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The man, who was wearing blood-stained clothes, is alleged to have knocked on a window at an address in Beverly Court, in Concord, and asked for help and money at 7.45am on Monday morning (October 12).

Police officers located the man, who did not have any serious injuries, and he was arrested on suspicion of wounding with intent to commit grievous bodily harm. He remains in police custody.

An investigation is now ongoing to uncover the nature of the incident and trace any other parties involved.

At the time, no one is believed to have reported to police with any injuries.

A police cordon is in place around a house in Beverly Court and crime scene investigation teams are at the scene.

A Northumbria Police spokesperson said: At 7.45am today we received a report of concern for a male who had approached an address on Beverley Court, Concord, and was knocking on the window.

It was reported that the man was wearing blood-stained clothes and was asking for help and money.

Officers attended and located the man who did not have any serious injuries. He has since been arrested on suspicion of wounding with intent to commit grievous bodily harm and remains in police custody.

Enquiries are ongoing to ascertain the nature of the incident and trace any other parties involved. Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101 quoting reference 121 121020.

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Man covered in blood arrested on suspicion of GBH after knocking on house window and asking for help - Sunderland Echo

The CSI effect is a myth, Donald Shelton tells me. Like the unicorn and the mermaid, the former Michigan judge adds. Just in case I didnt get his point.

Shelton is referring to the idea that juries in criminal trials have a high expectation that prosecutors will present scientific evidence to prove their cases and that defendants are sometimes wrongfully acquitted because of a lack of it. So, the theory goes, the jurors came to court expecting to see such evidence, on account of watching CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and other law-related television programs.

The CSI effect is sometimes put forth by prosecutors as a reason why they lost a case. But Shelton, who presided over felony trials in Washtenaw County for 24 years, wanted more than just tales from grumbling prosecutors before accepting that a television show could really be to blame.

I have a scientific bent that says, We are not going to draw conclusions from anecdotes, Shelton, 76, told me last week during a phone interview from his COVID workplace in his home in Salinethe 10,000-resident town in southeastern Michigan where he served as mayor for eight years.

Sheltons penchant for proof, coupled with an interest in statistics and forensicshe believes he is the first judge in Michigan to handle a case involving DNA evidenceled him to conduct surveys to determine if the CSI effect was real or just an excusemainly from losers.

The first episode of CSI aired 20 years ago today. The drama, which ran for 15 seasons on CBS, follows crime-scene investigators with the Las Vegas Police Department who use science and physical evidence to solve murders. The television program, named most-watched TV show in the world several times, spawned a genre of crime shows with a focus on forensics.

Shelton, who retired from the bench in 2014 and is now an associate professor of sociology and director of the Criminology and Criminal Justice Program at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, shared his views on the role that the wildly popular program, and others of its ilk, has had on the criminal justice system.

Sheltons studiesconducted in 2006 and 2008-2009 along with two professors of criminology at Eastern Michigan Universityrevealed that jurors do have a high expectation that they will be presented with scientific evidence, and sometimes demand it as a condition of guilt. But a television show was not the cause.

Sheltons belief in the nonexistence of the CSI effect remains unchanged since his earlier studies. But he is quick to make clear that the perception of a CSI effect, plus ever-evolving technology and social media, are altering the manner in which juries hear and decide cases.

In 2006, in the first empirical study of its kind, Shelton and his colleagues surveyed 1,027 randomly summoned jurors to Washtenaw County (Ann Arbor), Michigan, and asked them about their television watching habits, what types of evidence they expected to see presented by the prosecutor in various types of criminal cases and whether they would demand scientific evidence before finding a defendant guilty. Prospective jurors were assured the surveys were anonymous and unrelated to their potential selection as a juror.

The results revealed that 46.3% of jurors expected to see some kind of scientific evidence in every criminal case. In particular, 21.9% of jurors anticipate DNA evidence and 36.4% expect fingerprint evidence. Expectations and demands for scientific evidence were also determined for specific crimes, taking into account whether other evidence was available, such as victim or eyewitness testimony or circumstantial evidence.

On the all-important question, Shelton and his team concluded that there was no significant difference, in the demand for scientific evidence as a condition of guilt between watchers of CSI and related shows and nonwatchers.

