Despite their similar-sounding titles, it's unlikely that TV viewers will confuse CSI: Miami with Good Morning, Miami. The former is CBS's much-anticipated CSI spin-off starring David Caruso; the latter is NBC's new sitcom with Suzanne Pleshette. Still, one guy seems confused...

"CSI? I don't know what that is," jokes David Kohan, who co-created GMM with his Will & Grace partner, Max Mutchnick. "Honestly, we don't think about it. The title is there, and now all we have to do is make sure that our show is good. That's all we can concentrate on."

Fortunately, the city of Miami, Fla., seems to offer ample salsa for spicing up TV scribes' imaginations. "Miami is to the United States now what California was in the '60s and '70s," Kohan says. "It's off on the edge. It's the place that gauges the weirdness of the country — it's the barometer for the strangeness of America!"

CSI: Miami co-exec producer Anthony Zuiker agrees, describing the tropical locale with an equally enthusiastic flourish. "Miami's a little guttural, a little more political [than CSI's Las Vegas setting]," he suggests. "It's a town of passion, and Miami itself becomes a character. In Las Vegas, you go to escape and not be seen — and in Miami, you go to be seen.

Hmm... As long as CSI's in Miami, can we expect to see sexy swimwear action in South Beach? Don't forget Miami Vice put that saucy neighborhood on the map! Vice auteur Michael Mann is even revisiting there to shoot the feature film version. But Zuiker says: "I think the key to creating a new series is to go against the cliché, to not show girls in the string bikinis." Oh, drat.

"Our show is about science," he argues. "[On CSI], we go off the Strip, show you things you don't see in Las Vegas. If CSI was merely about crime scenes in casinos, we would be off the air in six episodes!"