The first season of "CSI" received 17 million viewers, which made the CBS network feel like a treasure, and they immediately increased their investment and made a more sophisticated "CSI season 2", which jumped directly to 23 million ratings. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

And when the third season aired, the CBS network made the earth-shattering decision to change the airtime of "CSI" to Thursday primetime every week!

Thursday, what time is that?

That's the broadcast time of ace dramas in the history of American dramas.

Because of the North American family, every Friday to Sunday weekend hours. Most of them go out to play, or go to the cinema, or go out with friends. So for the North American TV circle, every Thursday at 8 p.m. is the most prime broadcast time.

And all the ace American dramas in the past are also broadcast at this point in time, whether it is the previous "Seinfeld" or the later "Friends". And "CSI", a newborn calf that has only been on the air for two seasons, dares to challenge "Friends" head-on, the ace series with the afterglow of the golden comedy era of the 90s.

This can't help but make people's blood boil.

And "CSI Season 3" also went to the next level, recording a staggering 26 million viewers. At this point, CBS completely reversed its relationship with NBC. Since then, the American dramas of the new era, represented by "CSI", have become the absolute mainstream royal road.

And the old and young of the last century have been completely swept into the garbage heap of history.

As for NBC, after the final season of the last king "Friends" ended in 2003, NBC quickly fell from the North American ratings throne that had dominated nearly a decade, directly from the leader to the last little brother, and was even trampled under the feet of the former 10,000-year-old weak chicken Fox TV network.

While CSI was triumphant, the savvy CBS network was on a massive scale, quickly replicating CSI's success.

This was followed by a series of high-quality spin-offs, such as CSI: Miami and CSI: New York. At the same time, CBS has also developed a series of crime dramas one after another, which have been very successful.

With the help of a series of high-quality, high-rated crime dramas such as "Missing Scenes", "Criminal Minds" and "Bone Trace", CBS TV network finally jumped to become the new big man in the TV industry. North American folks once joked that CBS is the abbreviation of "Crime Television Network" - Criminal Broadcasting System.

Because of the influence of "CSI", young parents in North America began to use the names of the characters in the play to name their children. There are also more and more college students applying for forensics.

In addition to elevating CBS's position in the industry, as well as its cultural impact on the North American public. The greater significance of "CSI" can be said to be that it has single-handedly led the development of the television industry in North America and even the world.

As mentioned earlier, "CSI" brings cinematic lens language and tight story content to the TV series. TV viewers in the United States have gradually been elevated by "CSI". In order to adapt to the improvement of the audience's taste and win the fierce competition for ratings, major TV networks have followed the pace of "CSI".

Change equipment, add special effects, and increase the rhythm.

In this sense, "CSI" can be said to be the pioneer of modern American drama.

In addition to the aforementioned above, comprehensively improve the picture quality and level of American dramas. "CSI" also played a lot of novel designs that had an all-round impact on those who came after them.

For example, spin-offs.

"CSI" was not the first to engage in spin-offs, but it was the first to play the biggest tricks. For example, "CSI" and its two spin-offs, "CSI: Miami" and "CSI: New York", make a cross episode from time to time. My character goes to your territory, and your protagonist comes to me to solve the case.

This is quite a bit of a taste of a big brother and a little brother, cheering popularity, making news, and arguing gimmicks. It can even be said that the Marvel universe in the film industry later, the practice of intersecting characters, was more or less influenced by "CSI".

And now in the American drama circle, it has become commonplace to shoot spin-offs and cross-episodes, and this is all because "CSI" has made a successful demonstration.

Another example is the slightly magical high-tech in American dramas.

Many of the forensic devices and techniques in CSI are so novel that they often leave the audience dumbfounded. For example, within five minutes, DNA can be analyzed from a bloody cotton swab. And that huge and comprehensive fingerprint database.

These are actually made up by the creators, and they don't exist in reality, but the audience likes these cool and exaggerated content, so the screenwriters have created a high-tech world.

Up to now, all the crime dramas on the market, the high-tech parts involved in them, have a certain degree of exaggeration, and some can even be described as science fiction.

It can be said that if Simpson's murder of his wife had happened a few years later, Simpsons would definitely not have been able to escape.

