Keck's Exclusives: How Victor Garber Grew to become Charlie's Angels' Charlie

Victor Garber Just 72 hours before its September 22 premiere, ABC's new Charlie's Angels finally chosen an actress to exchange Robert Wagner because the voice of detective agency owner Charles Townsend - former Alias star Victor Garber. "These were inside a stress. I believe my agent was settling with someone within the Emmys audience," states Garber, that has exactly the same gentlemanly sophistication because the late John Forsythe, Charlie around the original series as well as in two movies. "It is really an out-of-the-blue, out-of-body experience. I am just happy they chosen me." The following day,Garber hurried for an L.A. recording studio to dub his dialogue, getting neither seen the pilot nor finished reading through the script. "I had been really walking in from the street," he states. "They demonstrated me the outlet title sequence where I introduce the Angels and tell the storyline of the way it all happened, that is kind of the most crucial factor." Then Garber recorded his lines for that scene where Charlie provides the Angels their assignment. "It had been challenging in the beginning, but when we've got going it had been fun. And That I can kind of get it done everywhere.Inch In keeping with the initial series, you will find no intends to reveal Charlie's face, but Garber was told a secret mythology concerning the character is going to be investigated. "You will see implications that he's more involved compared to the initial series. He's a fascinating, complicated guy and it'll be fun to understand more about that because the series continues." Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

FBI Arrests Man Accused of Hacking Sony Pictures

A man who allegedly hacked into the computer system at Sony Pictures earlier this year has been arrested and charged by the FBI. Cody Kretsinger, 23, was indicted earlier this month, authorities told the LA Times today. If convicted, the Phoenix man faces a statutory maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. The FBI believes that Kretzinger is part of a group known as LulzSec or Lulz Security that hacked into Sony computers. The group's members are said to have anonymously taken credit for the intrusion on the LulzSec website. The indisctment, according to the LAT, alleges that Kretzinger and his co-conspirators distributed stolen information on its website and announced the attack on Twitter. Sony did not respond to a request for comment. Sony Pictures Entertainment

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Charlies Angels Finds Home In Miami

