Crime Drama TV

After three airings, NBC has picked up the cop series Southland for the Fall Season. This takes place even as the series has declined from viewership since it first aired.

The series follows the lives of cops in Southern California and has apparently been favored by critics. I’ve seen only one episode of this show so far and I’m kind of reminded by The Shield, about how gritty it is.

The details to Southland’s pick up are after the cut…

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NBC has announced their newest line up of programs for the upcoming Fall Season. The list includes four new drama series. The details are after the cut…

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If you have DirecTV access, you’d be glad to know that you can catch up on these following crime dramas which have long been canceled on network television:

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Chris Noth and Christine Baranski has been cast in the upcoming drama series, The Good Wife, which is a story about a politician’s wife who returns to work as a lawyer in a top firm. The series will be lead by Julianna Margulies.

Chris Noth will play a DA who lands himself in jail due to a sex scandal, while Baranski will play a top litigator in Chicago.

NBC is getting gritty this Spring with it’s new primetime drama “Southland”. From Emmy Award winners John Wells (ER, West Wing), Ann Biderman and Chris Chulack comes a raw and authentic look at the LAPD. “Southland” will take viewers inside the lives of cops, criminals, victims and their families.

The cast includes acclaimed actors Michael Cudlitz (”A River Runs Through It”, “Band of Brothers”), Benjamin McKenzie (”The O.C.”), Regina King (”Ray,” “Jerry Maguire”),Tom Everett Scott (”Boiler Room”) and more.

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Moon Bloodgood, star of the former NBC series Journeyman, is joining the cast of Burn Notice when it comes back for its third season. Production for this has already started last week. Bloodgood is a replacement for Jennifer Esposito who, according to this news, has dropped out of the series because of a medical emergency. Bloodgood will tackle the role of Michelle Paxon, a police detective who wants to get behind the mystery of Michael Westen.

Via EW

Several shows on NBC are going to hold their series finales in June, rather than in May, to stand as solid lead-ins to the new talk show Conan O’Brien is taking over for Jay Leno. Some of the crime series affected by these are shows like Medium (June 1st), Law and Order (June 3rd), Law an Order Special Victims Unit (June 2nd).

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Jessica Rose, known to Youtube viewers as LonelyGirl15, is finally starring in her 18-episode series called “Blood Cell”. Full details from The Hollywood Reporter are after the cut…

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Former star of ER, Julianna Marguilies is will be seen, hopefully regularly on television via the legal drama, The Good Wife. The project will be airing on CBS in the upcoming 2009-2010 season.

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They have found the guy to play Teri Polo’s husband on the upcoming CBS crime drama, Washington Fields.

The Hollywood Reporter says:

Eddie Cibrian has been tapped to star in CBS’ drama pilot “Washington Field.”

The project, from CBS Par, centers on an FBI squad made up of experts who travel the world responding to crises that concern U.S. national interests. It centers on a husband-and-wife duo of experts, played by Cibrian and Teri Polo.

Cibrian’s character, Tommy, is the evidence response team coordinator and hazmat expert. Cibrian recently recurred on USA’s “The Starter Wife” and ABC’s “Ugly Betty.”

Teri Polo has been picked to headline the CBS drama Washington Field. The series is from Ed Bernero, who is also the creator behind Criminal Minds. Washington Field is actually what FBI’s call their field office.

Teri Polo will play the role of an FBI medical forensics and weapons of mass destruction expert, Amanda O’Donnell. She will be working alongside her husband, who is also part of the FBI team.

The team is the National Capitol Response Squad, an elite force tapped to respond to high profile cases of national interests.

Teri Polo last starred in the short-lived series Wedding Belles.

Washington Field is expected to run during Fall 2009-2010 Season.

It would have to be the first series confirmed ordered a full season for Fall 2009.

The cop series, The Bridge, which is about a union leader/cop dealing with crimes on the street and corruption in his police department, has just been confirmed for 13 episodes by CBS the other other.

The Bridge stars Aaron Douglas, Paul Popowich, Inga Cadranel, Stuart Margolin. It may be considered an import as this production is a partnership between the eye network and CTV of Canada, its largest broadcast network. These two companies have previously co-produced Flashpoint, which aired to good reviews last summer.

The Bridge will begin production in Toronto in a few months.

Flashpoint, meanwhile, is doing fine in its second season run on the Friday timeslot.

Source: TV Guide

The Hollywood Reporter has the latest update on the actors cast to star in the upcoming NCIS spinoff , the details of which was posted on this site in an earlier entry.

The actors are Louise Lombard, Peter Cambor and Daniela Ruah. They are unfamiliar names to me though.

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J effrey Donovan, the star of Burn Notice, is getting a big raise from cable channel, USA Network. And it is a raise well-deserved.  His show is doing quite well, averaging about 6Million viewers on cable television weekly.

From getting paid $55,000 per episode, the actor has been blessed with a $125,000 to $150,000 per episode deal. He is also guaranteed one more year to his original seven year contract.

Burn Notice debuted on cable in July 2007 and Donovan plays a blacklisted spy, Michael Westen, who is trying to find the people who burned him, while doing a bit of crime solving work in his own time.

Jeffrey Donovan was last seen on the big screen with Angelina Jolie in Changeling.

Recurring Fringe actor and prominent Boston Legal cast member, Mark Valley, playing the role of Christopher Chance  in the Fox pilot, Human Target.

This series is based on the DC Comics series about a man who takes on the identity of his clients in order to protect them from threats to their lives. He is the ultimate master of disguise.

The actor has recently been married to his Fringe co-star, Anna Torv.