In addition, "CSI" has also made the technical terminology of crime popular.

There are a lot of police terms in CSI, such as "20" for location, "John Doe" for unidentified bodies and people, and "455" for bombs. These technical terms are unclear at first glance, but the audience can easily understand them in combination with the plot.

What's more, it would seem cool to use these terms.

Therefore, there are a lot of industry jargon mixed in mainstream crime dramas now.

Finally, "CSI" also opened the important innovation of long-term mode in plot design.

In old-school crime dramas, one or two cases are solved in each episode, so it's mostly for new viewers to join halfway.

But after "CSI" ascended to the throne of ratings, it boldly tried a lot of new ways to play. For example, rubbing a big case into an ordinary case and solving the case little by little. The famous "model killer" case, spanning five seasons, involved as many as several murderers.

Since then, many crime dramas have learned this trick. The "Ogre Case" in "Searching for Bones" and the "Red John Case" in "Super Sense Detective" are all rare and wonderful cases in the history of crime dramas.

If you want to pick the best case from hundreds of episodes of "CSI", it must be the "Model Killer Case". Every time the model killer finishes killing someone, he will leave a delicate miniature model on the scene. The furniture, corpses, and decorations in the model are exactly the same as the murder scene.

The model killer has committed many murders and is still at large, which also makes him even more daring. In the end, the model killer directly sent the model to Jill, the boss of the crime team. Then he went to commit the murder and arranged the scene like a model.

The climax of the series is when the main character, Jill, receives a model of his girlfriend Sarah, trapped under a car in the desert. Of course, the murderer was eventually caught, but when the murderer's motives were analyzed, it was discovered that the root of his crime actually went back to the first season.

This can't help but amaze countless audiences, and people have to admire the screenwriter's good intentions.

Generally speaking, we say that an American drama has a great influence, which can be proven from many aspects, such as ratings, revenue ratio, and even the impact on real society. But in addition to this, there is a standard that we don't often use, but it is very reflective of the influence of a film and television work.

That is the impact on celebrities, not only Hollywood celebrities, but also celebrities from all walks of life. And CSI has this unique and huge impact. In the more than 10 years of CSI's drama career, countless celebrities have come forward to ask for cameos.

The famous ruffian director Quentin Tarantino not only watched the show from beginning to end, but also offered to direct an episode of "CSI", and after filming, he even invited fans to the cinema to watch the episode he directed.

Later, Amanda Seyfried in Hollywood's Four Little Girls, in order to show her face in "CSI", would rather play a beautiful bridesmaid with soy sauce.

Even the two hosts of the popular science show "Mythbuster", Jamie and Adam, who are very famous on YouTube, out of their love for "CSI", made a special trip to play two unnamed characters in the show.

And Taylor Swift, the singer who swept the world, was fascinated by "CSI", and even considered going to university to study forensics. Later, she took the initiative to ask to play a deceased person in the play, and the creators of "CSI" also designed a very unique character for her.

This is also Taylor's (Swift) actor debut.

In addition to Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, another popular little king in the European and American music scene, is also an unscrupulous "CSI" die-hard fan. So when he asked for a cameo in the play, he didn't simply play a trick, but specially designed a role for him that was quite important to the development of the plot.

In the end, Justin Bieber was still in a big battle of tall grass, and Si was completely refreshed under the random gun.

In any way, "CSI Crime Scene Investigation" is indeed the well-deserved king of American dramas in the next two decades.

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"Then did you bring the project plan and script?" Although he was already excited in his heart, Sid still suppressed his enthusiasm and forced himself to ask calmly according to the normal process.

"The project proposal is here. Jerry Bruckheimer immediately took out the documents he had already prepared from the bag he was carrying.

Sid and Charles Schell took it and looked through it. Although it was still early planning, the plan was quite solid, not only explaining where the main team would work, and why it was chosen Las Vegas (the forensic laboratory in Las Vegas is the second best in the country, after the FBI's Quantico headquarters), but also detailing a series of details.

It seems that Jerry Bruckheimer's team is not a fuel-efficient lamp.

Sid flipped through a few paragraphs of the table of contents and put down the plan. Jerry Bruckheimer couldn't help but look at him.