K-Ville Trailer

[Papins]

It looks real good! The Shield set in New Orleans.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SsSEPxU5wOI

[Corona]

Any idea when it's coming out?

[ibjamn]

In the fall.

[bluedog]

/gulp/ this looks like it will be a good ... I'll have to make sure I bring plenty of kleenex

[PaulC]

those network bean counters can count me in on this one.....

finally,.. must see t.v. is back in town......

[ibjamn]

I was just about to post on this thread, did ya'll just see the commercial they showed on Fox?
"It's not home, like it used to be"
"It CAN be, but we have to FIGHT for it!"

I'm with you, bluedog, gulp, I'm in....

[rosetree]

I was just about to post on this thread, did ya'll just see the commercial they showed on Fox?
"It's not home, like it used to be"
"It CAN be, but we have to FIGHT for it!"

I'm with you, bluedog, gulp, I'm in....

I'll give it a looksee, but it better grab me in a couple of episodes....

[ibjamn]

It grabbed me in the commercial, rosie! :)

[rosetree]

It grabbed me in the commercial, rosie! :)

I truly hope that it makes it! It would be good for us to be portrayed honestly. Hopefully the best 30 seconds aren't the only ones that they showed in the commercial....damn I sound so cynical!

[Rossvegas]

It's okay RT, I'm a little cynical too. I really want to see a TV series based in NOLA, but I think that it's a bit of a minefield...

Many people aren't going to want to see NOLA portrayed as some lawless, violent city overrun with post K human debris. Others would prefer a show like this to be one big "extreme makeover" show with nothing but positive and inspiring stories about the rebuilding. I suspect it will be more former than latter.

I guess what concerns me is that I just don't have a lot of faith in the intelligence of the majority of North American teevee viewers. Plot lines featuring volunteers building homes for musicians just isn't (unfortunately) as compelling as 14 year old armed thugs taking over street corners, and I'm afraid that will be the taste left in many uninformed peoples mouths. This ain't Regis and Kelly Lee...all of NOLA's warts (and I'm sure a few invented for dramatic effect) will be spoon fed into homes on a weekly basis.

Based on the trailer, it looks like there is definitely a "redemption" angle, but they're not making "Touched by an Angel" here, you know? Racism, violence, drugs, corruption...that will likely be the cornerstone of every episode. After all, it's a drama, right? I guess we'll see!

[Corona]

In the fall.
cool...I'm ready to watch it...who is that actor? I like him. Cop dramas are my favorite too so this is a no brainer for me.....I can't wait!

[Corona]

It's okay RT, I'm a little cynical too. I really want to see a TV series based in NOLA, but I think that it's a bit of a minefield...

Many people aren't going to want to see NOLA portrayed as some lawless, violent city overrun with post K human debris. Others would prefer a show like this to be one big "extreme makeover" show with nothing but positive and inspiring stories about the rebuilding. I suspect it will be more former than latter.

I guess what concerns me is that I just don't have a lot of faith in the intelligence of the majority of North American teevee viewers. Plot lines featuring volunteers building homes for musicians just isn't (unfortunately) as compelling as 14 year old armed thugs taking over street corners, and I'm afraid that will be the taste left in many uninformed peoples mouths. This ain't Regis and Kelly Lee...all of NOLA's warts (and I'm sure a few invented for dramatic effect) will be spoon fed into homes on a weekly basis.

Based on the trailer, it looks like there is definitely a "redemption" angle, but they're not making "Touched by an Angel" here, you know? Racism, violence, drugs, corruption...that will likely be the cornerstone of every episode. After all, it's a drama, right? I guess we'll see!
They need to balance it with her beauty...I hope they can do that....and can capture the feel of what everyone falls in love with. They have to be able to convey why people are staying and why people continue to move back. Otherwise, it won't make any sense. I'm praying they can do that and just the bit on the trailer makes me think they get "it". Crossing my fingers XXXXX

[bywterbro]

They need to balance it with her beauty...I hope they can do that....and can capture the feel of what everyone falls in love with. They have to be able to convey why people are staying and why people continue to move back. Otherwise, it won't make any sense. I'm praying they can do that and just the bit on the trailer makes me think they get "it". Crossing my fingers XXXXX
well they must have a website, why dont you send them this thread,
and some of your pics from new orleans, maybe they will listen...
im sure they will feel your love for the city..

[bywterbro]

Airs Next: FOX at Monday 9:00 PM (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: September 1, 2007
Show Categories: Drama, Action/Adventure
K-Ville

[See clips from this show.]

