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'CSI' Tones Down the Ick Factor
« on: Sep 25th, 2003, 10:45pm » |
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'CSI' Tones Down the Ick Factor
(Thursday, September 25 10:48 AM)
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - The creator of "CSI" wasn't happy to hear that his show, the most popular on TV, has been declared by a media watchdog group the least family-friendly.
Anthony Zuiker says there's no way he wants to turn away potential viewers, so it's unlikely that audiences will see the likes of the S&M club murder featured in a previous episode.
"We don't want to exclude families," Zuiker tells the New York Daily News. "We don't want to exclude children. The first family that turns off the show because it's too dark -- that's catastrophic to us."
Zuiker's pledge not to go too dark this season -- "CSI" opens its fourth year on CBS at 9 p.m. ET Thursday (Sept. 25) -- comes in the wake of the Parents Television Council naming the series the least family-friendly show on network TV. The council ranks programs based on the amount of violence, sex and rough language depicted or referred to on screen.
Fans of the show shouldn't worry, however, that the Vegas-set series will become a crime-solving "7th Heaven." Bizarro cases will still take front and center from time to time, including an incident that takes place at a "furry" party, where people get a charge out of dressing in animal costumes.
Zuiker says, however, that the show will return its focus to details of forensics, rather than concentrating on the lurid aspects of a case.
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