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| sylvia5993 |
Date: Friday, 21-Sep-12, 11:53 PM | Message # 151 |
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Bruno only writes and directs the first and last episodes of any season, and I think the season 4 opening epi was probably one of the lesser ones. Not at all believable, but that is my opinion and I still think the first and 4th seasons were the best. |
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| DS_Pallas |
Date: Saturday, 22-Sep-12, 11:18 AM | Message # 152 |
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Just want to tell that last Tuesday night, September 18th, on french TV channel TF1, The Mentalist hit 9,150,000 viewers (34 % of audience share) with S04 ep 04 "Ring around the Rosie".
We are 65 millions in France, 98% of French people have a TV at home. So it's not bad, don't you think…
In fact, I heard this morning on the radio it was the best audience a TV series has never reached on French TV ever! Congratulations to Simon and the team!  |
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| Peithon |
Date: Saturday, 22-Sep-12, 1:24 PM | Message # 153 |
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In my opinion, the series rates in this order, 1,3,4,2. There is a certain magic to a first season that cannot be duplicated, but there wasn't a bad episode. Three was excellent tho dark, but the continous thread really built and they added Cerone who is terrific as a writer. Two and four had memorable episodes, but the rest were all over the place in quality. The sports related episodes have been particularly weak for whatever reason. |
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| Fran |
Date: Monday, 24-Sep-12, 11:57 PM | Message # 154 |
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Patrick Jane is the partner fans wanna tell secrets to. Watch @Partners_CBS 2nite 8:30/7:30c: http://www.cbs.com/shows/partners/partner_up_vote/ |
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| Fran |
Date: Tuesday, 25-Sep-12, 11:05 AM | Message # 155 |
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The Mentalist guest star Augie Duke’s fantasy turns reality
http://marcandrew.ca/intervi....reality
Rising star Augie Duke has lived out a fantasy that most women, and some men, only dream of.
“I got to meet Simon Baker,” she sighs over the phone from her apartment in LA.
The twenty-something actress guest starred on The Mentalist, the CBS hit drama that launched Simon Baker into an international sex symbol.
Since The Mentalist debuted in the fall of 2008, the Australian heartthrob’s been named one of the sexiest men alive by People Magazine and the sexiest man on television by TV Guide.
“And he’s much better looking in person,” Augie says. “What a hottie.”
Augie appears in the series as a juvenile deliquent that Simon Baker’s character, Patrick Jane, charms and manipulates in order to solve a crime.
“I have a role that I’ve been playing a lot lately. It must be my Jack Nicholson eye brows,” Augie laughs.
“I play a queen of the bad kids who has nothing better to do than cause havoc. Simon’s character finds me and thinks he’s going to get info out of me about a teacher who died. And of course he does end up getting some dirt that helps with his investigation.”
As “Something Rotten in Redmund,” the 20th episode of season four, aired back in April, Augie crossed meeting and working with Simon Baker off her bucket list, a fantasy the young starlet didn’t think would materialize.
“I thought I blew it,” Augie says. “I actually thought it was the worst audition I’d ever done and I was nervous. There were so many people reading for the role and other characters. I mean, it’s a big show.”
Augie left her audition, accepting what she saw as a fresh failure and was mentally preparing to move on.
“On my way out, I told my agent, ‘I think I fucked this one up.’ But an hour later they called and said they’d love me for the role. It’s funny, it goes to show that you never know what they expect from you,” she says.
As for Simon, he was everything Augie anticipated and more.
“Simon’s such a great guy. During our scene, I remember he put a box down so I wouldn’t pass it and said, ‘Now that’s where you stop.’ He’s really fun and silly. I’d call him a confident jokester,” she says. “We had a great time. This was my little big fancy moment.” |
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| kul65 |
Date: Wednesday, 26-Sep-12, 9:32 AM | Message # 156 |
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This here just popped up: http://www.tvguide.com/News....29.aspx
What's this I hear about Lisbon getting her own Red John-like obsession on The Mentalist? — Destiny
ADAM: It's true. The show is crafting a three-episode arc during which creator Bruno Heller says Lisbon "becomes like Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive." But who is she after? The show is casting two likely suspects: There's an adventurous multimillionaire playboy who buys spacecraft and travels to exotic locales to distract people from learning the real source of his income, as well as a cerebral, mysterious government official. Whoever it is, Lisbon will more clearly understand Jane's obsession. "She gets a bit of a killer instinct," Heller says. "Once you've felt that urge and that need, you understand people in that same frame of mind much better." |
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| lenacr |
Date: Wednesday, 26-Sep-12, 9:37 AM | Message # 157 |
 Dinkie-Di
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Are they talking about Mashburn? I like him, and I would love to see his return... |
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| Nixenkind |
Date: Wednesday, 26-Sep-12, 10:14 AM | Message # 158 |
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It's certainly not Mashburn- they wouldn't bring him back as a bad boy who needs to be hunted down Tommy-Lee-Jones-style all of a sudden, would they? And if Lisbon gets into a similar frame of mind as Jane with Red John- how should she come from the harmless flirting and onenight-stand with Mashburn to THAT?