In 2008-2009, Sheltons team, wanting to focus on an urban setting, conducted a similar study using 1,219 individuals summoned to jury duty in Wayne County, Michigan, which includes Detroit. Here, the absence of a CSI effect was even more pronounced.

In the Washtenaw County study, in only four of 13 crime scenarios was there a significant difference between CSI watchers and nonwatchers in their demand for scientific evidence before finding a defendant guilty. In Wayne County, for the same scenarios, there was no significant difference.

Donald Shelton. Photo courtesy of Donald Shelton.

Law review and journal articles abound, from Shelton and his colleagues, dissecting their studies and providing all manner of statistics that disprove a CSI effect.

But even if the CSI effect is a myth, it can still loom large in courtrooms. One of the things that influences jurors, the former jurist tells me, is that prosecutors, and in some cases judges, act like there is a CSI effect when they question jurors and sometimes in instructions or arguments. Shelton explains that talking in terms of the CSI effect is an influence on jurors. If they didnt think about it before, they did after they went through the trial process.

The CSI effect made its way into Emmanuel Robinsons trial in Montgomery County, Maryland. A jury found him guilty of conspiracy to commit first-degree burglary. In 2014, the states highest court reversed his conviction on account of a flawed jury instruction. Robinsons attorney had stated, during his opening argument, that there was no evidence that his clients fingerprints or DNA were found on any paper, tape, weather stripping or screwdriver. The judge instructed the jurors that there is no legal requirement that the state utilize any specific investigative technique or scientific test to prove its case.

The court of appeals held that this charge, sometimes referred to as an anti-CSI effect instruction, was not warranted. On account of the inconclusive state of research whether a CSI effect existsciting, among the sources, Sheltons workthe court concluded that such an instruction is only necessary to correct an overreaching by the defense. This the defendants lawyer had not done. He merely pointed out what procedures may have been available to investigators and did not insinuate that the state had any obligation to perform such testing.

Instead of the CSI effect, which Shelton says was just too simple to blame for wrongful acquittals, he points to what he calls the tech effect as the reason for jurors high expectationsand in some cases demandsfor being presented with scientific evidence.

They are being influenced, Shelton posits, by rapid advances in science, as well as the information revolution and exposure to DNA and its ability to both convict and exonerate. Support for a tech effect was found in the Wayne County study, which revealed that participants who used more tech gadgets had a higher expectation that the prosecutor would present scientific evidence. This was not tested in the Washtenaw County study.

By its nature, the impact of the tech effect on jurors expands with advances in technology. It is much greater than it was back when we first studied it because of the difference in technology and information, Shelton says. Now jurors have more information on their phones than they ever learned in school.

Shelton acknowledges that television crime dramas and documentaries play a role in the tech effect and can influence jurors. However, he says that they are simply one of the many inputs that jurors experience from the variety of information that is presented to them

True to the tech effects ever-evolving nature, Shelton says that the biggest change, the biggest challenge, of jurors and technology and their perception of science comes from social media. The problem here is that facts gets filtered through political and social lenses, he says. Even scientific facts are simply denied and social media treats facts as disposal. This, Shelton says, has led to a growing skepticism of scientific testimony that we didnt have before.

This sounds contradictory, I tell Shelton. It is. Knowledge of technology and availability of information is a two-edge sword, he says. On one hand, jurors know that there is a lot of science out there that is available and relevant and probably very useful in deciding whether a person committed a crime or not. By the same token, the social media influence tends to say, Well, we cant even believe the scientific evidence anymore.

To be sure, Shelton is not critical of jurors increasing demands for scientific evidence. To the contrary, it goes hand-in-hand with the prosecutors burden of proof. Where there is an available scientific test that would produce evidence of guilt or innocence, Shelton says, and the prosecution chooses not to perform that test and present its results to the jury, it may not be unreasonable for the jury to doubt the strength of the governments case.

Indeed, Shelton goes further, calling it is both appropriate and constitutionally expected that jurors and their verdicts will reflect the changes that have occurred in popular culture.

