NEW ACTION-COMEDY “THE GOOD GUYS” BOOKS SPECIAL PREVIEW WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, AND SERIES PREMIERE MONDAY, JUNE 7

“SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE” BEGINS ANOTHER SEARCH FOR AMERICA’S FAVORITE DANCER THURSDAY, MAY 27

“LIE TO ME” RETURNS WITH ALL-NEW EPISODES MONDAY, JUNE 7

“PAST LIFE” EMERGES WITH ALL-NEW EPISODES FRIDAY, MAY 28

GORDON RAMSAY SERVES UP SEVENTH COURSE OF “HELL’S KITCHEN” BEGINNING THURSDAY, JUNE 10

FOX’s summer is scorching hot with the series preview and premiere of THE GOOD GUYS (previously announced as CODE 58), the kick-off of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE’s seventh season, the summer premiere of LIE TO ME, the seventh course of culinary competition HELL’S KITCHEN, all-new installments of mysterious drama PAST LIFE plus all-new episodes of GLEE, COPS, AMERICA’S MOST WANTED and ANIMATION DOMINATION.

THE GOOD GUYS, the new action-comedy from Matt Nix (“Burn Notice”), will have a special preview Wednesday, May 19 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) before AMERICAN IDOL and will then make its series premiere Monday, June 7 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). The series is an action-packed and comedic look at what happens when a washed-up, old-school cop (Bradley Whitford, “The West Wing”) and a by-the-book, modern-day detective (Colin Hanks, “Mad Men”) try to expose the big picture of small crime.

As previously announced, television’s hottest dance series, SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE, swings into summer with a two-hour premiere Thursday, May 27 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). Hosted by Cat Deeley, the hit dance competition series will inspire and amaze viewers as dancers skilled in styles ranging from hip-hop to ballroom compete to be named America’s Favorite Dancer. Once the DANCE auditions conclude, weekly performance shows will air Tuesdays (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT), and weekly results shows will air Wednesdays (9:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed).

Superstar chef Gordon Ramsay cranks up the ovens in HELL’S KITCHEN when the series returns for its seventh season with a tantalizing two-hour premiere Thursday, June 10 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). The cutthroat culinary competition will continue with two-hour episodes throughout the season airing Thursdays (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) as Chef Ramsay narrows down the field of aspiring restauranteurs until only one remains standing in HELL’S KITCHEN.

LIE TO ME continues its search for the truth when all-new episodes return to the schedule Mondays starting with its time period premiere on June 7 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT). Mysterious drama PAST LIFE continues with a handful of original episodes beginning with a two-hour premiere Friday, May 28 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) and its time period premiere Friday, June 4 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT).

GLEE, the most-celebrated new show of the season, finishes its run of all-new episodes on Tuesdays (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) with its first season finale June 8. In addition, viewers can catch encore airings of all their favorite GLEE episodes Wednesdays (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) beginning June 16.

The most arresting night of television continues this summer on Saturdays with a mixture of all-new and encore episodes of COPS (8:00-8:30 and 8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) and all-new episodes AMERICA’S MOST WANTED (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT), while Sunday nights feature a mix of encores and originals of THE SIMPSONS, THE CLEVELAND SHOW, FAMILY GUY, AMERICAN DAD, ‘TIL DEATH and new comedy SONS OF TUCSON (7:00-10:00 PM ET/PT).

RECAP – FOX 2010 SUMMER SCHEDULE

(All times ET/PT except as noted)

MONDAY
Mondays, beginning June 7:
8:00-9:00 PM LIE TO ME (Summer Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM THE GOOD GUYS (Series Premiere)

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TUESDAY
Tuesday, June 1:
8:00-9:00 PM SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE
9:00-10:00 PM GLEE

Tuesday, June 8:
8:00-9:00 PM SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE
9:00-10:00 PM GLEE (Season Finale)

Tuesdays, beginning June 15:
8:00-10:00 PM SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE

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WEDNESDAY
Wednesday, May 19:
8:00-9:00 PM THE GOOD GUYS (Series Preview)
9:00-10:00 PM AMERICAN IDOL

