Matt's Picks each week: August. 29-Sept. 1

Bryan Callen The summer time TV months are winding lower, there is however still plenty happening now. A couple of annotated highlights: The Dwts Cast Reveal No, even this is not enough to obtain me to suggest anybody really tune into pap like ABC's Bachelor Pad. Between Twitter and also the Internet (may I humbly suggest tvguide.com), you will be covered, in the event you choose to know who it's we'll be gaping at and mocking (whenever they stumble) through the fall. What they are called happen to be flying fast and furious - my personal favorite within the rumor mill: Chaz Bono (Will Cher be considered a regular within the audience? Doubtful, but we are able to hope) - and shortly, we'll know legitimate. Warehouse 13 (Monday, 9/8c, Syfy) From captain of the starship to regent of the Warehouse, tough to say in the event that's a campaign for Kate Mulgrew, but it is always beneficial doing in the sci-fi world. She inspections into the fanciful fantasy hit for any four-episode arc as "Jane" (an homage to Voyager's Capt. Janeway, possibly?), among the embattled Regents that has a "complex past" and among the Warehouse agents (I am speculating Artie). The choices she makes will have a vital role within the survival from the Warehouse - which was already restored for an additional season, so do not get too worried. Want more Matt Roush? Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now! Dying Valley (Monday, 10:30/9:30c, MTV) Getting returned back in the Skins debacle with scripted summer time achievements Teen Wolf and (an individual fave) Awkward, MTV launches three new series tonight. The main one I am most wanting to see is horror-comedy - think a hybrid of Rob from the Dead and Fox's Cops - that, in the teaser games, looks to become audaciously graphic and irreverently shocking, because it follows an LAPD "Undead Task Pressure" because they search lower zombies, vamps and werewolves within the San Fernando Valley. Another newcomers are Ridiculousness (10/9c), located by Fishing rod Dyrdek, a viral-video hodgepodge that seems like a rip-from Comedy Central's breakout Tosh 2. and also at 11/10c, Cuff'd, a docu-series that, despite its punctuation, isn't a variation on Punk'd. This show rides along within the back chair of police cruiser motorcycles with youthful perps in order to booking because they open towards the camera as though these were with an episode of Taxicab Confessions. Apparently they do not know they've the authority to remain quiet. Besides, that wouldn't make good TV. I am adhering using the zombies. Pretty Little Liars (Tuesday, 8/7c, ABC Family) It's midseason finale time, so expect cliffhangers in abundance as "A," in retaliation for that Fearful Foursome getting blabbed about "A" to MIA counselor Anne, transmits each one of the women off on projects to complete her fiendish putting in a bid. Do they really save Dr. Anne, no matter cure will get hurt on the way? I'd be laying basically stated it was keeping me up during the night, but hey, who am I to evaluate others' guilty pleasures? (Useful viewing hint: If you have fallen behind, a daylong marathon starts at 11 am/10c.) Armadillo (Tuesday, PBS check entries for time) Similar to the award-winning Restrepo, POV presents a questionable Danish war documentary that follows a platoon of youthful Danish soldiers over six several weeks last year, fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan included in an worldwide NATO pressure. Idealism soon devolves right into a fight for survival against an implacable enemy. (When the realism is simply too much for you personally, almost always there is ABC's Combat Hospital at 10/9c, by which Dr. Rebecca gets control the triage unit when her commanding officer Col. Marks is wounded within an explosion.) Save Me (Wednesday, 10/9c, Forex) Only two episodes to visit, and that one isn't to become skipped, because it changes gears very easily from comedy to scorching drama. The funny business happens at Colleen's wedding, where Tommy fights for the best just to walk his edgy daughter lower the aisle. It is a showcase of socially awkward moments, assigned by an hysterical drunken soliloquy from Callie Thorne's Sheila. In no time, work trespasses, and also the phrase "large structures, large problems" turns out to be an understatement. Hot in Cleveland (Wednesday, 10/9c, TV Land) In other summer time finale news, Cleveland offers its version from the Hangover each morning-after wake of Elka's bachelorette party, having a missing bride, a huge iguana along with a room of frat boys triggering flashbacks. Guest stars include Carl Reiner, Buck Henry, Dick Van Patten and Don Rickles - although not, apparently, Mike Tyson. (The show will return at the end of November.) Nick News With Linda Ellerbee (Thursday, 9/8c, Nickelodeon) The truly amazing Linda Ellerbee, for 25 years a straight-speaking purveyor of public-matters programming for children, assumes the tenth anniversary of 9/11 using what Happened? The Storyline of September 11, 2001. The thing would be to obvious up myths among individuals too youthful to consider the particular day, while supplying remembrances from witnesses who have been kids at that time, together with a boy who had been within the Florida class when Leader Rose bush discovered the attacks. Essential TV, highly suggested for families to look at together. Burn Notice (Thursday, 9/8c, USA Network) Guest-star alert, as Buffy-Angel alum Charisma Contractor seems on Burn Notice because the trophy wife of the bio-weapons specialist, who's this week's target as Michael and Fiona go undercover like a husband and wife in a South American resort. An hour or so later, on Suits, Gary Cole turns up as Harvey's mentor, now an area attorney, who needs help when his office comes under analysis. This is just one of USA's better back-to-back combinations. Louie (Thursday, 10:30/9:30c, Forex) Following last week's triumphant hour-lengthy episode, by which Louis C.K. entertained the troops in Afghanistan having a stowaway duckling along for that ride, the comedian now suggests with an infinitely more intimidating foe: a sullen, uncommunicative 13-year-old niece (Gideon Adlon, daughter of talking to producer/sometimes co-star Pamela) that has been abruptly left in the care by his unstable sister. Watching Louie attempt to crack the adolescent's spend is not pretty, but it is pretty funny. Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

