Today I can break the exclusive news of a new series about to wrap production and start screening in the USA on high rotation starring TV heartthrob from the 2000s, David Caruso.

CFI: Miami will see the return of Caruso to the small screen, but producers of the new show are playing down any suggestion that he will set screens around the world alight and female hearts aflutter as he did in the lead role of the similarly named police procedural CSI: Miami.

In that police drama, produced from 2002 to 2012, Caruso played forensic specialist Lieutenant Horatio Caine of the Miami-Dade Police Department in what was the first of a number of spin-offs of the highly successful CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

But while the title of his new show has a familiar ring, it will be nothing like CSI: Miami.

For a start CFI: Miami is a political thriller set around a fictitious former US president now living in the Florida city, played by Caruso.

Insiders tell me that his character, Daniel Prumt, will also be nowhere near the whip-smart, articulate, sensitive yet brooding, red-headed heartthrob, Lieutenant Caine – with the possible exception of the brooding bit and the red or bright orange complexion and hair, according to one source.

I am also told that Caruso, known for his svelte figure in CSI: Miami, undertook a strict regime of overeating masses of hamburgers and cola drinks to gain 135kgs to fill the role of Prumpt – an ageing, washed-up, foul-mouthed, ignorant, sexist, racist, self-centred, far right-winger, who is trying to make a political comeback. (main picture)

In an unusual move, producers of CFI: Miami – or to give the show its full title, Complete Fucking Idiot: Miami – are hoping to finish shooting and post-production on all 26 episodes of the first series this week and have them screened, hopefully several times a day, before 5 November.

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