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Posted July 18th ago via TV with MeeVee 
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CBS is here, for two days that will also include the network's corporate siblings CW and Showtime. We start with CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler. She gets a lot of inside-baseball questions about working pilot season around the writers strike. Tassler ducked a question about the future of "Swingtown" by saying how proud she is of the show. I got a mike and asked if "being very proud of 'Swingtown' means there's any chance you're going to make more?" She said,  "I'm a little disappointed in the ratings right now," although she also reiterated her pride in the series. She was necessarily diplomatic, but I think that was a "no" to more wife-swapping on the network. Tassler told us that "CSI" isn't replacing Bill Petersen when he departs, it's adding a new element. Sounds like classic execu-speak, but there may be some truth to it. The character being added is a doctor who has a DNA profile commonly associated with serial killers and struggles privately with the questions that presents. It's a "journey of self-discovery." They are currently trying to find "an actor of stature" to take the role. But he won't start off, anyway, by replacing Petersen's Gil Grissom as head of the CSI lab. It's rare for an actor to leave a series in a successful run, especially when he's also an executive producer. But it's not unexpected from Petersen, and the transition has been in the planning for a while, she said. "Billy is an extraordinary guy...he's still an artist," and this is...

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