> in 2000, veteran tv actress jorja fox took what she believed would be a brief hiatus from her guest-starring role as secret service agent gina toscano on nbc's hit political drama the west wing to play criminalist sara sidle on the new cbs forensics procedural csi: crime scene investigation. at the time, fox did not anticipate csi would stay on the air for long, considering both its complex subject matter and the fact that it premiered in the infamous "friday night death slot." she believed csi would run for a few weeks before being cancelled, at which point she intended to return (with aaron sorkin's blessing) to the west wing. says fox, "i thought i'd be back on the west wing by the holidays. i really did. i didn't think anybody was going to be that interested in a show about science and death on a friday night. i just thought it would be really kind of cool for a couple of months. and i'd be back on west wing by the end of the year." despite her initial low expectations, csi soon developed into a mega-hit, spawning multiple spinoffs and becoming the "most-watched show in the world" in the early 2000s. fox would go on to appear as sara sidle in all fifteen seasons of csi and also the first season of its 2021 revival, csi: vegas.
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