The Dead Zone Goes Into Syndication!

This just in from the Futon Critic

THE DEAD ZONE (USA) - Debmar-Mercury Entertainment has signed on to sell the repeat rights to all 67 episodes of the veteran USA series, following their successful sales of "Farscape" and "South Park" to local stations across the country this fall. Like most syndicated offerings, the company is expected to offer both five-a-week plays to cable stations (for a cash license fee) and weekend-only plays to local stations (in exchange for seven minutes per hour for national ad sales) beginning in September 2006. No specific cable networks were mentioned as being targeted however USA itself is expected to be among the contenders. Meanwhile, USA has confirmed a special holiday-themed installment of the series - "A Very Dead Zone Christmas" - has been slated to air Sunday, November 27 at 10:00/9:00c.

Jennifer Finnigan Talks About "Close To Home"

Jennifer Finnigan


Jennifer Finnigan talks about life and her new series with The Boston Herald

Finnigan has been doing her own juggling act lately. In addition to headlining her own drama, she's planning a wedding with her fiance, actor Jonathan Silverman

She hasn't had much interaction with the show's executive producer, Jerry Bruckheimer. The man behind ``Without a Trace,'' ``Cold Case'' and ``The Amazing Race'' is busy filming the sequels to ``Pirates of the Carribean.''

``He did come on set once during the making of the pilot. It was so funny because, as usual, the set was loud. Everyone was talking at the same time, and then all of the sudden everyone started speaking in hushed tones. So out loud I was like, `What's going on? Why is everyone so quiet?' And I turned around, and it was like God had appeared.' ''

The Dead Zone Reaches The NFL

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I thought it was cool that The Dead Zone gets a nod in a sports right up for the Falcons!

"We're all questionable," Mora said this week. "We might be here tomorrow, we might not. I might die in 30 seconds, I might not."

Maybe Mora knows things we don't, sort of like the creepy Anthony Michael Hall character in the TV program "The Dead Zone" who can predict your future by simply touching your hand. Maybe, in handing Vick his playbook earlier this week, Mora had a premonition of his quarterback falling through an open manhole while attempting to cross the street.

Sean Patrick Flanery's New Role

LOS ANGELES, October 14: American Cinema International (ACI) has begun production on a new feature film that will air on SCI FI Channel in the U.S.; and has appointed Cindy Burnett as director of sales and acquisitions.



Savage Planet, currently shooting in Toronto, will be available for presale at MIPCOM and at the AFM. It stars Sean Patrick Flanery (Dead Zone) and focuses on a team of scientists in 2048 who venture to a new planet in search of a plant that will save life on an overpopulated earth but instead find themselves in an even more threatening situation.



Burnett joins the company from Active Entertainment where she served as the Los Angeles production coordinator on several titles for SCI FI Channel. Prior to that she was at Lantern Lane Entertainment.

From World Screen

See AMH in New York!

According to the site,Mercedes Hall, Mary C will be playing at The Bitter End, in New York on Oct 20, 2005.


Mary C

Michael will be seeing Mary's performance for the first time and will be hosting this special event!

Watch for the special Christmas episode of "The Dead Zone."
The episode will feature holiday recordings by Mercedes! We'll keep you informed.

Mary C's music will also be featured in an up coming episode of "The Dead Zone."

For more info check out Mary C's site!

Georgia Craig

Georgia Craig will be playing "Nikki Moore" in episode: "Independence Day" Her other credits include, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,The L Word, Tru Calling,Stargate SG-1 and The 4400

Dylan Bruno

Dylan Bruno will also be starring in Independence Day as Felps/Massey.
He's best known for his roles as Novalee's boyfriend Willy Jack, who ditches her to embark on an ill-fated music career, in 20th Century Fox's Where The Heart Is - 2000

Christian Bocher



Christian Bocher best known for his character Buddy Hooks on Wolf Lake will be playing Grim in the upcoming Independence Day episode.
His credits also include, Bloody Bill Anderson from the series Into The West and Father Malone in The Fog released today.

Anthony Michael Hall's Mom Joins Cast

Taken from The Dead Zone TV

According to Mercedes Hall's Official Site, she will be joining the cast for the Christmas episode.

Christmas episode of USA Network's, "The Dead Zone" to feature music from Mercedes Hall

Mercedes recently completed a recording of "Silent Night" and "Away in the Manger" for a special holiday episode of The Dead Zone! Check back here for more details as the episode come closer to airing!

The Very Dead Zone Christmas Episode will air in Nov.

Dead Zone Makes Bravo's Top 100 Scary Movies

It's that time of year again, time for all of our favorite scary movies to resurface from where ever it is they hide all year long.
Bravo has a Top 100 scary movies of which The Dead Zone comes in at 51.

51. The Dead Zone

Another one of Stephen King’s classics came to the big screen in the form of 1983’s “The Dead Zone”. Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) awakes from a coma to realize he has the power to see the future by merely touching an individual. Will he be able to change some of the more disturbing visions?

Dead Zone On Channel A

It seems Channel A in Canada did a last minute schedule switch the left Smallville Fans scratching their heads.

It appears that a lot of viewers are wondering what happened to the season 5 of Smallville o­n A-Channel. After premiering the show o­n october 1st, the show didn't air as scheduled o­n saturday.


