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Falling Skies slowed things down a bit this week.
Not every episode can feature a major battle between the survivors and the aliens, for both production reasons and storyline reasons. The show wouldn’t last half a season if that were the case.
But Falling Skies has done a strong enough job building up characters that “Grace” felt like more than filler.
I was fully invested in the fate of Mike’s son, in Hal’s guilt and in the way Anne argued with Dr. Harris. And while the motorcycle excursion felt like a waste at first, it revealed an enemy far more dangerous than the Skitters and the Mechs:
Tom may have been steadfast in his order that we’re “not shooting kids,” and the team may have found a way to escape. But what if they face this situation again? What if it’s kill or be killed? It might not be so easy for Tom to bark out such an order.The character of Lourdes, meanwhile, seems contrived at this point. All she does is pray and all anyone talks to her about is faith? But she did lead a nice scene to close out the hour.
In order to be invested in the show, we need to be invested in these characters. Therefore, it’s important to take time and focus on their journey, struggle and bond, as we saw when they sat around and ate dinner. Not many other programs of this nature would have been content to conclude an episode in such a quiet manner.
Questions raised on “Grace” include:
- Is there any hope for harnessed kids?
- What does the connection between Skitters and airwaves mean?
- Will Harris ever stop being a jerk?
Falling Skies is an American science fiction television drama series created by Robert Rodat and Steven Spielberg. The series is broadcast in the United States on the cable channel TNT, and is a production of DreamWorks Television.
Falling Skies stars Noah Wyle as a former college professor who becomes the leader of a group of soldiers and civilians struggling against an occupying alien force.Moon Bloodgood co-stars as Anne Glass, a therapist who works with the surviving children to help them cope with the traumatic situation. The series also stars Drew Roy as Hal and Maxim Knight as Matt, Tom’s two sons; and Seychelle Gabriel as Lourdes, an orphaned teenager who helps run the group’s commissary.
Falling Skies premiered on Sunday, June 19, 2011, with a two-hour premiere.
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Frank Darabont’s new series “L.A. Noir” has landed on TNT. The network has ordered a pilot from the former showrunner of “The Walking Dead” for the project which he started shopping shortly after he quit the AMC series.
“L.A. Noir” is based on John Buntin’s book “L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America’s Most Seductive City”. Set in the ’40s and ’50s, it chronicles the true story of the conflict between the Los Angeles Police Department and the crimeworld, led by mobster and former boxer Mickey Cohen.
“Noir is a passion of mine, so I feel blessed to delve into a project that speaks in the hardboiled vernacular,” Darabont said in a statement about the project. “John Buntin’s superb book, though non-fiction, is our touchstone and inspiration for the stories we’ll be telling, weaving fiction throughout the facts and facts throughout the fiction.”
Darabont will serve as executive producer along with Michael De Luca and Elliot Webb. He is also set to write and direct the pilot.
In another news, Darabont’s unused idea for “Walking Dead” season 2 opener has been revealed. In a letter to Ain’t It Cool News, the 52-year-old confirmed that he wanted to kick off the second season with a flashback episode which saw the early days of the zombie apocalypse.
It would follow “a squad of Army Rangers getting trapped in the city and trying to survive as Atlanta falls.” For the proposed plan, Darabont hired Sam Witwer to make a cameo as the Tank Zombie, whom Rick ended up shooting inside a tank in the middle of zombie-occupied Atlanta.
The show filmed in front of the Truck Norris food truck yesterday in L.A.
In these new pics we get our first look at Lucy, who just joined the cast for season 4, in costume as an L.A. police officer. According to TMZ, Lucy recently strapped on body armor for an LAPD ride-along to prepare for her new role as a police officer.
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … Liu donned a bullet-proof vest and sat shotgun with an LAPD officer Friday evening … as they toured some of the most gang-infested parts of Watts in a squad car.
Check out a couple more photos below and be sure to let us know if you spot Southland filming in Los Angeles!
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The excitement of having the Leverage episodes back is on high and after last week’s premiere episode of Leverage Season 4 we have another mind blowing episode waiting for us. Last week only wait of the series fans got over as the series came back for another season.
The fans cannot stop gushing about the premiere episode of Leverage Season 4 “The Long Way Down Job” as it was a very interesting episode with Leverage episode taking the team on the Alaskan mountains for investigation of a case. Till the end the episode made me stick to the screen. The team was solving the case of a missing climber who had evidence against a corrupt financer.
Finally as every Leverage episode the Leverage team gets hold of the killer with the help of victim’s message sent before dying.
