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Film director Mike Figgis is set to direct the pilot episode of Denis Leary-produced drama Canterbury's Law. The show focuses on, what else, a lawyer. Did you guess a lawyer "who pushes the boundaries of the law?" If you did, than we've got a network programming job for you.

What may save this from being another tiresome lawyer/doctor/cop outing is the presence of the cantankerous Leary behind the scenes and Figgis behind the camera for episode one. Figgis is best known for Leaving Las Vegas with Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue, but his most interesting work (or most self-indulgent, depending on your point of view) has been on experimental films like Hotel and Timecode, in which he divided the screen and the narrative into four separate, but equal parts. I'm sure he won't be busting out any formal experiments for a network pilot, but you never know. What's the point of bringing a big name film director over to TV if you're not going to let him play?

(S07E11) This was an incredibly frustrating episode. As much as I love this show, episodes like this are why I don't review it weekly like I do CSI: Miami. At least with Caruso and the Miami crew, I know what I'm getting week in and week out: a cheesy, campy, and thoroughly enjoyable over the top soap opera. With CSI, it's far too often a crap shoot. And that's lousy because I expect this show to be good. Where did CBS get off telling viewers that this would be "an hour of television we'd never forget?"

To drum up some buzz for William Petersen's temporary departure from CSI, CBS now has a website up and running. You can check it out at that link but it's essentially just that picture that I've posted above. The only difference is that the site has some eerie music playing along. For those that haven't heard, Petersen's character Gil Grissom is taking a four week sabbatical on the show and to fill the hole, Liev Schreiber is joining the CSI team as new investigator Michael Keppler. He'd be the white silhouette up there. Very cool nod to Abbey Road with the group shot too. Take a look at their feet. Notice who's playing Paul and crossing barefoot? Wasn't Paul "supposed" to be dead though? Perhaps some foreshadowing of Grissom's future by season's end?