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| kim |
Date: Friday, 31-Oct-14, 2:22 PM | Message # 826 |
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I am glad that they have gone away from PJ being such a tragic character. I think Simon does an excellent job giving us all of the facets of PJ. But my favorite moments are seeing him smile and laugh and have a bit of a joke. I am so curious about these episodes, even more after Simon's comments in the latest article. I also wonder if the studios silence about this season being the last is just more theater to generate buzz and keep us all talking about it. |
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| Tina |
Date: Friday, 31-Oct-14, 2:33 PM | Message # 827 |
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It's really strange, the secrecy ..
Can a studio ask a network to not announce it when it's the final season and they made up their mind not to go on with a show?
Why did Tim Kang say it's the final season if it's not sure?
Simon doesn't say whether it is or not is the final one, doesn't that mean he would go on? Other actors said it clear when their contract ran out they don't want to go on, Simon doesn't.
Why not say it it's the final season? Does WB maybe have plans to possibly move to another network in case CBS doesn't want to go on?
It's strange, since other shows say when they already know it's ending that it's the final season, and I think it is better for the fans to know, to prepare for the ending. So if it's decided it should be told to the fans. Seems more fair to me than keep them hoping even though there is no hope.
Just some questions and thoughts I have at the moment ... |
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| Fran |
Date: Friday, 31-Oct-14, 3:30 PM | Message # 828 |
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DSP, thanks for posting the Xander Berkeley & Michael Gaston banter, I thought it was hilarious  |
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| DS_Pallas |
Date: Friday, 31-Oct-14, 3:39 PM | Message # 829 |
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Quote kim (  ) I also wonder if the studios silence about this season being the last is just more theater to generate buzz and keep us all talking about it.
Could be that, a well know strategy, yes.
Fran, yes those tweets were a great find! |
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| Tina |
Date: Friday, 31-Oct-14, 4:03 PM | Message # 830 |
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But what for the strategy? Wouldn't people turn in more knowing it was the last season ...to see how it all ends?
What does it bring if they don't say it's the final one? Other shows do say it once it's decided. I just don't understand it 
It's torture for the fans ..and it's cruel if they already know it's the final season. |
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| kim |
Date: Saturday, 01-Nov-14, 3:51 AM | Message # 831 |
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Quote tinamarianne ( ) It's torture for the fans
agreed |
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| DS_Pallas |
Date: Wednesday, 05-Nov-14, 4:52 PM | Message # 832 |
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The Mentalist is back on November 30! 
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| bee |
Date: Wednesday, 05-Nov-14, 6:08 PM | Message # 833 |
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So cute thanks DSP  |
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| Hayseed |
Date: Wednesday, 05-Nov-14, 7:09 PM | Message # 834 |
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Very cute! |
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| kim |
Date: Wednesday, 05-Nov-14, 7:26 PM | Message # 835 |
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DS_P very sweet! Some people are just much more creative than I. |
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| Deedee |
Date: Wednesday, 05-Nov-14, 7:42 PM | Message # 836 |
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That's so cute DSP |
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| Tina |
Date: Wednesday, 05-Nov-14, 8:03 PM | Message # 837 |
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Lovely....  |
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| KathyF |
Date: Thursday, 06-Nov-14, 2:48 AM | Message # 838 |
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OHHHH   |
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| DS_Pallas |
Date: Tuesday, 18-Nov-14, 1:37 PM | Message # 839 |
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I've discovered an old australian article issued in October 2008. Some of you must had already read it, sorry if it's the case.
I never had, and thought it is interesting reading, with the hindsight we have now, as we are approaching the ultimate TM season.
It's Robin Tunney point of view about TM and about her relationship with Simon, at the start of the show.
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The Daily Telegraph - October 01, 2008 12:00AM - By Alice Wasley
Simon Baker meets his match in Robin Tunney on The Mentalist
The crime-drama is a genre that seems to have been portrayed from every angle on television.
And with so many cases being solved using science and technology over grit and wits, it’s not surprising to see the focus shifting to the old-fashioned way of tracking down the bad guys: human observation.
Nine’s new drama The Mentalist stars Australian Simon Baker as Patrick Jane, a former phoney television psychic who becomes a consultant to the California Bureau of Investigation.
He uses the same skills of observation he used to dupe people into believing he had special gifts to track down killers and help solve crimes.
Robin Tunney plays Agent Teresa Lisbon, the head of the squad to which Baker’s character is an adviser to. In her mind though, he’s just a pest.
She’s tough-talking and sceptical of Jane’s talents and his past. This conflict lays the foundations for some verbal sparring which will no doubt be followed by a healthy dose of sexual tension.
Tunney says the premise of The Mentalist offers a different perspective from the usual cop shows.
