Friday, November 10, 2006
CRIMINAL MINDS: QUOTE USED IN EMPTY PLANET EPISODE
"Coincidences are a true paradox… on the one hand they seem to be the source of our greatest irrationalities–seeing causal connections when science tells us they aren’t there. On the other hand, some of our greatest feats of scientific discovery depend on coincidences." Josh Tenenbaum
CRIMINAL MINDS : EMPTY PLANET SCREENCAPS
Credit and thanks once again to our talented friend cattylizzie for the use of her Criminal Minds screencaps. :)
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
INTERVIEW WITH KIRSTEN VANGSNESS (PENELOPE GARCIA)
An Interview with Kirsten Vangsness (Penelope Garcia, Criminal Minds)
From Rachel Thomas
Many times when we get involved in a series, we forget that the characters we've welcomed into our living rooms each week live completely different lives than what is portrayed on television. I had the fortunate opportunity to chit chat with the very bubbly and incredibly sweet Kirsten Vangsness from the immensely popular CBS series Criminal Minds.
Q: Before you became an actress, you had several interesting jobs (substitute teacher, grant writer), did any of these positions help prepare you for a career in acting?
Kirsten: "I used to be a substitute teacher for quite some time, I was in a group home, and then sometimes I was a teacher for long periods of time. If they didn't have a teacher for a really rough class, I would be the teacher who would come in and teach them. Someone once told me there are two kinds of teachers: The kind who can get the kids to do anything they want by sheer intimidation and then there's the kind that can get them to do anything they want because you don't know what that person is going to do. I was that second kind. I'd walk in the kids would be like, 'She just came in and she's wearing shoes with kitty cats on them, purple-striped nylons and a Sex Pistol t-shirt.' I just pulled out an apple, a grapefruit, a pan, 12 books out of my purse, 14 kinds of lip-gloss and they didn't know what to make of me. There's an element of almost being like right before school when you're going to see these kids, you're setting yourself up to be eaten alive and chewed up and spit out. There was that element, that quickening, meeting all those people coming from different worlds and creating in like 15 minutes, a community."
Q: If you weren't acting, what do you think you'd be doing now?
Kirsten: "I love music, I collect songs. I have a whole cover collection and constantly when people don't even ask me, like Matthew (her co-star), he's one of my CD victims, I'm constantly making him CD's - he doesn't ask me for them, I just come in and tell him these are the best make artists of 1994. I think I'd be a music supervisor, like the people who make stuff for movie soundtracks."
Q: I understand you have very unusual shopping tastes, can you tell us what your favorite items to buy are?
Kirsten: "I like clothes that make me happy! They don't arrive to me like they're supposed to. I'll get something and say to myself, I know this is brand new, but I'm going to cut the neck off, I'm going to slice the side up and sew a different piece of fabric in there. When I was a child, my mother would give me and my sister like $15 apiece, put us into goodwill and tell us to go get our school clothes. If that meant you spent the whole $15 on a pimp daddy fake fur coat, that was your school clothes, which I did do one year. When I was in first grade, I got this fantastic fake fur coat that I wore every day, when it was 80 degrees. Right now, I'm on a crinoline kick, I have way more crinolines that any human being should have."
Q: After speaking with you and Matthew Gray Gubler, I realize you guys must have a blast on the set - is that true and does any of the cast hang out off set?
Kirsten: "Matthew lives like 5 minutes away from me and my theater company is halfway between my house and where he lives. There has been a couple times when I've been out with my friends at some restaurant and I'll look up and say 'Why are you here?' We have a lot of fun, Matthew is so sweet and he knows a lot of really dumb jokes, so we swap a lot of dumb jokes. One of the best things about doing this show is, if someone had said your Doppelganger is a 30 year-old black guy, I would never have believed it. One of my best friends is Shemar now; we get along so well in real life. We hang out with each other, we talk on the phone, we ask each other for advice. It really is fun, everyone is sweet and has their own weirdness about them and when you combine it all, it really is lovely."
Q: Your character is a computer genius, are you as knowledgeable about computers?
Kirsten: "Before I did this show I never had my own computer and I would go to my mom's house and use her PC. I didn't understand any of it and when I got the job I said this is kind of criminal that I don't know about it. So, I asked my friends, who were technical geniuses and they've helped me out so much. Now I'll find myself in a conversation with someone, I'll be talking and saying technical terms about computers and software that I assume are vernacular to everyone. I'm getting better and better at it, I'm a different kind of smart from Garcia."
Q: Where do you feel your character is headed in the coming months?
Kirsten: "That's always a weird question because I'm so surprised by the things they come up with. I love that surprise element where I read a script and I go, 'She does that?' Very rarely do I read a script and think that's not Garcia would do. I love how they inform me and I deal with what they've given me and build from that. I love that she's getting more involved in the group and I think that's a hard thing to do for the writers because she doesn't have the same sensibility as the other six, she's not a crime fighter. She wouldn't carry a gun, she'd carry a taser. I'm excited because she is getting into the field more. I saw the car that Garcia drives last night. We shot a scene where I drive the most amazing car that you ever saw in your life! It's very vintage."
Q: Do you watch anything on television other than your show?
Kirsten: "I love British television a great deal. I'm a little obsessed with Heroes right now. I love The Office and I love cartoons, I'm a big Simpsons freak. I actually collect Mr. Roger's DVDs because I love him so much. I love Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
Q: I've heard you love doing theater, going forward is your plan to continue performing in both mediums?
Kirsten: "Yeah, that's my first love. Theater is the one thing any actor can do. It's so valuable in our society, it's the first place you see a germ of an idea that starts as a conversation and then gets made into a movie or a television show. It's really accessible to everybody. I'm a member of Theater NOTE in Hollywood. I wish we had bigger audiences; sometimes we have like 8 people in our audience. I'm in a play right now that we do every Christmas at my theater company. It's hard to juggle the two things, I try to make it work. I'm writing a play, I've written a couple of plays before when I couldn't get work as an actor."
Q: What would people be surprised to learn about you?
Kirsten: "I took acting because I was so shy.
Q: Anything you'd like to say to the fans?
Kirsten: "Thank you for watching our experiment. I think it started out as this theory, a nuts and bolts kind of show and it's really spinning into its own little child, it's a toddler now, a crime show toddler. I'd like to thank them for watching it. It keeps getting better, it's so exciting. I'm so lucky to be a part of it all."
http://tvdramas.about.com/od/criminalminds/a/kirvangsnessint_2.htm
From Rachel Thomas
Many times when we get involved in a series, we forget that the characters we've welcomed into our living rooms each week live completely different lives than what is portrayed on television. I had the fortunate opportunity to chit chat with the very bubbly and incredibly sweet Kirsten Vangsness from the immensely popular CBS series Criminal Minds.
