Since the network announced their fall schedules, several actors have announced their departures from their shows like Law & Order: SVU’s Chris Meloni and Mariska Hargitay who will follow him out the door after 13 episodes, Lisa Edlestein quit House, Patrick Dempsey says this season will be his last on Grey’s Anatomy and Trevor Donovan is moving out of the 90210. Well now according to Deadline there is someone else joining them by leaving their show and that is CSI’s Laurence Fishburne. They said he opted not to renew his contract with the show, and assume that the Oscar nominated actor will go back to doing movies full time. I am sure that is part of the reason, but let’s be real since he joined CSI they lost millions of viewers. In fact the once top rated show finished #10 in viewers this season and lost its timeslot that it has held since season 2. I am guessing when it came time to negotiate another season, no one fought to keep him on the show. I could be wrong, but if I were CBS I would have no problem letting him go considering how the show has done since he joined it two and a half years ago.
And I personally think that this news could be a great solution on how the show can get rid of Marg Helgenberger too. She has already said she is leaving the show this season, so why not have her go for Fishburne’s position and have that job filled by someone else, you know like her real life ex-husband Alan Rosenberg. Or better yet, how about a winning situation for CBS and CSI? They bring Charlie Sheen back to the network in CSI. He hasn’t done drama in a long time, maybe it is time he came back to doing it on CSI? I might reconsider getting back to the show since I gave it up after the first season.
So who do you think should join the show as his replacement? Or do you think it is time to kill off the show like they do to a victim every week?
