NEWS AND UPDATES

24.07.2008
Stills

Three more stills from the new season of Psych have been released! They are in the gallery for your viewing pleasure! :)



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24.07.2008
Interview

Thanks to Lia for letting me know about this!
You can see a video interview with James and Magge here.


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24.07.2008
Pictures and Icons

I added 3 more pictures of James at the recent NBC event. Also, thanks to Shaunna, I added 25 more icons. Thanks Shaunna!


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23.07.2008
Stills

More stills from Psych have been released. I added them to the gallery.


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23.07.2008
ALMA Award

James was nominated for an ALMA award. Here is the list:
Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series
Enrique Murciano, Without a Trace
Edward James Olmos, Battlestar Galactica
Danny Pino, Cold Case
James Roday, Psych
Adam Rodriguez, CSI: Miami


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21.07.2008
Videos

I have added 1 new webisode and 2 new psychouts to the video archive!


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21.07.2008
New Pictures!

James and Maggie were at the NBC Universal 2008 Press Tour All Star Party yesterday! I added a few pictures to the gallery.

I am a little behind on my emails so if you haven't had a reply from me yet, don't worry, you will! :)



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19.07.2008
James Roday and Dule Hill on the Third Season of 'Psych'

PICTURE SOURCE

MediaBlvd was among several websites recently invited to the Vancouver sets of Psych and was given the opportunity to talk to the cast and crew. You can read the full feature about the set visit here. The show’s leads, James Roday and Dule Hill participated in panels about the show’s third season and what we can expect for their characters.

Panel: How has the season changed compared to the first two?
James Roday: It’s 20% bigger. That was sort of the mandate that we put on the table, and we’re sort of blowing it out with the summer stuff, sort of using pretty much our entire season’s worth of budget on just the summer season. So look forward to a lot of winter episodes that happen primarily in the police station. No, we’ve got big stories! We’ve got pirate treasure and dare devils and roller derby and Shawn does his high school reunion. The idea sort of being that, you know, try to compete with the summer blockbuster entertainment that’s always available and just go big. So that’s what we’re doing.

Panel: I hear there’s going to a more emotional side of you this season. Can you elaborate on that?

James Roday: Twenty percent more everything! No, I think that the challenge that was sort of posed to us, which we’ve chosen to accept from our network, was, like, “So you guys want to be the torch bearer for the USA?” Like we want you to sort of start adding layers, and one of those layers is the idea of sort of earning our comedy with each episode, sort of giving it an emotional spine.
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15.07.2008
James Roday and Dulé Hill talk about their USA Network series 'Psych'

Wait a minute. A vision is becoming clear. Yes. Yes. Got it. James Roday and Dule Hill, the actors who play the detective buddies on the USA Network series "Psych" are on the telephone. They want to promote the third season opener July 18.

Sure, this was prearranged. But that's the whole idea behind the series. Roday plays a faux psychic who fools people into believing he has special powers when all he has are good instincts.

Another vision is becoming clear. The actors will talk about what it means to play characters who are supposed to have such a long history of being best friends.

"We get to sort of invent that history as we go along and make new memories every week. Unless we run for 30 years, we're always going to be way ahead of the game in terms of being able to come up with new stuff," Roday says. "I think it gets more fun for us as we go along because we're also clear on what this relationship is and how it fits into the show."
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15.07.2008
NEW VIDEO ARCHIVE

I have finally finished the new video archive! :) The gorgeous layout was made by Somewhat Famous Designs who I highly recommend if you need a layout. You can see the video archive HERE. I also added a new video which is a music video with Psych clips - "On A Whim- Flying Machines". I hope you like the new archive!

Don't forget, if you have any Psych/James related videos, icons, art, graphics of any kind, please send them in. Credit will be given :)


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15.07.2008
Get ‘Psych’ed up

“Psych” fans can rejoice as the USA Network hit debuts its third season Friday night.
Set in Santa Barbara, Calif., the hourlong dramedy that features lifelong pals Shawn Spencer, played by James Roday, and Burton “Gus” Guster, played by Dule Hill, expertly solving crimes while faking that hyper-observant Shawn is a psychic, starts at 10 p.m. Friday.

The season premiere will pick up where season two’s cliffhanger left off, with Shawn opening the front door to his mother Madeleine, played by Golden Globe winner Cybill Shepherd.

It turns out Madeleine is a criminal psychologist who returns to help the police department with a case. Quite a surprise for Shawn and his father, retired cop Henry Spencer, played by Corbin Bernsen, as they haven’t seen her in years.