This week also we expect an interesting case in upcoming Leverage Season 4 Episode 2. This episode will be aired on 3rd July, Sunday and will be titled “The 10 Li’l Grifters Job”. We will be seeing in this episode the team falling into a sting while they are solving a case. Actually the team will be after a mark to solve the case, but before it can do that the mark is killed. This calls for trouble for the team as the case needs to be solved and the murderer should also be found to get out of the sting.
You need to watch Leverage Season 4 upcoming episode 2 to know who killed the mark and whether the team gets out of the sting or not. To catch this episode watch “Leverage” online.
Only few days are left for the new episodes of The Closer Season 7 to start airing. On 11th July fans of the series will be watching The Closer Season 7 premiere episode. Nobody can miss the premiere episode of their favorite crime drama and not only the premiere episode fans cannot afford to miss a single episode of this season as it is last season of the series. So all you fans stay tuned and watch “The Closer” online.
The final season of The Closer series is coming with major changes in the storyline as it is being reported by the creators. The changes are coming just to pave way for the spin off series or new continuation series named “Major Crimes”.
But in order to make way for the new series The Closer series may not harm its own image, thus reducing its fan following. As it is not necessary that fans accept the changed storyline instead fans may not even look forward for the upcoming new series also.
The storyline of The Closer Season 7 episodes will be carved in such a way that Kyra Sedgwick’s character of Brenda Leigh can exit from the series as she will not be the part of the continuation series.
All the fans of The Closer series are well aware that Brenda Leigh is famous for outrageous methods of breaking the hard core murderers and this season we will be seeing Brenda and team landing into trouble for these methods. As we will be seeing mother of a homicidal gang member, who was accused for killing an elderly store owner and his grandson, filing a lawsuit against Brenda and LAPD.
To know what happens further in this case we have to wait till 11th July and watch “The Closer” online.
Watch a sneak peek of the upcoming episode of Leverage Season 3 Episode 14 “The Ho, Ho, Ho Job” which airs on Sunday December 12 2010 at 9pm on TNT.
Synopsis: Leverage Season 3 Episode 14 “The Ho, Ho, Ho Job“ – The Leverage team comes to the aid of Santa Claus, or a reasonable facsimile therein, and take over a mall on Christmas Eve. Eliot poses as Santa while Hardison and Parker are his helpers, and they find themselves in more trouble than expected when an old enemy resurfaces.
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“The Closer” is no more after this upcoming season. TNT, on Friday, December 10, announced that its long-running crime drama will not return beyond the seventh season that airs next year. Production of those final 15 episodes is scheduled to begin next spring.
“It’s impossible to fully express our appreciation to Kyra Sedgwick, series creator James Duff and all of the other talented people who brought The Closer to TNT viewers,” said Steve Koonin, president of Turner Entertainment Networks. “The Closer was a pivotal series in setting a new course for TNT’s original programming, while also serving as a prime example of the storytelling strength possible on cable television.”
In return Sedgwick said, “I cannot fathom how difficult it will be to say goodbye to the incredible family we’ve created on The Closer. I will always be grateful to James Duff for his love and friendship, as well as for creating such a rich and complex character who I have loved living with year after year. Mike, Greer, Rick and all of our outstanding cast and crew are forever in my heart. I want to thank TNT and Warner Bros. Television, as well as the incredible fans of The Closer, for all of their unwavering support over the last seven years.”
“The Closer” began in 2005 and has delivered Sedgwick a Golden Globe in 2007. Currently in its sixth year, the drama is averaging more than 8 million viewers weekly. While the number is good, it only pulls 1.0 rating in the adult demo, which doesn’t look good for advertisers.
TNT is giving us one heck of a Christmas present: the return of Leverage. The series returns to finish out its third season with a two-week event – first with its Christmas episode on December 12, and then with a two-hour season finale the following week. To get you ready to get even, I sat down on Wednesday with series stars Timothy Hutton (Nate Ford) and Beth Riesgraf (Parker) to dish about what’s happened over the season and what fans are about to dig into. 
The first episode back is a holiday-themed episode. I have a dislike for holiday episodes, because a lot of the time, they come off as corny or forced. What about Leverage‘s holiday installment is going to break that mold?
Timothy Hutton: For me one of the things that avoids that nicely is that here you have the Leverage team infiltrating this mall for kind of the sole purpose of saving Santa’s reputation, and it makes for a great show. Things that are kind of sacred in people’s minds about what the season is about and everything get kind of trampled on and the team comes in to restore that, and they do it as kind of another case without any kind of sentiment. And it ends up being kind of a nice twist where they get pulled in to the holiday spirit in a way they didn’t expect. It’s one of my favorite shows, the holiday one coming up.
