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TV Media Weekly
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July 19 - 25, 2014
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By Cassie Dresch
TV Media
Bean there, done that: It looks
like Sean Bean is alive and well
once again.
The actor — who is perhaps in-
famously known for playing char-
acters who die frequently — has
made a bit of a legendary come-
back in a new drama series entitled
"Legends," premiering Wednes-
day, Aug. 13, on TNT.
The show stars Bean ("Game of
Thrones") as an undercover FBI
agent named Martin Odum, who
works for the Deep Cover Opera-
tions (DCO) division. He has an un-
canny ability to transform himself
into different personas — which
become his "legends" when he's
done with them — for different
jobs, but he meets a mysterious
stranger who simply asks him,
"Who are you?"
As Martin struggles with ques-
tions about his own identity, he still
needs to continue working in his
primary job, and he takes on leg-
ends such as a Scottish soccer club
executive, a legendary computer
hacker and a corrupt Chicago po-
lice officer.
"This is certainly something I'm
looking forward to sinking my
teeth into, the different personas,"
Bean told reporters at WonderCon
back in April. "It's every actor's
dream to play different characters.
It's a bit weird, really ... Like, last
week, I played three characters in
one day. But it's OK, because you
have time to adjust."
Based on the novel of the same
name by award-winning author
Robert Littell, the show also stars
Ali Larter ("Heroes") as another
FBI agent who has a history with
Martin and Amber Valletta ("Re-
venge") as Martin's ex-wife.
It still remains to be seen if
Bean's character, Martin, will reach
an untimely end or not. You can
check it out for yourself when
"Legends" premieres Wednesday,
Aug. 13, on TNT, but when he
spoke at WonderCon and was fi-
nally asked the question on every-
one's minds, he responded with a
laugh, "I'm alive so far!"
Sparking revenge: He may be
most well known for his best-sell-
ing romance novels, but now Nich-
olas Sparks is taking his talents to
the small screen.
The acclaimed author of "A Walk
to Remember," "Nights in Ro-
danthe" and "The Notebook" (all
of which were turned into hit big
screen-movies) has a new project
that doesn't involve books or fea-
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