{"id":10984,"date":"2010-08-09T23:31:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T06:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=10984"},"modified":"2010-09-23T19:43:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T02:43:47","slug":"zuiker-returns-to-csi-aims-to-draw-in-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2010\/08\/zuiker-returns-to-csi-aims-to-draw-in-viewers\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuiker Returns To &#8216;CSI&#8217; &#038; Aims To Draw In Viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>CSI<\/i> creator <b>Anthony Zuiker<\/b> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2010\/07\/helgenberger-the-season-will-start-with-a-bang\/\">returned<\/a> to the writers room for <i>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/i>&#8216;s eleventh season, and he has a lot in store for the fans. (Spoilers after the jump!)<\/p>\n<p>\n<!--more-->Zuiker and the rest of the writing team planned some exciting episodes to start the season. For one storyline, &#8220;We have a shark in the pool; kind of like day clubs gone wild,&#8221; Zuiker told <i>New York Magazine<\/i>. The series will also include an episode with a vampire and werewolf convention to take advantage of the current popularity of mythical bloodsuckers. As CSI Files previously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2010\/08\/sqweegel-comes-to-csi\/\">reported<\/a>, the character of black Sqweegel from Zuiker&#8217;s digi-novel <i>Level 26: Dark Origins<\/i> will appear in a &#8220;scary as hell episode starring <b>Ann-Margret<\/b>&#8221; that airs on October 14. <\/p>\n<p>\n<i>CSI<\/i> will try luring in even more viewers with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2010\/08\/check-out-more-pictures-from-the-set-of-csi\/\">appearance<\/a> of teen singing sensation <b>Justin Bieber<\/b> in the season eleven premiere. The 16-year-old had a &#8220;very memorable&#8221; visit to the set. &#8220;We ate cake, skateboarded, sang, and had a few laughs,&#8221; Zuiker said. &#8220;He did a really good job.&#8221; The man behind <I>CSI<\/I> added, &#8220;I think all of his fans are going to follow him to <i>CSI<\/i> and stay for the whole season.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSI creator Anthony Zuiker has returned to the writers room for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation&#8216;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2906],"tags":[2990,2914,2913],"class_list":["post-10984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-lv","tag-guest-stars","tag-level-26","tag-zuiker"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/rachel\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-lv\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10984"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11528,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984\/revisions\/11528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}