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Bones Episode Stills from "The X in the File"
29 December 2009 5:45 AM, PST
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When Bones returns with a new episode on January 14, it will pay tribute a show largely responsible for the current trend of investigative dramas and serialized mysteries.
The installment's title might give it away: "The X in the File."
In case that clue somehow isn't enough, Dean Haglund guest stars as a diner owner on the episode. The actor (pictured below) is best known for his recurring role as Richard Langly on - you guessed it - The X Files.
During the hour, Booth and Brennan investigate possible alien remains around Roswell, New Mexico, a city where many people believe a UFO actually crashed in 1947.
Browse through our section of Bones quotes to get excited about the second half of season five and click on the photos below for an early look at scenes from "The X in the File."
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My Movie Diary (2000-2009)
28 December 2009 6:58 PM, PST
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I can’t remember why, I’ve slept since then, but, in January of 2000, I found myself sitting in front of a blank Word document. I had an idea in my head of what I wanted to do, and, now, 10 years later, I’m still working strong at it. I began keeping a sort of diary, listing the days and months and putting down the films I saw in the theater into it. I don’t remember why I only included movies I saw in the theater. I could have started just as an idea-giver on how many movies I actually saw each year (I also kept a running count each year). It began on January 7th, 2000, when I entered Bicentennial Man as my first film in this long and ever-growing endeavor.
In 2000, I saw 166 films in the theater. There were many a high (seeing Gladiator on May 5th and
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Cast Photos – Damages Season 3
23 December 2009 9:31 AM, PST
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Season 3 of Damages will be premiering on January 25, 2010 and several new cast members will be joining the cast (see when your other favorite shows will be returning in 2010). FX has released several photos in anticipation of the season 3 premiere. Damages is a great, dramatic show with solid performances, even if the quality did dip a bit in season 2. If you don't watch it, you still have time to catch up on seasons 1 and 2, before season 3 premieres.
Check out the cast photos below. It's all very dark and mysterious.
Campbell Scott and Martin Short Sign On as Series Regulars and Lily Tomlin and Keith Carradine Take on Guest Starring Roles
FX’s award-winning legal thriller Damages is adding four superior actors to its cast with Campbell Scott and Martin Short signing on as series regulars, and Lily Tomlin and Keith Carradine joining as special guest stars for the upcoming season premiering in January.
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Dexter Keeps On Killing
15 December 2009 12:32 PM, PST
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Season 4 of Dexter may be over, but news is still pouring out. Dexter showrunner Clyde Phillips has decided to leave the show after four award-winning years in order to spend time with his family. "I need to be part of my own life," he told The Hollywood Reporter. Seems a reasonable request, since he has spent the last four years spending nine months in Los Angeles for the show, while only have three months with his family at their home in Connecticut. Taking his place will be Chip Johannessen, whose long list of genre writing and producing credits includes Moonlight, The X-Files, Millennium, Dark Angel and The Crow: Salvation.
Meanwhile, Dexter's record-breaking season went out with a
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Is Mark Sheppard the new Alan Dale?
8 December 2009 10:00 PM, PST
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The pretenders to Alan Dale's cult throne are growing in number. First .eljko Ivanek, then Ray Wise and now a 45-year-old London-born actor by the name of Mark Sheppard. After shooting to prominence with a fiery part in The X-Files, Sheppard has amassed some seriously cultish credentials. All he needs is a role in either Lost or the Whoniverse to make Alan Dale look more like 'Jim from Neighbours' than the King of Cult. The X-Files A mesmerising turn as the pyrokinetic gardener Cecil l L'Ively lit up the first season episode 'Fire'. Sheppard portrayed a man who could make his victims spontaneously combust into flames, along with a penchant for sending love letters to the wives of the deceased. He ended up bursting into flames himself after Mulder's upper-crust English ex-squeeze Phoebe lobbed some rocket fuel (more)
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In Defense Of: 'The X-Files: I Want to Believe'
23 November 2009 2:15 PM, PST
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*There are spoilers here.*
I've been meaning to write this for a while, but wanted to wait until I could give The X-Files: I Want to Believe a second viewing, which I finally did yesterday, on beautiful Blu-Ray. I am a long-time X-Phile; the show, which I started watching around age 13, is one of my formative viewing experiences; I trace my current love for things ambiguous, fantastic and otherworldly squarely back to Chris Carter's brilliant creation. And I dissent in a big way from both the layman and fan consensus on I Want to Believe. I still think, as I did in the summer of 2008, that the movie is a fantastic X-Files episode. But more importantly, I still think it is a genuinely moving farewell to two beloved characters, and one of the most satisfying pieces of closure that any long-running series or franchise has ever given us.
