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CBS, which has made a fortune over the years trafficking in South Florida corpses on CSI: Miami and Dexter, is about to expand its repertoire to our community's maimed, crippled and comatose. The network is adding a medical drama called Miami Trauma to its schedule next season.
Miami Trauma won't air until after the first of the year, and CBS executives offered few details as they unveiled their new schedule Wednesday in New York -- except that it won't be short on severed limbs or flying organs. The pilot episode alone features a pregnant woman blown up in a car explosion, some full-body burns, a missing hand and ''a little bit of everything,'' as one executive familiar with the show cheerfully explained.
Though studio publicity blurbs for the show bubble about Miami's allure (``The sky is blue and the water bluer. . . . It could be paradise. But even paradise needs its angels.''), the producers themselves apparently were able to resist it. Miami Trauma's pilot was shot mostly on the Warner Brothers lot in Hollywood, with Long Beach body-doubling for Miami, and aside from a few aerial shots, the studio doesn't plan to do much filming in South Florida. (Read more...) |