When everything changes, so do the rules.

From writer and executive producer Jonathan Lisco (“NYPD Blue,” “The District”) comes a heroic police drama set in New Orleans. Two years after Katrina, the city is still in chaos. Criminals roam the streets with AK-47s, many cops have quit, and the jails, police stations and crime labs still haven’t been properly rebuilt. But the cops who remain have courage to burn and a passion to reclaim and rebuild their city.

MARLIN BOULET (Anthony Anderson, “The Departed,” “The Shield”) is a brash, funny, in-your-face veteran of the NOPD’s Felony Action Squad, the specialized unit that targets the most-wanted criminals. Even when his partner deserted him during the storm, Boulet held his post, spending days in the water saving lives and keeping order. Now, two years later, he’s unapologetic about bending the rules when it comes to collaring bad guys. The stakes are too high, and the city too lawless, for him to do things by the book.

Boulet’s new partner, TREVOR COBB (Cole Hauser, “The Break-Up,” “ER”), was a soldier in Afghanistan before joining the NOPD. He’s tough and committed, but if he’s less than comfortable with Boulet’s methods, it’s because he’s harboring a dark secret. Cobb has come to New Orleans seeking redemption, but redemption can be dangerous. Will Boulet be able to trust him? Will Cobb’s past endanger them both?

Rounding out the crew of cops are hotheaded BILLY “K-9” FAUST (Maximiliano Hernández, “Law & Order,” “Shark”), who often speaks before thinking; wisecracking JEFF “GLUE BOY” GOODEN (Blake Shields, “Sleeper Cell,” “Veronica Mars”), the team’s comic relief; tough-as-nails GINGER “LOVE TAP” LeBEAU (Tawny Cypress, “Heroes”), the only female on the squad, who gives as good as she gets; and CAPTAIN JAMES EMBRY (John Carroll Lynch, “Zodiac,” “The Drew Carey Show”), who wrangles the eclectic personalities of his squad with equal parts humor and tenacity.

Through its no-holds-barred crime stories and dramatic personal stories, this intriguing series from 20th Century Fox Television and director Deran Sarafian (“House,” “CSI”) will take viewers from the Victorian mansions of the Garden District to the rubble of the Lower 9th Ward. In the aftermath of Katrina, with the future of New Orleans hanging in the balance ... the stakes could not be higher in K-VILLE.

[AtPontchartrain]

GINGER “LOVE TAP” LeBEAU (Tawny Cypress, “Heroes”), the only female on the squad, who gives as good as she gets

Want to guess which character will keep having to go undercover as a stripper??

[mightyradgumbo]

Want to guess which character will keep having to go undercover as a stripper??

Ok, I'm in hehehe....I think they can balance it, after all it is FOX right? fair and balanced ;) Premiers Labor Day weekend though, tough time for the debut of any series, I would imagine....Personally don't watch much on TV during that weekend unless it is sports related. I will tune in due to my love of NOLA of course. Hope everyone else does to.

[Papins]

cool...I'm ready to watch it...who is that actor? I like him. Cop dramas are my favorite too so this is a no brainer for me.....I can't wait!
Anthony Anderson. Check out re-runs of The Shield . He plays Antwon Mitchell, leader of the One-Niner's.

[Rossvegas]

"Two years after Katrina, the city is still in chaos. Criminals roam the streets with AK-47s, many cops have quit, and the jails, police stations and crime labs still haven’t been properly rebuilt."

This is exactly what I'm talking about. How is the city supposed to rebuild its tourism base when this image is the entire premise of the show??? I dunno about this one....

[AtPontchartrain]

"Two years after Katrina, the city is still in chaos. Criminals roam the streets with AK-47s, many cops have quit, and the jails, police stations and crime labs still haven’t been properly rebuilt."

This is exactly what I'm talking about. How is the city supposed to rebuild its tourism base when this image is the entire premise of the show??? I dunno about this one....

Las Vegas seems to get pretty many visitors, despite the fact that they are all buried alive in the desert and covered with bugs that only Grissom can identify!

[bywterbro]

"Two years after Katrina, the city is still in chaos. Criminals roam the streets with AK-47s, many cops have quit, and the jails, police stations and crime labs still haven’t been properly rebuilt."

This is exactly what I'm talking about. How is the city supposed to rebuild its tourism base when this image is the entire premise of the show??? I dunno about this one....

yesss...but KVille is going to straighten it all out......everyone loves
a happy ending...

[Michelino]

"Two years after Katrina, the city is still in chaos. Criminals roam the streets with AK-47s, many cops have quit, and the jails, police stations and crime labs still haven’t been properly rebuilt."

