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Carol Mendelsohn, CSI Franchises
Carol Mendelsohn is Executive Producer and Showrunner of "CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION", the most watched scripted show on... network television, as well as Co-Creator and Executive Producer of its spin-offs, "CSI: MIAMI" and "CSI: NEW YORK". Her job has her managing every aspect of the series, making her one of the most powerful women in Hollywood.Mendelsohn started out as a lawyer practicing in Washington, D.C. but she loved writing and pursued it on the side until the early 1980s. It was then she took the leap, quit her job and moved to LA. A spec script for "Remington Steele" (in which an elephant is framed for murder) caught a Studio Executive's eye and led to jobs writing for TV shows like "Fame," and "Wiseguy". She wrote, produced and eventually became the Co-Showrunner on "Melrose Place". And it was she who later assembled the CSI writing team, which has now produced 165 episodes. Join Scott Feschuk of Maclean's Magazine as he asks Mendelsohn; To walk through the CSI script-writing process; beginning to end Why, as she has said in the past, is the running of a procedural show better-suited to female management style? With strong female leads, and characters with disabilities in CSI what role does didacticism play in what she does? With all the twists and turns it takes to not be clichéd and predictable, how does she protect herself and her team from burnout over a long-running show. http://www.banff2008.com/
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