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'Medium' recap: A shade shady
21 November 2009 8:33 AM, PST
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After a somewhat ho-hum start to its sixth season -- and a move to a new night and network (Fridays on CBS) -- Medium has gotten back on stride, and last night's "The Future's So Bright" found the procedurals-are-better-with-psychics drama back at its creepy, inventive best. The episode followed Patricia Arquette's Allison after she borrowed a pair of sunglasses from the department's lost-and-found drawer to deal with a sudden sensitivity to light -- and discovered every person she encountered had a number floating over his or her head that corresponded to the number of days that person had left to live.
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- Michael Slezak
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Bryan Cranston: from Malcolm In The Middle to America's favourite meth dealer
20 November 2009 4:15 PM, PST
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Star who beat Gabriel Byrne and Hugh Laurie to Best Actor Emmy on his role as the terminally ill, drug-dealing teacher at the heart of Breaking Bad, Us telly's most unlikely success
He's wearing a box-fresh stripy shirt, sharp trousers, highly polished shoes. He has a decent head of hair. Leaning back into a leather armchair, this 53-year-old is clearly at ease with the world around him. His teenage daughter, tucked in the corner of an adjacent sofa and plugged into her iPod, smiles sweetly. Rarely has an actor been less like his on-screen persona. Is this what is was like meeting a charming Jack Nicholson just after he'd finished The Shining?
Here's Bryan Cranston in central London, relaxed, healthy, confident, his west coast voice booming through an invisible loudspeaker when he's excited. It's easy enough to recognise him as Hal, the wayward dad from the long-running American series Malcolm In The Middle
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Californication | Your next box set
13 November 2009 2:31 AM, PST
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David Duchovny found his second great role in this sly, funny and startlingly frank adventures of a cultish writer in creative block
It took David Duchovny a while to find the perfect role after The X Files, but a decade on he has struck gold again, as tormented writer Hank Moody. The suspicion that he was perfectly cast as the laconic, irresistibly attractive lead in comedy-drama Californication was only reinforced when, after winning a Golden Globe last year for his performance in the first season, the actor promptly announced he was seeking clinical treatment for sex addiction.
Now midway through its third season in the Us, Californication is the tale of a cultish author struggling with a mid-career creative block, a disorienting move from New York to La, and the collapse of his relationship with his soulmate Karen (the luminous Natascha McElhone, in a nicely pitched study of amused but exasperated indulgence). So far,
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- Tim Lusher
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Kathy Griffin will play gay on "Svu"
11 November 2009 7:00 AM, PST
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Kathy Griffin may not love Lindsay Lohan, but she has celebrated lesbians like Melissa Etheridge and Rosie O'Donnell on her successful show, My Life on the D-List. And then, of course, there was the "kiss" she shared with Aubrey O'Day on last year's Bravo's A-List Awards.
And last week, she told Joy Behar she'd vote Suze Orman for president.
Now, she'll play a lesbian activist on a winter episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
TVGuide.com is reporting that Kathy is set to appear on Feb. 10, which was revealed via the show's producer, Neal Baer, on his Twitter.
Although most people know Griffin for her stand-up and comedic roles, she has played more serious parts (small and large) in shows like ER, The X-Files, Strong Medicine and Privileged.
