Title: Body of Proof
And we finally have the list of shows which will have a panel this Sunday, the day ABC/Disney has to promote their new shows.
ABC/DISNEY — Detroit 187, Body of Proof, Mr. Sunshine, My Generation, No Ordinary Family, The Whole Truth, Modern Family, Better with You, Secret Millionaire, Happy Endings.
There’s no word on who will be there, but usually the main cast members and at least one of the producers of the show are there.
As we finally have a release date for the movie, now called Camp Hell in some websites, and the date being 13 August yet as a limited released in US so far, today we bring you the poster.
New promos of both shows have been just added to our gallery, all in HQ.
I just updated two albums. First, the 2008 Emmys photoshoot with the finally untagged versions of the shoots except the ones with Felicity. Then the More magazine photoshoot, with finally good quality photos as some of them were a bit blury. So enjoy!
Yes, here we go again with that day. I added more photos to the closing ceremony redcarpet and then to the inside of the ceremony, where you’ll see Dana getting the award.
It’s a very small one but still counts. A new outtake from a photoshoot I added a couple of months ago, and speaking of photoshoots, Jeri Ryan said she’s in a photoshoot for Body Of Proof for Tv Guide, no clue about Dana being there but we’ll keep an eye out there just in case!
V – Dana’s left us a new message, per usual we are re-posting them as many of you were coming to us again, letting us know that you’d be rejected from the official site.. again. We’re sorry to hear that and I hope someday the webmaster will grow up. It’s not Dana rejecting the posts, at all. I have no doubt that she would love to hear from all of you, and your wishes and whatnot.
R – I swear I panicked when I read she was in that car-bus crash. Now time for you all to read.
happy 4th of july to all of those here at home, and happy summer to those abroad, except of course our southern hemisphere friends.
i am typing with one hand because, i got hit by a bus. literally! my car was totaled and i am lucky that i only broke two fingers. it was a great lesson in humanity. the woman behind me who was honking incessantly for me to turn, left the scene of the accident without bothering to see if i was ok. and yet a total stranger sat with me for an hour and then drove me home. she was my angel. the fact that the bus driver asked for my autograph after plowing into me, i am choosing to ignore. as i said, i am lucky to be alive.
a further irony is that my character in “body of proof” has a car accident in the pilot and her hands go numb. let’s hope that all i have are fingers that will heal.
the next day i observed an autopsy with our wonderful tech advisor. it was a privilege and utterly fascinating. we are given these machines(our bodies) that work in the most miraculous of ways. how could we not take care of them? I, for one, feel like it is a gift that we must honor. and if anyone out there smokes- stop!
i am heading to RI in a week or so. it feels a bit daunting- like starting college in a new town. buying sheets and towels and all that- but it’s the adventures that keep us engaged.
thanks for being such regular members of the IHOP! i actually mentioned you all when i accepted the audience award for Desperate Housewives in Monte Carlo. it’s you that make my work possible. and as you know, i love what i do.
take care- and watch out for busses running yellow lights! life is precious.
dana
R – I can guess her little silver prius is not doing well either, but at least we know she’ll be able to recover. I can’t believe the bus driver asked for her autograph after the accent, just like seriously? You do that after you smack her car? And I’m glad to be right when I said she thanked her fans in code in Monte Carlo. We still have to upload the video.
V – During Dana’s tough time we wish her a safe and speedy recovery, it’s great to know that she’s otherwise okay. Hopefully we’ll find out if her mailing address is changing so any of you who wish to send get well wishes can do that. Before I got the whole story from Rebeca, I was completely hoping she broke her fingers hitting the bus driver in the face. What he did was not cool.
I’ve been reading some articles about the fest and getting some info from my personal sources, but all in all: it is a mess.
Some tell me Dana’s confirmed to be at the festival whereas others tell me that nobody from the cast or crew are confirmed to attend. See? This is why it’s a mess. Then I read articles and none confirm Dana attending yet she’s the only one mentioned when the show is brought up.
