{"id":15752,"date":"2011-07-19T23:25:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T06:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=15752"},"modified":"2011-09-21T02:44:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T09:44:30","slug":"report-series-regulars-return-for-season-12-of-csi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2011\/07\/report-series-regulars-return-for-season-12-of-csi\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Series Regulars Return For Season 12 Of &#8216;CSI&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Laurence Fishburne<\/strong> (Dr Ray Langston) will not be returning for season twelve of <em>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/em>, but the rest of the show&#8217;s cast is readying to return. Details on who is returning and how after the jump!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->As CSI Files previously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2011\/06\/fishburne-says-goodbye-to-csi\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>, Fishburne will not be returning for the upcoming twelfth season. However, despite breathless Internet rumors, no one else will be absent when the show resumes September 21st.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>George<\/strong> [<strong>Eads<\/strong>, Nick Stokes] and <strong>Eric<\/strong> [<strong>Szmanda<\/strong>, Greg Sanders] are returning. <strong>Jorja<\/strong> [<strong>Fox<\/strong>, Sara Sidle]\u00a0is returning. <strong>Paul<\/strong> [<strong>Guilfoyle<\/strong>, Jim Brass] is returning,&#8221; a source close to the show confirms to CSI Files. &#8220;Although, I think&#8230; Paul may also have a situation where he&#8217;s not in every episode, he wants some time off occassionally. Jorja and Paul are in the same situation as last season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wallace Langham<\/strong> (David Hodges), is also set to return.\u00a0&#8220;He may not be in a couple episodes because he may be doing a movie,&#8221; the source elaborates.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally,\u00a0<strong>Elisabeth Harnois <\/strong>(Morgan Brody), who was first introduced in season eleven&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/episodes\/csi\/season11\/cello_and_goodbye.shtml\">Cello and Goodbye<\/a>,&#8221; will &#8220;return and be reintroduced,&#8221; the source says. Her first appearance will be in this fall&#8217;s premiere, which will also include the appearance of <strong>Marc Vann<\/strong> (Conrad Ecklie), who plays her estranged father.<\/p>\n<p>Season twelve will, however, see the departure of <strong>Marg Helgenberger <\/strong>(Catherine Willows). &#8220;Marg will be with us for most of the season, [but it&#8217;s looking] like she&#8217;ll be leaving in February,&#8221; the source reveals. &#8220;There&#8217;s flexibility to how we air episodes this season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Shane Saunders is a freelance writer and reviewer. His work can be seen on EDGE Network and ShaneSSaunders.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurence Fishburne (Dr Ray Langston) will not be returning for season twelve of CSI: Crime&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2906],"tags":[2910,2938,2932,3012,3084,2937,2924,2958,3077],"class_list":["post-15752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-lv","tag-eads","tag-fishburne","tag-fox","tag-guilfoyle","tag-harnois","tag-helgenberger","tag-langham","tag-szmanda","tag-vann"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Shane Saunders","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/shane\/"},"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\/15752","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15752"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17001,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752\/revisions\/17001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}