MIAMI, Fla. -- Miami might be the brand new capital of scotland - angels no less than the city of Charlies Angels. ABC is jumping into the reboot game this fall by getting an up-to-date version in the classic series that starts the systems Thursday evening prime-time selection. Moving its setting and production from La to Florida, the completely new show will receive a new beginning in the new city. The remake tries to distance itself within the camping in the seventies version, striving to become more grounded action series. The initial episode begins with two Angels a classic crook carried out by Rachael Taylor together with a disgraced officer carried out by Annie Ilonzeh seeing the next part of their team destroyed within a mission. Their boss Charlie Townsend and also the assistant Bosley carried out by Ramon Rodriguez persuade the kids to recruit a completely new Angel, a street racer carried out by Minka Kelly. With Came Barrymore an Angel inside the 2000 and 2003 films being a professional producer, the show was produced by Al Gough and Miles Millar, the duo behind the hit WB show Smallville, which adopted the exploits from the youthful, pre-Superman Clark Kent. ABC happen to be prone to restore Charlies Angels for quite a while when Gough and Millar got involved last spring. They acknowledge that fans have certain anticipation and may scream once they arent met. The first Charlies Angels will be a cultural phenomenon if the first demonstrated in 1976, making stars of Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Cruz. Fawcett shown particularly popular, with boys posting her legendary poster inside their rooms and ladies copying her feathered hair. The initial episode in the new Charlies Angels is scheduled to air at 8 p.m. EDT Thursday, the 35th anniversary in the originals premiere. If you say youre prone to reboot Charlies Angels, you're simply hanging a sizable target laying lying on your back, Gough mentioned. What to do ideally is reunite by getting a crowd that loved the show after they were youthful in addition to bring new fans in it. Nevertheless the new show starts fresh: These Angels arent saints. Inside the original, the women had all taught to become L.A. cops but sexism inside the department had left them banished to menial positions, so Charlie employed them really was detectives. Inside the new series, the Angels all have sketchy pasts. Charlie recruits these to give them another chance, while using the capabilities they developed as crooks to accomplish good. Theyresort of Angels with dirty faces, Gough mentioned. Taylor mentioned she and her co-stars want toward placing modern twist round the mythology. Even though they were very awesome and effective, we wish to do our personal version, Taylor mentioned. According to Ilonzeh, the chemistry among the different figures is what drove the old series as well as the movies. The knowledge as well as the cases as well as the crooks as well as the explosions and many types of the sparks as well as the glamour as well as the fashion as well as the makeup, people are merely the additional supplies, Ilonzeh mentioned. Nonetheless it is the connection thats really prone to grab everyone. The completely new show promises plenty of action, but producers are trying to obtain a more realistic feel, departing the gravity repel Wire Fu acrobatics featured inside the films. We perform a little of all things, stunt coordinator Artie Malesci mentioned. Were round the water. Were under water. We've watercraft. We've helis. All of us perform some vehicle work. We perform a lot of fighting. We perform a lot of gun play. We perform a lot of scaling structures. The heavens do the majority of the stunts themselves, Malesci mentioned. They train a good deal, he mentioned. I realize them adequate to understand what they could do and whatever they cant do. There's a particular point where I believe that no, and so they hate that. Kelly mentioned doing the stunts is among her favorite causes of the show. I like my job. I like just as one actor, Kelly mentioned. But if you are dealing with visit and be physical and learn how to drift cars and scuba dive and horseback ride and learn to fight Krav Maga (an Israeli fighting styles technique). People are things Ill have with me at night for your relaxation of my existence. Filming extensively in Florida through the summer time season doesn't come without its problems. On one recent shoot a daytime fashion show scene inside a downtown park the heavens hidout inside an air-conditioned van between takes to obtain their makeup from melting. Meanwhile, a lot of accessories looked for shade and fans, attempting to not sweat through their formal placed on. Still included in the completely new show is Charlies speakerphone, where the unseen maestro notifies his Angels regarding new missions. Gough mentioned one challenge was creating reasonable to take advantage from it inside the reboot. Charlies around the box, around the speakerphone, which in 1976 was possibly the peak of technology, Gough mentioned. This Season, less. You've Skype. You've video chat. Why guy still around the box? While Charlie ongoing to become a mysterious inside the original series too as with the two films, Gough mentioned audiences will discover much more about him inside the new series and possibly why hes so secretive. Bosley may also be acquiring a larger role. Inside the old series, Bosley felt like the women valet, which we didnt might like to do that, Gough mentioned. The completely new Bosley is closer to the Angels in age and even more mixed up in missions. He's basically the fourth Angel, Gough mentioned. Rodriguez mentioned he was surprised when he was approached to fill the role, formerly held by David Doyle, Bill Murray and Bernie Mack. Not just comedy relief, Bosley now hacks personal computers and beats up crooks, while hiding their very own shady past. Hes certainly got a good deal happening, Rodriguez mentioned. Charlies Angels is Fundamental steps first large work for balance remaking a substantial series. The practice may appear a guaranteed recipe for fulfillment, but also for every Battlestar Galactica or Hawaii Five-, there's a Bionic Lady or Dark evening Driver that died throughout its first season. Gough mentioned CBSs Hawaii Five- is a good instance of mixing fun figures, exciting action moments and wonderful locations one for his Charlies Angels. Partof achieving people beautiful locations for Charlies Angels was filming the show in Miami instead of La. Florida gets the designer and cultural diversity of NY, the nice cozy weather and wonderful beaches of los angeles, which is a gateway to Latin America as well as the Caribbean. If you come lower here, you're feeling it, executive producer and director Marcos Siega mentioned. You will discover plenty of South Us citizens, plenty of Males and ladies. In my opinion the city itself felt being an exciting change. Copyright 2011 by Connected Press. All rights reserved.These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

