Eye on Crime

The networks are beginning to release their Fall schedules already, and CBS announced they had ordered a new murder mystery series titled Harper’s Island for mid-season.  It sounds like it has some undertones of Lost, with a plot surrounding friends and family attending week-long festivities at a destination wedding on a secluded and picturesque island off the coast of Seattle, infamous for a homicidal maniac’s rampage seven years ago.

Other new crime-related shows are The Mentalist starring Simon Baker as Patrick Jane, a detective and independent consultant with the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI), who once proclaimed himself a pyshic which he now admits was faked, and Eleventh Hour from producer Jerry Bruckheimer (the CSI God) which features the character Jacob Hood (played by Rufus Sewell), a brilliant biophysicist and special science advisor to the government who investigates scientific crises and oddities.

CBS will also continue its popular CSI lineup as well as its Saturday "Crimetime" programming from 8-10:00 PM, followed by 48 Hours Mystery, the night’s top-rated program.