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Q: Was the series “Lie to Me” on Fox canceled? It’s one of my favorite shows. I haven’t seen it for weeks.
A: The series is taking a winter break. Fox often shuffles its schedule in January to make room for “American Idol” and “24”; it is also trying out “Human Target” and the upcoming “Past Life.” But it has enough faith in “Lie to Me” to have ordered a “back nine” — nine episodes completing a full-season order of 22. It says the show will be back sometime in “late spring.” By the way, one episode will unite executive producer Shawn Ryan with actors Catherine Dent, Kenny Johnson, David Marciano, Benito Martinez, Cathy Cahlin Ryan and David Rees Snell, all of whom appeared on Ryan’s series “The Shield.”
Q: Do you have any idea when the new season of “The Amazing Race” will start? I have tried to find out on my own but have been unsuccessful.
A: You’re getting a viewing valentine: The series returns on Feb. 14. CBS also has picked it up for another round in the 2010-11 season.
Q: I am asking about the 2006 (I believe) movie “Martin and Lewis” or “Lewis and Martin” starring Jeremy Northrup as Dean and the guy who played Jack in “Will & Grace” — his name escapes me. It was a great TV movie of my personal favorite, Dean Martin. I’d love to get a copy if it has ever been released. Do you know?
A: That was Sean Hayes from “Will & Grace” who played Lewis opposite Jeremy Northam as Martin in the 2002 CBS movie “Martin and Lewis.” I do not know of an authorized DVD release of the film.
Q: Robert B. Parker novels and the series sprung from them, “Spenser: For Hire,” are all-time favorites. Are there any cable channels still showing “Spenser”; has the series been released in DVD?
A: Parker, who died recently, is considered one of the greats in the private-eye genre through his Spenser novels; he also is responsible for the Jesse Stone novels adapted into a series of TV movies with Tom Selleck. (Another Stone movie, by the way, has been completed and is awaiting an air date.) The series, which starred Robert Urich, has not been released on an authorized DVD. Several TV movies with Urich in the role are available.
Q: I want to find a movie starring James Garner as a railroader who lived in Guthrie, Okla. It was set in the ’30s or ’40s. Have you the name? It was a really good, little-known movie he made.
A: Although some of the details differ, you are apparently remembering the early ’80s TV-movie “The Long Summer of George Adams,” with Garner as a railroad-steam engine worker in Oklahoma in the early ’50s. He has to take work as a night watchman, struggles in his marriage, has a fling and gets involved in other adventures. It was based on a novel by Weldon Hill and directed by Garner’s “Rockford Files” co-star Stuart Margolin.
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