Watching The 4400

I do apologize for the lack of posts lately, things have gotten a bit like the Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times” around here, like I said over at Watching Jericho. While I’ve been silent, though, some of the great actors from the 4400 have been very busy, popping up all over the place on other shows that I watch regularly and have usually fallen in love with recently.

So I’m watching Journeyman the other week (you’re watching it, right? Really, you should be!), and who should show up on my television screen as the father of Dan Vassar (The time-traveling Journeyman from the title), who Dan had to go to for some information but our very own Joel Gretsch! I was so excited to see him on this show, and thought that he did a wonderful job and I really hope that they keep sending Dan back to this point in the time line so we can see more of Joel and the great character that he’s playing.

Also, who should I spy as the Baddie - of - the - Week over on Life as a slimy Russian mobster who’s been selling information to the Feds but Garrett Dillahunt, our very own Matthew Ross. He’s far, far too good at slimy, people, considering the plot for the episode centered around him not only killing a girl by throwing her out of a window, but also caging her secret boyfriend up with his dogs which he used in dog fighting activities. They left the episode open at the end to allow for him back also, which I hope happens just as much as Joel Gretsch over at Journeyman.

Have you seen anyone else from the 4400 out on the new shows for this season that I’ve missed? Leave a comment below, ok?

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USA Network has a great series of interviews up on their site with multiple actors, including Billy Campbell, the almost indefinable Jordan Collier. I thought it was amusing that so far, all of the links to these video interview series on the Official Site have used the actor’s name, but Billy’s video interviews are all on a page named “Jordan”. I have read before that Billy takes on his roles very intensely before, but I’m not sure if this was just an oversight on the part of a webmaster over at USA Network, or something on purpose to make me blog about it.

What I like about the way that they have the interviews listed is by subject snippet, instead of all in one chunk, so you can pick and choose what you are interested in versus having to scan through a long interview. (What can I say, I have a short attention span lately) There seem to be a few less interviews with Billy Campbell than some of the others that I’ve spotlighted here before, but that could be the cold meds talking more than anything.

The listings for his interview are:

• What’s Ahead
• Jordan’s Evolution
• Good or Evil?
• The Fans
• Being Bad
• The Mood

See all of video snippets here for Billy Campbell, and check out the posts that I’ve done before on USA Network’s Video Interviews with Joel Gretsch, Jenni Baird and Megalyn Echikunwoke.

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4400spoilers is reporting that Jeffrey Combs, A.K.A. the lovely Dr. Kevin Burkoff, and Billy Campbell, A.K.A. 4400-cum-messiah Jordan Collier, will be at the London Movie Comic Media Expo the weekend of October 20 and 21, 2007. They are both listed as being there on both of the days of the convention on the guest page, which, if it weren’t for both lack of funds to get out to London and the fact that it’s my daughter’s sixth birthday that weekend, I would absolutely adore to be at. Are any of the Watching the 4400 readers out there in the area and would be willing to give me a report of all the action?

There’s a ton of things going on at this convention, as their show info page lets you know, though their website is mildly difficult to navigate for more information, at least for me.

London Movie Comic Media Expo (London MCM Expo, for short)

Hat-tip to 4400spoilers.com.

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I know that I mentioned this in passing before, but Billy Campbell REALLY wants to be on Battlestar Galactica, as BuddyTV.com is reporting.

Late last month, USA Network and SCI FI Channel President Bonnie Hammer told reporters that Campbell approached her in May, pleading for a role in the last season of the popular sci-fi series, Battlestar Galactica.

“He literally assaulted me, trying to do whatever he possibly could to bribe me to have me bribe [executive producers] Ron [Moore] and David [Eick] to create a character arc inside Battlestar Galactica,” Hammer said in a press conference during SCI FI Channel’s digital press tour in Vancouver, Canada. “That is the only show he ever wanted to be in. That is the only show he would do for free. Billy Campbell, literally, saying, ‘Give me an arc, any kind of arc, in Battlestar Galactica, please.’ And it was very hard to get away from.”

I have this great visual in my head of Billy Campbell running down a hall, tackling poor Ms. Hammer into the nice carpet that I’m sure is in her offices.

SCI FI Channel’s Executive Vice President of Original Programming Mark Stern says that having Billy Campbell on an arc for the show is a possibility, going on to say that his offer of working for free was especially tempting.

Read the whole article here.

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When it rains, it pours, and while I sort out connectivity issues and real life interfering with my online time, feel free to surf around these links with great information and stuff for the 4400.

• Icons & More, a LiveJournal user, has some really great screencaps from Season Two available on their site.
• Jeffrey Combs finished up a sequel to House on Haunted Hill

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The Spoiler Roundup has some nice little tidbits in regards to the coming Season, though I’m not really sure what exactly Billy Campbell (Jordan Collier) was going for with his comment.

**WARNING - SPOILERS BELOW THE FOLD**

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Billy Campbell was one of the guests at Wondercon this year, and he was interviewed by Sidewalks TV there, where he talks about his early career, Once and Again and his role as Jordan Collier on the 4400.

Other than the fact that he’s looking a little haggard, reminding me of an old stereotyped scatterbrained professor I think I had an Art Theory class with, the interview is pretty good, though there are no startling revelations in regards to the 4400.

Watch the whole interview here.
Read an interview from the panel that Billy Campbell was on here.

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