Post by riche on Oct 30, 2008 6:33:16 GMT -5
Looks like a 1998 case and it airs next year.
SpoilerTV:
STORY LINE
The Cold Case team revisits the murder of a young news anchor who was on the verge of uncovering a local scandal...
[JANE EVERETT]
27 years old, beautiful, intelligent, blonde, and ambitious, she's an extremely popular co-anchor for the Channel 7 News in Philadelphia in 1988. When she joined the team, the show jumped to number one in the ratings, earning her resentment from her co-anchor, Mort. Jane has been sending story ideas to the station since her college days, and dreams of becoming the next Barbara Walters. However, she also understands that fluff pieces and ridiculous outfits are required to maintain viewership. When she uncovers a scandal about a local factory's deadly asbestos levels, she is strangled in the park in the middle of the night before she can report her findings...GUEST STAR (1)
[TORY]
Seen in 2009, she's an attractive 27-year-old research assistant at Channel 7 News who longs to get in front of the camera. While logging some old Beta tapes, she comes across potential evidence in Jane Everett's murder. Tory brings the tape to Valens and flirts with him, hoping that any information he discovers will lead to her big break...GUEST STAR (5)
[NATHAN KRAVET (2009)]
In his early 60s, he's the head of Channel 7 News who met Jane in college and plucked her from obscurity to make her co-anchor of his show. Today he no longer answers to network suits; he's the big boss who goes on lavish corporate retreats. Nathan talks to Rush and Jeffries about Jane's positive effect on the station: the show went from "worst to first" in the ratings with her at the helm. Nathan admits that during the 1980s fluff pieces became the norm, and he laments the loss of "real" news...GUEST STAR (13)
[DENNIS BRIGGS/FACTORY WORKER (1988)]
40 years old, he's a proud, loyal, longtime LM Plastics factory worker who has been taking Percocet for his debilitating cough. He's furious when his boss, David Wyatt, announces mandatory drug tests at work. Dennis's wife, also a factory worker, dies of cancer linked to asbestos, and Dennis is enraged and devastated to discover that executives at LM knew about the risks and didn't disclose them. Reluctant to take on the corporation or to be used as a pawn, he turns down Jane's request for an interview, but later agrees to be part of her investigative story...GUEST STAR (21)
[NATHAN KRAVET (1988)]
Seen in 1988 at the age of 42, he's the tightly wound news director at Channel 7 News. Nathan met Jane when she was in college, and became her mentor and boss. He tries to keep the peace between Jane and her jealous, more experienced co-anchor, Mort. Nathan promises to speak with the network suits about giving Jane harder-hitting stories and higher-profile interviews, but we sense he's just placating her and has no intention of putting himself out there on her behalf...GUEST STAR. PROTOTYPE: ALBERT BROOKS IN BROADCAST NEWS (1)
[MORT ACKERMAN (1988)]
44 years old, a pompous, smooth-talking and secretly insecure anchorman at Channel 7 News, he feels threatened by his younger co-anchor Jane's success. He snidely and sarcastically calls her a "bubble-headed news-reader" and "America's sweetheart." Mort hopes that Jane will fall on her face, and he can't resist following her on assignments and watching her supposedly fumble...GUEST STAR (1)
[MIDGE (2009)]
Now in her mid 60s, she's a sad woman, widowed since 1982, living in a house full of memories. She talks to Miller about Jane and reveals that she regrets exchanging tough words with her daughter the night before she died. Midge saved every one of her daughter's news tapes, not realizing that one of them contains a huge clue to Jane's murder case...GUEST STAR (9)
[MIDGE (1988)]
45 years old, a slightly tough-to-please housewife, she is Jane's mother who left journalism school as a junior in college so she could give birth to Jane. Though proud of her daughter's accomplishments, Midge is concerned that Jane's fluff pieces have compromised her journalistic integrity, and they have a falling out over dinner shortly before Jane's death...CO-STAR (10)
[DAVID WYATT (1988)]
