When Ted Danson joined the cast of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, he felt like he walked into the ''perfect situation''
"My jaw is kind of hanging down from the newness of all this," Ted Danson said to the Associated Press in 2011.
Just a few weeks before this article was published, news broke that Danson was joining the cast of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Production started quickly, supposedly, and before the actor knew it, he had to adjust to his new role. It wasn't long ago that he was staring out at the ocean from Martha's Vineyard. But that's show business, baby.
Ted played D.B. Russell, the new supervisor of the Las Vegas CSI team, even though the show was filmed in Los Angeles. He made his first appearance in the Season 12 premiere episode "73 Seconds." The supervisor position was initially held by William Petersen, who played Gil Grissom, but before Danson came along, Laurence Fishburne's Raymond Langston was the head guy.
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"I feel like I have walked into this perfect situation for me," he added. D.B. Russell, according to the show's executive producer Don McGill, was a character who had things "in balance: family, work, life."
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation also gave the veteran actor a chance to play a crime-buster, something he hadn't played before. Fans might know him mainly as Boston bar owner Sam Malone, on the hit '80s sitcom Cheers.