We don't know much else yet, including what exactly Kathy's character is an activist for and how close she gets with Detective Benson,
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- Trish Bendix
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CinemaSpy's Week-End TV Recap (Nov. 7)
7 November 2009 9:05 PM, PST
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Many television viewers — and pop culture critics — are wondering just what's up with Fox's Fringe. Watchers of the show were caught unaware this past week, not realizing that the network was airing a new episode of the skein until they read about it the next day in various news outlets. Fringe simply wasn't in the listings. People's DVRs didn't pick up the show, because Fox was listed as running Game 7 of the World Series. People believed that the show would be absent one more week.
All of this is raising serious questions about how seriously Fox is treating the show, or indeed, if they're trying to kill it. The Thursday night time slot was their first error in judgment, but lapses in playing to the viewer base by neglecting to promote episodes and air times is something else entirely.
The impression left is that Fox used first-run programming as a backup to a sporting event.
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CinemaSpy's Week-End TV Recap (Nov. 7)
7 November 2009 9:05 PM, PST
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Many television viewers — and pop culture critics — are wondering just what's up with Fox's Fringe. Watchers of the show were caught unaware this past week, not realizing that the network was airing a new episode of the skein until they read about it the next day in various news outlets. Fringe simply wasn't in the listings. People's DVRs didn't pick up the show, because Fox was listed as running Game 7 of the World Series. People believed that the show would be absent one more week.
All of this is raising serious questions about how seriously Fox is treating the show, or indeed, if they're trying to kill it. The Thursday night time slot was their first error in judgment, but lapses in playing to the viewer base by neglecting to promote episodes and air times is something else entirely.
The impression left is that Fox used first-run programming as a backup to a sporting event.
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As Darkness Falls Premiering on Time Warner Cable
4 November 2009 4:45 PM, PST
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We've been waiting for an update on As Darkness Falls, a hybrid television/radio horror anthology series, for some time now, and we recently learned that it will be making its debut on Time Warner Cable in Southern California on Wednesday, November 11th, at 11:30 pm Pst.
From the press release:
"As Darkness Falls… is a program very different from the usual fare on television these days with the chills coming from the performances and writing rather than from tricky special effects work. It is hosted by actor Tucker Smallwood, a well-known character actor instantly recognizable to science fiction/fantasy horror fans for his roles on such series as ‘Space: Above and Beyond’, ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ and ‘The X-Files’.
Series creator John C. Alsedek first developed the idea for As Darkness Falls… back in May of this year. “I’ve always loved the anthology show format and lament that it
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Alynda Wheat's Beat Cop: It's the procedural playoffs -- sweeps month!
3 November 2009 1:38 PM, PST
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It’s sweeps month! It’s sweeps month! Craziness will happen! Casting will be stunty! Networks will actually try!
Yes, Beatniks, it’s that magical time of year when whatever the actual televised content on procedurals—good or bad—it is highly unlikely to be indifferent. Those networks need our eyeballs, so if they want ’em, they'd better be willing to throw us a CSI triple crossover, resurrect long-lost castmembers, and double the Deschanel quotient! (Oh wait, no, Zooey’s not popping up on Bones till Dec. 10. Shoot. That’s one bit of holiday stunt casting I do approve of,
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- Alynda Wheat
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'Gunplay' to be adapted for television
3 November 2009 9:51 AM, PST
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Platinum Studios and Fox21 have entered an agreement to adapt Jorge Vega's graphic novel Gunplay as a television series. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Final Destination writer and producer Glen Morgan is on board to rework the book. Morgan has extensive experience in science fiction television, having previously worked on The X-Files, Millennium and Space: Above And Beyond. Created and written by Vega and artist Dominic Vivona, the supernatural Western won first place in Platinum Studios' 2007 online (more)
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Fox21 Set to Engage in Gunplay
3 November 2009 1:46 AM, PST
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Surprise! Another graphic novel (which is a fancy term Hollywood uses when they want to fool audiences into thinking the subject matter of their next movie was not based upon a comic book) is coming to the screen, but this time it's the small one!
