CSI Files previously reported that NBC picked up The Playboy Club for the fall season, which stars former CSI: Miami actor Eddie Cibrian (Jesse Cardoza) and recurring actor Wes Ramsey (Dave Benton). In addition to Cibrian and Ramsey, two new ABC dramas will feature actors familiar to fans of the CSI franchise. (Videos embedded after the jump!)

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Executive producer Carol Mendelsohn shares some details about the upcoming twelfth season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (Minor spoilers after the jump!)

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Fans of all three CSI series can get caught up on the latest season by purchasing the episodes from iTunes. All 22 episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation’s eleventh season, CSI: Miami’s ninth season and CSI: New York’s seventh season are available. Each high definition (HD) episode is $2.99, and each standard definition episode is $1.99. If you buy the whole season, you can save up to $10 on the HD version and up to $5 on the standard version.

Source: Twitter

In the first full week during the summer hiatus, the Big Apple-based spinoff offers the only repeat as the team tries to catch a sniper terrorizing the city.

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CBS has announced their schedule for the upcoming 2011-2012 season. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation will move to Wednesday nights at 10:00pm ET/PT following Survivor: South Pacific and Criminal Minds. CSI: New York and CSI: Miami will remain in their current Friday and Sunday timeslots. (More details after the jump!)

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CSI: New York actor Hill Harper (Dr Sheldon Hawkes) celebrates his birthday today, May 17. The actor was born on this day in 1966.

Actor and author Hill Harper (CSI: New York’s Dr Sheldon Hawkes) has published three successful nonfiction books: Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister seek to offer advice and encouragement to young men and women, and The Conversation aims to help African-American men and women open up the lines of communication to develop deep and lasting relationships. On August 23, Harper’s fourth book will hit store shelves. The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place offers “a revolutionary new definition of wealth, motivating readers to not only build financial security but to also achieve wealth in every aspect of their lives.” The book is currently available for pre-order on Amazon.com and other online retailers.

For CSI: New York’s AJ Buckley (Adam Ross), the seventh season brought something new to the hit series. “It was fun, it was different this season,” the actor told Reel Movie News. “I think every year there’s new things that happen with the characters and new layers that are peeled back and new things you find out. That’s the joy of being on something this long is that the writers get to take more chances because the audience is ready to go there with them. There’s such a great group of writers on the show.”

CSI Files previously reported that CSI: New York actor Carmine Giovinazzo (Danny Messer) was working on a new film. Duke now has its own Facebook page, which features images from the movie. In addition to Giovinazzo, New York fans may recognize several other actors who have appeared on the crime drama. Vanessa Ferlito played former CSI Aiden Burn during the first two seasons of CSI: NY, Carmen Argenziano butted heads with the CSIs as Inspector Stanton Gerrard during seasons three and four, and Lesley-Ann Brandt appeared as Camille Jordanson in two episodes during season seven. Fredro Starr (“Cuckoo’s Nest”), Hank Harris (“Down the Rabbit Hole”) and Michael Irby (“Exit Strategy”) also have guest-starring credits on New York.

Source: Carmine-Giovinazzo.com. Thanks to JoeyDC from TalkCSI for the link.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation fans might see some familiar villains during the show’s upcoming twelfth season. According to executive producer Don McGill, the titular forensic-proof serial killer from “Sqweegel” has a “very strong chance” of returning next season. He added that viewers may not have seen the last of “Dick & Jane” serial killer Nate Haskell (Bill Irwin). “Given that he’s proven to be an arch villain who’s come to us in many guises using many devices, I don’t think you can ever say you’ve seen the end of Nate Haskell,” McGill said.

Source: New York Post. Thanks to Speedystokesgirl from TalkCSI for the heads up.

CSI Files previously reported that former CSI: Miami actor Eddie Cibrian (Jesse Cardoza) and current recurring actor Wes Ramsey (Dave Benton) were cast in the NBC drama pilot Playboy. Now renamed The Playboy Club, NBC has picked up the series for the fall, and you can watch several clips featuring Cibrian here.

The season seven finale of CSI: New York is now available online. You can watch “Exit Strategy” on CBS.com, Xfinity TV or TV.com.

The season finale of CSI: New York, “Exit Strategy”, took the top spot on Friday, May 13. The episode pulled in 10.22 million viewers, which is up almost a million viewers from the last episode and marks the highest total since April 2. These numbers were more than enough to put CSI: NY ahead of Dateline (5.26 million), Primetime: What Would You Do? (3.71 million), a repeat of Kitchen Nightmares (3.23 million) and the series finale of Smallville (3.14 million). In the key 18-49 demographic prized by advertisers, New York won the hour with a 1.6 rating/5 share. Smallville and Kitchen Nightmares tied for second with 1.4/5, and Primetime and Dateline came last with 1.2/4.

Source: TV by the Numbers