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"24" Adds, "CSI: Miami" Subtracts
With the fall season rapidly approaching, one returning hit show is beginning to load up new cast members, while another is in the process of downsizing.
After cleaning house over the summer, producers of Fox's 24 are beginning to add some new characters to the mix. Actress Kim Raver, late of NBC's Third Watch, is being added to 24 as Jack Bauer's latest love interest, the network confirmed Friday. Also joining the cast in a recurring role is Shohreh Aghdashloo, who received an Oscar nomination for her role in 2003's The House of Sand of Fog.
Meanwhile, across the dial on CBS, one of the key cast members of CSI: Miami is facing an early exit. More on that later (stop reading now if you want to avoid potential spoilers).
Last month, 24 masterminds announced that Keifer Sutherland's Jack Bauer would be the only series star to be back in a full-time capacity. Key cast members like Elisha Cuthbert (Kim Bauer), Dennis Haysbert (President David Palmer), Carlos Bernard (Tony Almeida), Reiko Aylesworth (Michelle Dessler) and James Badge Dale (Chase Edmunds) would either be back in part-time roles or MIA altogether.
Now comes the restocking. Raver, who played Kimberly Zambrano for five years on NBC's Third Watch, will be a series regular, playing Audrey Raines, an aide to the new secretary of defense. Also on board is Nestor Serrano (The Day After Tomorrow), who'll appear as a Middle Eastern businessman, Aghdashloo, who'll play his wife, and Louis Lombardi (aka FBI Agent Skip Lipari on The Sopranos) as a new member of CTU. The latter three will all be recurring characters.
Bauer better not get too attached to the new eye candy, however--his female companions haven't fared so well. His wife, Terri (Leslie Hope), was killed by turncoat agent--and former mistress--Nina Meyers (Sarah Clarke) in the season-one finale. Bauer dumped season-two love interest Kate Warner (Sarah Wynter) at the beginning of season three and then, for good measure, offed Myers a few episodes later.
Meanwhile, expect a shake-up on CSI: Miami. According to the fan site CSIFiles.com, Rory Cochrane, who plays criminalist Tim "Speed" Speedle, is not long for the South Beach lab. The site claims Cochrane has been begging producers to write him out of the show and the producers have complied. He's supposedly slated to be gunned down at the end of the season-three.
A CBS spokesperson is quoted in the New York Post saying "the show loses one of its own on premiere night," but was mum on exactly who winds up on the wrong side of the gurney. "Viewers will have to wait a while to see if the Internet rumors about the identity are true," the rep tells the paper.
If Cochrane gets deep-sixed, he'll be the second CSI: Miami casualty. Kim Delaney was fired from the series in its first season, after only 10 episodes. Sofia Milos was subsequently added to the cast as a regular.
CSI: Miami returns on Sept. 20; 24 will be back in January.
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