{"id":15538,"date":"2011-06-21T15:01:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T22:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=15538"},"modified":"2024-06-25T13:44:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T20:44:19","slug":"csi-searches-for-fishburnes-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2011\/06\/csi-searches-for-fishburnes-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;CSI&#8217; Searches For Fishburne&#8217;s Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As CSI Files previously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2011\/06\/fishburne-says-goodbye-to-csi\/\">reported<\/a>, <b>Laurence Fishburne<\/b> (Dr Ray Langston) decided not to renew his contract with <I>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/i> for the show&#8217;s upcoming twelfth season. Producer <b>Jerry Bruckheimer<\/b> told <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zap2it.com\/pop2it\/2011\/06\/pirates-of-the-caribbean-success-pretty-exciting-for-producer-jerry-bruckheimer.html\">Zap2It<\/a> that the hunt is on for an actor who can take Fishburne&#8217;s place on the crime drama. &#8220;We&#8217;re kicking around a whole bunch of ideas,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;Hopefully, we&#8217;ll come up with somebody who will keep the show on for quite a bit longer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nAll three <I>CSI<\/i> series were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2011\/05\/cbs-reveals-fall-schedule-moves-csi-to-wednesday\/\">renewed<\/a> for the 2011-2012 season, and Bruckheimer is happy that the shows will remain on the schedule. &#8220;We&#8217;re very fortunate that they still have wide audiences,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and that CBS is still excited about putting them on the air.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As CSI Files previously reported, Laurence Fishburne (Dr Ray Langston) decided not to renew his&#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":[3052,2938],"class_list":["post-15538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-lv","tag-bruckheimer","tag-fishburne"],"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\/15538","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=15538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15541,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15538\/revisions\/15541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}