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Matt's TV Week in Review

It had been a pretty even-keel season of the reborn American Idol — perhaps too much so — until the Pia bubble burst Thursday night. Maybe a shocking elimination like Pia Toscano's way-too-early ouster is just the sort of wake-up call Idol needs to shock some showmanship into the part of the show that needs it the most: the judging. I've enjoyed the raucous goofiness of Steven Tyler and the glowy glamorous warmth that is Jennifer Lopez, but cheerleading has its limits, and when the closest thing to actual criticism from the panel is Randy (of all people) damning with faint praise by merely saying "Good job," it's clear the judges aren't doing a good job. Or much of a job at all.

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I'm not sure we need a clone of Simon Cowell, whose blunt and condescending cruelty in recent seasons teetered on boredom with the process...read more

FX Cancels Lights Out

Lights Out just wasn't able to get up off the canvas: FX announced Thursday that it was counting out the boxing drama.

The show debuted in January to a modest 1.5 million viewers and quickly fell below 1 million. Although the numbers eventually improved, its season average was 863,000 total viewers per episode, numbers akin to those of FX's recently canceled private detective drama, Terriers.

Will Lights Out be another Terriers for FX?

At the time of Lights Out's weak premiere, FX President John Landgraf noted the disconnect between critical acclaim and commercial appeal...read more

Cheers & Jeers: David Morse Does Knockout Work on Lights Out

Cheers to Lights Out for putting David Morse back into the spotlight.  

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 The 57-year-old actor is no stranger to quality TV drama, from his 1982-88 stint as...read more

Holt McCallany: Videos

CSI: Miami - Last Straw
CSI: Miami - My Best Years
CSI: Miami - The Smoking Gun
CSI: Miami - Find the Surrogate

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The Losers
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The Losers
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A Perfect Getaway
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A Perfect Getaway (Theatrical)

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Mommie Deadest
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In Plane Sight
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Maniac At the Disco
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Young Man With A Horn

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Year Title Description
2011 Lights Out TV Show Series, Actor - Patrick 'Lights' Leary
2010 The Losers Movie, Actor - Wade
2009 A Perfect Getaway Movie, Actor - Police Lieutenant
2009 Stolen Movie, Actor - Swede
2008 Vantage Point Movie, Actor - Ron Matthews

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Roush Review: V Finale and More Tuesday Drama (Detroit, Lights Out)

"V" is for "vamping" — that's been the case for most of the life of ABC's re-imagined, if hardly re-energized, version of V. You know, the show where alien ships hover over Earth week after week, with nothing much happening as Evil Queen Anna coldly plots the destruction of humanity with all those pesky emotional souls while ...
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Getting to Know Lights Out's Pablo Schreiber

On Lights Out, Pablo Schreiber plays Johnny, a once promising boxer who now (mis)manages the career of his brother, former heavyweight champ "Lights" Leary (Holt McCallany). In real life, he can relate to living in the shadow of a more celebrated sibling as the half-brother of movie star Liev Schreiber (Salt). "I've always... read more

Cheers & Jeers: CSI and Lights Out — Fears of a Clown

Cheers to CSI and Lights Out for putting Bill Irwin in touch with his dark side.

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A graduate of Barnum & Bailey's Clown College, Irwin was best known for... read more

Lights Out: Is Patrick Leary a Hero or a Thug?

Lights Out star Holt McCallany takes playing a former heavyweight boxing champion seriously.

"I've been around the sport a lot and I've been around those guys, and it's a lot of responsibility to play the heavyweight champion of the world," McCallany tells TVGuide.com. "You have to walk out in front of the cameras, in front of basically millions of people, and they have to believe you."
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Cheers & Jeers: Lights Out Connects with The Wire

Cheers to Lights Out for hooking up with a pair of veterans from The Wire.

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FX's hard-hitting boxing drama costars Pablo Schreiber — best known as disaffected dock worker Nick Sobotka from Season 2 of HBO's inner-city masterpiece — as Johnny Leary, the ethically shady manager of Holt McCallany's "Lights" Leary.... read more

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