At last year’s Monte-Carlo Television Festival, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation took home the International TV Audience Award for a Drama Series for the third year in a row. This year, the cancelled spinoff CSI: Miami has been nominated, along with House and fellow CBS series The Mentalist. The winner of this year’s award will be announced at the 53rd Monte-Carlo Television Festival on June 13.

Related: Helgenberger Accepts Monte Carlo Award On Behalf Of ‘CSI’, ‘CSI’ Receives International Television Audience Award

The entertainment finance firm Content Partners LLC has acquired a fifty-percent interest in the CSI franchise from an affiliate of Goldman Sachs. This makes Content Partners an equal stakeholder, with CBS Corporation owning the other fifty-percent interest in the franchise. This type of transaction provides the sellers with liquid assets; in exchange, Content Partners now owns half of the future production company revenue from old and new episodes of all three series.

Sources: Deadline, New York Times

Former CSI: Miami actress Emily Procter (Calleigh Duquesne) will guest star in the final two episodes of White Collar’s fourth season, starting with tonight’s penultimate episode of the USA Network series. Miami’s cancellation allowed Procter to spend more time with her young daughter, Pippa, and the smaller commitment of her White Collar role fits well with her new life. “It has been also perfect timing for me because I was able to take pretty much a full year off to be with my daughter,” the actress told TV Guide. “I thought I need to get more into TV mode, but I’m not fully there yet, and everyone at White Collar was so nice about it.”

Procter revealed that she won’t be looking for another role like Miami any time soon. “If CSI: Miami were starting, I don’t think I could do the job because the hours would be too long, and the subject matter would be too gruesome,” she explained. “I could never explain to [Pippa] what I was doing if I were preparing at home. So now I am definitely looking for something that requires a bit less time hours-wise and … not such a sad subject matter.”

You can read the full interview, which includes information about Procter’s White Collar role, on TVGuide.com.

CSI Files previously reported that former CSI: Miami star Eva La Rue would star in the upcoming Hallmark Channel movie Help For The Holidays, and we now have a first look photo from the upcoming holiday film (click to make the image bigger).

When one of Santa’s elves dreams of living outside the North Pole, she takes a special assignment in Los Angeles to turn one family’s broken Christmas spirit around by becoming their new nanny. From left to right: Dan Gauthier, Izabela Vidovic, Mason Cook, Eva La Rue

La Rue stars as Sara VanCamp, a mother of a family needing a serious wake-up call from Santa’s elf, played by Summer Glau (“What’s Eating Gilbert Grissom?”). The film airs December 9 on The Hallmark Channel.

CBS has signed a non-exclusive, multi-year licensing deal with the popular streaming website Hulu. The deal will add more than 2,600 shows from the network library to the Hulu Plus subscription service. CSI: Miami is one of the programmes that will be available starting in January 2013.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Last year, CSI Files reported that Ubisoft, makers of the Facebook game CSI: Crime City, were developing a similar free-to-play title based on CSI: Miami. Although Miami won’t be returning to the airwaves this fall following the show’s cancellation earlier this year, fans will be able to revisit the MDPD crime lab when CSI: Miami Heat Wave goes live. There are similarities between Heat Wave and Crime City, but the upcoming RPG will also feature some differences that set it apart from its predecessor; these differences include increased re-playability and more interaction with the in-show characters.

You can visit the official CSI: Miami Crime Wave Facebook page here. The launch date for the game has not been announced, but CSI Files will share that information when it becomes available.

Sources: VentureBeat, Games.com, Inside Social Games

Former CSI: Miami actor Jonathan Togo (Ryan Wolfe) celebrates his birthday today, August 25. He was born on this day in 1977.

Former CSI: Miami actress Eva La Rue (Natalia Boa Vista) posted on Twitter that she’s filming a Christmas movie for the Hallmark Channel called Help for the Holidays. Dan Gauthier (One Life to Live) is playing her character’s husband in the film.

Former CSI: Miami actress Emily Procter (Calleigh Duquesne) will shake things up during a two-episode stint on White Collar. (Spoilers for that series can be found after the jump!)

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As CSI Files previously reported, CBS made the decision to cancel CSI: Miami back in May. According to Omar Miller (Walter Simmons), the cast and crew learned the truth before the official announcement. “A lot of people suspected it was the last episode but no one was really sure,” the actor told the Sun Daily. “It was a sombre celebration. Everyone said what needed to be said. We found out only shortly before the public did.” Miller also told the New Straits Times that the cancellation was “kind of disappointing. We were hoping that at least, the show would be given one more season.”

When asked what he would miss the most about working on the crime drama, Miller revealed, “I have formed friendships with the cast and the team. Just being on the set has truly been a joyful experience for us. Now that we won’t be able to see each other on the set anymore, I’m sure it won’t feel right.” However, the actor is grateful for the time he got to spend on Miami. “It has been a great opportunity to be a part of the series,” he said. “It was truly a journey to remember for me.”

Emily Procter (CSI: Miami’s Calleigh Duquesne) was the guest judge for the first episode of HGTV’s Design Star All Stars series. The episode aired last night, but the network will replay it on Tuesday, August 7 at 6:00pm ET/PT. You can find a picture of Procter alongside the All Stars judges below—click to see it full-sized:

Source: Zap2It

CSI: Miami may be over, but the cast remains close after working together for so many years. Eva La Rue (Natalia Boa Vista) invited several of her former Miami co-stars to her home this past weekend for a mini-reunion dinner; you can find two images below featuring La Rue alongside Emily Procter (Calleigh Duquesne), Adam Rodriguez (Eric Delko) and Jonathan Togo (Ryan Wolfe)—click to see each one full-sized:

CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler spoke to reporters today during the Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour, and she discussed the network’s decision to cancel CSI: Miami. “Saying goodbye to a CSI this year was a very big deal for us,” Tassler explained. She added, “That show has been extraordinarily successful for us… What we looked at was [the flow on] Friday versus Sunday night. It was a very tough choice, but it was just a jump ball and it had to do with the schedule.”

Despite facing cancellation for the second year in a row, CSI: New York was renewed for a ninth season back in May. During the TCA tour, Tassler revealed that the Big Apple-based spinoff would have more humour this season. She also promised “more New York, fun, event type stories” when CSI: NY returns in the fall.

Related: Tassler: It Was A Tough Choice, CBS Reveals 2012-2013 Schedule, CBS Orders 22 Episodes Of ‘CSI’, 18 For ‘CSI:NY’