USA Sets Premieres for Burn Notice, Psych and Covert Affairs

Jeffrey Donovan, James Roday It won't be long before your favorite fake psychic, green CIA agent and burned spy are back on the air! USA Network announced the fall premieres of its shows on Monday. Psych will kick off its sixth season on Wednesday, Oct. 12 at 10/9c with a slew of new mysteries, like whether Shawn (James Roday) actually pops the question to Juliet (Maggie Lawson) or if poor Gus (Dulé Hill) will finally get a girlfriend. Covert Affairs Exclusive: Meet Arthur's Old German Flame Covert Affairs' fall premiere is Tuesday, Nov. 1 at 10/9c. The midseason finale left Annie (Piper Perabo) on the outs with her sister after she was forced to confess what she really does for a living. When the show returns, Annie is becoming a seasoned operative with more high-action adventures ahead. Finally, Burn Notice returns Thursday, Nov. 3 at 10/9c, continuing Michael's search for answers about the people who burned him. Which series are you most excited to see return? Hit the comments with your thoughts.

Ghost Driver: Spirit of Vengeance Poster

Nic Cage shows us his rings of fire We are dependably informed the devilish pointing duo that's Neveldine/Taylor are delivering Ghost Driver: Spirit of Vengeance's first trailer at 5pm approximately today, GMT. Before that, however, they have revealed a teaser poster to whet our appetites, and it is just like flame-based as you'd expect from the Johnny Blaze adventure. As you can tell below, it's basically only the Ghost Rider's hands possessing metallic flaming chain, however with a clip coming, we can not help but get all, um, hot underneath the collar. So browse the poster below, watching this space for that trailer's imminent arrival about the internets. Ghost Driver: Spirit of Vengeance is going to be tearing using your cinema screens on Feb 22, 2012.

Locarno Leopard is 'Back To Stay'

Argentine-Swiss drama "Back to Stay" ("Abrir Puertas y Ventanas") nabbed two Locarno Leopards Saturday evening when freshman helmer Milagros Mumenthaler picked up the best film prize and her lead thesper Maria Canale took home the top actress award. Mumenthaler shares the $117,000 (90,000 Swiss francs) purse with producers Violeta Bava, David Epiney, Rosa Martinez Rivero, and Eugenia Mumenthaler. The close of the 64th edition was a notably celebratory event on the Piazza Grande, where an enthusiastic public cheered not just the prizes but the hard-working projectionist.Other prizes in the international competition, handed out by jury prexy Paulo Branco, went to Romanian Adrian Sitaru for top director with "Best Intentions" (carrying a purse of $39,000) and the helmer's star Bogdan Dumitrache, who picked up the best male lead. Israeli director Nadav Lapid won the jury prize ($39,000) for "Policeman," and for the first time the jury handed out a Special Golden Leopard prize, given to Japanese helmer Shinji Aoyama in recognition of his career as well as his competish pic "Tokyo Park." Mia Hansen-Love's Cannes preemed "Goodbye First Love" was singled out for a Special Mention.In the Cinema of the Present section, the top award was given to "Summer of Giacomo" directed by Italo helmer Alessandro Comodin, while the Jury Prize went to Santiago Mitre's "The Student," from Argentina. Both prizes have a $39,000 purse. Special Mention went to Portuguese docu "It's the Earth not the Moon," directed by Goncalo Tocha.The Variety Piazza Grande award, given in recognition of a world or international premiere combining commercial viability with artistic qualities, was handed to Canadian French-lingo pic "Mr. Lazhar," directed by Philippe Falardeau. The film proved a success with the public as well, who voted it their top honor and a purse, sponsored by Swiss bank UBS, of $39,000. Rounding out the top awards was best first feature, given to French photographer-turned-helmer Valerie Massadian for "Nana."In his second year as the fest's artistic topper, Olivier Pere brought a notable increase in U.S. presence to the shores of Lake Maggiore, not just with films including the European premieres of "Cowboys & Aliens" and Sundance preemed "Terri," but A-list stars Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig plus vet producer Mike Medavoy. Also making appearances on the Piazza Grande were Leslie Caron, adding star wattage to the fest's Vincente Minnelli retrospective, as well as Gerard Depardieu, Isabelle Huppert, Magali Noel and Claudia Cardinale.Locarno's industry side, under the guidance of Nadia Dresti, saw an upsurge in enrollment, with 951 professionals including 251 buyers attending a jam-packed schedule of dedicated screenings. The Open Doors section this year spotlit projects from India and Colombia. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Dish Of Salt: Back From Maternity Leave & Tackling The TCAs!

