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“CSI: Cyber” Premieres Wednesday on CBS.p 3

“Broadchurch” Season 2 premieres Wednesday on BBC America.p 11

“Dig” Premieres Thursday on USA Network. pp 14-15

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“American Crime” This ABC drama series premieres Thursday.pp 12-13

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Ryan Phillippe “Secrets and Lies” on ABC. p 4

Melissa George “The Slap” on NBC. p 5

Kevin Harvick Reigning Spring Cup champion.p 6

Michael Symon “All-Star Academy” on Food Network. p 7

Gunnar Peterson A-listed personal trainer. p 9

Aubrey Dollar “Battle Creek” on CBS. p 8

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One of television’s newest crime-fighting teams is led by a very recent Oscar winner.

Former “Medium” star Patricia Arquette also earned a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Film Independent Spirit Award and a British BAFTA Film Award as best supporting actress for “Boyhood.” There’s no question CBS is loving to boast about having a freshly minted Academy Award winner as a series star as “CSI: Cyber” debuts Wednesday, March 4.

Arquette has played her new character, Avery Ryan, in two episodes of parent show “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.” Inspired by real-life cyberpsychologist Mary Aiken, one of the new series’ producers, Ryan leads an FBI unit focused on online-based crimes. James Van Der Beek, Charley Koontz, Shad Moss and Hayley Kiyoko play appropriately skilled members of the team, with Peter MacNicol (“NUMB3RS,” “Ally McBeal”) also returning to series work as the squad’s supervisor.

“CSI” mentor Anthony E. Zuiker delved into the theme of cybercrime with “Cybergeddon,” a 2012 series he made for Yahoo!, and he deems “CSI: Cyber” to be “the reboot and the future of our franchise.

“The bank robbery of yesterday was going into a bank, breaking in and taking a lot of money; the bank robbery of tomorrow is taking three cents out of your account. The arson of yesterday is burning down a forest because you’re burning love letters for a loved one; the arson of tomorrow is hacking into your smart house and having all

the megahertz be rerouted to your appliance to burn your house down in the middle of the night.”

Also seen on HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” Arquette allows that after she filmed “Boyhood” intermittently over a 12-year period, her interest in signing up for “CSI: Cyber” partially came from “CSI” being “the largest global franchise in the world, so you’re really connecting to audiences everywhere – but for me, I feel like we’re on the dawn of a new time. I mean, this is like the Industrial Revolution. This is an explosion of the way that we’re going to be living our lives.”

Having advocated equal pay and rights for women in her Oscar acceptance speech, Arquette notes that “to be a woman in law enforcement on television, I think, is sort of important. It’s a powerful position for a woman to be in … but also to be looking at these new technologies, exploring these new technologies. And the interesting thing about cybercrime and the whole cyber world is that many of the people that are most proficient in it are young people, really young people.”

The “CSI: Cyber” cast member arguably most acquainted with the show’s themes is MacNicol, who reveals his identity was “stolen by two separate people, both of whom I think are playing me much better than I do. It was a nightmare. And what did I learn from it? To be scared. I don’t know what to do. I mean, I just don’t know any way around this, because there are so many get-arounds for bad guys.”

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How is it to play a man under suspicion of causing a youngster’s death in “Secrets and Lies”?I felt very much in the throes of the material pretty throughout the experience. I mean, every day, I was playing a guy whose life was falling apart, who was being accused, who was being slandered, so much negativity in the material – and then, from the other actors, you know, (their reactions were) scene-dependent and whatever.

And there were things about that that I think I would take home with me ... but I knew that before I signed on, that that would be a part of it. I knew it seemed like an enormous workload (from) day one, and it was. I remember KaDee (co-star Strickland), at a certain point, said, “You’re Hamlet. Your character is Hamlet,” because this is a guy who everything is going wrong for, and everything is falling apart.

Did you ever have second thoughts about how you played your character and his actions?A little bit, yeah, a little bit. But I think that speaks to the nature of the situation the guy is in. Who knows how to make the right decision in circumstances like these? Also, you don’t want to judge the character you’re playing so much. On this project, I worked from the inside out because I’m a father, because I’ve dealt with public media-based things.

