Falling Skies - TV Guide: Matt's Weekend Picks - Jun 19 '11 - TNT 9/8C

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TV GUIDE: Matt's Weekend Picks Sunday, June 19, 2011

Jun 16, 2011
by Matt Roush

... Falling Skies

(Sunday, 9/8c, TNT)

This crackerjack alien-invasion thriller, launching with a two-hour premiere, is perfect summer sci-fi escapism, the sort of show V should have been. It thrusts us directly into the trenches of a war between marauding aliens (who don't even try to mask their spidery selves) and a band of underdog human resistance fighters, led by a very appealing Noah Wyle as a family man/history professor who appreciates the significance of leading this charge on the same Massachusetts soil where an earlier Revolutionary War occurred. If this well-produced piece of popcorn populism isn't a hit, I give up.

Game of Thrones - TV Guide: Matt's Weekend Picks - Jun 19 '11 - HBO 9/8C

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TV GUIDE: Matt's Weekend Picks - Sunday, June 19, 2011

Jun 16, 2011
by Matt Roush

... Game of Thrones

(Sunday, 9/8c, HBO)

And so it ends with [one of the ] two of the spring's most compelling dramas, coming off shattering twists the week before. Game of Thrones picks up in the aftermath of a true game-changer: the horrific execution of Ned Stark, with many of the major characters (Starks, Lannisters and exiled Daenerys from across the sea) facing significant turning points... The best news: [Game of Thrones} will return next year

Eureka - Syfy: Audio Podcasts

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EUREKA - SYFY: AUDIO PODCASTS


NOTE: Updated April 24, 2012

With the Eureka podcast, you can listen to exclusive commentary by the cast and crew about each episode while you're watching it.

Beware of spoilers! Although the commentary is provided before you watch the episode, it is meant to be listened to while watching the episode. Listening to it beforehand might ruin certain dramatic surprises.

Also, commentary by the cast is presented unedited and uncensored, and may contain adult language. Listener discretion is advised.

SEASON ONE

Episode 102 - Many Happy Returns
Episode 103 - Before I Forget
Episode 104 - Alienated
Episode 105 - Invincible
Episode 106 - Dr. Nobel
Episode 107 - Blink
Episode 108 - Right as Raynes
Episode 109 - Primal
Episode 109 - Bonus - Primal
Episode 110 - Purple Haze
Episode 111 - H.O.U.S.E. Rules
Episode 111 - Bonus - H.O.U.S.E. Rules
Episode 112 - Once in a Lifetime

SEASON TWO


Episode 202 - Try, Try Again
Episode 204 - Games People Play

SEASON THREE

Episode 301 - Bad to the Drone
Episode 302 - What About Bob?
Episode 303 - Best in Faux
Episode 304 - I Do Over
Episode 305 - Show Me the Mummy

SEASON FOUR

Episode 411 - Liftoff - With Colin Ferguson, Niall Matter and Neil Grayston
Episode 414 - Up in the Air - With Colin Ferguson and director Alexandra La Roche
Episode 416 - Of Mites and Men - With Colin Ferguson, Neil Grayston and Niall Matter

SEASON FIVE

Episode 501 - Lost - With Neil Grayston and Colin Ferguson.
Episode 502 - The Real Thing - With Neil Grayston and Colin Ferguson.

The Twilight Zone (1959) - Syfy: Season 4 Marathon Jun 23 '11

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THE TWILIGHT ZONE (1959) - SYFY: Season Four Marathon Thursday, June 23, 2011

08:00 AM On Thursday We Leave For Home

James Whitmore stars as the leader of space pioneers about to return to Earth, having failed to establish a Utopia on a distant planet. But he doesn't want to relinquish his power.

Cast includes James Whitmore, Tim O'Connor, James Broderick, Paul Langton, Jo Helton, Mercedes Shirley and Russ Bender.

09:00 AM Passage On The Lady Anne

Hoping to save her marriage, a woman books a transatlantic cruise---on a ship the couple find filled with only elderly passengers and crew.