Q: Before you became an actress, you had several interesting jobs (substitute teacher, grant writer), did any of these positions help prepare you for a career in acting?
Kirsten: "I used to be a substitute teacher for quite some time, I was in a group home, and then sometimes I was a teacher for long periods of time. If they didn't have a teacher for a really rough class, I would be the teacher who would come in and teach them. Someone once told me there are two kinds of teachers: The kind who can get the kids to do anything they want by sheer intimidation and then there's the kind that can get them to do anything they want because you don't know what that person is going to do. I was that second kind. I'd walk in the kids would be like, 'She just came in and she's wearing shoes with kitty cats on them, purple-striped nylons and a Sex Pistol t-shirt.' I just pulled out an apple, a grapefruit, a pan, 12 books out of my purse, 14 kinds of lip-gloss and they didn't know what to make of me. There's an element of almost being like right before school when you're going to see these kids, you're setting yourself up to be eaten alive and chewed up and spit out. There was that element, that quickening, meeting all those people coming from different worlds and creating in like 15 minutes, a community."
Q: If you weren't acting, what do you think you'd be doing now?
Kirsten: "I love music, I collect songs. I have a whole cover collection and constantly when people don't even ask me, like Matthew (her co-star), he's one of my CD victims, I'm constantly making him CD's - he doesn't ask me for them, I just come in and tell him these are the best make artists of 1994. I think I'd be a music supervisor, like the people who make stuff for movie soundtracks."
Q: I understand you have very unusual shopping tastes, can you tell us what your favorite items to buy are?
Kirsten: "I like clothes that make me happy! They don't arrive to me like they're supposed to. I'll get something and say to myself, I know this is brand new, but I'm going to cut the neck off, I'm going to slice the side up and sew a different piece of fabric in there. When I was a child, my mother would give me and my sister like $15 apiece, put us into goodwill and tell us to go get our school clothes. If that meant you spent the whole $15 on a pimp daddy fake fur coat, that was your school clothes, which I did do one year. When I was in first grade, I got this fantastic fake fur coat that I wore every day, when it was 80 degrees. Right now, I'm on a crinoline kick, I have way more crinolines that any human being should have."
Q: After speaking with you and Matthew Gray Gubler, I realize you guys must have a blast on the set - is that true and does any of the cast hang out off set?
Kirsten: "Matthew lives like 5 minutes away from me and my theater company is halfway between my house and where he lives. There has been a couple times when I've been out with my friends at some restaurant and I'll look up and say 'Why are you here?' We have a lot of fun, Matthew is so sweet and he knows a lot of really dumb jokes, so we swap a lot of dumb jokes. One of the best things about doing this show is, if someone had said your Doppelganger is a 30 year-old black guy, I would never have believed it. One of my best friends is Shemar now; we get along so well in real life. We hang out with each other, we talk on the phone, we ask each other for advice. It really is fun, everyone is sweet and has their own weirdness about them and when you combine it all, it really is lovely."
Q: Your character is a computer genius, are you as knowledgeable about computers?
Kirsten: "Before I did this show I never had my own computer and I would go to my mom's house and use her PC. I didn't understand any of it and when I got the job I said this is kind of criminal that I don't know about it. So, I asked my friends, who were technical geniuses and they've helped me out so much. Now I'll find myself in a conversation with someone, I'll be talking and saying technical terms about computers and software that I assume are vernacular to everyone. I'm getting better and better at it, I'm a different kind of smart from Garcia."
Q: Where do you feel your character is headed in the coming months?
Kirsten: "That's always a weird question because I'm so surprised by the things they come up with. I love that surprise element where I read a script and I go, 'She does that?' Very rarely do I read a script and think that's not Garcia would do. I love how they inform me and I deal with what they've given me and build from that. I love that she's getting more involved in the group and I think that's a hard thing to do for the writers because she doesn't have the same sensibility as the other six, she's not a crime fighter. She wouldn't carry a gun, she'd carry a taser. I'm excited because she is getting into the field more. I saw the car that Garcia drives last night. We shot a scene where I drive the most amazing car that you ever saw in your life! It's very vintage."
Q: Do you watch anything on television other than your show?
Kirsten: "I love British television a great deal. I'm a little obsessed with Heroes right now. I love The Office and I love cartoons, I'm a big Simpsons freak. I actually collect Mr. Roger's DVDs because I love him so much. I love Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
Q: I've heard you love doing theater, going forward is your plan to continue performing in both mediums?
Kirsten: "Yeah, that's my first love. Theater is the one thing any actor can do. It's so valuable in our society, it's the first place you see a germ of an idea that starts as a conversation and then gets made into a movie or a television show. It's really accessible to everybody. I'm a member of Theater NOTE in Hollywood. I wish we had bigger audiences; sometimes we have like 8 people in our audience. I'm in a play right now that we do every Christmas at my theater company. It's hard to juggle the two things, I try to make it work. I'm writing a play, I've written a couple of plays before when I couldn't get work as an actor."
Q: What would people be surprised to learn about you?
Kirsten: "I took acting because I was so shy.
Q: Anything you'd like to say to the fans?
Kirsten: "Thank you for watching our experiment. I think it started out as this theory, a nuts and bolts kind of show and it's really spinning into its own little child, it's a toddler now, a crime show toddler. I'd like to thank them for watching it. It keeps getting better, it's so exciting. I'm so lucky to be a part of it all."
http://tvdramas.about.com/od/criminalminds/a/kirvangsnessint_2.htm
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Monday, November 06, 2006
CRIMINAL MINDS : MANDY PATINKIN'S ACTING CREDITS:
Criminal Minds (2005) (TV) .... Jason Gideon
Dead Like Me (2003) (TV series) .... Rube Sofer
N.T.S.B.: The Crash of Flight 323 (2001) (TV) .... Al Cummings
Piñero (2001) .... Joseph Papp
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999) .... Huxley
Strange Justice (1999) (TV) .... Kenneth Duberstein
Hercules (1998) TV Series (voice) .... Additional Voices
Lulu on the Bridge (1998) .... Philip Kleinman
Men with Guns (1997/II) .... Andrew
The Hunchback (1997) (TV) .... Quasimodo
Broken Glass (1996) (TV) .... Dr. Harry Hyman
Chicago Hope (1994-1995, 1999-2000) TV Series .... Dr. Jeffrey Geiger
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994) .... Brother Daniel
The Music of Chance (1993) .... Jim Nashe
Life with Mikey (1993) .... Irate Man
Impromptu (1991) .... Alfred De Musset
The Doctor (1991) .... Dr. Murray Kaplan
True Colors (1991) .... John Palmeri
Dick Tracy (1990) .... 88 Keys
The House on Carroll Street (1988) .... Ray Salwen
Alien Nation (1988) .... Detective Samuel "George" Francisco
The Princess Bride (1987) .... Inigo Montoya
Follies in Concert (1986) (TV) .... Buddy Plummer
Sunday in the Park with George (1986) (TV) .... George Seurat/George
Maxie (1985) .... Nick
Daniel (1983) .... Paul Isaacson
Yentl (1983) .... Avigdor
Ragtime (1981) .... Tateh
Night of the Juggler (1980) .... Allesandro the Cabbie
French Postcards (1979) .... Sayyid
Last Embrace (1979) .... First Commuter
Charleston (1979) (TV) .... Beaudine Croft
The Big Fix (1978) .... Pool Man
AN INTERVIEW WITH MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER
An Interview with Matthew Gray Gubler (Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds)
From Rachel Thomas,
Many actors really do lead interesting lives outside of work, and then there are truly unique actors like Matthew Gray Gubler who take creativity to the next level. Like his character on the hit CBS series Criminal Minds, Matthew is a brilliantly creative man who uses his intelligence and extraordinary humor to make the world a better place. I had the fortunate opportunity to chat with Matthew about his life, where his character is headed and his plans for the future.
