What an interesting and entertaining summer it’s been for television. New Shows like Covert Affairs and Pretty Little Liars seemed to come out of nowhere to become hits, while reliable standbys like The Closer, Breaking Bad and Mad Men maintained their positions and won big at the Emmys. And for off the charts nasty fun, there was, once again, True Blood.
With the fall season getting underway [The CW and FX have already introduced new shows and the big guys are following over the next couple weeks], it’s definitely time to take a look at the best of this past summer and offer a couple of comments on the few new shows that we’ve seen debut over the last week.
Note that I have not included Mad Men in my summer list because I simply did not have time to include it in my schedule. A separate overview for MM will appear once the new fall season premieres have appeared.
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Breaking Bad,
Burn Notice,
Covert Affairs,
Hellcats,
Leverage,
Memphis Beat,
Nikita,
Pretty Little Liars,
Terriers,
The Big C,
True Blood,
Warehouse 13,
White Collar
Over the last few years, Tim Matheson, best known for playing Eric in the original Animal House, has become a fixture on USA Network shows. Besides directing episodes of Psych, Burn Notice, White Collar and Covert Affairs [where he directed the pilot, thus setting the tone for the series], Matheson has also guest starred as arrogant bank robber Edward “The Architect” Walker on White Collar and recurred as the charmingly dangerous [or is it dangerously charming?] ex-spy/freelance mercenary, Larry Sizemore over five episodes [so far] on Burn Notice. Little known fact: Matheson is big on Asian films!
I had the great good fortune to take part in a teleconference Q&A session with the former voice of Jonny Quest [yes, Matheson has done some legendary work] where, because of an unusually small turnout, I was able to ask more than usual couple of questions. Thanks to Matheson’s energy and enthusiasm, it was one of the most enjoyable interview experiences I’ve ever had.
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Burn Notice,
Covert Affairs,
Interviews,
Psych,
Tim Matheson,
USA Network,
White Collar
Matt Bomer on the Set of White Collar
A few weeks ago the fine folks at USA Networks treated yours truly to an overnight stay in the Big Apple to visit the set of their hit show White Collar. I tweeted live from the event at the time. If you saw my Tweets you’ll know I’m a terrible tweeter, but beyond that not much happened during the visit. We were ushered into a plain windowless conference room for most of the day, we got a chance to do a quick five minute walk through of the set. What little we saw was quite impressive, especially the FBI Office – just a beautiful big, open set. We also saw the various apartments and Peter’s FBI Office. We weren’t allowed to take any pictures which was disappointing. But I do love talking with fellow TV Bloggers, we generally all get along really well.
Hillarie Burton on the Set of White Collar
USA Networks treated us like a million bucks, the swag bag they gave us was incredible and they treated us all to a NY Breakfast Buffet at the Hilton before we left. We got a chance to interview the cast and crew (Tiffany wasn’t there but we’re getting a phoner with her this week). Sheldon has been posting interviews from the Cast and Crew over the last few weeks. I will post audio from the Set Visit over the next few weeks. We had a surprise guess interview from Hillarie Burton, at first no one recognized her name and we were all like who is she? When she walked in and I realized it was “Peyton” from One Tree Hill I went all fangirl on her. She was so cool about it. She called Matt Bomer the 7th Wonder of the World and then she laughed when I said she’s worked with some of the hottest guys in Hollywood.
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Interviews,
USA Networks,
White Collar
Last week, I had the opportunity to take part in one of those teleconference Q&A’s that are becoming a way to connect networks and shows to a grassroots audience – in this case, with creator and executive producer of USA’s White Collar [9/8C], Jeff Eastin.
The witty, offbeat series is just into its second season, and Eastin talked with the usual gang of bloggers/journos about what to expect in terms of story, character development and how he and his writing team create worthy adversaries for the FBI/con artist team of Peter Burke and Neal Caffrey.
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Jeff Eastin,
Matt Bomer,
Tim DeKay,
USA,
White Collar,
Willie Garson
In the first season finale of White Collar [USA, Tuesdays, 9/8C], master con artist Neal Caffrey [Matt Bomer], caught between running away with his one true love, Kate, and giving up the life of a con on the lam, hesitated – and an explosion destroyed his getaway plane, killing Kate.
It’s no surprise, then, that in this evening’s second season premiere, Withdrawal, Neal, once more behind bars [however temporarily], has vengeance on his mind. Fortunately, he doesn’t have break out of jail [again] because good old FBI Special Agent Peter Burke [Tim DeKay] gets him back on the street to help nail a phantom bank robber known only as The Architect.
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Grade: A
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Matt Bomer,
Tim DeKay,
Tim Matheson,
USA,
White Collar,
Willie Garson
Wherever they go, White Collar’s [USA, Tuesdays, 9/8C] FBI Special Agent Peter Burke [Tim DeKay] and con man “consultant” Neal Caffrey [Matt Bomer] are the smartest guys in the room. This season starts off with one of the pair’s biggest challenges in a character called The Architect.
The comedy team of Matt Bomer and Tim DeKay [who joined us in progress] sat in on a truncated teleconference Q&A [when they have to be onset, they have to be onset] to talk about White Collar’s second season.
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Marsha Thomason,
Matt Bomer,
Tim DeKay,
USA,
White Collar,
Willie Garson
The USA Network has put together a line-up of quality summer television over a period of several years until now, adding The Piper Perabo-Christopher Gorham spy series Covert Affairs to a line-up of established hits – Burn Notice, White Collar, In Plain Sight, Psych, Royal Pains and Law & Order: Criminal Intent – gives it the hottest summer programming on television – cable or network. USA’s 2010 summer line-up begins rolling out at the end of March. Details from the press release follow the jump.
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Burn Notice,
Covert Affairs,
Royal Pains,
USA Network,
White Collar
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