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From Fox News.com
Petersen continues to be an outspoken critic of series TV and CBS. He said the actors who left "CSI" this summer in a pay dispute are back, but still have no new contracts and that nothing's been resolved. He also told me that his own departure might have occurred had the actors not been returned to the show.

Petersen — a favorite of mine since his great movie "To Live and Die in L.A." — is a straight shooter. He tells it like it is, even when whatever that might be gives CBS honcho Les Moonves agita. And Moonves, he says, pursued him "for years" to do a series.

"They're not doing any promotion now for our show," he said of CBS. "You're just seeing ads for 'CSI: Miami.' And they're killing off a character over a pay dispute."

Petersen is in the fifth year of a seven-year contract with CBS, by the way, but there's no way of knowing if he'll sign an extension when the deadline comes — at least not from our conversation last night. And this criticism came despite the fact that he and his partner are executive producers of the show.

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