And Channel Five's CSI: Miami took third place at 9pm - only 500,000 viewers behind BBC1's Mrs Pritchard.
Films such as "Ocean's Eleven" (a sequel, "Ocean's Twelve", is coming) and TV shows such as "CSI" (Crime Scene Investigation), have presented images of the Strip to millions of viewers around the world.
In 2008 Monica Robbers, an American criminologist, defined it as "the phenomenon in which jurors hold unrealistic expectations of forensic evidence and investigation techniques, and have an increased interest in the discipline of forensic science".Now another American researcher has demonstrated that the "CSI effect" is indeed real.
Cop shows like "CSI" give juries the idea that scientific evidence is almost infallible.
Since America's blast furnaces are ageing and expensive to rebuild, some of its biggest steel firms, such as AK Steel and California Steel Industries (CSI), are resorting to importing Brazilian slabs.
In the mid-infrared region a variety of optical-grade crystals, such as calcium flouride (CaF2), zinc selenide (ZnSe), cesium iodide (CsI), or potassium bromide (KBr), coated with silicon or germanium are employed.
So although we do work together, it's not the way it's portrayed on CSI or Silent Witness, say, where they play a large part of the forensic investigation team".
Hey come in, all you redundant politicians, businessmen, scientists, (particularly forensic, because we all love CSI), bankers, soldiers, statisticians, boiler-makers, dog-trainers, customs officers and police superintendents, and teach classes of 30-plus.
This morning the police CSI teams have been at Vallecas.
This autumn Slipstream, an astonishing 70m-long, 77-tonne work by the acclaimed sculptor Richard Wilson, will be installed in Heathrow's Terminal 2. The sculpture is being constructed by a Hull company, CSI Fabrication, and Wilson has insisted that a plaque bearing the legend "made in Hull" is fixed to the work, which will be viewed by more than 20 million people a year.
On walls that had been cleaned and repainted, the application of Luminol still revealed the proteins of blood spatters (anyone who has watched CSI will know it gives off a blue glow).