Hell

'Hell'A Vital Pictures Germany (in Germany) discharge of a Caligari Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Vega Film, SevenPictures Film, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SRG SSR production. (Worldwide sales: Beta Cinema, Berlin.) Created by Thomas Woebke, Gabriele M. Walther. Co-producers, Ruth Waldburger, Stefan Gaertner. Executive producer, Roland Emmerich. Directed by Tim Fehlbaum. Script, Fehlbaum, Thomas Woebke, Oliver Kahl.With: Hannah Herzsprung, Lars Eidinger, Stipe Erceg, Lisa Vicari, Angela Winkler, Lilo Baur, Marco Calamandrei, Hendes-Peter Recktenwald, Yoann Blanc, Christoph Gaugler, Nino Boehlau, Ellen Schweiger, Lutz Pretzsch, Luca Winkler.Tim Fehlbaum marks his feature helming debut with "Hell," a tightly crafted publish-apocalyptic survival tale that comprises in conviction what it really lacks in originality. The storyline of the quartet fighting marauders while looking for water on the parched Earth from the near-future makes nods to "Planet from the Apes," "Mad Max," "Deliverance" and lots of other photos, but Fehlbaum does not claim that they can have reinvented the wheel. Rather, he's created a solid genre pic which will have strong legs in German-lingo areas along with a guaranteed presence in latenight fest spots, satcasts and ancillary. It's 2016, and also the world is really a desiccated wasteland carrying out a massive spike in climatic change. Individuals who survive are generally ingenious or violent, and often both. Marie (Hannah Herzsprung), her more youthful sis Leonie (Lisa Vicari) and b.f. Phillip (Lars Eidinger) have been in a sun-shielded vehicle going to the mountain tops hoping of finding water. In a destroyed service station, there is a tense standoff using the wiry Tom (Stipe Erceg) before settling right into a wary peace once they realize he's clever and practical. When Leonie is kidnapped in a roadblock, Marie and Tom set to save her, but Phillip discloses his cowardly character. The group is splintered, with Marie progressively desperate until she meets Elisabeth (Angela Winkler), a mature player who seems to provide succor within the backwoods. Not surprisingly, however, her farm is not quite the haven Marie thought. Fehlbaum shot some moments inside a burned-out forest in Corsica yet others inside a Bavarian woodland devastated by pests, and aside from turning heaven a blinding whitened, he needed hardly any f/x to offer the right look. Tension is definitely up, even though most genre-savvy auds knows when you should expect the surprises, the anticipation appeals to individuals primed with this kind of material. Additionally, Fehlbaum and the co-scripters fortunately possess a spontaneity, though a little more wouldn't have gone amiss. The stars are game, and provide their roles the correct quantity of conviction. A rather nervous camera keeps the right feeling of apprehension, as well as rapid editing in climactic moments. Pictures are removed of color, superbly ashen for any sun-bleached world.Camera (color, widescreen), Markus Foerderer, Fehlbaum editor, Andreas Menn music, Lorenz Dangel production designer, Heike Lange costume designer, Leonie Leuenberger seem (Dolby Digital), Hugo Poletti, Jan Illing assistant director, Lars Gmehling casting, An Dorthe Braker, Corinna Glaus. Examined at Locarno Film Festival (Piazza Grande), August. 3, 2011. Running time: 89 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

