{"id":48827,"date":"2013-10-23T14:46:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T21:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=48827"},"modified":"2013-10-23T14:46:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T21:46:02","slug":"heres-more-about-tonights-csi-plus-criminal-minds-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2013\/10\/heres-more-about-tonights-csi-plus-criminal-minds-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s More About Tonight&#8217;s &#8216;CSI&#8217;, Plus &#8216;Criminal Minds&#8217; Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out another collection of news articles relating to the 300th episode of <I>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/i>, along with one link about this week&#8217;s episode of <I>Criminal Minds<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<!--more--><b><u><big>Criminal Minds<\/big><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nFirst, here&#8217;s an interview with <b>Thomas Gibson<\/b> (Aaron Hotchner) from <a href=\"http:\/\/tvline.com\/2013\/10\/23\/criminal-minds-season-9-preview-thomas-gibson-hotch-haley-foyet\/\">TV Line<\/a> about tonight&#8217;s episode, along with the rest of season nine. Here&#8217;s an excerpt relating to &#8220;Route 66&#8221;, in which Hotch has visions of his his late wife Haley (<b>Meredith Monroe<\/b>) and George \u201cThe Reaper\u201d Foyet (<b>C Thomas Howell<\/b>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>TVLINE | What was your reaction when you heard the show would again revisit this painful, formative part of Hotch\u2019s past?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nI thought it was great because, yes, it\u2019s a painful, formative time, but it\u2019s also something that you as an actor would like to deal with again. When [showrunner] <b>Erica<\/b> [<b>Messer<\/b>] said, \u201cHey, we want to revisit Hotch and Haley,\u201d I said, \u201cHow do we do it?\u201d And [writer\/co-exec producer] <b>Virgil<\/b> [<b>Williams<\/b>] pitched this story that was really fantastic. We really had a good time, within the structure of that dream, to kind of go through it all again, in a concentrated way but no less of a horrifying way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b><u><big>CSI<\/big><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nHere are tweets from the <I>CSI<\/i> Writers&#8217; Room account confirming that <b>Elisabeth Harnois<\/b> (Morgan Brody) and <b>Eric Szmanda<\/b> (Greg Sanders) will participate in the live chat tonight at 10:00pm ET, along with a possible appearance from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/episodes\/csi\/season14\/frame_by_frame.shtml\">&#8220;Frame by Frame&#8221;<\/a> writer <B>Gavin Harris<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>For tonight&#39;s live tweet with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericszmanda\">@ericszmanda<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElisabethHarnoi\">@ElisabethHarnoi<\/a> , use <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23CSI300&amp;src=hash\">#CSI300<\/a> instead of the usual <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23CSI&amp;src=hash\">#CSI<\/a> . Let&#39;s get it trending!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CSI Writers&#39; Room (@CSIWritersRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSIWritersRoom\/statuses\/393077033304993792\">October 23, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Writer GAVIN HARRIS might make an appearance. He&#39;s very shy, but we may have tricked him into participating! \ud83d\ude09 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23CSI300&amp;src=hash\">#CSI300<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CSI Writers&#39; Room (@CSIWritersRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSIWritersRoom\/statuses\/393077241518645248\">October 23, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nExecutive Producer <b>Carol Mendelsohn<\/b> gave a list of the 10 best <I>CSI<\/i> episodes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvguide.com\/News\/CSI-300-Episodes-Best-1072388.aspx\">TV Guide<\/a>, and the cast offered their thoughts about each one. Here are <b>Marg Helgenberger&#8217;<\/b>s (Catherine Willows) thoughts about one of the episodes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/episodes\/csi\/season4\/fur_and_loathing.shtml\">Fur and Loathing<\/a> (Season 4, Episode 5)<\/b> After finding a dead man dressed as a raccoon on the side of the road, the CSIs head to a convention of furries \u2014 adults who wear animal costumes for sexual pleasure (one of whom is <i>Sex and the City&#8217;<\/i>s <b>Willie Garson<\/b> as a sexy kitty). &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know much about this world, so before we shot the episode, the director and I went to an event where people came wearing tails,&#8221; remembers Helgenberger. &#8220;A lot of the extras we used were actually into that. God bless them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s an interview with Mendelsohn and Executive Producer <b>Don McGill<\/b> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/10\/23\/csi-reaches-lofty-300-episode-mark\/\">New York Post<\/a>. Tonight&#8217;s 300th episode features a series of fake flashbacks, or &#8220;fauxbacks&#8221;, offering a glimpse at the past. &#8220;We got a chance to show where all our cast members today were character-wise 14 years ago,&#8221; McGill explained.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s another article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvguide.com\/News\/CSI-300th-Episode-Carol-Mendelsohn-1072418.aspx\">TV Guide<\/a>, and Mendelsohn said the 300th episode pays homage to the show&#8217;s history:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everybody&#8217;s been asking, &#8216;What are your favorite episodes? What moments do you remember the best on set?&#8217; And because we want to hark back to those iconic moments of the past, we flash back to some of the golden oldie cases. We took a poll among all the writers: What are your favorite cases? And those are the cases we flash back to during the episode.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/insidetv.ew.com\/2013\/10\/23\/csi-10-of-its-most-intriguing-guest-stars\/\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a> shared their top 10 list of <i>CSI&#8217;<\/i>s &#8220;most intriguing guest stars&#8221;, including <b>Justin Bieber<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/episodes\/csi\/season11\/shock_waves.shtml\">&#8220;Shock Waves&#8221;<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/episodes\/csi\/season11\/targets_of_obsession.shtml\">&#8220;Targets of Obsession&#8221;<\/a>) and <b>Roger Daltrey<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/episodes\/csi\/season7\/living_legend.shtml\">&#8220;Living Legend&#8221;<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/10\/23\/the-greatest-csi-crime-scene-investigation-episodes.html\">The Daily Beast<\/a> also shared a list of 8 memorable episodes. According to McGill, &#8220;<i>CSI<\/i> changed television.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out another collection of news articles relating to the 300th episode of CSI: Crime&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3248,2906],"tags":[3347,2990,2937,3045,2964],"class_list":["post-48827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminalminds","category-csi-lv","tag-gibson","tag-guest-stars","tag-helgenberger","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\/criminalminds\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Criminal Minds<\/a> <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\/48827","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=48827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48836,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48827\/revisions\/48836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}