Another ‘CSI’ on its way to CBS

PASADENA, Calif. — Sunday night actress Patricia Arquette (“Medium”) won a Golden Globe award for the critically acclaimed film “Boyhood.”

By late Monday morning she was on a panel promoting the latest iteration of “CSI,” CBS’s “CSI: Cyber” (10 p.m. March 4).

“I kind of feel like Superman and Clark Kent,” Arquette said. “We’ll be shooting all day and then I go to do press (for ‘Boyhood’ during awards season). I’m so fortunate to be working as an actor. I’m interested in this subject matter; we made this little art movie, it’s having an incredible reaction I’m very grateful for. I feel like I’m having a beautiful moment in my life. … I’m just grateful for everything.”

To assure critics that this “CSI” won’t be the same procedural-heavy show as its predecessors, “CSI” creator and “Cyber” executive producer Anthony E. Zuiker said CBS has given the show license to “open the power of characters.

“We have the nuts and bolts of procedural but we have the opportunity at this time in our franchise to take advantage of the talent (of our cast),” Zuiker said.

That must make the casts of previous “CSIs” feel a little rotten, but moving on.

While producers said they’ll be slightly futuristic with the crimes, they also gave an example of a crime in the pilot episode that was duplicated in real life after the episode was filmed. Those scenarios are sure to make some susceptible-to-paranoia people more paranoid — especially, perhaps, older viewers who don’t understand technology but watch “CSI: Anything” — but producers said that’s not their goal.

“We’re not interested in inducing paranoia,” said cyber psychologist-producer Mary Aiken.