By Laura SaltmanLOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Last week was my first week back from maternity leave and what a week it was! After four months off, I returned just in time for the annual Television Critics Association press week. Dropping my little boy off at daycare was the hardest thing I have ever had to do but this week is where all the big TV networks present their new shows to the critics. So, I had to be there for it. The stars of each show spend the entire day doing interviews talking up their projects to media from all over the country. Its a tough week for reporters because you are doing probably 100 interviews over the course of the week. Wouldnt you know it my first day back I had laryngitis? So, I had 20 interviews to do with various stars from NBCs new fall shows including The Playboy Club, Free Agents and Whitney, all of which I could barely talk through. However, I put my best smile on and choked my way through it the best I could. Halfway through the first day, I was really missing my son but seeing Christina Applegate, herself a new mom to 6-month-old Sadie, instantly made me feel better. We bonded over our shared experiences of new motherhood. Her new show, Up All Night, is a perfect vehicle for her. She stars as a new mom! Check out the interview HERE. On Tuesday, with my voice still shaky I chatted up all the stars of NBCs cable properties including Bravos Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger (who is partially responsible for me even having a baby, but thats another story for another day!) and USA Networks Psych and Necessary Roughness. Its season six of Psych and the boys are getting a visit this season from the legendary William Shatner. Check out what Dule Hill and James Roday had to say about Shats role on the show HERE. Wednesday, I decided to rest my voice for the day and took in an advanced screening of the movie The Help. Im a huge fan of the book by Kathryn Stockett and have been looking forward to seeing the film version since last years TCAs when Allison Janney told me she had recently been cast. Typically movie versions always pale in comparison to the book but I think this one does a surprisingly good job. Thursday, I hit up the set of ABC Familys hit drama Pretty Little Liars. The fabulous foursome of Emily, Hannah, Aria and Spencer were filming a scene for a big Halloween episode which will show them in a flashback to 2008 when Alison was still alive. I wont give away their costumes but needless to say they were very fitting of each of their characters. The show films on the Warner Bros. lot and it just happens to be right next to the set of Two and a Half Men. So, being the sleuth reporter that I am, I decided to do a little stalking around the set. I was looking for Ashton Kutcher of course. I never spotted him but I did spot his massive trailer and snuck a photo of it. It had been reported that the first episode would involve Charlie Sheens characters funeral where all of his former girlfriends (aka all the women he had sex with on the show) would be coming back to pay tribute to him. Im thinking this is accurate as I spotted a group of about six actresses in dresses loading out of a van and onto the set. One of the actresses I spotted was Jeri Ryan (Body of Proof) who after a quick Google search I discovered appeared in two episodes. Last night at ABCs TCA party, I cornered the actress to see if I could get any info out of her. Check out that interview HERE! Friday was all about FOX and their new shows including The X-Factor. This was the first time I had seen Paula Abdul since the announcement she was joining the show. Of course, I wanted to know what it would be like reuniting with Simon but I also wanted to know what she thought of the shirtless photo of him that paparazzi snapped on Thursday while he was on vacation. We had fun making fun of him! Check out the interview HERE. I wrapped my TCA week last night with ABCs party where the big news was that Desperate Housewives would be ending their show at the end of this season. I chatted with Marcia Cross, Felicity Huffman and James Denton about this sad news. Check out the interviews HERE. The other big story was the premiere of Bachelor Pad tonight. Its a three-hour episode which is 75 percent about the feud between exes Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi. They were both at the party last night but they avoided a run-in with Vienna arriving two hours before Jake ever hit the red carpet. Vienna and her boyfriend Kasey Kahl had nothing but negative things to say about Jake. That interview comign soon! Jake on the other hand tried to keep it clean. Check out his reaction HERE. For all my interviews from TCA head to my Dish of Salt page HERE. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

TCA: 'Suburgatory' Creator Came Inspiration From ABC's 'Housewives', Own Experience

