It isn't unusual for the broadcast and cable networks to make available their shows to watch for free online a day or two after they've aired.
What is unusual is for the pay cable networks to do so.
Showtime has uploaded the (slightly edited) sixth season premiere episode of its hit series Dexter, which we've embedded below. It isn't a totally altruistic gesture on their part, of course; they'd like you to subscribe to their channel. Still, if you've never seen the show — or watch previous seasons via DVD — here's a chance to get a head start on what may be the final season of the series.
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Watch the 6th Season Premiere Episode of Dexter
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
The Hunger Games District Posters Surfacing on Facebook
The Hunger Games District posters have begun to surface on Facebook; the one for the home district of Katniss is shown, right.
To see them, visit Facebook and search for "District PN X", where X is the number of the district (1 through 12) or simply use the URL http://www.facebook.com/DistrictXPN and substitute X with 1 through 12.
Just prior to posting this, the following district posters are available: 2 (masonry), 7 (lumber), 8 (textiles), 9 (grain), and 12 (mining).
The Hunger Games, based on the first novel in the YA trilogy of thrillers by Suzanne Collins, opens in US theaters March 23rd, 2012.
Another New International Trailer for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
A few weeks ago we posted an international trailer (from Belgium) for the English-language film adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Now a new Australian trailer has been released, which we've embedded below. (The code, D, suggests this is the fourth trailer, which if true, means we've missed one or two!)
The film, which stars Daniel Craig as a reporter seeking the truth behind the disappearance of an industrialist's daughter decades ago, opens in US theaters December 21st, 2011.
The Mystery Bookshelf: Every Bitter Thing by Leighton Gage, a Mario Silva Mystery
The Mystery Bookshelf, where you can discover a world of mystery and suspense, is pleased to feature a new crime novel we recently received from the publisher.
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Every Bitter Thing by Leighton Gage
A Mario Silva Mystery (4th in series)
Soho Crime (Trade Paperback)
Publication Date: October 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-56947-998-8
About Every Bitter Thing (from the publisher): The son of the Foreign Minister of Venezuela is found dead in his apartment in Brasilia, the victim of a crime of passion … or so it seems. Due to the high-profile nature of the case, Chief Inspector Mario Silva of Brazil's Federal Police is called in to investigate. As he delves deeper, he discovers that a chain of murders have occurred throughout Brazil, all with the same MO. They seem to be the work of the same killer — but the victims, of diverse ethnicities, cities of residence, economic classes, and walks of life, have nothing in common. What sinister motive connects these killings?
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About the author: Leighton Gage has lived in Australia, Europe, and South America and traveled widely in Asia and Africa. He visited Spain in the time of Franco, Portugal in the time of Salazar, South Africa in the time of apartheid, Chile in the time of Pinochet, Argentina in the time of the junta, Prague, East Germany, and Yugoslavia under the Communist yoke. He is fluent in three languages and conversant in three more.
He has a daughter and three grandchildren in Paris, a daughter in The Netherlands, and two more in the United States. He and his wife divide their time between all three of those places and Brazil, her native country.
For more information about the author and his books, visit LeightonGage.com.
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Telemystery: John Nettles Selects His Top 10 Midsomer Murders Episodes
A new collection of Midsomer Murders mysteries is being released today by Acorn Media titled Barnaby's Top 10 featuring the best episodes of the series as selected by its star, John Nettles. None of the mysteries in this collection are new — all have been previously released — but they do include an introduction by Nettles, who shares anecdotes with the viewer and explains why these episodes are special to him.
Midsomer Murders is based on characters created by crime novelist Caroline Graham. Indeed, some of the early episodes are adaptations of her books, including the series pilot from 1997, "The Killings at Badger's Drift", which is included in this set. The setting itself is fictional — there is no Midsomer County in England — but so much detail about the county villages is woven into the storylines that it makes it feel real to the viewer.