'Men' preems to record 27.8 million for CBS

Ashton Kutcher's debut on CBS laffer 'Two and a Half Men' drew a whopping 27.8 million viewers Monday night.Ashton Kutcher's debut on CBS comedy "Two and a Half Men" drew the show's largest audience ever - 27.8 million, according to preliminary Nielsen estimates - and a mammoth 10.3 rating in adults 18-49 as the Eye won the opening night of the season in all key demo categories.The previous highs for the long-running show came in May 2005, when it followed the "Everybody Loves Raymond" series finale with an 8.1 demo rating and 24.2 million viewers overall. Last season, a truncated one for the series due to the exit of Charlie Sheen, "Men" peaked with a 4.9 rating in 18-49 and 17.9 million viewers overall.Monday's demo score is the best for any primetime entertainment telecast since the Academy Awards in February, and tops the 9.2 for May's finale of Fox's "American Idol." And both the demo and total-viewer count are the best for the season/series premiere of an entertainment series since ABC's second-season opener of "Desperate Housewives" in September 2005.The big showing at 9 p.m. for CBS provided substantial sampling for the premiere of half-hour "Two Broke Girls" (7.0/16 in 18-49, 19.2 million viewers overall) at its special 9:30 p.m. time before moving to 8:30 next week. "Broke Girls" beat ABC's "Dancing" by 7 shares in adults 18-49 and gave CBS its best showing in the timeslot since "Men" in May 2005; it also drew the largest overall audience for the series premiere of a fall comedy since NBC's "Inside Schwartz" (airing behind "Friends") in 2001.Also impressing Monday in its cliffhanger return was ABC drama "Castle" (3.3/8 in 18-49, 13.6 million viewers overall), which was up nicely over last year. The mystery series and the second-season premiere of CBS' "Hawaii Five-0" (3.4/8 in 18-49, 12.0 million viewers overall) made life difficult for competing 10 p.m. NBC drama "The Playboy Club" (1.6/4 in 18-49, 5.0 million viewers overall), which had a modest premiere on what has been a tough night for the net. One year ago, the series opener of "Chase" did better for NBC (2.3/6 in 18-49).Elsewhere Monday, ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" (3.9/10 in 18-49, 18.6 million viewers overall) was down more than 20% from its premiere of last fall but teamed with "Castle" to put ABC ahead for the night in total viewers.CBS opened with the best premieres score yet for "How I Met Your Mother" (4.7/13 in 18-49, 11.3 million viewers overall in its regular 8 p.m. slot and 5.1/13 in 18-49 and 12.2 million in a special airing at 8:30), which easily led its hour among young adults and provided the net with roughly 45% time-period improvement over last year's openers of "Mother" and "Rules of Engagement." For the night, CBS prevailed over runner-up ABC by 5 shares in adults 18-49 and by 4 shares in 25-54.Fox went with the season finale of summer series "Hell's Kitchen" (2.5/6 in 18-49, 5.9 million viewers overall) and finished third among the broadcasters for the night in 18-49. The net bows dinosaur drama "Terra Nova" next week, and veteran drama "House" returns the following week. At NBC, "The Sing-Off" opened to a 1.9/5 in 18-49 and 5.2 million viewers overall from 8 to 10 p.m. - lagging the competition but the best non-sports demo delivery in the time period for the net since mid-January. Compared to last year's opening night, when it was boosted by good series premiere scores for "The Event," NBC's combo of "Sing-Off" and "Playboy Club" was down about 30% in 18-49 rating (1.8 vs. 2.6 for the night). Preliminary 18-49 averages for the night: CBS, 5.7/14; ABC, 3.7/9; Fox, 2.5/6; NBC, 1.8/4; Univision, 1.74/; CW, 0.4/1.In total viewers: ABC, 16.9 million; CBS, 15.7 million; NBC and Fox, 5.1 million; Univision, 3.8 million; CW, 1.1 million. Contact Rick Kissell at rick.kissell@variety.com

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Prime Suspect

'Prime Suspect'Credits: Filmed in NY by Film 44 and ITV Studios America in association with Universal Media Studios. Executive producers, Peter Berg, Sarah Aubrey, Alexandra Cunningham, Julie Meldal-Johnson, Paul Buccieri, Lynda LaPlante, John McNamara; co-executive producers, Ron Fitzgerald, Tyler Bensinger, Jonas Pate; supervising producer, Randy Huggins; producer, Nan Bernstein Freed; director, Berg; writer, Cunningham; based on the series created by LaPlante.With: Maria Bello, Brian F. O'Byrne, Kirk Acevedo, Peter Gerety, Tim Griffin, Damon Gupton, Kenny Johnson, Aidan Quinn, Jason Beghe.Knighthood might not be in the cards, but Maria Bello's considerable charisma provides the strongest reason to watch "Prime Suspect," a belated adaptation of the British miniseries that helped put the Dame in Helen Mirren. Following the original template with some fidelity but also including its own wrinkles, the show gets past the first hurdle by selling Bello's Jane Timoney as a woman struggling to gain respect and acceptance in an old boy's club of NY detectives. Surrounded by a solid supporting cast, it's a workable if not quite prime piece of development. Dismissed and denied cases by her condescending male colleagues, Jane doesn't get much sympathy from her boss (Aidan Quinn), and is treated with open hostility by the likes of Irish cop Reg Duffy (Bryan O'Byrne, channeling Dennis Franz), especially when she seizes on a sudden and unexpected opening to seek advancement within their unit. Her first case, meanwhile, involves a grisly home-invasion robbery and murder that left an understandably traumatized young boy behind as a witness. As directed by Peter Berg from Alexandra Cunningham's adaptation, the whole exercise is gritty and spare, in keeping with a long history of NBC cop dramas. Jane's take-no-prisoners attitude causes even the few detectives who are relatively friendly to her situation to wonder about her drive. "Do you ever worry that someone might drop a house on you?" asks Det. Luisito Calderon (Kirk Acevedo) after she questions a witness. An "ER" alum (thus returning to an old scheduling haunt) and indie film darling, Bello is the whole package as this character: Tough, demanding, yet still sexy and beautiful. Hell, she even looks good in a goofy hat. There is also promise -- series-wise, if not so much in the pilot, in her extended circle -- which includes the always-welcome Peter Gerety as her dad. Whether that's enough -- given there's not much that's distinctive about the premise, and a whole slew of crime-fighting females, such as "The Closer," who came about after Mirren originated the role two decades ago -- remains to be seen. NBC has said the gender politics will be dialed back going forward, which is logical given the show's anachronistic aspects, but that only threatens to make this a more homogenized crime procedural -- and put more weight on Bello's shoulders. Practically speaking, the series doesn't figure to have a sizable lead-in from NBC's comedies, but on the plus side faces two established dramas whose audience is pretty much locked in place, offering the possibility of sampling. Throw in NBC's tempered expectations for new 10 p.m. dramas in the post-Jay Leno experiment era, and that could bode well for "Prime Suspect" avoiding its own premature demise. If so, it'll be because Bello is on the case.Camera, Todd McMullen; production designer, Tim Galvin; editors, Dody Dorn, Robb Sullivan; music, Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman; casting, Linda Lowy, John Brace. 60 MIN. Contact Brian Lowry at brian.lowry@variety.com

