Post by TVFan on Sept 5, 2005 15:06:14 GMT -5
I posted the full version of this article in the Spoilers forum, so if you want to know major plot spoilers for season 3, you can check it out over there. 
This is from the Fall TV Preview issue of Entertainment Weekly (Sept 9, 2005) with Matthew Fox from Lost on the cover. There is a one page article with a fabulous picture of Kathryn and Danny.
COLD CASE
starts September 25th
CBS - 8-9pm
It isn't the one in Vegas with all the bells-and-whistles technology - or its showy spin-offs in other cities. And it's not the one in Manhattan with the horny FBI Agents looking for missing persons. No, Cold Case is that other CBS show, the one in Philadelphia with the two uptight cops who dust off abandoned murder investigations and solve them the old fashioned way, with shoe leather. So how's this for an unsolved mystery: this wallflower has actually become CBS's Sunday night secret weapon that holds its own against ABC's powerhouse Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
"It is kind of mystifying," agrees creator - executive producer Meredith Stiehm. "We don't get a lot of publicity, but we do consistently well." The number seventeen series overall, Case is a force to be reckoned with. "Everybody thought it would be another science show," says star Kathryn Morris (Det. Lilly Rush). "We don't do science we farm that out." Rather than trying to out flash its competitors, Case has tapped into a love of nostalgia, albeit an approach so unsexy (student-filmish flashbacks, montages set to music, just-the-facts-ma'am interrogations), that even CBS seemed turned off when the series debuted two years ago. "Networks pick a few shows to promote heavily," explains executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer, the action movie vet who's also the mastermind behind the CSIs. "We weren't one of them, but that changes. Look what happened with [the first season of] CSI - they were promoting The Fugitive."
Emboldened by its sleeper-hit cred and an uncanny talent for delicately depicting touchy issues like gay marriage and abortion, Case is now taking risks, EDITED SPOILER CONTENT As for those hokey music montages...step off, Seth Cohen. Turns out record companies love them, promoting more episodes like last season's John Mellancamp-only hour (who's next? That secret's being protected like cops guarding a crime scene).
Also in the works: getting more personal with Case's cold characters. "There's a bargain with the audience - what they expect and what they want, " reasons Stiehm. "The majority of every show has to be about the case, but I like the idea of siphoning off glimpses of their lives."
EDITED OUT SPOILER CONTENT
[Morris is] gunning for her all-work-and-no-play Det. Rush to let down her perennially pinned up hair. "I did ask Jerry Bruckheimer, 'Can't you get Josh Hartnett? He did Pearl Harbor for you. He can be, like, a beat cop who's got it for her!'" Bruckheimer hasn't gotten back to her on that one, after all, that's probably one cold case he doesn't want reopened.
This is from the Fall TV Preview issue of Entertainment Weekly (Sept 9, 2005) with Matthew Fox from Lost on the cover. There is a one page article with a fabulous picture of Kathryn and Danny.
COLD CASE
starts September 25th
CBS - 8-9pm
It isn't the one in Vegas with all the bells-and-whistles technology - or its showy spin-offs in other cities. And it's not the one in Manhattan with the horny FBI Agents looking for missing persons. No, Cold Case is that other CBS show, the one in Philadelphia with the two uptight cops who dust off abandoned murder investigations and solve them the old fashioned way, with shoe leather. So how's this for an unsolved mystery: this wallflower has actually become CBS's Sunday night secret weapon that holds its own against ABC's powerhouse Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
"It is kind of mystifying," agrees creator - executive producer Meredith Stiehm. "We don't get a lot of publicity, but we do consistently well." The number seventeen series overall, Case is a force to be reckoned with. "Everybody thought it would be another science show," says star Kathryn Morris (Det. Lilly Rush). "We don't do science we farm that out." Rather than trying to out flash its competitors, Case has tapped into a love of nostalgia, albeit an approach so unsexy (student-filmish flashbacks, montages set to music, just-the-facts-ma'am interrogations), that even CBS seemed turned off when the series debuted two years ago. "Networks pick a few shows to promote heavily," explains executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer, the action movie vet who's also the mastermind behind the CSIs. "We weren't one of them, but that changes. Look what happened with [the first season of] CSI - they were promoting The Fugitive."
Emboldened by its sleeper-hit cred and an uncanny talent for delicately depicting touchy issues like gay marriage and abortion, Case is now taking risks, EDITED SPOILER CONTENT As for those hokey music montages...step off, Seth Cohen. Turns out record companies love them, promoting more episodes like last season's John Mellancamp-only hour (who's next? That secret's being protected like cops guarding a crime scene).
Also in the works: getting more personal with Case's cold characters. "There's a bargain with the audience - what they expect and what they want, " reasons Stiehm. "The majority of every show has to be about the case, but I like the idea of siphoning off glimpses of their lives."
EDITED OUT SPOILER CONTENT
[Morris is] gunning for her all-work-and-no-play Det. Rush to let down her perennially pinned up hair. "I did ask Jerry Bruckheimer, 'Can't you get Josh Hartnett? He did Pearl Harbor for you. He can be, like, a beat cop who's got it for her!'" Bruckheimer hasn't gotten back to her on that one, after all, that's probably one cold case he doesn't want reopened.
). I am looking forward to the upcoming season, and thanks again for posting this, girl. 
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