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Kathryn Behind The Scenes Of Surgeon General Pilot – Update

A photo has emerged of Kathryn and some of the other cast members of Surgeon General. They are all in Atlanta, Georgia at the moment doing a table read in preparation for filming the pilot episode.

From left to right we have actors Alex Dawson, Kristen Shaw, Kathryn and Clay Kraski.

Thanks to the People Store Atlanta Talent Agency Facebook page for posting the photo.

Update (16 March 2013): Alex Dawson posted the photo you see on the right via her Instagram. As you can see it is from the same time as the one above. This new image joins the first in the Gallery. Thank you Alex for posting it.

Cold Case Cast Catch-up – March 2013

001 Following on from Monday’s Cold Case screencap catch-up this month’s CCCC-up is going to be another Tracie Thoms-centric one. And for that we make no apology. We thought we’d go with a photo of Thom Barry though to head the piece for a change.

However, before we get to the main course we’ll serve up the gentlemen as an amuse-bouch.

Texas Chainsaw 3D, Thom Barry‘s most recent movie role is due for release on DVD and Blu-ray in May in the US and UK, see your local stockists for details on the dates in your area. The latest in a long line of ‘Chainsaw‘ movies this one’s excuse involves a woman visiting the town of the original massacre in the 1970s. She’s gone to claim an inheritance which turns out to be a house with a dark secret. It’s probably in the basement because that’s where sort of thing is normally kept, or the attic. Either way the woman and her friends do a lot of running about and laughing… No, not laughing, screaming. It’s like laughing only with more blood. Tania Raymonde (Lost and a recurring role in season 6 of Cold Case) was amongst the happy few flailing about in the dark. Thom Barry was Sheriff Hooper, almost certainly named after Tobe Hooper the writer and director of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Thom starred in an episode of the TV show Blue Bloods that aired back in mid-January. Some how we missed that from the previous CCCC-up. Bit of a C*C*-up. He was an Assistant District Attorney (ADA) in the New York-set cop drama starring Donnie Wahlberg (Rizzoli & Isles), Bridget Moynahan (Gray Matters) and Tom Selleck (Magnum PI). The episode was directed by David Barrett (aka One Of The Lucky Ones).

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Surgeon General Information

It’s been nearly two days since the news of Kathryn’s new project broke so let’s collate all the info we have on it and run through some talking points:

Show name: Surgeon General / The Surgeon General
Kathryn’s role: Lydia Ferrari (aka LaFerrari to us at KM UK )
Lydia’s job title: Chief Of Staff to the Surgeon General
Co-stars: Jason Isaacs (Awake), Beth Riesgraf (Leverage) and Katherine McNamara.
TV network: CBS
Filming location: Atlanta, Georgia
Writer/Creator: Samuel Baum (Lie To Me)
Pilot director: Rod Lurie (Resurrecting The Champ)
Premise: Dr John Sherman (Jason Isaacs) is the Surgeon General of the United States, the nation’s doctor. He has to deal with the political side of the medical profession, taking on government for the sake of the people.

Kathryn is not the lead actor in the show, that’s Jason Issacs as the Surgeon General Dr John Sherman. The Chief Of Staff to the Surgeon General is a management role, second in command to the General. Incumbents in both roles hold military senior military ranks. The Surgeon General works in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC), based in Washington.

Lydia Ferrari is described as “fiercely loyal chief of staff and long-time friend, who was close to Sherman’s late wife. The consummate political operative, Ferrari admires Sherman and runs interference when he won’t play ball with their White House superiors” (THR).

Although talked about as a medical show because of the obvious doctor element, Surgeon General is more likely to be more of a political drama. No doubt there’ll be some investigative work as Beth Riesgraf plays Dr. Page Wyatt, a micro-organisms expert. TV have a habit of expanding characters roles in to investigators beyond the scope of the real job, see the CSI franchise for prime examples of that. It is not going to be an E.R., House or Bones.

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Kathryn Joins Surgeon General Pilot

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.

Cold Case S04E14 – 8:03am HD Screencaps

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.