This is exactly what I'm talking about. How is the city supposed to rebuild its tourism base when this image is the entire premise of the show??? I dunno about this one....

My reaction was very similar.

Some here seem to harbor an idea that a gritty CSI-style, post apocalyptic, over-the-top dramatic distortion of today's New Orleans will somehow prove beneficial** to our beloved city's image.

Sorry, I don't think so...while those of us homesick for another dose of NOLA culture may be watching hoping to catch a brief glimpse of Frenchmen Street, Jackson Square, a Brass Band, Tipitina's or some good eatin', this series appears to do no more than tap into that dismal strain of conventional "wisdom"...the one shared by so many of my neighbors..those being fed by right wing hate brokers...that New Orleans is a crumbling soggy disaster just waiting for one more storm to give it the last rites.

Crime is a problem that needs to be fixed in New Orleans...AFTER we get the damn levees up to grade.

(** If that's true, why would the wacky RWE overlords at FOX even be interested in it? )

[BigDag]

It's a cop drama, fiction, set in Post-K New Orleans. It ain't going to be pretty; cop dramas never are. I don't think most TV viewers are going to take it as a documentary.

[freebo]

Is David Caruso signed up to act in it yet?

Bwahahaha...

[rosetree]

Is David Caruso signed up to act in it yet?

Bwahahaha...

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q98/rosetreeglass/wink.gif

[PaulC]

Sorry, I don't think so...while those of us homesick for another dose of NOLA culture may be watching hoping to catch a brief glimpse of Frenchmen Street, Jackson Square, a Brass Band, Tipitina's or some good eatin', this series appears to do no more than tap into that dismal strain of conventional "wisdom"...the one shared by so many of my neighbors..those being fed by right wing hate brokers...that New Orleans is a crumbling soggy disaster just waiting for one more storm to give it the last rites.

your apprehensions as to what lastin' image the "masses" might take from this show may unfortuantely prove to be valid... it's quite possible that certain negative images will provide further reason for the so called "normal" or average citizen amongst the masses to turn further away from that which they have already decided is not for them???... again,.. a vey real possibility,.. but it can probably be argued that such people have neva' been the lifeblood of New Orleans... New Orleans has always been to me a place where those who favor and honor the unconventional can find their fill of touchstones... If New Orleans celebrated and courted the "normal" it surely wouldn't be the New Orleans that I love...

I will be watchin' to catch those glimpses of things I have come to cherish... at the same time i will be hopin' that this production attempts to showcase enough of that extraordinary local human spirit and flavor that it becomes a lil' more apparent to some who have yet to gain the understandin' of her spirit.... that which keeps New Olreans so very real and important to all of us who love her,.. may jus' shine through enough so that people who don't yet know her will want to taste it for themselves...whatever happens,.. it's scheduled and it's on it's way,.. so let's hope for the best...

[BigDag]

And the way TV shows come and go these days, it may air three or four times, hardly anyone will watch and it'll disappear like it never happened...

[Amy Winette]

Las Vegas seems to get pretty many visitors, despite the fact that they are all buried alive in the desert and covered with bugs that only Grissom can identify!

YYR AtPon! The description also seems to say it's going to feature beautiful aspects of NOLA too, Garden District, etc.

No sense pre-judging it, let's all check it out in September and see what we think.

[Amy Winette]

I'm a pollyanna, I still think the description sounds, well, redeeming and I'm expecting to really like the show!

[AtPontchartrain]

I'm open. As said above, it won't be Frank's Place, but that was a once in a lifetime series. I've watched Hawaii Five-O, Streets of San Francisco, Miami Vice, etc., just to ignore the stories and see the cities. So many of them, like Monk, are shot on sets with just a handful of stock city scenes, that it's a pleasure when you see one that really lets a city be itself; and we'll have to see what they do. If the first note I hear in the opening is, like, Benny Spellman, I'll know it's a winner. If it's the standard Mike Post, then it's an uphill battle from there.

[Papins]

Here's their website

www.fox.com/programming/new/kville.htm

[rosetree]

I'm watching the first episode RIGHT NOW!!!
Go to NOLA.com's front page and you can click on the first episode...if you want to see it before the premier.;)

[ohio]

How is it, Mark?

[rosetree]

How is it, Mark?

