In 2000, CBS had bought the pilot script from Zuiker, Nina Tassler, CBS ' head of drama development, passed it on to Petersen, who had a pay or play contract with the network.

Anthony E. Zuiker, who created the show, loosely based Grissom on real life Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department criminalist Daniel Holstein.

Zuiker was " fascinated " by Holstein, who, like Grissom, kept maggots and pig's blood in his refrigerator.

It was created by Anthony E. Zuiker, while Spears and Federline served as the executive producers.

From CSI creator Anthony E. Zuiker.

* Anthony E. Zuiker

* Anthony E. Zuiker: creator of the CSI franchise.

* Anthony E. Zuiker

Anthony E. Zuiker, creator of the CSI franchise, claimed that " all of the science is accurate " on the shows ; researchers, however, have described CSI portrayal of forensic science as " high-tech magic ".

Zuiker has stated that "' The CSI Effect ' is, in my opinion, the most amazing thing that has ever come out of the series.

Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named " Edward ", was renamed " Winnie-the-Pooh " after a Canadian black bear named Winnie ( after Winnipeg ), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war.

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

This month was originally named Sextilis in Latin, because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman calendar under Romulus in 753 BC, when March was the first month of the year.

The park was originally part of a commercially unsuccessful housing site, the idea of Count Eusebi Güell, whom the park was named after.

Ahmed I's mother was Valide Sultan Handan Sultan, an ethnic Greek who was originally named Helena.

He was married twice, to Valide Sultan Mahfiruze Hatice Sultan, originally named Maria, a Greek, mother of Osman II, and to Valide Sultan Kadinefendi Kösem Sultan or Mahpeyker, originally named Anastasia, a Greek, mother of Murad IV and Ibrahim I.

His mother was Mâh-Pâre Ummatullah ( Emetullah ) Râbi ' a Gül-Nûş Valide Sultan, originally named Evmania Voria, who was an ethnic Greek.

It was originally named Antlia pneumatica (" Machine Pneumatique " in French ) to commemorate the air pump invented by the French physicist Denis Papin.

Hellen, Graikos, Magnis, and Macedon were sons of Deucalion and Pyrrha, the only people who survived the Great Flood ; the ethne were said to have originally been named after the elder son Graikoi but renamed later after Hellen who was proved to be the strongest.

Tank or " landship " development, originally conducted by the British Navy under the auspices of the Landships Committee was sponsored by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill and proceeded through a number of prototypes culminating in the Mark I tank prototype, named Mother.

* In the Star Wars prequels, the galactic capital planet Coruscant has buildings many miles tall, and approaches the completely built-over condition of Trantor in Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation trilogy ( Note: due to this, Coruscant was originally to be named Jhantor but was eventually renamed Coruscant ).

His father, Albrecht Dürer the Elder, was a successful goldsmith, originally named Ajtósi, who in 1455 had moved to Nuremberg from Ajtós, near Gyula in Hungary.

It stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle ( originally named Place de l ' Étoile ), at the western end of the Champs-Élysées.

( 1812 – 1883 ), originally named Bezime, a Vlach.

This ship was originally named the USS Kearsarge, but was renamed in honor of the previous Hornet CV-8 ( famous for the Doolittle raid ), which was lost in October 1942.

The monks who originally brewed doppelbock named their beer " Salvator " (" Savior "), which today is trademarked by Paulaner.

The inflationary hypothesis was originally proposed in 1980 by American physicist Alan Guth, who named it " inflation ".

Similarly, the British discoverer of niobium originally named it columbium, in reference to the New World.

Cadillac was originally named Clam Lake and was incorporated as a village in 1874.

The CD-R, originally named CD Write-Once ( WO ), specification was first published in 1988 by Philips and Sony in the ' Orange Book '.

Therefore they were not atoms, but a new particle, the first subatomic particle to be discovered, which he originally called " corpuscle " but was later named electron, after particles postulated by George Johnstone Stoney in 1874.

The Daria character had been created for Beavis and Butt-Head by Glenn Eichler and originally designed by Bill Peckmann of J. J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc. Eichler then became a producer for Daria.

Regions have water with different mineral components ; as a result, different regions were originally better suited to making certain types of beer, thus giving them a regional character.

The ambiguous character of the axioms as originally formulated by Euclid makes it possible for different commentators to disagree about some of their other implications for the structure of space, such as whether or not it is infinite ( see below ) and what its topology is.

Arden's character clashed with the school's principal, Osgood Conklin ( played by Gale Gordon ), and nursed an unrequited crush on fellow teacher Philip Boynton ( played originally by future film star Jeff Chandler and, on television, by Robert Rockwell ).

Feminism has driven the creation of a considerable body of action-oriented science fiction with female protagonists: Wonder Woman ( actually originally created in 1941 ) and The Bionic Woman during the time of the organized women's movement in the 1970s ; Terminator 2 and the Alien tetralogy in the 1980s ; and Xena, Warrior Princess, comic book character Red Sonja and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The film was originally written for King Kong ( called operation robinson crusoe: king kong vs ebirah ), but Toho switched Kong with another popular character at the time, Godzilla.

Garfield was originally created by Davis with the intention to come up with a " good, marketable character ".

In the 1971 movie Harold and Maude the character Harold, played by Bud Cort, drives two hearses: originally a 1959 Cadillac Superior 3-way ; and then later a custom hearse he makes from a 1971 Jaguar XK-E 4. 2 Series II.

In 2010: Odyssey Two, Clarke speaks through the character of Dr. Chandra ( he originally spoke through Dr. Floyd until Chandra was awoken ), who characterized this idea as: " tter nonsense!

The Institute of technology system was organised on the committee areas or " functional areas ", these still remain legal but are not as important as originally envisioned as the institutes are now more national in character and are only really applied today when selecting governing councils, similarly Dublin Institute of Technology was originally a group of several colleges of the City of Dublin committee.

Later on, when Nemo finally did reach Slumberland, he was constantly being woken up by Flip, a character who originally wore a hat that had ' Wake Up ' written on it.

The character was originally depicted as a mad scientist who, in the vein of pulp novels, wreaks havoc on the world with his futuristic weaponry.

Juha was originally a separate folk character found in Arabic literature as early as the 9th century, and was widely popular by the 11th century.

For some reason, early writers of Chinese found it desirable to substitute for 气 a cognate character that originally meant to feed other people in a social context such as providing food for guests.

It takes place on Earth and tells the story of a group of super soldiers, including the main character, who are physically enhanced by the nanotechnology originally developed by Capek on Mars.

The popularity of Peyton Place prompted the CBS network to spin off popular As the World Turns character Lisa Miller into her own evening soap opera, Our Private World ( originally titled " The Woman Lisa " in its planning stages ).

The character was originally called " Elizabeth Janeway ", after the famous writer of the same name.

Although he is originally portrayed as a somewhat malevolent character, Skinner eventually becomes a close friend of Mulder and Scully.

Despite the anime series itself being on hold, Sunrise gave artist Katsu Aki the existing production and character designs, resulting in the first manga series having the heavy shōnen feel and curvaceous Hitomi that was originally planned for the anime series.

" Further McGoohan stated in a 1985 interview that No. 6 is not the same character as John Drake, further adding that he had originally wanted another actor to portray the character.

His character on seaQuest DSV, Lt. Tim O ' Neill, was originally named " Mack O ' Neill ".

JoBeth Williams ' character was originally scripted with a death scene, asking whether the living envy the dead in a nuclear war's aftermath.

The show is a spin-off of the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys ; the saga began with three episodes in Hercules where Xena was a recurring character originally scheduled to die in her third appearance.