John Nettles "retired" as DCI Tom Barnaby at the end of the 13th season, which aired in February 2011 in the UK, replaced by his cousin DCI John Barnaby (played by Neil Dudgeon). The producers felt they had to choose a character with the same last name to continue in the role as the series, which airs around the world, is often locally titled Inspector Barnaby or a variation thereof. The 14th season is currently airing in the UK and a 15th season has been commissioned. (Note: There is no correlation between the seasons of the series in the UK and the numbering of the DVD sets in the US. We're about a year behind, with the most recent DVD set including the final episodes of the twelfth UK season.)
Here are the 10 episodes that Tom Nettles has chosen as his favorites, and are included in Midsomer Murders: Barnaby's Top 10; all are from the first six seasons of the series, and feature Daniel Casey as Detective Sergeant Gavin Troy, Barnaby's first partner (of three during the series run to date).
• The Killings at Badger's Drift (episode 1)
• Blue Herrings (episode 11)
• A Worm in the Bud (episode 23)
• Dark Autumn (episode 18)
• Dead Man's Eleven (episode 10)
• Death of a Hollow Man (episode 4)
• The Electric Vendetta (episode 16)
• Murder on St. Malley's Day (episode 21)
• A Talent for Life (episode 24)
• Strangler's Wood (episode 6)
OMN Welcomes Linda O. Johnston, Author of the Pet Rescue Mystery Series
Omnimystery News is pleased to welcome Linda O. Johnston, author of the new Pet Rescue mystery series featuring Lauren Vancouver. The second book in the series, The More the Terrier (Berkley Prime Crime, October 2011 Mass Market Paperback and ebook editions) is published today.
Today Linda writes about dilemmas.
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We all have dilemmas in our lives. They’re situations where we feel torn, where there are at least two choices facing us and deciding on either direction comes with issues of its own.
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Linda O. Johnston
I’m happy to say that I’ve given Lauren Vancouver, the protagonist of my Pet Rescue Mystery series, one heck of a dilemma in her latest adventure, The More the Terrier. After all, isn’t it fun to read about fictional characters and how they handle their problems?
Lauren is a skilled and dedicated administrator of a private, no-kill pet shelter. She’ll do anything to save animals, and she despises those who harm them. Most of the time.
But in The More the Terrier, Lauren learns that her former mentor, Mamie Spelling, has become an animal hoarder. Lauren is horrified, and of course does all she can to save the animals. Every one of them comes out of it just fine. This is fiction, after all. And in the Pet Rescue Mysteries, “no-kill” means pets, not people!
Yes, someone gets killed. It’s a woman who has been hounding Mamie, and Mamie becomes the major suspect. But Mamie is aging and confused, so here is Lauren’s dilemma: Should she help her former mentor clear her name? But Mamie, as a hoarder, has also harmed animals, and Lauren despises people who harm animals.
What do you think Lauren does? You undoubtedly guessed it. She helps Mamie. That means that Lauren once more must solve a murder.
The Pet Rescue Mysteries are a spinoff series from my Kendra Ballantyne, Pet-Sitter mysteries, in which Kendra comes to think of herself as a murder magnet. Kendra makes cameo appearances in the Pet Rescue Mysteries, and Lauren’s shelter HotRescues is generously funded by Kendra’s wealthy guy friend Dante de Francisco.
That adds to Lauren’s dilemma. She likes Kendra well enough but she certainly doesn’t want to get involved with solving murders, too.
Not that I’m giving her much choice. And the murder in The More the Terrier isn’t the last one Lauren will need to solve!
It’s really fun writing about Lauren and her shelter, HotRescues. As I mention often, I happen to love animals. I’d love to save them all, and I can--fictionally, of course.
The Pet Rescue Mysteries began in March with Beaglemania, and the next one will be Hounds Abound, which will be published in 2012.
What is the worst dilemma you’ve faced? How did you resolve it?
Please come visit me at LindaOJohnston.com and at KillerHobbies.blogspot.com on Wednesdays. Friend me on Facebook. I’d love to hear what you think of pet rescue — and The More the Terrier!
