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CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach discusses the network's decision to cancel its shows NCIS: Hawai'i and CSI: Vegas. Both shows are spinoffs of already successful franchises, with Vegas serving as the fifth show in the CSI franchise as a revival of the original, and Hawai'i being the fourth spinoff of the NCIS franchise. The shows were both putting up decent numbers for the network, but CBS made the unexpected decision to cancel them.

According to reports from The Wrap, Reisenbach confirmed that neither show will be returning for a fourth season, while CEO George Cheeks cited the overall performance of both, as well as finances, as the principal reasons for them being canceled. This is also why they cannot transition into Paramount+ originals. The news comes despite CBS reporting that it will end the 2023-24 season as the most watched broadcast network in primetime for a staggering 16th season. Read Reisenbach and Cheeks' comments below:

Reisenbach: It is incumbent on us to always keep the schedule fresh [and] keep momentum going. We had to make some really tough choices this year, everything came back really strong.

Cheeks: Budgets are challenged, so we dont have an unlimited amount of slots on Paramount+.

The success and existing legacy of the franchise makes CSI: Vegas' surprising season 4 cancellation all the more shocking, while NCIS: Hawai'i's cancellation leaves a frustrating unfinished storyline for audiences. Reisenbach's explanation for the decision rings somewhat hollow, especially considering the fact that the viewing figures for both shows were pretty strong. It is more likely the network felt a need to clear the roster to give upcoming shows a chance.

CBS has several high-profile newcomers on the way, including a Matlock reboot and another NCIS offshoot, the Gibbs prequel Origins.

Audiences hoping for some kind of change of decision should not hold their breaths, as the network ruled out the possibility of a SWAT-style reversal, where a cancelled show is instead revived due to viewer outcry. This could be a move by CBS to try to reinvent itself from a position of strength, clearing the slate for the 2024-25 season, which so far seems to be grounded in IP the network strongly believes in.

As for the NCIS and CSI franchises, they face two different futures following the cancelations of Hawai'i and Vegas. CSI has no ongoing spinoff shows, but The Wrap's report reveals there is one in "active development." Meanwhile, NCIS as a franchise is still going strong, with the original series currently in season 21, NCIS: Sydney recently renewed for a season 2, and two other spinoffs set to begin production in the coming months. CBS will be hoping the new broadcast season is as successful as the last, despite the cancelations it has made.

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NCIS: Hawaii is the fourth spin-off of the police procedural series NCIS. It follows a team of Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents as they investigate a wide variety of difficult and shocking crimes. Vanessa Lachey stars as Jane Tennant alongside Alex Tarrant as Kai Holman, Noah Mills as Jesse Boone, Tori Anderson as Kate Whistler, Yasmine Al-Bustami as Lucy Tara, and Jason Antoon as Ernie Malik.

CSI: Vegas is a mystery crime-drama television series created by Jason Tracey and is a spin-off of the core Crime Scene Investigation franchise. Viewers follow Maxine Roby and her team of investigators as they employ their latest and greatest scientific tools in the fight against crime.

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) The Huntsville Police Department says its eight-person crime scene investigation team has worked in cramped quarters for years. However, a new 14,000-square-foot building is on the way to provide relief for the team.

The Huntsville City Council approved the buildings construction at their meeting Thursday evening.

The City of Huntsville says the building, which will be constructed on Wheeler Avenue across from HPD headquarters, will include labs, offices, evidence processing areas and vehicle processing bays.

We have the advanced technology in place for crime scene analysis, but we need dedicated space to be more efficient and process evidence faster, said Police Chief Kirk Giles.

The project also includes a 13,500-square-foot, climate-controlled vehicle and evidence storage facility.

The law requires us to hold evidence for years, and in some cases in perpetuity, said Investigator Jeremy Phipps. The new warehouse will allow us to meet legal storage requirements for decades to come.

Phipps added that the new CSI facility will meet the departments need for growth, saying that the additional space will allow for more room to work more than one case at a time while protecting evidence from cross-contamination.

The City says the $9.7 million project is expected to begin in the late spring and take a year to complete.

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Ozzy Osbournes place in music history has been solidified, as he and Black Sabbath are often credited as the first heavy metal band. Releasing 19 studio albums over five decades, the Prince of Darkness has won two Grammys (plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award), influenced countless of the most well-known bands in the genre and, you know, bit the head off of a bat. His eccentric personality and wild look made him the perfect choice for several great TV and movie appearances over the years, and here are 10 of the best.