I suspect that some prosecutors, feeling victimized by the CSI effect, do not take kindly to hearing it compared to the stuff of childrens stories. They dont, Shelton tells me, and they often shrug off his conclusions as academic mumbo-jumbo. Maybe your figures dont show that, Shelton says that prosecutors tell him. And then they add, in a tone of absolute certainty: But I know it happens. I know what jurors do.

Randy Maniloff is an attorney at White and Williams in Philadelphia and an adjunct professor at the Temple University Beasley School of Law. He runs the website CoverageOpinions.info.

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'CSI effect' remains a myth, retired judge says on 20th anniversary of popular forensic science show - ABA Journal

Anthony Zuiker, the creator of the hit series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigations" and one of the stars, Marg Helgenberger, Zoom-chatted with Kylie Mar of Yahoo Entertainment about the 20th anniversary of the series premiere.

Back on Friday, October 6, 2000, "CSI" premiered and was an immediate success. The series was so popular, it went on for 15 seasons, spawned three spin-offs and is seen in almost every country in the world.

One of the things that made the show so unique was the so-called "CSI shot" where viewers would get a close-up look at a bullet tearing through flesh and organs, or a bone being broken in a fall. Anthony explained that he was inspired by an old George Clooney movie. "I got the "CSI shot by watching a movie called Three Kings, where the bullet went into the body," Anthony said. "So it was just a different point of view of a forensic show and a cop show. Because actually you could dive in to see the forensics. So we coined them right in the script. It would be "CSI shot" in the secondary slug, or the shot line."

Marg Helgenberger also spoke about the "CSI shot," saying, "What came to be known as "the CSI shot," you know following the trajectory of bullets through bodies," Marg explained, "I mean, there was all that sort of fun way to show the science, you know, not just talk about it. And that definitely was revolutionary."

MARG HELGENBERGER: When I read that pilot script, I was-- you know, got very excited about it. And really just thought it was innovative and groundbreaking. And but also was kind of like what they ended up being referring to it as the 21st century Sherlock Holmes.

KYLIE MAR: It's been 20 years since the world was introduced to a new style of crime drama when "CSI Crime Scene Investigation" premiered on Friday, October 6, 2000. The show was an immediate success and spawned three spin-offs over a span of 16 years. To celebrate the 20-year anniversary, I recently chatted with star Marg Hellenberger, who played Catherine Willows. And she talked about what made the show so unique.

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MARG HELGENBERGER: What then came to be known as the "CSI" shot, you, following the trajectory of bullets through bodies. And you know, if somebody had been drinking, and had a side poisoning. You know, to see the poison go through the-- to look at the X-ray machine. I mean, there all that kind of fun way to show the science, you know, and not just talk about it. And that definitely was revolutionary.

KYLIE MAR: The man behind the revolutionary shot is the show's creator, Anthony Zeuiker. So I zoomed into his Malibu home to find out the origin of the legendary "CSI" shot.

ANTHONY ZUIKER: I got the "CSI" shot by watching a movie called "Three Kings," where the bullet [WHISTLES] right into the body. So it was just a different point of view of a forensic show, cop show, which you actually could dive in to see the forensics.

KYLIE MAR: Anthony has every reason to celebrate the big anniversary. But just like everyone else in 2020, his plans were sidelined by the coronavirus.

Are you doing anything special for the 20th anniversary?

ANTHONY ZUIKER: Well, we thought we were. We thought we might be debuting "CSI, the Comeback" right around October 6 of 2020 to make it 20 years. But unfortunately, that little pandemic stopped us. So it'll be delayed for probably a year.

KYLIE MAR: That's right. It looks like we'll get to see more crime scenes being investigated in the future. And Anthony told me some of those investigations are being written as we speak.

ANTHONY ZUIKER: Well, in terms of the writer's room, I know that the showrunner is probably done with eight of 10. I know that much. So it's a limited series. And so never before in history the world, they never has scripts before actors, so enjoy it. So we'll most likely be shooting in the spring of '21. And fingers crossed, the game plan is to air in the fall of '21.

KYLIE MAR: Anthony was clearly bummed that the new episodes had been pushed back so much. But he's excited for what the future holds for the "CSI" world.

