Body of Proof [ABC]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_of_Proof

The series stars Dana Delany as Dr. Megan Hunt, a medical examiner. The show will focus on Hunt's efforts to balance the demands of her professional life with her personal life. Hunt was previously employed as a top flight neurosurgeon who has a life changing automobile accident. Her boss is the city's chief medical examiner, played by Ryan.
A brilliant neurosurgeon, Dr. Megan Hunt had it all, or so she thought. As the first female head of Neurosurgery at a prominent university hospital in Philadelphia, she never paid attention to how the requirements of her profession were reflected in her personal life, until her husband divorced her and she lost custody of their seven-year-old daughter. Still not recovered from the emotional trauma, Megan was physically transformed – a car accident left her with a condition called paresthesia – random attacks of numbness and cramping of her hands. Tragically, this disease did not appear before Megan went back to work. During an operation, she lost control of her instruments, which resulted in a patient's death. Megan's life as a neurosurgeon was finished.
Five years later, Megan has found new life as a court-medical expert. Although she no longer belonged to patches what is wrong with respect to living patients, it still instinctively ran to the discovery of causes of death for patients and the disclosure of who was responsible and why. As she seeks answers, she finds clues in the bodies of the dead. The body, in fact, is the proof. And with her unique blend of intelligence, instinct and medical knowledge, she can read the body like no other.

Promo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4sr8DL_LB4

thegoodgirl

Sorry I can't see the promo, when does this start.
I've been looking forward to this one since it was announced. It will wither go straight into one of my favourites or I will give up watching it after a couple of episodes.

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thegoodgirl wrote: »

Sorry I can't see the promo, when does this start.
I've been looking forward to this one since it was announced. It will wither go straight into one of my favourites or I will give up watching it after a couple of episodes.

29 March 2011 on ABC

JP Liz V1

Starts tonight

Dilynnio

Did anyone watch this?

Had it on for 5 mins and turned it off..............the two characters I disliked from DH are in it.

May try it again if I get bored!

JP Liz V1

http://www.digitalspy.ie/ustv/interviews/a329591/body-of-proof-dana-delany-interview-im-kind-of-a-science-nerd.html

Can you give us an overview of Body of Proof?
"It's a mystery show where I play a medical examiner, and every week we're going to have a different body and find out how the person died. But it's more than that. It's also a character driven show in that my character, Dr. Megan Hunt, used to be a neurosurgeon, and then her life takes this turn where her husband has left her because she's so obsessed with work, gets full custody of her daughter, and then she has a car accident that makes her hands go numb so she can't operate anymore. She has to change her life completely. I see this turn in her life as a way for her to redeem herself. In many ways, she's learning from the dead people how to be a human being again, or how to be among the living. There's going to be strong evolution of the character."

So it's not a standard procedural?
"No, it's not. I personally feel that people are getting a little tired of that, that they want more about character. Even towards the end of Law & Order you started to get back stories about the detectives. I think people are a little more hungry for that now."

So tell us about your character, Megan.
"She's very complex, that's why I like her. Well, first of all I like her because she's really smart. I'm kind of a science nerd - I really like all the medical stuff. She's complicated, not always nice, kind of abrupt, direct, gets very impatient with people because sometimes they're not as smart as she is. And she's also flawed. She's not a good mother, she didn't know how to be a good wife, so she's learning about those things. She also has a very strong mother and a very strong daughter so there's a lot of tension!"

Do you think it makes it more realistic, that she's not perfect?
"Yeah, well, are you perfect? I think we're all kind of imperfect and we're all constantly evolving, hopefully."

So how does Megan change?
"In the pilot people say to her, 'You need to get some friends', because she's always kind of done everything on her own and relied on herself, and so she's learning how to ask for help, which I think is difficult. She's learning how to listen to her daughter and not just try to take over. She's going to finally let some man into her life so we'll see how that goes..."

Can you tell us anything about that?
"It's going to be a dashing FBI agent that she's working with. I won't tell you who, but it's somebody you know. He's pretty well-known. It's great."

Did you have fun shooting those scenes?
"Yeah, that was fun. Up until that episode I'd been pretty much all business, you know?"

