The TV Addict 

Why Tim Roth is “Spotlight” Worthy: Tonight, after sixty plus movies to his credit, he will jump from the big to the small screen with his new FOX series LIE TO ME. On which he plays DR. CAL LIGHTMAN, the world’s leading deception expert who studies facial expressions and involuntary body language to discover not only if someone is lying, but why.

Why Television: “They [producers] like to get us in their 40’s,” joked Roth. “They wait until you’ve got kids and you’re ready to go home after work rather than another hotel room.”

Take Two: When asked what (outside of the proximity to his family) attracted Roth to the series he responded, “I thought the character [Dr. Cal Lightman] was actually kind of interesting. So if we are going to be doing this for the long haul, which we may. The character would hold the interest for the audience as much as he would hold the interest for me.”

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If there’s one thing that we learned after watching the season premiere of FOX’s new series LIE TO ME, it’s that “the truth is written all over our faces.” Which is why, we’re not going to lie to you .

On the surface, LIE TO ME brings very little new to the table.

In the now all-too-familiar tradition of THE MENTALIST, HOUSE and MONK, LIE TO ME takes a cantankerous yet brilliant expert, Dr. Cal Lightman (solidly portrayed by Tim Roth) and surrounds him with the standard mix of beautiful and brainy team members. In this case, that includes the upbeat Dr. Gillian Foster (THE PRACTICE’s Kelli Williams playing Cuddy to Roth’s House), research assistant and obvious comic relief Eli Loker (TERMINATOR’s Brendan Hines) and newcomer Ria Torres (Monica Raymund).

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