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ZANESVILLE, OH - Expanding upon the success of the hit series CSI, which chronicles the trials and tribulations of a group of Las Vegas forensic scientists, a number of spinoffs soon followed, "CSI: Miami and CSI: New York." FNz has learned that CSI: Zanesville, OH was to follow in this pattern but was canned due to poor preliminary test marketing. Plus, almost everybody surveyed had little clue where Zanesville, OH was or why it would constitute an interesting expansion of the franchise.

Creator of the series, Anthony Zuiker states, "I guess we tried to get away cheaply with the latest expansion and paid the price, it was originally supposed to be Chicago, but we were getting killed with location and union fees. So, someone here had the bright idea that Zanesville, OH would be a great representative town of the Midwest. Turns out he was wrong, dead wrong. It got him fired."