Bawdy of Evidence: CSI and Sitcom Eye Scribe Swap
Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen in Two and a Half Men by Greg Gayne/Warner Bros/CBS
Is
Two and a Half Men
serious about trading writing staffs with
CSI? It's for real, should said deal get a green light from CBS. Confirming that which
CSI boss
Carol Mendelsohn teased at Tuesday's Banff festival,
Men mastermind
Chuck Lorre says the disparate shows may exchange scribes for a week, to see how the other half lives. "It's baffling and intriguing what they do. It'd be an interesting challenge," Lorre tells
Variety.
But would the lark result in, like, an innuendo-laden Grissom? Or Stokes in bowling shirts? Would a
Men-written
CSI have a different tone? Says Lorre, "One would hope that we might be able to bend it a little bit, though not so much as to break it." That's what
she said! (Feel free to give that line to Warrick, Chuck.)
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