• CSI: Miami star Emily Procter (Calleigh Duquesne) will co-host the upcoming 13th Annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. More than 13,000 participants will raise awareness about breast cancer at the fundraiser on March 15 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

• Procter will be a presenter at the upcoming 51st Annual Grammy Awards. (Source: Ad Hoc News)

• Jay Leno said he is being realistic about his chances in primetime next fall, and he's going to have fun. "Are we going to beat shows like CSI: Miami? No. But will we beat them in the reruns? Hopefully, yes," Leno told the Orlando Sentinel.

• National officials for Crime Stoppers were troubled when the Miami episode "Tipping Point" showed a young woman being identified after making a call to a tip line. Crime Stoppers board president Jim Todd said it would "kill the program" if callers weren't guaranteed anonymity. "That is the underlying brick of this whole foundation: that you'll remain anonymous." Identifying markers like phone numbers and service providers are removed when a tip is submitted, and Todd said that no tip in the history of the Crime Stopper program has been traced back to its originator. (Source)

• Gary Sinise (CSI: New York's Mac Taylor) attended the Mightiest Chef Cook Off held at the USS Missouri Memorial in Hawaii this past weekend. The actor presented the People's Choice Award at the competition, which marked the 10th anniversary of the memorial, and the 65th anniversary of the battleship's launch during World War II.

• Spoiler alert!

  Rapper-turned-actor Sean "Diddy" Combs will make his first appearance as a defense attorney named Derek Powell in the next episode of Miami, "Presumed Guilty". The team suspects Derek of helping to cover up a murder. In Combs' second appearance on the show, which is reported to air March 2, Derek's fiancé is murdered. However, the case gets derailed when the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) throws Eric Delko (Adam Rodriguez) in jail over his forged birth certificate--but he gets no help from his birth father, Alex Sharova.

• "I'm obsessed with crime shows," country singer Taylor Swift said on the All Access Grammy Special, according to KBS Radio. "All my friends know that my dream is to die on CSI. I've always wanted to like be one of the characters on there that they're trying to figure out what happened to." Swift's dream will come true when she appears in an upcoming episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The Enquirer Herald reports that the episode will take place over the course of a year, and each act will represent a season. Within each season, the episode will show a different case that takes place at the seedy motel owned by the parents of Swift's character, Haley.

• According to Matt Mitovich at TV Guide, an upcoming episode of Miami finds the team looking into a photographer who has been snapping pictures of them. Eric is upset when he sees pictures that indicate Calleigh might be seeing another man.

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