Film Music Reporter

Jeff Russo and Ben Decter have been tapped to score the upcoming CBS drama CSI: Cyber. The show is created by Anthony E. Zuiker, Carol Mendelsohn & Ann Donahue (CSI: Miami, CSI: NY) and stars Patricia Arquette, James Van Der Beek, Charley Koontz and Peter MacNicol. The series centers around Special Agent Avery Ryan who heads the Cyber Crime Division of the FBI, a unit at the forefront of solving illegal activities that start in the mind, live online and play out in the real world. The character was introduced earlier this year on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Zuiker, Mendelsohn & Donahue are also executive producing the CBS Television Studios production with Jerry Bruckheimer & Jonathan Littman (The Amazing Race, Without a Trace). Russo and Decter have previously co-scored last year’s Bruckheimer-produced series Hostages. Russo is coming off scoring the first seasons of Starz’s Power and FX’s Fargo, for which he received his first Emmy Award nomination. CSI: Cyber is set to premiere in early 2015 as a mid-season replacement and is currently scheduled to air Sunday nights on CBS.