Mandeep Dhillon

CBS’ in-the-works CSI sequel series is fully staffed up — now it just needs a formal pickup. (Update: CBS has officially ordered CSI: Vegas to series — details here.) TVLine has learned that Mandeep Dhillon, who co-stars in Ricky Gervais’s soon-to-conclude Netflix comedy After Life, is joining the quasi reboot/revival’s cast in the series regular role of “bonafide genius” Allie. A “Level 2” CSI, Allie earned her PhD in forensic archaeology at Harvard with an eye toward someday becoming a crime scene sleuth.

Mandeep Dhillon (After Life, Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker) has been cast as a lead in CSI: Vegas, which has been nearing a formal straight-to-series order at CBS, I have learned. CBS declined comment. Dhillon joins fellow new series regulars Paula Newsome, Matt Lauria and Mel...