The Blot is extremely excited about this one! TVGuide.com is reporting that Tricia Helfer, Battlestar Galacticas’s cylon Number Six, has signed on to guest star on USA Network’s spy/action show Burn Notice for a multi-episode arc this summer. (link) According to the report, “Helfer, who recently inked a talent holding deal with FOX (which produces Burn Notice), will juggle her Burn duties with the final season of BSG.” (link)
Burn Notice, which starts its second season on Thursday, July 10th, has quickly become one of The Blot’s favorite television shows. I originally started watching only because Bruce Campbell (The Evil Dead, Army of Darkness) was co-starring in it, but the unique story telling of the show, as well as a stellar cast that includes Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Weston, Gabrielle Anwar as Fiona and Sharon Gless (Cagney & Lacey) as Michael’s mom, kept me coming back.
Burn Notice is one of those rare shows that week in and week out gets better and better. It’s a shame the show is on USA, which limits the initial viewing audience. For a quick recap, a burn notice is what a spy gets instead of being fired. The show stars Michael Westen as “an international spy who suddenly finds himself blacklisted” and has no clue why. (link) Westen, “dumped in his hometown of Miami without money or resources, struggles to put his life back together and find out why he’s been burned.” (link) The show does a great job of mixing in “mysteries of the week” with its continuing story line of why Michael Westen get burned so that if you happen to miss an episode you can quickly get caught up to speed. I highly recommend watching Burn Notice, and if you want to catch up on Season 1 before the start of Season 2, the Burn Notice Season 1 DVD Box Set comes out June 17th, 2008. You can pre-order Season 1 here.
