PSYCH
AUGUST 3RD 2009
REVIEW & INTERVIEW by LENA LAMORAY

PSYCH’s season premiere starts off with a bang in Canada and features some of the most impressive skiing ever featured on film.  GUS & SHAWN are up to their usual “psychic” crime solving shenanigans.  The episode features a duel of wits, plenty of lists and all the “cheek-spreading” fun that you have grown to expect from the best series on television.  Oh, and LASSISTER really loves his gun.  Guest starring:  CARY ELWES (THE PRINCESS BRIDE & SAW).    Do NOT miss this episode on FRIDAY AUGUST 7th at 10pm!!!

When I asked JAMES RODAY and DULE HILL what it was like working with TIM CURRY and the rest of the guest stars (GINA GERSHON, CRISTIAN DE LA FUENTE) on my favorite episode of PSYCH, AMERICAN DUOShere is what they had to say:

DULE HILL:  Oh, wow, it was great.  First of all, just the fact that Roday and Tim Curry went into a little back and forth saying, “No.”  You couldn’t really beat that.  You’re working with a comic genius, a great actor, along with Gina Gershon too, it was great.  And then having John Landis direct, as I said before, for myself it was one of the all time great moments for me on Psych.

JAMES RODAY:  It was a blast of an episode and it was cast perfectly.  It was just one of those things where all the pieces came together and you just sort of sat back and pinched yourself a little bit, because you’re like I can’t believe this is A, happening, and B, like episode one of season two.  So the planets definitely aligned on that one.

Some other highlights taken from the conference call:

When asked about how they keep the show fresh they responded:

James:  From everyone involved in the show like the actors, writers and producers they are hyper aware of keeping the show fresh and unpredictable.  We don’t ever want to be considered one of the shows that dropped off after season blank and then was just in autopilot after then. 

When asked about what may or may not be coming up in upcoming episodes:

James:  Well, there may or may not be a continuation on what capped off our season last year, AN EVENING WITH MR. YANG.   There may be our biggest guest star and we may be getting another look at what Gus’s hair looked like in the 90’s.

When asked which one of them is most like their character:

James:     I think that we are both pretty different.  I think that is what is so much fun about our show is that we get to play characters that are different from our real life personas.

Dule:  As in useless information, I would say Roday is more like Gus in that area, especially with film and 80’s trivia.  He and Steve Franks can lift songs on an album. 

James:  I have the trunk of useless knowledge. 

USA PSYCH Press Release:
JAMES RODAY AND DULÉ HILL RETURN FOR SEASON FOUR OF THE HIT USA NETWORK ORGINAL SERIES “PSYCH”
ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 7 AT 10/9C

Guest stars include James Brolin and Sendhil Ramamurthy
plus Cary Elwes in Season Premiere

Favorite Rachael Leigh Cook Returns to Guest

Even Shawn Spencer could have seen this one coming... PSYCH, the hit original series starring James Roday (“The Dukes of Hazzard”), Dulé Hill (“The West Wing”) and Corbin Bernsen (“Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” “L.A. Law”), returns with its fourth season on USA Network. With a bit of romance and plenty of mayhem, the hit series launches all new episodes on Friday, August 7, 2009 at 10/9c.                                                 

The action intensifies this season as the crime fighting duo of Shawn and Gus save an old western town from a corporate take-over which ends with an old fashioned showdown and prove an exorcism may not be the only way to exorcise a demon.  On the personal side, Shawn and his girlfriend Abigail's (Cook) relationship grows and Shawn has to adjust to being in a relationship.  In the premiere episode, “Extradition: British Columbia,” Shawn and Gus outwit a notorious international art thief, Despereux (Cary Elwes), and when they travel to the ski slopes of Vancouver, they discover that he’s not an art thief but an insurance scam artist.

The fourth season guest stars include Elwes (“The Princess Bride,” “Twister”), James Brolin (“Catch Me If You Can,” “Hotel”), and Sendhil Ramamurthy (“Heroes”) plus a return appearance by Rachael Leigh Cook ("She's All That," "The Babysitter's Club").  PSYCH is executive produced by Steve Franks (“Big Daddy”), Kelly Kulchak and Chris Henze, with Universal Cable Productions in association with Tagline Pictures. Mel Damski (“Picket Fences”) serves as the executive producer and serves as a director. Saladin K. Patterson (“The Bernie Mac Show”) and Bill Callahan (“Scrubs”) are co-executive producer/writers.  

Fans can countdown the days to the premiere with the "PSYCH Countdown Calendar" featuring new content everyday by going to the official site psych.usanetwork.com . Watch interviews with the writers