“There’s going to be some tension right out of the gate with the premiere,” Roday said in a recent telephone interview from the show’s shoot in Vancouver.
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14.07.2008
DVD Caps

As promised, I started the DVD captures for season two. So today, I have added caps from 2x01 American Duos!



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14.07.2008
James Roday totally at home on 'Psych'

James Roday is gonna go ahead and admit it: He just woke up.

The star of USA Network's "Psych" called from Vancouver on Friday morning to talk about the premiere of the show's third season on Friday night, and he's kinda punchy.

I ask how he is doing.

"Pretty damned good," he said, quickly collecting himself. "Feeling alive."

On "Psych," James plays Shawn Spencer, a man with a gift for noticing the tiniest of details who pretends to be a psychic and helps police solve crimes, along with the help of his childhood friend and bantering partner Gus (Dul Hill). He might be pretending, but he's so good at solving cases that police keep calling on him.

James, 32, said fans of the show can look forward to the best season yet.

"The first two years were fun: two guys running around and acting silly and living out their dreams," he said. "We are just maturing as a television series. It's probably fair to say, once you get into a third season on any series, you aren't as nervous (about staying on the air) and can actually start thinking about longevity.

"What is the trajectory here? What are we going to do with these characters and learn about them? That's how we are starting to evolve.

"It's been very invigorating. We definitely bumped it up a notch. Scripts have been far more ambitious. We are also swinging for the fences in terms of worlds we go into, cases we take on. We are a very ambitious group. We are swinging really hard."
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14.07.2008
Psych Season 3 Set Visit: James Roday and Dule Hill

When it comes to visiting the set of any production, whether film or television, things don’t always go as planned. Given the changing dynamics of shooting a TV series, it’s just something that goes with the territory. When we were recently invited to the set of the USA Network series Psych in Vancouver, for a sneak peek at the filming of Season 3 (July 18 at 10pm), we were originally slated to see a roller-derby sequence being shot at the PNE Agridome for the upcoming season three episode "Talk Derby to Me". In this particular case, the shoot was ahead of schedule so the only thing left to do was to meet and have dinner in downtown Vancouver. Although I sat a few seats away from writer Tim Meltreger, I spent the entire dinner sitting almost directly across from rollergirl/actress Sydney Bennett, who filled me in on how she juggles a career as an actress, her time as a college student in traditional Chinese medicine, and her off time as a member of the Derby Dolls in L.A.’s premiere banked-track women’s roller derby league. What can fans expect from "Talk Derby to Me"? Well, as Sydney told me, a lot of wheels, a lot of action, and Maggie Lawson in roller gear!

The next morning it was off to an early start at North Shore Studios where the confines of a soundstage doubled as the Psych setting of Santa Barbara, California. Given the consistently wet weather of Vancouver, it’s amazing how the production is able to make the exterior shots of Psych work. As we learned, Psych ramps up shooting in the summer months to avoid the off season’s 40 days and 40 nights of rain (and then some) that Vancouver residents have to endure to enjoy their laid back, near paradise lifestyle. As the Psych cast would tell you, Vancouver’s a great city but you’re always up against mother nature when shooting anything in the Pacific Northwest.

For most of the day, we hunkered down inside the upper confines of a board room where the Psych stars individually stopped by to chat throughout the day. As we heard from everyone, the approach to season three is from a 20% bigger and 20% better mentality. In fact, that applies to everything across the board this season, including a 20% deeper exploration of the relationships and the unexplored emotional layers beyond the comedy. As Psych co-star James Roday, who plays fake psychic Shawn Spencer, explained in our first interview of the day, the emotional aspect was originally suggested by the folks at USA, which turned out to be a rewarding collaboration between the network and the production. As Roday elaborated, the network wanted to help breath more substance into the show beyond the comedic elements, stating "... we want you to sort of start adding layers, and one of those layers is the idea of sort of earning our comedy with each episode, sort of giving it an emotional spine."

After two successful seasons, James Roday looks upon the new direction as a challenge, revealing to us that 20% emotional exploration of the characters and their relationships fills am open void that exists on Psych. "One thing that Monk has had from its conception is that his wife was murdered, so they always sort of had that to go back to any time they needed to get heavy on that show. And we don’t really have that, so it’s sort of like, with each episode we’re sort of coming up with an emotional backbone that launches us into the world and helps balance some of the silly things that we do. It’s been good."
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13.07.2008
Site Stuff

I just wanted to let you know I am working on giving the videos section a complete re-vamp. I really need to do that to make it easier for me to add more videos.
I will let you know when I have done it!

