Two CSI: Crime Scene Investigation veterans have found new television projects.

Former Executive Producer and writer Naren Shankar is attached to the new supernatural series Grimm. The NBC series stars Silar Weir Mitchell (“Room Service”) and Sasha Roiz (“Pool Shark”) and is scheduled to debut October 28 at 9PM.

Liz Vassey (Wendy Simms) also has something to be thankful for this TV season: her half-hour pilot has been sold. Details on the project are currently under wraps, but CSI Files wishes her all the best.

Former CSI: Crime Scene Investigation executive producer Naren Shankar will work with Battlestar Galactica developer and executive producer Ron Moore to create a reboot of the 1960s action-adventure Western series The Wild Wild West. The project will be co-produced by CBS TV Studios and Sony Pictures TV. Shankar and Moore will serve as writers and executive producers on the remake, which centers around two Secret Service Agents investigating federal crimes after the Civil War.

Source: Deadline.com. Thanks to Shane from TalkCSI for the heads up.

Former CSI: Crime Scene Investigation executive producer Naren Shankar will serve as one of the executive producers for an upcoming CBS series based on The Harper Connelly Mysteries by Charlaine Harris. Harris is also the author of the Southern Vampire Mysteries, which are the basis for the HBO series True Blood. The CBS series will share the name of the first Harper Connelly book, Grave Sight. The series’ protagonist was struck by lightning as a teenager, which granted her the ability to sense the dead and see their final moments.

Source: LA Times

CSI Files previously reported that Naren Shankar was leaving CSI: Crime Scene Investigation to focus on development for CBS. Numb3rs executive producer Don McGill will take Shankar’s place on CSI, serving as second-in-command to showrunner Carol Mendelsohn. The job with CSI is part of a two-year, seven-figure deal McGill signed with CBS TV Studios.

According to Deadline Hollywood, executive producer Naren Shankar will step down as co-showrunner of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation after eight years with the series, using his last year under contract with CBS Studios to focus on development for the company. Carol Mendelsohn, who has been Shankar’s co-showrunner for the past five seasons, will stay on as executive producer.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation executive producer Naren Shankar has joined the advisory board for Insight, a joint-venture from Resonant TV and MediaXchange that aims to give international television channels and producers access to writers and showrunners from the United States.

Insight’s goal is to “help apply the best development and writing practices to the creation of fiction programmes generated locally in different territories. Shows will be developed domestically and with a view to the international market.” The members of the advisory board will share their knowledge and experience with their international counterparts.

Source: C21Media

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