We Wouldn’t Lie About This One
You can always tell when there’s a hot pilot floating around the Fox lot. The whispers intensify: “Have you seen it? You MUST see it!” So it was not at all surprising that TPTB gave Lie to Me a pickup to series when fellow Fox-ers walked out of screenings studying the nervous ticks and body language of their co-workers. This show must be on to something.
Me? I’m tuning in wherever and whenever Tim Roth is on screen. And he even gets to keep his British accent for the role!
The official press release follows:
FOX has given a series commitment to LIE TO ME, a compelling new drama from Imagine Television and 20th Century Fox Television. Tim Roth (“The Incredible Hulk”) and Kelli Williams (“The Practice”) star in this fascinating character drama inspired by a real-life specialist who can read clues embedded in the human face, body and voice to expose the truth behind the lies in criminal investigations. LIE TO ME is scheduled to premiere midseason.
When you scratch your chin, wring your hands, wrinkle your nose or swallow too much, Dr. Cal Lightman (Roth) knows you’re lying. He doesn’t just think so – he knows so. As the foremost deception expert in the country, Dr. Lightman can uncover the deepest secrets and crack the hardest cases. More accurate than any polygraph, he knows whether those in front of him – be they family, friends, criminals or complete strangers – are honest or not.
Dr. Lightman heads up The Lightman Group, a private agency contracted by the FBI, local police, law firms, corporations and private individuals when they hit roadblocks in their searches for the truth. Joining him at the agency are a variety of experts in the field of behavioral evaluation: Dr. Gillian Foster (Williams) is a gifted psychologist and Lightman’s professional partner, a woman whose guidance he needs whether he knows it or not; Will Loker (Brendan Hines) is Lightman’s lead researcher who practices “radical honesty” at all times; and Ria Torres (Monica Raymund) is the newest member of the team, selected for her innate ability to read body language and catch certain clues that her colleagues may miss.
September 24th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
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December 2nd, 2008 at 11:53 pm
The guy whose work this show is based on(Paul Ekman) has a website where you can actually do the training to learn how to detect concealed emotions - just like the Cal Lightman character. It’s cool. Once you do it, you start to notice all kinds of stuff going on around you on people’s faces that you never saw before. Check it out! It’s http://www.ekmangroup.com
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:29 am
I have an innate ability to spot deception. I see concealed emotions and have an exceptional knack for reading body language. I was in studies conducted by Ekman and O’Sullivan and was identified as one of the few who has this talent. They call people with this talent “truth wizards’. I am one of them.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:29 am
I have an innate ability to spot the truth as well which has been studied by science. Come see what a real person with this ability is like!