There were things that I related to and connected to on that level, but yeah, I guess that was sort of my point of connection to it. And even if I questioned sometimes choices Ben made, it was perfectly consistent.

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MelIssaGeoRGeHow is it for you to revisit the same role you played in the Australian version of “The Slap”?I was watching the casting for a year when I heard that (NBC) got “The Slap,” and I sat and watched and read. I was like, “Who is going to play Rosie? Who is going to play Rosie?” I said, “This is my girl. This is my woman. I want her to come home.” I was signing a deal for another job, and Robbie (executive producer Jon Robin Baitz) called me and said, “You’ve got to do it.” I said, “I am so happy you called, because I want to dig deeper.” With his dialogue, it’s fantastic.It was so difficult the first time around because it is such a difficult subject matter, watching all these actors go through the same thing that we all went through before. It’s very confronting, and I’ve never felt for a second that I’m repeating something, or that the scene is the same or that the cultural (aspect is) is completely the opposite.

Are you surprised “The Slap” is being done on broadcast television instead of cable?We get a cable script and we’re excited because we know producers are not ripping out pages saying, “You can’t say this, you can’t say that, because the advertisers are going to not like you to say that.” And actors like that because, as an actor, you want freedom of speech.

On the other side of that, you get less viewers if you’re on cable. We always say, “If I could do this script on a network with the millions and millions and millions of people that are going to tune in every week, we’ve got it.” For once, I feel, “Wow, we might get the viewers, and we’ve got the beautiful dialogue.” So I’m hoping that the two roads meet.

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Was this winter any different for you as the reigning Spring Cup champion?No, I don’t think so. I think there are different types of events and obviously probably a little different caliber of events here and there. But for the most part, you still have all the production days and photo shoots and all the things that were already lined up before the season even ended.

Do you feel the bull’s-eye is on your back now that you’re champion?I feel like that bull’s-eye was on our back pretty much all year last year because of the way that our cars ran, so I felt like that was an injustice for us to have to get used to that and deal with that pressure and people always trying to figure out what you’re doing and looking at your stuff and asking questions and how things work. So I feel like we’ve been through a lot of pressure situations. Obviously at the end of the year, the last few races the team performed well under that pressure, and we have the confidence and feel like we have the ingredients to go out and be successful again. So hopefully we can do that.

Are you planning any more events like the one you did last spring in Daytona, Fla., when you tweeted a photo of only the interior of a bar and invited fans to come find you?(Laughs) You never know about that stuff. That was just a spur-of-the-moment situation. ... I’ve actually gotten to know the man and his wife that actually found us, and then we got to know everybody in the bar that was already there. But the actual fans that showed up, his name is Submarine Mike and he was in the submarine for like 25 years and he had a great story, and we had a lot to talk about and he comes to a lot of races. So it was actually kind of fun.

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MICHaelSyMonTen talented home chefs take on intense culinary challenges while under the tutelage of superstar chefs with a $50,000 grand prize at stake in the new Food Network competition series “All-Star Academy,” premiering Sunday, March 1.The eight-episode series, hosted by Ted Allen, sees chefs Bobby Flay, Alex Guarnaschelli, Curtis Stone and Michael Symon mentoring the home cooks through challenges that would pose difficulty for even professional chefs and trying to elevate their skills along the way.

Symon describes these cooks’ talent level as “relatively advanced ... from a technique standpoint, like grilling, roasting, sauteing, poaching, things of that nature. Where they need a lot of guidance is, like, combining of flavors and putting together a complete dish, which isn’t something that they’ve been making on a daily basis. Creativity. I think that they understand technique but they don’t 100 percent understand creativity.”

“My job as a mentor,” he continues, “is to help refine their technique, make it a little more refined. In that eight-week period, help them develop their palate and explain to them the things that I’m looking for when I’m tasting a dish and help them understand why a dish needs balance, why if it had something spicy it needs a touch of sweet, why acidity plays an important role in food. Not only why you season, but when you season. And just little things like that that are going to help elevate what they already know to another level.”

