{"id":60770,"date":"2015-02-11T14:25:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T22:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=60770"},"modified":"2015-02-11T14:25:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T22:25:14","slug":"cbs-accidentally-promotes-csi-series-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2015\/02\/cbs-accidentally-promotes-csi-series-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Accidentally Promotes &#8216;CSI&#8217; Series Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As CSI Files previously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2015\/02\/cbs-shares-csi-finale-info-plus-more-set-pics\/\">reported<\/a>, CBS will air the final two episodes of <I>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation&#8217;<\/i>s fifteenth season back-to-back on Sunday, February 15. During last night&#8217;s episode of <I>NCIS<\/i>, the network had an on-screen advertisement for the &#8220;series finale&#8221; of the crime drama, which was also reflected in some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spoilertv.com\/2015\/02\/csi-cbs-accidentally-promotes-next.html\">cable listings<\/a>. <i>CSI&#8217;<\/i>s future is uncertain at this point in time, but CBS Executive Vice President of Communications <b>Chris Ender<\/b> posted these tweets clarifying that the &#8220;series finale&#8221; designation was a mistake:<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Dear Twitter chatter. Eyeliner graphic promoting this weekend&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CSI?src=hash\">#CSI<\/a> mistakenly said &quot;Series Finale.&quot;  It&#39;s the &quot;Season Finale.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Ender (@soundbyte53) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/soundbyte53\/status\/565343609474809856\">February 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aysrick\">@aysrick<\/a> We would never cancel a show in a promo five days before broadcast, especially one that has been this important to the Network.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Ender (@soundbyte53) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/soundbyte53\/status\/565349876884832256\">February 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nYou can find several more tweets after the jump, from the official <I>CSI<\/i> writers&#8217; room account and Executive Producer <b>Louis Milito<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p>\n<!--more-->This first tweet is from last week, but it indicates that the two-part finale is not intended to be a series finale:<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LisaBruneau2\">@LisaBruneau2<\/a> season finale! NOT series finale<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CSI Writers&#39; Room (@CSIWritersRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSIWritersRoom\/status\/563614783333617664\">February 6, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nAnd here are two tweets that were posted after yesterday&#8217;s mistake:<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheCancelBear\">@TheCancelBear<\/a> ouch, Cancellation Bear. We may be old, but we can still outrun you! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/longliveCSI?src=hash\">#longliveCSI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CSI Writers&#39; Room (@CSIWritersRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSIWritersRoom\/status\/565345597834932226\">February 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LuciaFriely\">@LuciaFriely<\/a> hi. No it&#39;s not being canceled. It was just a mistake. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/csiseason16?src=hash\">#csiseason16<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Louis Milito (@LouisMilito) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LouisMilito\/status\/565405052144459776\">February 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nRelated: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2015\/01\/tassler-zuiker-address-uncertain-future-of-csi\/\">Tassler &#038; Zuiker Address Uncertain Future Of \u2018CSI\u2019<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2015\/01\/csi-cast-crew-share-season-15-finale-pics\/\">\u2018CSI\u2019 Cast &#038; Crew Share Season 15 Finale Pics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2015\/02\/under-my-skin-the-end-game-official-details-plus-whats-on-this-week\/\">\u2018Under My Skin\u2019 &#038; \u2018The End Game\u2019 Official Details, Plus What\u2019s On This Week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As CSI Files previously reported, CBS will air the final two episodes 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":[2906],"tags":[3064,3596,3082],"class_list":["post-60770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-lv","tag-cbs","tag-ender","tag-milito"],"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\/60770","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=60770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60782,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60770\/revisions\/60782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}