{"id":11472,"date":"2010-09-21T22:32:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T05:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=11472"},"modified":"2024-06-25T13:44:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T20:44:29","slug":"csi-uses-guest-stars-to-draw-in-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2010\/09\/csi-uses-guest-stars-to-draw-in-viewers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;CSI&#8217; Uses Guest Stars To Draw In Viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The appearance of teen singing sensation <b>Justin Bieber<\/b> in this week&#8217;s season premiere of <i>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/episodes\/csi\/season11\/shock_waves.shtml\">&#8220;Shock Waves&#8221;<\/a>, is part of a trend across television to utilize big name guest stars to keep fans tuning in. &#8220;I got this call saying that Justin loves <i>CSI<\/i>, so is there any chance he could be on the show?&#8221; executive producer <b>Carol Mendelsohn<\/b> explained to <a href=\"http:\/\/today.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/39246439\/ns\/today-entertainment\/\">TODAY<\/a>. &#8220;He loved the show, he was interested in acting&#8212;it just fell into our laps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nBieber isn&#8217;t the only familiar name set to appear on <I>CSI<\/i> this season. <b>Elliot Gould<\/b> and <b>Ann-Margret<\/b> are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2010\/07\/elliott-gould-guest-stars-on-csi\/\">also<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2010\/08\/zuiker-returns-to-csi-aims-to-draw-in-viewers\/\">scheduled<\/a> to guest star on the series. &#8220;There&#8217;s so much on television to draw the audience away,&#8221; Mendelsohn said. &#8220;I knew we had to event-ize our episodes this year, to cut through the white noise and get the eyeballs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appearance of teen singing sensation Justin Bieber in this week&#8217;s season premiere of CSI:&#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":[2990,2964],"class_list":["post-11472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-lv","tag-guest-stars","tag-mendelsohn"],"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\/11472","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=11472"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67050,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472\/revisions\/67050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}