• William Petersen (Gil Grissom) recently visited Chicago's Barrington High School to deliver a speech at the school's eighth annual Relay For Life, the American Cancer Society’s key fund-raiser for cancer research. “I do a lot of events around the country, and I can honestly say this is the most meaningful for me,” Petersen said. “We all have something that makes us sick. Some of it’s disease, some of it’s mental, some of it’s physical... there’s different things. And somehow it’s so focused when it’s cancer." Petersen's sister Mary Kay Bowman, a cancer survivor herself, also attended the event.

• The website David Caruso Fans.com, dedicated to David Caruso (Horatio Caine), has been updated with a series of old articles about the actor. The recent updates also include an NYPD Blue episode guide and screen caps of Caruso's appearance in An Officer and a Gentleman.

• Adam Rodriguez (Eric Delko) recently attended the CTV 2005 fall season preview show in Toronto, and the website Just Adam.net has pictures of the actor's appearance.

• Images of the Lt. Dan Band's 2005 USO Tour can be found in the band's official website. The Lt. Dan Band features Gary Sinise (Mac Taylor) as the bass player.

• And for those of you who missed the Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle) appearance on the Insider, Jorja Fox Online has been updated with a transcript of the show.

• Fans of CSI: New York can expect an interruption in the show's February sweeps run, as CBS recently announced it would air the Grammy Awards live on February 8th. The Grammy Award nominations will be announced on December 7th.

• While Lost and Desperate Housewives helped ABC claim the crown as television advertising market winner, CBS didn't do too bad. The network managed to sell $2.5 billion in commercial spots, thanks in part to the strong Thursday night line-up.

• The CSI Effect has reached the coast of Australia, where real-life crime scene investigators are struggling with the general public misconceptions regarding forensic science that are created by CSI and its spin-offs.

• And in the land down under, CSI has been replaced by Desperate Housewives as Australia's most watched show. While CSI was the winner last year with an average of 552,000 viewers a week, Desperate Housewives shined this year with 700,000 viewers weekly.

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