Psych Finale Giveaway
March 5, 2010 by BethAnne
Filed under Contests, Lead Story, USA
**THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE THREE WINNERS, NAKKI, AMBER McCRAW AND LINDSEY FRIEDBERG.**
This season of Psych will come to its dramatic conclusion with the return of Ally Sheedy in an episode directed by James Roday. The episode is called Mr. Yin Presents and will air Wednesday, March 10, at 10/9 central on USA. How will we celebrate a fantastic season? The only way Nice Girls can: by giving something away!
Beginning today, you can enter to win a Psych Prize Bag filled with:
– Psych Season 3 DVD Set
– Psych Talking Bobbleheads
– Psych Book: Call of the Mild
– Psych Pineapple T-Shirt
– Psych Pineapple Stress Toy
How to Enter:
- in the comments below, tell us what episode from this season was your favorite
- one (1) entry per person
- open to anyone, anywhere
- enter by 11:59 p.m. central time on March 10
- prize courtesy of USA Network
- prize valued at $135
- be sure to use a valid email address when you comment.
- three (3) names will be drawn from eligible entries and notified via email
Don’t miss the most shocking PSYCH finale ever as a killer targets Shawn using scenarios from classic Hitchcock films. Ally Sheedy guest-stars in Psych’s season finale, directed by James Roday — “Mr. Yin Presents” — premiering Wednesday at 10/9C!
Good luck!
“Psych” Returns on a New Night
January 25, 2010 by BethAnne
Filed under Lead Story, Shows By Network, USA
Get ready for all new episodes of Psych, returning on a new night on USA. The boys are back on Wednesday, January 27th, at 10/9 central.
The fourth season continues with guest stars John Cena, Robert Patrick, and Rachel Leigh Cook returns as Shawn’s girlfriend. Other guest stars in the second half of season 4 include: Judd Nelson, Chris Sarandon, Miguel Ferrer, Bruce Davison, Ally Sheedy and more.
USA will launch a national sweepstakes giving away a Grand Prize trip to Vancouver, Canada to visit the set of Psych. James Roday & Dule Hill will be the guest hosts on WWE Monday Night Raw on Jan 25th and USA will be doing a live webchat with fans during the day from RAW featuring, James, Dule and John Cena.
Here’s a preview to get you ‘psyched’!
James Roday and Dulé Hill Do Live Webchat
January 22, 2010 by BethAnne
Filed under Lead Story, Shows By Network, USA
PSYCH co-stars James Roday and Dulé Hill will use their powers of persuasion as hosts of WWE® Monday Night RAW on January 25th live from The Nationwide Arena in Columbus, OH at 9 PM ET / 8 PM CT on USA Network. Known as the crime-solving dynamic duo Shawn (Roday) and Gus (Hill) on the USA Network original hit series, these partners predict shocking results as they conspire to manipulate WWE® Superstars into truly magnificent Monday night matches.
Before the PSYCH duo enters the WWE Universe; Roday, Hill and WWE® Superstar John Cena will participate in a live webchat on psych.usanetwork.com on January 25th at 3pm ET / 2 PM CT. USA Network has partnered with Ustream, the leader in live video on the internet, to deliver the live interactive experience.
The PSYCH season premiere, “You Can’t Handle This Episode” guest starring WWE® Superstar John Cena debuts on its new night, Wednesday, January 27th at 10/9c. Starring James Roday, Dulé Hill, Corbin Bernsen, Timothy Omundson, Maggie Lawson and Kirsten Nelson, PSYCH centers on a young police consultant who solves crimes with powers of observation so acute the precinct detectives think he’s psychic. WWE® Superstar John Cena guest stars in the premiere as Juliet’s (Lawson) brother Ewan, a solder in the military. Robert Patrick also guest stars and Rachael Leigh Cook returns as Shawn’s girlfriend, Abigail.
Video: Psych Returning Jan. 27th
January 1, 2010 by BethAnne
Filed under Lead Story, Shows By Network, USA
Shaun and Gus are back on USA Network January 27th. New year, new episodes, new day! Take a look:
Psych Gets Fifth Season, Roday Faces “Extinction”
With season four not even finished yet, USA announced yesterday that they’ve renewed Psych for a fifth season, to debut in Summer 2010. Hurrah! The second half of the fourth season is due sometime in January; stay tuned for the exact date.
Meanwhile, star James Roday continues to expand his horizons with a starring role in the play Extinction, presented by Red Dog Squadron, a theater company co-founded by Roday. Extinction is the story of two friends who grapple with growing apart. How do men deal with issues within a friendship?