U.S. Won't Bid on 2020 Summer Olympics

The U.S. Olympic Committee has decided not to enter a bid to host the 2020 Summer Games, a spokesman told the Chicago Tribune on Monday. The news means the Games will not take place in the United States for at least another 11 years. The USOC over the weekend told the seven potential bid cities -- Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York and Tulsa, Okla. -- about its decision. The decision isn't a complete surprise: USOC officials have said for months that they would not submit a bid for the 2020 Games until it resolves its longstanding revenue-sharing dispute with the International Olympic Committee. Among the cities that have expressed their intention to submit bids by the Sept. 1 deadline are Tokyo, Madrid, Istanbul and Rome. The IOC will make its selection in September 2013. Meanwhile, the broadcast rights to the 2020 Games were locked up by NBCUniversal/Comcast in June. The company won the rights as part of a deal that also includes the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Games and 2018 Games. The company beat out ESPN/ABC and News Corp.'s Fox, which had also bid for the rights package in presentations in Lausanne, Switzerland. Related Topics International

Movieline's Week in Review: Je Veux Pisser

Well, that happened. Has a long, sultry late-August week ever been summed up with a more succinct phrase than Grard Depardieu’s willy-wagging protestation? Maybe so, but that’s the theme of the week at Movieline HQ. Let’s look back, if you can bear it, with the customary Week in Review. Drop by in the days ahead for updates from the box office and any other breaking news, and have a great weekend! · Grard Depardieu wanted to piss. · Many thanks to this week’s illustrious interviewees, including Jeremy Piven, Jason Momoa, Anton Yelchin, Jim Sturgess and Ryan Kwanten. · Of all the goodies unveiled for Toronto 2011, little gives off the buzz of Hysteria. Ahem. · Rock me, Jeff. · Will Machine Gun Preacher escalate to the hallowed canon of Bad Movies We Love? Maybe, if its poster has anything to say about it. · Birthdays! Birthdays! Birthdays! · Hi ho, Silver, awhaaaaaa?!

RATINGS RAT RACE: ABC's 'Bachelor Pad' Slips, Fox's Gordon Ramsay Block Tops

With CBS and NBC in all repeats, it is a two-way race on Monday between Fox and ABC these days. Fox posted another dominating performance from Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen (2.8/8 in 18-49, even with last week, 6.8 million total viewers, up 3%) and MasterChef (2.4/6, up 4%, 6 million, up 9%). Fox (2.6/7, 6.4 million) easily won the night, logging its highest-rated Monday with summer programming in four years among 18-49 and in three years among total viewers. A two-hour Bachelor Pad (2.1/6) was down 9% from the ABC reality series' three-hour season premiere last week but up 11% vs. the same night last year. A repeat of Castle (0.9/9) followed, with the dramedy posting its highest rerun rating this summer. ABC (1.7/5, 5.5 million) finished second in both 18-49 and total viewers.

TNT Orders a Fifth Season of Leverage

Timothy Hutton and Gina Bellman The disadvantage continues: TNT has purchased a fifth season of Leverage.The network has purchased 15 additional episodes, that will begin airing in summer time 2012. The show's 4th season, which offered like a lead-into the lately restored Falling Skies, has averaged 4.8 million audiences, a ten percent increase within the previous season.Exclusive Leverage video: Nate comes face-to-face together with his enemy!"Although shows decline within their second, third or 4th seasons, Leverage has defied the chances and ongoing to climb,"" Michael Wright, executive v . p . and mind of programming for TNT, stated inside a statement. "Increasingly more audiences are finding this weekly pleasure ride through wonderfully complex schemes and disadvantage games, all introduced to existence through wise writing, sharp pointing along with a terrific cast."The series stars Timothy Hutton as Nate Ford, a crook whose team of grifters, cyber-terrorist and disadvantage-artists (Gina Bellman, Janet Riesgraf, Aldis Hodge, and Christian Kane) take lower the wealthy and effective. The show's 4th months are presently airing until Sunday, August. 28. It'll summary the growing season with episodes in November and December.Leverage airs Sundays at 9/8c on TNT.

