High Octane Hellos And One Long Goodbye CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 9 Sees TV's Most Explosive Evolution

Author: AXN Asia

Singapore, 10 February 2009 -- Death is always a new beginning: A phrase which might never be as literal as in the latest season 9 of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which opens with one dear CSI member, Warrick Brown, being gunned down.

And with this death, CSI gains yet another phoenix-like lease of life. Welcome to the latest installment of one of TV's only living classics: a grimly gorgeous series that never fails to keep being thoughtfully surprising, shocking and absolutely sensational, year after year, and its latest season is no exception.

Season 9 opens with the best episode ever of this long-running series. It is gripping to say the least. Key member of the Las Vegas CSI Police department, Warrick Brown, is gunned down by a high ranking police officer, and while his forensic-investigation team is still in the dark on who the killer is and goes all out to track him down, viewers are in on the truth as they witness who the culprit is right from the very beginning. The result: a heart-palpitating trip for TV viewers as the CSI team meticulously unravels who the bad guy is with their hi-tech forensics.

With its cool forensics, CSI has revolutionized the face of TV and what we expect of crime investigation TV shows. In fact, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation remained the most watched series in the world in 2007 with 83.9 million viewers. It has not gotten tired for viewers at all even after eight seasons and two spin off series. When CSI: Crime Scene Investigation's season 9 premiered in the US last September, it showed proof that the perennial series has more lives than a sorcerer's cat - it topped itself once again with a most-watched season premiere with the largest primetime audience in the United States of America.

And why shouldn't it? Never failing to reinvent itself, CSI this season not only has the well-loved magic formula of Crime Scene Investigators racing against time and the most brilliant criminal minds to solve heinous crimes, but is also the season where absolutely everything changes.

For one, the CSI team faces a big shake-up internally. After eight seasons, the humorous, troubled, almost disturbingly dedicated CSI and the indisputable star of the show, Gil Grissom, takes his final bow. In the final ten episodes with Grissom, dig deeper into this compelling but reserved man's psyche and emotions than has ever been revealed on the show, before he makes his final exit.

With Grissom's big departure from the LVPD, the so-cool-it's-criminal Laurence Fishburne himself, still smouldering from his work in 21, Days of Wrath, as well as his Matrix legacy, stalks into the scene as an intense and intelligent Professor Dr Raymond Langston with zero police-experience, and whose chief boon might also prove his bane...his uncanny ability to identify with the violent criminals he pursues.

In addition, old friends return in times of death and danger- including enigmatic ex CSI Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox); the killer that almost took her life, Natalie Davis aka the Miniature Serial Killer (Jessica Collins) and the complex and sizzling professional dominatrix Lady Heather (Melinda Clarke), amidst crimes that will jolt even the most seasoned CSI viewer.

Witness evolution at its most revolutionary in the brand new season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation only on AXN, the home of CSI. Even first-time viewers of the show will be stoked by this killer season. It's definitely not to be missed!

CSI Season 9 Premieres First on AXN
18 February, Every Wednesday @ 10pm (SG, MY, PH, TH) 11pm (HK)

Source: AXN Asia