And developing one’s palate, according to Symon, is key to cooking.

“I think a lot of people, when they cook at home, they don’t taste the entire time,” he explains, “so to (supply) them with a lot of tasting spoons and as they’re cooking, (I say) ‘taste it, tell me what you taste, tell me what you feel.’ And just getting their initial reaction from it. And some people are blessed with better palates than others. That’s, I think, something that you are given but you can develop it and make it stronger. So what I did with my cooks a lot is the whole time they were cooking, taste it, tell me what you taste. ... So having them explain it to me and experience it, I think really helps develop their palates over that time period.”

What book are you currently reading?“ ‘Prune.’ The cookbook ‘Prune.’ I’m not in a novel right now. I’m just wrapped up in this book which has a lot of great stories and recipes and stuff in it that reads a little bit more like a book than a cookbook. So it’s the one that’s currently on my bedroom nightstand.”

What did you have for dinner last night?“Last night I had chicken tacos at Mario Batali’s house.”

What is your next project?“My next project is my wife, Liz, and I are opening up a barbecue joint in Cleveland called Mabel’s.”

When was the last vacation you took, where and why?“The last vacation I took was August and it was with my mom, my dad, my sister-in-law, my nephews and my son in the Hamptons.

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Now that she’s in the hands of the mentors of “Breaking Bad” and “House,” Aubrey Dollar understandably feels good about her latest series.

Known to daytime viewers from her run as Marina Cooper on “Guiding Light,” the former co-star of “Point Pleasant” and “Women’s Murder Club” returns to primetime – and to CBS – in the seriocomic “Battle Creek,” the teaming of executive producers Vince Gilligan and David Shore that premieres Sunday, March 1.

Dollar plays Holly, the office manager of the title Michigan city’s police department, where she quickly becomes enamored of an FBI agent (Josh Duhamel, “Las Vegas”) who sets up shop there. His polished presence frustrates a rougher-edge local detective (Dean Winters, “Oz”), and Holly struggles to balance her loyalties between the two as they work cases together.

“It felt like kind of an ensemble show to us when we were doing it,” Dollar says of the series that also features Janet McTeer (“The Honourable Woman”) and “House” alum Kal Penn. “I think even though the focus is on Dean and Josh, we spent a lot of time on that set together in the police station and I think by the end of the pilot, it felt like we were sort of a team. We all have a, nice, natural, familial way of interacting with each other.”

In her stints as a series regular, Dollar’s characters typically have an offbeat sense of humor, and “Battle Creek’s” Holly fits that pattern.

“I think my intention is to honor what’s there, which happens to be that,” the actress confirms. “It didn’t feel boring to me at all, because there’s so much to mine and navigate. It’s never that, ‘Why am I just standing here having a line in this scene?’ There’s a reason you’re there, and there was actual thought put into all of it. I think that’s just the nature of this show.”

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Birthdate: Sept. 23, 1980

Birthplace: Raleigh, N.C.

Current residence: Los Angeles

Marital status: Single

Other television credits include: “666 Park Avenue,” “Women’s Murder Club,” “Point Pleasant,” “Weeds,” “Blue Bloods,” “Person of Interest,”

“The Good Wife,” “Happy Valley,” “Ugly Betty,” “Cupid,” “Guiding Light,” “Dawson’s Creek,” “American Gothic,” “Trapped: Buried Alive,” “The Education of Max Bickford,” “Going to California,” “Murderous Intent”

Movie credits include: “One Small Hitch,” “See Girl Run,” “The Best Man for the Job,” “Save the Last Dance 2,” “Failure to Launch,” “Prime,” “The Perfect You,” “Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice”

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• He has worked with athletes from the NBA, NHL, NFL, MLB, USTA, professional boxing and various NCAA sports.

• Many film and television celebrities have also sought Peterson’s guidance in preparing for roles and have stayed on to become devoted clients, making him part of their fitness regimen.

