By Kelley L. Carter LOS ANGELES -- Simon Baker looks directly into the camera, using his hands to accentuate his words, the tips of his fingers drawing a square in the air. "Look at me.

CBS says it has ordered a full season of its new U.S.

By Robert Bianco When you're certain you've seen something before, it can pay to take a closer look. At first glance, much is familiar in The Mentalist, a seeming mash-up of Psych, House and CSI that represents a CBS retreat to its procedural safe place.

By Mike Hughes There is a separate California, it seems, existing inside our TV sets. "It's California as people who don't live in California dream about," says Bruno Heller, creator of CBS' "The Mentalist." That's a world of blue skies and white buildings.

By Mike Weatherford A network TV series carrying the same name as a Las Vegas show can be good publicity. Or it can be confusing. Or maybe both.