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Press Release
USA
NETWORK PRESENTS
“PSYCH”
A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES
PREMIERING FRIDAY, JULY 7 FROM 10-11:30PM ET/PT
Series Stars James Roday,
Dulé Hill and Corbin Bernsen
A
new quick-witted drama, PSYCH stars
James Roday (“Miss Match,” “The Dukes of Hazzard”)
as young police consultant Shawn Spencer who solves crimes with powers of
observation so acute the precinct detectives think he's psychic – at least
that’s what he lets them believe. Series also stars
Dulé Hill (“The West Wing”) as Shawn's best friend and reluctant sidekick Gus
and Corbin Bernsen (“Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” “L.A. Law”) as Shawn's disapproving
father, who ironically was the one who honed his son's "observation" skills as a
child. Also featured are
Timothy Omundson
(“Judging Amy,” “Deadwood”), Maggie Lawson (“Crumbs,” “Inside Schwartz”) and
Kirsten Nelson (“Everwood,” “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”).
PSYCH
will premiere with a 90-minute episode on Friday, July 7 at
10PM/9PM central
followed by one-hour episodes for the remainder of the season.
PSYCH
is executive produced by Steve Franks (“Big Daddy”), in association with Tagline
Pictures’ Kelly Kulchack and Chris Henze and NBC Universal Television Studios.
Jack Sakmar & Kerry Lenhart (“Boston Public,” “Ed”) and Mel Damski (“Picket
Fences”) are co-executive producers, Douglas Steinberg (“Boston Public”) is
consulting producer. Story editor is Anupam Nigam and Andy Berman serves as
staff writer. Michael Engler directed the 90-minute pilot.
Created and written by Steve Franks,
PSYCH continues USA’s tradition of original scripted programming
centering on quirky, intelligent characters. As with MONK, PSYCH
mixes comedy with its crime and features a somewhat eccentric lead character -
Shawn Spencer (Roday), a police psychic with absolutely no psychic abilities.
Raised in Santa Barbara, Shawn possesses uncanny
powers of observation honed by his police officer father, Henry (Bernsen), who
drilled young Shawn to note even the smallest of details from his surroundings
as a way of grooming him for his inevitable career in the family business.
Unfortunately, when a rift develops between father and son, Shawn finds himself
taking a series of random jobs instead of becoming the detective he was groomed
to be. However, for the fun of it, he makes a habit of calling in tips to the
police about cases he reads about or sees on television, and when one of his
tips appears too close to the truth, the police are convinced that Shawn is an
accomplice and arrest him. Using his charm and well-tuned talent, Shawn
convinces the cops that he's actually a psychic, and although highly skeptical
of his explanation, they hire him to help solve tough cases. With the reluctant
assistance of his best friend Gus (Hill), Shawn uses his skills of observation
and charismatic personality to become the detective he was trained to be,
opening his own PI agency - PSYCH, and solving cases for an ever-suspicious -
but grudgingly impressed - police force.
The
usanetwork.com official PSYCH
site will offer the opportunity to explore the characters through detailed
character profiles, weekly blogs by the characters, writers and producers and
exclusive webisodes of the program. The PSYCH on-line experience will
also feature PSYCH OUT video vignettes, with customized bloopers and
karaoke out-takes featuring Shawn and Gus as well as behind the scenes video
footage. The site will also have interactive games in which Shawn & Gus are
looking for an assistant for the agency and you will play a "Now Hiring" memory
game to test your skills as well as a PSYCH Magic 8 ball where users will
submit questions to Shawn, and he will use his "psychic" abilities to answer....
or will he? Another on-line component of the site is the mobile text message
watch and Win sweepstakes, where each week, viewers will answer questions via
their mobile phone about that week's episode and be entered into weekly and
national sweepstakes to win great PSYCH prizes and a trip to Santa
Barbara.
USA NETWORK is cable television's
leading provider of original series and feature movies, sports and entertainment
events, off-net television shows, and blockbuster theatrical films. The #1
basic cable network across the board in 1Q06, USA Network is seen in 90 million
U.S. homes. The USA Network Web site is located at
www.usanetwork.com.
Characters Welcome.
USA Network is a
program service of NBC Universal Cable a division of NBC Universal, one of the
world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development,
production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global
audience.
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