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"William Petersen will leave CSI: Crime Scene Investigation midway through next season, Entertainment Weekly reports. Despite inking a deal to return to the police procedural drama earlier in the year, it has now emerged that Petersen&amp;#039;s role in the ninth season will be greatly reduced. Carol Mendelsohn, executive producer of the CBS show, disclosed that Petersen will remain involved in a production capacity and make occasional guest appearances. &amp;quot;He will, whenever CBS asks, come back. I don&amp;#039;t think you&amp;#039;ve seen the last of Gil Grissom,&amp;quot; she said. Petersen said of his new CSI role: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m in a great place in terms of knowing that I&amp;#039;ll be more free to make choices. And I&amp;#039;m responsible enough to not do it in a way that would hurt [the show]. &amp;quot;I want it to work for the writers, I want it to work for the cast, and, most importantly, I want it to work for the audience. I don&amp;#039;t want them to abandon the show.&amp;quot; With Petersen&amp;#039;s departure, along with those of Jorja Fox and Gary Dourdan, Mendelsohn admitted that the ninth season would be &amp;quot;a year of transition for the show&amp;quot;. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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