Kyra Sedgwick is The Closer. As the star enters her fifth season solving the seemingly unsolvable crimes of Los Angeles, Sedgwick pauses to speak about the show’s phenomenal success, The Closer’s June 8 premiere and how she balances fame and family.
Sedgwick’s Brenda began the cavalcade of award-winning actresses of film migrating to TNT. After Sedgwick and The Closer, Oscar-winner Holly Hunter rocked Saving Grace, and now Jada Pinkett-Smith is joining the drama powerhouse this summer with her Hawthorne.
When The Closerfilms in LA, the wife of Kevin Bacon is 3,000 miles from home in New York. The Golden Globe winner shares how, as her own family grows up, she looks at her Closer family more maternally.
Sedgwick’s street smarts
SheKnows: With each passing season, The Closer only seems to become more real. The new season premiere is a classic example. What aids you on set with that process?
Kyra Sedgwick: Well, we have someone on the show who is a 25-year vet of the LAPD. He was originally sort of our — just someone we consulted. Now he’s a writer on the show. The way he talks about crime is always from the victim’s point of view, and I think that this is a vision that’s shared with James Duff, the creator of the show. Brenda is the advocate for the victim and the victim’s family — and is sometimes the only living, breathing person who is advocating for the victim. And because of that, I think we have to include those who are affected by the murder of somebody. I definitely do think that it is somewhat of a mission statement of the show — to really be the advocate of the victim, show what murder’s really like, how it affects people… the horror of it.
From tvguide.com, TNT will be airing a marathon of The Closer beginning at midnight (12:00 a.m.) Monday, June 8th, leading up to the season 5 premiere.
The Closer Episode: “Products of Discovery”
Episode Synopsis: Season 5 opens with Brenda and her squad digging for clues into the murder of a family of four, but the case changes course when Brenda unwittingly tumbles into an FBI investigation. Elsewhere, Provenza’s usually zesty mood suddenly turns downcast. Lee Tergesen guest stars. Original Air Date: Jun 8, 2009
We’ve just posted a scanned copy of the Town & Country July 2007 article, with cover and pictures, on the Articles page. The document is a total of 8 pages, including the cover. We scanned the pages with high resolution to allow for printing. Consequently, it will take some time to load the article. When you select the article, you will be given the option to open or save. Due to its size, you may prefer to save the article to your hard drive and view it from there.
This completes the move to a new server and the site redesign. We’d like to thank everyone for their patience during this time!
The entrance page no longer reflects the new links to the individual pages. However, each of the main section pages has working links to all other sections. Addiitonally, the links on the right side of this blog can also be used.
Again, thank you for your patience during this project!
Images from TNT’s Upfront on May 20, 2009, will be posted later. In the meantime, from BroadcastingCable.com
By Alex Weprin — Broadcasting & Cable, 5/20/2009 9:46:00 AM MT
Posted at 10:45 a.m. ET
Turner Entertainment Networks pulled back the curtain on the programs in development at TNT, TBS and TruTV Wednesday.
Among the projects are an untitled alien invasion project backed by Steven Spielberg for TNT and a half-hour sitcom, The Game of Life, from King of Queens star Kevin James.
The company also said that it would launch its new George Lopez TBS talk show in November, drama Men of a Certain Age, starring Ray Romano, in December and animated series Neighbors From Hell in early 2010.
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Zapata, Texas (working title) - The husband-and-wife team of Kyra Sedgwick (TNT’s The Closer) and Kevin Bacon co-conceived and will executive-produce this project, which is the story of a small Texas border town and its newly elected sheriff, “favorite son” Zeke. Zapata, Texas will follow Zeke as he navigates the equally treacherous waters of small-town politics and the volatile world of the U.S./Mexico border. Bacon is attached to direct the pilot.
We’ve just posted some press information for Season 5 to The Closer page. The season’s theme will be all about “change”. One change will be the departure from the squad of Irene Daniels (Gina Ravera). She will be sorely missed!
Go to the Season 5 page and select Season 5 Press at the top - or just click the image below:
We’ve added two new sets of images to the Image Gallery - May 09, 2009 images from the CNN White House Correspondent’s Dinner and May 12, 2009 images from Game 5 of the Western Semi-Finals with the LA Lakers.