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| Fran |
Date: Wednesday, 24-Oct-12, 0:35 AM | Message # 196 |
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23rd October
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Patrick Jane's car is right in front of my house. (The Mentalist) https://twitter.com/aimeekitty/status/260861128580669440/photo/1
I think they are filming a house across the street.
All these trucks n staff (there's more!) All for 1 show n a few scenes! The actors must feel a lot of responsibility! https://twitter.com/aimeekitty/status/260955058479448065/photo/1 |
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| Mossibecca |
Date: Wednesday, 24-Oct-12, 10:57 AM | Message # 197 |
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Oh My.......how lucky is THAT.....I've just been and looked out of my window.....no luck for me!!  |
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| Fran |
Date: Wednesday, 24-Oct-12, 11:16 AM | Message # 198 |
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23rd October
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Getting paid to drive this on the T.V Show The Mentalist http://instagram.com/p/RJlCG2iV9E/ |
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| Fran |
Date: Wednesday, 24-Oct-12, 12:44 PM | Message # 199 |
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UK people - watch out for the new promo on Channel 5, I haven't seen it yet but apparently its quite good. I've set my DVR for the next 3 hours, and if I manage to catch it I'll upload to youtube 
Yeah - got it! There's a long version and a short version. Will put the long version on youtube, working on it now. |
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| Mossibecca |
Date: Wednesday, 24-Oct-12, 5:22 PM | Message # 200 |
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Thank you Fran....about time Channel 5 did SOMEthing to promote this wonderful show! |
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| Fran |
Date: Thursday, 25-Oct-12, 11:19 AM | Message # 201 |
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24th October
https://twitter.com/JISBONforever/status/261275314104176641/photo/1 |
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| Fran |
Date: Friday, 26-Oct-12, 5:17 PM | Message # 202 |
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‘The Mentalist’ zooms in on Robin Tunney and Patrick Jane’s long-running flirtation
Series' 100th episode features flashbacks about how its two main characters got together ... for police work
Contains 100th Episode Spoilers
Just because Detective Kate Beckett on ABC’s “Castle” finally hooked up this season with her handsome consultant, don’t expect lip locks any time soon for Detective Teresa Lisbon and consultant Patrick Jane on CBS’ “The Mentalist.”
“It’s difficult sometimes, but I like how Lisbon and Jane maintain a distance,” says Robin Tunney, who plays Lisbon. “It keeps things more interesting, I think.”
It’s not that there’s no attraction between Lisbon and Jane, played by Simon Baker.
Their interest in each other has been an unspoken subtext of the show since the beginning — a start that will be revisited in detail Sunday at 10 p.m., when the 100th episode of “The Mentalist” spends its whole hour flashing back to the day Teresa met Patrick.
For the record, Jane is the same in episode 100 as he has been in the first 99: annoying, smug, calculating and manipulative, yet oddly charming.
He’s also sad, because he blames his arrogance for the death of his wife and daughter at the hands of a mysterious killer called Red John.
He comes to the police station a year after the murders to see if there has been any progress in catching Red John. He quickly realizes there has not.
Lisbon, who has just taken over the case, falls prey to several manipulations through which Jane hopes to start working on it himself. These eventually involve him in a separate murder case, which of course he solves.
She invites him to become a consultant, for reasons that occasionally strain logic, but do reflect her obvious attraction to him even when he drives her nuts.
“I like playing the relationship” with that ambivalence, says Tunney. “It’s a good way to explore who they are, how they think, how they feel about things.
“It’s fun to play it subtly and let the viewers figure out what’s going on.”
It helps that unlike Kate Beckett and her squeeze, Richard Castle, Lisbon and Jane have not been thrust into intimate personal situations. Also, while both are unattached, Jane’s neurotic obsession with the death of his wife makes him a poor prospect for a new romance at the moment.
That said, Tunney agrees they have a spark that adds intrigue to the show and could, at some point down the road, flicker into something more.
“Maybe in the end,” she says, “we’ll let the audience decide.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/enterta....1192259 |
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| Fran |
Date: Friday, 26-Oct-12, 5:26 PM | Message # 203 |
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Online version of the TVGuide Article posted here as a scan on 17th October
On the Set: The Mentalist Goes Back in Time for the 100th Episode
Contains 100th Episode Spoilers
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Mentalist-100th-Episode-1055066.aspx |
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| Fran |
Date: Sunday, 28-Oct-12, 11:31 AM | Message # 204 |
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I think this was advertising a behind the scenes feature on a news program.