“Well, I think the idea that it is character driven and it does have a sense of humour about it and its cases (is different). It’s coming from a more eccentric place. I think that Simon’s character is more eccentric than any of the criminals,” she says.
“There’s a lightness to it; it’s not CSI where there’s hi-tech science and DNA. It’s more akin to Columbo and there is that sort of old-fashioned feeling.
“The unit within it is more like a dysfunctional family. It goes back to plain old observation. A combination of Columbo and Sherlock Holmes.”
As well as looking at the human side of crime solving, series creator Bruno Heller wanted to put a different spin on the psychic, Tunney says.
“Basically he said he got the idea because his wife was really into these shows like Ghost Whisperer and Medium, and he thought it would be fun to do a show that was more cynical and showed how people do that stuff,” she says.
Tunney, who starred alongside another Australian, Dominic Purcell, in Prison Break, has also appeared in a number of films, including The Craft and Vertical Limit. She will next be seen in The Burning Plain with Charlize Theron, which is to be released later this year.
Tunney says she was attracted to Heller’s writing and the prospect of working with him on The Mentalist.
“I read the script and I thought it was really clever. I’d never been somebody to watch a lot of procedurals but I liked the banter between my character and Simon’s,” she says.
“And also the fact that it had a really interesting tone for a show like that. It had moments of humour and moments of seriousness and I also think for an actor it was a little bit more character driven.
“I think that the whodunit of it all is sort of fun but that at the end of the day it’s about the character.”
Though she was predominantly attracted to the material, Tunney admits she had a personal reason for taking on the role of Teresa Lisbon.
It seems not only are the Aussies nabbing all the plum roles in Los Angeles, they’re nabbing the women as well.
Tunney’s boyfriend is Australian writer-director Andrew Dominik, who’s best known for his debut film Chopper and last year’s The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford and she says that, having met Baker through the Aussie LA network, working with him was also a selling point.
“To be totally honest Simon and I have some friends in common and I’d met him before and I always thought he was a really good actor and on top of that I also knew that he was a really decent guy that I got along with,” she says.
“Proximity in television is really extreme, as opposed to a movie.
“You can work with someone you don’t like personally for four months and it’s not good but it doesn’t dictate your life. In a situation like this I wanted to be sure that I knew and liked the person I’d be working with both creatively and personally.
“We have a fantastic time. Simon, he makes me laugh. Like all good Australians, he takes the work seriously but not himself.”
Baker is best-known to US viewers for his starring role in The Guardian in which he played a troubled lawyer who had a run-in with the law and is forced by the courts to go from a corporate drone to someone who steps into bat for the underdog.
Tunney says that Baker’s role on The Mentalist shows more facets of the actor’s personality.
“I think it’s a great role for him. I first saw him in (Ang Lee’s) Ride With The Devil and I was like, wow that guy’s really good,” she says.
“My boyfriend was obsessed with him on The Guardian. And he is funny, which I would never have guessed by watching that show.
“He has that great Australian ability to take the piss out of himself. It is useful to have a sense of humour about yourself. It is nice to see that side of him. And it makes the day go by a lot more quickly.”
So, having an insight into the situation, what does she put the proliferation of Aussies in Hollywood down to?
“I don’t know – they’re really good actors,” the 36-year-old says.
“There are not a lot of people who live (in Australia). It’s remarkable, the number of them that are working (in the industry).
"I think they have an easier time with the American accent than the English or people from other countries. I know lots of them and they spring up everywhere – once you know one.
“You can be travelling too, and you’ll be in the middle of nowhere and the person you’ll see on the other side of a mountain is an Australian,” she laughs.
The first sparks of sexual chemistry between Tunney’s character and Baker can be detected in the first episode and Tunney says she is looking forward to a slow-burning flirtation.
“What’s great about it is – and this is why a lot of actors have turned to television – it really takes it’s time.
“It’s like one of those Moonlighting things. They’re completely opposite and there’s the banter that comes with that.
“I love all those George Cukor, great movies and Bruno’s been writing to that.
“They’re two formidable opponents, which is fun. There are not a lot of roles out there for smart women.”
One of the downsides of all that banter is the pages of dialogue she has to learn before stepping on the set.
“It’s unbelievable – because I’ve never had this big a role on television before and I’ve done movies I thought, I’m tough, I can handle this.
“They’re very long days. It’s a lot more dialogue and you go at a much faster clip than you would on a movie. Luckily we have a great group of people around and you feel safe.
“It’s OK to screw up and inevitably everybody will. It’s been a blast.”
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| Peithon |
Date: Friday, 05-Dec-14, 6:40 PM | Message # 840 |
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Daniel Cerone's TV series, Constantine, based on the comic books, has been cancelled, Jordan Harper is now working on Gotham.
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