Q: How old were you when you got into acting?
Matthew: "It was really when the show started that I got into it. I did filmmaking and through a roundabout manner, I got into this. I was 25 when the show started."
Q: What do you think you'd be doing today if you weren't acting?
Matthew: "My family and friends sort of chastised me.
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They're kind of upset that I'm on the show to be honest because it wasn't what I had set out to do. I would hopefully be directing movies now or writing them."
Q: Your grandparents founded the first radio station in Las Vegas (KENO), did you ever work as a DJ on KENO?
Matthew: "No I didn't, that was way before I was born. My mother was pretty active in it. I think they gave up the station in the mid-60's."
Q: Your web site is quite possibly one of the most unusual places I've ever visited, where did you get the idea for the design?
Matthew: "Oh, thank you so much for finding it, I'm honored! To be honest, the design was born out of not knowing anything about programming and what would be the simplest way of getting information out. I'm not the biggest fan of technique. I wanted to do a simple, honest, hand-written web page."
Q: You've created several short films, going forward do you hope to do more work behind the camera?
Matthew: "Oh definitely. That's what I'm better at doing than anything. I've been fortunate enough with the show that I've been able to work in some time. I did a music video recently. It's what I'll do one day when the show slows down or gets cancelled."
Q: I understand you wear two different socks, what's the significance?
Matthew: "My grandmother told me at a very early age that it was good luck to not wear matching socks, which I've come interpret to as bad luck to wear matching socks because the one time I wore matching socks in ten years was when I was acting in this movie called The Life Aquatic. We were doing a moment where Bill Murray is leading us in exercises and somehow I managed to sprain my ankle on camera. It actually wound up being in the movie. I attribute that entirely to me wearing matching socks."
Q: Tell us about Dr. Spencer Reid.
Matthew: "He's an eccentric genius, with hints of schizophrenia and minor autism, Asperger's Syndrome. Reid is 24, 25 years old with three PH.D.'s and one can't usually achieve that without some form of autism."
Q: What's ahead on Criminal Minds for Spencer?
Matthew: "I've heard some pretty exciting stuff! I've heard I have an archenemy coming up. He's a kid I went to school who is one I.Q. point smarter, a little bit taller, better looking. He lives in New Orleans and plays jazz. They've hinted at shades of schizophrenia with Reid. I know his mother was schizophrenic and he has a fear of going schizophrenic himself. I'd like to think that one day down the line he will go schizophrenic and maybe turn into the type of person they'll chase relentlessly."
Q: How is your personality similar to your character?
Matthew: "He's not too similar. He's a genius and I'm technically and functionally retarded [laughs]. In the show, Reid was sort of hand-picked from college. He's in the FBI, but he didn't strive to achieve that or have any intention of doing that. Gideon (Mandy Patinkin) recruited him and I feel kind of akin to that because I had no real intention of being an actor or being on a show. I've sort of fallen into it. Reid makes the most of it and so do I. It's fun and quite an honor."
Q: How are you different?
Matthew: "He's a PH.D. in physics and mathematics and nobody knows what the third one is and I'm in no way scientifically minded. I think he's way more analytical than I am."
Q: What's ahead for Matthew?
Matthew: "Thanks to the show, I've been drawing and painting a lot because we have a lot of down time on the set and it's the perfect amount of time to make pictures. I've had a few art gallery exhibits and I hope that continues. I hope to direct some more. I just shot a movie with John Malkovich and Tom Hanks that is coming out in April."
Q: Anything you want to say to the fans?
Matthew: "I'm beyond proud and happy - I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few. I just couldn't be happier that people seem to like what I'm doing and seem to respond to it. If they weren't there, I don't know what I'd be doing right now."
http://tvdramas.about.com/od/criminalminds/a/matgraygubint.htm
From Rachel Thomas,
Many actors really do lead interesting lives outside of work, and then there are truly unique actors like Matthew Gray Gubler who take creativity to the next level. Like his character on the hit CBS series Criminal Minds, Matthew is a brilliantly creative man who uses his intelligence and extraordinary humor to make the world a better place. I had the fortunate opportunity to chat with Matthew about his life, where his character is headed and his plans for the future.
Q: How old were you when you got into acting?
Matthew: "It was really when the show started that I got into it. I did filmmaking and through a roundabout manner, I got into this. I was 25 when the show started."
Q: What do you think you'd be doing today if you weren't acting?
Matthew: "My family and friends sort of chastised me.
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They're kind of upset that I'm on the show to be honest because it wasn't what I had set out to do. I would hopefully be directing movies now or writing them."
Q: Your grandparents founded the first radio station in Las Vegas (KENO), did you ever work as a DJ on KENO?
Matthew: "No I didn't, that was way before I was born. My mother was pretty active in it. I think they gave up the station in the mid-60's."
Q: Your web site is quite possibly one of the most unusual places I've ever visited, where did you get the idea for the design?
Matthew: "Oh, thank you so much for finding it, I'm honored! To be honest, the design was born out of not knowing anything about programming and what would be the simplest way of getting information out. I'm not the biggest fan of technique. I wanted to do a simple, honest, hand-written web page."
Q: You've created several short films, going forward do you hope to do more work behind the camera?
Matthew: "Oh definitely. That's what I'm better at doing than anything. I've been fortunate enough with the show that I've been able to work in some time. I did a music video recently. It's what I'll do one day when the show slows down or gets cancelled."
Q: I understand you wear two different socks, what's the significance?
Matthew: "My grandmother told me at a very early age that it was good luck to not wear matching socks, which I've come interpret to as bad luck to wear matching socks because the one time I wore matching socks in ten years was when I was acting in this movie called The Life Aquatic. We were doing a moment where Bill Murray is leading us in exercises and somehow I managed to sprain my ankle on camera. It actually wound up being in the movie. I attribute that entirely to me wearing matching socks."
