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Entertainment Weekly September 9, 2005
CONCEPT Det. Jack Hale (Anaconda 2's Johnny Messner) hunts San Francisco psychos while trying
to get over the death of his partner/lover. THE SCOOP How's this for partner swapping? Det. Hale's new
partner in the pilot (life as we know It's Marguerite Moreau) will be replaced by another new partner
(Century City's Kristin Lehman) in episode 2. Awwwkard! As an amiable lieutenant, Chi McBride (Boston
Public) lends levity to plotlines that include a rapist who paralyzes women with spiders. Messner says Hale will
be as compelling as the killers. "He teeters on deviance. He's hoping he's not going to end up being that person
they're looking for." BOTTOM LINE We'll watch anything with Mess. (You might say we have an ob-Mess-ion.)
Still, the pilot relealed Hale's deviant behavior in unintentionally funny ways- like when he asks the grieving
parents of a just-murdered girl to meet him at a crab shack.
- July 2005-
KILLER INSTINCT (FOX) - Kristin Lehman ("Tilt") has been tapped to
replace Marguerite Moreau as the female lead in the oft-renamed fall
drama, previously known as both "Deviant Behavior" and "The Gate."
She'll play Marcy Hess, a new character on the series, while Moreau's
character, Ava Lyford, will be written out after the pilot episode.
20th Century Fox Television and Regency Television are behind the
series, which premieres Friday, September 23 at 9:00/8:00c.
This is from Mediaweek.com via Yahoo! News Aug 4 2005
The Premise:
A detective (Johnny Messner) in the San Francisco Police Department Deviant Crime Unit and his no-nonsense partner ( Marguerite Moreau)
attempt to solve bizarre crimes committed by the city's most dangerous criminals
-Lead-in: Malcolm in the Middle
-Competition: Hope & Faith/Hot Properties (ABC), Threshold (CBS), Three Wishes (NBC), WWE Smackdown! (UPN), Reba/Living With Fran (WB)
-Who Was on the Panel:
Johnny Messner, Kristin Lehman, Chi McBride, creator Josh Berman, and executive producers Charlie Craig and Ed Zuckerman.
-The Scoop:
Unlike other dramas where the majority of the criminals are men, Killer Instinct is also putting women on the hot-seat. According to Charlie Craig:
Not speaking to the pilot, but of the subsequent three episodes, we have female perpetrators of these crimes in two of the first three episodes. And the
violence in all those episodes is not necessarily directed towards women. We're trying to tell stories that are more the psychology of how the puzzle of
how crimes take place and why a particular person would be led to want to do these crimes.
-The Reality:
While you can't blame a network for trying to program on Friday, leading out of a sinking Malcolm in the Middle in a time period where Fox has had
no success since The X-Files makes Killer Instinct a flop waiting to happen.
-Chance of Survival for Killer Instinct (Based on a scale of 1-1 to 10-1):
10-1
