Her young team consists of the typical brand of attractive geniuses that populate the crime labs of this franchise, including the enigmatic Josh Folsom (Matt Lauria) and wunderkind Allie Rajan (Mandeep Dhillon). The new crime lab is led by Maxine Roby (Paula Newsome), a no-nonsense former college basketball player. The best thing to be said about "Vegas" is that it's fine, familiar and easy to watch: There are images of dead bodies and plenty of techs wearing lab coats running cotton swabs through fancy machinery. It's still the forensic techs of the Las Vegas Police Department solving crimes with science, but by now most of the original characters have retired only a few have been pulled back into the department to help track a criminal going after their own. Six years after it went off the air, "CSI" is back on CBS with a few old favorites, some fresh-faced newcomers in "CSI: Vegas" (premiering Wednesday, 10 EDT/PDT, ★½ out of four). But as viewership has fragmented , the ratings game is played for far lower numbers than in 2004, when an episode of the original "CSI" could draw in 30 million viewers on a Thursday night. Sure, cop shows are still popular: Just look at CBS' "NCIS" and "FBI" franchises. The period during which the "CSI" franchise reigned victorious on broadcast TV has come and gone. The series were immensely popular on CBS, burnishing a reputation as the network of criminal procedurals that appealed to a huge, somewhat older audience. And their spinoff counterparts did so in New York, Miami and online ("Cyber"). But not much has changed since 2000.įor 15 years, the forensic scientists of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" often literally dug up clues to Las Vegas murders. They are two of the co-executive producers on the show.Watch Video: Jorja Fox: 'We had fun' working on 'CSI: Vegas' In 2018, Thompson and Weddle re-teamed with Ron Moore, with whom they had worked on Battlestar Galactica, to write for the Apple TV+ series For All Mankind. They were two of the series' eight executive producers. In 2013 they began writing for the first season of an FX adaptation of The Strain, a horror novel by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, which concluded with the fourth season in 2017. In 2012, they acted as co-executive producers for the TV movie Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome and the pilot for the TV series Defiance, both on Syfy. In 2011, they joined the writing staff for the second season of the Steven Spielberg alien-invasion drama Falling Skies on TNT. An episode they wrote for the 11th season, "Fracked", won the Environmental Media Association's 21st Annual Environmental Media Award for Television Episodic Drama. In Season 10, they became co-executive producers, writing nine episodes in all over three seasons. In 2008, Thompson and Weddle joined the staff of CSI: Las Vegas mid-way through Season 9 as writers and supervising producers. They wrote a total of 15 episodes for BSG. Their responsibilities as producers increased during the third season, and they achieved supervising producer status for the fourth season. Together with Weddle, Thompson served as a story editor on the first season of Battlestar Galactica, and they became co-producers in the second season. Moore, who hired them for Battlestar Galactica in 2004. On the series, they worked with producer Ronald D. In 1995, the two joined the writing staff for DS9's final four seasons, crafting 12 episodes. Weddle and Thompson first pitched stories for Deep Space Nine at Paramount Pictures. Thompson graduated from the USC School of Cinema, as did writing partner David Weddle, whom he originally met in an acting class. They also wrote for the short-lived series Ghost Stories (1997) and The Fearing Mind (2000). They are currently writing for their third season of the series For All Mankind, which debuted on Apple TV+ on November 1, 2019. Bradley Thompson is an American television writer and producer known for episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1996–1999), The Twilight Zone (2002–2003), Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2009-2011), Falling Skies (2011-2013), and The Strain (2014-2017) with writing partner David Weddle.
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