In his late 20s, a wet-behind-the-ears business executive at LM Plastics, he's a nervous whistle-blower who discovers that the factory's asbestos is causing cancer. He reluctantly talks with Jane about it, but later backs out and tries to get her to drop the story. He also asks his boss, Andrew Powers, to fix the situation...GUEST STAR (11)
[DAVID WYATT (2009)]
Now in his early 50s, he's a slick company man who stayed with LM Plastics all these years after it was bought out by Meijers Plastic Corp in 1988. He speaks with Miller and Valens about his role in firing Dennis Briggs when his drug test came back positive. Wyatt has become a real schmuck who believes that using "tough love" on employees is the right way to do business...GUEST STAR (25)
[DENNIS BRIGGS (2009)]
61 years old, bitter and gaunt looking, he lives alone in a crappy trailer park with only his pit bull for company. The same time he lost his job at LM Plastics, his insurance and house were taken away and his wife died of cancer. When Valens and Jeffries bring him in for questioning, Dennis insists that he didn't hurt Jane in 1988. In fact, they were going to work together on a story about the factory's asbestos problem. Now Dennis seems to be dying from the same cancer that killed his wife sptv050769...GUEST STAR (30)
[MORT ACKERMAN (2009)]
Now 65 years old, a distinguished newsman with a toupee, he won a Peabody award for his coverage of Jane's murder. He is cornered by Rush but defends his past behavior toward his co-anchor...GUEST STAR (20)
[CLAY MULLINS (2009)]
Jane's former cameraman, he's a very handsome African American man in his early 50s. He tells Rush and Stillman that Jane asked him to get footage of an argument between two LM Plastics employees during a fundraiser...CO-STAR (27)
[FLOOR MANAGER]
Seen in 1988, this 32-year-old floor manager at Channel 7's news studio gives the countdown to air and asks if they should cut to commercial when Jane's teleprompter goes out...CO-STAR (1)
[ANDREW POWERS]
62 years old, stone-faced and silver-haired, he's the extremely wealthy CEO of Meijers Plastics, the company that bought LM Plastics in 1988...CO-STAR. PROTOTYPE: DONALD TRUMP (25)
[CLAY MULLINS (1988)]
33 years old, a very handsome African American man, he is a cameraman at Channel 7 News who is friendly and helpful toward Jane...CO-STAR (1)
Collider says it's called "Breaking News" - RichE
SpoilerTV:
STORY LINE
The Cold Case team revisits the murder of a young news anchor who was on the verge of uncovering a local scandal...
[JANE EVERETT]
27 years old, beautiful, intelligent, blonde, and ambitious, she's an extremely popular co-anchor for the Channel 7 News in Philadelphia in 1988. When she joined the team, the show jumped to number one in the ratings, earning her resentment from her co-anchor, Mort. Jane has been sending story ideas to the station since her college days, and dreams of becoming the next Barbara Walters. However, she also understands that fluff pieces and ridiculous outfits are required to maintain viewership. When she uncovers a scandal about a local factory's deadly asbestos levels, she is strangled in the park in the middle of the night before she can report her findings...GUEST STAR (1)
[TORY]
Seen in 2009, she's an attractive 27-year-old research assistant at Channel 7 News who longs to get in front of the camera. While logging some old Beta tapes, she comes across potential evidence in Jane Everett's murder. Tory brings the tape to Valens and flirts with him, hoping that any information he discovers will lead to her big break...GUEST STAR (5)
[NATHAN KRAVET (2009)]
In his early 60s, he's the head of Channel 7 News who met Jane in college and plucked her from obscurity to make her co-anchor of his show. Today he no longer answers to network suits; he's the big boss who goes on lavish corporate retreats. Nathan talks to Rush and Jeffries about Jane's positive effect on the station: the show went from "worst to first" in the ratings with her at the helm. Nathan admits that during the 1980s fluff pieces became the norm, and he laments the loss of "real" news...GUEST STAR (13)
[DENNIS BRIGGS/FACTORY WORKER (1988)]
40 years old, he's a proud, loyal, longtime LM Plastics factory worker who has been taking Percocet for his debilitating cough. He's furious when his boss, David Wyatt, announces mandatory drug tests at work. Dennis's wife, also a factory worker, dies of cancer linked to asbestos, and Dennis is enraged and devastated to discover that executives at LM knew about the risks and didn't disclose them. Reluctant to take on the corporation or to be used as a pawn, he turns down Jane's request for an interview, but later agrees to be part of her investigative story...GUEST STAR (21)