• Peterson’s innovative approach and his devotion to pursuing and communicating only the most credible and effective fitness information have resulted in several corporate partnerships and business opportunities.

• Peterson currently enjoys relationships with Gatorade, Under Amour, and Dolce & Gabana.

• He is the developer of “Core Secrets,” a project done with the Guthy-Renker Corporation, that is an 18 DVD fitness system featuring full-body and body-part specific workouts focused on strengthening the core of the body.

• In the spring of 2010, he released the “Best Ever Hollywood Workout” DVD.

• He released his first book, “G-Force,” in January 2005. Now out in paperback as “The Workout,” the book is about training, making it a part of your life, creating and maintaining a positive mindset, and improvising to keep workouts effective and interesting.

• Through his own fitness product development company, Outside Shot, Peterson has created The Bottom LineC, a total body exercise machine, The RAC, an accessory that incorporates weighted upper body work with Spinning, and Hoop Hands, a basketball-specific resistance training aid.

• Peterson is certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association and is a graduate of Duke University.

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NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick“Well, I have pretty much had every UFC anything, whether it’s “Fight Night” or a talk show just in case we’re not home and one of our fighters is on there. I have ‘Fantasy Factory,’ which is Rob Dyrdek’s TV show. Honestly, when we go to bed, it’s usually something like ‘Mickey Mouse Clubhouse’ so that my son can spend 30 minutes hanging out with us and then we send him off to bed, and usually I’m tired by that point. So that’s usually what we watch the most of.”

Aubrey Dollar of “Battle Creek” on CBS“I TiVo ‘The Bachelorette’ religiously, and ‘International House Hunters.’ I watched all of ‘Friday Night Lights’ recently and really loved that. And I’ve watched all of ‘Breaking Bad’; Aaron Paul was on ‘Point Pleasant’ with me, so I was like, ‘Oh. Aaron has this little new show.’ ”

Shanola Hampton of “Shameless” on Showtime“I’m a TV addict, so I watch over 40 hours of television a week. I’m not a TV snob, which means I will watch reality television as well. So on my DVR right now is ‘Downton

Abbey.’ I have ‘American Horror Story’ because I’m really behind on it. ‘Revenge,’ ‘Parenthood.’ ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ is on right now but I watch all the ‘Real Housewives’ franchises. ‘Vanderpump Rules’ is on there. ‘Marriage Boot Camp’ ... (laughs). ‘Scandal’ is not back yet but that would be on it. ‘How to Get Away With Murder’ would be another thing that’s on it. ‘New Girl’ is on there. ‘The Mindy Project.’ Oh, I’m into this new sitcom called ‘Marry Me.’ I like that girl. I just watch so much television. It’s my addiction. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke. I eat cupcakes and watch television. Those are my addictions.”

Lily Aldridge of “The Victoria’s Secret Swim Special” on CBS“I love to record and watch ‘Homeland’ and ‘Downton Abbey.’ I loved ‘Breaking Bad’ when it was on, and I also love ‘Game of Thrones.’ TV has evolved so much, and it’s so exciting.”

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When his shattering murder mystery “Broadchurch” exploded into an international hit a couple of years ago, writer-creator Chris Chibnall hinted that he had something different in mind for Season 2. In fact, he wouldn’t even confirm which, if any, characters from Season 1 – including detectives Alec Hardy and Ellie Miller (David Tennant, Olivia Colman) – would be back.

Fans will be relieved, then, to find nearly all their favorites returning as the new season premieres Wednesday, March 4, on BBC America.

“Chris sees this season as a courtroom drama, not a thriller. In his mind, that was the shift he was talking about,” executive producer Jane Featherstone explains. “We were still working things out at that point, but he didn’t want to just have the same cops doing another murder in the same town. He wanted to work out the impact of a very public murder trial on these individuals we had come to know and love.”