“Everything is so much more suppressed when it comes to male friendships because there are things you’re not supposed to talk about. You’re not supposed to feel things and you’re not supposed to say, ‘Hey dude, I’m really having some problems with you. Can we sit down and talk about it?’ That’s not really the cool thing to do when you’re guys,” says Roday.
Read more about the play here, and if you’re in the Los Angeles area, catch it at Elephant Space on Santa Monica Blvd. weekends through December 13. Ticket info is here.
Psych’s Dule Hill & James Roday: The Comic Con Interview
August 7, 2009 by Melissa
Filed under Comic Con, Interviews, Lead Story
The last of our interviews for Psych were the boys themselves, Dule Hill and James Roday. Watch Dule rant about a certain video camera (the Flip which we used to record the interview). Listen to them be all coy about Psych Outs and nudity. Hear James reveal this year’s XXX theme. Oh yeah, we got it all on tape.
Be sure to check out our other video interviews with Corbin Bernsen, Maggie Lawson & Timothy Omundson and Chris Henze & Steve Franks. Psych returns TONIGHT, August 7 at 10/9c on USA Network.
Psych’s James Roday and Dulé Hill, Just Having Fun
August 6, 2009 by BethAnne
Filed under Interviews, Lead Story
While talking with James Roday and Dulé Hill, you get the feeling they are sharing a secret joke between the two of them. It’s not a bad thing, but you do have to resist the urge to just burst out laughing. They are just too much fun! I don’t know if Roday and Hill are more like Shaun and Gus, or if Shaun and Gus are more like Roday and Hill. The two merge almost seamlessly, and you begin to wonder how much of the show is written and how much is ad-libbed. “Unlike, I think, the majority of shows on television right now we actually have a frighteningly high amount of say in what we do with the dialog. A lot of times it comes in great and all we have to do is say it, but any time we sort of recognize an opportunity to throw something in or add something or if we have a better name for Gus than the one that came in we just pull the trigger,” says Roday. Hill adds, “Yes. And the names that we come up with most of the time it has to do with somebody that we know, somebody in the cast knows or somebody that one of the writers knows or a producer, something like that. I would say pretty much eight times to of ten there is some relation to the crazy name that Gus is being called.”
The success of Psych has partly been in the wonderfully fresh comedy in their crime investigations, and the obstacles the duo sometimes overcome in their partnership/friendship. We’ve seen partners in crime before in television, but James and Dulé have brought back the humor. “You know what, I go to this movie called Without a Clue that not a lot of people saw. It was Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley, and the idea behind the movie was that Watson was the brains of the operation and Holmes was just this very theatrical sort of charlatan that diverted people’s attention and got all the ladies. It’s a very, very funny movie that not a lot of people have seen. But I love the fact that it was sort of rooted in the idea that these two guys absolutely, positively were dependent on one another to solve a crime, because Holmes was sort of the face of the franchise but Watson was the guy that sort of kept their feet on the ground and did a lot of the thinking. That’s not exactly what the dynamic is on Psych, but the sort of ying yang element of it of there’s no way that either of these guys could work on their own and there’s no way that they could accomplish what they were doing without the other one is definitely sort of a big element of what we do on Psych.”
Dulé has a different source. “I guess for myself it’s not any real I guess template that I came in to with a preconceived notion about like in terms of a previous detective team. I guess if I had to choose one I would say Cosby and Poitier in Uptown Saturday Night. I want to say that would be the equivalence that I could think of, but besides that there’s not really anything that I’ve thought about before to say yes, this is what the template is.”
Psych is famous for its references to pop culture. Nothing is safe from a good spoof. In the season 4 premiere, we will see them have a little fun with The Mentalist. James talks about it. “No one is off limits when it comes to us, including ourselves. We’ve made fun of our own sort of resumes on this show. As long as they have a sense of humor over there I would think that they would be sort of flattered and get a kick out of it. Obviously, it’s not malicious in any, but it’s what we do on our show and if you’re going to go make a bigger show that’s kind of like our show and get four times as many viewers and Emmy nominations then you should expect to hear about it when our show airs.”
