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Burn Notice returns to USA on Jan. 22
Dec 31, 2008 Burn Notice 1 Comment
Jeffrey Donovan and Bruce Campbell are eights kinds of crazy awesome. You viewers agreed and made USA’s “Burn Notice” the hottest show last summer and the number one new show on cable in 2007.
The Miami-based comedy and action combo returns for its second season in a continuation with seven all new episodes on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 10/9c.
Donovan shines as the laconic, dry-witted Michael Westen, a blacklisted spy who finds himself stranded in sun-soaked Miami without money, resources, or a clue as to who burned him, or why. He lives by his wits, charm, his special ops training and his fastidious adherence to a healthy diet that includes yoghurt.
He is joined by “friends:” Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar) a beautiful ex-IRA operative who also happens to be Michael’s ex-girlfriend, and Sam (Bruce Campbell) a washed-up military intelligence contact who works as Michael’s sidekick, and his mother (Emmy Award-winner Sharon Gless) who Michael has spent most of his adult life trying to avoid.
This season, Michael has been forced to work for the very people who burned him. In the second season continuation, he wakes up after the explosion at his apartment, alive but shaken.
Whoever tried to kill him also killed Carla’s sniper and jeopardized her operation. Furious, Carla (Tricia Helfer) Michael’s new handler and a known ruthless operative, wants the bomber caught, but Michael sees the bomber as his chance to get a leg up on her – and ultimately find out who is pulling the strings.
Meanwhile, showrunner Matt Nix and the writers have him helping ordinary people with their extraordinary problems in the B stories.
In addition to Helfer and Shanks, guest stars this winter include NFL Hall of Famer Michael Irvin and John Mahoney (“Frasier”).
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Bedroom farce has been in vogue in Chicago lately, a trend enjoyed by potentially Broadway-bound visitor Don’t Dress for Dinner. TV and film star Jeffrey Donovan, remarkably commanding onstage, heads up the cast of this trial balloon, written by latter-day French master Camoletti. Hawdon’s adaptation translates the play into this-very-second contemporaneity, and the rest of the cast positively bristles with light-comedy chops. With a gorgeous set and costumes, it’s chock-full of empty calories but no less delicious for that.
Every year, certain stars just stand out on television. There the ones that people talk about a lot, the ones that have the most impact, or the ones that make you say “that guy is going to be a star.” These are the eight TV stars that shined bright in 2008 (and probably will in 2009 too).
Former Major League Baseball and National Football League standout Bo Jackson, Tampa Bay Rays third baseman and 2008 American League Rookie of the Year Evan Longoria, and famed musicians Huey Lewis and Michael Bolton are among the initial celebrity athletes and entertainers joining golf legend Arnold Palmer for the 50th Bob Hope Chrysler Classic Hosted by Arnold Palmer, Jan. 19-25, 2009.