BUZZ FACTOR You rate the show CONCEPT Homicide detective (Kathryn Morris) investigates long-abandoned murder cases. Much as we wanted the title to inaugurate that new Inuit-cop-show trend we keep hoping for, this one's set in Philadelphia. THE SCOOP Executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer, new king of TV crime shows (''CSI,'' ''Without a Trace''), says the notion of reviving cold cases makes the show distinctive: ''[We] layer into [the plots] how solving or not solving a crime 20 years later changes people's lives.'' (There are spookily effective flashbacks to the violence that was perpetrated.) Bruckheimer continues, ''Plus, we have new technology that they didn't have when the crime was first committed.'' As for Morris, he points to her portrayal of Tom Cruise's wife in ''Minority Report'': ''We saw how strong she was and thought she'd make a great TV-show [heroine].'' BOTTOM LINE Morris does world-weary so well, she makes ''Trace'''s Anthony LaPaglia seem as effusive as Carrot Top; the trick will be to keep ''Case'' from being as downbeat as that other Philly show. No, not ''Philly,'' silly: ''Hack.'' |
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