KEVIN McKIDD JOINS THE CAST OF ABC'S "GREY'S ANATOMY"
Actor Kevin McKidd ("Rome," "Journeyman") has joined the cast of ABC's popular drama "Grey's Anatomy." McKidd first appeared as Major Owen Hunt in this season's premiere episode of "Grey's Anatomy," titled "Dream a Little Dream of Me." Hunt has joined the staff of Seattle Grace Hospital as the head of trauma surgery, after serving as a top military field surgeon in Iraq.
An established star of film, television and theatre, the Scottish actor has made a name for himself playing such varied roles as a doomed drug addict in "Trainspotting," a brooding Caesar-era soldier in HBO's "Rome" and a time-traveling journalist in last year's NBC drama, "Journeyman." McKidd recently co-starred alongside his "Grey's Anatomy" co-star, Patrick Dempsey, and Michelle Monaghan in the 2008 film romantic comedy, "Made of Honor."
McKidd has wrapped production on "Bunraku," starring alongside Josh Harnett, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson and Ron Perlman. In the drama he plays a virulent criminal who terrorizes a town. Other film credits include "Hannibal Rising," "Kingdom of Heaven," "De-Lovely" and "Sixteen Years of Alcohol," for which he was nominated for Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards.
Born and raised in Scotland, McKidd was a member of the Moray Youth Theatre. He became involved in the Bedlam Theatre Company while he was a student at the University of Edinburgh, and it was there that he decided to pursue acting full-time, landing his first leading role in the Wild Cat Theatre Company-produced stage play, "The Silver Darlings," for which he won the Gulliver Award.
McKidd currently resides in Los Angeles with his family.
"Grey's Anatomy" stars Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey, Patrick Dempsey as Derek Shepherd, Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang, Katherine Heigl as Isobel "Izzie" Stevens, Justin Chambers as Alex Karev, T.R. Knight as George O'Malley, Chandra Wilson as Miranda Bailey, James Pickens, Jr. as Richard Webber, Sara Ramirez as Callie Torres, Eric Dane as Mark Sloan, Chyler Leigh as Lexie Grey and Kevin McKidd as Owen Hunt.
"Grey's Anatomy" was created and is executive produced by Shonda Rhimes ("Introducing Dorothy Dandridge"). Betsy Beers ("Casanova"), Mark Gordon ("Saving Private Ryan"), Krista Vernoff ("Law & Order"), Rob Corn ("Chicago Hope"), Mark Wilding ("Jake: 2.0") and Allan Heinberg ("The O.C.") are executive producers. "Grey's Anatomy" is an ABC Studios production.
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#62 Television Market: Ft. Myers-Naples, FL 0.445% household coverage of the entire U.S. Overnight Household Ratings-Primetime Wednesday, November 12
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8:00 ABC 42nd CMA Awards 10.4/15: 53
11:35 ABC Niteline 2.0/ 5: 10
12:05 ABC Jimmy Kimmel -.-/--
8:00 CBS New Adv of Old Christine 3.2/ 4: 17
8:30 CBS Gary Unmarried 3.4/ 5: 17
9:00 CBS Criminal Minds 13.3/18: 68
10:00 CBS CSI: NY 12.4/19: 63
11:35 CBS Late Show/David Letterman 5.6/15: 28
12:37 CBS Late Late Show/Ferguson 4.3/16: 22
8:00 NBC Knight Rider 5.9/ 8: 30
9:00 NBC Life 3.5/ 5: 18
10:00 NBC Law & Order 4.2/ 7: 22
11:35 NBC Tonight Show with Jay Leno 2.8/ 8: 14
12:37 NBC Late Night/Conan O'Brien 1.1/ 4: 6
1:36 NBC Last Call/Carson Daly 0.7/ 3: 4
8:00 FOX Bones 8.7/12: 44
9:00 FOX House (R) 4.2/ 6: 21
8:00 CW America's Next Top Model 2.8/ 4: 14
9:00 CW Stylista 2.1/ 3: 11
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The fact being ignored is Law and Order is one of NBC's strongest shows. Knight Rider, Crusoe, Deal Or No Deal, Kath and Kim, Life, Chuck would all be cut before it. The whole schedule can't be cancelled. That just doesn't happen.
Law and Order isn't going to be cancelled unless NBC has two or three really strong dramas that have long term potential.
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Originally posted by TV-aholic: That always seems to be the response when someone states that a specific NBC show should be let go.
At this rate, NO NBC series would be cancelled becuase, "Have seen the ratings of the other shows???"
Originally posted by WlcmLAPD: The fact being ignored is Law and Order is one of NBC's strongest shows. Knight Rider, Crusoe, Deal Or No Deal, Kath and Kim, Life, Chuck would all be cut before it. The whole schedule can't be cancelled. That just doesn't happen.
Law and Order isn't going to be cancelled unless NBC has two or three really strong dramas that have long term potential.
I agree. If anything, the drop for L&O is an indication that the current cast needs more time to gel or that they need to make further cast changes to fidn the right combo. Calling for cancellation seems premature.
Originally posted by WlcmLAPD: The fact being ignored is Law and Order is one of NBC's strongest shows. Knight Rider, Crusoe, Deal Or No Deal, Kath and Kim, Life, Chuck would all be cut before it. The whole schedule can't be cancelled. That just doesn't happen.
