Post by Naj on Nov 6, 2007 8:50:44 GMT -5
Sunday night marked the 100th episode of the CBS crime drama "Cold Case," a top-20 hit since its debut back in the fall of 2003. Danny Pino has been there from the very beginning as Detective Scotty Vallens.
Danny and Kathryn Morris, who plays Lilly Rush, are a formidable pair of Philadelphia police detectives working unsolved cold cases for the department's homicide squad. The show also usually features music from the year the unsolved homicide took place.
It is one of the many scripted TV hits that face a shortened season if the writers strike that began Monday stretches over several months.
"Our writers are pretty incredible," Danny told me last week at an event at the Television Academy in North Hollywood.
"They come up with so many imaginative ways to make an investigation interesting and at the very end, to deliver the emotional impact of an untimely death and how people have had to deal with - either their loved one dying, or being a person who killed a victim and having to hold it for so many years and finally being able to give that up.
"That guilt sometimes eats away at them. It's a fascinating balance that the writers find and I'm constantly in awe of what they're able to do."
Prior to the series, Danny had already made quite an impression on FX's "The Shield" in which he had a recurring role as notorious drug lord, rapist and gang leader Armadillo Quintero.
He had just come off portraying Desi Arnaz in a television movie, "Lucy," when "Cold Case" began its run of five seasons and counting.
"I don't think you ever think, 'This is gonna be a huge hit.' I think you think, 'Well, we'll give this a shot and hopefully it does well and we'll see how it goes," he said.
"And thankfully, it's turned out in our favor. You don't hear of shows being successful too often anymore and so to be one now is definitely something that makes me feel very lucky and very grateful."
100th Episode
Danny and Kathryn Morris, who plays Lilly Rush, are a formidable pair of Philadelphia police detectives working unsolved cold cases for the department's homicide squad. The show also usually features music from the year the unsolved homicide took place.
It is one of the many scripted TV hits that face a shortened season if the writers strike that began Monday stretches over several months.
"Our writers are pretty incredible," Danny told me last week at an event at the Television Academy in North Hollywood.
"They come up with so many imaginative ways to make an investigation interesting and at the very end, to deliver the emotional impact of an untimely death and how people have had to deal with - either their loved one dying, or being a person who killed a victim and having to hold it for so many years and finally being able to give that up.
"That guilt sometimes eats away at them. It's a fascinating balance that the writers find and I'm constantly in awe of what they're able to do."
Prior to the series, Danny had already made quite an impression on FX's "The Shield" in which he had a recurring role as notorious drug lord, rapist and gang leader Armadillo Quintero.
He had just come off portraying Desi Arnaz in a television movie, "Lucy," when "Cold Case" began its run of five seasons and counting.
"I don't think you ever think, 'This is gonna be a huge hit.' I think you think, 'Well, we'll give this a shot and hopefully it does well and we'll see how it goes," he said.
"And thankfully, it's turned out in our favor. You don't hear of shows being successful too often anymore and so to be one now is definitely something that makes me feel very lucky and very grateful."
100th Episode