Wednesdays, June 2 and 9:
8:00-10:00 PM SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE

Wednesdays, beginning June 16:
8:00-9:00 PM GLEE (Time Period Premiere) (Encores)
9:00-10:00 PM SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE (Time Period Premiere)

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THURSDAY
Thursdays, beginning May 27:
8:00-10:00 PM SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE (Season Premiere)

Thursdays, beginning June 10:
8:00-10:00 PM HELL’S KITCHEN (Season Premiere)

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FRIDAY
Friday, May 28:
8:00-10:00 PM PAST LIFE (Two-Hour Summer Premiere)

Fridays, June 4 and 11:
8:00-9:00 PM PAST LIFE (Time Period Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM HOUSE (Time Period Premiere) (Encores)

Fridays, beginning June 18:
8:00-9:00 PM BONES (Time Period Premiere) (Encores)
9:00-10:00 PM HOUSE (Encores)

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SATURDAY
Saturdays (no change to lineup):
8:00-8:30 PM COPS
8:30-9:00 PM COPS
9:00-10:00 PM AMERICA’S MOST WANTED
11:00 PM-Midnight THE WANDA SYKES SHOW
Midnight-12:30 AM ANIMATION DOMINATION (Encores)

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SUNDAY
Sundays, beginning June 6:
7:00-9:30 PM ANIMATION DOMINATION
9:30-10:00 PM SONS OF TUCSON

In order to make room on the schedule for the reruns, the finale of “Human Target” is being moved to Wednesday, April 14th, and the special preview of the new action comedy “The Good Guys” will no longer air on May 12th. However, now that Guys is no longer airing on the 12th, it and Lie to Me will be able to air 12 all new episodes without airing reruns. (It will still have a special airing on the 19th at 8:00pm.)

By putting Lie to Me and The Good Guys on in the summer, Fox is setting up a schedule that would enable it to have new shows almost year round. If it works, this move could prove to be a “game-changer”, as The Wrap so succinctly put it.

So, how excited are you?

For info and photos of Alyssa Diaz, check out IMDB.com.

THR: What about “Lie to Me”?

Reilly: It’s already ordered a back nine; we’ll have 11 or so episodes left to air. We’ll pair it with another show for an original block of something and probably extend it into next summer. I already see that being a player next fall.

LTM Scoop: Really appreciate you taking some time, I know you guys are really busy.

Sarah: No, it’s no problem.

LTM Scoop: I have a few questions for you, and also I had um sent out a little Tweet to the readers… I just sort of asked ‘em if there was a question they could ask, what would it be, that type of thing. Like hypothetical. So I got some responses from them. So, I figured I’ll shoot you a few questions and then at the end if it’s okay, I can kind of run by you some of the things they said.

Sarah: Great.

LTM Scoop: Okay, cool. So first, kind of can you take us through a normal day of work for you. I know you wear a couple different hats there being a writer and executive producer. What’s a day like for you?

Sarah: Oh, every day is different, I think. You know, some days we’re in the writers’ room a lot. Other days we’re sitting and watching a cut and making notes on a cut. Other days we’re reading scripts and making notes and giving notes. Sometimes we’re doing, you know, everybody has studio and network notes/calls at various points. And then when an episode of yours is shooting, then you’re just on set, all the time. And, some days are combinations of all of the above.

LTM Scoop: So one of the things I’ve found, I get feedback with running the blog, and comments there, just different things I get from people… One of the things I noticed is there’s a mixed opinion about the science in the show. Some people feel they liked the first half of season one, there was more science involved. Other people are happy the direction it’s going now. Is that something you guys talk about? You know, about the science… how much is enough, that type of thing?

Sarah: Yeah, it’s, it’s something we talk about a lot, actually. And one of the things we talked about this year is to have episodes that are driven by story and character, and not as much by science. Which doesn’t mean that the science is less important. It’s just we found that having the science be an integral part of the story, but not be kind of the engine, allows us to get deeper into our characters. That’s obviously something that Shawn cares about, if you’ve seen any of his shows… (laughs)… It’s clear that that’s a priority. You know, and thats, I think as writers it’s more fun to, to do very cool, interesting things with the characters you’re playing with on a daily basis.