Now to make it all messier, Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett, Castle) will be at the festival. Guess what episodes she’ll be promoting/presenting there? Tick Tick Tick and Boom! Hello, more Dana right there. All that has more Dana in three episodes, both Castle eps and the BOP pilot, that Desperate Housewives’ Season 5, the first half at least.
Also add Marg Helgenberger (CSI) will be there for the screening of CSI’s season 10 finale and getting the RomaFictionFest Award for Artistic Excellence someone would think that’s too many Dana former co-stars in just a few days.
Conclusion: too many things point at our lady being at the festival and yet nobody truly confirms it, so I’ll be keeping an eye next week about the fest and I’ll inform you all about what happens.
Now that ‘Desperate Housewives’ has rejuvenated her television career, Emmy-winning actress Dana Delany will be starring in the new ABC procedural drama ‘Body of Proof’, which promises to be one of the top contenders of the fall season.
In the series, she plays neurosurgeon-turned-medical examiner Dr. Megan Hunt, a charming yet snarky individual who she likens herself to be the female version of House. The dramatic pilot balances her professional cases with her private travails, including reconnecting with her estranged daughter.
But does this dynamic role mean the end of her run on ‘Desperate Housewives’? At the end of last season, Katherine Mayfair (Delany) and reformed stripper Robin Gallagher (Julie Benz) were off to Paris for a romantic vacation. Since Delany and Benz both have new ABC series in the fall, their characters’ fates are up in the air.
With burning questions in hand, TV Squad caught up with Delany at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival to get the lowdown on her new show and her possible ‘Housewives’ future.
With ‘Desperate Housewives’ you have thrived in an ensemble setting. Do you feel more pressure now that ‘Body of Proof’ is going to be centered on you?
It will be different. I have to say that ‘Housewives’ is the easiest job in the world because there are so many great actresses on it, and you only work two or three days a week. It’s so well-produced, and this is a whole new gamble. I don’t know how it’s going to be. We’re shooting in Rhode Island, so it’s going to be a challenge to uproot my life to shoot there in Providence. [Editor's note: The show is set in Philadelphia.] It’s going to be a whole new thing — new writers, new cast, new character.
The pilot is engaging because your character combines a bit of Katherine Mayfair and a bit of ['China Beach' protagonist] Colleen McMurphy.
That’s a good comparison.
Are you channeling some of your past roles into this? Or are you totally looking at in a completely different way?
I’m looking at it in a new way, but I’m me, I’m not Meryl Streep. [laughs] She’s the one who can transform herself.
What really drew you to ‘Body of Proof’?
It’s a very well-written, and it’s a great character. She’s complex, she’s strong, she’s smart, you don’t always like her. I like playing characters that are little complicated and that you don’t necessarily like at first, then you grow to appreciate them. I don’t worry about being liked. I like to be more challenged than that.
For you, in what ways is this different than other medical dramas?
I think ABC always wanted to have a procedural because they’ve done so well for CBS. Who would not want to have that? They think of themselves as more of a character network, more character-driven, so this one has a great character, and a lot of stuff is going to be motivated more by the character than the plot.
Does this mean that you’re definitely leaving ‘Desperate Housewives’?
We don’t know. It depends on what happens with this. We’ll know by the ratings. When this got picked up, Marc [Cherry, the showrunner] very nicely sent me a big thing of flowers with a little note that said, “I’ll be here waiting.” So I wrote him back and said, “I like a man who waits.”
How is this new series going to change things? Before ‘Desperate Housewives’ you always enjoyed your life and enjoyed traveling. How have things changed since?
I’m a little tired. I’m a little daunted because I’m not young. After I finish here [in Monte-Carlo], I’m going to the Caribbean for a week, just myself and nobody else, with a stack of books and my new iPad. I’m just going to lie on the beach and read. I’m going to need that because once we start on this it’s be all me and all these medical words that I don’t understand.
Would you have done the same thing six or seven years ago?
Probably not. I think ‘Desperate Housewives’ took me by surprise, how much I enjoyed it. I forgot how much I like doing television and forgot how much I like being part of an ensemble. I just like acting. That’s all. I just really like to act, and it makes me happy.
