies and super forensic equipments that interestingly push it sometimes in genre of science fiction series.

If putting a light on CSI plot, it revolves around Crime Scene Investigation division of the Las Vegas Police Department at Las Vegas Crime Lab and eventually it is the second most equipped lab in the United States after the government backed FBI lab. Ironically, the weird conclusions of these cases taken up by CSI team repeatedly compel some moral questions about beliefs and human nature in general.

Surely, all the credit goes to capable cast of this widely accepted and highly controversial investigating series. The cast includes William Petersen who played the character of Gil Grissom, has a distinguished background in film, theater, and television. Jorja Fox who pursued the character of Sara Sidle had numerous guest appearances on television shows such as ER, The West Wing and Missing Persons.

In further leads Gary Dourdan who portrayed Warrick Brown, earlier done modeling for numerous magazines along with Louise Lombard as Detective Sofia Curtis, Wallace Langham as David Hodges and Robert David Hall as Dr. Al Robbins.

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