Also, I am working on season 2 DVD captures. I hope to start adding those to the gallery soon.

And last, I really want to get some more graphics on the site. So if anyone has any icons, art, wallpaper, banners etc that they would be willing to share with the site, please SEND THEM IN!! I will then add them, giving ful credit to you and/or your website.


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13.07.2008
Interview

There is an interview witbh Dule Hill, and there is a quote from James in it. Below is James quote, but you should read the whole Dule interview, which is HERE.

'The show’s fun twist is that James Roday’s character, Shawn, a slacker with keen observational skills drilled into him by his rigid father (Corbin Bernsen), passes himself off as a psychic to help police solve crimes. Shawn’s lifelong best friend is Gus.

“You watch Gus in the pilot and Gus now,” Roday says. “It’s like watching a kid go from kindergarten to 12th grade. He was probably the least developed character in the pilot. The traditional sidekick role we have seen many, many times. Because Dule was not interested in being that, and being aggressive with his own ideas and where he wanted the character to go, it allowed him to do things just for Gus.”'


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13.07.2008
TV Insider: James Roday

Name: James Roday

Role: Crime-stopper Shawn Spencer on USA Network’s “Psych” (Friday at 10 p.m.).

Hometown: San Antonio

Age: 32

Where you’ve seen him before: He played Billy Prickett in “The Dukes of Hazzard” movie and guested in a recent episode of the NBC anthology series “Fear Itself.”

Fun fact: Roday is also a writer. He co-wrote the movie “Skinwalkers” and wrote the first season finale of “Psych,” two episodes of season two and is working on a tribute to the “Friday the 13th” films for a third-season episode.

On the current Ebony and Ivory promo for the show with co-star Dule Hill: “I think initially we were a little concerned, because we were like, ‘Man, we don’t want to make fun of Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. Those guys are awesome.’ And then we went and watched the actual video that they made 20 some odd years ago, and it was like, ‘Oh, wow, we’re not actually making fun of them.’ We’re just doing what they did, and it’s really dated and kind of corny. So it made us feel better.”

On what to expect in the show’s third season, premiering Friday: “Our self-imposed mandate for this season was 20 percent more of everything. So you’re going to get 20 percent more action, 20 percent more comedy, 20 percent more drama, 20 percent more emotional grounding. You’re going to see some stuff that you’re not used to seeing on ‘Psych.’ You know, we’re going to be peeling back a few layers on Shawn’s character, looking at his family history a little bit more. There’s going to be some serious moments right out of the gate with the premiere.”

Where you’ll see him in five years: Writing and starring in a remake of “Beverly Hills Cop” with Hill.


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12.07.2008
Photoshoot

A brilliant update now! Remember that photoshoot that James did for People magazine in 2007? Well thanks to the wonderful Stephanie we have the set of pictures from that shoot. They are in the gallery! Thanks so much Stephanie!



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12.07.2008
Caps

I have added caps from the season 1 DVD extra features. They are of the deleted scenes, bloopers and character profile of Shawn Spencer.


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12.07.2008
‘Psych’ stars talk Cybill, the ’80s and the possibility of a ‘Monk’ crossover

James Roday and Dulé Hill stars of "Psych" recently did a conference call with television reporters to promote the show’s third season, which returns at 10 p.m., Friday on the USA Network.

The show stars Roday as Shawn Spencer, a thirtysomething crime consultant for the Santa Barbara, Calif., police force whose uncanny observational skills allow him to convince others that he’s psychic. Hill plays Burton Guster, Shawn’s best friend, straight-man and reluctant partner.

It really is one of the funniest shows on television so even though I included part of our conversation in my weekly Remote Control column — which appears in Sunday’s print edition — I also wanted to share with you some other material that came out of that call.

So here’s a little extra from Roday and Hill to get you psyched for Season 3:

Q: Cybill Shepherd plays Shawn’s mom. What was it like to work with her?

JR: Cybill was great. She showed up. She was very professional. We actually asked a lot out of her in the premiere, as you’ll see, in terms of sort of anchoring the episode in a dramatic way. She was a gamer. She stepped up. We had fun. I think she was an asset for our show.

Q: Besides Cybill, what are some of the things we can look forward to in this season?

