CSI fans heading to Comic-Con this week in San Diego, California can pick up some merchandise at the CBS booth.

Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing will promote the Club CSI chapter books geared toward tween readers at Booth #1128.

Filming is underway for CSI: Miami and CSI: New York, and the actors have wasted no time Tweeting pictures from the set. Hill Harper (Dr Sheldon Hawkes) posted a picture of himself with CSI: NY’s leading lady Sela Ward (Jo Danville), and you can find that image here. CBS shared a pic featuring Anna Belknap (Lindsay Monroe), AJ Buckley (Adam Ross) and Ward, which is here. Buckley posted several images of himself, which you can find below. Over on the Miami set, Eva La Rue (Natalia Boa Vista) posed alongside costars David Caruso (Horatio Caine) and Emily Procter (Calleigh Duquesne). Click the thumbnails below to see each image full-sized!

The franchise offers three repeats this week, including a gruesome thrift store donation, a victim in disguise and a young woman fleeing from a serial killer.

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As CSI Files previously reported, all three members of the CSI franchise will release the latest season on DVD on September 27. You can see the final 3D box art for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami and CSI: New York on TVShowsOnDVD.com.

CSI creator Anthony Zuiker has left CBS, and he signed a three-year, first-look deal with ABC. “I just felt that to do something different, I had to go on different journey and possibly take the option of leaving,” he told Deadline.com. Zuiker will create projects with Brillstein Entertainment Partners for ABC Studios, although he will keep his executive producer credit on all three CSI series.

CBS has teamed up with Parade Magazine for the “CBS Uber Insider” contest, which seeks to find the “ultimate fan” of one of the CBS programmes. To enter, you can submit a video or upload a photo and essay explaining “why you love CBS and what shows you simply can’t miss.” Your friends, family and online community can work together to vote for you so you can become one of the ten finalists. One winner will be chosen as the “CBS Uber Insider”. The winner will travel to Los Angeles, California to tour the set of a CBS show, get $1,000 spending money and have the opportunity to become an editor on PARADE.com and “blog about all things CBS”.

The deadline for entries is this Friday, July 22 at 3:00pm ET. For more details, or to enter your submission, visit the Facebook link above or Parade.com.

CSI: Miami is the only member of the CSI franchise that has two composers working on the musical score, though that hasn’t always been the case. After Graeme Revell left his duties as composer back in season one, producers brought in Jeff Cardoni and Kevin Kiner to fill the void for season two. More than eight years later the two remain on the show and continue to concoct themes that add to the tense and emotional stories. Speaking with CSI Files’ Shane Saunders, Cardoni explains the process of working with a partner, how he juggles multiple gigs, and whether the series will ever release another soundtrack.

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Mac Taylor honors those who died on 9/11 when the eighth season of CSI: New York gets underway. (Major episode spoilers can be found after the jump!)

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CSI: New York set designer Will Batts is back at work on the show’s eighth season, and he posted several pictures on Twitter. The first features EDNA, one of the pieces of lab equipment from the show, and the second shows a location on the Paramount backlot that looks like the exterior of buildings in New York City. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation co-executive producer Dustin Lee Abraham recently posed with former Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman, who will guest star in an upcoming episode of the crime drama. Last week, Abraham shared several more classic pictures from the CSI set, offering a glimpse behind the scenes of “Popping Tags” and “Grave Danger”—the “Grave Danger” image features director Jeffrey Hunt, who worked as a camera operator on the episode. Click to see each picture full-sized:

The CSI: New York episode “Life Sentence” was nominated for a 2011 Primetime Emmy Award in the “Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series” category.

The franchise offers three repeats this week, featuring Sara’s mother-in-law, a woman with conspiracy theories and a dead bully.

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The season eight premiere of CSI: New York will honor the tenth anniversary of September 11th in a way that is very personal for leading man Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise). (Spoilers after the jump!)

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has found a replacement for departing leading man Laurence Fishburne (Dr Ray Langston). TV Line reports that Ted Danson will star in CSI’s twelfth season as the new grave shift supervisor, who moves to Las Vegas from Portland, Oregon. “From the moment we all started talking about the role, it was clear [Ted] couldn’t be more perfect,” executive producer Don McGill said. “Intelligence, wit, warmth, depth of character and emotion, he brings it all. And now he’ll have to bring latex gloves, too.”

Executive producer Carol Mendelsohn created a more lighthearted character than Langston to replace him on the series. “You can create a new character on the page, but until the perfect actor comes along and breathes life into it, it’s just words,” she explained. “We’re very excited Ted Danson came along.”

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