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About The More the Terrier:
When shelter manager Lauren Vancouver finds out that her old mentor, Mamie Spelling, is an animal hoarder, no one is more shocked, and she jumps in to help re-home the cramped critters.
But Mamie's troubles don't end there. She's accused of murder when the CEO of a pet shelter network is found dead. And Lauren's dogged determination to clear her former friend of murder may put a killer on her tail.
The Brotherhood by Jerry B. Jenkins is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Brotherhood by Jerry B. Jenkins as today's free mystery ebook. We don't know how long it will be offered at this special price (typically only until a certain number of downloads have been completed), so we urge you to download it while it is still available for free.
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The Brotherhood by Jerry B. Jenkins
The Precinct 11 Trilogy (1st in series)
Tyndale House
About The Brotherhood (from the publisher): Boone Drake has it made. He’s a young cop rising rapidly through the ranks of the Chicago Police Department. He has a beautiful wife and a young son, a nice starter house, a great partner, and a career plan that should land him in the Organized Crime Division within five years. Everything is going right.
Until everything goes horribly, terribly wrong.
His personal life destroyed and his career and future in jeopardy, Boone buries himself in guilt and bitterness as his life spirals out of control. But when he comes face-to-face with the most vicious gang leader Chicago has seen in decades, he begins to realize that God is a God of second chances and can change the hardest heart … and forgive the worst of crimes.
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Monday, October 03, 2011
Warner Bros. Options Film Rights to Satori by Don Winslow
Warner Bros. has optioned the film rights to crime novelist Don Winslow's 2011 bestseller Satori. Winslow will co-write the adapted screenplay with Shane Salerno, who co-wrote the adapted screenplay for another of Winslow's books, Savages.
The lead character in the book, Nicholai Hel — genius, mystic, and the perfect, formidable assassin — is expected to be played by Leonardo DiCaprio.
It is the fall of 1951, and the Korean War is raging. Twenty-six-year-old Hel has spent the last three years in solitary confinement at the hands of the Americans. Hel is a master of hoda korosu, or "naked kill", is fluent in seven languages, and has honed extraordinary "proximity sense" — an extra-awareness of the presence of danger. He has the skills to be the world's most fearsome assassin and now the CIA needs him.
The Americans offer Hel freedom, money, and a neutral passport in exchange for one small service: to go to Beijing and kill the Soviet Union's commissioner to China. It's almost certainly a suicide mission, but Hel accepts. Now he must survive chaos, violence, suspicion, and betrayal while trying to achieve his ultimate goal of satori — the possibility of true understanding and harmony with the world.
(Source: Deadline|Hollywood.)
Production Underway for Swedish Crime Drama The Fjällbacka Murders
A couple of weeks ago, principal filming began on The Fjällbacka Murders, a combination of 10 made-for-television movies and 2 theatrical films based on the original universe created by Swedish crime novelist Camilla Läckberg.
The producer, TrustNordisk, has announced pre-sales into the Benlux countries as well as Australia, and today Swedish television network SVT announced that it has scheduled the first of the telemovies to air in December 2012. The first theatrical film, to be adapted from the fifth book in the series, Tyskungen — it's given several different English translations, including The Hidden Child (as published in the UK) and The German Child — is expected to be released in mid-2013. (These seem like incredibly long production schedules to us …)
"It's amazing to see my characters come to life in Fjällbacka and it's so impressive to see them in an international film production of this scale. I really like that the rest of the world will get to know my very own Fjällbacka", says Läckberg.
The series has been described as a Swedish version of Midsomer Murders … which sounds very promising to us.
TrustNordisk intends to continue its presales at the upcoming Busan International Film Festival, where it will also promote an existing series, Those Who Kill, written by Danish crime novelist Elsebeth Egholm — of whom we are unfamiliar; it doesn't appear as if any of her series or stand-alone novels have been translated into English — but not apparently based on any of her books.