Cast includes Gladys Cooper, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Cecil Kellaway, Lee Philips, Joyce Van Patten and Alan Napier.

10:00 AM The Bard

Jack Weston plays an aspiring TV writer who inadvertently conjures up the ghost of William Shakespeare (John Williams), and takes credit for the Bard's brilliant teleplay. Burt Reynolds plays method actor Rocky Rhodes.

Cast includes Jack Weston, John McGiver, Doro Merande, John Williams, Marge Redmond and Burt Reynolds.

11:00 AM In His Image

In the first hour-long show, George Grizzard portrays a man whose sudden murderous impulse is followed by an apparent loss of memory and familiar surroundings.

Cast includes George Grizzard, Gail Kobe, Katherine Squire, Wallace Rooney and George Petrie.

12:00 PM The Thirty Fathom Grave

Terror grips a seaman when a strange tapping sound draws his shipmates to the site of a sunken WWII submarine.

Cast includes Mike Kellin, Simon Oakland, David Sheiner, John Considine, Bill Bixby and Conlan Carter.

01:00 PM Valley Of The Shadow

Ed Nelson plays a newspaper reporter who stumbles into a small town where residents have extraordinary powers, which they insist remain hidden from the outside world.

Cast includes David Opatoshu, Ed Nelson, Natalie Trundy, Jacques Aubuchon, Dabbs Greer, Star Trek's James Doohan, Morgan Brittany and Henry Beckman.

02:00 PM He's Alive

Dennis Hopper stars as a neo-Nazi leader whose struggle for supporters is assisted by advice from a mysterious stranger with tips on attracting followers. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg (“Cool Hand Luke,” “The Amityville Horror”).

Cast includes Dennis Hopper, Ludwig Donath, Paul Mazursky, Howard Caine, Barnaby Hale and Jay Adler.

03:00 PM Death Ship

In his third series appearance, Jack Klugman plays one of three astronauts who find their lifeless look-alikes in a crashed spaceship on a distant planet.

Cast includes Jack Klugman, Ross Martin, Fred Beir, Mary Webster, Ross Elliott, Sara Taft and Tammy Marihugh.

Falling Skies - Mother Nature Network: Noah Wyle bans bottled water, fights aliens

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FALLING SKIES - MOTHER NATURE NETWORK: Noah Wyle bans bottled water, fights aliens

He stars in sci-fi series 'Falling Skies' with Moon Bloodgood.

By Gerri Miller
Wed, Jun 15 2011


"We've always been pretty eco-friendly and aware, and we try to leave as small a footprint as possible, but my kids are much more diligent — they teach me about it," says Noah Wyle, the father of three sons. "We always recycle. I made one gigantic mandate, which is that we are not ever drinking bottled water again. We have Brita filters in the fridge." He also lives on a farm with cows, chickens, goats, pigs, horses, dogs and cats, some of which are rescues. "When you're named Noah you have a certain responsibility," points out the actor, who stars in the new TNT series "Falling Skies," about survival and resistance in the aftermath of an alien invasion. In the Steven Spielberg-produced sci-fi drama, premiering with a two-hour episode June 19, Wyle plays a college history professor turned resistance leader — and action hero...


Falling Skies premieres Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 9/8C. Cast includes Stargate SG-1's Colin Cunningham, Maxim Knight, Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Mpho Koaho, Sarah Carter, Connor Jessup, Bruce Gray, Dale Dye, Drew Roy, Seychelle Gabriel, Peter Shinkoda, Dylan Authors and James Collins.

Falling Skies - WAAF Boston: Moon Bloodgood Video Interview

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FALLING SKIES - WAAF BOSTON: Moon Bloodgood talks about Falling Skies

Kevin Barbare had a chance to talk to Moon Bloodgood about the TNT's upcoming series FALLING SKIES which premieres Sunday, 6/19, at 9PM on TNT.