So, you know, we’re all very interested in the science, and are incredibly fortunate to have Paul Ekman and Erika Rosenberg available and commenting on scripts and providing input. And we have researchers and people who can make sure that that element of the show isn’t lacking. But, you know, without, without great stories and interesting character stuff, you know… you want to have a really interesting plate to put the science on.

LTM Scoop: Alright, so a little confession time here: Before you came on, I know it was the end of season one, right? When you joined the show? Is that right?

Sarah: Yes.

LTM Scoop: So, had you watched the show before that?

Sarah: I had not watched every episode, but I had seen several episodes.

LTM Scoop: Sort of curious about that because, I mean you guys seemed to… It was pretty seamless, um, you know, the storyline coming in, so I was curious if you had watched any of it.

Sarah: Yeah, we… Our offices were above… you know, the Dollhouse offices were right above the Lie to Me offices. So we would see them all … every day and every night when we were coming in and out. So maybe some of it seeped up through the floors by osmosis.

LTM Scoop: It’s possible [laughs]

Sarah: Stranger things have happened.

LTM Scoop: Now not too long ago I was reading an interview with Tim Roth and he said that he refers to you and your writing partner, Elizabeth Craft, as “the girls”. So do you have a nickname for Tim?

Sarah: Oh… gosh, no. But maybe we should come up with one. That’s actually… what would be good? “The man”. [laughs] “The Brit”.

LTM Scoop: There you go. See those are nice names, though. If it’s one he doesn’t like, don’t tell him I mentioned it. [laughs]

Sarah: [laughs] Um, I know, I wanna’ come up with something… “The Hell cat”… I don’t know, we don’t have anything. We should talk about that.

LTM Scoop: You should… there you go. Well, his was pretty harmless for you guys though, so that’s not too bad.

You know, speaking about that too, though, there really does seem to be, … from the very little that I’ve seen of kind of the, you know, behind the scenes stuff, there seems to be a really good dynamic, um, with the cast. And it seems that maybe that’s what comes onto the screen as well. Do you think that maybe that’s the case?

Sarah: Yeah, I mean, I think our cast is just terrific. And they do really seem to like each other. You know… I think Tim and Kelli just have tremendous chemistry and fun. And, just, you know, I love every scene that they’re in together. But I think that’s true of everyone, you know. I think the cast really has… Yeah, I mean, it’s a dynamic. It’s a very specific, fun, dynamic. Yeah, they’re just a good group, you know? I hope that they all like each other personally; it sure seems like they do.

LTM Scoop: Yeah, well, that or they’re really good liars, right?

Sarah: Right. [laughs] They certainly all should know how to lie at this point, right?

LTM Scoop: It would seem so.

You talked about that chemistry there with Tim and Kelli, and, as you know, there’s a lot of fans out there. They actually have nicknamed themselves Callian fans, I don’t know if you’ve heard that…

Sarah: [laughs]

LTM Scoop: All these names, right? … But I have to be honest, from the feedback… Like I said, I get, you know, people send me messages and what not…. From different comments I’ve read too, it seems that you’ve now written one of the least favorites, and one of the, you know, what’s the word? The fans’ favorite was, I think, “Blinded”, and then now the least favorite… some of those scenes from “Fold Equity”. They [fans] were sort of concerned about that whole thing… there was sort of a real split camp on “Fold Equity”. So, how do you see that relationship between, um, the characters themselves?

Sarah: Between Cal and Gillian?

LTM Scoop: Exactly, yeah.

Sarah: Oh! I mean, I think they have an extraordinarily loving and deep relationship, … and a very complicated relationship. I think they have tremendous respect for each other. I think they understand each other in ways that other people probably don’t and can’t. And, part of that is understanding how difficult it would be to kind of take their relationship to different levels. Which doesn’t mean they can’t, or they won’t. But, you know, they have a very, very complicated relationship.

