CSI: Miami

CSI Miami is a television show that spins off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The show takes place in Miami Dade County and consists of 7 main characters including the supervisor of the forensic lab of the Miami Dade Police Department, Horatio Caine. The show follows forensic scientists who work together to solve mysterious deaths and solve crimes. The CSI shows have been labeled both science fiction and even fantasy, for they sometimes use inventions not even created yet. Unlike its sibling shows CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: New York, who use dual cases per episode, CSI: Miami points attention to one case at a time. Like all the other CSI television shows, the producers incorporate the drama from the cast around the cases : Love affairs, drugs, you name it.

The show is viewed by an assortment of ages but is generally purposed for an audience of the younger generation to people in their middle ages. The cast itself is made up of an attractive, far from elderly cast. With the setting in Miami there is automatically a scandalous edge to the show. While it may have been intended for younger audiences I have heard of 90 year old people who refuse to miss their CSI: Miami every Monday night at 10 pm. According to Wikipedia, there are 20 million viewers watching each episode. It seems as if people can't get enough of CSI: Miami. According to Reuters, CSI: Miami is " the most watched U.S. series around the world." (Wikipedia, CSI: Miami)

I really love the drama of the show and the way you are taken into the lab. You see the blood and guts and often times are shown causes of death from inside the body. Though most other CSI shows consist of two different cases that are being followed, I like the fact that more attention is placed on a single case. This allows the viewers to become more involved and to really place themselves in the shoes of the investigators and guess what the outcome will be. Sometimes the cases are connected over episodes with really makes the viewer dedicated and sitting on the edge of their seat. While there is drama between the investigators and the suspects there is at times also drama within the Miami Dade Lab, which keeps an edge on the show.
I feel that the show is great the way it is, however I feel that they could reach a lot more viewers by making the show interactive. I think the concept behind American Idol and other shows really involving the viewers is gold. I believe CBS should allowing people to test, email in their predictions on the who the suspect is and get a poll for how many people were right and wrong. I feel this adds a competitive edge to the show and would be great! CSI: Miami is at the top of it kind and as long as CBS keeps making more seasons of the show I don't envision fan support decreasing.