While the Black Sabbath frontman has been known to portray characters lending his voice to several animated projects Ozzy Osbourne is a character in and of himself, and many of his best offerings feature the Godfather of Metal just being Ozzy.

Adam Sandler boasts a pretty impressive catalog of projects that span multiple genres, but the 2000 action comedy Little Nicky is not considered one of his greatest. It still has developed a cult following over the years for its ridiculously devilish story and bevy of celebrity cameos. One of the famous faces to make an appearance is Ozzy Osbourne, who Nicky summons after his brother Adrian (Rhys Ifans) transforms into a bat. You can imagine where things go from there.

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Years before the Kardashian-Jenner bunch became the royal family of reality TV, America fell in love with The Osbournes. The MTV series captured what it was like to live with Ozzy Osbourne, his wife Sharon and two younger children, Jack and Kelly. The show lasted for four seasons and made household names of all of them, but more importantly it gave us a different perspective on the Prince of Darkness. It was hilarious to see Ozzy bumbling around helplessly, calling out for, Sharon!

The Osbournes is not available to stream or buy, but you can stream their 2020 series The Osbournes Want to Believe on Max.

Mike Myers got in on The Osbournes craze back in the early aughts in the third movie of his shagadelic trilogy, Austin Powers in Goldmember. Repeating a bit from the 1999 sequel that involved a phallic-shaped rocket, Goldmember features Dr. Evil shooting down a satellite shaped like a pair of breasts. An amusing montage of double entendres ensues, eventually cutting to Ozzy shouting, Boobs! He then explains to his family members sitting next to him that the Austin Powers filmmakers are boobs because they already used that joke in The Spy Who Shagged Me.

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Howard Sterns autobiographical film Private Parts featured a number of celebrity cameos, and while Ozzy Osbourne only uttered a single sentence in the film What a fucking jerk. it remains one of the 1997 flick's most quoted lines.

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The sequel to the DreamWorks animated hit Trolls highlighted a number of different genres of music, and that means there were some big names in the Trolls World Tour voice cast, including Mary J. Blige, J Balvin, Kelly Clarkson, George Clinton and, of course, Ozzy Osbourne. The Black Sabbath frontman voiced King Thrash, the retired king of hard rock, with the effects of his wild rock star lifestyle made evident through Osbournes signature nonsensical mumbling and his use of a motorized wheelchair, aka his mobile throne.

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Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath premiered the second single off their reunion album 13 during an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In the Season 13 episode Skin in the Game, Ted Dansons D.B. Russell and Marc Vanns Conrad Ecklie attend a Black Sabbath concert while investigating a string of murders. On stage the band sings End of the Beginning, before the singer sits down with one of the suspects for an interview. The interviewer mentions that theyve spoken before, back in 1986, to which Ozzy hilariously replies that he doesnt remember not just the conversation, either, but the entirety of 1986.

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Ozzy Osbourne has made a few stops in the world of professional wrestling, even becoming a celebrity inductee to the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021. Hes also one of several celebrities who have appeared in WrestleMania managing the British Bulldogs as they secured the World Tag Team Championships at the 1986 pay-per-view event. In November 2009, he and wife Sharon Osbourne served as guest hosts on WWE Raw, where they did a spin on Sharons gig as a judge on Americas Got Talent and turned the ring into a judges table for Raws Got Talent.

Stream WWE Raw on Peacock.

Talk about playing off-type! Ozzy Osbourne may be known for portraying himself in many of his TV and movie appearances, but the 1986 comedy horror Trick or Treat brilliantly cast the Prince of Darkness in a role nobody would expect a TV evangelist. Its hilarious to watch the Rev. Aaron Gilstrom clutch his proverbial pearls at suggestive song lyrics and proclaim that the rock stars have to be stopped!

Stream Trick or Treat on Screambox.

Two things you may not think about when it comes to the Godfather of Metal are animated deer and Shakespeare, however, those worlds collided in Gnomeo & Juliet, the animated reimagining of Romeo & Juliet. Ozzy Osbourne voices Fawn, the miniature deer statue and best friend of Tybalt.

Stream Gnomeo & Juliet on Disney+. Stream Gnomeo & Juliet on Hulu. Rent or buy Gnomeo & Juliet on Amazon Prime Video.

Johnny Brennan and Kamal Ahmed came to fame in the 1990s as the Jerky Boys comedy duo, who developed a following for making prank phone calls. After a couple of comedy albums, the duo made a movie, appropriately titled The Jerky Boys: The Movie. Ozzy Osbourne makes an appearance as the manager for the band Helmet. Johnny and Kamal convince the manager that theyve replaced two roadies who left to go on tour with The Monkees. Say what you will about the movie overall, but Ozzys utter disbelief that he got shunned for the fuckin Monkees?! is pretty funny.