Season 2 opens on the day of Joe Miller’s (Matthew Gravelle) arraignment, but while spectators – and even Joe’s barrister – expect a guilty plea and quick sentencing, things take an unexpected turn and Broadchurch braces itself for a murder trial that threatens to blow the lid off still

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more local secrets. Joe enlists a formidable defense team headed by Queen’s Counsel (QC) Sharon Bishop (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a fascinating new character.

“For her, the main thing is that everyone deserves a good defense,” the actress says. “Looking at the evidence, she sees that there definitely were things that went awry. That alone told her this guy was not going to be treated fairly in this small town, in such an emotionally charged situation.”

Meanwhile, Alec – still nursing a bum ticker and no longer on active duty – remains in Broadchurch for reasons that at first seem unclear, until his past comes back to haunt him via new developments in the previously failed investigation that followed him like a dark cloud as he first arrived in the town last season. This secondary story line introduces two other new characters played by Eve Myles (“Torchwood”) and James D’Arcy (“Marvel’s Agent Carter”), but it’s virtually impossible to reveal more about that plot thread without venturing into some major spoilers.

While Season 1 of “Broadchurch” came rushing at you with the chilling inevitability of an avalanche, Season 2 unfolds more deliberately. As before, though, fans can anticipate plenty of twists, shocks and haunting performances.


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As anyone thus affected knows, the impact of a crime can be far-reaching and sometimes surprising.

John Ridley, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “12 Years a Slave,” is using that framework as the creator-writer-director and an executive producer of an ABC drama series. Premiering Thursday, March 5, “American Crime” covers a cross-section of lives tied to the home-invasion murder of a military veteran in Modesto, Calif., with Oscar winner Timothy Hutton (“Ordinary People”) and Emmy winner Felicity Huffman (“Desperate Housewives’) leading the ensemble cast as the victim’s long-estranged parents.

The premise observes matters of gender, race and social standing as it weaves in additional characters, including an addicted young couple (played by Caitlin Gerard and Elvis Nolasco) and the mother (Penelope Ann Miller) of the slain man’s brutally assaulted wife. Also among the show’s stars are Regina King (“Southland”), Lili Taylor, W. Earl Brown (“Deadwood”), Benito Martinez, Johnny Ortiz and Richard Cabral.

Ridley says ABC came to him with “a desire to do a show that looked at where we are now, and who we are now, and do it through an inciting incident that people tend to galvanize around. And one of the things that I wanted to explore was the concept that it’s not about the police. It’s not about the prosecutors. But it really is about the family and what they deal with ... not just for 45 minutes, but the fact (is) that these events usually take months, if not years, to deal with. And sometimes even then, there’s not a resolution.”

The maiden season of “American Crime” lasts 11 episodes, a fact that held particular appeal for Ridley:

“Because it was a limited series, because we had room, it was really an opportunity to sit down with the actors and talk about these characters and build them out. So I believe (in), and I hope that I came in with, specific ideas that I was offering up to everybody.”

Returning to series work after his five seasons on TNT’s “Leverage,” Hutton clearly liked the “American Crime” approach, since he notes that “from the beginning, the conversations with John – about the characters and their place in the story and what they mean to the overall – were really great conversations in a way that I had never experienced before.

“They were very, very specific. Ideas were shared. And it was clear that this wasn’t just going to be a story about the outcome of this investigation, but that it would really focus on the details of these people, everyday people, that all intersect one another because of this tragedy. We were going to follow each of them, not just what they had to say, but what they do in a given day.”

If some elements of “American Crime” reflect recent and even current events in the U.S., such as the nature of police relations with the public, Ridley maintains that’s not intentional. Still, he doesn’t mind that they add timeliness to the show.

“The reality is that, unfortunately, these events remain cyclical in this country,” he reflects. “It was never our desire to try to exploit any of these things, but at the same time, you want to build the space where people do recognize that it is not purely empty entertainment, in the sense that we’re not trying to acknowledge things that are going on.”

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Faith that ‘Digs’ deep

Jason Isaacs stars in “Dig,” premiering Thursday on USA Network.


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It helps to have faith to get through life but it’s required to watch “Dig.”

