2008 Woodie Awards
The Doctors Are In: Grey's Anatomy Wints the Battle of Ratings
JD Casto
Issue date: 10/2/06 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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CBS' ratings juggernaut "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" went up against ABC's "Grey's Anatomy". Both opened their newest season with a bang, but Grey's Anatomy came out on top with twenty-five million viewers, three million more than CSI.
In a statement regarding ABC's bold move of placing "Grey's" in the same time slot as "CSI", CBS' Entertainment President Nina Tassler called "CSI", "the underdog" (cnn.com).
I am a longtime, hardcore fan of "CSI" and would find it blasphemous if I didn't watch a new episode when it first aired. Officially joining the main cast is Sophia Curtis played by actress Louise Lombard. Also as season six's finale showed viewers, Gil Grissom's (William Petersen) romance with Sarah Sidle (Jorja Fox) is heating up.
The seventh season opener stuck to the formula and started with someone finding a dead body. The "CSI" premier featured two Vegas shows, "Cirque du Soleil" and "Zumanity". Viewers were shown just how complicated and dangerous the back stage areas really are in these high-budget shows.
The stakes were raised when John Mayer guest starred and performed two of his songs from his recently released album "Continuum". This is when the formula was thrown out the window.
Normally the show presents two storylines: Story A and Story B. Each act (segment shown after commercial breaks) intersects Story A and Story B. By Act 4, both cases are closed or closing. In this Act 4, John Mayer performed and Nick Stokes (George Eads) and Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger) unwound after closing their case. Catherine denies a guys offer to buy her a drink and this is when things took a turn for the worse.
The music starts to muffle as Catherine seems to loose a grip on things. The image fades to black and fades back in. Catherine is in a motel room bed naked. She knows something happened and immediately starts to perform a SAE (Sexual Assault Evidence) kit. Then a third case is introduced.
The victim or killer has made an exact half scale replica of the crime scene. Everything is exactly depicted in this model. Grissom and Sara aren't too sure about this case. The episode ends with Catherine breaking down while taking her own SAE kit. The dreaded "To Be Continued..." title flashed on the screen, causing many fans including myself to scream random obscenities at the television screen.
The teaser for next week's episode shows viewers that Catherine's daughter Lindsey has been kidnapped and that Catherine gets into a nasty car accident. From what has been released over the Internet, fans are in for an interesting season. Writers seem to be focusing on the romances between Warrik Brown (Gary Dourdan) and Catherine and Grissom and Sara.
"Grey's Anatomy" and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" are going to be going at it all season long. Depending on how ratings go, writers for both shows could potentially write some of the best episodes of the series this season.
In a statement regarding ABC's bold move of placing "Grey's" in the same time slot as "CSI", CBS' Entertainment President Nina Tassler called "CSI", "the underdog" (cnn.com).
I am a longtime, hardcore fan of "CSI" and would find it blasphemous if I didn't watch a new episode when it first aired. Officially joining the main cast is Sophia Curtis played by actress Louise Lombard. Also as season six's finale showed viewers, Gil Grissom's (William Petersen) romance with Sarah Sidle (Jorja Fox) is heating up.
The seventh season opener stuck to the formula and started with someone finding a dead body. The "CSI" premier featured two Vegas shows, "Cirque du Soleil" and "Zumanity". Viewers were shown just how complicated and dangerous the back stage areas really are in these high-budget shows.
The stakes were raised when John Mayer guest starred and performed two of his songs from his recently released album "Continuum". This is when the formula was thrown out the window.
Normally the show presents two storylines: Story A and Story B. Each act (segment shown after commercial breaks) intersects Story A and Story B. By Act 4, both cases are closed or closing. In this Act 4, John Mayer performed and Nick Stokes (George Eads) and Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger) unwound after closing their case. Catherine denies a guys offer to buy her a drink and this is when things took a turn for the worse.
The music starts to muffle as Catherine seems to loose a grip on things. The image fades to black and fades back in. Catherine is in a motel room bed naked. She knows something happened and immediately starts to perform a SAE (Sexual Assault Evidence) kit. Then a third case is introduced.
The victim or killer has made an exact half scale replica of the crime scene. Everything is exactly depicted in this model. Grissom and Sara aren't too sure about this case. The episode ends with Catherine breaking down while taking her own SAE kit. The dreaded "To Be Continued..." title flashed on the screen, causing many fans including myself to scream random obscenities at the television screen.
The teaser for next week's episode shows viewers that Catherine's daughter Lindsey has been kidnapped and that Catherine gets into a nasty car accident. From what has been released over the Internet, fans are in for an interesting season. Writers seem to be focusing on the romances between Warrik Brown (Gary Dourdan) and Catherine and Grissom and Sara.
"Grey's Anatomy" and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" are going to be going at it all season long. Depending on how ratings go, writers for both shows could potentially write some of the best episodes of the series this season.
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