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Looks like the sort of Kathryn-related news we’ve all been waiting for has finally broken.
Kathryn has, apparently, signed on for a new CBS pilot called Surgeon General. The Surgeon General is appointed by the US Government to over see matters of public health.
British actor Jason Isaacs (Awake and Harry Potter) has the lead role of Dr John Sherman. Kathryn is earmarked to play his Chief Of Staff, Lydia Ferrari. After the recent launch of the new Ferrari hybrid supercar, here on KM UK we will call Kathryn’s character in Surgeon General ‘LaFerrari’ 😉 At this stage it is just a pilot, but it does mean it has passed earlier stages of acceptance regarding the script etc. Depending on how well it ‘tests’ the show could be picked up for the 2013-14 season.
Samuel Baum (creator of Lie To Me) is writing and producing the pilot for CBS TV Studios and CBS Television. Kathryn spent 7 years with CBS in Cold Case. Beth Riesgraf (Leverage) and Katherine McNamara (Kickin’ It) are also set to star as another doctor and Sherman’s daughter respectively.
Rod Lurie is scheduled to direct the pilot, which may further explain Kathryn’s involvement beyond the CBS connection. Kathryn has worked with Rod several times already on films like The Contender and Resurrecting The Champ. In fact for a while Kathryn had had a role in all of Rod’s features.
Fingers crossed (but not too tightly, doctors orders  ) for Kathryn returning to the small screen.
Credit to Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. You can read her report here.
We’ll bring you more when we get it.
 It’s a little while before we start KM UK’s Summer Of HD for 2013 but we are going to take a quick trip back to the season that formed the basis of the 2011 version.
Two years ago the Summer Of HD covered Cold Case season 4 but there were a few gaps. We managed to fill a couple of the holes last spring (here and here) but there was still one left. At the time we filled with some promos and on-set photos but didn’t manage to bring you new HD screencaps to go with them. We can correct that omission now.
Episode 14 of Cold Case‘s fourth season was called 8:03am and was a more Kat Miller-centric (Tracie Thoms) episode than normal so Lilly was a little in the background. The case involves two separate shootings of a child at their schools linked by the time of day in the title. Kat was the first officer on the scene of one them.
134 HD (720p) Lilly screencaps from the episode can now be found in the Gallery.
There will be more news on the KM UK Summer Of HD for 2013 in a few weeks. Stay tuned.
  
 Back at the beginning of January we reported that the French TV station RTL and the weekly Télé 2 semaines magazine were running various polls to determine the fans’ favourite actors, actresses and TV shows.
On Monday the results were posted and it was, sadly, not good news for Kathryn.
The foreign actress category that Kathryn featured in was won by Stana Katic from Castle. She took the prize by 4.5% from Jennifer Morrison of Once Upon A Time. Kathryn didn’t make the top 3. And we thought the French people really liked her.
Nathon Fillon, also of Castle, took first place in the equivalent male category, beating out competition from Hugh Laurie (House) and Simon Baker (The Mentalist). Clearly the French people do like Castle, and why not, it is a very good show.
However, Esprits Criminels, which we believe is Criminal Minds, just pipped Castle to the foreign TV show award by 0.5%. So close! As Richard Castle would probably say.
You can find all the results on the RTL website.
The Futon Critic website has published Nielsen audience figures covering the 19th of January 2013 on cable TV in the US. The night that included première broadcast of Kathryn’s TV movie The Sweeter Side Of Life.
We can’t claim to fully understand the Nielsen numbers and methods but here they are as reported for TSSOL:
- 1.975 million viewers, #5; 0.366 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #9
In fact the numbers are fairly meaningless without some context. The previous weekend’s Hallmark Channel movie premiere (12 January 2013) was a film called Nearlyweds, starring Danielle Panabaker and Naomi Judd. That film’s figures were:
- 1.323 million viewers, #3; 0.297 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #6
 As you can see TSSOL got over 650,000 more viewers and a 23% higher rating in the, what for some reason is seen as the most important, “key demographic” 18-49 year old age group. We don’t believe that the repeat showings, straight afterwards and since, are included.
The relative positions in the rankings (TSSOL: #5 and #9, Nearlyweds: #3 and #6) don’t paint such a rosy picture though. However, the Lifetime channel’s screening of a drama and documentary about the Casey Anthony trial (a mother charged with the murder of her 2 year old daughter in 2008 which became a huge news story in 2011) took the first and third slots, pushing TSSOL down two from where it would otherwise have been. A few other shows up against TSSOL got large numbers in the “key demo” but were lower overall adding to that #9.
Congratulations to all involved in The Sweeter Side Of Life on its success.
You can read the Futon Critic numbers in full here and here.
 Review of The Sweeter Side Of Life
It has been a while, too long in fact, since we saw Kathryn in a significant new project. Since the Cougars, Inc. VOD release on the 1st of April 2011 (May for the DVD) there has been… well, nothing really. Of several scenes filmed for Moneyball, one of the biggest movies of 2011, only a singleton made it to the public and that was just as a deleted scene on the DVD. One short film (Sunday’s Mother) that has only been shown at a few festivals. That’s it. As regulars know there are a couple of other projects in the offing: another short (The Coin) and a small role in a feature film (2 Br/1 Ba). That makes this, the lead role in a TV movie, a big deal for us fans of Kathryn. Can it possibly live up to the weight of expectation?
It was so good to have Kathryn back on our screens. We’ve missed her very much. A comedy role like this is new for her too. I have wanted to see her do comedy for a long time and have no doubt she can do it with aplomb.
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