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" James Read has signed up for a recurring role in CSI:NY. The actor - who is perhaps best known for playing the father of the girls from Charmed - will be the father of Lindsay Messer (Anna Belknap) in the CBS drama. Robert Monroe will first appear in the eighth episode of the current ninth season, which will air in mid-November, reports TVLine. The character is introduced when Lindsay returns to her Montana home to visit her father and deal with problems of her past. Read has also appeared in American Dreams, Wildfire and Remington Steele. Green Day are to provide the soundtrack to CSI:NY&amp;#039;s upcoming episode on Friday, October 19. CSI:NY currently airs on Fridays at 9pm/8pm CT on CBS. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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