CSI: NY had a different set of challenges branch into its seventh season. The appearance was affective to Friday nights, area the writers would accept to amount out how to boldness endure season's "shot in the dark" cliff-hanger involving consecutive analgesic Shane Casey (guest brilliant Edward Furlong) and affiliated CSIs Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) and Lindsay (Anna Belknap) Messer.

Then alternation brilliant Melina Kanakaredes, who played Detective Stella Bonasera back the appearance premiered, abdicate just weeks afore assembly began. "We had accounting six scripts over the break," controlling ambassador Pam Veasey . "We developed belief that were accessible to basic for shooting, and all of them complex Stella. Then, the fallout happened."

Veasey says afterwards three canicule of acute buzz calls, she begin the cloud's argent lining: Emmy and Golden Globe champ Sela Ward active on to alter Kanakaredes on the show.

"Timing is everything," Ward says during a breach from cutting her aboriginal episode. "I hadn't formed for a while because I was spending time with my kids. But now that they're a little bit older, I was alpha to feel a little antsy, and again I got the buzz call. The affair that was adorable to me was that it was an ensemble show. I wasn't traveling to be accustomed it all on my shoulders."