Melissa George, Cole Hauser
Abruptly exiting Grey's Anatomy didn't leave Melissa George out of work for long. The Aussie beauty has in short order joined the ensemble cast of CBS' as-yet-untitled legal drama about federal prosecutors based out of Manhattan.
George, says the Reporter, will play a Los Angeles Assistant District Attorney who ...
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Cole Hauser by Casey Rodgers/ WireImage.com
CBS has its eye on a hunky new leading man.Film and former K-Ville star Cole Hauser has signed a talent deal with CBS and CBS Paramount TV studio, according to Variety, which means he may be coming very soon to a TV set near you.Hauser could have been on the small screen already — he starred in the CBS Paramount pilot The Tower. The show was not picked up, but executives were impressed with his performance, hence the talent deal.The 33-year-old can currently be seen in Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys. — Joyce Eng
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Cole Hauser (K-Ville) and C.C.H. Pounder (The Shield) have landed leads in The Tower, a CBS drama pilot about a group of Chicago reporters who don't break news so much as investigate it with the intensity of 1,000 hot lights. Per the Reporter, Hauser will play a crime reporter, while Pounder will serve as his newspaper's managing editor. — MWM
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Brigid Brannagh courtesy Lifetime Entertainment
She won rave reviews for her feisty portrayal of a cop turned surrogate mom on Army Wives. But Brigid Brannagh isn’t content to take a hard-earned break while her critically acclaimed Lifetime show is on hiatus. “I just got back from New Orleans doing K-Ville,” Brannagh told TV Guide at the Los Angeles premiere of the Lifetime Original Movie Matters of Life & Dating. The actress plays “a gal in a robbery gang” in an upcoming episode, scheduled to air Nov. 12. Cole Hauser, who plays Anthony Anderson’s partner Trevor, revisits his less-than-perfect past. “Cole Hauser had a previous identity,” reveals Brannagh. “Basically, myself and the other members of our gang are part of that identity. It’s kind of a glimpse at his former life.”So how exactly does being a hardened criminal compare to life on an army base? “She’s in fabulous outfits,” gushes Brannagh of her K-Ville cameo. “Army Wives doesn’t have qu...
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Was it just me or did this episode seem more complex? I took more notes tonight than I have previously and I’m not afraid to agree with the majority of you and say this show is getting better. I might be showing a past loyalty to writer Lawrence Kaplow, who used to write for House, one of my favorite shows. He cowrote this episode and I felt like he and his cowriter really elevated the material.The case: Ex-DA and current city councilman Clay Beelman is pulled from the water. A Tiffany blue fingernail is the only piece of evidence Boulet and Cobb have to try to identify his alleged attacker. Said fingernail belongs to call girl Laine Rogers. Boulet and Cobb storm the brothel in search of Laine only to find out she’s on a house call. One of the hookers they do find in the house, Sarah Rogate, has a connection to Captain Embry. Cobb thinks the Captain has something going on the side until Boulet tells him the captain lost his wife six years ago to cancer. But what is his rel...
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The case: Three inmates from OPP, the prison in which Cobb was once incarcerated, have escaped. The team is enlisted to help round up the fugitives and bring them back to jail.The complications: Two of the three escaped convicts are recaptured quickly, but they're killed before Cobb and Boulet can question them. Their case is further compromised when deputy Carlsson tries to kill the third convict, Tim Dunlevy. One thing is certain: He had help from the outside in planning his escape. The resolution: Warden Deville has been loaning out prisoners on work detail to illegally dump toxic sludge from drilling. Dunlevy knows Deville’s secret and is certain he'll be killed if he is taken back to jail. Dunlevy is allowed to escape, and the team recovers damning evidence of Deville's illegal business endeavors.There were some exciting developments in this episode. Cobb and Boulet are getting to know each other better and as a result are working cases much more efficiently. And their cap...
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New Orleans: Sept. 1, 2005. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Anthony Anderson's Marlin Boulet patrols the flooded streets of the city with his partner, Charlie. When they're back on solid ground, Charlie deserts him.Sept. 1, 2007: Boulet is a changed man. He's on the edge of a breakdown and doesn't mind bending and breaking rules while he works his cases. His new partner, Cole Hauser's Trevor Cobb, is a bit of an enigma. Boulet can't understand why a Yankee, just back from a tour in Khandar with the Army Rangers, would choose to work in K-Ville.The case: Boulet's neighbor is killed at a charity event for the 9th Ward, which Boulet and Cobb are working. They pursue the shooter, first on foot then on wheels, but the chase ends at the Riverfront Casino where they find the car abandoned. When drive-by shooters tear up the next charity event, once again organized by local Christine Dubois, the team gets suspicious. No one was shot so they think it was more to scare people than to hurt...
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Past experience has shown that it's wise to write down the new Fox schedule in pencil. There's always a change or two (or three) by the time the fall rolls around. But stability was the message for the 2007-08 season: Prison Break, 24, House, Bones, American Idol, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? and the Sunday animation block will all return in their same time periods next season. Sure, Fox always falters when the season begins, but the network is about to finish No. 1 in viewers aged 18-49 for the third season in a row.As far as new shows, Fox is trying to regain the edge it seemed to abandon in this past season's development (which was dismal). The most promising attempt is on Monday at 9 pm with K-Ville, starring Anthony Anderson and Cole Hauser as two cops in post-Katrina New Orleans. We were puzzled when a reporter asked entertainment president Peter Liguori if doing such a show was exploiting a disaster. What should a contemporary show filmed in New Orleans be about? Mardi ...
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Patricia Heaton and Kelsey Grammer in Back to You by Joe Viles/Fox
If you could just ignore those pesky months between September and December, Fox would be sitting pretty. The challenge each year for this network is how to schedule a fall start that will live up to the blockbuster spring finish provided by late-arriving shows like American Idol and (even a diminished) 24.In the last of the week’s Upfront presentations, Fox Entertainment president Peter Ligouri made the curious choice of putting himself in the middle of a 24 parody, trading exchanges on the phone with clips of Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland, not in attendance in New York this year) from 24, in which Jack addressed “the president.” The ticking-clock (ticking bomb?) metaphor isn’t the most natural fit for a sales presentation, you’d think. And given that the first thing anyone in Los Angeles (where I’ve been the last three weeks) wants to talk to me about is the steep decline in 24’s quality this season, is this really putting your best foot forward? ...
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The new dramas premiering this fall are K-Ville, starring Anthony Anderson and Cole Hauser as police officers in post-Katrina New Orleans; and New Amsterdam, the first American television project from Oscar-nominated director/producer Lasse Hallström, featuring newcomer Nikolaj Coster Waldau as a unique New York City homicide detective.The new comedy slated for fall is Back to You, from executive producers Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd. Set at a TV news station in Pittsburgh, the sitcom stars Emmy Award-winners Patricia Heaton and Kelsey Grammer, and is directed by James Burrows.The new unscripted series that will premiere this fall include The Search for the Next Great American Band(working title), a reality competition from the producers of American Idol, which will do for undiscovered groups what Idol has done for singers. From the producers of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, Nashville (working title) is an unscripted docu-soap featuring a group of ambitious you...
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