KLAS-TV Channel 8 News Las VegasCSI Casting Call for Elvis Impersonators

(Jul. 16) -- CBS is hosting a local casting call for Elvis Presley impersonators on Saturday. The winner gets to be on the hit show "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" -- with scenes to be filmed on Monday.

The episode will be shown in September and will be the show's season premiere. It is a nonspeaking (and nonsinging) role.

"CSI" writer and Las Vegas local Dustin Abraham will be on hand to judge the auditions.

"CSI" creator -- and former Mirage tram driver -- Anthony Zuiker and show stars including William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, Eric Szmanda and Robert David Hall all arrive in town today for filming, and might also attend some of the casting call.

Anyone interested in appearing on the show must be dressed as Elvis, and producers will only see the first 100 hopefuls -- which raises the question: How many Elvis impersonators actually are there in Las Vegas?

The call starts at 10 a.m. at CBS Television City at the MGM Grand. The public is invited to watch the spectacle.

In other "CSI" news, according to the Hollywood Reporter, two supporting actors on the show, George Eads and Jorja Fox, have been let go amid a salary scuffle with the series' producers.

Eads and Fox, both of whom have been with the hit forensic drama since its debut in fall 2000, had approached the network about a salary increase for the coming season, sources said. CBS is said to have responded with what industry sources described as a modest take-it-or-leave-it offer of an increase.