The CSI: Miami drinking game

21 November 2008 Rob Buckley US TV 6 Comments

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?

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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