Cast includes Stargate SG-1's Colin Cunningham, Maxim Knight, Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Mpho Koaho, Sarah Carter, Connor Jessup, Bruce Gray, Dale Dye, Drew Roy, Seychelle Gabriel, Peter Shinkoda, Dylan Authors and James Collins.

Falling Skies - Daemon's TV: Exclusive Colin Cunningham Interview

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FALLING SKIES -DAEMON'S TV: Exclusive: FALLING SKIES’ Colin Cunningham Interview

As fascinated as most of us are with aliens and alien invasions, shows revolving around them have had a bumpy history, something TNT is hoping to change with its highly anticipated epic summer series FALLING SKIES. Premiering June 19, the action-packed character drama follows a group of alien Armageddon survivors in Massachusetts who band together to fight back against the alien invaders.

Professor Tom Mason (Noah Wyle) is the de facto leader with two of his sons backing him up and the third in the clutches of the aliens. Dr. Anne Glass (Moon Bloodgood) is Tom’s confidant while John Pope (Colin Cunningham) is the leader of gang of marauders who likes killing aliens as much as he likes seizing any opportunities to profit from the chaos.

Daemon’s TV talked to Colin Cunningham about playing John Pope, what we can expect from Falling Skies and its aliens, and why we’re all going to love the show...



... It’s interesting that ‘Falling Skies’ is not so much about aliens invading as it is about the war since it begins six months after the initial attack.

Colin Cunningham: "It really is. It’s nice. I mean, hopefully audiences will respond to that very thing, but it’s not typical in that. The nice thing, bringing it back around to [Steven] Spielberg is that his projects are always about people and circumstances that are tough. Within this genre just happens to be an alien thing, but it’s not like it’s all visual FX or that there’s no heart or story. It’s real people and families trying to make the right decisions and do the right thing, and yet, you’re in the middle of war and it’s tough. It’s six months after, I guess, the end of the world. Ninety odd percent of humanity is gone and the survivors have begun to pull themselves out of the rubble and begin to come together and form a small militia and begin fighting back..."

Falling Skies premieres Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 9/8C. Cast includes Stargate SG-1's Colin Cunningham, Maxim Knight, Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Mpho Koaho, Sarah Carter, Connor Jessup, Bruce Gray, Dale Dye, Drew Roy, Seychelle Gabriel, Peter Shinkoda, Dylan Authors and James Collins.

Falling Skies - Philadelphia Inquirer: Noah Wyle's back, fighting alien invaders

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FALLING SKIES - PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Noah Wyle's back, fighting alien invaders

by Ellen Gray
June 15, 2011

FALLING SKIES premieres 9 p.m. Sunday, June 19, 2011 on TNT.
Moves to 10 p.m. June 26.

WHEN STEVEN Spielberg's aliens launch their latest attack on Earth Sunday in TNT's "Falling Skies," Noah Wyle will be there to meet them.

Not as John Carter, the fresh-faced young medical student we first saw 17 years ago in "ER," but as Tom Mason, a widowed history professor who finds himself second in command of the 2nd Massachusetts, fighting the invaders and struggling to recover his captured middle son.

Time flies when you're on TV, but for Wyle, two days shy of his 40th birthday when he visited Philadelphia earlier this month, it might feel like warp speed...



Photo courtesy of TNT

... He's also given a little thought to Hollywood's fascination with alien invasion.

"Whenever you introduce an exterior threat to the planet, it's really the only chance you have to unify all the humans on the planet, let them transcend prejudices and petty differences."

Plus, there's "this idea of the reset button being hit on civilization," he said. "The Gospels, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution - whatever the template for the new civilization's going to be, these guys are going to be the ones framing it," he said. "So what do you keep and what do you discard? What was good and what was bad? I thought it was a really interesting theme."

And though the enemy one character calls "cooties" might look familiar, Wyle promises surprises. At one point, "we as characters have to radically redefine our assumptions about what's been happening all along because we misread it completely. And it's pretty cool."