Most fans of the series sat down saturday @ 7pm o­n A-Channel o­nly to find out that The Dead Zone was airing in it's place.

It seems that an o­n-air scoller mentionned that Smallville would air o­n monday but a lot of people seemd to have missed it as we've received quite a few e-mails concerning this.

So after checking with their advanced listings that we receive for our "Primetime Tonight" feature o­n the main page (that is currently unavailable but will return in november), we discovered that for the next three weeks (at least), Smallville will air Mondays @ 9pm (local time) because Just Legal, who previously aired o­n this timeslot has been canceled late last week by The WB.

Filling the empty timeslot left by the move of Smallville o­n all A-Channels (except A-Channel Victoria/Vancouver), Access Hollywood - Week-end edition will move ahead to 7pm to make room for The Dead Zone @ 5pm.

For A-Channel Victoria/Vancouver which previously aired Smallville sundays @ 6pm, The Dead Zone will air in it's place. The Week-end edition of Access Hollywood doens't air o­n the Victoria station.

This change for Smallville is effective until further notice for all A-Channels.

Here's the episodes that will air over the next followig weeks:
Monday Oct. 10th @ 9pm – Episode: Mortal
Monday Oct. 17th @ 8pm – Episode: Hidden
Monday Oct. 24th @ 9pm – Episode: Aqua

You can also catch Smallville o­n Space, sundays @ 7pm

Dead Zone Schedule

Air Date Ep # Title
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10/05/05 48R Heroes & Demons [1 am ET/PT]
10/10/05 49R The Last Goodbye [2 am ET/PT]
10/17/05 50R Grains of Sand [2 am ET/PT]
10/24/05 51R Vanguard [3 am ET/PT]
10/31/05 52R Babble On [3 am ET/PT]

11/27/05 55 A Very Dead Zone Christmas
TBA The Inside Man
TBA Articles of Faith
TBA Independence Day
TBA Lotto Fever
TBA The Hunting Party
TBA Panic

Upcoming Episodes and Guest Stars For 2nd Half Of The Season

A Very Dead Zone Christmas" Episode: #4.12 - 25 December 2005
Spencer Achtymichuk .... Johnny 'JJ' Bannerman
Jennifer Finnigan .... Alex Sinclair
Bill Mondy .... Deputy Roscoe
Sean Rogerson .... Smalltime Drug Dealer
Jacqueline Ann Steuart .... Starlet
Rimple Sumer .... Soccer Mom


"Independence Day" - 2006
Christian Bocher .... Grim
Dylan Bruno .... Felps/Massey
Ben Cotton .... Hank
Georgia Craig .... Nikki Moore
Matthew Currie Holmes .... Brian Moore
Nolan Funk .... Jake Phillips
Chelan McKenzie .... Denise


"Articles of Faith" - 2006
Stephen Lobo .... Guard
Bill Mondy .... Deputy Roscoe


"Heart of Darkness" - 2006
Artine Brown .... Trooper K .Starvinski


"Panic" - 2006
Emiko Abe .... Mrs. Sakura
Dustin Milligan .... Randy Johnson
Angelo Renai .... Harris Knowles


"Lotto Fever" - 2006
Joëlle Antonissen .... Emily Lumely
Matthew Robert Kelly .... Cowboy
Jocelyne Loewen .... Martha Plumley
Benjamin Ratner .... Boyd Lumely


"The Inside Man" - 2006
Bill Mondy .... Deputy Roscoe

Happy Birthday!

Actor Sean Patrick Flannery turns 40 Oct 11!

Cronenberg's 'A History of Violence' Gets Good Reviews

Go to Toledoblade.com to read the interview.

A History of Violence has a movie star (Viggo Mortensen), the largest big budget he's ever known ($30 million or so), and a story that doesn't ooze, spurt, or slather on the blood or any bodily fluids. It tells of a small town guy, Tom Stall (Mortensen), who kills two men to save the people in his diner. And then it goes beyond that act to look at what it means to his family, and how a few seconds of violence reverberates in ever more violent ways. If it appears to be Cronenberg's most conventional picture to date, look again: He has always been on the short list of major directors who use violence not for effect but formeaning. We spoke last month during the Toronto International Film Festival. The following is an edited version of that long chat.

Jennifer Finnigan Talks About Close to Home and a Dead Zone Christmas Episode!

Jennifer Finnigan
From TV Insider

TVGuide.com: You made an impression with fans of The Dead Zone last June, guesting as a fellow psychic and love interest for Anthony Michael Hall.
Finnigan: Yeah, I had such a terrific time, and Michael and I have really terrific chemistry, so it was so easy to do. They wanted me to come back quite a bit, and I did go back for a Christmas episode [to air in December], and they basically left it open. They said, "Whenever you want to come back, please do. We would love to have you."

USA to Top TNT!

From Variety

The big question for USA is whether the push it gets in the fourth quarter carries over into next year. Bonnie Hammer, president of USA and the Sci Fi Channel, is making no predictions, but she points out that USA's parent, NBC Universal, is cheerleading for the placement of McMahon's most popular wrestlers -- among them John Cena, Torrie Wilson, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Triple H, Carlito and Kurt Angle -- into guest spots on TV movies and original USA series like "Monk," "The Dead Zone""The Dead Zone" and "The 4400."