{"id":52772,"date":"2014-04-11T10:48:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=52772"},"modified":"2014-04-11T10:48:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:48:30","slug":"mendelsohn-combines-character-science-on-csi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2014\/04\/mendelsohn-combines-character-science-on-csi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mendelsohn Combines Character &#038; Science On &#8216;CSI&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/i> Executive Producer <b>Carol Mendelsohn<\/b> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemachicago.org\/tv_competition\/\">honoured<\/a> with the Commitment to Excellence Award for TV Productions at the 2014 Chicago International Film Festival Television Awards on April 10. Mendelsohn spoke to the <i>Chicago Sun-Times<\/i> earlier this week about the success of <I>CSI<\/i>, and you can read an excerpt below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q: Forensic science is very technical. What has been the greatest challenge of presenting that to the public on \u201cCSI\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>\nA: When I think back to the first season, and our trying to write about science and the obligation to be accurate \u2014 it was a big deal. We had an obligation to explain it so people could understand it \u2014 AND be entertaining. It\u2019s really a hard thing to do. A lot of people say \u2018CSI\u2019 is all about the science and not about the characters, but if you go back and start in season one, you\u2019ll see we had a lot of character \u2014 we married both character and science. We still do that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe full interview is available <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.suntimes.com\/arts-entertainment\/the-daily-sizzle\/chicago-native-and-csi-honcho-carol-mendelsohn-to-be-honored\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Executive Producer Carol Mendelsohn was honoured with the Commitment to Excellence&#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":[2964],"class_list":["post-52772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-lv","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":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52772","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=52772"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52790,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52772\/revisions\/52790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}