CSI: Cyber continues to flesh out its ensemble, adding Emmy winner Peter MacNicol as a series regular.
The Ally McBeal/Numb3rs vet will play Assistant Director Stavros Sifter, 40, a career FBI insider and supervisor of Special Agent Avery Ryan (Patricia Arquette) for the Cyber Crime Division in Washington, D.C.
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Sifter quickly rose up the ranks and positioned himself in a job where he is the clearinghouse between FBI Cyber and all other branches of government. He is a shrewd and savvy networker — a charmer with a hint of malice.
The CSI: Cyber cast also includes Community‘s Charley Koontz as Agent Daniel Grummitz.
MacNicol’s recent credits include guest stints on The Mindy Project and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
CBS is eyeing a midseason launch for the CSI spin-off.
I was already going to check the show out because of Arquette but this has me more interested now.
Am I the only one who thinks the title of the show is awful? They should call it “CSI: Cyber Crimes,” not just Cyber. It just sounds too singular to me.
“Cyber” by itself refers to online sex chat. I somehow doubt that will be where the show is focused. Although it could be interesting if they did.
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I was excited about this until I read the character description. I was hoping for some of the quirkiness Peter MacNicol does so well, but this character sounds anything but quirky. Loved his Professor Larry Fleinhardt in Numb3rs.
With this, I might actually check out the show.
Poughkeepsie! Love MacNicol but not the CSI type shows
What a waste of talent.
Peter deserves better than this.
It says that the character is supposed to be 40. I just did the math and found out that Peter in 60!! He does NOT look it.
I liked Peter MacNicol’s in Numbers and I am happy to see that he will be in CSI:Cyber. I am looking forward to seeing this new spin-off of CSI.
Love Patricia Arquette and Peter MacNicol so this is great!
I finally gave up on CSI last year. It was a tuff habit to break, but the writing just sucks, and the old and new actors are merely going thru the motions. It’s become just another CBS procedural, and the characters cliche. But I like Arquette and MacNicol, so will give Cyber a chance.
Does anyone else think this is sounding more and more like a show that they just slapped the “CSI” moniker on?
I loved Peter MaCnicol in Numb3ers and well everything. I Hope CBS makes him a little out there because that is what he is good at!
He’s way too old to play a 40 year old wunderkind, very poor casting choice
Like Peter MacNicol as a hero in my mind :)
Any show with peter is good for me, numbers was not the same when he left the show
I was hoping for some of the quirkiness Peter MacNicol does so well, but this character sounds anything but quirky. So, i love it :D