JR: Our self-imposed mandate for this season was 20 percent more of everything. So you’re going to get 20 percent more action, 20 percent more comedy, 20 percent more drama, 20 percent more emotional grounding. We’re going to be peeling back a few layers on Shawn’s character, looking at his sort of family history a little bit more. There’s going to be some more serious moments right out of the gate with the premiere. And then to balance that, you know, we’ve also got some pretty big episodes lined up in terms of scope. We’ve got a daredevil episode where we did more stunts in one episode than we’ve done the entire series combined. So we’re trying to blow it all out man in the name of good, clean summer fun.

DH: We have some great guest actors coming in. We already talked about Cybill Shepherd, but we also have Rachael Leigh Cook. We have Stephen Weber. We have Jeff Fahey. We have Ted Lange. Christopher McDonald, we have coming in.

Q: Is anything going to move forward with the flirtation between Shawn and Jules?

JR: I would say that it’s still certainly going to be an element and we’ll probably do what we usually do which is just dangle it in front of everybody for as long as we can until we, ourselves, get a little uncomfortable with it and then yank it back.

Q: James, can you tell us a little bit about what’s in store for Henry and Shawn this season?

JR: You can’t repair 15 or 20 years of adversity with one moment. But I think what we’re able to do with the premiere is sort of shine a new light on their past and their history, and what Shawn thought was true that might not be completely true. They’re still going to have their problems, but I think we’re moving toward the place where they can understand one another better as father and son.
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11.07.2008
Stills

Two more still for season 3 of Psych have been released. They are in the gallery!



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06.07.2008
Caps and Videos

My season two Psych DVD set arrived, so as promised I added caps and videos! Here is what I have added, I hope you like them!:

DVD CAPTURES:
Season 2 Bloopers
Season 2 Deleted Scenes
Season 2 Psychouts

VIDEOS:
Season 2 Deleted Scenes (4 parts)
Season 2 Bloopers
Season 2 Psychouts


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03.07.2008
Fear Itself Caps

I finally was able to see and take screencaps of James' episode of Fear Itself. You can see them in the gallery!
I have other caps to add as well, from the Psych season one DVD extras. I'll do that soon. I'll also start capping season 2 as my DVD boxset will be here shortly.


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29.06.2008
James and Dule talk Psych

Psych is coming back! Starting on July 18th, the comedy starring James Roday and Dule Hill will be returning to USA Network with all new episodes. The third season of this series looks to be a very interesting one, as viewers will finally get to meet Shawn Spencer's long-lost mother as well as get to see a more dramatic side of the character ... something we got a taste of during the last few episodes of last season.

The two stars of Psych got together with the press last week to touch on a number of subjects. Topics included a preview of the upcoming season, a discussion about the duo's "Ebony & Ivory" commercial, Roday's appearance on the NBC anthology Fear Itself, and the never-ending 1980s references that the two spout during each episode.
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25.06.2008
Fear Itself Promo

I have added the Fear Iteslef Promo to the videos section. Download it HERE!


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20.06.2008
Still

I have added another new episode still from season 3 of Psych!



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19.06.2008
New Stills!

The first couple of episode stills for season 3 of Psych have been released! I added them to the gallery.



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13.06.2008
Video

From Abbott & Costello to Oscar & Felix, television has offered a memorable list of successful comedic duos over the years. Having that unique blend of timing and chemistry is pure gold when it strikes. Unfortunately, it has become increasingly rare on television these days.

Enter Roday & Hill. Witness this refreshingly witty pair at work on USA Network's hit series PSYCH -- #1 New Cable Show when it debuted in 2006 -- and you'll agree that James Roday & Dule Hill are arguably the best comedic duo on television today as the show premieres its third season Friday, July 18th 10/9 Central.

Besides delivering side-splitting performances as life-long friends Shawn and Gus on a weekly basis, the team has also extended their hilarity and love of 80's music to "PSYCH-outs" -- remakes of "culturally relevant" songs that run over the end credits of the show.
This summer, they have taken "PSYCH-out" to a new level with their truly unique rendition of the Paul McCartney-Stevie Wonder hit "Ebony & Ivory." This performance rivals any comedy promo on the airwaves today and exemplifies the commitment these two have to making their audience laugh...and risking everything to do it!

For your consideration, below please find sample clips that offer hysterical evidence of Roday & Hill's two-of-a-kind humor as they become the newest successors in the royal line of great television comedy teams.

See the video in the VIDEO SECTION and screencaps in the GALLERY.


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12.06.2008
Fear Itself Stills

Stills from James and Maggie's episode of "Fear Itself" have been released! I added them to the gallery :)



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07.06.2008
Scans

There is an interview with James in issue 229 of TV Zone magazine. I bought it and scanned it. You can see the scans in the gallery!




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