How was it like having a season long subplot this season, with the Damian Moreau story?
Timothy Hutton: It’s been great because we didn’t, of course, have that in the first season or the second season, to sort of have this kind of ongoing nemesis [in] Damian Moreau.
[It's] about keeping the stakes high, the team having to kind of be on their toes, and every single character that you meet along the way in the third season ends up having some kind of pointed relevance as to what the team needs to do to get to Damian Moreau and that their mission isn’t going to be complete [until they do]. So it gave us all kind of something.
Each episode of season 3 had its own kind of specific goal, but there’s this larger goal, with twists and turns that were always kind of put in our way. It finally gets realized and comes to this amazing kind of place in the final two episodes where there’s the confrontation with Damian Moreau and the web that he’s cast across everything and everywhere.
Beth Riesgraf: I’m going to go ahead and let you take over, Tim, because you’re doing great. No, I agree. What he said.
Beth, of course, inevitably a lot of these episodes see you manuevering through air vents or off the sides of buildings. How much of your stunt work do you actually get to do?
Beth Riesgraf: Sometimes I do things I probably shouldn’t. No, I’m kidding. I don’t know. You know, if it’s written and it’s something I can do safely and there’s time for me to do it, obviously I’ll do it. But sometimes because we’re shooting so fast, they’ll have to have a stunt double do something that maybe I could do. There’s definitely stuff I cannot do at all, so of course she fills in.
There is a some fun stuff I got to do in the finale and some other things I got to do that I hadn’t done before. And it’s fun for me, but at the end of the day I’m not a stuntwoman, so I need to be realistic about my limitations, and they’re very good at helping me, [as far as] what’s safe for me to do.
Part of what makes your characters so compelling is that they’re both rife with personal issues, struggles that we can identify with. Tim, in particular, it seems like Nate has been through the wringer. Are we going to see more of that dealt with at the end of season three and into season four?
Timothy Hutton: With Nate, his starting point was pretty bad. Over the years the writers have come up with these interesting ways to not just keep him having this one kind of cycle of problems, but to have other things happen to him. People coming out of the woodwork that he was hoping he wouldn’t see or have to deal with, along the lines of Sterling, his old nemesis when he was an insurance agent and then his father shows up. So beyond the drinking and the grief of losing his son and his marriage falling apart and all those very real things, since he’s chosen to go on this path with these other characters, some other things start to happen.
He’s definitely got a lot of issues and we haven’t seen the end of problems with Nate Ford. I think there’s going to be more to come.
Beth, the same could be said for you, with Parker’s social awkwardness and her personality. Where do you see her heading from this point forward?
Beth Riesgraf: Actually, I don’t think about that stuff. For me it’s best not to think about trying to create any sort of effect with that kind of stuff, but just play the truth in the moment and sort of how she would feel about situations.
I don’t think Parker’s a vain girl and she doesn’t think about her appearance in the way maybe some other girls would or whatever. I think her mind is like a computer so she sort of processes things differently than many other people would.The nature of what she does and her viewpoints on life, those types of things shape the way she talks and thinks. Her life experiences have shaped where she’s at now. And some of those barriers have started to come down a little bit because of being part of the team, and everything she’s experiencing with them.
Celebrating the holidays has to be interesting for both your characters because of those things, I would assume.
Beth Riesgraf: She loves the holidays. That’s one of the great things, I think, about Parker is that at any moment she gets really excited about things, and in [the] holiday episode you get to see that side of her. With Christmas and her enthusiasm about Santa Claus and all that stuff, there’s some pretty great stuff in that episode.
Timothy Hutton: I think he’s miserable when it comes to the Christmas season and everything, because of the loss of his son and the break-up of his marriage with Maggie. The whole idea of people celebrating and joy and all this sort of stuff just makes him absolutely miserable, and he wants to just be alone.
The episode starts in one of my favorite ways. I always love it when Beth and I have scenes together. It just becomes kind of fun and it’s so easy to make her laugh in the middle of a scene. Whenever we’re with Beth in a scene and the camera is on her, any little thing can get her going.
Anyway, the episode starts off with this really nice moment with Parker and Nate where Parker is just so into it being Christmas and the holidays and everything, and Nate is just not. He wants to be left alone and Parker is just bugging him, you know, with the Christmas spirit and everything. It was one of my favorite things that I read, this little scene that we get to do in the beginning of it. In those situations Nate would rather just, you know, be somewhere else but around a lot of people.
My thanks to Timothy Hutton and Beth Riesgraf for this interview. Leverage returns December 12 on TNT.
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