Q: Tell us about Dr. Spencer Reid.
Matthew: "He's an eccentric genius, with hints of schizophrenia and minor autism, Asperger's Syndrome. Reid is 24, 25 years old with three PH.D.'s and one can't usually achieve that without some form of autism."
Q: What's ahead on Criminal Minds for Spencer?
Matthew: "I've heard some pretty exciting stuff! I've heard I have an archenemy coming up. He's a kid I went to school who is one I.Q. point smarter, a little bit taller, better looking. He lives in New Orleans and plays jazz. They've hinted at shades of schizophrenia with Reid. I know his mother was schizophrenic and he has a fear of going schizophrenic himself. I'd like to think that one day down the line he will go schizophrenic and maybe turn into the type of person they'll chase relentlessly."
Q: How is your personality similar to your character?
Matthew: "He's not too similar. He's a genius and I'm technically and functionally retarded [laughs]. In the show, Reid was sort of hand-picked from college. He's in the FBI, but he didn't strive to achieve that or have any intention of doing that. Gideon (Mandy Patinkin) recruited him and I feel kind of akin to that because I had no real intention of being an actor or being on a show. I've sort of fallen into it. Reid makes the most of it and so do I. It's fun and quite an honor."
Q: How are you different?
Matthew: "He's a PH.D. in physics and mathematics and nobody knows what the third one is and I'm in no way scientifically minded. I think he's way more analytical than I am."
Q: What's ahead for Matthew?
Matthew: "Thanks to the show, I've been drawing and painting a lot because we have a lot of down time on the set and it's the perfect amount of time to make pictures. I've had a few art gallery exhibits and I hope that continues. I hope to direct some more. I just shot a movie with John Malkovich and Tom Hanks that is coming out in April."
Q: Anything you want to say to the fans?
Matthew: "I'm beyond proud and happy - I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few. I just couldn't be happier that people seem to like what I'm doing and seem to respond to it. If they weren't there, I don't know what I'd be doing right now."
http://tvdramas.about.com/od/criminalminds/a/matgraygubint.htm
Saturday, November 04, 2006
CRIMINAL MINDS: MANDY PATINKIN, THOMAS GIBSON & TWO EXTRAS.
I think this is one of the funniest pics I have seen yet of Mandy Patinkin and Thomas Gibson. The ladies in the picture with them were extras on Criminal Minds, the Machismo episode. Stacy, a wonderful lady from Livejournal found this picture and shared it with the rest of us. She found it here: http://worldofwonder.net/archives/2006/May/12/confessions_of_a_hollywood_extra.wow
I bet we never get to see Garcia (Kirsten Vangness) or J.J. (A.J. Cook) dressed like this. LOL. :)
Friday, November 03, 2006
CRIMINAL MINDS IS FINALLY GETTING THE PRESS'S ATTENTION.
CBS gets ready for sweeps
Killer series an Eye opener Wednesday
By RICK KISSELL
America's fascination with serial killers seemingly knows no bounds, as CBS drama "Criminal Minds" continues its sophomore surge with series-high scores.
While that show and the Eye's lineup as a whole are looking good heading into sweeps, other nets are springing leaks on Wednesday. NBC's opening-hour comedy combo of "30 Rock" and "Twenty Good Years" finished an embarrassing sixth in their slot, and ABC's "The Nine" is doing very little in the 10 o'clock hour.
Then there's Fox gameshow "The Rich List," which bowed to cancel-me-now ratings at 9 o'clock.
Star of the night was "Criminal Minds" (5.0 rating/12 share in adults 18-49, 16.97 million viewers overall), which notched its best demo delivery to date and outdrew an original episode of ABC's "Lost" (6.6/16, 16.07m) in total viewers for the first time, according to Nielsen estimates.
And while "Lost" still led its hour over the Eye drama in both 18-49 (6.6 to 5.0) and 25-54 (7.5 to 6.4), its advantages were the slimmest to date.
Compared to last season at this point, firstrun segs of "Criminal Minds" on Wednesday are up 18% in 18-49 and 24% in total viewers. "Lost," meanwhile, is down in these categories by 27% and 24%, respectively.
And with "Lost" airing only once during the November sweep (it's being replaced by new drama "Day Break") and "Dancing With the Stars" airing just twice (replaced by quizzer "Show Me the Money"), CBS has a good shot to notch its first Wednesday sweeps demo victory in decades, if ever.
In addition to "Criminal Minds," CBS is also dominating at 10 with "CSI: NY" (5.4/15 in 18-49, 16.64m) and running a solid second at 8 with rookie drama "Jericho" (3.0/8, 9.87m).
Overall through six weeks, the Eye's dramas were up 25% in 18-49 (4.5/12 to 3.6/9) vs. its showing on Wednesdays a year ago, when comedies led off the night.
ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" results show easily led the 8 o'clock hour (4.8/13, 19.22m), with Fox's returning "Bones" placing third (2.7/7, 7.33m).
Fox struck out at 9, though, with "The Rich List" (1.5/4, 4.10m), a new gamer that ran fourth in its timeslot. It was unclear if the net planned to stick with the show, which had been skedded to air on Wednesdays during the sweep.
For the night, ABC held on to win over CBS in adults 18-49 (4.7/13 to 4.5/12), with the nets tying in 25-54 (5.6/14) and the Eye moving ahead in total viewers (14.5 million to 14 million).
Read the full article at:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117953189.html
CRIMINAL MINDS: GARCIA MAKES IT TO THE ROUND TABLE.
It was so nice to see Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness)sitting at the round table with the rest of the team in this past episode. I really enjoy her character. Her interactions with Morgan (Shemar Moore)and Dr. Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler) are priceless. I especially enjoy her getting tongue tied when she deals with Gideon (Mandy Patinkin)and the look on Hotchner's (Thomas Gibson) face when he is listening to her answer the phone always brings a smile to my face. Congrats Garcia. You finally made it! The round table will be place with you there. :)
Thursday, November 02, 2006
CRIMINAL MINDS: EMPTY PLANET
Wednesday, November 8, 9pm et/pt
Empty Planet:The Behavioral Analysis Unit must help identify and catch a serial bomber terrorizing the city of Seattle. TVPG-LV
JoBeth Williams guest stars. Info from cbs.com
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
CRIMINAL MINDS: CBS PRESS RELEASE.................
