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Jesse L. Martin is leaving "Law & Order" this week after nine years, moving on to a new production of "Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner" on Broadway. Replacing him in producer Dick Wolf’s repertory company is Anthony Anderson of "K-Ville" and "The Shield."
The NBC synopsis of Wednesday’s episode has Martin’s Detective Ed Green and Det. Cyrus Lupo (Jeremy Sisto) investigating a referee’s murder, which leads them to notorious hustler, “"Bunny” (guest star Bobby Jones), a familiar face from Detective Green’s past. When "“Bunny” is found dead, the case is turned over to internal affairs Detective Kevin Bernard (Anthony Anderson) and Sergeant Gregory Cole (guest star Peter Bradbury).                                                             (Above, Anderson; left, Martin.)

Wolf and Anderson got on the phone with reporters and bloggers a few days ago to talk about […]

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The best thing about Fox’s short-lived "K-Ville" was Anthony Anderson’s fully committed performance (right) as a native N’awlins cop grappling with the desperation that Hurricane Katrina visited on his beloved city. He was the most convincing piece of local color in a series that had a lot of them, although it was quickly dragged down by cop-show cliches. ("The Wire" auteur David Simon is said to be working on a New Orleans series, and if he had helmed "K-Ville," it would have been a much realer, better show, worthier of Anderson and the city.)
Now that "K-Ville" has been canceled, we will at least get to see more of Anderson with a badge and gun. He’s joining NBC’s "Law & Order," replacing the departing Jesse L. Martin on one of TV’s all-time-busiest casting merry-go-rounds. The "L&O" format dictates that he has relatively limited space in which to create a character, but […]

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"Lost" leads the TV nominations for the Saturn Awards from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy And Horror Films. Best Network Series nominees are: "Heroes," "Journeyman," "Lost," "Pushing Daisies," "Supernatural" and "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles." "Journeyman"? Really? (TV Addict)
Lorne Michaels knows that "Saturday Night Live" is in a tough place as it returns to the air this week. (NY Times)
Fox now has the highest average network rating for the season. Yikes. (AP)
I guess "K-Ville" really isn’t coming back. Anthony Anderson is going to replacing Jesse L. Martin on "Law & Order." (Hollywood Reporter)
"Jericho" and "Big Brother" both had really bad weeks for CBS. (tvbythenumbers.com)

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(Begin pointless personal digression.) I have a soft spot for the semi-annual TV Week Critics Poll. (Read the story here and results here.) Back when the magazine was called Electronic Media, I used to be in the poll all the time, and I started talking to the people over there - we were all in Chicago at the time - and I ended up getting hired as assistant managing editor and getting a whole different look at the industry. While I worked there I ran the poll a couple of times, too, which gave me lots of time to talk to my critic friends who I only got to see on press tour otherwise. So this poll is like an old pal. (End pointless personal digression.)
But seriously, "Pushing Daisies" is better than "Mad Men"??? I don’t think so. Better than "House" or "The Office"?? Really? Uh, no.Ten Best Series1. Pushing […]

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This week, I think "K-Ville" was better than usual. First off, we didn’t get any absurd New Orleans stereotypes. Sure, there was the one molesty priest, but he wasn’t the one you thought, and he didn’t abuse the person you thought. In fact, the priest who had at seemed most unsympathetic and most horrible was in fact one of the most sympathetic and honorable people in the room.
And we did get a great look into Martin Boulet’s psyche: He feels that neither he nor his former priest did enough to prevent his brother’s death. In the same way that he had a hard time forgiving the few mistakes that his former partner had made, he holds himself to impossibly high standards of conduct. In New Orleans as much as anywhere else, that’s a recipe for unhappiness, and I think it goes a long way towards explaining  Boulet as a person […]

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I said last week that you can’t have a show about New Orleans without having an episode about voodoo. This week, we get it, but we get it in a good way: Boulet recognizes almost immediately that an ordinary crime scene has been staged to look like an occult sacrifice to throw investigators off track.
Martin Boulet’s a good cop with a keen sense of crime, so we know he and his mysterious partner Trevor Cobb will solve the mystery by the end of the hour.
The real mysteries, the ongoing ones, are inside Boulet and Cobb. Can forgive the officers who fled during the storm? He managed to forgive Cobb for being an ex-con, a murderer, and a liar, but he finds it a lot harder to forgive the panicky ex-partners who ran off. And Boulet? Running around trying to make things right by giving his dead cellmate’s widow a bunch […]

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Last week on "K-Ville" we got the gumbo stereotype: Martin Boulet eats gumbo when he needs to think. I’m still waiting for someone to say "dammit, gumbo’s for tourists, let’s go get something good."
This week, we had Boulet’s wife identify a custom artificial fingernail on sight, and the big one: a whorehouse patronized by high-rollers that gets raided "every third Wednesday." Hahaha, ain’t that quaint. It’s all "Best Little Whorehouse."
Next week we’ll get into the voodoo BS. Great.
Nonetheless, I love this show. It has no "CSI" high-tech camera effects, and no "24" split-screen ultra-fast-paced terrorism, just characters and a location I care about. New Orleans is not a gimmick.  I loved Sarah the hooker with a heart of lead, and Capt. Embree (John Carroll Lynch) as the man trying to make up for hurting his daughter by protecting her. You can see Embree’s heart breaking as he […]

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Tonight K-VILLE was the first new series premiere of the 2007 Fall TV season.  Did you watch it?  If so, tell us what you thought of the series premiere? Is this a show that’s going on your season pass or are you going to pass all together?  Be the blogger.  I’ll be updating this post […]
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Premiere Date: September 17, 2007
Airs: Mondays @ 9pm
Two years after Katrina, parts of the city are still in chaos, but hope has emerged. Battling an upsurge of violence, understaffing of police forces and a lack of crime labs and other facilities, the cops who remain in the New Orleans Police Department have courage to burn […]
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The single best performance on any new series this fall belongs to Anthony Anderson as Det. Marlin Boulet on Fox’s "K-Ville." The post-Katrina New Orleans police drama, debuting tonight on Fox, centers on Ninth Ward native Boulet, who struggles to hang on to his home, his family, his city and at times his sanity amid the ruins. Anderson’s fiercely committed performance gives this show a gravity that helps it overcome a couple of overblown action sequences. Along with the third-season premiere of "Prison Break" on Fox tonight, it gets the fall TV season off to a solid start. (Warning: Spoilers ahead.)
Boulet is rebuilding his flood-damaged home amid the ruins of his neighborhood, even though his wife and child have moved to Atlanta to escape the devastation. He’s also still recovering from the horror of Katrina, which was made worse by the desertion of his partner, one of many Nawlins cops […]

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