CSI: Vegas: Last News

Marg Helgenberger steps back into the shoes of Catherine Willows on , and only ET was on location in Las Vegas, Nevada, while they filmed Thursday's season 2 premiere to welcome the veteran actress back to the franchise — and find out just how she fits into the new normal.«Marg Helgenberger is a legend and Catherine Willows is a character that I could not wait to write,» showrunner and executive producer Jason Tracey told ET's Will Marfuggi in June. «That voice is indelible.

William Petersen's Gil Grissom and Jorja Fox's Sara Sidle, for its first season and when the sophomore installment rolls around, it will be bringing Marg Helgenberger's beloved  character, Catherine Willows, into the fray. The CBS update, which brings the action back to where it all started, follows a new Crime Lab team, headed by Maxine Roby (Paula Newsome), as they solve cases using forensic science.«We're really lucky to have her back and personally, I'm overjoyed,» star Matt Lauria, who plays investigator Josh Folsom, told ET while promoting the series' season 1 DVD/Blu-ray release, out Tuesday. «I would've been deeply enthused, even if I didn't have any experience with Marg personally.

, ET has confirmed. Helgenberger will be a series regular.The actress' return to the world comes just weeks after William Petersen and Jorja Fox departed the CBS update.

.Jorja Fox will not be returning for season 2 of CBS' update, the actress revealed in a series of tweets on Tuesday morning.Fox's decision to leave ahead of the new season comes one month after CBS picked up the series for a sophomore installment and acknowledged that fellow original cast member William Petersen, who returned to reprise his role as Gil Grissom, only had a one-season deal and was not expected to return. The actress cited Petersen's absence as a large reason why she opted not to come back.«After much deliberating, I have decided not to 'Sidle up' for » Fox wrote. «For me has always been a love story.

is back for another round of crime-solving, but may be without one of its stars.CBS officially renewed the revival of its blockbuster franchise for a second season to air during the 2022-23 broadcast season on Wednesday, but original cast member William Petersen, who returned alongside Jorja Fox, is not expected to be back as Gil Grissom.

William Petersen) and Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox). With the David Hodges case finally resolved after a topsy-turvy season, the team — led by Grissom and Sara — marked the end of one journey and potentially left the door open for another with an intriguing cliffhanger revealing the presence of a formidable serial killer on the loose.«We knew going in that this limited run of 10 episodes was going to have one serialized arc, a through line that took us into the world of the lab and the stakes that had to do with all the past cases that the audience got to watch over the years.

star opened up to ET's Matt Cohen about his time as Jasper the Clown. Filming the «Funhouse» episode brought Lauria back to his clown days.

.On Wednesday's episode, titled «Let the Chips Fall,» Grissom (William Petersen) and Sara (Jorja Fox) close in on who framed Hodges. But as they get closer to the true culprit, they find themselves in new territory.

William Petersen and Jorja Fox for a follow-up series has been surreal.CBS' latest entry, which premiered 21 years to the day after the flagship series launched, follows Petersen's Gil Grissom and Fox's Sara Sidle as they use forensics to solve crimes and find out who framed their former Crime Lab boss, Jim Brass (Paul Guilfoyle), putting years of their work and the future of the Lab in jeopardy. «So fun,» creator and executive producer Zuiker told ET when asked what it's been like to revisit the world. «It was great to be back on set.

 returns to the scene of the crime with original stars William Petersen and Jorja Fox reprising their characters, Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle respectively, after more than six years following the end of the show's initial run. The beloved CBS franchise kickstarts the new iteration with a mix of the old and the new, bringing back Grissom and Sara back to the Crime Lab when former homicide detective Jim Brass gets caught up in a scandal that could bring down decades of case work they've done.«There is a tremendous amount of anticipation.

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