Rent or buy The Jerky Boys: The Movie on Amazon Prime Video.

Whether you prefer Ozzy Osbourne behind the microphone or in front of the camera, theres no denying that the Prince of Darkness can entertain, as hes been doing so for half a century now.

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PASO ROBLES During the school holiday on Friday, Feb. 16, young science sleuths are invited to learn something new during a Crime Scene Investigation Camp presented by STEAMworks for Kids from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Centennial Park in Paso Robles (600 Nickerson Drive). Young investigators ages 7-12 will spend the day using forensics, observation, and crime lab chemistry to search for and examine evidence, gather clues, and discover how to use science to solve a mystery. During this camp, students will dust for fingerprints, analyze handwriting, and test for blood type using simulated blood.

The registration fee of $100 per child includes all the supplies your sleuth will need to perform experiments during the camp. Advance registration is strongly encouraged and is available at prcity.com/recreationonline or in person at the Centennial Park registration desk between 12 and 5 p.m.

Need-based full and partial scholarships are available, with more information and an online application available at prcity.com/scholarships. For registration or scholarship questions and support, please call Paso Robles Recreation Services at (805) 237-3988 or email recservices@prcity.com.

STEAMworks For Kids provides high-engagement STEAM enrichment workshops for using a hands-on, project-based approach that focuses on having fun while learning. STEAMworks workshops are NGSS-aligned, and delivered by highly qualified instructors.

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The following contains spoilers for CSI: Vegas Season 3, Episode 1, "The Reaper," which debuted Sunday, February 18 on CBS.

CSI: Vegas' Season 3 premiere is a pivotal episode for the CBS series -- and the one that elevates it to being the best TV procedural in a very crowded field. Season 3, Episode 1, "The Reaper" has the task of resolving the Season 2 cliffhanger that is exactly nine months old. As if that isn't enough, said cliffhanger could easily drive the show off a cliff if it ends up being another of the crime drama genre's many fakeouts. These two hurdles mean that the stakes are incredibly high both on and off-screen. Thankfully, showrunner Jason Tracey and fellow producer/co-writer Craig O'Neill gamble in the premiere as much as they did in the Season 2 finale.

"The Reaper" understandably picks up where Season 2, Episode 21, "Dying Words" left off in May 2023, because it has no choice. CSI Josh Folsom's mother has been murdered -- and Folsom is under arrest for killing the person responsible. The episode follows the investigation into who actually tortured Kahn Schefter. It's just as surprising as "Dying Words," but in a different way. Whereas the Season 2 premiere shocked with its plot twists, the Season 3 premiere catches viewers off-guard with its character arcs. By the end of the hour, CSI: Vegas is no longer in the shadow of its predecessor or any other TV crime drama.

When CSI: Vegas made Josh Folsom a murder suspect, it walked right into one of the most common TV procedural tropes of all time. Almost every crime drama has an episode -- usually more than one -- in which a main character is accused of or otherwise personally connected to a crime. And in nearly every one of those cases, viewers know what to expect. The episodes are a great showcase for the actor portraying the key character, but they follow the same handful of story beats and then everything wraps up nicely by the end. But just like "Dying Words" was smart in how it handled the setup of this particular dilemma, "The Reaper" cannily avoids every single trope, because its crime story ultimately evolves into a character story.

Audiences are left in suspense regarding Folsom's guilt or innocence for just the right amount of time. Tracey also wrote "Dying Words," and he carries his story threads through in a very understated way. The now incredibly necessary recap happens organically, as flashbacks are woven in while Folsom is being driven to jail by Maxine Roby and Serena Chavez. The obligatory scene in which Folsom's colleague debate whether or not he's a murderer is an actual back and forth between Beau Finado and Penny Gill -- with Beau actually thinking Folsom could be a killer, as opposed to most shows, in which everyone is automatically convinced the good guy is still good. And even the usually cringe-worthy beats in which a higher-up insists on villifying the hero make great sense, because there's already been one crime lab controversy; that plotline was the whole basis for CSI: Vegas Season 1. The fact that the Undersheriff is played by All Rise standout Reggie Lee is the icing on the cake, because Lee has a gift for portraying bureaucratic characters who are three-dimensional, empathetic people instead of mere human roadblocks.

