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According to Deadline.com, Joe Flanigan was cast as one of the regulars in Lifetime's pilot The Secret Lives Of Wives. He will be playing Salli Richardson's husband!



Yay, Syfy's stars playing a couple! What a coincidence. Love them both so much. He will be playing "Jared, unshaven and a shadow of his former self who has become passive and unresponsive to his marriage." The show might not be my cuppa but I'm glad that these two actors will have a regular spot on TV again, provided the pilot gets picked up, that is.

Big thank you to kristen999 for the info!

Starring

# Joe Flanigan as Colonel Sam Synn
# Dagmar Doring as Doctor Jillian O'Hara
# John Rhys-Davies as Senator Jackson Crenshaw
# Catherine Walker as Doctor Karen Fast
# Yare Jegbefune as Lt. Rivers
# Rob Soohan as Brian Murphy

It was a groundbreaking device designed to glimpse alternate universes and government commissioned by a brilliant physicist. But the machine malfunctioned on its first presentation, transporting a group of observers into a nightmarish new dimension. The team quickly must use ingenuity and courage to outwit, outplay and outlast the native man-eating creatures of this bizarre new world while doing their best to repair the damaged machine. Even if they stay alive, without a working transport, they may never make it back home.

I don't care that it'll probably be SyFy's movie of the week or whatever, I just want to see Joe in a film again! And running around, shooting big bad alien things? Even better!

According to Jace Hall's twitter:

Joe Flanigan said hes shooting a modern western w/ Hal Holbrooke, Robert Patrick, Samantha Mathis. He's a Sherrif that mans up an kix ass!

Eeeeeeeep! OMG! How awesome is that? Joe's filming again! And with Robert Patrick, too! I bet that they'll have a blast together!

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ETA: I had to take down the link to the person's LJ - whatever - so I went directly to the source for the White Collar info: ( Vague spoilers for what Peter did or did not do in the mid-season finale... )

From Kimberly's twitter about Joe Flanigan:

"In the panel Joe said he hopes to have job news in a few weeks. Woo!"

*bounces* Pleasepleaseplease, let it work out, let it be something cool! *crosses fingers*

kristen999 posted an awesome con report from this month's SG con in Chicago. It's mostly stuff about Joe Flanigan - and it makes me like him even more. He's just an all around awesome person *sighs happily*

From SyFy's Twitter account:

"And finally, the fifth episode of Warehouse 13, Elements with Joe Flanigan, had a series high 4.3 million total viewers."

Yes, SyFy, people really do want to see Joe Flanigan that much! Give the man a show, a movie, anything! Fans really do love him that much! Please, do realize what you have and use it!

There's a funny interview with David Hewlett called Atlantis, Splice and His Own Show. I loved this part:

We were always very friendly on set, yet, during the weekends we had our own lives. Get-togethers would happen every so often. It’s very organic. It just sort of happens. I’ve had to bail on two invites from Joe already, to visit his Malibu home, and my wife is dying to see Joe’s place. He has the most beautiful place in Malibu. I’ve told him I’m going to set up camp next door!

Aww! Joe Flanigan's home must be really beautiful!

Some time ago, Chris Heyerdahl did a radio interview with The Sci-Fi Guys in the UK. And among other things, he talked about working with Joe Flanigan. The reporter asked him about the really good chemistry Chris had with Joe and about his work with Joe. Chris responded that chemistry was actually a subjective thing but he and Joe, they went for it, they had fun and it worked. He said that it was funny because he and Joe as actors didn't socialize at all but they always got along and when they were on set, they enjoyed working with each other, that there was mutual respect there. He said that chemistry is either there or it isn't and that they were lucky to have it.

Awesome! I always loved the scenes with Sheppard and Todd, they just clicked!

sheafrotherdon posted a partial transcript of the interview with Joe Flanigan that will appear on the S5 DVD box set that's already available from the UK Amazon in parts.

( Transcript... )

If I didn't love Joe to pieces already, I would have fallen for him hard after reading this. This is simply beautiful...

I love this cute Jensen Ackles vid from Asylum where he talks about his cockapoo dog Icarus. I love the bouncing thing! It's just so funny! Can you imagine Jensen with a tiny little fluffy thing?

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And then there's the chat with Joe Flanigan and some of the Q+As are just so funny! The funniest one?

Q: You had the chance to shot in the episode "The Kindred", a small stage with your son Aidan and Truman. I want to know what you felt as a father in this little moment.
A: Makes me laugh. They played villagers in a prison, and I was supposed to free them. The director told them to be very serious, tired, scared etc.. My middle kid, Truman, would see me and say “Daddy” with a big smile. My oldest kid Aidan was taking it very seriously and was horrified by Truman’s acting. It was pure gold.

Other fun stuff: As a Jedi, Joe would want a purple light saber. He thinks that he and Jason Momoa would make the safest team but he and David Hewlett the funniest. He thinks that Johnny Cash is a national treasure. He doesn't want to get involved with another TV project unless the character is really interesting. Han Solo rocks. For a long time, his kids thought that he really did fly to space every day to kill the bad guys. He ponders if there are actually any lazy bees (I loved that one ;P). He doesn't have a long enough attention span to meditate. And best of all - he will be shooting a new movie in July! I hope that he will get to play the main character!

And I loved this question:
Q: If you are the one with the questions, what would you like to ask the "Stargate: Atlantis" fans?
A: Would you like to see more Atlantis? As a movie or a series, or both? What characters worked and didn’t work? Would you like to see Chris Judge, David Hewlet and myself do another series, even if it’s unrelated to Atlantis?

How would you answer it, my flist? Me? Of course I would adore to see more Atlantis, as a series, if possible, but movies would do if nothing else was doable. The main team worked perfectly - John, Rodney, Teyla and Ronon - and I loved Woolsey as the leader. I didn't like Keller because she was overall badly written. And yes, I would love to see Chris, David and Joe in another show, together would be preferable, of course. I don't care what show, as long as it would be something adventurous and not a soap.