AND THE STREAK GOES ON:
CBS Places First in Viewers and Adults 25-54 For the Sixth Consecutive Week of the New Season
The "CSI" Franchise Dominates The Top 10
"Criminal Minds" Delivers Its Largest Audience for a Regularly Scheduled Broadcast and Tops "Lost" in Households for the Third Consecutive Week and in Viewers From 9:30-10:00 PM Also for the Third Straight Week
"Ghost Whisperer" Hits Season High in Viewers and Best Adult 18-49 Delivery Since Its Season Premiere
"The Amazing Race 10" Dashes to Its Second Largest Audience of the Season
"Cold Case" and "Without a Trace" Significantly Increase Year-Ago Time Period
CBS extended its beginning of the season winning streak to six weeks in viewers and adults 25-54, notching five of the Top 10 programs in viewers including all three editions of CSI, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending Oct. 29, week six of the 2006-2007 television season.
For the week in viewers, CBS (12.29m) placed ahead of ABC (11.39m), FOX (9.97m) and NBC (9.72m). Season-to-date, CBS (12.97m) is first followed by ABC (11.67m), NBC (10.18m) and FOX (8.83m).
For the week in key demographics, CBS was first in adults 25-54 (4.7/11, for the sixth consecutive week) and second in adults 18-49 (3.6/10). Season-to-date, CBS is first in adults 25-54, and second in adults 18-49 (just -0.2 behind ABC).
For the week in households, CBS (8.0/13) had a +10% advantage over ABC (7.3/12), +23% over FOX (6.5/10) and +27% over NBC (6.3/10). Season-to-date, CBS is first in households (8.3/14), ahead of ABC by +9% (7.6/12), NBC by +26% (6.6/11) and FOX by +43% (5.8/09).
CSI: MIAMI was first in households (11.7/19), viewers (17.83m), adults 25-54 (7.2/17), adults 18-49 (6.1/15) and adults 18-34 (4.4/12). CSI: MIAMI beat both "Studio 60" and "What About Brian" combined in viewers (17.83m vs. 13.70m, +30%), adults 25-54 (7.2/17 vs. 6.5/15, +11%) and adults 18-49 (6.1/15 vs. 5.9/15, +3%).
Wednesday, CBS was first in adults 25-54 (5.9/14), tied for first in households (9.6/15, with ABC), second in viewers (14.92m, -90,000 behind ABC) and adults 18-49 (4.4/11).
? JERICHO was second in households (6.8/11), viewers (10.56m), adults 25-54 (4.5/11) and adults 18-49 (3.2/09). Compared to last week, JERICHO is up +7% in adults 25-54 (from 4.2/11) and +3% in adults 18-49 (from 3.1/09).
? CRIMINAL MINDS was first in households (11.0/16), second in viewers (16.77m), adults 25-54 (6.2/14) and adults 18-49 (4.4/11). For the third consecutive week, CRIMINAL MINDS beat "Lost" in households and from 9:30-10:00PM, CRIMINAL MINDS beat lost in viewers (17.77m vs. 16.86m, +5%). This is the most watched Wednesday episode of CRIMINAL MINDS to date and matches the second best adults 25-54 delivery.
? CSI: NY was first in households (11.1/18), viewers (17.42m), adults 25-54 (7.0/17), adults 18-49 (5.6/15) and adults 18-34 (3.9/12). Compared to last week, CSI: NY is up +6% in households (from 10.5/17), +11% in adults 25-54 (from 6.3/15), +8% in both adults 18-49 (from 5.2/14) and adults 18-34 (from 3.6/11) while adding +1.43m (from 15.99m, +9%).
? SURVIVOR: COOK ISLANDS, a clip show, won its time slot in adults 25-54 (5.3/13), tied for first in adults 18-49 (4.2/12, with ABC's first-run "Ugly Betty"), second in both households (7.7/12), viewers (12.63m) and tied for second in adults 18-34 (2.7/08, with ABC's first-run "Ugly Betty"). SURVIVOR: COOK ISLANDS has been first in its time slot in adults 25-54 and adults 18-49 every week this season.
? CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION (R) was first in households (10.8/16), viewers (16.83m), adults 25-54 (6.4/15) and adults 18-49 (5.0/13).
? GHOST WHISPERER was first in households (7.0/12), viewers (10.88m), adults 25-54 (4.2/12) and adults 18-49 (3.1/10). GHOST WHISPERER has been first in adults 25-54 every week this season and first in four of the last five weeks in adults 18-49. This is GHOST WHISPERER's best household and viewer performance of the season, matched the best delivery in adults 25-54 and posted the best delivery of adults 18-49 since the 9/22/06 premiere.
? 60 MINUTES (7:21-8:21 PM) posted a 10.9/17 with 16.55m viewers, 5.3/12 in adults 25-54 and 4.1/11 in adults 18-49. 60 MINUTES was first in households, viewers, adults 25-54 and second in adults 18-49 from 7:30-8:30PM. This is 60 MINUTES second best delivery in households, viewers, adults 25-54 and adults 18-49 of the season.
? THE AMAZING RACE 10 (8:21-9:21 PM) posted a 7.3/11 with 11.66m viewers, 4.8/10 in adults 25-54, 3.9/09 in adults 18-49 and 2.8/07 in adults 18-34. This matches the best performance of THE AMAZING RACE 10 in households and is the second best in viewers.
? COLD CASE (9:21-10:21PM) delivered a 9.2/14 in households with 14.16m viewers, 4.8/10 in adults 25-54 and 3.7/09 in adults 18-49. Compared to the same night last year (CBS Sunday Movie), COLD CASE was up +104% in households, +66% in adults 25-54 and +54% in adults 18-49.
? WITHOUT A TRACE (10:21-11:21PM) posted an 8.8/16 with 13.37m viewers, 4.6/12 in adults 25-54 and 3.7/10 in adults 18-49. From 10:30-11:00PM, WITHOUT A TRACE was second in households and viewers, behind NBC's football game. Compared to the same night last year (CBS Sunday Movie), WITHOUT A TRACE was up +120% in households, +84% in adults 25-54 and +76% in adults 18-49.
CBS top programs of the week: #4 CSI: MIAMI (an average of 17.83m viewers), #5 CSI: NY (17.42m), #8 CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION (R) (16.83m), #9 CRIMINAL MINDS (16.77m), #10 60 MINUTES (16.55m), #16 TWO AND A HALF MEN (15.03m), #18 COLD CASE (14.16m), #19 WITHOUT A TRACE (13.37m), #21 SURVIVOR: COOK ISLANDS (12.63m), #24 THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE (12.10m), #25 NCIS (R) (11.76m), #26 THE AMAZING RACE 10 (11.66m) and #30 NUMB3RS (11.09m).
Sunday, October 29, 2006
CRIMINAL MINDS: WONDERFUL NEW "TIMES" ARTICLE
‘Criminal Minds’ is creeping up on ‘Lost’
The self-contained serial killer series is becoming a ratings challenger to the mythologically complex ABC series.
