{"id":19969,"date":"2012-01-12T17:37:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T01:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=19969"},"modified":"2012-01-12T17:37:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T01:37:23","slug":"reiter-its-hard-to-commit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2012\/01\/reiter-its-hard-to-commit\/","title":{"rendered":"Reiter: It&#8217;s Hard To Commit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the bubble for renewal for the second year in a row, <em>CSI: New York<\/em>&#8216;s executive producers have no choice but to write a finale that works as both a season\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0series finale. Executive Producers\u00a0<strong>Pam Veasey<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Zachary Reiter<\/strong>\u00a0provide insight to CSI Files as to what might happen.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><em>CSI: NY<\/em>\u00a0narrowly escaped cancellation last year after receiving an eleventh hour reprieve. The series was renewed shortly before CBS announced its 2011-2012 lineup at May&#8217;s upfront presentation when the network shared what shows to expect in the fall. With only eighteen episodes this season, producers are deciding yet again how to write a season finale that could also serve as a final episode.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest challenge for the show is finding a way to top last year&#8217;s finale, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/episodes\/newyork\/season7\/exit_strategy.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Exit Strategy.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0Producers received positive feedback from both the show&#8217;s crew and fans, noting the episode&#8211;which found Mac Taylor (<strong>Gary Sinise<\/strong>) contemplating a huge change in his life&#8211;was satisfying as both an end of the season closer and a series finale. Now, with less than a month to go until production on the season&#8211;and potentially series&#8211;wraps, writers are figuring out what to do&#8211;including possibly bringing back past characters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to commit to those things not knowing the future of the show,&#8221;\u00a0co-showrunner\u00a0Zachary Reiter\u00a0tells CSI Files&#8217; <strong>Shane Saunders<\/strong>.\u00a0&#8220;We have to sit down; we have yet to sort of create that last possible last show\/possible cliff-hanger\/possible last show before next season thing,&#8221; Pam Veasey\u00a0shares. &#8220;We&#8217;ll see. We&#8217;ll consider everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Discussing past storylines, Veasey marveled at the possibility of bringing\u00a0<strong>Jacqueline Pinol<\/strong>\u00a0back as Rikki Sandoval. &#8220;Anybody can come back.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the bubble for renewal for the second year in a row, CSI: New York&#8216;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2908],"tags":[2990,2999,2931],"class_list":["post-19969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-ny","tag-guest-stars","tag-reiter","tag-veasey"],"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-ny\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI: New York<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI: New York","comment_count":"5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19969","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=19969"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19987,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19969\/revisions\/19987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}