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USA Network Welcomes New Characters Suits and Necessary Roughness To Its Lineup Of Series

“Characters Welcome” is the slogan for USA Network, and it has done an outstanding job of living up to that with its slate of critical and popular series. So many viewers have welcomed characters such as Michael Westen, Hank Lawson, Neal Caffrey and Annie Walker into their homes that USA is the No. 1 network in all of basic cable. The network welcomes a few new characters to its mix in the new series Suits, premiering June 23 and Necessary Roughness, premiering June 29. Suits Originally titled A Legal Mind, Suits comes from Doug Liman (the Bourne trilogy) and David […]

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Magazine Archive

IFC Brings You Rhett & Link — Local Commercial Kings

If you delve at all into the world of online viral videos, odds are good that you’ve seen at least something of their work. Whether it’s the bizarrely sung and overtly multicultural Red House ad, the simultaneously violent and cute Bucks First clip — with people dressed in six-point buck outfits — the used car spot featuring the Cuban gynecologist or any of their other commercials, if you’ve seen them, you remember them. They’re the work of Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal — Rhett & Link, purveyors of local commercials online at ilovelocalcommercials.com, and they’re appropriately coming to the small […]

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“Chloe King” turns everyday girl into superhuman, crime-fighting machine

At just 17 years old, Skyler Samuels has already had to readjust her expectations for her acting career. Never did the self-proclaimed “dorky, uncoordinated” young woman think that she would be called on to exhibit superhuman powers, grow long catlike nails, perform hair-raising stunts, and play a character who can die multiple times. But it’s all just part of her new job as the title character in The Nine Lives of Chloe King, which debuts June 14 on ABC Family. Chloe King is a good-natured San Francisco teen who lives with her adoptive mother (Amy Pietz) and is desperate to […]

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Magazine Archive

Noah Wyle trades in scrubs for guns in “Falling Skies”

What is it about today’s world that has us so worried about an alien invasion? If our escapist entertainment is any indicator, the idea of malevolent extra-terrestrials wreaking havoc on our way of life is foremost on our minds, with the past couple years having seen the box office thrill to films like District 9, Skyline and Battle: Los Angeles, while a revamped V lasted two seasons on television. The idea has even infiltrated scientific realm, with none other than Stephen Hawking issuing an ominous warning against trying to contact any such beings, as they most likely wouldn’t be friendly. […]

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Comedy

“Wilfred” Lets Elijah Wood Show Off His Comedy Bite

Not too many comedies open with the main character gleefully crafting a suicide note. But that’s only the beginning of the weirdness in Wilfred, an edgy comedy premiering June 23 that will fit right in with FX‘s collection of bold, outrageous series that wouldn’t get past the censors on broadcast television. Elijah Wood plays Ryan, a distraught man who decides that rather than pursue the cubicle-hell job his overbearing sister (Dorian Brown) has procured for him, he’ll just swallow a whole bunch of pills and end it all. Much to his chagrin, he’s still alive the following morning and is […]