By Scott Collins, Times Staff Writer
October 30, 2006
CBS' "Criminal Minds" is a gory, creepy, serial-killer show. It's dissed by critics as a stapled-together knockoff of the network's many other crime dramas. Its mirth-free tone is epitomized by Jason Gideon, the grumpy, taciturn FBI profiler played by Mandy Patinkin. And it's up against the ultimate water-cooler show on Wednesday nights, ABC's mythologically complex "Lost."
Yup, conventional wisdom would dictate that "Criminal Minds," now in its second season, should be moldering on TV's rubbish heap.
So why is the series growing into a bona-fide hit that last week delivered its most-watched episode ever, with 16.8 million total viewers, just a shade behind the still-formidable "Lost" (17.1 million), according to Nielsen Media Research?
That's one of the top questions bedeviling TV veterans in the first weeks of this season, which has already proven a disorienting wasteland for network executives praying for a fresh batch of big hits. Viewers with near-infinite programming choices are supposed to be gravitating toward the creatively daring and the critically acclaimed, such as "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" or "The Nine."
Instead, the masses are screaming for ... "Criminal Minds"?
Well, yes. Since "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" broke through two years ago, programmers, trainable creatures that they are, just figured the audience wanted more. So networks loaded up on serialized dramas that inspired — and also required — slavish devotion from fans. Forget to TiVo a couple episodes and you may be, well, lost.
This season brought fare such as ABC's "The Nine," which follows the interconnected lives of hostages who survived a bank robbery, and NBC's "Friday Night Lights," designed as a rural Southern answer to "The O.C." But neither series has clicked with viewers. Nor did other serialized shows such as NBC's "Kidnapped" or ABC's "Six Degrees."
"This was the year of serialized dramas trying to recapture lightning in a bottle the way that 'Desperate Housewives,' 'Lost,' '24' and 'Grey's Anatomy' did," said John Rash, director of broadcast negotiations for Minneapolis-based ad firm Campbell-Mithun. "But almost all of them were rejected by the audience."
The growth of "Criminal Minds" is maybe the most convincing proof that not everyone wants to be chained to a dense, character-packed drama that unspools like a Dickensian novel. And even those who do have their limits. There is a reason why formula sells, why genres become generic in the first place.
To the surprise of no one, executive producer Mark Gordon rejects the notion that "Criminal Minds" is as pedestrian as the critics would have it.
"It's nothing like those other CBS procedural shows," he said. That Gideon and his team are typically pursuing serial killers — including an 8-year-old suspect in last week's episode — changes the plot dynamics. "It's about people solving crimes as they're happening rather than after they've happened."
Writer-producer Ed Bernero, who oversees "Criminal Minds" day to day, contends that the show is a lot smarter than critics give it credit for. The writing staff views the series as based on Arthurian legends, he said, with the FBI assuming the role of King Arthur and Gideon the stand-in for Lancelot.
Two recent episodes featured a killer who called himself the Fisher King, a direct reference to Arthurian myth.
"People learn something from watching the show," Bernero, a former Chicago cop, said during a break in shooting at a Valley location last week on this season's ninth episode. (Critics who've noticed the show's tendency to focus on bloodied female victims have suggested the show's teachings may be mostly misogynistic. Bernero counters that many serial-killer victims in the real-life cases the writers draw upon happen to be women — and that, by the way, "Minds" does particularly well among female viewers.)
But Bernero also sees clear differences between his show and the competition. The team on "Criminal Minds" cracks a mystery every week.
"Lost," meanwhile, has been drubbed by many fans for leaving too many questions unresolved about its central characters, who survived a plane crash on a mysterious tropical island.
"I'm a fan of the show, and I don't feel like they're giving me solutions to anything," Bernero said of "Lost."
Of course, it may be simplistic to assume that frustrated viewers are fleeing "Lost" and hopping aboard "Criminal Minds" (coincidentally, Walt Disney Co.'s Touchstone Television produces both). The series are among TV's most-watched, suggesting that there's room for both.
And while "Criminal Minds" has been steadily gaining on "Lost" in total viewers, the ABC series retains a huge advantage among young adults, the group advertisers covet most. The median age of "Lost" viewers this season is 42; for "Criminal Minds," it's 53.
But the producers of "Lost" realize they're walking a fine line between mapping out the grand fictional world that sophisticated fans expect and delivering the single-episode payoff that will keep casual viewers satisfied.
Last season dwelled on what happened when some of the survivors went "down the hatch," a mysterious hole that led to unexpected confrontations. This year will focus on the survivors' face-off with "the others," another group inhabiting the island.
"This season is a sequel as opposed to a show you can just drop into," said "Lost" executive producer Damon Lindelof. "You have to go back and do your homework. That could make it less appealing to a broader audience."
Added executive producer Carlton Cuse: " 'Lost' makes no promises. It's an exercise in delayed gratification."
He's not kidding about the delay. After the Nov. 8 episode — this season's sixth — "Lost" will take a three-month hiatus before returning in February. But Cuse promises that some mysteries that intrigued and possibly annoyed fans will get resolved soon. For example, how did Locke, the resourceful maverick played by Terry O'Quinn, wind up in a wheelchair? "That's going to get answered at some point this season," Cuse said.
"Criminal Minds," meanwhile, will be adjusting to a major cast change. Lola Glaudini, who played the morally ambiguous Agent Greenaway, has left the series to return to the East Coast. Bernero said Glaudini was unhappy living in Los Angeles. (Through a representative, Glaudini declined to comment). Paget Brewster, perhaps best known for a recurring part on "Friends," has joined the cast as a new profiler.
Aside from the personnel shift, however, the producers expect "Criminal Minds" to keep chugging along and hopefully edge past "Lost" soon.
Bernero isn't worried about running out of material.
"At any given time, there are 30 serial killers working in the United States," he said.
The self-contained serial killer series is becoming a ratings challenger to the mythologically complex ABC series.
By Scott Collins, Times Staff Writer
October 30, 2006
CBS' "Criminal Minds" is a gory, creepy, serial-killer show. It's dissed by critics as a stapled-together knockoff of the network's many other crime dramas. Its mirth-free tone is epitomized by Jason Gideon, the grumpy, taciturn FBI profiler played by Mandy Patinkin. And it's up against the ultimate water-cooler show on Wednesday nights, ABC's mythologically complex "Lost."
Yup, conventional wisdom would dictate that "Criminal Minds," now in its second season, should be moldering on TV's rubbish heap.
So why is the series growing into a bona-fide hit that last week delivered its most-watched episode ever, with 16.8 million total viewers, just a shade behind the still-formidable "Lost" (17.1 million), according to Nielsen Media Research?
That's one of the top questions bedeviling TV veterans in the first weeks of this season, which has already proven a disorienting wasteland for network executives praying for a fresh batch of big hits. Viewers with near-infinite programming choices are supposed to be gravitating toward the creatively daring and the critically acclaimed, such as "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" or "The Nine."
