National Ledger published an article about the future of CSI which includes a few quotes from Marg.Is This the End for “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”, Fate UnclearBy Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel SmithMar 26, 2008″CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”regular Marg Helgenberger says the fate of the show is definitely up in the air — “every actor’s contract is over this season” — but she for one is “interested in having a new contract.” Of the show’s lead, William Petersen, she says, “I don’t know what Billy’s plans are. He’s had issues with having to work in every single episode, so they’re frantically trying to work something out with him.”The impact of the writers strike is what changed her mind about staying, says the actress who plays crime scene analyst Catherine Willows on the hit CBS drama. “If we hadn’t had that forced hiatus, we would have had a whole season to arc out where Catherine was going to be at the end. They had a plan in mind to wrap up this season, and that’s sort of been thrown out because we’re only doing six more episodes.”"CSI” returns April 3 with new episodes, and Helgenberger says, “We’re trying to attempt something we haven’t done before. They want to start back into the ninth season, then break for the hiatus in order to give the crew more chances to spend [time] with their kids. It’s more in sync with the school calendar. The plan would be to shoot through June, then break for six weeks. We’ll have already banked about five episodes for the next season.”Source: National Ledger