Message edited by Nixenkind - Wednesday, 26-Sep-12, 10:15 AM |
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| lenacr |
Date: Wednesday, 26-Sep-12, 3:33 PM | Message # 159 |
Dinkie-Di
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Ok. But Lisbon was supposed to be slightly obsessed with Mashburn in his second appearance, and twice (two episodes) he has been presented as a bit 'dodgy', till the last minute. |
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| Fran |
Date: Thursday, 27-Sep-12, 1:22 AM | Message # 160 |
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Radio Interview with The Mentalist Creator Bruno Heller by TVTimeMachine
http://www.tvtimemachine.com/1333....-heller
Excerpt on youtube (sound & photos only) where Bruno talks about Simon/Robin/Lisbon/Jane:
(4:26) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LGPEiA8BXc |
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| lenacr |
Date: Thursday, 27-Sep-12, 5:32 PM | Message # 161 |
Dinkie-Di
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Nixenkind, you are absolutely right... What a pity though!
Message edited by lenacr - Thursday, 27-Sep-12, 5:32 PM |
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| sylvia5993 |
Date: Friday, 28-Sep-12, 1:22 AM | Message # 162 |
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The interview gave us even more insight into the persona of Patrick and Red John, and even though I always thought Heller to be a master storyteller, he is both humble and brilliant. Looking forward to this year as benchmark of his abilities to keep the audience enthralled and connected. Thanks Fran for finding this great interview. |
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| kul65 |
Date: Friday, 28-Sep-12, 10:43 PM | Message # 163 |
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HitFix interview with Robin Tunney - Robin Tunney talks changes ahead for 'The Mentalist':
"The Mentalist" will be kicking off its fifth season with new episodes Sunday, Sept. 30 at 10:00 p.m., but that's not all that's new. It's a new night for the series, which will be up against stiff competition from NBC's Sunday night football and ABC's "666 Park Avenue." Star Robin Tunney isn't scared of no programming changes… oh, wait, maybe she is. I spoke to the actress at the TCA press tour and she discussed how she really feels about the new night, what she sees happening this season, and her feelings about Jane and Lisbon opening "the locked box."
So, a new night for "The Mentalist"?
The interesting thing is we're moving to Sunday night, which is scary. We're on after "The Good Wife," so we have to be even better because that show is so good. The actors are all so good on it.
Still, you guys are well-established. It can't be too scary, can it?
I think any sort of change, you're always like, oh, what's gonna happen? It's scary, but it's exciting at the same time. I think the next season is going to be a great one. We're getting more focused on Red John. It's ramping up, and I think we're gonna have more arc episodes that aren't stand-alones. There's always a crime.
It seems like this season is set up to go very dark.
Yes, it does, and Simon's character gets very dark. I think it's a testament to the network and the studio that they let that happen, because he's such an intrinsically lovable guy and such a commercial persona. I think it's going to keep going.
If Patrick Jane is getting dark, what does that mean for your Senior Special Agent Teresa Lisbon?
My character's been getting angrier at all the stuff that's going on, second-guessing him. It's always fun to have change, not that doing the same thing for five years isn't fun. But I don't think Bruno Heller is afraid to mix things up and I think so often people just do what's safe. And Simon Baker is so intrinsically charming and winning, you can have him smiling and being adorable, but at the same time having these revenge plots makes it surprising and different.
Before this, you were better known for roles in features like "The Craft" and "End of Days." What's it like for you to be in a long-running series from the jump?
I didn't know what I was getting myself into. I've never been on a show for five years. I had no idea how this worked. I feel really grateful and blessed, and Simon [Baker, who plays mentalist Patrick Jane] is a very good friend, somebody who I value the opinion of and I enjoy the company of, which is really fantastic. But I had no idea how this process worked, and I was sort of shy about making suggestions, and then you get more comfortable. I think as an actor, I thought better.
Is there anything you're hoping for for Lisbon this season?
I think finding out more about who she is and who she came from, I think that would be interesting, what her past was and how she became who she is.
Is there ever a chance Lisbon and Jane will hook up?
The locked box! The locked golden box! I don't know if it's at the end of the show, I don't know. Because people's interpretations of it are so much about who they are. Some people are like I don't see it at all, and some people are like, I'm dying for it to happen, I think it's romantic! Everybody's different in what they see, like they've got no chemistry or they've got so much chemistry! It's not romantic, it is! I don't know what Bruno is going to do, but they've got to wind up the show somehow. Maybe with a handshake. I know him so well at this point it would be really weird.
Are love scenes really easier with complete strangers?
They are. It's easier when you don't know the person so well.
So where do you stand on Jane and Lisbon opening the locked box?
I sort of want what Bruno [Heller, show creator] wants, and I sort of feel the integrity of the show; it's sort of nice to have a platonic relationship that's very close. And it doesn't have to be romantic to be intimate, almost. You can be very close with someone of the opposite sex and not have that be the driving force.
I've heard some fans are simply thrilled your show has one of the few strictly platonic male-female relationships in TV.
Yes! You need us!
Source: http://www.hitfix.com/starr-r....ntalist |
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| Fran |
Date: Friday, 28-Sep-12, 11:24 PM | Message # 164 |
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Thanks kul65. I think it would be nice to find out a bit more about Lisbon's journey to this point, as long as it doesn't become too major a theme. I like that Robin wants the show to develop in the way that Bruno wants - I feel exactly the same way about it. |
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| beautyfulbabyboy |
Date: Saturday, 29-Sep-12, 0:51 AM | Message # 165 |
 True Blue
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thank you, kul65, for posting this!
I am happy this Quote (kul65) You can be very close with someone of the opposite sex and not have that be the driving force
I would like to see more about Lisbon´s past - this topic was always left out to us viewers, exept from very few information like the drunk-driver-thingy and we got to know one of her brothers...
I really like the Lisbon-character more and more and I feel I have to find out more about Robin as an actress and in person now - sorry, I was too busy with Simon so far  |
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