Crime Scene: Boston

Crime Scene: Boston is an American police procedural mystery-drama produced by CS Productions, Firebasket Studios and Firebasket Television for Firebasket Network. Phillip Becker and Cameron Johnson created the series, with Barrett Brown, Liam Harper, Taylor Martin, Eloise Clarke, Katalina Ramos, and Natasha Gardner as regular writers. Rob Bowman is the head director of the show. The show stars Christopher Eccleston, Sienna Guillory, Nick Eversman, Q'orianka Kilcher, Michael DeLorenzo, Jasmine Guy, and Mandy Patinkin. It is similar to the CSI franchise. The series will premiere in September of 2019 on Firebasket Network.

Production
Production took place at Broadway Stages in New York, with some exterior shot in New York as well. Other exterior shots are filmed on location in Boston.

Filming
Filming takes place in New York and Boston primarily. Season one filming took place between February 2019 and July 2019. Filming for the second season will start in mid-January 2020 and will end in June 2020. Filming for Season 3 will take place in early December 2020 to late May 2021

Visual effects
Mac Guff and Lola Visual Effects are the main visual effects companies, with some visual effects being done by Method Studios.

Budget
Every season has a budget of around $15 million, split with 20 episodes per season. Every season has about $5 million in reserve if any over budgeting occurs.

Reformat
It was announced in 2020 that CS: Boston will be reformatted into three shows, Boston P.D. & FBI, Boston Fire & Med, and Boston Legal (the latter being a show already airing). The new series will premiere in the fall of 2020 on Firebasket Broadcasting Network.

Season One (2019-2020)

 * September 18, 2019 - December 11, 2019 (13 episodes)
 * January 8, 2020 - February 19, 2020 (7 episodes)

Future
A second and a third season was confirmed in August of 2019. Another series, Crime Scene: NY was announced in August 2019 and will film for a 10 episode season. A backdoor pilot was filmed and will air as a special on December 18, 2019.