Savvy TV viewers will already feel comfortable that Folsom is going to be vindicated, because Matt Lauria is the heartbeat of CSI: Vegas and so it's a better series with him in the mix. But Tracey, O'Neill and even Lauria himself provide enough tension to create some anxiety. Folsom says almost nothing in his own defense -- and has a proper reason for doing so, even when his silence makes viewers want to scream at the screen. And that's where the episode sneakily pivots; it becomes less about who killed Kahn Schefter and more about the effects caused by his death. When the murderer is finally identified, that's almost an afterthought because it opens up what appears to be CSI: Vegas Season 3's ongoing plotline: Folsom and CSI fan favorite Catherine Willows vs. drug lord Raphael Tarquenio (cast reliably with procedural veteran Benito Martinez, who has now appeared on all the major CBS crime dramas). There is no easy answer and nothing ends up being okay -- and that's what puts CSI: Vegas head and shoulders above its competition.

CSI: Vegas has differentiated itself from other TV crime dramas -- including the still-classic original CSI: Crime Scene Investigation -- because of the way it approaches its characters. Procedurals have a hard time finding balance; either the characters come second to the genre format, or a show gets bogged down in characters' personal lives and the cases only exist to service those personal plots. In contrast, CSI: Vegas has strong crime stories and then asks itself where those stories naturally take its characters. It's not afraid to break convention if that makes sense for its protagonists. That was true with "Dying Words," and it's true in "The Reaper."

Folsom might be vindicated, but he has a lot of emotional pieces to pick up. Trey -- the only family Folsom now has left -- will be behind bars for a long time, thanks to his own revenge mission against Tarquenio. His reputation at the crime lab is almost certainly going to take another hit (after Folsom was passed over for promotion in Season 2). And it's telling that just moments after he finds out that the jail lost the photo he had of his late mother, he has a tough conversation with Maxine Roby, who points out that she thought she knew him like family. Matt Lauria and Paula Newsome have created a beautiful dynamic between Folsom and Max, where they bolster each other in different ways, and now that's been broken on both personal and professional levels. But "The Reaper" doesn't belabor the point, simply lets each character say their piece and doesn't feel the need to resolve their issues for a happy ending.

The same is true for how CSI: Vegas doesn't drag Folsom's romantic relationship with Serena or his feelings for Allie Rajan into the plot when those two subplots have no reason to be there. All three characters are upset because they care about Folsom, and that's enough. There's no big emotional breakdown on anyone's part -- the closest anyone gets is Serena pleading with Folsom to say anything, and Ariana Guerra hits exactly the right balance between desperation and frustration. The way "The Reaper" ends allows all the major relationships to continue to struggle and/or heal in future episodes. Folsom's arc in CSI: Vegas is better for these challenges. By refusing to tie things off neatly, Tracey and his writing staff are not only more authentic, but they continue to show that procedurals can indeed have great character depth.

Between the possible pitfalls of its cliffhanger and the extended delay caused by the strikes, the odds seemed to be stacked against the CSI: Vegas Season 3 premiere. However, it accomplished everything that it set out to do. It revealed Kahn Schefter's murderer, confirmed that the killer wasn't Josh Folsom, and laid the groundwork for another ongoing storyline. CSI: Vegas has been hit-or-miss with serial plotlines (the first season's David Hodges story was stronger than Season 2's uneven Silver Ink Killer), but the concept of one long thread against cases of the week is another element that serves the show well. It allows for a more realistic feel and extra time to play out character beats. Audiences likely forgot that Catherine also has a past with Tarquenio, so allowing him to escape justice in "The Reaper" provides a reason for her to stay on the show -- and with All Rise cancelled a second time, Marg Helgenberger should have more screen time in CSI: Vegas Season 3 than she did in Season 2. But Catherine isn't the focus of the story; it feels like a group effort, of which Helgenberger has become a seamless part.

"The Reaper" may not be the most action-packed or emotional episode of CSI: Vegas; there's still nothing better than Season 2, Episode 17, "The Promise." But "Dying Words" was a close second and "The Reaper" is a satisfying, sensible conclusion to that story. All of the main cast members add an extra emotional charge to their performances without overdoing it, and Martinez is a Big Bad who toes the line between being evil enough and needing to show off. The arrival of Reggie Lee will add something new and special as the series moves forward. Season 1 and Season 2 had certain caveats because they focused partly on legacy cast members -- but the CSI: Vegas Season 3 premiere has this undervalued TV show standing entirely on its own.

CSI: Vegas airs Sundays at 10:00 p.m. on CBS.

Return to CBS' smash hit CSI franchise with this series that picks up after the events of the original. A new team at the Las Vegas Crime Lab uses their forensic expertise to solve cases, assisted by familiar faces from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation history.

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