The Finder
It's more than a bit ironic that the set of Fox's new drama series The Finder is, well... so darn hard to find. That's probably because the last place anyone would expect to discover a Florida Keys dive bar would be in the middle of a chilly Los Angeles oil field. But sure enough, in a well-lit clearing at the tail end of a dusty trail of pumping derricks, the cameras are rolling on a night scene that finds stars Geoff Stults, Michael Clarke Duncan and Mercedes Masöhn throwing back beers after wrapping their characters' case of the week.
At nearly 6-foot-4 and with perpetual scruff, rugged 34-year-old Stults looks just like the kind of dude who'd work out of a bar in the middle of nowhere, or — as the watering hole is dubbed — The Ends of the Earth.
Stults plays Walter Sherman, an Iraq War veteran-turned-finder of lost people and things. Offering a tour of the set, he explains, "We have the...
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Michael Weatherly, Sean Bean, Nathan Fillion
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Who did Tony see in the photograph in the NCIS finale? Please tell me they're not going to break up the team! — Melanie
ADAM: Executive producer Gary Glasberg gives us a hint. "It will be someone that we recognize," he says, adding we'll get that answer in the season premiere. We'll also get some serious intel on that microchip that E.J. found in her co-worker's arm. New theory: These mysteries are totally connected, right?
I can't believe Game of Thrones killed off Ned Stark! Please console me with scoop. — Mark
NATALIE: Does this help? Although Ned Stark was beheaded on the Sept of Baelor, it's not...
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Saffron Burrows
Saffron Burrows is leaving the Bones' spin-off, The Finder, as Fox reconceives the character, Entertainment Weekly reports.
Based on The Locator books by Richard Greener, the spin-off follows Walter Sherman (Geoff Stults), a former military policeman with the ability to find anything. Burrows, 38, played...
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Mark Vallley, Christian Slater
Fox giveth and it taketh away. In the wake of picking up several new series to order, the network has axed five shows — the action-packed Human Target, crime dramas Lie to Me and The Chicago Code , and freshman comedies Breaking In and Traffic Light, Deadline reports.
Fall 2011 TV Scorecard: Which shows are returning? Which aren't?
Human Target, starring Mark Valley, only averaged 6.33 million viewers in its second season, while Lie to Me, headlined by Tim Roth, pulled in an average of 5.84 million viewers for Season 3...
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Emily Deschanel, Geoff Stults, and David Boreanaz, Bones
Make no bones about it: Bones creator Hart Hanson is more than a little nervous about how his show's loyal (and very vocal) audience will receive the characters from his proposed spin-off when they make their debut in Thursday's episode, which is titled "Finder."
"I have warned them about this from the beginning. I said... 'Now, listen — when this goes on the air, there's going to be a loud group of people who hate [these characters]," Hanson tells TVGuide.com with a squealing laugh. "Our record of introducing new characters on Bones — it doesn't go well.
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"I expect that there will be a loud group of people who say, 'Hey! What's this peanut butter doing with my chocolate?'" Hanson continues. "The question will be: Do people tune out? It'll be very interesting to see how the quiet majority of Bones fans respond to "Finder" as opposed to the very loud passionate minority. Which I love, but it's sometimes like riding a tiger."
Based on The Locator series of novels by Richard Greener...
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Courteney Cox
Cougar Town (Monday, 9:30/8:30c, ABC)
Don't ever do that to us again, ABC — by which I mean, depriving us of this blissfully daffy comedy for a long mid-season hiatus. After watching tonight's return episode in a special post-Dancing With the Stars time slot, you'll know what I mean when I say Cougar Town's absence kicked "butt". To celebrate its return, everyone get out their Penny Cans as Bobby and Laurie try to make the silly pastime a thriving business ("The game is dumb, but it is so addictive," admits Laurie), while Jules rethinks her...
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Saffron Burrows
Saffron Burrows has been cast as the female lead in the upcoming Bones spin-off, a network rep confirms.
Based on The Locator books by Richard Greener, the spin-off follows Walter Sherman (Geoff Stults), a former military policeman with the ability to...
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Mary McCormack, Vincent D'Onofrio
Law & Order: Criminal Intent will premiere its 10th and final season on Sunday, May 1, at 9/8c, USA announced Thursday. Season 4 of In Plain Sight will debut immediately afterward at 10/9c.
The new Criminal Intent episodes will mark the return of Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe as Detectives Bobby Goren and Alexandra Eames. D'Onofrio and Erbe exited the show at the beginning of the show's ninth season, leaving Jeff Goldblum and Saffron Burrows as the show's primary stars.
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Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe
Kathryn Erbe will return for the 10th and final season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, USA Network announced Friday.
Vincent D'Onofrio returning to Law & Order: Criminal Intent for final season
Erbe, who for eight seasons played Detective Alexandra Eames on the Dick Wolf procedural, rejoins the cast just weeks after series star Vincent D'Onofrio announced his own return to the series as Detective Bobby Goren...
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Vincent D’Onofrio
Vincent D'Onofrio will return to Law & Order: Criminal Intent for the series' 10th and intended final season, USA Network and Universal Cable productions announced Tuesday.
The 51-year-old actor starred on the crime procedural for eight years before leaving the show after last season's first...
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