Marg Helgenberger Exits CSI With Season-High Ratings

CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION, featuring the final episode of Marg Helgenberger as forensic investigator Catherine Willows, delivered its largest audience and highest adult 18-49 of the season, according to Nielsen preliminary live plus same day ratings for Wednesday, Jan. 25.

CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION won its hour in households (8.9/15), viewers (14.03m), adults 25-54 (4.5/11) and adults 18-49 (3.3/09). CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION posted its best viewer and adults 25-54 performances since Jan. 20, 2011 and best adults 18-49 ratings since Jan. 6, 2011 - all Thursday broadcasts.

CRIMINAL MINDS was first in households (8.6/13), viewers (13.70m) and second in both adults 25-54 (4.6/10) and adults 18-49 (3.6/09). CRIMINAL MINDS posted its best viewers delivery since Sept. 21, 2011 (season premiere) and best performances in both adults 25-54 and adults 18-49 since Nov. 16, 2011. CRIMINAL MINDS topped the special of "Touch" (11.87m) in viewers.

For the night, CBS was second in households (7.6/12), viewers (11.88m), adults 25-54 (3.8/09) and adults 18-49 (2.9/08).

CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION is a fast-paced drama about a team of forensic investigators trained to solve crimes by examining the evidence. They are on the case 24/7, scouring the scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that will solve the mystery. D.B. Russell, the new CSI Supervisor for the grave shift, comes to the team after heading the Seattle Crime Lab. He’s a family man and scientist, but not a nerd. Son of hippie parents, he’s a left-coast Sherlock Holmes who devours crime novels and looks at every crime scene as if it were a story waiting to be told.

The team’s other members include Catherine Willows, the team’s former supervisor and an investigator with a cop’s instinct for reading human behavior; Nick Stokes, the conscience of the team, often driven by his emotional connection to the victim to always get the job done; Sara Sidle, aka Mrs. Grissom, relentless in her pursuit of criminals and the moral compass of the team; Greg Sanders, once an off-beat tech analyst and now an experienced and intuitive crime-solver; and Morgan Brody, an exile from the Los Angeles Crime Lab and the daughter of Undersheriff Ecklie. She’s a natural-born investigator who still has a lot to learn about politics and family. The CSI team members also work closely with Captain Jim Brass, a seasoned detective and protector of CSI, sometimes to a fault; Dr. Albert Robbins, the ever-professional medical examiner; his wise-cracking assistant, David Phillips; and David Hodges, a tech of many talents who often rubs people the wrong way, but never fails to deliver.

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