ANTHONY ZUIKER: We're the most proud about setting the show in today's times, in today's fake news, in today's cancel culture, in today's Black Lives Matter, and all these-- these things are all-- pandemic, it's all here. So it does reflect how we write the scripts, how we deal with the scripts, as some of the things we do take on as representative of this generation versus 20 years ago.

KYLIE MAR: While Anthony's lips were sealed when I asked who is returning for the limited series, it has been reported that William Petersen and Jorja Fox are in talks to reprise their roles as Gil Grissom and Sara Sidel. As for my girl, Marg, she'd have to find time to shoot around the schedule of her current "CBS" show, "All Rise," but would love to be a part of the revival. She even has an idea of what Catherine would be up to these days.

Now, in 2020, where would Catherine be? What would she be doing? How would she be handling the pandemic?

MARG HELGENBERGER: Interesting. Well, when we did the series finale, which would have been after season 15, at that point, Catherine was in the FBI. So I would think she's-- you know, FBI director. [LAUGHS] Why not, right?

KYLIE MAR: Yeah. Love that.

[LAUGHTER]

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Best TV shows with the worst endings

All good things must come to an end, even successful television shows, and sometimes the best shows have the worst endings. Whether its a show thats gone on well past its prime, or a show whose original cast left and were replaced by actors who paled in comparison, or a reboot or revival with a promising start that stalled after a season or two, even great shows arent perfect.

To determine the 50 best TV shows with the worst endings, Stacker compiled data on the best TV shows on IMDb with more than 50,000 votes and ranked them according to the average IMDb user rating across the final season. User ratings are ranked according to full value, but only two decimals places are shown. Those listed as ties are exact ties down to the last decimal. Data is up to date as of Sept. 16.

These shows represent every genre from sci-fi to drama and come from all over the world. They are about witches and horsemen and include a British sketch comedy. One is set in a fifth dimension not known to man, another is about a suburban mother who resorts to selling drugs, and there are three versions of a space show with a cult-like following that spans five decades.

While it may seem many of these shows have little in common, the thread that ties them together is that somewhere along the line things went bad. In the end, they left a trail of disappointed or confused fans who wondered what exactly happened to that show they loved. Keep reading to see how many shows on the list ranked among your favorites with the very worst endings.

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.68- Total seasons: 8

Charmed featured the Halliwell sisters, three women who found out they were powerful witches meant to fight evil. The final season was plagued with budget cuts and the final episode, which found middle-sister Piper traveling back in time to prevent the events that led to her sisters deaths, was okay, but the time travel storyline woven throughout was confusing and fans were upset that Shannen Doherty didnt return as eldest Halliwell sister, Prue, for a final goodbye. Doherty left the show in 2001 and was replaced by Rose McGowan, the long-lost half sister.

#49. Sleepy Hollow (2013-2017)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.68- Total seasons: 4

The supernatural show aired on Fox and was loosely based on the 1820 short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. The main character, Ichabod Crane, is resurrected and sent to the future to solve a mystery from the past. While the first two seasons received favorable reviews, things went downhill in the final seasons. Not only did the storyline become convoluted, but the once diverse cast was pared down and fans felt betrayed.

#48. Will & Grace (1998-2020)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.67- Total seasons: 11

The Will & Grace 2017 reboot pretended the original season finale never happened, and it set Will and Grace back to where they were when fans left them years earlier. While it was interesting to revisit these characters, by the third season, many fans wondered if the producers should have let the characters go gentle into that good night. It seemed Will & Grace had many things to say, but they werent anything fans hadnt heard years earlier.

#47. Gossip Girl (2007-2012)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.66- Total seasons: 6

While the first season of the show received excellent reviews and a score of 79% on Rotten Tomatoes, many fans thought finding out the identity of Gossip Girl ruined the show. Others were upset about how little sense it made to continue a high school show once the characters were out of high school.

#46. Futurama (1999-2013)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.65- Total seasons: 10

Matt Groening, who created the long-running animated marvel The Simpsons, also created Futurama, which first aired on New Years Eve, 1999, and was about a pizza delivery boy who froze himself in the present only to wake up in the future. The show, hailed as a funny and sharp comedy, remained on Fox for four seasons until 2003. For many, the 2008 Comedy Central reboot simply was not as funny as it was during the first go-round.

