October 10, 2007
Crime and cop dramas continue to infiltrate the airwaves nowadays, which is why the need to innovate is more pressing than ever. One of the latest ones to air is FOX's K-Ville, and for series star Tawny Cypress, the show has succeeded in distinguishing itself from other shows in the same genre because for one, it focuses on the “fun interaction” between the characters, and for another, it is set in New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina, which allows for more diverse and fresh storylines.
"[K-Ville is] more of a buddy cop show. It's a real fun interaction between the characters, but also a lot more action,” Cypress, who plays Ginger “Love Tap” LeBeau, told UnderGroundOnline. “Beyond that, we are New Orleans. We have story lines that are completely different than the ones that you have already seen, things very specific to New Orleans after Katrina and before Katrina.”
October 9, 2007
We start of this week's episode of K-Ville with a scene in the past of Cobb (Cole Hauser) literally finding dirty money and washing it. Back in the present, he sits in his car watching this female outside of a FEMA trailer. In another flashback, Cobb and his cell mate, Sonny are in their cell talking about Sonny's girlfriend AJ and we, again, see Sonny carving her initials into the wall of the cell.
Back in the present, Cobb goes to the trailer and gives AJ an envelope containing $21, 250 and tells her that it's from Sonny. He tells her that he was a correctional officer before becoming a cop and that he got to know Sonny before he died. Cobb makes up this story about how Sonny won this money gambling and that it was with his personal property recently discovered in the flooded jail.
October 5, 2007
Set against the backdrop of post-hurricane Katrina New Orleans, K-Ville is steeped in very specific sights, sounds and culture. The show has promised as much authenticity in depicting the flavor and feel of the southern big easy. Not the least of the key elements the show strives to keep faithful to the region is the music which is part and parcel of the New Orleans scene.
For K-Ville, songwriter/producer Adam Anders took a piece by New Orleans' own Dr. John and gave it just enough tweaking to create a more upbeat and hipper sound, representative of K-Ville's modern day police-driven, crime-fighting and law-enforcing setting, while staying true to the rhythm and blues of the city.
October 1, 2007
This week K-Ville opens with a dead body found in the water. The victim is identified as Councilman Clay Beelman, former DA. There was a blue fake nail with a magnolia painted on it found in the skin of the body.
Back at the station, Marlon gets into it with the current DA, Lyndsey Swann about the late Councilman. Lyndsey feels that he was a good man and helped train her, and Marlon is anti-Beelman because as councilman, he was trying to bulldoze an East NO neighborhood to make a park.
September 27, 2007
Anthony Anderson is best known for his comedic talents, but despite expressing his desire to return to the world of sitcoms, the 37-year-old actor admitted he found it hard to turn down the lead role in FOX's new drama, K-Ville.
"I had really wanted to get back in the half-hour world and have some fun," Anderson told the Los Angeles Times. "But it's hard to argue with the president of a network who wants to cast you as the lead of a drama."
September 24, 2007
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Last week on K-Ville, we were introduced to Trevor Cobb, Marlon Boulet and the rest of their squad from the New Orleans Police Dept. Cobb confessed his criminal past to his new partner and we were left with the sight of them burying that past in Boulet's yard.
This week the action begins with a jailbreak from the facility that Cobb was in. Three inmates escaped and the squad is working overtime on the manhunt. Cobb has a plan to capture the escapees that differs from the plan laid out by the correctional department and it takes them out of the area that the rest of the team is working.
September 18, 2007
We begin K-Ville with an introduction, of sorts, to our two stars, Trevor Cobb, played by Cole Hauser and Marlon Boulet, played by Anthony Anderson. The date is Sept. 1, 2005 and we see Trevor in some kind of grate or cell with the water rising. Marlon is on duty attempting to help residents in the aftermath of the hurricane. He sends his partner, Charlie, to the squad car to get something to bandage the arm of a victim and Charlie drives off and abandons him.
September 11, 2007
In conjunction with our 2007 Fall TV Guide, BuddyTV will be publishing exclusive interviews with the stars of some of the hottest new shows this fall throughout the week. Check back all this week for interviews with the actors and actresses of the new shows.
Tawny Cypress hit it big last year with a role in the smash hit Heroes as Simone Deveaux, the high class woman torn between Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia) and Isaac Mendez (Santiago Cabrera). Her character's death may have taken her out of that show, but this season she finds a new home in New Orleans with the FOX drama K-Ville. The show, which premieres Monday, September 17 at 9pm, is about that city's police force trying to start over after Hurricane Katrina.
Tawny spoke to BuddyTV about filming K-Ville in the Big Easy, the joys of working with co-star Anthony Anderson, and having her new show in the same time slot as her old show, Heroes. Below you will find a transcript as well as the mp3 audio file of the interview.