The Crossing Jordan Encyclopededia


	Archive: News December, 26 2005 Jill Hennessy interview from Season 4. December, 12 2005 Leslie Bibb, who plays Detective Tallulah 'Lu' Simmons has been added as a cast regular. ARTICLE: BURBANK, Calif. -- December 12, 2005 -- Leslie Bibb ("Popular") has upped her status to series regular on NBC's "Crossing Jordan" (Sundays, 10-11p.m. ET). Bibb joined the cast in the recurring role of Detective Tallulah 'Lu' Simmons this year at the start of the dramas fifth season. Her character, who is the department psychologist for the Boston Police Department, has provided therapy and romance Detective Woody Hoyt (Jerry O'Connell). Teen filmgoers will recognize Bibb from the 2000 thriller "Skulls" (also starring Joshua Jackson and Paul Walker), but her most memorable role was as teen princess Brook McQueen on "Popular." Bibb's other television credits include the role of Erin Harkins on NBC's "ER" and an appearance on "Nip/Tuck." She also played the lead FBI agent in the political-drama series "Line of Fire." Bibb's first film role was an NBC tour guide in the Howard Stern biopic "Private Parts." Currently, Bibb stars alongside Will Ferrell, Sacha Baron Cohen, and John C. Riley in Columbia Picture's "Untitled Will Ferrell NASCAR Comedy" which will be released on August 4, 2006. Jill Hennessy stars in the edgy drama as a sexy, brilliant and fearless Boston medical examiner with a checkered career -- and a penchant for going beyond the call of duty to investigate crimes. Miguel Ferrer, Kathryn Hahn, Ravi Kapoor, O'Connell and Steve Valentine also star. "Crossing Jordan" is from Tailwind Productions in association with NBC Universal Television Studio. Tim Kring (NBC's "Providence") is creator and executive producer; Dennis Hammer and Allan Arkush are executive producers. December 2005 Orange Coast Magazine Feature article with Jill Hennessy. Read it here: Article December 2, 2005 TV GUIDE interview with Leslie Bibb. Or read it here: Article October 23, 2005 News article in the Boston Herald about Leslie Bibb ARTICLE: Ready to cross 'Jordan': Leslie Bibb stirs up trouble on the NBC drama By Amy Amatangelo Sunday, October 23, 2005 Leslie Bibb knew her arrival on "Crossing Jordan'' would be controversial. She just didn't think she would hear about it from her mother. "My mom calls me, she's like, 'Leslie, they don't like you on the Internet,' '' Bibb said during a recent phone interview. "`They're very upset that you're going to cause this thing between Woody and Jordan.''' Bibb, best known for playing Brooke McQueen on WB's cult hit "Popular,'' joins the cast of "Crossing Jordan'' as police psychologist Detective Tallulah Simmons (and, gasp, Woody's potential love interest) tonight at 10 p.m. on WHDH (Ch. 7). "She's ballsy and she's tough and she's smart and she gets to carry a gun,'' Bibb said of her character. "It's like, `OK, wait, this is too good to be true.' '' The die-hard Red Sox fan (much of our interview was spent discussing the team's loss to the White Sox) is thrilled to have the opportunity to work with star Jill Hennessy, whom she readily admits she had a "girl crush'' on back when she was a struggling actress living in New York and Hennessy was starring in "Law & Order.'' "I really am pinching myself. It's the coolest day at work. I'm working with Jill Hennessy.'' In addition to causing a ruckus among TV's most exasperating star-crossed couple, Bibb recently completed filming the independent film "Wristcutters'' and is currently filming the newest Will Ferrell movie. She'll play his wife in a comedy about NASCAR racing. "I'm really excited. It's definitely the most high-profile thing I've done.'' Even four years after the show was canceled, ``Popular'' remains a fan favorite. Recently she was in Birmingham, Ala., when she was recognized. "Then, when I was like, `Wow, some dude in Birmingham, Ala., totally got the humor of that show,' I don't know why, but it made my day. It was really flattering. It always tickles me and really warms my heart that everyone comes up and says, `I loved that show.' '' After "Popular,'' the actress, who was discovered in a modeling search when she was 16, went on to have a recurring role on "ER'' and star in ABC's short-lived series "Line of Fire.'' The longer she's in this business, the more she appreciates her time on the WB series. "When you're in something, you sort of take it for granted, and I definitely feel like we all took it for granted. I know I took it for granted. You get all of this so fast. You get recognition. You have money and all this stuff. And you're young and you feel like you're finding the cure for cancer when, in essence, you're lucky and you're, like, the luckiest girl. Because there's so many talented actors in Los Angeles and New York, and I really feel that when you are able to work you should always feel like you're so blessed... Now when I look back, what a great first job to have because you did something that people really love. It's just great. Now I see it with much clearer eyes.'' November 2005 Good Housekeeping: Q & A with Jill Hennessy October 2005 The View Interview with Jill Hennessy (video) October 10-16, 2005 Inside TV Magazine: FAQ on Crossing Jordan October 09, 2005 TV Guide: Cheers to Crossing Jordan. September 22, 2005 Article on Garret. OVER BUT THE SCHADENFREUDE: Miguel Ferrer's "Crossing Jordan" character, Dr. Garret Macy, got fired at the end of last season -- and Miguel hasn't heard the end of it. "On the hiatus, people were coming up to me wherever I went saying, 'I can't believe you quit the show!' And I'd have to say, 'I didn't quit the show,'" he tells us. "The best one was after we'd started production again. I was on a weekend trip to Sun Valley, Idaho, and missed a connection in Salt Lake City, and I was supposed to be back in L.A. to shoot the next morning." Told there was a flight he could take but the first-class section was full, "I said, 'I'll fly on the wing if I have to.' So, the plane is packed. I come in, and this guy yells out, 'Oh, sure! You get fired off your TV show, and now you're riding in back with the rest of us!'" Ferrer says he thought of explaining, realized, "I couldn't win this one," and finally just told the guy, "Life is strange, isn't it?" Macy's cliffhanger will be resolved "fairly quickly" into the new season -- which launches Sunday (9/25), but other trouble looms. The character's daughter (Alex McKenna) and ex-wife (Lindsay Frost) are returning, and the producers "just told me to be prepared to 'go dark.'"t; September 15, 2005 TV Guide article on the season premier of Crossing Jordan. July 25, 2005 NBC Universal Season Premiere September 25th at 10pm. NBC Universal Article on the Crossing Jordan-Las Vegas crossover to air in October 2005. July 2005 Courtesy of Extra Meanwhile, actor Jerry O'Connell and co-star Jill Hennessy are getting new love interests on "Crossing Jordan," but is it really because the stars can't stand each other? No -- O'Connell and Hennessy are actually friends and are comfortable playing love interests on the show. Although Jerry told us, "Last season we had a kiss, and she slipped me a little bit of tongue." "He told you that?" Hennessy joked. "I told him not to say anything." June 2005 Monday, June 13th filming for the 5th season began. May 2005 Crossing Jordan was renewed for a 5th season. March 2005 TV Guide Interview with Jill Hennessy (March 20-26 2005)