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#45. Monty Pythons Flying Circus (1969-1974)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.65- Total seasons: 4

Initially, critics were not fond of the British sketch-comedy Monty Pythons Flying Circus and found its comedy crude and inappropriate. As time went on, the tides changed, and so did the audience and critical response. Perhaps it was because there was nothing like it on television. John Cleese left after the third season, and the disarming charm of such innovative comedy wore thin with the fourth season of the show that featured more misses than hits.

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#44. New Girl (2011-2018)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.64- Total seasons: 7

A solid performer for Fox, New Girl debuted in 2011 and was a comedy about a teacher who moved into a Los Angeles loft with three men. Ratings dropped during the sixth season, and Fox prepared what could serve as a series finale, though it did wind up picking the show up for a shortened seventh season. Writing for Decider, Lea Palmieri voiced what many were thinking, After last nights New Girl series finale, well, it kind of feels like maybe we didnt need that seventh and final season after all.

#42. Pretty Little Liars (2010-2017) (tie)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.64- Total seasons: 7

Pretty Little Liars followed a group of teenage girls who were keeping a deadly secret. Many fans felt the payoff in the final season was not worth the seven-year wait. They learned the identities of A, Uber A, A.D., and found the truth to be entirely underwhelming.

#42. Sex and the City (1998-2004) (tie)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.64- Total seasons: 6

Based on the book by author Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City was about the adventures of writer Carrie Bradshaw as she navigated love and life in New York City. It gave us a solid group of female friends who supported each other, and it also brought fashion and womens sexuality to the forefront. The end though, left many fans and the shows creator, Darren Star, as well as writer Bushnell, disappointed.

#41. Luke Cage (2016-2018)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.62- Total seasons: 2

Luke Cage, a Netflix original based on a Marvel comic book hero who gains superhuman abilities after an experiment goes awry, received positive reviews for its first season, though it fell into the dreaded sophomore slump. The show fell apart behind the scenes too, and Netflix canceled it after the second season.

#40. Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.61- Total seasons: 7

While many Star Trek fans were upset about the addition of Voyager to the franchise, the show definitely had a following and some solid reviews. The show was about another crew with Kathryn Janeway as its captain, cruising around space in the 24th century. Many felt the finale had an abrupt end, and declining ratings in the final season didnt help.

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.61- Total seasons: 7

When Scandal aired for the first time, it was a riveting political thriller about a Washington D.C. crisis management firm run by an intelligent woman, played by Kerry Washington, until the show descended into a nighttime soap opera. Its ambiguous ending also frustrated many fans and left them wondering what happened to Olivia Pope. The ending was intentional though, as series creator Shonda Rhimes wanted viewers to draw some of their own conclusions.

#38. The X-Files (1993-2018)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.61- Total seasons: 11

When it premiered in 1993, the show was about two FBI agentsone who believed in the possibility of the impossible and one who did not. When it returned for its revival in 2016, dynamic duo Mulder and Scullys banter remained much to fans delight, but a battle began, tooone between the fun, darkly humorous one-off shows and the overall alien-mythology arc the show carried from day one. In the end, series creator Chris Carter, much like the shows main character Fox Mulder, could not let go of his obsession and this time around, fans didnt seem all that interested.

#37. Lie to Me (2009-2011)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.60- Total seasons: 3

The show was about a detection expert who read peoples body language and could tell if they were lying. Tim Roth played Cal Lightman, a character loosely based on real-life Paul Ekman, who has a doctorate in clinical psychology. While the first season performed well for Fox, the following seasons saw a decline in ratings. A bit of an upswing during the third season wasnt enough to save the show.

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#36. How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.59- Total seasons: 9

With the buildup of one single question for nine seasonshow the main character Ted Mosby met his wife and the mother of his childrenfans expected a lot because they had given a lot. When it was revealed that the mother was not who fans expected, they were disappointed. The final season felt disjointed from the rest of the seasons, which it turned out were not just about one single question, but rather years of growing friendships and helping each other to survive.

