Good enough to get some of the series' players thinking about making ''Homicide'' a semiregular part of the TV movie machine. ''When we were doing press in Los Angeles a few weeks ago, I was saying, 'Can we be the new ''Columbo'' and do a TV movie every year?' And [creator] Tom Fontana told me they were thinking about it,'' says Thorne. Still, the actress has a few reservations about slipping back into Ballard's shoes: ''On the series they made me die my hair black so that Jon Seda and I would have the same color hair for some reason. So for two years I had this black helmet on my head. It was SO upsetting.''
In her next role, as a harried meter maid in the independent movie ''Double Parked,'' Thorne got her chance to lighten up. ''I asked to dye it blond for the movie, and now I keep trying to make it blonder,'' she says, ''but my agents have said, 'Tone it down, we don't want you looking like a heroin addict.''' Talk about a juicy character arc for Detective Ballard.
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