"CSI" mastermind Anthony Zuiker will continue to call CBS home with a two-year exclusive first-look deal with CBS TV Studios.
Zuiker will remain as an executive producer of the three "CSI" series, but the focus under the new deal will be on developing new projects -- primarily scripted and reality TV as well as publishing and cross-platform storytelling -- through his production company Dare to Pass.
Zuiker came up with the name for the shingle after ABC famously passed on the Touchstone TV-developed "CSI," which ended up at CBS.
"If you pass on a project it may end up somewhere else," Zuiker said. "I'm daring them to pass."
In ramping up Dare to Pass, Zuiker has tapped Matthew Weinberg as president of production.
Weinberg, most recently a partner at management/production company Guy Walks Into a Bar, was the last person Zuiker interviewed for the job, but the two go back 10 years,...
Zuiker will remain as an executive producer of the three "CSI" series, but the focus under the new deal will be on developing new projects -- primarily scripted and reality TV as well as publishing and cross-platform storytelling -- through his production company Dare to Pass.
Zuiker came up with the name for the shingle after ABC famously passed on the Touchstone TV-developed "CSI," which ended up at CBS.
"If you pass on a project it may end up somewhere else," Zuiker said. "I'm daring them to pass."
In ramping up Dare to Pass, Zuiker has tapped Matthew Weinberg as president of production.
Weinberg, most recently a partner at management/production company Guy Walks Into a Bar, was the last person Zuiker interviewed for the job, but the two go back 10 years,...
- 7/8/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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