Do you think it's important to examine the work-life balance in the show? It's something that affects lots of women.
"Yeah, I know it affects me. I certainly think I hide behind my work a lot, because first of all I love my job. I love to act, so I'm not going to stop acting. But it is hard to find the balance. I don't know how most women do it. I mean, I've never been married, I don't have kids, and I always marvel at women that can do that because I don't know that I'd be able to do that. I think I made that decision early on, that I wouldn't be able to do that. I remember Katharine Hepburn saying something about that years ago, that acting is a very selfish job, you have to be to do it well. I think it's hard to come home from working 15 hours a day to cook dinner for somebody. I don't know that I could do that. When I come home from work I've got to learn my lines for the next day, so you have to have a really supportive partner."

You mentioned a love interest, but how does Megan's relationship with her daughter change?
"Mary Matilyn Mouser plays my daughter. She's a wonderful young actress and I feel lucky that I get to act with her now because I think she's going to be great. In the beginning, which I really like, she doesn't let me in. She's really tough with me. She says, 'You weren't there for me, don't pretend to be here for me now'. She's really good because she's not letting me in and I have to prove myself and back off once in a while and say, 'OK, when you're ready, you tell me when you're ready'. I have to learn to listen to her. Usually I'm telling everyone what to do, but she's the one person I can't tell what to do."

Normally your own daughter is the one person you can boss around!
"Yeah!"

What was it about the show that appealed to you?
"It's a complex character, which is nice for an actress. In TV you can really do that and have a complex female role. In movies, you tend to be the wife or the girlfriend. And also I like mysteries. I read them. I read a lot of mystery crime novels. I love the medical stuff. I think in a prior life I was a doctor or something. I got to do the research and I've been to four autopsies now and I get to participate in them. That's an honour, to be able to witness that because the average person doesn't get to. That was something that made me one, revere this instrument that we're all given and made me really want to take care of myself, and then also it makes you understand why Megan Hunt is honouring these people that are dead. You have to remember that these were human beings and they lived a life. Our show is right - the body is the proof, because once you make that Y incision and you open them up... Like, if I opened you up now I could tell you how you lived your life just by looking at your organs. It's quite amazing."

Were there any specific challenges to doing a medical show?
"The words. The words are hard. It was really hard at the beginning. I don't know if you know, but I'd actually had a car accident very similar to my character. So I had a concussion and it was hard anyway to remember anything, let alone medical terms! So there were words that were hard but the brain does adjust. I think that it's a muscle that you just need to exercise - it's not actually a muscle, but it's some neural pathway. I should know this, I'm a neurosurgeon! But it starts to become easier after a while. By the end of the 13 episodes that we shot I could look at a word, I could figure out how to pronounce it, I could figure out pretty much what it meant and then I would just look on my iPad and look up the procedure and the word and it would give me what it really is. It was cool."

You left Desperate Housewives on good terms - could we see you back on the show in the future?
"I hope so, yeah. [Creator] Marc Cherry left it open and said, 'We'd love to have you back and see what happens to Katherine'. So I'm curious. I'd like to see what happens to her."

Body Of Proof begins on Tuesday at 9pm on Alibi.

JP Liz V1

Well it got a third season renewal but lot of exits

John Carroll Lynch, Nicholas Bishop and Sonja Sohn are out

thegoodgirl

Wow I can't believe that. How will they continue without them?

Temaz

The lead character is far too smug for my liking.

Patty O Furniture

Maybe 'Bud's' off on extended Paternity leave & Peter's getting reaccquainted with his long lost dad, god knows what yer wans gonna do.

There's me thinkin they joined up 2 stars from The Wire, but instead got wound up:(

JP Liz V1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zKENG3sz4E

Season 3 starts 19th of February 2013

tinkerbell

Thanks JP Liz! Is that the US airdate or the airdate for Ireland?

JP Liz V1

tinkerbell wrote: »

Thanks JP Liz! Is that the US airdate or the airdate for Ireland?

US

Richard Dower

Dana Delany seems stuck up, so.....it finally got axed after three seasons: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/05/10/suburgatory-renewed-by-abc/182130/

Has she ever revealed who the father of her child is??

Richard Dower

lol....no second repreive for this show, got saved last season...no luck this time: http://www.deadline.com/2013/06/tough-year-for-cancelled-series-happy-endings-no-go-at-usa-body-of-proof-rip/

JP Liz V1

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Body-Proof-ABC-1072395.aspx

Could be resurrected yet?