Red Arrow Buys 'Mob Wives' Producer Left/Right
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'Burn Notice' Guest Star Angelica Celaya Dives Into Uncharted Territory
After working for 10 years in the Spanish market, the telenovela actress talks to THR about making the jump to English-language television in the USA Network drama.
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'Suits,''Burn Notice' Summer Finales Hit Ratings Gold
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Showrunners 2012: 'Burn Notice's' Matt Nix
Nix reveals his proudest accomplishment of the past year: "Changing the model of 'Burn Notice' from a largely self-contained, episodic show into a highly serialized drama."
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'Burn Notice' Renewed for Seventh Season
UPDATED: The network has picked up 13 more, pushing the spy drama to more than 100 episodes.
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'Burn Notice': Patton Oswalt Gets Recruited for a Big Mission (Exclusive Video)
In an exclusive scene from Thursday's "Down and Out," Oswalt's Colin Schmidt has a secret that puts a kink in Michael Westen's plan.
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Euro TV Giants Discover the 'X Factor' as Production Boom Counters Weak Ad Trends
As traditional ad revenues slide, content from the production arms of big Euro broadcasters is driving growth.
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'Burn Notice' Taps Adrian Pasdar for Major Recurring Role (Exclusive)
The "Heroes" and "Political Animals" alum is the latest addition to the upcoming seventh season.
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Esquire Network Acquires 'Burn Notice,''Psych,' Orders Travel Series (Exclusive)
"American Field Trip," a road trip series featuring photojournalist Matt Hranek, will launch this summer, while "Burn Notice" is set to roll out in late April and air nightly.
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USA Sets Summer Schedule, Including 'Graceland' Debut
The cable network has announced the premieres for a slew of series, including a reality competition from "Big Brother" producers.
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'Burn Notice' to End After Seventh Season
UPDATED: USA's veteran spy drama starring Jeffrey Donovan will wrap up after the upcoming summer season, with creator Matt Nix developing a new medical series for the network.
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Emmys: TV's Top Supporting Stars Dish on Dream Roles, Worst Jobs (Video)
Twenty-seven contenders from shows such as "Walking Dead" and "Big Bang Theory" posed for a class photo -- and plenty of hijinks ensued.
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'Burn Notice' Creator and Stars Reflect on Road to 100 Episodes
As USA's spy series airs its 100th episode June 13, showrunner Matt Nix reveals how he first set the show in New Jersey -- and why it's time to wrap.
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'Burn Notice's' Spy Tricks of the Trade: Do They Work?
In the series' modern take on "MacGyver," stun guns are made from disposable cameras, audio bugs from Pringles cans and smoke screens from olive oil.
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Ion Acquires 'Burn Notice,''White Collar'
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Matt Nix Medical Drama Near Pilot Order at USA Network
"Complications" hails from Fox Television Studios and comes as the No. 1 cable network prepares to say farewell to the showrunner's "Burn Notice."
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'Burn Notice' Creator Reflects on Seven-Season Run, Talks Series Finale's Big Death
Matt Nix talks to THR about the final day of filming, the last image of the show and what he hopes the show will be remembered for.
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'Burn Notice' Series Finale: Matt Nix, Sharon Gless on the Big Death
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Fox Television Beats Man's Lawsuit Over 'Burn Notice' CharacterBurn Notice Season 7 Cast Key Art - H 2013
"Burn Notice"
The plaintiff alleged that certain experiences of the Michael Westen character in the spy drama were "very much like" those in his own life.
As Edward Snowden continues to make surprising revelations concerning everything the U.S. intelligence community is capable of doing, it's probably not wise to discount the possibility that there is a real-life "burnt" spy out there who is fighting with dark forces within the Central Intelligence Agency. On the other hand, the recently concluded USA Network spy drama Burn Notice, while entertaining, is pretty ludicrous, no? (Why does everything happen in Miami, Florida?)
One man watched Burn Notice and thought it sounded too familiar.
STORY: 'Burn Notice' Creator Reflects on Seven-Season Run, Talks Series Finale's Big Death
According to a $500 million lawsuit brought by Michael Terry against series producer Fox Television Studios, certain experiences of the Michael Westen character were "very much like" certain experiences of his own. He sued for misappropriation of his "likeness" and prayed for injunctive relief. He then failed to survive Fox's motion to strike the lawsuit at the early stage.
Terry appealed. His attempt at reversal was grounded on Terry's reasoning that Fox "did not deserve to win." Still, a California appellate court had to entertain it.
Yes, Fox prevailed again.
In an opinion on Wednesday, appellate Judge Patricia Bigelow affirms the lower court's reasoning that Terry can't demonstrate that he has a probability of prevailing against Fox.
STORY: 'Burn Notice' Creator and Stars Reflect on Road to 100 Episodes
"Fox's evidence showed that Burn Notice creator Matt Nix never met Terry, and never heard of Terry or his memoir 'The Setup' prior to Terry's lawsuit," writes the judge. "Further, that Nix never read 'The Setup.' Nix created Burn Notice without input from Terry; the characters in Burn Notice are purely fictional."
(According to one Amazon.com review for Terry's book, The Setup: Memoirs of a NSA Black Operation, the author claims the NSA is capable of mind-control.)
The judge also rejects Terry's theory that his protected "likeness" gave him a vehicle to sue Fox because a character in a television show was like him.
"The law does not protect such a wide-encompassing concept of 'likeness,' " says the judge. "Similarities between a real person's personal life experiences and those of a fictional character do not support a claim for misappropriation of the former's 'likeness.' If the law of 'likeness' afforded protection as broadly as Terry's argument seems to propose, then every person who sees some similarity between their personal life experiences and a character on a television show or movie could assert a misappropriation claim."
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Red Arrow to Back Comedy Pilots at New York TV Festival
Left/Right and Fabrik Entertainment, two U.S. subsidiaries of the German group, will support the festival's independent pilot and pitch projects.
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