The second week of the new season offers three fresh episodes of CSI, including a hostage situation, a cyber killer and murder in an upscale neighborhood. Official plot details and cast lists after the jump.

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Sofia Milos, familiar to CSI: Miami fans as Yelina Salas, celebrates her fortieth birthday today, September 27.

CSI: Miami actor Adam Rodriguez appears in the new music video from Melanie Fiona called “It Kills Me”. The video is embedded after the jump:

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The song “See It All” from Fink was featured at the beginning of the CSI: New York season six premiere, “Epilogue”. You can hear the song on YouTube here.

Don’t forget that you can watch “Epilogue” right here on CSI Files!

As CSI Files previously reported, Hill Harper (CSI: New York‘s Dr Sheldon Hawkes) was a candidate for the Unite for Strength party in the recent Screen Actors Guild (SAG) election. Harper has been elected to serve on the National Board of Directors for the Screen Actors Guild’s Hollywood Division starting today, September 25. Harper was one of eleven people chosen for the Hollywood Division, which also includes one-time New York guest star and Emmy nominee Ed Asner. Harper and Asner will serve a three year term with the National Board.

Alex Carter, known to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation fans as Detective Vartann, will appear in the season premiere of the CBS series Ghost Whisperer tonight, September 25 at 8:00pm ET/PT.

The New York State Pavilion was commissioned for the 1964 World’s Fair in the Queens borough of New York City. The pavilion was recently added to the New York State Register of Historic Places. CSI: New York co-executive producer Trey Callaway described Flushing Meadows, Queens as “a one-of-a-kind place.” The park and the Pavilion, he said, maintain “the interest, attention and adoration of past fair attendants, current park patrons, and distant audiences everywhere – the New York State Pavilion deserves to be preserved for many generation to come.”

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation‘s Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle) and Eric Szmanda (Greg Sanders) attended the NSF and GQ Join Forces To Stop Puppy Mills Humane Society Benefit. “Puppy mills are places where, all they do, month after month, year after year, is breed dogs to sell to pet stores,” Fox explained. “And most of these dogs are kept in very, very cramped cages their entire lives, they never see the sun, they usually have diseases, they have one job that they do. And, of course, because they’re dogs, they do it really well.”

Former CSI: Crime Scene Investigation actress Lauren Lee Smith (Riley Adams) will play a US Congressman’s daughter in the upcoming German made-for-TV film Hindenburg. The two-part movie will chronicle the doomed 1937 voyage of the Hindenberg airship. Smith’s character is involved with a young German engineer played by Maximilian Simonischek.

You can watch the season premiere of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation without leaving CSI Files! The full “Family Affair” episode is available at CBS.com, and you can watch it right here after the jump.

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation kicked off its tenth season with “Family Affair” Thursday, September 24 in the 9:00pm hour. The episode came in second during a busy hour of television. CSI had 15.38 million viewers, rising to 16.05 million at the half-hour. This put it in second place behind ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, which pulled in 17.06 million viewers for the hour. In the important 18-49 demographic, Grey’s came out on top with a 6.4 rating/16 share, rising to 6.8/17 at 9:30. CSI was next in the demo with 4.1/10. NBC’s combination of The Office (7.33 million, 3.8/10) and the new series Community (5.36 million, 2.8/ 7) came in third, Fringe (5.85 million, 2.2/6) was fourth, and Supernatural rounded out the hour with 2.62 million viewers and 1.2/3 among adults 18-49.

More detailed ratings information, including other Thursday night programming, is available at PI Feedback.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation executive producer Naren Shankar talks about cast changes and keeping the show fresh for ten years. (Spoilers after the jump.)

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An ad for CSI: Miami that has been used since May includes an image of a building from a completely different Florida city. The skyline shot uses a photo of the Rivergate Tower in downtown Tampa, Florida. CBS said the photo was taken from a batch of photos they assumed were all taken in Miami. The network “strives for complete accuracy” and has said they will change the image.

CSI: New York kicked off the new season with “Epilogue” in the 10:00pm hour on Wednesday, September 23. The episode earned the top spot by pulling in 14.57 million viewers and a 4.0 rating/11 share among adults 18-49. The new ABC series Eastwick was second with 8.53 million viewers and a 3.0/ 8 in the key demo, followed by NBC’s The Jay Leno Show with 6.43 million viewers and 2.0/ 5.

You can find more detailed ratings information, including ratings for other Wednesday night programming, at PI Feedback.