What we can expect from season 4 is more of what we’ve already had, but it never gets old because there’s so much more to spoof! “In terms of sort of themes for episodes you saw that we’re doing sort of an expedition Canada, catch a jewel/art thief episode, and we’re doing sort of a Shawn and Gus save an old western town and everything that comes along with that that you could imagine, including a grizzled, gray bearded James Brolin,” says James. “We’re paying tribute to the Exorcist with our exorcism episode featuring the aforementioned Ray Wise, who is just fantastic in the episode I have to say. Just really came in and knocked it out of the park. A little love letter to American Werewolf in London and werewolf movies in general featuring David Naughton, obviously, and Josh Malina. And lots of other fun stuff. I have to say I think we’re kind of storming out of our gates this year with some really good stuff. I think last year we stormed in our heads, but we were actually like trotting at a casual pace, and this year I actually think we’re storming out of the gates for real.”
I thought it was hilarious that Dulé doesn’t really get a lot of the pop-culture references. “I would say about 99.9% of them do not come from me. Maybe if there’s something in the ‘70s that might be something that I came with, but most of the ‘80s references I have no idea what I’m talking about. It’s not until after I film it that I turn around and say, “Okay, now what was that about?” ”
Mapping out the season for us, James and Dulé give a brief rundown of what we may or may not get to see. “Well there may or may not be a continuation of the story that capped off our season last year, An Evening With Mr. Yang.” Dulé: “And there may or may not be something big coming.” James: “There may or may be our biggest guest star ever appearing on the show down the stretch. And we may or may not be getting another dose of what Gus’ hair looked like in the ‘90s. How’s that?” Perfect, guys!
The Friday night lineup of Psych and Monk make for great family television. At least, it does in my house. Join me this Friday, Aug. 7, at 10/9 Central, for the season premiere of Psych on USA.
(Read the full transcript here.)
An Interview with a “Psych”-ic, James Roday
About TV’s Rachel Thomas recently caught up with Psyche’s James Roday. Besides talking about Psyche, James gives us his thoughts on being one of People Magazine’s 100 Most Beautiful list.
Q: Why did you decide to pursue acting?
James: “It was about the time that I discovered that my predominantly Mexican heritage was going to keep me from sprouting much taller than 5′9 and all my athletic dreams came to a bitter, glass shattering end. I was about 12 or 13, so I committed to it pretty early on.”
Q: What was the worst non-acting job you ever had?
James: “I was in the food service industry for a while, I know shocking, and I waited tables at a restaurant in New York City where my shift ran from 11:30pm to 6:30am. It was basically my job to serve alcohol to people who were already inebriated. The challenge was just as much about getting paid as it was getting the food and delivering the food. I did that for about three years to get myself through school, and since have been fortunate enough to make my living as an actor. I’ve never set foot back in said place.”
A Double-Dose of Nice Boy:Tahmoh Penikett and James Roday
We did it again – forgot to post our Nice Boy of last week, Tahmoh Penikett.
Tahmoh is no stranger to television. You may have seen him in Smallville, The L Word, Just Cause, Stargate SG-1, and Dark Angel. Now he’s ‘Paul Ballard’ on Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse. His movie credits include:
* Trick ‘r Treat (2007) – Henry
* Taming Tammy (2006) – Wilson
* Lesser Evil (2006) – Greg
* The Green Chain (2006) – Brett Jackson
* Trapped Ashes – Stanley’s Girlfriend (2006) – Young Leo
* Hush (2005) – Noah Hamilton
* Battlestar Galactica miniseries (2003) – Lt. Karl ‘Helo’ Agathon
* Wildfire 7: The Inferno (2002) – Ranger
* The Cold Heart of a Killer (1996)
His sense of humor and sweet smile qualifies him for a spot on our Nice Boys Wall of Fame.
This week’s choice had to be none other than James Roday, who plays ‘Shawn’ on Psych. In honor of the season finale tomorrow night, it was unanimous.
James has been around the biz for some time, including a stint on the short-lived-but-loved-by-Melissa Miss Match, but people took notice when he became that lovable, fast-talking, almost child-like “psychic consultant” we see on Psych. James works behind the scenes on the show as well, producing and writing. With so much talent, including a knack for interviewing dogs, James needed a place on our Nice Boys Wall of Fame.
“Psych’s” James Roday Goes Behind the Scenes at Westminster
Being a huge dog nut, I look forward to the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, which is the Academy Awards of dog shows, at this time each year. How much more fun to see our favorite psychic sleuth, James Roday form Psych, going behind the scenes to bring us the bare bones. Since the video is unavailable for embedding here, you’ll have to click on the link to watch James as he interviews some top dogs.
James Roday Hangs with the Dogs