MENTALIST 100TH TZR tonight (0.12): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXUF2LSL3g
Mark S. Allen (in the video) does something called 'Mark at the Movies' for cbs local Sacramento. Don't know if this feature has already aired or not, but he does seem to post videos of some of his features here:
http://gooddaysacramento.cbslocal.com/show/mark-at-the-movies/
They seem to air on a Sunday, so maybe its on today.
Update: I think it was just this clip which I posted on the Home Page:
(2:32) http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/video....episode |
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| Wand6122360 |
Date: Sunday, 28-Oct-12, 1:41 PM | Message # 205 |
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100 Instruments Ring in The 100th Episode of The Mentalist This Sunday
By Blake Neely
Published: Friday, Oct. 26, 2012 - 1:50 pm
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Composer Blake Neely's score for this week's chapter of the CBS drama "The Mentalist" signals his, and the series', 100th episode. The Emmy-nominated composer ("Everwood," "The Pacific," "Pan Am") has written the music for the entire series, beginning with its pilot episode in 2008.
"The Mentalist" follows consultant Patrick Jane, whose semi-psychic powers prove helpful in solving crimes. The impetus and ongoing mystery of the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated series is Jane's hunt for the serial killer who murdered his family.
For this Sunday's landmark episode -- a flashback to a meeker Jane's first few days in the California Bureau of Investigation -- Neely's score employs a poetic 100 different instruments, and treats central character themes like debut statements.
"It was fun for me," he says, "because I could actually go back and say, 'This is where that theme would have actually began, in this scene. How can I do the first inclination of that theme?'"
Neely's music for "The Mentalist" is mainly electronic, with live instruments layered in. He has always subtly helped the audience by linking motifs to related clues. Neely's palette for the series has been defined both by musical voices he chooses not to include (brass, clarinet), as well as the use of several unorthodox instruments -- including, literally, a kitchen sink.
In addition to "The Mentalist," Blake Neely is also scoring the CW's superhero series "Arrow," which is currently the network's number one new series. The latter gives the composer a platform for dark, cinematic underscore befitting a modern masked crusader. For the pilot episode, Neely recorded a full 80 piece orchestra, incorporating only "bowed" instruments, including violins, violas, and bass, with some percussion; Green Arrow uses a bow and arrow, a "stringed" weapon. "Arrow" was recently picked up for a full season.
"What's cool about writing for TV these days," Neely says, "is that a lot of people consume shows in more or less a straight-through sitting, rather than week to week…You watch six episodes and you'll hear a recurring theme that really feels more like when you sit and watch a movie and a recurring theme comes in. That's made it more interesting."
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012....ink=cpy |
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| Fran |
Date: Sunday, 28-Oct-12, 6:48 PM | Message # 206 |
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Thanks Wanda, 100 musical instruments for the 100th episode, what a lovely idea |
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| lenacr |
Date: Sunday, 28-Oct-12, 7:20 PM | Message # 207 |
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This episode will be grand from every point of view!! |
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| kul65 |
Date: Sunday, 28-Oct-12, 11:36 PM | Message # 208 |
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Most interesting piece so far, in my opinion. Very intrigued to see how all the character themes will be woven into the plot of the episode. That thing about 100 instruments should also be neat. I'm gonna be on watch for odd sounds. :P |
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| justlook3 |
Date: Monday, 29-Oct-12, 1:00 AM | Message # 209 |
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That's why the music from Arrow sounds so familiar! To be honest, I don't pay as much attention as a lot of people do to the score (to me it's just background) but I kept thinking that Arrow's music had a similar feel to something else. |
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| Fran |
Date: Wednesday, 31-Oct-12, 11:26 AM | Message # 210 |
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Owain Interview from DigitalSpyUK - 'The Mentalist' Owain Yeoman Q&A: 'We'll come within inches of Red John'
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv....hn.html
Excerpt (due to length of interview, excludes Q&As about Rigsby):
Can you give us any hints on where the Red John storyline will head this season?
"I think the big question has been, 'When will we see Red John?' and the challenge that Bruno Heller has as the show creator is that it's the raison d'être for the show - if you take away Jane's hunt for Red John, the serial killer who killed his wife and child, you take away his whole reason for being and his whole reason for being in the CBI, so it's a fine balancing act of how much you can tease it out without boring an audience.