#35. Falling Skies (2011-2015)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.59- Total seasons: 5

The Steven Spielberg-produced show was promising and offered an interesting premise. It followed several survivors as they struggled in the aftermath of an alien attack. Writing for Variety, Brian Lowry thought the show was already suffering, especially in the final season and wrote of the finale, The final episode, after a protracted and sometimes meandering buildup, had a slightly anticlimactic quality, reinforcing, more than anything, that it was overdue for Chicken Littles warning to finally come true.

#34. Iron Fist (2017-2018)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.58- Total seasons: 2

Iron Fist, another installment in the Netflix Marvel universe, followed hero Danny Rand, who was presumed dead for a decade and a half after his return to New York City. Yet another casualty in the Marvel Netflix saga, the show tried, but only ran for two seasons. While many found the second season to be an improvement, the show still struggled and never gained the traction of the other Marvel series.

#32. Dexter (2006-2013) (tie)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.53- Total seasons: 8

The television show about a serial killer who only killed bad people, Dexter was an innovative show with a unique concept. Yet with each passing season, fans seemed to tire of the lead characters neat and efficient way of getting out of every situation. The show also had one of the worst endings in television history.

#32. The Big Bang Theory (2007-2019) (tie)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.53- Total seasons: 12

While The Big Bang Theory started strong, it continued to go on and on, for 12 seasons, with many critics and fans wondering whether it had outlived its expiration date. The show featured a group of nerds and one pretty, but clueless girl, played by Kaley Cuoco.

#31. Designated Survivor (2016-2019)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.53- Total seasons: 3

After the president is killed, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Thomas Kirkman, played by Kiefer Sutherland, is the designated survivor and takes over the presidency. The show ran for three seasons, two on ABC and one on Netflix, which saved the show after ABC canceled it. The pilot episode had 10 million viewers, but the fanfare didnt last for many reasons, and Netflix didnt renew it for a fourth season.

#30. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990-1996)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.52- Total seasons: 6

Will Smith plays a teen from Philly who gets in a fight and is sent by his mother to live with his wealthy aunt and uncle in Bel-Air, California. While certainly not a ratings darling initially, the show gained a loyal following and was a hit. By the final season, many critics and fans tired of the formulaic nature of the show, and the strange disappearance of one Aunt Viv, who was replaced with another after the third season, frustrated and confused some.

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.52- Total seasons: 2

A reimagining of the 1980s series about an alien race that comes to Earth, this version didnt last either. The first season of the show brought in decent ratings and the network ordered a second season, but the show sputtered. Unfortunately, the series finale was one of the best episodes of the struggling series, but it was too late to save the show.

#28. Nip/Tuck (2003-2010)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.52- Total seasons: 6

Nip/Tucks opening line, Tell us what you dont like about yourself, brought some of the most outrageous storylines. The show, a story about two plastic surgeons and their controversial medical practice, was groundbreaking for its boundary-pushing, though it may have been exactly this that caused it to get off track. It seemed with each successive season, it became harder to top the last crazy plotline and in the end, many fans felt Nip/Tuck had fallen into foolish and frightening frivolity.

#27. The Twilight Zone (1959-1964)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.49- Total seasons: 5

The original show ran on CBS for five seasons and featured unique stories written by Rod Serling. By the time the final season ran, changes in producers, a lesser level of involvement by Serling, and repetitive storylines plagued the show. In 2019, writer/director Jordan Peele created the latest TwilightZonerevival.

#26. Californication (2007-2014)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.48- Total seasons: 7

Californicationis a story about a troubled New York writer played by David Duchovny who moves to Los Angeles and suffers from a severe case of writers block. While many critics initially enjoyed the show, after time it suffered from repetitive and tired storylines that led many to believe seven seasons were far too many.

#25. The Following (2013-2015)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.45- Total seasons: 3

The first season of the Fox drama featuring Kevin Bacon as an FBI agent chasing a serial killer did well. By the third season, the once-promising plot had derailed, and the series finale was a disappointment. Writing for Variety, Bryan Lowry noted, And the two-hour finale only drove home how the program squandered its assets, with the end coming two years and many dozens, if not hundreds, of killings too late.