The USA Network thriller, launching Thursday, March 5, is about religion, murder and intrigue, and requires a basic faith from its audience. Viewers must believe that the disparate plot lines will pull together and make sense in future episodes.

Given a strong cast – Jason Isaacs and Anne Heche as the leads and a David Costabile, Regina Taylor, Lauren Ambrose and Richard E. Grant as supporting players – and superb production qualities, it seems likely the plots will eventually congeal.

“I find this young girl who reminds me of someone and as I investigate it gets more and more sinister,” Isaacs says.

He plays FBI Agent Peter Connelly, a bit of a rogue. Connelly is stationed in Jerusalem, where he reports to Heche’s character, Lynn Monahan. They’re casual lovers, which is how the audience first encounters them.

But before that, the peripatetic pilot starts in Oppland, Norway where Orthodox Jewish men are concerned over the birth of a red heifer. According to the Torah, the ashes of a pure red cow are used in the purification ritual of someone who has come into contact with a corpse.

This red heifer shows up again later in the pilot, deep under Jerusalem, in a stunning scene where a priest speaks Latin and Orthodox Jewish men surround him. The haunting scene, unusual for its blend of religions and languages, is cinematically startling as much of the underground scenes are. Lit by torches, the ancient stones come alive.

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While showrunners are fond of saying how a locale is another character, in this case, Jerusalem is central to the theme of the show. As Isaacs and an Israeli cop chase a suspect, down narrow stone staircases, across uneven rooftops and through crowded alleys, it’s always obvious that this can be no other place. Even those in the background, clearly are of different cultures, would only be in such tight quarters in Jerusalem.

“You talk to all of the different religious people and you get a sense as to why this square kilometer of land has been considered the jewel by everyone for 5,000 years,” Isaacs says.

“Whether or not you believe in God or any kind of god, you can’t ignore the passion everyone has,” Isaacs says. “Those gigantic pieces of stone have seen so much bloodshed.”

While Connelly assigns himself to investigate the murder of a young woman, who reminds him of his dead daughter, Monahan tries to reel him in. Their relationship alone could sustain a show.

“We are in places no one has laid eyes on,” Heche says. “Some places we are shooting, no one has seen.”

“They gave Gideon the keys to the kingdom,” she says of co-creator and executive producer Gideon Raff, who worked on “Homeland.”

“Dig” has “Homeland’s” tension, entwined with the eternal mysteries and talismans of faith.

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HONORS AND ACHieVeMeNTS: Two time Bassmaster Angler of the Year (2004, 2013)

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Aaron Martens was beside himself in his boat. It was the 2005 Bassmaster Classic in Pittsburgh and after three days of tough fishing on the Three Rivers, he had a good creel of five fish. But he’d heard Kevin VanDam, who is basically the face of professional bass fishing, had a heavier bag. It was confirmed a few hours later at the final weigh-in, and for the third time in four years, Martens would be the runner-up in what is called the Super Bowl of professional bass fishing.

Although he won Angler of the Year titles in 2004 and 2013, a Bassmaster Classic crown remains elusive. He’ll get another chance when the Classic airs Saturday and Sunday, March 7 and 8, on ESPN2. This year’s Classic takes place on Lake Hartwell in Greenville, S.C.

Martens remains one of the top anglers on the Bassmasters’ Elite circuit. He’s fished nearly 200 tournaments, finishing in the money in 148 of those, and has appeared in 15 Classics where he’s finished second four times. He has seven top-10 Classic finishes. Although he makes his home in Alabama, he grew up in California, where finesse fishing reigns supreme. Both of Martens’ parents were outdoors folk, and the young angler cut his teeth in fishing tournaments alongside his mother.

Martens finished ninth back in the 2008 Bassmaster Classic at Lake Hartwell. He’s hoping this time around that he’ll be the one hoisting the trophy in front of a packed crowd at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville.

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“BLACK OR WHiTe”

As interesting as much of his earlier movie work was, it’s nice to see Kevin Costner trying to make his latest projects count, too.

