Cold Case

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Template:For Template:For Template:Infobox television Template:In-progress tvshow Cold Case is an American hour-long fictional television show about a police division that specializes in investigating unsolved crimes. The show is set in the city of Philadelphia.

The series first aired in September 2003 on CBS and was billed as one of the most-watched shows in its first season. It has also been sold internationally, screening in several other countries worldwide (see list below).

1 Characters
2 Trivia
3 Controversy
4 Reviews
5 International
6 External links

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Characters

Lilly Rush played by Kathryn Morris
Scotty Valens played by Danny Pino (Rush's partner)
Lt. John Stillman played by John Finn (Rush's mentor)
Det. Will Jeffries played by Thom Barry
Det. Nick Vera played by Jeremy Ratchford
Det. Kat Miller played by Tracie Thoms (Season 3-)

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Trivia

The show's theme song is "Nara" by E.S. Posthumus, who also made the song Posthumus Zone for CBS Sports' The NFL Today and The NFL on CBS.
Each show makes extensive use of era-appropriate music for flashbacks to the year in question (e.g. In an episode of a murder in 1994, the episode featured Kurt Cobain and added grunge songs from the same era, a genre of music that Cobain had popularized.).
The episode broadcast on March 12, 2006, used the theme music of the hit Fox show House.
Cold Case is notable for double-casting: it will cast a young actor for the flashback sequences and a more seasoned actor for the shots in the present, and cut back and forth between the two, to show how the character has aged. The episode "One Night" managed to triple-cast one character, showing him in the present day, when he committed his murder and when he was a teenager.
Nearly every show ends with a set of scenes showing the murder, Detective Rush arresting the murderer and seeing a vision of the grateful-looking victim standing nearby, who then quickly vanishes (this aspect of the show is meant to represent Rush's imagination, since the show is not about the supernatural).
A real life "cold case" investigative organization, known as the Vidocq Society, is based in Philadelphia, and may serve as inspiration for the show's theme and location.

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Controversy

In 1998, a similar Canadian series called Cold Squad debuted, several years before Cold Case. Fans of Cold Squad accuse the American series of copying the basic premise and characters of the Canadian version, and at one point the creators of Cold Squad launched legal action against the makers of Cold Case. Both shows air in Canada. Waking the Dead is a similar British TV series about a "Cold Case Squad", which first aired in 2000.

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Reviews

Critical reaction to Cold Case has been mostly favorable, citing its distinctive use of "flashback" scenes-within-scenes, period music, and uplifting storylines.

A 2004 episode based on the "Boy In The Box" [1], a still-unsolved 1957 Philadelphia homicide, was criticized for giving viewers the false impression that the actual case had been solved. (It should be noted that other television detective dramas such as Law & Order routinely base episodes on actual cases, including this one.)

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International

Country	Name	Translation	Station
Argentina	Cold Case		Warner Channel
Australia			Nine Network
Norway	Cold Case		TVNorge
Chile	Caso Cerrado		TVN
France	Cold Case : affaires classées		Canal Plus
Germany	Cold Case - Kein Opfer ist je vergessen		Kabel1 (Germany), ORF1 (Austria)
Hong Kong	鐵證懸案		World Channel of Asia Television Limited
Ireland	Cold Case		TG4
Italy	Cold Case: Delitti Irrisolti		RaiDue
Japan	Cold Case Meikyuu jikenbo		WOWOW
New Zealand			TV One
Poland	Dowody zbrodni	Proofs of Crimes	TVN and TVN Siedem
Singapore			Channel 5 of Mediacorp
Spain	Caso Abierto	Open Case	TVE and Fox
Turkey			Cnbc-e Channel
UK	Cold Case		Sky One Sky Three
Finland	Todistettavasti syyllinen	Proven Guilty	MTV3