#24. Wayward Pines (2015-2016)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.44- Total seasons: 2

Based on a trilogy of novels by author Blake Crouch about the end of mankind and its renewal, the first season of the science-fiction show found an audience. Initially intended as a limited series, season one did well, so the show was renewed by Fox. When the show returned in season two, Jason Patric replaced Matt Dillon as the protagonist, and though the season finale set it up for a season three, the network canceled the M. Night Shyamalan-helmed show.

#23. Dragon Ball (1986-1989)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.43- Total seasons: 9

Two friends go on a mission to find seven mythical balls that, with the help of a dragon, can grant wishes in this Japanese animated series. The series lasted nine seasons, but many fans found some of the decisions in the installment following the original disappointing.

#21. Arrested Development (2003-2019) (tie)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.40- Total seasons: 5

Fans loved the quirky show about a large and dysfunctional family, though some thought it lost its magic when it moved from Fox to Netflix after three seasons. The final two seasons didnt live up to the first three.

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#21. CSI: Miami (2002-2012) (tie)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.40- Total seasons: 10

For viewers of the canceled series, the most disappointing ending was no ending at all. The show about a crime scene investigation team in Miami, a spinoff of the original CSI, never had a finale. This upset loyal fans who invested 10 seasons worth of their time.

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#20. The Last Man on Earth (2015-2018)

- Final season IMDb user rating: 7.38- Total seasons: 4

In this Fox show, the last man on Earth tries to find signs of life. It received an 85% on Rotten Tomatoes and had a fan following. When it ended with the season four finale and without a final season, fans were upset.

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ustin LaReau on Lantern's Lane set.

Sonora, CA It was camera, lights, action this summer in Sonora as a Los Angeles production company shot its entire horror film in Tuolumne County.

Tidal Wave Entertainment Co-Presidents Lydia Cedrone, the films producer, and Justin LaReau, also the director, had not originally picked the county for the location of their slasher film Lanterns Lane, but the shoot was interrupted by COVID-19.

In March, we were on course to shoot in Los Angeles in May. Then COVID-19 hit, says Cedrone. We worked nonstop to develop an alternative plan for this film. We had an obligation to our investors and to ourselves to keep going.

That is when they turned to the internet, adds LaReau, We needed to look outside of LA to shoot, so we researched all over the state. We did pretty much everything via Zoom, including auditions, crew hires, you name it.

Another helpful tool the Tuolumne County Visitors Bureau, Cedrone explains, When scouting the region, my first call was to Lisa Mayo of Visit Tuolumne County. She and Bethany Wilkinson, her Film Liaison, were incredibly helpful to us. Both Justin and I were struck by the countys diverse landscapes and charming towns.

Once the locations were picked, shooting began on July 24th. The sites included a home in the county and a local bar, Steves Place on Tuolumne Road, owned by area local Jan Thomason. The filming wrapped in August. Pictures in the image box show a behind the scene look at the filming in those locations and others.

During the filming, COVID-19 played a starring role as it required the 22-person crew and four cast members to be tested three times a week at a local hospital. All tested negative before leaving Hollywood and heading to Tuolumne County. Also, coronavirus protocols including temperature checks, wearing masks, and gloves were followed during shooting.

One of those actors was Tuolumne County native and Sonora High School graduate, Robbie Allen. The 35-year-old actor currently lives in LA. The movies plot centers around a recent college grad that returns to Lanterns Lane, the site of an evil urban legend and the group must survive the night. Allen plays Braxton, one of the three estranged high school friends, including also includes his former ex-girlfriend who he has not seen in 7 years.

Allen credits include AHCs How We Got Here, Amazon Primes City of Gold and The Silent Natural, and the award-winning short film The Redeemer among several other projects. He is also the Artistic Director of Murphys Creek Theatre in Murphys and The Merely Players Shakespeare Co. in Los Angeles.

Lanterns Lane principle stars are Brooke Butler who has also head roles on Ozark and CSI Crime Scene Investigation and Andy Cohen featured in Greys Anatomy, Ray Donovan, and NCIS. No date is currently set for the release of the movie. Click here for more information about the production company.

Written by Tracey Petersen.

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