(Source: TrustNordisk.)
BBC to Broadcast Danish-Swedish Crime Drama The Bridge
A month or so ago we were reporting on a number of new crime dramas that were to premiere this fall on SVT, Sweden's television network. And we were also speculating that it might not be long before English-speaking audiences had a chance to see them.
For at least one of the dramas, The Bridge, that may be sooner than later. BBC has acquired the series — a Danish/Swedish co-production — together with another, Sebastian Bergman, for BBC4.
Sue Deeks, the head of BBC program acquisition, said: "Both The Bridge and Sebastian Bergman are character-based, suspense-filled murder mysteries, with a cinematic atmosphere and style. Following in footsteps of Spiral, Wallander and The Killing, they are outstanding additions to BBC Four's slate of European crime drama."
With the series in hand at BBC, it likely won't be too long before they hit this side of the Atlantic on BBC America.
About The Bridge: The body of a woman is found in the middle of the Øresund Bridge between Sweden and Denmark. Half the body belongs to a Swedish politician and the other half to a Danish prostitute
A bi-national team of inspectors is put together to solve the crime: laid-back Danish family man Martin, and Swedish single Saga who puts facts above empathy. The killer is a "moral terrorist," who lays out his agenda in messages addressed to the media and designed to show us how corrupt we have become. Indeed, the spectacular murders he stages actually do bring public opinion to his side ...
(Source: WorldScreen.com.)
The Mystery Bookshelf: Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indriðason, an Icelandic Thriller
The Mystery Bookshelf, where you can discover a world of mystery and suspense, is pleased to feature a new crime novel we recently received from the publisher.
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Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indriðason
An Icelandic Thriller
Picador (Trade Paperback)
Publication Date: October 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-61059-3
About Hypothermia (from the publisher): Inspector Erlunder has spent his entire career struggling to evade the ghosts of his past. But ghosts are visiting him, both in the form of a séance attended by a dead woman and also in the reemerging puzzle of two young people who went missing 30 years ago. And there’s the ghost of the detective’s disastrous marriage, which, despite the pleas of his drug-addled daughter, he is unwilling to confront. In addition, he’s still obsessed with the disappearance of his brother, who vanished without a trace when they were boys.
He can only run from his ghosts for so long, and, when they finally catch up with him, Erlunder is forced to face the heart shattering truth of his past.
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About the author: Arnaldur Indriðason worked at an Icelandic newspaper, first as a journalist and then for many years as a film reviewer. He won the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel for both Jar City and Silence of the Grave, and in 2005 Silence of the Grave also won the CWA Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel of the year. The film adaptation of Jar City was Iceland’s entry for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. He lives in ReykjavÃk with his family.
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Lionsgate Acquires Film Rights to the Chaos Walking Trilogy of YA Thrillers
Lionsgate has acquired the film rights to the young adult thrillers collectively known as the "Chaos Walking Trilogy" by Patrick Ness.
Published in 2008, the first book in the series, The Knife of Never Letting Go, introduces Todd Hewitt, the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him — something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn't she killed by the germ like all the females on New World?
"Apart from the story elements, the world in the stories is so vividly imagined," said Lionsgate co-COO and motion picture group president Joe Drake. "These are books, much like The Hunger Games, that we feel truly beg to be brought to life on film."
The other two books in the trilogy are The Ask and the Answer and Monsters of Men.
(Source: The Hollywood Reporter.)
Telemystery: SyFy Developing Series based on The Adjustment Bureau
SyFy is reportedly developing a television series based on the recently released film The Adjustment Bureau, itself an adaptation of the Philip K. Dick short story "Adjustment Team". Darren Swimmer and Todd Slavkin (No Ordinary Family, Smallville) are writing the pilot screenplay.