Instead, the masses are screaming for ... "Criminal Minds"?
Well, yes. Since "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" broke through two years ago, programmers, trainable creatures that they are, just figured the audience wanted more. So networks loaded up on serialized dramas that inspired — and also required — slavish devotion from fans. Forget to TiVo a couple episodes and you may be, well, lost.
This season brought fare such as ABC's "The Nine," which follows the interconnected lives of hostages who survived a bank robbery, and NBC's "Friday Night Lights," designed as a rural Southern answer to "The O.C." But neither series has clicked with viewers. Nor did other serialized shows such as NBC's "Kidnapped" or ABC's "Six Degrees."
"This was the year of serialized dramas trying to recapture lightning in a bottle the way that 'Desperate Housewives,' 'Lost,' '24' and 'Grey's Anatomy' did," said John Rash, director of broadcast negotiations for Minneapolis-based ad firm Campbell-Mithun. "But almost all of them were rejected by the audience."
The growth of "Criminal Minds" is maybe the most convincing proof that not everyone wants to be chained to a dense, character-packed drama that unspools like a Dickensian novel. And even those who do have their limits. There is a reason why formula sells, why genres become generic in the first place.
To the surprise of no one, executive producer Mark Gordon rejects the notion that "Criminal Minds" is as pedestrian as the critics would have it.
"It's nothing like those other CBS procedural shows," he said. That Gideon and his team are typically pursuing serial killers — including an 8-year-old suspect in last week's episode — changes the plot dynamics. "It's about people solving crimes as they're happening rather than after they've happened."
Writer-producer Ed Bernero, who oversees "Criminal Minds" day to day, contends that the show is a lot smarter than critics give it credit for. The writing staff views the series as based on Arthurian legends, he said, with the FBI assuming the role of King Arthur and Gideon the stand-in for Lancelot.
Two recent episodes featured a killer who called himself the Fisher King, a direct reference to Arthurian myth.
"People learn something from watching the show," Bernero, a former Chicago cop, said during a break in shooting at a Valley location last week on this season's ninth episode. (Critics who've noticed the show's tendency to focus on bloodied female victims have suggested the show's teachings may be mostly misogynistic. Bernero counters that many serial-killer victims in the real-life cases the writers draw upon happen to be women — and that, by the way, "Minds" does particularly well among female viewers.)
But Bernero also sees clear differences between his show and the competition. The team on "Criminal Minds" cracks a mystery every week.
"Lost," meanwhile, has been drubbed by many fans for leaving too many questions unresolved about its central characters, who survived a plane crash on a mysterious tropical island.
"I'm a fan of the show, and I don't feel like they're giving me solutions to anything," Bernero said of "Lost."
Of course, it may be simplistic to assume that frustrated viewers are fleeing "Lost" and hopping aboard "Criminal Minds" (coincidentally, Walt Disney Co.'s Touchstone Television produces both). The series are among TV's most-watched, suggesting that there's room for both.
And while "Criminal Minds" has been steadily gaining on "Lost" in total viewers, the ABC series retains a huge advantage among young adults, the group advertisers covet most. The median age of "Lost" viewers this season is 42; for "Criminal Minds," it's 53.
But the producers of "Lost" realize they're walking a fine line between mapping out the grand fictional world that sophisticated fans expect and delivering the single-episode payoff that will keep casual viewers satisfied.
Last season dwelled on what happened when some of the survivors went "down the hatch," a mysterious hole that led to unexpected confrontations. This year will focus on the survivors' face-off with "the others," another group inhabiting the island.
"This season is a sequel as opposed to a show you can just drop into," said "Lost" executive producer Damon Lindelof. "You have to go back and do your homework. That could make it less appealing to a broader audience."
Added executive producer Carlton Cuse: " 'Lost' makes no promises. It's an exercise in delayed gratification."
He's not kidding about the delay. After the Nov. 8 episode — this season's sixth — "Lost" will take a three-month hiatus before returning in February. But Cuse promises that some mysteries that intrigued and possibly annoyed fans will get resolved soon. For example, how did Locke, the resourceful maverick played by Terry O'Quinn, wind up in a wheelchair? "That's going to get answered at some point this season," Cuse said.
"Criminal Minds," meanwhile, will be adjusting to a major cast change. Lola Glaudini, who played the morally ambiguous Agent Greenaway, has left the series to return to the East Coast. Bernero said Glaudini was unhappy living in Los Angeles. (Through a representative, Glaudini declined to comment). Paget Brewster, perhaps best known for a recurring part on "Friends," has joined the cast as a new profiler.
Aside from the personnel shift, however, the producers expect "Criminal Minds" to keep chugging along and hopefully edge past "Lost" soon.
Bernero isn't worried about running out of material.
"At any given time, there are 30 serial killers working in the United States," he said.
Great new Criminal Minds Article
'CRIMINAL MINDS'
By DEBORAH STARR SEIBEL
October 29, 2006 -- You'd think "Criminal Minds"' top sleuth, actor Mandy Patinkin, would be doing handstands over being on a hit series. You'd be wrong.
"I've asked myself a thousand times: What the hell did you choose this for?" says Patinkin, sitting in his luxury trailer on the Los Angeles set. The Broadway veteran and former star of "Chicago Hope" isn't whining about the long hours it takes to do the show. Patinkin's complaint is about spending those hours concentrating on horrific subject matter.
On this show, that means getting inside the minds of serial murderers, rapists, arsonists and terrorists.
"There are many days," says Patinkin, "that I'm a basket case and I can't do the show."
The stories are based on real-life criminals - think Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy - and even for an actor as seasoned as Patinkin, it's no cake-walk. "In six hours, I'm toast, running on empty, pumping the green tea and the dark chocolate and praying to God," he says. "Because Mandy has left the building."
"Criminal Minds" never got the splashy headlines or a big publicity push when it debuted last season. The series was considered just another procedural crime drama. But over the summer in reruns, these stories about an elite band of F.B.I. profilers started to catch fire. The show's executive producer, Ed Bernero, a former Chicago cop who spent 10 years wearing a badge, thinks he knows why.
"We have a completely different approach," says Bernero. "On 'Law & Order,' if they don't do their jobs right, somebody might get away with murder. If we don't do it right, someone else is gonna die. Most crime shows are after-the-fact. We're trying to keep another crime from happening.
"I think that's endlessly interesting, not only to cops, but to the audience."
It's worth noting that the "Criminal Minds" audience is not being fed a steady diet of blood and guts. The show, as a rule, relies more on the imagination than crime scene gore. And its bone-chilling premise is that the guy who's out to hurt you isn't some wild-eyed stranger in a trench coat hiding behind a tree. "It's your neighbor, your priest, your teacher," says Bernero.
