By Diane Wild of TV, eh?

Luke Kirby’s Jimmy Burn is clearly the title character of Cra$h & Burn, premiering Wednesday on Showcase. Catherine Scott, played by Vancouver actress Caroline Cave, may just be the Crash.

“It was a clever spin,” she says of the Toronto Star article that so labelled her. “I had failed to see it so directly, but it’s actually true. We see her in the middle of a divorce, with a demotion in her career. She’s sleeping around a lot, she’s drinking a lot. We meet her on her descent, whereas Jimmy’s on his way climbing up and out.”

Burn is an insurance adjuster with a shady past, trying to build a stable future with his fiancée in the Paul Gross-produced drama. “I’m his boss, the legal counsel for the company, and in my eyes he’s the lowly adjuster,” explains Cave. “I’m better educated, I’m from a better social class, but there’s certainly a huge attraction between them.”

“I’m attracted to his feral quality, his lack of apology that he does come from a world that’s a little less structured. He’s accountable to fewer people in his life than I am. We do some vicarious living-out of certain dreams through one another, and there’s definitely a very strong physical attraction.”

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From the Writers Guild of Canada:

• Here is the second podcast in the series, Malcolm MacRury discussing his show Cra$h and Burn.
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From Bill Harris of Sun Media:

• Adventures of a heroic insurance adjuster
  “After Hurricane Katrina, bitter residents of New Orleans were of the opinion there will be a special place in hell for insurance adjusters. And now, for your TV viewing pleasure, here’s Luke Kirby playing an insurance adjuster who is — wait for it — the protagonist. Really? ‘That’s right, mark my little circle in hell,’ Kirby said.” Read more.

From a media release:

SEX, GUNS, THE MOB AND MONEY. JUST ANOTHER DAY IN THE INSURANCE BUSINESS

• Showcase launches new original series Cra$h & Burn
• Sleek companion website will be loaded with thrilling interactive features including digital car collision and detective game

Showcase delves deep into the surprisingly dangerous and often unsavory world of insurance fraud and investigation with the launch of the new original dramatic series Cra$h & Burn. The 13 one-hour episodes will air Wednesdays at 9 pm ET/PT beginning November 18, 2009. This marks the first time a one-hour original drama has been solely commissioned by Showcase.

Cra$h & Burn follows streetwise insurance adjuster Jimmy Burn as he navigates the gritty city streets. He is squeezed between the cutthroat corporate culture that is big insurance, the con artists that make a living claim by claim and the city-wide infiltration of organized crime. Throughout the series, Jimmy must dodge shifty clients, crooked lawyers, backstabbing co-workers and the Russian mob as he fights to keep his job. All the while, fighting to make a life for himself and struggling to grab a piece of the middle-class dream – home, family and security.

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