After 10 seasons, it’s time for David Caruso to turn in his sunglasses. CBS has cancelled CSI: Miami, the first show in the CSI franchise to end.
Starting in 2002, the TV series follows a South Florida team of forensic investigators who often use advanced scientific methods to solve crimes. The current cast includes Caruso, Adam Rodriguez, Emily Procter, Eva La Rue, Jonathan Togo, Omar Benson Miller, and Rex Linn.
The ratings for CSI: Miami have declined over the years. Season 10 averaged a 2.1 in the coveted 18-49 demographic with 9.85 million total viewers. That was down from season nine by 13% in the demo (vs a 2.4 rating) and down by 5% in viewership (vs 10.39 million).
While the cop show’s overall viewership is still impressive, advertisers want shows that cater to the demo audience and the network has many shows that attract big overall audiences.
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What’s more, after 10 seasons on the air, CSI: Miami is no doubt very expensive to produce and there are already 232 episodes, more than enough to keep running in syndication for many years.
Nina Tassler, President of CBS Entertainment, suggested that one of the CSI shows might be cancelled this month. The original CSI was already renewed so it was a guessing game to see if Miami or NY would bite the bullet. CSI: NY has reportedly been renewed for season nine.
Of the cancellation news, CBS released the following statement:
CSI: Miami leaves an amazing television legacy – a signature look and style, global popularity and as a key player in CBS’s rise to the top over the past decade. We thank all the producers – led by Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman and Ann Donahue — and its talented cast, led by David Caruso, for 10 outstanding seasons. Viewers around the world will continue to enjoy rebroadcasts of CSI: Miami in syndication and on key digital platforms for many years to come.
What do you think? Are you sorry to hear that CSI: Miami has been cancelled? Will you miss the show? Was it time for it end or would you have liked to have seen an 11th season?
Image courtesy CBS.
CSI Miami was my favorite show. Why not just move it to another night. Can’t believe it is cancelled.
As someone said before – if that depend on me – I would kill CSI: LV instead of CSI: Miami. It was the best serie of all three of ’em…
Remove the csi las vegas. As others have just written the Miami is the best one and needs a decent ending instead of keeping you guessing…at least let Miami play in a NY ep so we can have a little bit of an idea what is going on even though the 11th season is not airing.
It would have been nice to have a decent ending, not a cliffhanger. Maybe a movie to tie things up, how about that CBS?
This was one of the best shows on TV, You should have taken off CSI NY instead .
It should not have been cancelled…They should keep miami and get the csi las vegas with ted danson of the air, it sucks
the show should not be cancelled. CSI miami was the best one from all the csis
jammer het was de beste van de drie series csi
Very very upset about this … Loved the show
are you kidding me CSI miami is a great show, bring it back
Please return csi Miami it was better then just the regular csi I think csi miami and new York are great please let it return back to air so it will wrap things up and we are not left hanging
CSI Miami was my favorite show. It should not have been cancelled.
It should not have been cancelled…They should get the csi las vegas with ted danson of the air, it sucks.
Difficult to understand such a stupid decision.
CBS – Why cancel the best tv-show ever.
Change this now.
save csi miami. this was the best series on tv in a long time. If you must cancelled csi los vegas. it hasn’t been good since gill was taken off.
I will miss my show for it is a great show. The actors are very nice i have been looking
at it since it begin. I was looking forward to seeing it this fall and i learn it was not going
to be on. It should con’t . All the csi show’s are great. Thank u for reading my email.
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