LTM Scoop: Yeah, absolutely. I certainly obviously agree with that. [laughs]

Sarah: Frankly “Fold Equity” wasn’t my favorite episode either, so… [laughs]

LTM Scoop: Okay. I was like: “How do I say it delicately?”. Because I was trying to think… You guys always do such an awesome job, but that one really seemed to… I tell you: I got so many Tweets, like right after that, and comments on the blog…. And some people were like, “Oh it was great”. Other people were like “Oh I can’t believe that!”. They like hated Cal after that, like one episode.

Sarah: Right. No, I got a very extended, on my blog I got a very extended… I don’t write about work, but I got a very long thing from someone about how that episode was a betrayal. And I don’t think it is. I mean, I think one of the interesting things about Lightman is that he can do all of these things and still be Lightman. You know? I mean he is someone who pushes boundaries and who manipulates people and situations in his pursuit of the truth. And, you know, I don’t think… I, I don’t think it compromised him in any way, actually.

LTM Scoop: I think you’re right… But I think that sort of that’s all part of, you were talking about getting to know the character. So, you know, he may not always be the most likable person, but that’s his character. I mean, that’s sort of the idea behind it.

Sarah: Yeah. Well, I actually didn’t find him ‘unlikable’…

LTM Scoop: Sure, yeah…

Sarah: But I, you know… he, he, you know, … Yeah. Well, he slept with someone who was not the greatest person in the world, but haven’t we all? [laughs]

LTM Scoop: I think that’s the main issue with people. I think that was sort of the one thing. It wasn’t anything else he said or did, it was just that…

Sarah: And someone put: “He slept with that cheap whore.” And I’m like: “She was a female poker player.” You know? I don’t think Annie Duke would really like that. [laughs]

LTM Scoop: Yeah. Well it was, you know, hey… Like I said: You guys always do a great job, so I can’t say too much one way or the other.

I was curious too, I know there’s so much speculation… and that’s actually the one thing, the question I get most often… “When’s it coming back?” I get that all the time. But, I’m just curious: How does that, or does it even, affect your writing: not knowing if you’ll have a third season. Like with your storylines, how does that work in?

Sarah: I don’t know that it does. I mean, I think we always just try and do the best episodes we can do and sort of operate on the assumption that there will be a third season. We certainly haven’t heard otherwise. And, I think it makes a lot of sense for the network to pick up a third season, so… Or at least 12 or 13 more episodes, depending on when we re-air, um, or when we’re back on the air. So, you know, I… It doesn’t, I don’t think it really does affect how we proceed. I mean, it affects… Not knowing definitively means that we certainly feel the responsibility of making the best show we can make in the most financially responsible way possible, looking as great as we can possibly make it look, so that the network goes: “Oh, yeah! We have to keep that show around”. We want to make the decision easy for them. So, in that way it affects the writing, but it doesn’t, you know, really affect it in terms of like writing towards an end, or anything. We’re certainly not. We’re writing toward a third season.

LTM Scoop: Think optimistically, that’s good.

Sarah: Yeah. And I don’t think we have any reason not to think optimistically. I don’t want it to seem like we’re, you know…

LTM Scoop: Oh, sure. Yeah, and I didn’t mean that by the question. I guess that was just something… At the end of season one they had wondered that. And, you know, now obviously into this second season. But, hey, we’re obviously hoping there’s many more seasons to come.

I know you mentioned too about your blog, and that’s something I enjoy reading. It’s very entertaining, … about your journey to becoming a mother. And you’re pretty open about that, I know that. I’m curious: It seems there’s actually then some parallels, you know, with Kelli William’s character, Foster, on the show. You’re both successful, you’re single, want to be a mother. Does having similarities like that… are you able to relate to your character in a way that helps you write for her?

Sarah: That’s an interesting question. We’re not doing a whole lot with that right now, but it definitely… I don’t know that it necessarily impacts writing Gillian. But, you know, I am the person that goes, you know, I am the person that points out when things are not right when they have to do with adoption or single parenthood, or, you know, IUI stuff. All of that. I am sort of the wannabe single mom on the show. Who, if there’s a representation of someone that I think is inappropriate, [laughs], I will certainly say something.

