'CSI's' Eric Szmanda Signs New Deal to Return to CBS Drama (Exclusive)

12:47 PM PDT 6/4/2012 by Lesley Goldberg

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The original cast member has inked a new pact with CBS Television Studios to continue on with the long-running procedural's upcoming 13th season.

Eric Szmanda CSI Crime Scene Investigation - P 2012

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"CSI's" Eric Szmanda and Ted Danson

CBS' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is locking up its original cast members for Season 13.

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Eric Szmanda, whose character Greg Sanders has been with the CBS procedural since the series launched in 2000, has inked a new deal with CBS Television Studios to return to the long-running series, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.

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Szmanda joins fellow cast members Jorja Fox and George Eads who both re-upped with the studio to return for CSI's upcoming 13th season.

Following a tumultuous season that saw the series uprooted from its longtime Thursday time slot to Wednesdays, the billion-dollar franchise saw Ted Danson take over for Laurence Fishburne at the beginning of the season, later being joined by Elisabeth Shue, who replaced Marg Helgenberger.

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Peri Gilpin made her debut as the wife to Danson's D.B. Russell during May's Season 12 finale, which was up a tenth of a point week-over-week with a 2.4 rating in the key adults 18-49 demographic.

Szmanda is repped by APA and Anonymous Content.

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