TV: Jason Schwartzman in HBO’s Bored to Death / Tim Roth in Fox’s Lie to Me

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 TV: Jason Schwartzman in HBO’s Bored to Death / Tim Roth in Fox’s Lie to Me
Jason Schwartzman ( Rushmore , Spun , Coconut Records) will play an aging Brooklynite/alcoholic writer who experiences a nasty breakup and finds himself in the position of a Philip Marlowe-ish gumshoe in the new HBO series Bored to Death . Written by former New York Press columnist and novelist, Jonathan Ames , the half-hour comedy will go into production this September. Seth Gordon , ... [link]

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... for him to maintain personal relationships. As long as Lie to Me isn’t peppered with computer-generated eyeball schematics of various suspects in the vein of Robocop, we’ll check it out. Variety reports that the material is inspired by the real life science and life long studies of psychologist/deception specialist Dr. Paul Eckman.  Brian Grazer is exec-producing the show, which has been picked up for 13 eps, and begins shooting in August.Source

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