On The Red Carpet for K-Ville

Yes, I was the lonely guy at the end of the "Red Carpet" this weekend. The carpet was in fact off-red, but I was the guy at the end of it. The music from Republic, a New Orleans club, was blaring out at me, which made it moderately hard to hear my interviewees, but the air conditioning was pouring out as well, which more than made up for the noise. And, there I was, with my little audio recorder and no press pass, basking in the music and the air conditioning, and trying (with help) to flag down the stars of K-Ville.

K-Ville is, for those unaware, FOX's new show about a group of New Orleans police officers in the present day, dealing with the rebuilding of the city in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Traveling through the city, it is clear that a lot of work still has to happen there, and the show, which films on location, will certainly chronicle some of that effort.

Up first for me were Dominic Purcell and Amaury Nolasco. Though they were not there as a part of K-Ville, they do star in some other show on FOX. It's something called Prison Break, wherein it seems guys break out of prison, go on the run, and then one of them ends up back in prison. They let me in on a little about what is going to happen this coming season, but you are probably not interested in that, so back to K-Ville…

Then came a K-Ville guy, Blake Shields. He plays a younger cop on the force, Jeff "Glue Boy" Gooden. Clearly there was only one question to be asked, but Blake is not sure why exactly his character has that name. He has not yet asked, because he likes the speculation surrounding it. He does, however have a theory; his character is "a step behind" and the butt of some jokes on the force, "so they kind of mess with him… like he huffed too much glue in high school."

Next, John Carroll Lynch (Drew Carey's brother on The Drew Carey Show) came my way. After some good-natured ribbing about me being there on the carpet, he identifies his character, Captain James Embry as "one of the guys who stayed during the storm." Lynch thinks that this allows for a different sort of relationship between himself and the detectives, one that is "much more personal." After watching the pilot, it's clear that Embry is going to have to come down hard on some of his detectives during the season, but it is going to come from a different place than the normal "captain yelling at a cop on the edge" thing that has been seen hundreds of times already.

Article Author: Josh Lasser

Josh Lasser, formerly known as "TV and Film Guy," and complete with a Masters Degree in Critical Studies in said areas, gives his opinions on TV, Film, and Entertainment in general. All of which he does in a shameless attempt to try to get paid to do the exact same thing. …

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