In the recent past you have talked about wanting to get married, but at the same time you’re not sure if you can find someone who could accept your freewheeling lifestyle. Do you still find it a challenge after all these years to find a relationship with someone who will quite understand your lifestyle?
People think I’m a little odd, especially for a woman. If you’re not married by my age there’s something wrong with you or you’re a lesbian or something. But I think people are coming around to my point of view. I think people are realizing that freedom is so underrated, that you can just do what you want. You can still have relationships, you just make sure that they’re with people who understand that you’re you and they’re them. I have a friend who says that if everybody just did what they wanted it would be a happier place. The key is to be honest about it. You can’t lie about it. I couldn’t pick up right now and go to Providence if I was married. I think Jeri [Ryan, my co-star] is going to have a hard time because she has two kids, and I think she’s freaking out. But I can do that.
Do you think we’ll be seeing more characters like you on television — mature women who are independent and doing what they want?
Obviously, there are great roles for women on television. Glenn Close, Edie Falco and Laura Linney are all [doing] great now. But it’s interesting because I went to this More magazine convention in Chicago, and I think there is a groundswell of women now who realize that marriage isn’t what it’s cracked up to be and are really okay about that. A lot of people are coming up to me saying, “Thank you for saying it’s OK not to get married.” Everyone feels pressure — it’s the urge to merge. You’re told that you should be with somebody.
‘Sex and the City 2′ got trashed by a lot of people. It’s like those women are now being punished for behavior that people liked from them in the past because of their age.
That’s too bad. I haven’t seen the movie. On this show ['Body of Proof'] we are going to have a costume designer who is 74 years old. She showed up at my house dressed in high heels, a skintight white suit with white and blue hair, and her 35-year-old boyfriend dropped her off. I thought, “Ok, that’s still possible.” It’s whatever you want it to be.
Who’s your favorite fashion designer?
Prada. It just fits me well, I think it’s artistic. I appreciate what she does.
Why did you choose the character of Dr. Megan Hunt as your next role?
It chose me. ABC called me and said they’d like me to do this role, and I said, “Don’t I already have a job?” And they said, “Maybe not.” I’m in this maze of life where I want to keep going, so I thought, “All right, why not?”
ABC
Dana Delany has admitted that her new show Body Of Proof will be a “gamble”.
The actress explained that having the lead role in the series will be a change from her part on Desperate Housewives.
“It will be different,” Delany told TV Squad. “I have to say that Housewives is the easiest job in the world because there are so many great actresses on it, and you only work two or three days a week. It’s so well-produced, and this is a whole new gamble. I don’t know how it’s going to be.”
She added: “It’s going to be a whole new thing – new writers, new cast, new character.”
However, Delany explained that she enjoys playing a “complex” character in the series and revealed that the show focuses on people rather than plot.
“I think ABC always wanted to have a procedural because they’ve done so well for CBS,” she said. “Who would not want to have that? They think of themselves as more of a character network, more character-driven, so this one has a great character, and a lot of stuff is going to be motivated more by the character than the plot.”
Body Of Proof will premiere on ABC later this year.
Delany: ‘Body Of Proof scripts are hard’
Dana Delany has admitted that she finds it difficult to remember the medical terms on her new show Body Of Proof.
Speaking to AOL, Delany explained that she enjoys playing medical examiner Megan on the show.
“She’s a fun and very three-dimensional character,” she said. “She’s very driven, very smart, sardonic – kind of like a female House. She’s smarter than everyone else and she knows it, and she makes sure they know it too.”
However, Delany revealed that the hardest part about the show is remembering her lines.
“I heard from a doctor that when you go to medical school you have to learn about 10,000 new words,” she said. “Not only that, but the ones I’ve learned are so hard to say. I’m hoping I’ll get better at it.”
She added: “I have to say them really fast so it sounds like I know what I’m talking about. Apparently when George Clooney was in ER he would write the words on the bodies and I may end up having to do that myself.”
Body Of Proof will premiere on ABC later this year.