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McG: Biography

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Birth Name: Joseph McGinty Nichol
Birth Place: Kalamazoo, MI
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 1970
Profession: Director; producer

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McG: TV Guide News

Rapper/Actor Common Joins New Terminator Flick | Movie News | 5/6/2008
Rapper-turned-actor Common has joined the cast of Warner Bros.' Terminator sequel, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. According to Variety, Common, who has recently appeared in Street Kings, American Gangster and Smokin' Aces, will play a freedom fighter and member of the inner circle formed by John Connor (Christian Bale) to fight with the remaining humans against the machines. The McG-directed flick is expected in theaters May 22, 2009.Common can next be seen on the big screen alongside Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman in Wanted and will be taking on the role of the Green Lantern in the forthcoming Justice League movie. — Adam BryantRelated:• Christian Bale's Terminator Targets a PG-13 read more
Will Christian Bale Go to Bat for Terminator 4? | Today's News: Our Take | 12/3/2007
According to the Reporter, Batman frontman Christian Bale is in talks to join another boffo franchise, playing a grown-up John Connor in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. (Hey, I think Phantom Menace just lost the honor of worst film title ever.)Bale is currently lensing the Batman Begins follow-up The Dark Knight; McG (Charlie's Angels) is in negotiations to direct this latest Terminator trip. read more
In the Works: Coolio & the Gang and More | Today's News: Our Take | 10/30/2007
Oxygen has OK'd a reality show about rapper Coolio's attempts to raise six teens as a single parent. Coolio & the Gang will debut in the second quarter of '08.... Fox and McG (The O.C.) are developing Spaced, a comedy based (of course) on a British series from Shaun of the Dead creators Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright. In it, two singles pose as a couple so they can rent a flat. Er, apartment.... Andy Barker, P.I. creator Jonathan Groff's new laffer, Private Lives of Public People, started a bidding war between ABC and CBS. In the end, the Eye landed the pilot about upstanding citizens whose home lives are disastrous.... Arrested Development alum Abraham Higginbotham got a go-ahead from Fox for his untitled comedy pilot featuring Reno 911's Niecy Nash among the lowbrow staffers at a highfalutin NYC hotel. — Ben Katner read more
New TV: Mark Burnett's Dueling Dads, and More | Today's News: Our Take | 9/27/2007
Mark Burnett has set up at NBC My Dad is Better than Your Dad, a game show in which fathers face off in stunt-driven challenges, Variety reports.... FX has given Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy a series commitment for Queen B, a workplace drama centered on a female CEO who grooms a young girl in her ruthless image.... Homicide's Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson are reteaming for the NBC pilot The Philanthropist, a series that sound a bit like The Equalizer.... After a fierce bidding war, ABC has ordered six episodes of Section 8, a drama penned by X-Men 3's Zak Penn and described as a blend of House, X-Men and The X-Files. OK.... ABC is teaming with hip-hop producer Pharrell Williams and filmmaker McG on Limelight, a drama set at a performing arts-school. read more
New Heroes at NBC: Charming Chuck, Dark Bionic | Roush Dispatch | 7/17/2007
The network of Heroes is going hero-crazy this fall. But two of NBC's more buzzed-about new genre series couldn’t be more different: a dark and disturbing "reimagining" of '70s superhero series Bionic Woman and the laugh-out-loud action-comedy Chuck, about a computer nerd whose brain is accidentally wired with government secrets, catapulting him into the spy game. Both were presented in back-to-back sessions at the TCA critics' press tour Tuesday morning.Of course, much of the latest Bionic buzz has focused on this week’s announcement that the ever-controversial Isaiah Washington is joining the show for an early five-episode arc as a mystery man brought into the secret bio-science organization that turned Jaime Sommers (Michelle Ryan in a new twist on the old Lindsay Wagner role) into a part-machine superhuman. It’s a casting stunt that at least a few journalists in the room feel could backfire. Executive producer Jason Smilovic defended the casting stunt by saying,... read more

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McG: Photos

Mischa Barton, McG courtesy Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com

Robert Patrick, McG courtesy John Shearer/WireImage.com

Robin Antin, McG courtesy Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com

Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu, McG, Drew Barrymore courtesy Chris Weeks/WireImage.com

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McG: Credits

Title	Year	Type
Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious (Executive Producer)	2008	TV Show Series
Chuck (Executive Producer)	2007	TV Show Series
Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll (Executive Producer)	2007	TV Show Series
Supernatural (Executive Producer)	2006	TV Show Series
The Mountain (Executive Producer)	2004	TV Show Series