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Lights Out
- Metascore79
- 2011-2011
- 1 season
- FX Network
- Suspense, Drama, Sports
- TV-MA
A former heavyweight boxing champion struggles to find his identity after retiring from the ring.
- Metascore79
- 2011-2011
- 1 season
- FX Network
- Suspense, Drama, Sports
- TV-MA
A former heavyweight boxing champion struggles to find his identity after retiring from the ring.
Cinemax Reveals Premiere Date for New Drama From True Blood's Alan Ball
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Martin Short, Aidan Quinn to Be Among Weeds Guest Stars
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Warren Leight Tapped to Takeover Law & Order: SVU
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Matt's Picks: April 4-7
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Matt's TV Week in Review
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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...
Cheers & Jeers: David Morse Does Knockout Work on Lights Out
Cheers to Lights Out for putting David Morse back into the spotlight. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! The 57-year-old actor is no stranger to quality TV drama, from his 1982-88 stint as...
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 ...
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...
Cheers & Jeers: CSI and Lights Out --- Fears of a Clown
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Matt's TV Week in Review
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Top Moments: Modern Family's Affair to Forget and Glee's Independent Woman
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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."
Matt's TV Week in Review
This was a week where history played out before our eyes, with revolution in Egypt catching journalists — including several of TV's biggest news stars (Anderson Cooper, Christiane Amanpour among others) — in the dangerous crossfire. Another colossal winter storm cutting a swath of snowy and icy peril across the country kept millions glued to the Weather Channel (if the elements didn't knock out your cable). And Charlie Sheen's epic real-time E True Hollywood Story continues, shutting down TV's most popular sitcom and challenging Hollywood's priorities in the process. But hey, what else was on? Want more Matt Roush? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! HUZZAH! The greatest compliment you can pay any TV show is to want to watch it again the second it's over. And once the February sweeps calms down, that's my plan with this week's delightfully inventive instant-classic episode of...
Poll: Which New Mid-Season Show Is Your Favorite?
Now that a few new series have hit the air, we want to know which one has you glued to your tube. Do the dreamy, life-saving docs of Off the Map make you want to head to the jungle? Or do the super-hero adventures of The Cape and hard-hitting blows on Lights Out get your blood pumping? Does Paula Abdul's Live to Dance make you want to get up on your feet? Or does legal dramedy Harry's Law get you excited for upcoming court appearances? Let us know which new show is your favorite so far after the jump...
Will Lights Out Be Another Terriers for FX?
FX President John Landgraf may be suffering a bad case of déjà vu. Last week, FX debuted its latest series, a boxing drama called Lights Out about a retired former heavyweight champ. Despite a knockout lead performance from Holt McAllany and lavish praise from a number of critics, the show premiered to only 1.5 million viewers — a number reminiscent of the premiere of the also critically adored but soon-canceled Terriers. FX puts down low-rated Terriers after one season So what's to blame for the relatively soft launches of two shows from the same network that scored huge debuts with ...
Matt's TV Week in Review
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Top Moments: Modern Family Comes Up Short, Top Chef's Avian Rap
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Cheers & Jeers: Stacy Keach Lights Up Lights Out
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Five Reasons to Watch Lights Out
Why are we so thankful for FX's new boxing drama Lights Out — a rock 'em, sock 'em respite from the midwinter doldrums? Let us count the ways.1. Everybody loves a comeback.We meet 40-year-old Patrick "Lights" Leary (Holt McCallany) five years after a catastrophic title bout. The consequences of that event have left him financially, physically and existentially at sea. And while a return to the ring could mean disaster on every front, McCallany notes ...
Tonight's TV Hot List: Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011
Lights Out10/9c FX The Learys live in a New Jersey mansion that the Sopranos wouldn't find unfamiliar, and paterfamilias Patrick (Holt McCallany) made his money violently. But that's where the similarities end (some of them, anyway): Patrick (aka "Lights") is an ex-heavyweight boxing champ. Alas, retirement hasn't been good to Lights, and his money's running out (so, yes, he'll get mixed up with the mob). But Lights' story isn't all boxing-movie clichés. For starters, he's married to a med student (Catherine McCormack) and he's a responsible father. And when he's diagnosed with "pugilistic dementia" in the series opener, it's only the beginning of the story. — Paul DroeschRead on for previews of Frontline, Millionaire Matchmaker, NCIS, The Haney Project, Teen Mom and Onion SportsDome.
Ask Matt: NCIS Without Gibbs? Plus Human Target, Shameless and midseason TV
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