Falling Skies premieres Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 9/8C. Cast includes Stargate SG-1's Colin Cunningham, Maxim Knight, Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Mpho Koaho, Sarah Carter, Connor Jessup, Bruce Gray, Dale Dye, Drew Roy, Seychelle Gabriel, Peter Shinkoda, Dylan Authors and James Collins.

Outcasts - Mother Nature Network: Eric Mabius reduces carbon footprint

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OUTCASTS - MOTHER NATURE NETWORK: Eric Mabius reduces carbon footprint, stars in post-apocalyptic 'Outcasts'

Keeping it green by recycling, composting and converting to solar power.

By Gerri Miller
Wed, Jun 15 2011

Eric Mabius recycles, composts and is converting to solar power at home. "Things are getting worse and I don't pretend to know what the solution is — I leave that to the experts — but I think each person trying to reduce their carbon footprint is the right way forward. It's all that we can control on a daily basis," says Mabius, star of the new BBC America sci-fi series "Outcasts," about people who've fled a dying Earth to colonize another planet...



...His character Julius Berger arrives at the established colony on Carpathia with an agenda that will be revealed over time. "We know that President Tate [Michael Cunningham] is not exactly happy about him being there and we're not sure why. He's such a great character in that he's seemingly there to serve. I think that's what he truly believes," says Mabius, last seen in "Ugly Betty." "This is probably one of the most fun characters that I've ever played because he's not black or white."

Shot in South Africa, "Outcasts" premieres June 18 on BBC America.

Falling Skies - USA Today: Noah Wyle Video Interview

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FALLING SKIES - USA TODAY: Falling Skies' aims for uplifting message

By Bill Keveney
June 16, 2011

Noah Wyle answers five questions about the series.



Falling Skies premieres Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 9/8C. Cast includes Stargate SG-1's Colin Cunningham, Maxim Knight, Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Mpho Koaho, Sarah Carter, Connor Jessup, Bruce Gray, Dale Dye, Drew Roy, Seychelle Gabriel, Peter Shinkoda, Dylan Authors and James Collins.

Alphas - Syfy Video Featurette: What is an Alpha? : New Series

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ALPHAS - SYFY VIDEO FEATURETTE: What is an Alpha? : New Series

What is an Alpha? Find out! Series premiere Monday July 11 at 10/9c. Azita Ghanizada, Malik Yoba, Laura Mennell, David Strathairn, Warren Christie and Ryan Cartwright discuss what an Alpha is.

Falling Skies - Boston Herald: Steven Spielberg’s Hub-set alien thriller blasts off

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FALLING SKIES - BOSTON HERALD: Steven Spielberg’s Hub-set alien thriller blasts off

‘Falling’ rocks!

By Mark A. Perigard
Thursday, June 16, 2011

“FALLING SKIES” Series premiere Sunday at 9p.m.on TNT.

The war is over.

We didn’t have a chance.

From executive producer Steven Spielberg and Cambridge screenwriter Robert Rodat (“Saving Private Ryan”) comes “Falling Skies,” a post-apocalyptic thriller set in the Boston area.

Six months earlier, hideous extraterrestrials invaded and decimated most of the world’s population.

A ragtag group of resistance fighters struggles for survival and searches for a way to take back the planet.

At a time when teachers seem to be under attack in the court of public opinion, “Falling Skies” happens to be the best stealth PR for academics. Hero Tom Mason (Noah Wyle, “ER”) was a Boston University professor of history who specialized in the American Revolution. His knowledge of military tactics just happens to be crucial in the war against the “Skitters” — so named for their insectlike limbs and reptilian skins. (The prosthetics work is creatively disturbing...)

... TNT sent the two-hour pilot and two regular one-hour episodes. Once I started watching, I couldn’t stop.

Don’t look now, but “Falling Skies” could be a summer obsession.

Falling Skies premieres Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 9/8C. Cast includes Stargate SG-1's Colin Cunningham, Maxim Knight, Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Mpho Koaho, Sarah Carter, Connor Jessup, Bruce Gray, Dale Dye, Drew Roy, Seychelle Gabriel, Peter Shinkoda, Dylan Authors and James Collins.