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Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Sausage clicked on on R.I.P.D. set

The initial shots of Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Sausage concerning the number of comic-book movie R.I.P.D. have came out online.The duo needed a ride in the Dodge Challenger yesterday using what appear to become pictures of Reynolds' real-world cop before he joins the otherworldly Relaxation In Peace Department.Filming is certainly going ahead in Boston, Massachusetts concerning the project, which is founded on the Dark Equine comic.R.I.P.D. opens summer season 2013.

The Raid

An Alliance Films (in Canada) discharge of a PT Merantau Films/Abc Films/Celluloid Bad dreams presentation. (Worldwide sales: Celluloid Bad dreams, Paris/La.) Created by Ario Sagantoro. Executive producers, R. Maya Barack-Evans, Irwan D. Mussry, Nate Bolotin, Todd Brown. Directed, written, edited by Gareth Huw Evans.With: Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim. Doni Alamsyah, Yayan Ruhian, Pierre Gruno, Tegar Satrya, Ray Sahetapy.The ultimate credits roll, listing figures for example "Hole Drop Attacker" and "Machete Gang Member," only shows the amount of mayhem in Gareth Huw Evans' "The Raid." Indeed, moviegoers might want the projectionist could replay a few of the spectacular sequences within this incredible and extremely violent cop-versus.-gangster fight-athon, where a SWAT-like unit invades a 15-story building and needs to arrive at the top, floor by floor, to create lower the theif. Using the genre to some greater degree of intensity, the Welsh-born Evans continues what he began in the past Indonesia-set actioner "Merantau," but this pic will seal his cult status. As efficient since it's title signifies, "The Raid" provides a continuous sequence of action having a obvious and effective premise: If police can arrive at the top floor, there is a opportunity to bring lower major drug kingpin Tama (Ray Sahetapy). Further complicating matters is always that many cops within the unit are unskilled within the make of intense urban combat required here, which their corrupt boss, Lt. Wahyu (Pierre Gruno), may compromise the whole operation. That's about just as much plot because the movie can be involved with, or needs. Hard-ass cop Rama (Iko Uwais, "Merantau," inside a star-making role) is sparkling clean and tenacious like a bulldozer. In a few minutes of quietly penetrating the building's interior (the result strengthened by total silence on the soundtrack that otherwise provides huge punches of pure, sonic energy), Rama's males belong to assault by Tama's smartly placed models, including prepubescent spotters and endless supplies of dudes with heavy machine guns. Tama observes everything on the large bank of monitors in the control room, assisted by his callous henchmen Andi (Doni Alamsyah) and Mad Dog (Yayan Ruhian). Tama can also be in a position to deliver messages within the building's PA system, to ensure that everybody can hear his message, "We now have site visitors." It is the signal for those-out war. The ensuing 1 hour 30 minutes are largely a hands-to-hands, fist-to-face, feet-to-groin fight, having a couple of machetes and guns thrown in permanently measure. Pic handles to produce the feeling of the type of live-action ride, where Evans as conductor modulates the go up and down of action, and alternates pace and volume, with selected interludes of story to trap a person's breath. The result is exhilarating for audiences available to the sheer visceral sensation from the physical experience, no matter a person's predilection toward fight photos. Still, there's ample close-up, flesh-ripping violence to create even hardened audiences wince. The pic's combat style, silat, is definitely an Indonesian martial-arts form this is a more brawling type of fighting than more broadly known styles. Think about it as being the National football league overtaking kung fu, but a great deal nastier, using the action getting wilder the flooring -- and also the casualties in Rama's forces -- mount. It's not hard to your investment story altogether within the sheer hurry of Rama's fight up floor rather, audiences will question the way the amazing fight that simply ended may be capped. But it's, over and over. A five-minute fight that has flying, nipping areas of the body particularly shows the elegance within the fight choreography by Evans, Uwais and Ruhian. A lot more than most martial-arts photos, "The Raid" recalls the dwelling of the movie musical, where a simple story bridges the amounts and sequences. Ultimately, there's enough to among the pic's side tales (including siblings on opposite sides from the fight) that, drawn in tandem with righting the incorrect of political corruption, enables items to finish on the significantly satisfying note. Moti D. Setyanto's terrific production design represents the inside of the building like a perpetual maze, both up and down and flat. It isn't surprising the project required two lensers (Matt Flannery and Dimas Imam Subhono), because the camera frequently seems to ignore gravity inside a mission to obtain fresh angles about the fight. Technically, the pic's inside a league alone among Indonesian films. After this pic's first Toronto screening, producers introduced the soundtrack is going to be entirely modified by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park. Although it will add an industrial kick towards the film, it will appear curious considering the brilliant soundtrack displayed in the screening examined.Camera (color), Matt Flannery, Dimas Imam Subhono music, Fajar Yuskemal, Aria Prayogi production designer, Moti D. Setyanto costume designer, Upay Maryani seem (Dolby Digital), Suhadi Yuskemal, Prayogi, Bonar Abraham, Sandika Widjaja seem designers, Yuskemal, Prayogi re-recording mixers, Yuskemal, Aria Prayogi, Abraham, Widjaja, Jack Arthur Simanjuntak effects makeup, Jerry Octavianus stunt planners, Yandi "Piranha" Sutisna, Eka "Piranha" Rahmadia, Esa W. Sie, Rama Ramadhan fighting techinques choreographers, Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian action choreographer, Evans line producer, Daiwanne P. Ralie assistant company directors, Dondy Adrian Senjaya, Mus Danang Danar Dono, Imam Dharmawan Santoso, Ginanti Rona Tembang Asri. Examined at Toronto Film Festival (Night time Madness), Sept. 8, 2011. (Also in Sitges, Pusan film festivals.) Running time: 101 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

