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Laurence Fishburne in CSI

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The CSI: Miami drinking game

I’ve already ‘aside’-ed this, but I thought it merited its own post. So here it is.

Now it’s no great secret that David Caruso isn’t much loved on the set of CSI: Miami. Or that Emily Procter and he don’t get along and haven’t done since season one.

But if you’ve been watching seasons six and seven, you’ll have noticed that they’ve been having fewer and fewer scenes together. In fact, one or two a season seems to be the count, even when that makes a nonsense of the plot. In fact, you could even make a long-term drinking game out of it all.

The question is though: have the producers noticed that we’ve noticed? Take a look at this scene. It looks like Procter and Caruso are in the same scene. Yet… they don’t exchange dialogue and when they are in the same shot, it’s a long shot and you can’t see both of their faces – I doubt they’re using doubles but odder things have happened…

So are they actually in the same scene or not? What do you think?

Friday’s cancel, cancel, cancel news

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Is TV better than film?

Two articles in the space of a week – one on Time Out, one on The Guardian‘s web site – argue that TV is better than film, not just artistically but also because you don’t need to endure other people at the cinema.

What do you think? Do you prefer TV or would you rather watch a good movie? And are The Guardian and Time Out merely rebelling against modern cinema and are swayed by the lower quality of much of modern television? Would the argument have been any different if it had been held in the 70s or 80s?