After bringing back Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle, CBS has just announced that Marg Helgenberger, who played Catherine Willows in “CSI” will resume her role in “CSi: Vegas”, the event sequel to the detective series.
Good news for Experts fans! Marg Helgenberger, who camped Catherine Willows in the series, will be back in CSI: Vegas, the direct sequel to the famous cop show launched last October in the United States. She will reprise her iconic role in Season 2 as a regular.
Marg Helgenberger will therefore succeed William Petersen (Gil Grissom) and Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle), two other members of the original cast of Experts, who were present in season 1 of CSI: Vegas and who will not be back in this new round of drama. episodes.
His arrival will therefore allow the series to maintain its link with the original fiction, since the character will come to lend a hand to the new investigators of the scientific police. With the returns of William Petersen, Jorja Fox and Marg Helgenberger, CBS makes each new season an event, each time bringing back a different character from the original series.
Helgenberger will join for the occasion Paula Newsome, Matt Lauria and Mandeep Dhillon, the new experts of CSI: Vegas, who are therefore back for season 2.
Launched on October 6, 2021, CSI: Vegas immediately met with success on CBS, managing to bring together an average of 7 million viewers in front of their television screens. It is therefore no surprise that the channel announced its renewal last December for a new burst of episodes.
Present in CSI for the first 12 seasons, Marg Helgenberger played Catherine Willows, the lead female role in the detective series opposite William Petersen. Following her departure, the actress chained projects on television, notably playing in season 3 of Under The Dome and in the legal drama All Rise.
For the moment, no French broadcaster has been announced. TF1, which broadcast the previous series of the franchise has not yet decided on a possible takeover of CSI: Vegas.