From 2000 to 2015, there were around 800 episodes of "CSI" . . . across 36 seasons of four separate shows:  "CSI: Miami", "CSI: New York", "CSI: Cyber", and of course the flagship, vanilla "CSI".

 

That's a LOT of material to mine from crime scene investigators, who don't actually do most of what the characters on the show did . . . and don't have most of the fake-science the characters on the show used.

 

Nevertheless, it's been five years . . . so Hollywood is looking to revive the series.

 

The "Hollywood Reporter" says CBS is in talks with the show's creative team to bring it back as a new, limited series. 

 

Sources say it will be set in Las Vegas like the original, and they're trying to reunite some of the original cast, including William Petersen, a.k.a. Gil Grissom.

 

(In fact, it's so early that it's unclear how word got out.  Perhaps some industry sleuths got their hands on some security camera footage from the building across from CBS . . .)