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Mental

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A dynamic, young and unorthodox psychiatrist takes over as director at a hospital, and his outlook upsets the established norm of the system and brings him into conflict with some of his coworkers and patients while earning the respect of others.

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Chris Vance
Jack Gallagher
Jacqueline McKenzie
Veronica Hayden-Jones
Marisa Ramírez
Dr. Chloe Artis

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

Pilot

Tue, May 26, 200944 mins

There's trouble in the psych ward when Dr. Jack Gallagher takes the reins.

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Awards

  • 2010 - Young Artist Award - Best Performance in a TV Series - Guest Starring Young Actress - nominated
  • 2010 - Young Artist Award - Best Performance in a TV Series - Guest Starring Young Actor 13 and Under - winner

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Exclusive: Edwin Hodge to Guest-Star on Leverage

Leverage is becoming a family affair.Edwin Hodge, the older brother of series regular Aldis Hodge, will guest-star in the TNT drama's upcoming third season premiere, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. Edwin plays an accountant who is sent to prison on a minor traffic offense. While in The Big House, he is wrongly accused of another inmate's murder. Luckily, he crosses paths with newly incarcerated Nate (Timothy Hutton), who rallies the team to assist. "I just felt it was a great opportunity to share the screen with my brother and show the difference in our talents," Edwin tells TVGuide.com. "As siblings in the entertainment business, it's always a great experience, and one I think all siblings should share." Edwin, who starred in Boston Public and most in recently Fox's Mental, has also appeared on Bones, Heroes, and Ghost Whisperer . He'll also appear on the big screen this summer in the remake of Red Dawn. Although the brothers don't interact directly...

Fri, Mar 5, 2010
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Mega Buzz on House, SVU, Reaper, True Blood and More!

Every week, senior editors Matt Webb Mitovich, Mickey O'Connor and Tim Molloy satisfy your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions to megascoop@tvguide.com. I have to wonder if the psych hospital in the House finale was also a hallucination.  It was pretty strange how the street and parking lots were empty.  And it looked like he was going to one of those hospitals from the 1940s. — RSmithMATT: How Vanilla Sky! But nope, sources assure me that House's rehab stint is the real deal. And that hospital's more retro than you think. Greystone Park State Hospital (in Morristown, N.J.) made its debut in 1876 as the not-so-subtly named New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum. The hospital has tended to such patients as singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, and until the Pentagon was built, it boasted the largest foundation (674,000 sq. feet) of any structure in the U.S. I'd try to book a TVGuide.com Q&A with the building, but fear I'd be stonewalled.  Now that Reiko Aylesworth has been dropped from ABC's The Forgotten, could SVU bring back her ADA character, Erica Alden, from Season 1? —WaltMICKEY: It's an interesting idea, but a very well-informed source tells me that Aylesworth will ...

Wed, Jun 10, 2009
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Tonight's TV Hot List: Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Mental9 pm/ET FoxProlific actor David Carradine, who died June 3, guest stars as a catatonic patient in this episode of the hospital drama. A famous author-professor (Carradine) and his wife are struck by lightning, killing her and rendering him catatonic. It's up to Jack to bring the author back to reality, and — true to form — Jack devises a risky, unorthodox treatment. Heating things up is the growing physical attraction between Jack and his patient's daughter (Estella Warren). Read on for previews of Live from Lincoln Center, Real Housewives of New Jersey, Rescue Me and Food Party.

Tue, Jun 9, 2009
Tonight's TV Hot List: Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Ratings: Aw, Hell! Reaper Surges in Send-off

How Tuesday's fresh fare fared:8 pm/ETNBC's Funniest TV Phrases special (6.6 million total viewers) placed a distant second behind an NCIS rerun. Yada, yada, yada.... The penultimate batch of According to Jims came in fourth, averaging 3.7 mil. Reaper wrapped up its second and likely final season with a 430K gain, hitting 2.22 mil.9 pmFox's Mental debuted in third place, with 5.8 mil. Because you were about to ask: Although Mental shares 58 percent of The Mentalist's title, it only managed 47 percent of the CBS drama's repeat audience. You were going to ask, right?ABC's Diamonds mini caught the eye of 3.1 mil, while the CW's Hitched or Ditched was largely the latter, premiering to a scant 1.46 mil.10 pmA repeat of the canceled Without a Trace easily topped a not-new SVU and Diamonds with 9.6 mil. Salt, wound! Crave scoop on your favorite TV shows, from this summer or the upcoming fall season? E-mail senior editors Matt, Mickey and Tim at megascoop@tvguide.com. Also, follow TV Guide on Twitter.

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