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Actress Eve Brent dies at 81

Character actress Eve Brent, most broadly known on her behalf are Jane by 50 percent 1958 "Tarzan" photos starring Gordon Scott but a reliable presence in film and TV until this year, died August. 27 in Sun Valley, Calif. She was 81.Brent had came out concerning the radio becoming an adult and already had numerous film and tv credits when she came out inside the movies "Tarzan as well as the Trappers" and "Tarzan's Fight for Existence." While using role of Jane, however, introduced to offers of comparable parts and for that reason to frustration for your actress.Over the following decade she labored onstage too as with minor roles on tv -- "The Big Valley," "Family Theme,Inch "The Red-colored-colored Skelton Hour," "Dragnet" -- too as with movies (she went uncredited on her behalf role just like a hooker in Clint Eastwood starrer "Coogan's Bluff" to ensure that like a passenger in "Airport terminal terminal").Through the seventies, she acquired more film roles, while not always better ones. She's at Disney's "The Barefoot Executive" but furthermore in"How's Your Sex Existence?," "The Todd Killings," "The best way to Seduce a girl,Inch "Timber Tramps" and Charles Bronson starrer "The White-colored Zoysia." She'd an even more substantial role in 1980 horror film "Fade to Black," that they came a supporting actress jerk within the Academy of Sci-fi Fantasy and Horror Films.In 1984 Brent came out in Sean Penn-Nicolas Cage starrer "Racing While using Moon," plus much more recently she came out in "The Eco-friendly Mile" comicstrip adaptation "Garfield" and (inside an uncredited role) "The Curious Situation of Benjamin Button."She completed work this year concerning the film "Hit List," that is released in March.Concerning the smallscreen, Brent regularly guested on shows different from "thirtysomething" to "Twin Peaks," turning up most recently in the 2006 episode of "Scrubs" and a year ago inside an episode of "Community."Brent was produced Jean Ewers in Texas, maturing in Fort Worth.Children add a boy. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com