LTM Scoop: Well that’s a good contribution then, that’s good.

Sarah: Yes.

LTM Scoop: Well, we talked a little bit earlier, I heard that there will be some more about the back story with Cal and Gillian, how they met, that type of thing…

Sarah: Ah, yes…

LTM Scoop: Is that something you guys have sort of been mapping out as you go along? What’s goin’ on with that?

Sarah: Well, yeah, I mean, there was a sort of vague sense of that and has been, I think, for a while. And, then it just sort of took shape within one particular episode. But we all had sort of a general sense of what it was and how their beginning happened.

LTM Scoop: Right. Well, it seems even for a timeline, in different episodes, you guys have kind of been dropping hints a little bit… Not hints so much, but little bits here and there like, “This was x amount of years ago”, or, that type of thing, you know kind of building that I think.

Sarah: Right.

LTM Scoop: Is there anything coming up in the second half of season two that you can tell us?

Sarah: Well, I can tell you that there are some really terrific episodes coming up. I can tell you that there’s some action happening between some characters, but I won’t say who.

LTM Scoop: Okay.

Sarah: What else? Yeah, I mean, the Gillian, or the… We always refer to them with their last names, so… The Lightman/Foster back story is really, really nice. There’s a very emotional episode with Torres and her sister that Liz and I did that I think is one of my favorite episodes of TV we’ve done.

LTM Scoop: Okay.

Reader Submitted Questions

So, onto the questions that people sent. One was from @TheSurfReport on Twitter. She asked: “I wanna’ see more of Cal’s ‘associates’ from his previous, somewhat criminal life. Any plans for that?”

Sarah: Oh, that’s great. You know, I think there are plans for that in general. There… there is an episode where that comes up. We always talk about bringing Lennie back, who played, you know, his old buddy, because they had such great chemistry. I mean, that was so fun. But, we don’t currently have that on the books. But, yeah, we’re all very interested in Cal’s, Cal’s shady past. I imagine it’ll crop up an episode or two every season, as long as there are seasons.

LTM Scoop: Now, I got this one a few different times, but the basic idea was: Will you be introducing a new love interest for Gillian this season?

Sarah: Hmmm… I assume I can say. [A little later in the interview...:] I will say that someone comes into Gillian’s life.

LTM Scoop: Okay.

Alright, moving on: People wondered what happened with Dupree. They sort of felt like he fell off the face of the earth a little bit. Did you guys sort of just decide to end that storyline?

Sarah: Yeah, we did, you know. We felt like there was a big gap of time between season one and season two, and it just wasn’t kind of a, a thing that anyone felt the need to tie off. She obviously moved on, and was at sort of a different place in her life.

LTM Scoop: Finally, the one… I have my own personal view, I will tell you in a moment, but… I couldn’t not ask this one as well. People, and you touched on this earlier, they wanna’ know when Cal and Gillian are going to get together. So, I had to ask.

Sarah: You know, I think, … I think in some ways they already are together.

LTM Scoop: See, and that’s why you get paid to say things. I could never come up with that.

Sarah: [laughs] “When are they gonna’ have sex?”, you know, is a different question. You
know, my response to that would be “I don’t know”.

LTM Scoop: Right. Well, and that’s okay. I think that, there’s so much, … it’s such a complicated relationship, that personally I’m never a big fan of jumping right into things. I like, you know, seeing thing build over time. You know, and develop it, and watch it.

Sarah: Yeah.

LTM Scoop: But, I got that one a few times so I had to put it out there.

Sarah: Yeah, I know. Of course, of course.

LTM Scoop: I think that’s it. I know you’re very busy … I really appreciate you taking time.

Sarah: No problem.

Be sure to follow Sarah on Twitter and on her blog, Starfish Envy.