"Bruno's been very tactical this year and promised we will get within inches of Red John. You know, I'd love to pretend I'm being all kinds of sneaky, but I'll just be dead honest with you and say I really don't know who Red John is! It makes me laugh when you hear actors go, 'I'm gonna have to be top secret about the truth' - I really don't know! I think only Bruno really knows - he decides on where to go with that.
"But we've got Emmanuelle Chriqui coming back playing Lorelei this season, which I think was a wonderful injection of life last season. It's really interesting to see the dynamic between her and Jane, and we've got William Forsythe coming back and Summer (Samaire Armstrong), Cho's prostitute girlfriend, is making a return. We've also got Virgil Minnelli (Gregory Itzin) coming back...
"It's a season full of old faces and we actually will get to see Jane's daughter, but I can't say in what context. It's a season that really explains where Jane came from and his journey to the CBI and we've been promised from Bruno that we will get literally inches away from Red John this season. This is the big season if you are a Red John fan."
Some fans noticed that Jane started going down a darker path last season. Do you think the show can ever get too dark?
"I think it's sort of a challenge. I always thought that the show found its groove in the first two seasons by being a mixture. You know, we all love our cop shows like the CSIs and Criminal Minds - all those shows that have thrived for years because it's a classic whodunnit, and everybody loves to solve a whodunnit.
"I always thought we kind of managed to stick out from the pack by having that element of human interest. We're not just faceless cops - we're all having relationships we've all got problems, Jane's got his demons, Lisbon's got the issue with authority, Van Pelt's got the trouble with her romantic stuff, and you know Tim's character Cho battled addiction last season, so these are real people and the human interest element is what keeps people going.
"We've found that people seem to be responding more to grittiness at the moment. I don't know if that's down to the economy being in a bad place or people just being in a darker place, but they just seemed to have really responded to that and I think it makes the Jane character so much more interesting - under all this lightness, you suddenly see a very dark and possibly slightly mentally unstable place that he comes from.
"I think that layers it and I think you'll see this season with every single character, we peel the onion away and see that none of us are stable characters and none of us have come to law enforcement through a very traditional path. Hopefully that'll make it interesting. You know, I'm not saying there's not an element of humour there, but I think Simon wanted to deliberately take Jane down that path to see how much they could push that envelope."
How long do you see The Mentalist going on?
"I never like to guess. To be honest with you, when we filmed the pilot, I think every part of you as an actor just wants to say, 'Well great, see you next pilot season!' because you daren't wish that anyone will respond to it. This was my sixth series and none of the others had gone, so you just never take it personally. You roll on and you hope that the next one will find an audience.
"I know we're aiming for seven [seasons] and that Simon is the producer for this year, so he gets to have a real direct say in the creative [side of things] and I think he's directing a couple [of episodes]. The workload is so squarely on his shoulders with the amount of heavy lifting that the Patrick Jane character does, I think how long the shows continues will rest on; a) If an audience is still reacting to us and b) How much time Simon feels that he can keep the Patrick Jane character interesting, because he works tirelessly to keep that creative and fresh.
"I'm a cautious optimist and I would love to see it go the full seven seasons. We are in a world of uncertainties, but we could give the show a nice proper conclusion if we said, 'This is our final season', and we could get the chance to tie everything up. Having said that, would I mind if it ended up lasting for twenty seasons? Not at all."
You're a Welsh actor and you've had this big US success. Why do you think there is this trend of non-US actors - Damian Lewis, Andrew Lincoln, yourself - making it big out there?
"I always joke that we're cheaper! But seriously there seems to be a real response to British theatrical training and there's a real respect for that. I had the good fortune to go to Oxford and go to RADA, so training is really respected over here.
"Also, I remember speaking to a casting director and he said to me, 'It's really funny, America's filled with these very good-looking boyish leading men but we can't get many men's men, so we looked to Australia and the UK because you guys... have that rugged element.' If you look at your Russell Crowes and your Eric Banas - those kind of real leading men - they're all coming from overseas.
"I came over to the US in 2004 and it was quite trendy to be British, but now it's quite trendy to be American. It's like, 'Can we get an American to play that American? I'm getting sick of all these Welsh people playing them' [laughs]... but as long as this show continues, I'll be very happy!" |
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