[NATHAN KRAVET (1988)]
Seen in 1988 at the age of 42, he's the tightly wound news director at Channel 7 News. Nathan met Jane when she was in college, and became her mentor and boss. He tries to keep the peace between Jane and her jealous, more experienced co-anchor, Mort. Nathan promises to speak with the network suits about giving Jane harder-hitting stories and higher-profile interviews, but we sense he's just placating her and has no intention of putting himself out there on her behalf...GUEST STAR. PROTOTYPE: ALBERT BROOKS IN BROADCAST NEWS (1)
[MORT ACKERMAN (1988)]
44 years old, a pompous, smooth-talking and secretly insecure anchorman at Channel 7 News, he feels threatened by his younger co-anchor Jane's success. He snidely and sarcastically calls her a "bubble-headed news-reader" and "America's sweetheart." Mort hopes that Jane will fall on her face, and he can't resist following her on assignments and watching her supposedly fumble...GUEST STAR (1)
[MIDGE (2009)]
Now in her mid 60s, she's a sad woman, widowed since 1982, living in a house full of memories. She talks to Miller about Jane and reveals that she regrets exchanging tough words with her daughter the night before she died. Midge saved every one of her daughter's news tapes, not realizing that one of them contains a huge clue to Jane's murder case...GUEST STAR (9)
[MIDGE (1988)]
45 years old, a slightly tough-to-please housewife, she is Jane's mother who left journalism school as a junior in college so she could give birth to Jane. Though proud of her daughter's accomplishments, Midge is concerned that Jane's fluff pieces have compromised her journalistic integrity, and they have a falling out over dinner shortly before Jane's death...CO-STAR (10)
[DAVID WYATT (1988)]
In his late 20s, a wet-behind-the-ears business executive at LM Plastics, he's a nervous whistle-blower who discovers that the factory's asbestos is causing cancer. He reluctantly talks with Jane about it, but later backs out and tries to get her to drop the story. He also asks his boss, Andrew Powers, to fix the situation...GUEST STAR (11)
[DAVID WYATT (2009)]
Now in his early 50s, he's a slick company man who stayed with LM Plastics all these years after it was bought out by Meijers Plastic Corp in 1988. He speaks with Miller and Valens about his role in firing Dennis Briggs when his drug test came back positive. Wyatt has become a real schmuck who believes that using "tough love" on employees is the right way to do business...GUEST STAR (25)
[DENNIS BRIGGS (2009)]
61 years old, bitter and gaunt looking, he lives alone in a crappy trailer park with only his pit bull for company. The same time he lost his job at LM Plastics, his insurance and house were taken away and his wife died of cancer. When Valens and Jeffries bring him in for questioning, Dennis insists that he didn't hurt Jane in 1988. In fact, they were going to work together on a story about the factory's asbestos problem. Now Dennis seems to be dying from the same cancer that killed his wife sptv050769...GUEST STAR (30)
[MORT ACKERMAN (2009)]
Now 65 years old, a distinguished newsman with a toupee, he won a Peabody award for his coverage of Jane's murder. He is cornered by Rush but defends his past behavior toward his co-anchor...GUEST STAR (20)
[CLAY MULLINS (2009)]
Jane's former cameraman, he's a very handsome African American man in his early 50s. He tells Rush and Stillman that Jane asked him to get footage of an argument between two LM Plastics employees during a fundraiser...CO-STAR (27)
[FLOOR MANAGER]
Seen in 1988, this 32-year-old floor manager at Channel 7's news studio gives the countdown to air and asks if they should cut to commercial when Jane's teleprompter goes out...CO-STAR (1)
[ANDREW POWERS]
62 years old, stone-faced and silver-haired, he's the extremely wealthy CEO of Meijers Plastics, the company that bought LM Plastics in 1988...CO-STAR. PROTOTYPE: DONALD TRUMP (25)
[CLAY MULLINS (1988)]
33 years old, a very handsome African American man, he is a cameraman at Channel 7 News who is friendly and helpful toward Jane...CO-STAR (1)
Collider says it's called "Breaking News" - RichE
