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 These harsh economic times mean that certain commitments can’t be honoured in the way we always thought they would be. Taxes raised, funding cut, etc. etc. Unfortunately, that includes our wish to keep KM UK freely available to all. We had always hoped to bring you the very best content for no charge but it is proving impossible.
KM UK has been running for nearly four years and during that time we have not placed any advertising on the site or asked for any kind of donation from you, our loyal readers. Sadly this has to come to an end.
Running a site like this costs tens of thousands of pounds per year. The large technical team behind the scenes have families to feed. The super computer hosting the website needs a small power-station of its own to function. Then there’s the bribes…
All this means that from the beginning of next month KM UK will, to use the vernacular, “go behind a paywall”. It is the way the web is going and has to be said initially: access per registration is leaving freely open options lagging. KM UK will  restricted to paying subscribers only. To view the site you will need to pay for a monthly or yearly subscription. Later a per-article option will be added.
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Many thanks to Sizdah Bedar for assisting with the changes.
Update: Yes, it was KM UK’s April Fool post for this year.
Just last week we went over the obstacles that Surgeon General will have to overcome to be picked up to series for the autumn schedules in the US.
Two current shows that have been under question for renewal are The Mentalist and The Good Wife. At that time it looked like just one of them would survive, with The Mentalist ahead by a nose. Earlier this week the favour was thought to have shifted to The Good Wife.
Last night Deadline (and many others) reported the news that CBS had announced a raft of renewals across their comedy and drama shows. Somewhat against expectation The Mentalist and The Good Wife can both breath a sigh of relief as the Sunday night pairing have got the nod for a further season.
As expected the likes of Elementary, NCIS:LA and Hawaii Five-O have been renewed. A show missing from the list is Criminal Minds. According to reports there are still significant negotiations continuing with the cast. Criminal Minds has had a troubled past with the loss, and even re-instatement, of fan favourite cast members. However, its prospects for return are considered good.
Vegas, widely thought to be a goner already, will be getting a sort of second chance in a few weeks with a return to the TV schedules in the difficult Friday night slot. CSI: NY was also not mentioned, the odds are against it.
What all this does is remove a few possible openings in the schedules for Surgeon General with a couple of months still to go before we hear for certain. Watch this space.
The pilot of Surgeon General is currently filming for the second week in Atlanta. It will continue into next week.
Surgeon General is, not surprisingly, a drama based on the office of the Surgeon General. The role, often described as the “nation’s doctor”, deals with health issues affecting the population as a whole. Kathryn plays Lydia Ferrari, Chief Of Staff to the SG. See the previous post for more details.
 It is just under a week away but we just couldn’t help but open one of our Easter eggs early. Only the best quality, whiter than white chocolate of course. It might be very finely wrapped but sometimes you just want to rip it open to get the sweet goodness inside. Nom, nom, nom… 😀
Where were we? Oh yes, we have a little photo and video update today from an event gone by. It’s odd how the mind works sometimes 😉
Three years ago to the day it was just over 6 months since we first covered this event the Creative Arts Emmys from 2009. Back on March the 25th, 2010 we updated our Gallery with a video of Kathryn presenting an award at the ceremony, and screencaps taken from it. We’d previously carried photos from the red carpet in the days after the event happened.
Kathryn looked so stunning in her very off the shoulder dress so it is requires little excuse to make repeat visits to the images. So that’s what we’re doing today.
We have added a total of 14 new and updated photos of Kathryn arriving at the Nokia Theatre to our Gallery. For those keeping count numbers 13, 14, 15 and 28 have been super-sized. The rest, 30 to 39, are new. Some are large, some less so. The descriptions below each image mark the additions and changed ones. They are all worth a look, of course.
Surely that’s enough one day? (It is, and don’t call me Shirley.) But, no. Much like the KM UK Award winning dress we see here, our cup runneth over 😉
We also have a small extra video of Kathryn on said carpet. We can see that she is being interviewed by E!, though this isn’t a video of the interview. The cameraman we see in shot is a little more gentlemanly/professional and doesn’t appear to pause part way down like the last guy 😮
  
We’ve done a little more digging on the chances of the new CBS pilot starring Kathryn and Jason Isaacs, Surgeon General from being picked up to series for the CBS TV 2013-14 season in the US.
The CBS network as ordered 11 drama pilots. Of those near-dozen only a few will be selected to go beyond the pilot stage. We’re going to completely ignore the comedies as they are very unlikely to have any bearing on the scheduling of dramas, they tend to run in separate and fairly fixed blocks during the week.
Network stalwart NCIS (the original) has already been renewed. The Los Angeles branch is practically a certainty for renewal. Blue Bloods, Criminal Minds, CSI (the original), new US take on the Sherlock Holmes franchise with an usually attractive Dr Watson: Elementary, and Hawaii Five-O are also considered safe bets for getting a further season.
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Following Friday’s wardrobe tests and table read, and Saturday’s rehearsals, it is no big surprise that filming of the Surgeon General pilot starts today (18th March 2013). Apparently the filming in Atlanta is scheduled to take about 2 weeks.
Our two leads (Jason Isaacs and Kathryn), Kat McNamara and more recently announced signings Kristen Shaw (as Barbara Weller) and Mike Coulter are all due to take part on day one.
Kristen, an Atlanta-based acting coach, is a long time collaborator of director Rod Lurie’s. She has featured in just about everything that Rod has ever made, going back to a short film in 1998. Kathryn had been in all of Rod’s feature films up to Resurrecting The Champ.
The news of Mike Coulter’s (Ringer and The Good Wife) signing broke on Friday. Mike’s role within the team will be as Dr. Connor McCallan, an epidemiologist.
On Thursday it was announced that The Lord Of The Rings star Sean Astin would be joining the cast. Sean will be psychiatrist Dr Alan Fischer, another member of the Surgeon General’s team. Sean is another actor that has worked with Rod Lurie before when he starred in the film Deterrence, which also featured Kathryn of course.
At this rate it can only be a matter of time before Mike Binder (The Mind Of The Married Man, which guest starred Kathryn in 4 episodes) turns up in an episode. This Mike was in The Contender and episode of the TV show Commander In Chief, which Lurie created.
Shaheed Malik, another Atlanta resident, will also be filming today. No word yet on when Beth Riesgraf (Leverage) as micro-organisms specialist Dr Page Wyatt, Alex Dawson, and other cast members John Tyner, B. Todd Johnston and Victor Turner are due to start filming.
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