Lucasfilm's Industrial Light + Magic Exploring Opening New Facility in Vancouver

Lucasfilm's Industrial Light + Magic is exploring opening a project-based facility in Vancouver sometime next spring.our editor recommendsLucasfilm, Sony Pictures Imageworks Launch VFX DevelopmentPixar's La Luna, Sony's Arthur Christmas Preview: Siggraph Animation Festival ILM, based in San Francisco, declined to comment because details are not yet finalized, but word of the new ILM outpost was spreading this week at the CG confab Siggraph, taking place in Vancouver, wherefavorable tax incentives have turned the city into one of the hottest destinations for the visual effects and animation community. Should ILM head to Vancouver, it will be the latest in a string of leading companies that in recent years have set up shop in the production hub -- including Digital Domain, Pixar Animation Studios, MPC and Sony Picture Imageworks. In addition to its San Francisco headquarters, ILM also operates out of Lucasfilm Singapore, which opened in 2005 and is already running out of space. Lucasfilm Singapore plans to move into a new building -- which is currently under construction -- by 2013. ILM's recent work includes Rango, as well as VFX work on Super 8, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Upcoming working includes the visual effects on Red Tails, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Battleship and The Avengers. In related news this week at Siggraph, Lucasfilm and Imageworks released Alembic, an open source system aimed at helping VFX companies easily store and share complex animated scenes across facilities, regardless of what software is being used. Related Topics International Super 8 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Pixar Transformers: Dark of the Moon Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

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'Breaking Bad' Producer Sam Catlin Inks Overall Deal at Sony

Sam Catlin has inked a two-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television.our editor recommends'Breaking Bad': Dark Side of the Dream'Breaking Bad' Premiere: 5 Things Seen And Heard On the Red Carpet The Emmy nominated writer-producer, who serves as a co-executive producer on AMC's Breaking Bad,will be tasked with developing original projects for the studio. In addition to a crime drama that was born out of a past script deal, Catlin has plans to pitch a new intelligence world drama as well as dabble in comedy. He says he's largely agnostic about working on cable versus broadcast, arguing "there's not much slumming you can do in television anymore." TV Ratings: 'Breaking Bad's Season 4 Premiere Is a Series Best Landing at Sony was a fitting next step considering the vast majority of Catlin's previous TV projects, including Fox's Canterbury's Law and NBC'sKidnapped, are Sony shows. Catlin will also continue with Breaking Bad, which has found itself in the headlines in recent days. Despite rumblings that the Sony-produced hit is being shopped elsewhere care of contract battles between the studio and distributer AMC, Catlin says he's "hopeful" that it will remain on the latter. He adds that there had been debate internally about whether the series should end after one or two more seasons, but there was no argument about the decision to wrap it up. Q&A: 'Breaking Bad' Star Bryan Cranston on Walter White: 'He's Well on His Way to Badass' "It's always tempting to keep it going, especially since we all know that this could very well be the best job we've ever had, but we would all hate to overstay our welcome and be the show that just kind of lingered," he says. "We'll make the mistake of leaving too soon and not too late is my guess." Catlin, who penned the screenplay for dark indie comedy The Great New Wonderful, is repped by UTA and attorney Ken Richman of Hansen Jacobson Teller Hoberman Newman Warren & Richman. Email: Lacey.Rose@THR.com Twitter: @LaceyVRose Related Topics AMC Sony Pictures Television Breaking Bad

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Exclusive: Hugh Hefner Won't Be Narrating NBC's The Playboy Club

Playboy Club You won't be hearing much from Hugh Hefner on NBC's The Playboy Club this fall. Hefner narrates the new series' pilot episode, but won't do the same in future episodes.That's because the producers behind The Playboy Club are leaning toward eliminating the show's narration device all together, according to show insiders. (In the pilot, Hefner sets the stage for the show via voiceover at the open and close of the show.)But that doesn't mean The Playboy Club will be completely scrubbed of its legendary founder. The character of 1960s-era Hugh Hefner will make an appearance from time to time on the show, although it's unclear how much we'll see of him, or if he'll involved he'll be in the show's storylines.The Playboy Club decision represents the second major voice-over switcheroo on a new fall network show. As TV Guide Magazine's Kecks Exclusives first reported, Robert Wagner won't be playing the voice of Charlie on ABC's Charlie's Angels reboot after all.Set in a 1960s Chicago branch of the infamous Playboy clubs, The Playboy Club stars Eddie Cibrian as a man running for district attorney. Amber Heard and David Krumholtz also star.The decision to pull back on Hefner's narration is a stylistic choice and unrelated to the controversies surrounding the show. Groups like the Parents Television Council are asking NBC affiliates not to air the show - although just one, Salt Lake City's KSL, has opted to drop it so far. (The market's My Network TV affiliate, KMYU, will run the show instead.)Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!