{"id":16806,"date":"2011-09-14T18:11:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T01:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=16806"},"modified":"2011-09-14T18:13:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T01:13:53","slug":"mendelsohn-mcgill-offer-info-about-season-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2011\/09\/mendelsohn-mcgill-offer-info-about-season-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Mendelsohn &#038; McGill Offer Info About Season 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As CSI Files previously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2011\/09\/chat-with-mendelsohn-mcgill-tonight\/\">reported<\/a>, Executive Producers <b>Carol Mendelsohn<\/b> and <b>Don McGill<\/b> participated in the CBS Fall Premiere chat tonight, September 14, and the pair offered some new information about <i>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation&#8217;<\/i>s upcoming twelfth season. Check out a picture of Mendelsohn and McGill on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10150294329029527&#038;set=a.256894874526.136649.21280704526&#038;type=1&#038;theater\">here<\/a>, and hit the jump to read the spoilers!<\/p>\n<p>\n<!--more-->Mendelsohn and McGill shared details via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/SHOWRUNNERCAROL\">Twitter<\/a>. The producers revealed that fans can look forward to cases including &#8220;creepy killers&#8221;, &#8220;An octopus on a Vegas tram&#8221;, &#8220;a new kind of blood drop, a bug no one has ever seen before, and a &#8216;super gun.'&#8221; In casting news, <i>Pirates of the Caribbean<\/i> actor <b>Kevin McNally<\/b> will guest star &#8220;in a freak show&#8221; during an upcoming episode. As <b>Shane Saunders<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2011\/09\/csi-gets-a-new-ballistics-expert\/\">posted<\/a>, <b>Monique Gabriela Curnen<\/b> will be joining the cast in a recurring capacity as new ballistics tech Xiomara Garcia. In other tech-related news, Mendelsohn Tweeted, &#8220;Henry Andrews (<b>Jon Wellner<\/b>) gets a promotion. [David] Hodges (<b>Wallace Langham<\/b>), Mandy [Webster, <b>Sheeri Rappaport<\/b>] and Archie [Johnson, <b>Archie Kao<\/b>] running the maze as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe producers said Jim Brass (<b>Paul Guilfoyle<\/b>) and Dr Al Robbins (<b>Robert David Hall<\/b>) will &#8220;Fill us in&#8221; on the departure of Dr Ray Langston (<b>Laurence Fishburne<\/b>). They added that Catherine Willows (<b>Marg Helgenberger<\/b>) and Nick Stokes (<b>George Eads<\/b>) &#8220;will throw down the rest of the pieces.&#8221; As for Fishburne&#8217;s replacement, <b>Ted Danson<\/b> (DB Russell), they said, &#8220;We lucked out &#8211; Ted Danson was perfect for the role. Great actor, funny, sensitive, intense, and looks terrific in latex.&#8221; Mendelsohn also shared, &#8220;Don and I think Ted is a dream. So does cast &#038; crew. And lucky for us he seems to like us too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nRegarding married couple Gil Grissom (former leading man <b>William Petersen<\/b>) and Sara Sidle (<b>Jorja Fox<\/b>), Mendelsohn said, &#8220;Look for clues to where Grissom&#8217;s been and where he&#8217;s heading.&#8221; She added, &#8220;Billy says Grissom has been working on perfecting his grilled cheese sandwiches. May surprise Sara with one.&#8221; Viewers met Grissom&#8217;s mother Betty (<b>Phyllis Frelich<\/b>) in last seasons&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/episodes\/csi\/season11\/the_two_mrs_grissoms.shtml\">&#8220;The Two Mrs Grissoms&#8221;<\/a>, and McGill said they&#8217;ve been talking about the possibility of introducing Sara&#8217;s mother during season 12, perhaps in &#8220;an episode called &#8216;The In-Laws.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nIn other romantic news, Mendelsohn teased that the relationship between Catherine and Detective Vartann (<b>Alex Carter<\/b>) &#8220;will become even more explosive and maybe even deadly.&#8221; Nick will have a new potential love interest with &#8220;connections to the morgue&#8221;, the producers Tweeted, and they suggested that this woman will be the niece of resident coroner Doc Robbins. &#8220;Nick&#8217;s date interrupted by decomp, will she come back for more? Death can&#8217;t scare Robbins&#8217; niece,&#8221; they revealed. Also, &#8220;We&#8217;ll meet Mrs Robbins soon.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nYou can find all of the messages from Mendelsohn and McGill&#8212;including even more <i>CSI<\/i> spoilers&#8212;on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/SHOWRUNNERCAROL\">Mendelsohn&#8217;s Twitter page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As CSI Files previously reported, Executive Producers Carol Mendelsohn and Don McGill participated in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2906],"tags":[3089,3045,2964],"class_list":["post-16806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-lv","tag-danson","tag-mcgill","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":"2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16806","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=16806"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16818,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16806\/revisions\/16818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}