Well, at least they don't have stoopid accents.:eek:
I'm a little mixed about it. Lots of car chases and bullets flying. I might be a little too close for an opinion. It doesn't make us look like hicks or ignorant. It does make New Orleans look a bit rough (which is true). A couple of story line twists. I hope that it can maintain fresh stories without constantly doing the Lower Nine problem every week. It's two years after, and I hope that they find some bright spots....This is not a ringing endorsement is it??? I'll watch it for a few more episodes and see if it picks up some steam.

Bryan, why don't you watch it and let us know what you think from the outside?

[Lostcajun]

The acting is very good, and the accents aren't typical "southern" bs. The writing is better than most dramas. I like how the main actor believes in the city. So far the pronounce New Orleans correctly!!!!!!!!!!!! Which NEVER happens in movies or shows.

[Corona]

dammit! It says the viewing content is only available in the United States!!! :(

[Moon]

So far so good but like RT and Ross, I'll withhold an opinion until I've seen a few more episodes.

[Lostcajun]

I can't believe the network would block Canada from seeing the first episode online!?!???? Seems stupid.

[ohio]

Bryan, why don't you watch it and let us know what you think from the outside?
I thought it was fairly good, typical shoot 'em up police drama. The plot was semi deep. I knew somethin' was up when the new cop said 'neutral ground', but hey, I'm really from Cincy & I would say that. What is it with people pretending to be from Cincy? That HBO show 'John From Cincinnati...turns out John isn't....

Don't forget that this was a pilot and pilots tend to be better than the episodes that follow. Seemed to be a fair enough portrayal of the city, though time will tell. Hey, maybe the show will help keep the city's plight in the public conscience. I can dream, can't I?

[mightyradgumbo]

Hmmmm, just watched it myself and give it pretty good marks but like you said Bry, pilots tend to be better than overall content. I think it will be gritty for sure like most cop shows and just hope that it doesn't highlight all negative images. While not a documentary, I am fearful of people saying "oh it must be real bad down there if a show was made about it."

[Amy Winette]

So when does it premiere on TV?

[ohio]

mid September

[Papins]

Hmmmm, just watched it myself and give it pretty good marks but like you said Bry, pilots tend to be better than overall content. I think it will be gritty for sure like most cop shows and just hope that it doesn't highlight all negative images. While not a documentary, I am fearful of people saying "oh it must be real bad down there if a show was made about it."

I watched part of it before I went to work this morning. Think: The Shield set in NOLA. I like what I see.

[LisaRI]

I just watched it, and I liked it, although it had a kind of outlandish storyline but hey, it's TV. Some funny parts. I like the 2 main characters, it has potential. Probably has as many inaccuracies about the locale as the show "Providence" did.

[ScoopJohnD]

Have only seen the trailers and count me among the skeptical. I will not be skeptical if someone tells me that on the web site of the show there are links to organizations that ARE helping New Orleans, or if at the end of the show they say "If you are interested in helping New Orleans and the Gulf Coast go to (show website) for a list of organizations etc."

Otherwise...........

[bywterbro]

Big Sam teams up with Kville

On Sunday night, Big Sam’s Funky Nation rocked Kville (cast and crew) at
their red carpet event at Republic NOLA. BSFN is fronted by trombonist, Big
Sammie Williams, who stirred the audience into a NOLA-style frenzy,
especially as he and the band were joined by Anthony Anderson, Cole Hauser,
and others including Ivan Neville. It seems Big Sam’s Funky Nation has an
honorary member as Anthony Anderson joined in on many songs and remained on
stage throughout much of the show. There is talk of other performances
together.

Kville premieres on Fox Monday, September 17th at 8pm (HYPERLINK
"http://www.fox.com/kville/"www.fox.com/kville/)

For more info about Big Sam’s Funky Nation (HYPERLINK
"http://www.bigsamsfunkynation.com/"www.bigsamsfunkynation.com), contact
Paige Patriarca (HYPERLINK "mailto:paige@h-soul.com"paige@h-soul.com or
(504)301-4600)

About Big Sam’s Funky Nation
Presiding over his Funky Nation is Big Sam, formerly the trombonist for the
Dirty Dozen Brass Band, who blows the funk out of his trombone and refuses
to let the audience sit still. Between solos and trombone riffs, Big Sam
second-lines (a uniquely New Orleans style of street-dance) and gets the
crowd going both in movement and in replies to his call-and-response
MC-style. A talented group of jazz-trained musicians makes up the Funky
Nation, bringing with them the improv-style associated with jazz and the
horn-heavy front section that's the hallmark of big band funk. Theirs, and
Big Sam's, exuberant dancing and playing, afford them a rare opportunity to
let loose. Big Sam's Funky Nation has undeniable personality, as well as
masterful chops.