CBS
CSI: Miami
When: Returns on September 22; airs Monday nights at 10/9c on CBS.
Main Players: David Caruso, Emily Procter, Adam Rodriguez, Jonathan Togo, Rex Linn, Eva LaRue, Megalyn Echikunwoke
What’s it all about?: A team of forensic investigators uses both cutting-edge scientific methods and old-fashioned police work to solve crimes.
Where’d we leave off?: David Caruso’s Horatio Caine is dead. Shot down. Kaput. Well wait, on second thought, maybe not. We learned after the fact, via text message, that it was all a ploy drawn up by Wolfe and Caine, and of Ryan’s involvement in it all. Whatever the specific outcome, it’s gonna hit the fan.
CBS
NCIS
When: Returns on September 23; airs Tuesday nights at 8/7c on CBS.
Main Players: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Sean Murray, Cote De Pablo, Pauley Perrette, David McCallum
What’s it all about?: From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, these special agents travel the globe to investigate all crimes with Navy or Marine Corps. ties.
Where’d we leave off?: Though there are liberal doses of humor strewn throughout the tense action of NCIS, that doesn’t mean they’re shootin’ blanks. A series regular for years now, Lauren Holly’s Jenny Shepard, sadly did not make it out of a gunfight toward the end of last season. When season six kicks up this month, Gibbs has a new squad that gets introduced.