According to ScreenRant, the creator of CBS’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation spoke about the only way that they would sign off on a new spinoff for the franchise. During an interview with TV Insider to celebrate CSI’s 25th anniversary, creator Anthony Zuiker (The Real CSI: Miami, CSI Immortality) was asked if he would ever want the franchise to return to the air. In the interview, Zuiker admitted that the series will most likely come back if he is involved in the project.

As per ScreenRant, during the interview, Zuiker said, “It’s a tricky question. I’ll try to answer it. I don’t think another CSI will be born unless I’m involved in it. I don’t think you can hire people to do this show at this level in this generation. And if you did do another show where I was in the mix, it would have to be either A, a CSI of 100 years ago where there was limited access to forensic science to solve old school crimes a century ago, or it’d be futuristic crimes about 75 years from today — space crimes, time crimes, crypto miscreants, brain hacking, AI, robotic crimes. It’ll be things that you hadn’t seen before. And then how CSIs 75 years from now would solve that in the future. I think those are the only two CSIs that would work under my watch. But this is not going to be a franchise, in my opinion, where you would do a CSI: UK or a CSI: Singapore and then hire a production company to pull off 10. That’s something that I wouldn’t approve.”

According to ScreenRant, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation aired on CBS in 2000 and ran for 15 years. The series spawned a vast number of spinoffs that created a huge franchise. The spin-off’s in the franchise include CSI: Miami, CSI: Cyber, CSI: NY, CSI: Vegas, CSI: Immortality, The Real CSI: Miami and many more.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is available to stream on Hulu.