[ALISON "SONNY" ASKEW] Any ethnicity. 30 – early 40s, a tough woman with shades of beauty tucked beneath a tomboy veneer, Sonny is an ex-boxer and is currently the trainer for underground fighter Orlando Lima. An acquaintance of Lightman’s, she knows him from those dark nights when his gambling jones overwhelms his better intentions — but when Orlando is suspected of murdering his female rival, Aneta Maybin, she calls on him to solve the murder. Made aware by Lightman that their “friendship” is tenuous at best, she undergoes his withering scrutiny, insisting that neither she nor Orlando killed Aneta. When Lightman is scooped up by boxing promoter / gangster Reese Kraball, Sonny hopes against hope that Lightman can clear them all and find the real killer…GUEST STAR

[REESE KRABALL] Any ethnicity. 30s – 40s. Kraball is the owner of Carpetorium, a carpet warehouse — but that’s just a front. By night, his warehouse becomes the site of underground fights where a lot of untaxed gambling money changes hands, some of it Lightman’s. A man with close connections to organized crime, who’s the object of a Federal investigation, Kraball is very unhappy when one of the fighters is murdered and a hot bright light of police interest gets poured on his business. Desperate to offer up a coerced confession to the cops and get them off his back, Kraball intends to have every possible suspect clobbered until they talk, and he reluctantly agrees to allow Lightman to try a subtler form of investigation. He later turns livid when he suspects that Lightman has been working hand in glove with the cops as well, and contemplates cleaning house by eliminating Lightman…GUEST STAR

[BRUCE MAYBIN] Caucasian. In his 50s, originally from the Ukraine (speaks with a slight accent), Bruce is the father of the recently-murdered Aneta Maybin, and he’s apparently grieving when he and his wife are questioned by Reynolds. Having adopted Aneta when she was only 8 years old, Bruce claims to be devastated by his loss. In fact, he and his wife used Aneta as their personal slave, forced her to live like a dog for a decade, and held her in utter contempt. …GUEST STAR

[MARIE MAYBIN] Caucasian. 50s, originally from the Ukraine (speaks with a slight accent), Marie is the mother of the recently-murdered Aneta Maybin, and she’s apparently grieving when she and her husband are questioned by Reynolds. Having adopted Aneta when she was only 8 years old, Marie claims to be devastated by her loss — but she’s lying. She used Aneta as her personal slave, forced her to live like a dog for a decade, and held her in utter contempt…GUEST STAR

[ORLANDO LIMA] Hispanic. A flyweight (small) figher in his 20s, originally from South America, Orlando is an underground fighter who’s trained by Sonny Askew. Badly beaten in the ring by female fighter Aneta Maybin, Orlando suffers the embarrassment of being clobbered by a girl — and when Aneta is found shot dead, he becomes the prime suspect. Taken captive by Reese Kraball and beaten half to death all over again (but with his hands tied behind his back), Orlando refuses to admit having killed Aneta, and in fact he’s telling the truth. But he’s concealing the fact that he took a dive…CO-STAR / POSSIBLE GUEST STAR / PLEASE SUBMIT ACTUAL FIGHTERS/BOXERS

[ANETA MAYBIN] 18 years old, compact and fearless with an Eastern European look, Aneta is a young underground fighter, originally from the Ukraine. The adopted daughter of Bruce and Marie Maybin, Aneta has a lot of cold, focused anger deep inside her…CO-STAR / PLEASE SUBMIT EXPERIENCED FIGHTERS/BOXERS ONLY!!

[EMPLOYEE] One of Kraball’s thuggish employees, he tells his boss that they have an unwanted snooper: Torres…CO-STAR (13) SUBMIT ALL ETHNICITIES

[DALE] A watchful man in his 40s, Dale is the manager of a boat charter office, who gets suspicious when Foster shows up at his office to check up on a boat rented by her lover, Burns…CO-STAR (35) SUBMIT ALL ETHNICITIES

[REFEREE] 50s. Any ethnicity. The referee at Kraball’s underground fights, he’s a very fit man capable of separating bare knuckle fighters. He’s also keeping a very dark Maybin family secret that he reveals to Lightman (Tim Roth)…CO-STAR