According to The Hollywood Reporter Fox21 has partnered with Platinum Studios to develop a TV series based on Platinum's graphic novel "Gunplay." "Final Destination" writer-producer Glen Morgan is on board to adapt the novel, created and written by Jorge Vega. "Gunplay" centers on Abner Meeks, a buffalo soldier condemned to roam the Old West with a hellish curse slung at his waist: a demonic shooting iron that forces him to kill once a day or suffer soul-searing pain. "'Gunplay' is one of those rare combinations of fantastically created characters and wonderfully told narrative, which creates an inventive canvas from which to play," Platinum Studios chairman
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'Gunplay' Comic Optioned For TV Series
2 November 2009 3:11 PM, PST
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Platinum Studios has signed a deal with Fox21 to develop Jorge Vega’s graphic novel “Gunplay” as a potential TV series.
"Final Destination" writer-producer Glen Morgan has also been signed to adapt the project, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Morgan has a long history with sci-fi/genre TV series, including stints on “The X-files”, “Millennium” and “Space: Above and Beyond.”
“Gunplay” was the winning submission of Platinum Studios’ 2007 online "Comic Book Challenge." Created and written by Vega and artist Dominic Vivona, “Gunplay” is a supernatural western that follows a buffalo soldier named Abner Meeks who is cursed to roam the Old West with a demonic gun that forces him to kill once a day or suffer agonizing pain.
"It is a unique story of an ordinary man who must live with an extraordinary curse," related Fox21 president Chris Carlisle.
Last month, Platinum Studios and Fox21 announced that they are also
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‘The Fourth Kind’ Abduction Featurette and Genre Picks
2 November 2009 10:15 AM, PST
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If you have been eagerly anticipating Friday’s release of The Fourth Kind, here is a creepy little featurette from Universal and Yahoo Movies to prime you for the movie — which you can watch after the jump. It’s no spoiler to note that the plot of the movie has to do with missing people in Alaska, and possible alien abduction. This featurette provides a back-story, so to speak, about the four different kinds of alien encounters.
Still can’t sate your appetite for alien abduction? If so, take a look at these other genre titles while you are biding your time. And, look for our review of The Fourth Kind on Friday.
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) – Arguably the best known in the genre. This movie terrified me when I saw it as a child. Steven Speilberg’s follow up to Jaws racked up several oscar nominations and won for best cinematography.
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Cursed Soldier Roams the West Gunplay
2 November 2009
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As studios look to the next "big thing" (it seems it's shifting to ghosts), some companies are taking risks on genre-bending projects.
Platinum Studios and Fox21 are teaming up for an adaptation of the graphic novel "Gunplay." But it won't be for the big screen, instead writer-producer Glen Morgan ( Willard , The X-Files , Black Christmas ) is taking aim at making it a television series.
Jorge Vegas created the story of a buffalo soldier named Abner Meeks who must kill once a day using his demonic gun or suffer "soul-searing pain."
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Is .eljko Ivanek the new Alan Dale?
27 October 2009 11:00 PM, PDT
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Antipodean actor Alan Dale was known only as 'Jim Robinson from Neighbours' for many years, but transformed his career through a string of appearances in an array of cult shows. However, there now seems to be a rival figure invading the franchises and becoming the 'go to man' when casting agents are looking for a shady villain. Step forward .eljko Ivanek. His distinctly pale features have never been near Ramsay Street but they're threatening to overshadow Jim Robinson himself... The X-Files Ivanek's first foray into the realms of cult television was back in 1994 alongside dour FBI Agents Mulder and Scully. In the first season episode 'Roland', the Slovenia-born actor played the eponymous character - an autistic janitor working in a laboratory where scientists are being brutally murdered one-by-one as they work on some hi-tech (more)
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