June 12th, 2006 | 0 Comments
Viewers of the June 11 third-season premiere of USA Network’s The 4400 learned the fate of a key character, and executive producer Ira Steven Behr told SCI FI Wire that the change came about unexpectedly as a result of a business issue with one of the show’s regular cast members. (Spoilers ahead!) In the two-hour premiere, “The New World,” the character of Lily Moore, previously played by series regular Laura Allen, aged suddenly by 50 years and was played by guest star Tippi Hedren (The Birds). At the end of the episode, Lily died. Allen was seen only in a brief flashback as the young Lily, and Allen won’t be back. Behr said in an interview last week that it wasn’t his initial choice not to have Allen or Lily back.
“At the beginning of the season, when we meet with the network to start talking about the new season, we pitched the series that had Laura Allen in it,” Behr said in his office in West Hollywood, Calif. “And events kind of took hold on their own, and I was basically told that she wasn’t going to be back. And we [came] back to [rewrite] the opening two hours, and we had to, you know, change course.”
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June 5th, 2006 | 0 Comments
Ira Steven Behr – executive producer of USA’s SF series The 4400, which begins its third season this week – told SCI FI Wire that guest star Jeffrey Combs will appear in seven of the upcoming season’s 13 episodes, reprising the role of twitchy scientist Kevin Burkhoff.
“Jeff is up in Vancouver even as we speak filming show nine, ‘The Ballad of Kevin and Tess,’” Behr said in an interview in his West Hollywood, Calif., office on June 2. “So, yeah, … he’s still going to be in other episodes.”
Combs, who was also a recurring cast member on Behr’s Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, was introduced last season as the human scientist who discovers the secret behind the powers held by the 4,400 people who had been abducted and returned mysteriously. This season, he will continue to figure out a way to develop his own powers, a quest that culminates in the season’s ninth episode.
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June 1st, 2006 | 0 Comments
NBC will air a one-hour clip show of sister cable network USA’s drama The 4400 on June 3, a week before the show’s third-season premiere, Variety reported. The 4400: Unlocking the Secrets will recap the past two seasons’ events, aiming to draw new viewers to the show’s third-season premiere on June 11.
NBC has previously aired promotional runs of SCI FI Channel’s Battlestar Galactica and Bravo’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, but this is a first for USA. All are owned by NBC Universal.
The 4400: Unlocking the Secrets will repeat June 4 on USA and later in the week on SCI FI Channel and Bravo. Yahoo! TV, meanwhile, has been streaming the clip show for the past eight days.
The 4400’s third season will air at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Sundays.
