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"My Theater experience was a communal experience. At some point, everybody trusts everybody. It's hard to do in TV and movies, which by and large are broken into different departments," says Petersen, who as is supervising producer.

"Our show is certainly different than most," he says. "I feel we do more communal work, riffing with each other, working with designers, prop people and everyone else."

Petersen, 49, also a TV newcomer, isn't one of those starts who takes a producer's credit simply for prestige or extra money, colleagues say. On the set, he says, he can represent the actor's perspective, sometimes even approving small wording changes in the script. "I'd be involved whether I was a producer or not," he says with a laugh, taking a break during an interrogation scene in a hotel not far from CSI's main set in Santa Clarita, about an hour northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

CSI regularly goes on shoots in Las Vegas, but Petersen has pushed hard for more location scenes such as the hotel, and to make Grissom more fallible than the average TV here--and he is, at least personally. He hasn't been as successful in seeking to have the investigators fail occasionally.


	Excepts from USA May 9,2002 Covering the spin off of CSI Miami
	"My Theater experience was a communal experience. At some point, everybody trusts everybody. It's hard to do in TV and movies, which by and large are broken into different departments," says Petersen, who as is supervising producer. "Our show is certainly different than most," he says. "I feel we do more communal work, riffing with each other, working with designers, prop people and everyone else." Petersen, 49, also a TV newcomer, isn't one of those starts who takes a producer's credit simply for prestige or extra money, colleagues say. On the set, he says, he can represent the actor's perspective, sometimes even approving small wording changes in the script. "I'd be involved whether I was a producer or not," he says with a laugh, taking a break during an interrogation scene in a hotel not far from CSI's main set in Santa Clarita, about an hour northwest of downtown Los Angeles. CSI regularly goes on shoots in Las Vegas, but Petersen has pushed hard for more location scenes such as the hotel, and to make Grissom more fallible than the average TV here--and he is, at least personally. He hasn't been as successful in seeking to have the investigators fail occasionally.