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Posted: July 30th, 2002.Momentum Pictures Home Entertainment announces the VHS & DVD release of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – Season 1: Part 2
Release date: 07 October 2002
‘brilliantly written and acted, visually exciting, and with production values to die for, it’s nowonder the series has become such a massive hit. The DVD release should only serveto further its appeal’ – TOTAL DVD (August 2002)
The phenomenal reviews and success of the recently releasedCSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Season One Part OneVHS and DVD Special Edition Boxsets from Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer hasonly further secured its status as one of the must-have American imports on thisside of the pond. In the UK, the Las Vegas set show produced by Alliance Atlantis looksto share the same critical and commercial success that has been heaped upon it inthe US with some 15 million viewers tuning in to this first series when it first airedon Channel 5 and audience viewing figures increasing with each episode.
“Fast paced, rock ‘n’ roll drama …with engaging performances and tight scripts, this is classy entertainment” – DVD REVIEW
‘It’s gripping, intelligent, stylishly made, yet somehow deeply reassuring’ – TIMES: PLAY
The final eleven episodes of the first series (1.13 – 1.23) about to be released,are once again set on ‘the strip’ and burrow into the dark world of crime and murderthat isn’t ever what it first seems. This fast paced rock n’ roll series takes afresh angle on murder mystery drama with its Hollywood production values and astonishing camera shots. Theviewer is treated to a bullet-path ride through the crime, the crime scene and the cadaveras the dynamic team comb, meticulously through the evidence.
A serial bomber, skeletons in the desert, a male stripper, mob hits and call girls are allin a days work for Grissom and the team whose individual scientific skills coupled with a sixthsense attempt to complete the crime jigsaw that is one of many pieces.
The criminalistics squad are a tight team whose personal life-clues are occasionally dropped forthe armchair super sleuth to put under the microscope. Gil Grissom, whose seething hidden depthsand dispassionate exterior indicates a mystery far darker and deeper than a DNA test would reveal,heads a crack team of co-workers: Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger) former stripper andsingle mother, Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan) a volatile gambler who has a passion towin, Nick Stokes (George Eads) a slick investigator with an eye for the ladies,Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox) outspoken and outlandish and Greg (Eric Szmanda) the younglab hotshot. Yet they are all united in the search for the truth and their battlewith the Captain Jim Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) the gruff Police Chief from homicide division.
- The set will comprise:
- VHS box set with 3 videos – £29.99
- DVD digipak with 3 discs – £39.99
Special features on the DVD release include:
- Exclusively designed menu screens with 3d animated virtual labs for you to browse
- Extended interviews with the main cast and crew: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, Jorja Fox,George Eads, Paul Guilfoyle, Eric Szmanda, Robert David Hall and John Morayniss, Carol Mendelsohn (Executive Producer), Danny Cannon (Executive Producer andCreator), Elizabeth Devine (Technical Adviser – Forensic Scientist), John Goodwin (Special Effects – Makeup)
- Featurette : ‘The Making Of & History of CSI’
- Production Notes
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News page content input by Dominic Robinson, 2002.
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.