Weekend Crime Lab

One of my pet peeves has to do with how many CSI spin-offs there are cluttering up the programming schedule. When I grew up, we had one Gunsmoke, not Gunsmoke:Tombstone, Gunsmoke: Dodge City, Gunsmoke: Alaska...its a bit ridiculous and overplayed. Couldn't the writers have come up with a totally different show instead of recycling the same exact premise in different locations, as if a homicide committed in Florida might be any different than one committed in New York?

So last night, I was lying in bed watching television, had just finished off a second glass of Chardonnay when I saw what I thought was a commercial for yet another CSI franchise. I raised my voice and shouted to my Producer friend who was in the bathroom "They've done it again! Those uncreative dorks without a single original idea in their puny heads have created yet another CSI show! Can you believe it?!?!?! Its called CSI Weekends! Sheeesh!!! When is this insanity going to stop?!?!?!?!?!..."

My friend popped his head out of the bathroom and blankly stared at the television for a few seconds and flatly informed me, "Those are reruns."

He continues, "What did you think? That they created an entirely new show about crimes that are committed on the weekend? Since crimes that happen Monday thru Friday aren't as interesting as the ones on the weekend, they had to create a whole new show about it. Saturday, now that is a really interesting crime that is committed on a Saturday." At this point I am giggling furiously. He says, "Sunday might be a slow day, but not for murderers!"

His rant continues on,
"Hey, I know what happens to criminals who commit a crime during the week, but what about the ones that are committed on the weekend? Do they just get away with it??? They better create a show just for the crimes committed on Saturdays and Sundays, so they'll get caught."

Oh well, ridicule me as you will, however, I still don't put it past those uninspired greedy network suits to create a CSI: Weekends show, with an all-new "weekend crew" (cast) to show us what happens when a murder is committed, on the weekend.