Law and Order isn't going to be cancelled unless NBC has two or three really strong dramas that have long term potential.
I agree. If anything, the drop for L&O is an indication that the current cast needs more time to gel or that they need to make further cast changes to fidn the right combo. Calling for cancellation seems premature.
I agree. NBC will let Wolf break Gunsmoke's record. If the show had a lead in of even 7 million, it could be doing in the order of 9 million a week, a pretty good number in today's TV age.
Originally posted by WlcmLAPD: The fact being ignored is Law and Order is one of NBC's strongest shows. Knight Rider, Crusoe, Deal Or No Deal, Kath and Kim, Life, Chuck would all be cut before it. The whole schedule can't be cancelled. That just doesn't happen.
Law and Order isn't going to be cancelled unless NBC has two or three really strong dramas that have long term potential.
You forget that given its age, "Law & Order", like all long-running series, costs more to produce than any of the series you mentioned.
"Knight Rider" is in its first season and should not have as high of a budget as a series entering its 19th season.
"Crusoe" may have a larger budget because of its concept, but does anyone think "Crusoe" will last beyond its initial episode order?
"Deal or No Deal" is a game show and cheap to produce by design.
"Kath & Kim" is a comedy and shouldn't even really be included in the list. Likewise, a freshman comedy isn't going to have a budget anywhere near what "Law & Order" does.
"Life" is in its second season (and still unproven in its second time slot this season), but again NBC may feel that "Life" has more gas in its tank (i.e. potential) than the long in the tooth "Order".
Finally, "Chuck" is probably on shaky ground to begin with. If given the opportunity to air a complete first season last year, it may not have ever seen a second year.
NBC seems to be developing a growing number of crime dramas for next season - including an hour long comedy set in a police precinct. If the network thinks any of them have potential, I don't believe NBC will hesitate to cancel "Order", and thereby denying egotistical producer Dick Wolf's mission of having the longest running drama series (in seasons produced, since "Gunsmoke" will still hold the record in number of episodes produced).
Has anyone heard that FOX may order two additional episodes of Prison Break, which may or may not be aired this season. But might air as a two-hour movie next season? Or they could end up on the Fourth season DVD? There is confusion as to whether or not that would mean 24 episodes for season four, not its original 22. Does anyone know about this? Thanks.
I agree. NBC will let Wolf break Gunsmoke's record.
The Simpsons already done it.
If we're talking about number of seasons for a primetime network drama, it has to run all of this season, then another full season, then get renewed one more time. With the license fees going up every single time it's renewed. And now I think on it, to break that particular record, it would have to be three more COMPLETE seasons, including this one.
And I'm not sure last season should count as complete--only ran 18 eps, presumably because of the strike, but even so--there'd always be an asterisk.
If we're talking number of eps, well--it's at 413 now--it would be at 432 at the end of this season, if this season runs for 22 eps.
Gunsmoke ended with 635 eps. That's a 203 ep gap, at the end of this season. If they gave L&O 22 eps a season from now on, that would mean--let's see--wow--only nine more seasons and change. Hey, go for it.
The fact being ignored is Law and Order is one of NBC's strongest shows. Knight Rider, Crusoe, Deal Or No Deal, Kath and Kim, Life, Chuck would all be cut before it. The whole schedule can't be cancelled. That just doesn't happen.
You probably didn't mean this as a joke, but thanks for the laugh none the less. Perhaps all actors should stick with serious roles so they can go into politics? Maybe such serious roles as Conan the Barbarian, Love Boat, Bedtime for Bonzo, Saturday Night Live, The Dukes of Hazzard or Sony and Cher Show made all the difference to voters taking politicians seriously.
Yeah, take that Bed Time for Bonzo actor...leading America through one of its most prosperous and peaceful eras capped off by helping bring down the Berlin Wall...
Back to the ratings...yeah the CBS comedies have taken hits lately but will probably continue to grow if not up against special events.
Originally posted by joliesse: If it holds up in finals, Bones will be the highest demo #'s this season. I guess the guy from Roswell as Booth's brother brough in a few viewers.
I don't know how much good the KR reboot will do. It will be the third iteration NBC has given people, so how many will come back again? Movie, tv show 1, tv show 2...
Your saying it like they are totally scrapping the show. They are just cutting characters and going back to the formqat that made the first show semi popular.
I don't have much confidence in NBC's drama development. They produced such ratings winners as Journeyman, Bionic Woman, Lipstick Jungle, Crusoe, My Own Worst Enemy.
And to cancel L&O, which is successful, in favor of dramas that have no track record makes no sense. If they followed this plan, NBC would be in further ruin.
As for NBC's relationship with Dick Wolf, it is completely irrelevant. We don't know how good it is or not. And NBC isn't going to cancel a profitable show because of it for shows destined to fail.
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Originally posted by Jay:
NBC seems to be developing a growing number of crime dramas for next season - including an hour long comedy set in a police precinct. If the network thinks any of them have potential, I don't believe NBC will hesitate to cancel "Order", and thereby denying egotistical producer Dick Wolf's mission of having the longest running drama series (in seasons produced, since "Gunsmoke" will still hold the record in number of episodes produced).