What happens when you discover that the life you've been living has been carefully planned by someone else … and that your future is also in their hands? That the choices you've made and will make are the result of subtle — and sometimes not so subtle — changes in your environment initiated by a third party? This is the premise of The Adjustment Bureau, a film we generally liked, though we didn't really buy the whole romantic relationship subplot involving David Norris (played by Matt Damon) and Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt). (You can read Mr. E.'s full review here.) What worked best in the film is what would probably work best in a series, the opportunity to explore a bit more how the Adjustment Bureau (or Team) perform their tasks to achieve their objectives.
(Source: Deadline|Hollywood.)
Medicus by Ruth Downie is Today's Barnes&Noble Nook Daily Find
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Medicus by Ruth Downie as today's Barnes & Noble Nook Daily Find. The daily find price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Monday, October 03, 2011.
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Medicus by Ruth Downie
A Gaius Petreius Ruso Mystery (1st in series)
This book was originally published in the UK in 2007 as Ruso and the Dancing Girls and later as Medicus and the Dancing Girls. There are currently four books in the series. (Note: The B&N website is currently showing the wrong image for the book, displaying the cover of Caveat Emptor instead.)
About Medicus (from the publisher): Divorced and down on his luck, Gaius Petreius Ruso has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. In a moment of weakness, after a straight thirty-six-hour shift at the army hospital, he succumbs to compassion and rescues an injured slave girl, Tilla, from the hands of her abusive owner. Now he has a new problem: a slave who won't talk and cant cook, and drags trouble in her wake. Before he knows it, Ruso is caught in the middle of an investigation into the deaths of prostitutes working out of the local bar. Now Ruso must summon all his forensic knowledge to find a killer … who may be after him next.
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Telemystery: Bored to Death, Detective Montalbano, Lie To Me, and Perry Mason, New This Week on DVD
Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive listings of crime drama, amateur sleuth, private investigator, mystery and suspense television series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available on or coming soon to DVD or Blu-ray disc, is profiling four series being released this week.
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Jason Schwartzman stars as New York writer, romantic, and unlicensed private investigator Jonathan Ames in Bored To Death.
Now that his second novel has been completed (and rejected), Jonathan is augmenting his income by moonlighting as a creative-writing teacher, while taking on some new, desperate clients, ranging from a kinky policeman to the publishing rival of his sexagenarian pal, George Christopher. How he solves anything is a mystery.
Bored To Death: Season Two is available on DVD and Blu-ray Disc, and consists of 8 episodes that originally aired on HBO from September through November 2010.
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Luca Zingaretti stars as Commissario Salvo Montalbano in Detective Montalbano, an Italian crime drama based on a character created by mystery author Andrea Camilleri and set in the small (fictional) village of Vigata.
Airing on an irregular schedule since 1999, a total of 22 episodes have been produced to date.
Detective Montalbano: Episodes 19-20 is available on DVD this week, as are Detective Montalbano: Episodes 21-22, also available on DVD. Both DVDs are in Italian with English subtitles. All four episodes originally aired earlier this year on RAI in Italy.
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Tim Roth stars as Dr. Carl Lightman, the head of an organization that assists Federal law enforcement, government agencies, local police and private individuals with their most difficult cases in Lie to Me, which concluded its series run with this season.
Inspired by the scientific discoveries of a real life psychologist, who can interpret clues embedded in the human face, body and voice, this enthralling drama series exposes the truth and deception in compelling mysteries.
Lie to Me: Season Three is available on DVD, Amazon Instant, and iTunes, and consists of 13 episodes that originally aired on Fox from October 2010 through January 2011.
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Raymond Burr stars as Perry Mason in this long-running series, in which the brilliant Los Angeles-based defense attorney stops at nothing to crack the most impossible cases and uncover the truth.
Perry Mason is one of the best television courtroom dramas ever produced, and still remains one of the most highly rated dramas of all time.
Perry Mason: Season Six (Volume 1) is available on DVD and consists of 14 episodes that originally aired on CBS from September 1962 through January 1963.
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Visit the Telemystery website to discover more television mystery series currently available on and coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray disc, or video on demand.
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