Body of Proof -- Series Premiere -- "Pilot" -- 3/29/11
 

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Starring:
Dana Delany (Desperate Housewives, Castle)
Jeri Ryan (Boston Public, Shark, Leverage)
Sonja Sohn (The Wire)
John Carroll Lynch

13 episode order. It looks like 9 will air before May sweeps.

Series Synopsis:

Pilot Synopsis:



Been waiting for this show for months mainly because it has 2 of the hottest 40+ actresses right now in Dana Delany and Jeri Ryan. :D It was supposed to premiere in October on Friday's, but ABC postponed it until Midseason, which was a good thing since it was scheduled to air on Fridays.

The reviews have been pretty positive. Entertainment Weekly gave it the "Must Watch of the Week"

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Trailer:

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Re: Body of Proof -- Series Premiere -- "Pilot" -- 3/29/11
 

I get a Crossing Jordan 2.0 vibe. This one will probably be much more cohesive than that. Although, that was part of the charm of it, the tangents they ran off with. This show will probably be one of the many forensic shows that have come and gone in recent times.

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I was a fan of Crossing Jordan and was glad it managed to last 6 seasons. But, Jill Hennessy didn't have the star power of a Dana Delany. Plus, Delany turned 55 this month. She could easily pass for a woman in her early 40's. I've been a fan of hers since China Beach long ago.

This is a really tough timeslot though facing The Good Wife and Parenthood. I'll be watching and hope this show does well. Because I don't want Dana anywhere near Desperate Housewives ever again. She 100% deserves her own show.

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Takes Place in Philly.
Philly shows haven't had a great track the last fews years so I hope this one turns out good.

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I am looking forward to this because of DeLaney who I thought should have been a Big star after China Beach. She was great on the show. Wish they would release it on DVD.
Also, Jeri Ryan. With those two, you can't miss.

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:thumbsup: I liked it, mainly because of Delany.

1st of all, the best thing Delany ever did in the last 10 years or so was grow her hair out long. For a 55-year old woman, she's drop dead gorgeous IMO.

I would say the best way to describe this show is it being House + Crossing Jordan. Megan is very snarky and arrogant and probably doesn't come across as very likeable initially. But, as they revealed more about her back story as the episode went along, she became more sympathetic. I'm guessing that Peter is Megan's assistant? He has a very Wilson-like vibe to me. Jeri Ryan didn't show up until the 30 minute mark and didn't really make an impression on me yet. The Plot was a little predictable. Once they determined the jogger was sleeping with her boss, I said, the wife did it.

Jeffrey Nordling, who played her ex husband, was wasted in this episode though.

Even though this show takes place in Philadelphia, the Pilot was shot on location in Rhode Island. Kind of an odd place to double as it. I assume the rest of the series will be shot in LA.

By the way, I participated in the ABC Twitter chat session with Dana tonight and sent in 2 questions. :thumbsup: Surprisingly Dana answered both! Very cool lady.

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ABC may be waiting to see how the show does when Parenthood finishes out its season in like 3 more weeks. The show will obviously do better with half the competition already in reruns.

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cast seems ok.. it's nice to see Delany and Jeri Ryan land on another show.. but over all I thought the pilot was pretty bad. IMO the over all set up of the charters and story line was taking the the idea of -suspend disbelieve- to new heights. Like the show felt it needed certain elements and just forced them in..

Delany's character was a $$$$$$$$$$ brain surgeon and now years later she is working for law enforcement at a $$$$ job but some how still has zero custody etc with her daughter, to the point the father can say to stay away? Ex-crack whore moms gets waitress jobs and recover some parental rights but some how a doctor then and a doctor now lost them? Ok..

lawyer at a top firm just "Yeah search my house" when no lawyer ever would do that but hey they need it to happen so they can catch a killer so whatever..

Never mind her just tagging along everywhere and for some random reason she also has a cop assigned her in the first place, so the show could force the partner issue....

I know they do a lot of the same junk on CSI and I know it's BS on those shows too but some how it just works better then on this one.. Meh, as I said, I'll give it a few more eps but is really was pretty bad as far as writing/story set up goes..

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Nah, the lawyer just saved a boatload of money on a divorce. He was already sleeping around and looking to trade the wife up on a younger model. That was the most believable part of the plot. You could see the wheels turn in his head.

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http://i55.tinypic.com/14m46jc.jpg

Dana Delany looks incredible -- hard to believe that China Beach was twenty years ago! -- but this pilot was all over the place.

Oh, Lupis!

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DVRed it. Will watch tonight simply for Jeri Ryan.

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Wow! Good start ratings-wise. 13.85M viewers and 3.0 in the demos. Beat The Good Wife and Parenthood. Was not expecting it to start that high at all.

http://www.tvline.com/2011/03/rating...oof-dwts-ncis/

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Well No Ordinary Family premiered with a 3.2, so this really doesn't mean much yet :)

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As I said in my post earlier, Jeri Ryan doesn't appear until around the 30 minute mark and probably has about 5-7 minutes of screentime in the Pilot at most. She's the co-lead of the show, so I assume we'll see more of her in future weeks.

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Real talk.

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Look here Flawless........ :D

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These were some of my problems as well.

Although the lawyer seemed like he knew the search gets him out of his murdering wife marriage.

My main problem so far is the characters are all dull and paint by numbers boring even Delaney.

Why does there always have to be the one team member or boss
who needs to be contradictory to everything the star of the show does, even though the star is almost always right.

Also Delaney was really stiff in this pilot.
She never smiles or really moves her face much(too much work done there?)
and her speaking sounded a bit slurred couldn't enunciate very well, couldn't move her mouth well.

Probably only a Philly person would notice but nothing looked like Philly at all.
The street signs and the buildings are clearly not Philly locations.

Except for the shot of the Towers at the end, nothing looked Philly.

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I thought it was OK. I'm not sure there's much to make it stand out in the sea of procedurals out there.

Agreed that Delany looks great for a 55 year old. Hell, she looks great, period.

I was wondering if there was more to the story, because that made no sense to me either.

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I didn't see that she wasn't legally prevented from seeing her just the dad was preventing
and lying to the daughter about some things.

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^It was weird that she didn't get custody, when the Dad works long hours just like her.