The actor-director was solid in such recent efforts as “Three Days to Kill” and “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” but with as much as he’s done in the action genre, those might be more expected of him. Take something like “The Upside of Anger” or “The Company Men,” and it’s clear Costner also is trying to stay in projects that are more on the cerebral side.

That’s surely the case with “Black or White,” and it’s no small thing that Costner is better than the movie is as a whole. It speaks to how dedicated he is as he reunites with “The Upside of Anger” writer-director Mike Binder, with the star playing a lawyer and new widower who’s determined to continue to raise his late daughter’s own daughter (the engaging Jillian Estel).

Someone has a problem with that, though: the child’s paternal grandmother (the always excellent Octavia Spencer), who believes the girl belongs with her ... with

racial considerations becoming big elements of the resulting custody battle.

“Black or White” poses big questions but ultimately shies away from them a bit, possibly in a bid to be everything to all audiences. In the end, the Spencer character gets somewhat short shrift, and you have to wonder if that’s because in the end, Costner is the one with top billing here.

Still, a cast of this caliber expectedly rises to and beyond the occasion, also including Anthony Mackie (“The Hurt Locker”) as Spencer’s attorney – but to single out one person, without Costner, “Black and White” might not work as well as it does despite the scripting pitfalls. His alter ego faces emotional and thematic trials throughout the story, and in his typically understated manner, the actor handles them masterfully.

Like the story itself, the film by the same name isn’t entirely a black or white matter. Thanks principally to its on-camera talents, though, the result still manages to remain engrossing.


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Kevin Costner tackles a ‘Black or White’ matter

“ANNie” (March 17): The musical about the famous orphan gets a revision starring Quvenzhane Wallis, Jamie Foxx and (as Miss Hannigan) Cameron Diaz. (PG: AS, P)

“FiReBALL XL5: THe COMpLeTe SeRieS” (March 10): Col. Steve Zodiac and Venus are among the characters in a reissue of the classic, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson-produced “Supermarionation” adventure. (Not rated: V)

“NiGHT AT THe MUSeUM: SeCReT OF THe TOMB” (March 10): In the series’ third and last installment, Larry (Ben Stiller) goes to London in search of the tablet that brings exhibits to life. (PG: AS, P)

“THe SOUND OF MUSiC: 50TH ANNiVeRSARY ULTiMATe COLLeCTOR’S eDiTiON” (March 10): The half-century movie milestone of the beloved Rodgers & Hammerstein musical is marked; Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer star. (G)

“peNGUiNS OF MADAGASCAR” (March 17): The animated title characters are on a crusade to save the world; the voice cast includes Benedict Cumberbatch and John Malkovich. (PG: AS)

“iNTeRSTeLLAR” (March 31): A space explorer (Matthew McConaughey) seeks a future for mankind – and, even closer to home, his family – in the galaxy in Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi drama. (PG-13: P, V)

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“THe HUNGeR GAMeS: MOCKiNGJAY – pART 1”In the beginning of the end of the screen versions of Suzanne Collins’ best-sellers, heroine Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) is sought to unite the survivors of District 13 in an uprising against their society’s leadership. Her concerns about the captured Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) weigh heavily on her decision, worrying the rebellion sponsors (Julianne Moore and, in his final movie role, Philip Seymour Hoffman) who want her participation. Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Stanley Tucci, Elizabeth Banks and Donald Sutherland are among other returnees; “Mockingjay – Part 2” will be in theaters in November. DVD extras: audio commentary by director Francis Lawrence and producer Nina Jacobson; deleted scenes. ››› (PG-13: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand)


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SUNDAY 9 p.m. on ABC Secrets and LiesInspired by an Australian show, this new drama stars Ryan Phillippe (“Crash”) as a man who finds a deceased boy’s body — and is immediately suspected of causing the death. Juliette Lewis (“The Firm”) returns to series television as the principal police detective on the case. The cast also includes KaDee Strickland (“Private Practice”) and Natalie Martinez (“CSI: NY”). The opening episodes, “The Trail” and “The Father,” feature guest star Melissa Gilbert. Series premiere New

