The flagship series is preempted this week, but the spinoffs offer a case that’s out of this world and murder in the fast lane. Official plot details and cast lists after the jump.<\/p>\n
\nStarting out the week on Monday at 10:00pm ET\/PT, CSI: Miami<\/I> takes a visit to the final frontier in “Miami, We Have A Problem”<\/a>:<\/p>\n The CSIs solve the murder of a man who was killed in outer space.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nSam Hill<\/b> has directed 22 previous episodes of Miami<\/i>, including “Show Stopper”<\/a> earlier this season. Brian Davidson<\/b> has 15 writing credits for the show, most recently for this season’s “Bad Seed”<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nThe following guest stars will appear in the episode:<\/p>\n \nOn Wednesday at 10:00pm ET\/PT, CSI: New York<\/I> checks out life on the fast track during “The Formula”<\/a>:<\/p>\n Two days before a Grand Prix Race, when a racing legend dies in a car explosion on the streets of Manhattan, the CSIs discover that car tampering is the cause; however, the investigation leads viewers through the professional racing community and beyond.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nMatt Earl Beesley<\/b> has helmed four previous episodes of the show, including this season’s “Manhattanhenge”<\/a>. Aaron Rahsaan Thomas<\/b> wrote “Cuckoo’s Nest”<\/a> earlier this season.<\/p>\n \n“The Formula” will feature the following guest stars:<\/p>\n \nCSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/i> won’t air on Thursday. In its place, CBS will air the two hour premiere of Survivor: Heroes and Villains<\/i> from 8:00-10:00pm ET\/PT.<\/p>\n \n“Miami, We Have A Problem” and “The Formula” begin airing February 8 on CBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The flagship series is preempted this week, but the spinoffs offer a case that’s out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2906,2907,2908],"tags":[2990,2960,2928],"class_list":["post-8977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-lv","category-csi-m","category-csi-ny","tag-guest-stars","tag-official-details","tag-this-week-on-csi"],"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":"CSI<\/a> CSI: Miami<\/a> CSI: New York<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI: New York","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977","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=8977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8980,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977\/revisions\/8980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nChristian Clemenson and Christopher Redman are reprising established recurring roles. Flex Alexander played a different character in season six’s “Deep Freeze”<\/a>. Thad Luckinbill has appeared on CSI: New York<\/i> (“Pay Up”<\/a>) and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/i> (“Bang Bang”<\/a>). David Chisum was in the New York<\/i> episode “The Party’s Over”<\/a> during the show’s fifth season. The other actors are new to the franchise.<\/p>\n\n
\nRace car driver Danica Patrick will make her acting debut in the episode alongside Antonio Sabato Jr, as CSI Files previously reported<\/a>. Rick Peters guest-starred on CSI<\/i> (“Scuba Doobie Doo”<\/a>) as well as Miami<\/i> (“Killer Date”<\/a>). Kevin Kilner was in the Miami<\/i> episode “Just One Kiss”<\/a> during the show’s first season, Marisa Ramirez was in “Hurricane Anthony”<\/a> during season two, and Erik Eidem was in season five’s “Backstabbers”<\/a>.<\/p>\n