Two weeks ago it was a rumor. This week it’s a fact. Laurence Fishburne is replacing William Petersen’s character, Gil Grissom, on CBS’ crime drama CSI in its 9th season:
Oscar nominee and Emmy and Tony Award winner Laurence Fishburne (”What’s Love Got To Do With It,” “The Matrix,” “Miss Evers’ Boys”) will join [...]

It looks like CBS has found a replacement for the void about to be left in CSI by Gil Grissom’s (played by William Petersen) mid-season departure. Laurence Fishburne is now in talks with the long-running crime drama to fill the new role of scientist.
Fishburne’s character would of course be complicated and dark, much like [...]

Wow, and I thought the victims in CSI were the ones supposed to be dropping like flies. Add William Petersen, who plays Gil Grissom on the CBS crime drama, to the list of series regulars who will have left the show in the last two seasons. First there was the departure of Jorja [...]