All that has made this creepy crime drama into a kind of stealth television, steadily sneaking up into the Nielsen top 10 trumping once-invincible competitors such as ABC's "Lost." Unlike that show's endlessly convoluted, serialized storylines, "Criminal Minds" takes a disturbing tale and gives it - in one hour - a beginning, a middle and an end.
Bernero says he compares the characters on "Criminal Minds" to "knights of the round table. But these are modern-day knights and they're going out to fight the biggest dragons in society. And I think that's what people are responding to."
That's also what's keeping Patinkin on his own razor-thin edge of sanity. "It's especially tough on Mandy," says Bernero. "I've talked to him about my experiences as a cop, and he is now going through many of the things that I went through. When you immerse yourself in this world, it can't help but change the way you look at things."
"Sometimes, I can't let go,"Patinkin says. "I can't goof around. I can't treat it like a comedy. I try, but sometimes, I just can't."
Saturday, October 28, 2006
CRIMINAL MINDS: CHEERS TO YOU KIRSTEN VANGSNESS. GARCIA RULES!
photo of Kirsten aka Garcia on Criminal Minds at a wedding can be found at this wonderful LJ: http://monkeyx3.livejournal.com/
Thursday, October 26, 2006
CRIMINAL MINDS : NEXT EPISODE INFORMATION
Wednesday, November 1, 9pm et/pt: North Mammon:Gideon, Hotchner and JJ must profile an entire town in order to locate three missing college women. Written by Andrew Wilder. Info from cbs.com
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
CRIMINAL MINDS : SHEMAR MOORE AKA DEREK MORGAN
Currently portraying Derek Morgan on CBS's show "Criminal Minds".
Shemar Moore is best known for his portrayal of photographer Malcolm Winters on "The Young and the Restless" on CBS, for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. He was also nominated for Daytime Emmys in 1996 and 1997 in the category of Outstanding Younger Leading Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1999. He has won five NAACP Image Awards.
Moore's additional television credits include the mini-series "Scott Turow's Reversible Errors," the series "Birds of Prey," the movie "How to Marry a Billionaire" and hosting the Miss USA Pageant.
His feature film credits include "Diary of a Mad Black Woman," "Butter," "Motives," "The Brothers" and "The Seat Filler."
Moore currently resides in Los Angeles.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
HOMETOWN............... San Francisco, CA
BIRTHDATE................. April 20
Information from:touchstonetvpress.com
CRIMINAL MINDS: THOMAS GIBSON AKA AARON HOTCHNER
Currently portraying Aaron Hotchner on CBS's show "Criminal Minds".
Thomas Gibson is best known for his five years in the comedy series "Dharma & Greg." His additional television credits include a starring role in the CBS series "Chicago Hope," the movies "Raising Waylon," "The Inheritance" and "Brush with Fate," on CBS, "Tales of the City," "More Tales of the City," "Evil Never Dies," "A Will of Their Own" and "The Lost Empire," and the mini-series "Category 6: Day of Destruction," on CBS, and "The Kennedys of Massachusetts."
Gibson made his feature film debut with a starring role in the epic drama "Far and Away" and has since appeared in films such as "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas," "Eyes Wide Shut," "The Age of Innocence," "Barcelona," "Love and Human Remains," "Sleep with Me," "Pyscho Beach Party," "Jack the Dog" and "Stardom."
He made his New York stage debut in "A Map of the World" at the New York Shakespeare Festival and worked on and off Broadway for more than 10 years in a wide variety of plays.
Gibson lives in Los Angeles.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
HOMETOWN............... Charleston, SC
BIRTHDATE.................. July 3
Info from: touchstonetvpress.com
Thomas Gibson is best known for his five years in the comedy series "Dharma & Greg." His additional television credits include a starring role in the CBS series "Chicago Hope," the movies "Raising Waylon," "The Inheritance" and "Brush with Fate," on CBS, "Tales of the City," "More Tales of the City," "Evil Never Dies," "A Will of Their Own" and "The Lost Empire," and the mini-series "Category 6: Day of Destruction," on CBS, and "The Kennedys of Massachusetts."
Gibson made his feature film debut with a starring role in the epic drama "Far and Away" and has since appeared in films such as "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas," "Eyes Wide Shut," "The Age of Innocence," "Barcelona," "Love and Human Remains," "Sleep with Me," "Pyscho Beach Party," "Jack the Dog" and "Stardom."
He made his New York stage debut in "A Map of the World" at the New York Shakespeare Festival and worked on and off Broadway for more than 10 years in a wide variety of plays.
Gibson lives in Los Angeles.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
HOMETOWN............... Charleston, SC
BIRTHDATE.................. July 3
Info from: touchstonetvpress.com
Monday, October 23, 2006
CRIMINAL MINDS: PAGET BREWSTER IS JOINING THE SHOW SOON REPLACING LOLA GLAUDINI
I am completely unfamilar with Paget Brewster's work. If anyone has any info on her I would love to hear it. I hope she is a positive addition to the cast of Criminal Minds.
Saturday, October 21, 2006
CRIMINAL MINDS: A.J. COOK AS JENNIFER JAREAU
A.J. Cook is doing a nice job as Jennifer Jareau. It seems to me that she is getting more screen time as the second season progresses. When the show first started I thought she was just the token blond window dressing that many shows have but she has really proven to be a very capable member of the BAU.
Screencaps by: http://slash-girl.livejournal.com/
Thursday, October 19, 2006
CRIMINAL MINDS : "AFTERMATH" SCREEN CAPS
Criminal Minds Screen caps by: cattylizzie-http://community.livejournal.com/picturethecrime/25469.html?#cutid1
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
CRIMINAL MINDS: KIRSTEN VANGSNESS AT CBS SUMMER PRESS TOUR
They have finally added Kirsten to the CBS Criminal Minds Website. Here is what they have to say about our Garcia:
"In the L.A. theater community and as a performance artist, Vangsness' work has garnered her the 15 Minutes of Fem Best Actress Award, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Best Emerging Comic Actress and the coveted Golden Betty Award. Her written work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times Magazine. She is a member of Theatre of NOTE in Hollywood, California.
Vangsness was born and raised in Pasadena and currently resides in Long Beach, California. Her birth date is July 7."
Sunday, October 15, 2006
MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER IS A CUTIE AS DR. SPENCER REID
Criminal Minds: Mattthew Gray Gubler does a great job portraying Dr. Spencer Reid.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
CRIMINAL MINDS: PENELOPE GARCIA'S DESK, PLAYED BY KIRSTEN VANGSNESS.
Pictures were copied from this wonderful blog. Check it out. Really interesting person. http://monkeyx3.livejournal.com/
Monday, October 09, 2006
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