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SciFiWire
9:00 a.m. July 19, 2002
Alias Gets More
Complex
Susan Lyne, president of ABC Entertainment, told reporters that ABC's
spy series Alias will take on a new level of complexity in its
upcoming sophomore season, with Lena Olin joining the cast as the
mother of Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner). "I will tell you that we
have seen the first episode script for Alias," Lyne told journalists
at the network's fall preview. "This is going to drive some really
provocative episodes this fall and certainly a big arc for the next
season. I will promise you this is going to be the most interesting
family on television this year."
The show will continue to send Sydney to exotic locations. Lyne said
that the secret to shooting foreign locations on a TV budget is
simple. "[The producers] do a remarkable job, and the studio does
too, Touchstone, in creatively using locations and sets that look as
if they are traveling around the world, when they are in fact usually
in the back halls of some of those Disney buildings," Lyne
said. "They have a phenomenal creative team that has been able to
write and shoot and build and edit in such a way that it feels like a
big feature film every week. … The first episode of the new season is
as good an hour of television as I've ever seen, and it will take you
around the world."
On July 18, Alias was nominated for several Emmy Awards, including
best writing for a dramatic series, best actress in a drama (Garner)
and best supporting actor (Victor Garber, who plays Sydney's father,
Jack Bristow). Alias returns in the fall to its Sunday timeslot at 9
p.m. ET/PT.
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