9 p.m. on FOXThe Last Man on earthAlso the show’s creator, “Saturday

Night Live” alum Will Forte has the title part in this new sitcom, which puts spins on a concept treated seriously in such movies as “I Am Legend” and “The Omega Man.” In the year 2020, Phil Miller (Forte) apparently is the sole survivor of a virus — and just as he’s convinced no one else is alive, he gets a surprise. This hour-long premiere combines two episodes, “Alive in Tucson” and “The Elephant in the Room.” Series premiere New

MONDAY 9 p.m. on FOX The FollowingIf Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon) seems happier as Season 3 begins, don’t bet it will last very long. Then again, followers of this Kevin Williamson-created show likely know that by

now anyway. There’s a new woman in Hardy’s life (played by Zuleikha Robinson), but his nemesis Joe Carroll (James Purefoy) is still around — and another dark element of his past may remain, too. Shawn Ashmore and Jessica Stroup also return in the season opener, “New Blood.” Season premiere New

TUeSDAY 8 p.m. on FOXHell’s KitchenIt isn’t kids’ stuff as Gordon Ramsay segues from the latest Junior Edition of “MasterChef” into the 14th round of this competition, in which the rivals are old enough to handle whatever he dishes out ... supposedly. The opening episode, “18 Chefs Compete,” divides the new contenders into

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Smale and female teams, with the winners getting an up-close celebrity encounter with William Shatner. One aspiring chef will be gone by the hour’s end. Season premiere New

WeDNeSDAY 10 p.m. on USASuitsIn the season finale, “Not Just a Pretty Face,” after Sean Cahill (guest star Neal McDonough) fails to link his corrupt boss to shady tycoon Charles Forstman (guest star Eric Roberts), Harvey (Gabriel Macht) revisits his own uneasy past in order to put Forstman and disgraced former U.S. Attorney Eric Woodall (Zeljko Ivanek) away. Elsewhere, Donna (Sarah Rafferty) helps Louis (Rick Hoffman), while Mike and Rachel (Patrick J. Adams, Meghan Markle) confront their different roles. Gina Torres also stars. Season Finale New

THURSDAY 9 p.m. on NBCThe BlacklistMultiple foes — all of them related —- pose new dangers for Red (James Spader) in the new episode “T. Earl King VI.” The wealthy clan made a fortune through illegal means, and they’re determined not to be brought down. The situation also spells peril for Liz (Megan Boone), as does Tom’s (Ryan Eggold) latest initiative. Jennifer Ehle (“Fifty Shades of Grey”) and Lance Henriksen (“Millennium”) guest star. Diego Klattenhoff also stars. New

9 p.m. on FOXBackstromVeteran actor Robert Forster (“Jackie Brown”) is faring well with playing television fathers: Not only does he recur as Tim Allen’s on “Last Man Standing,” he turns up here as Rainn Wilson’s in the new episode “Enemy of My Enemies.” The elder Backstrom is a sheriff who joins his estranged son in probing an oil-pipeline explosion. Sarah Chalke

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(“Scrubs”) also guest stars as the younger Backstrom’s ex-fiancee. Dennis Haysbert also stars. New

FRiDAY 9 p.m. on ABCin an instantTrue stories of people who faced their moment of truth (which was the original title of this show) in various ways are dramatized in this new series, normally to be seen Saturdays and premiering with “Flying Blind.” Individuals caught in such situations as a bridge collapse and a grizzly-bear attack tell their tales, with staged sequences illustrating what happened at the cruclal point of life or death. How their lives changed

afterward also is considered. Series premiere New

SATURDAY 10 p.m. on ANiMAL pLANeTpit Bulls and paroleesIn a new episode, Tia squares off with a local shelter over the fate of a scared and violent pit bull. A local couple comes to the rescue center, hoping to find a compatible friend for the family dog, but the pooch in residence has a very different opinion on that notion. After a long recovery, a dog rescued from near death has a chance at finding a forever home in Boston. New

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