Lie To Me Scoop

As previously reported, it appeared Fox was leaning toward picking up the back nine of Lie to Me’s second season. However, as a possibly intermediary move, they ordered three additional scripts. An okay sign, but not ideal.

Now, if you’re reading this post and you’re on the blog, that obviously means you’re a fan of the show. So can you help the show stick around? Well, EW’s Ken Tucker seems to think so. In a post published yesterday entitled “Lie To Me: Why it deserves to live. Why it may not. You can help.“, he lists three reasons why Lie to Me deserves more than 3 additional scripts. In short, they are as follows:

• “It’s gotten better: more tense, funnier, smarter.”

• “Lie To Me deserves to prove itself over another season, to demonstrate where it’s going. It’s clear that Ryan, the producers, and the writers have a plan — they want to provide more intensity to the show.”

• “Last night, we saw how good Lie To Me can be. With a superb guest appearance by Garret Dillahunt (Deadwood) as a gun-wielding hostage-taker, Roth and co-star Kelli Williams really got to show what they can do. Lie To Me has all the makings of a solid, maybe even surprisingly original series.”

But he follows this up with the comment: “But it needs more of a vote of confidence from its network. And from you.”

So here’s your mission: Today on Twitter I put out a task for the readers to Re-Tweet the article from Ken. If you’re on Twitter, please do that, and encourage others to do so as well. (Try to include @LieToMeScoop in the Tweet so I can monitor the RTing… So far there’s been a good response.) And, in the next several days leading up to the show, continue to spread the word about it, whether via Twitter, Facebook, or plain, good ‘ol word-of-mouth. Fox has shown that they have some confidence in the show, but they could definitely use some encouragement along the way… a nudge in the right direction. They’re at the point where they need to make a decision. Let’s just hope it’s the one everyone’s pulling for.