Warrick's CSI Goodbye

Gary Dourdan aka Warrick Brown is to leave CSI.

According to TV Guide in the US, he’s told producers of the hit show he wants out.

Gary has been with Las Vegas set forensics drama since the show began in 2000.

It is the second major departure this season for CSI, as Jorja Fox made her final appearance as Sara at the end of last year.

It’s not all bad news though as Marg Helgenberger and George Eads are expected to follow William Petersen's lead and re-sign with the show.

As Warrick leave the team, another person will join.

Producers have already put out a casting call for a new male series regular in his late twenties to early thirties to play Ray Santoro, a "handsome, smart and athletic" CSI who transfers from Henderson to join the graveyard shift at the Las Vegas crime lab.