Diane Haithman is adding to Deadline's coverage of TCA At the modern final TCA panel about the ABC single-camera comedy Suburgatory -- the storyline of the vibrant urban teen (Jane Levy) whose single Father (Jeremy Sisto) moves her towards the whitened picket fence nightmare from the and surrounding suburbs -- show creator and executive producer Emily Kapnek stated she wasn't affected through the ABC family hit Pretty Little Liars in creating the imaginary wealthy suburb these figures inhabit. Rather, Kapnek stated, she was more inspired through the tone of Basic steps lengthy-running existence-in-the-and surrounding suburbs hit Desperate Average women, now entering its eighth and final season. She known as Suburgatory more satirical than Pretty Little Liars, using its suburbia having a horror, zombie land quality much like what she sees in Average women. Kapnek stated the city a proper split from a realistic, contemporary atmosphere along with a stylized, evergreen suburbia. But Kapnek's greatest inspiration for that show was reality: her very own experience moving from a metropolitan atmosphere having a single parent right into a suburb where families didnt seem like ours and that we didnt have around they didthere was a fiscal divide, there have been costly softball bat mitzvahs[the main difference was] all the fortune the children had, and also the families were incredibly intact. Suburgatory does not feature traditional sitcom stars but stars from drama series and off-beat single-camera cable comedy series: Jeremy Sisto, Levy, Alan Tudyk, Entourage's Rex Lee and Curb Your Enthusiasm's Cheryl Hines. Kapnek stated she thought that will help produce a different type of teeth, different type of edge [that might be fresh and otherworldly for any half-hour comedy. Sisto, an experienced of HBOs Six Ft Under and Law and Order, stated that in the early movie career he did some failure movies before showing up within the hit Unaware coupled with shied from comedy since that time. With Suburgatory he stated, Ive had the shackles removed a bit. Im thinking about attempting to be funny again, Cheryl Hines, who plays a mother using the hots for Sistos character, stated she's locating the rhythm from the show entirely not the same as her role as Ray Davids now ex-wife on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Curb is supposed to feel similar to a documentary, she stated. Everythings low key, with Ray, we didnt actually have a hairstylist for that first four seasons. It had been an search for Larrys neurosis, a totally different experience. Cast member Rex Lee, who shows an instructor after his infamous turn as Lloyd the assistant-switched-agent on Entourage, was requested if he'd wanted a rest from TV before jumping right into a new role. Not for me personally, because I'm incredibly insecure that Id never work againIm joking and Im not joking, he quipped. As well as co-star Levy, Lee cracked: Would cut her hair in Season Two. Yes, I viewed Felicity.

Katy Perry Sets Sights On Tying Michael Jackson's No. 1s Record With 'Friday' Remix

Katy Perry is on the verge of tying an incredible Billboard Hot 100 chart record -- held by Michael Jackson -- thanks to some help from Missy Elliott. Jackson owns the record for the most Hot 100 No. 1 singles from one album -- with five from his 1987 album Bad. Presently, Perry has four No. 1s from her Teenage Dream set. Its fifth single, "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F)," rests at No. 2 on the chart this week. PHOTOS: Grammys: Top 10 Must See Moments However, on Monday, Aug. 8, a new remix of "Friday" (featuring Missy Elliott) will hit radio airwaves, the web and digital retailers. If the sales, airplay and streams of the track are strong enough, it could push the song to No. 1 in the coming weeks. (All versions of a song and its remixes are generally merged together for charting purposes.) Last week, it trailed the current Hot 100 No. 1, LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem," by about 50,000 digital downloads on the Digital Songs chart. Over on the Hot 100 Airplay tally, "Friday" was behind "Party" by 2 million in audience points and had been the greatest gainer for the past three weeks. VIDEO: Katy Perry: 5 Most Surprising Covers This late-in-the-game remix-release strategy has become a popular concept in recent months. In April, Rihanna enlisted Britney Spears for a remix of the former's "S&M" that prompted its jump to No. 1. Shortly after that, Spears turned to Nicki Minaj and Ke$ha to help out with a remix of her "Till the World Ends." Its release helped push the single 11-3 on the Hot 100. But let's get back to Perry versus Jackson. Perry has so far claimed four No. 1s from Teenage Dream -- "California Gurls," the title track, "Firework" and "E.T." (featuring Kanye West). "Last Friday Night" is in its second week at No. 2 and its seventh frame in the top 10. VIDEO: Katy Perry's 'Firework' Gets the Kendall and Kylie Jenner Treatment Jackson's five No. 1s from Bad are "I Just Can't Stop Loving You," the title track, "The Way You Make Me Feel," "Man in the Mirror" and "Dirty Diana." Some fans might have immediately thought Thriller held the record for the most No. 1s, since it was such a monster album. While it did spawn seven top 10 hits, only two of them -- "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" -- hit No. 1. Related Topics

'The Voice's' Adam Levine Sues Activision

Getty ImagesAdam Levine The Voice coach and Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine is suing Activision. Levine has fied a suit against the company's Guitar Hero spinoff video game Band Hero alleging that the new game exploits his name and likeness in order to "boost the sales" of the game, according to papers obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. He is suing for fraudulent inducement, breach of contract, violation of common-law right of publicity and unfair business acts or practices. Damages were unspecified. COVER STORY: The Miracle of 'The Voice' Levine had originally granted the company limited use of his name and likeness for Band Hero, but any use of the singer's name and likeness was subject his approval, according to the suit. Levine allegedly allowed Activision to use "She Will Be Loved" for Band Hero and performed it using motion capture to create a digital likeness. In the suit, Levine claims that the company included a feature in the game that gave players the opportunity to use his avatar and make it sing, dance and perform other songs by other artists that he did not approve. He also alleges that the game included a feature that allowed users to have Levine's avatar performing other songs in voices not his own. STORY: 'The Voice': 10 Behind the Scenes Shockers According to the suit, Activision had sought permission from other musical artists for expanded use and paid them a higher fee than Levine received. In February, an appeals court allowed No Doubt to go ahead with its own suit against Activision, knocking the game publisher's free speech defense. Activision could not be reached for comment. The Voice Adam Levine