Happy Birthday to Thomas Gibson!

Happy Birthday to Criminal Minds star Thomas Gibson!

Criminal Minds Season 7 Premiere date

Mark down the date of Wednesday September 21 2011 that is when Criminal Minds Season 7 will premiere!




This will be the return to the full cast of: Joe Mantegna, Thomas Gibson, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook and Kirsten Vangsness!

Joe Mantegna "Gun Stories" on the Outdoor Channel

Wednesday is the premier of my new show "Gun Stories" on the Outdoor Channel. Direct TV ch. 606. 7:30EST and 10:30 PST

Q&A with 'Criminal Minds' star Joe Mantegna

By RICK BENTLEY | McClatchy Newspapers • Published June 28, 2011

LOS ANGELES - The debut of "Cars 2" as the No. 1 film at the box office last weekend continues Joe Mantegna's winning ways. He can add this success to being on one of the top-rated network TV shows, "Criminal Minds," and being part of the longest running animated series, "The Simpsons."

The Chicago native answered a few questions about his successful - and diverse - career that ranges from "The Godfather: Part III" to "Baby's Day Out."

Q: Would being the voice of a Gremlin - the AMC car and not a creature that shouldn't be fed after midnight - have been your first choice of car voices?

A: I had this conversation once with Warren Beatty when we were doing "Bugsy." We were saying, "If you were a car, what kind of car would you like to be?" Jokingly, I admit, we were probably ribbing each other a little when I said I would probably lean toward Italian - a Ferrari, Lamborghini. It kind of fits.

Q: Then why do you tend to pick German cars to drive?

A: I think it's because I was the voice of Mercedes-Benz for seven years.

Q: This isn't your first voice work. You have provided the voice of mob boss Fat Tony on "The Simpsons" for 20 years.

A: It's my longest-running character by far. I've been told I've done more episodes than any recurring character on the show. I did the voice in the third season and it was supposed to be for only one episode. Fat Tony became one of Springfield's most popular characters so they just kept bringing me back.

Q: Those have been fun jobs. You joined the cast of the dark "Criminal Minds" in 2007 when Mandy Patinkin departed. Do you go home a frazzled, emotional wreck after a day on the set?

A: What people don't tend to understand is the experience of working on stuff doesn't necessarily parallel to what the material's about. When I'm making "Criminal Minds," as grim as the material is, the atmosphere on the set is not like that at all. You are talking a family-like atmosphere where we all like each other and have a good time. It's only those moments when you are doing the material that it gets heavy and serious. I am spending far more time on a set being Joe than I am being David Rossi.

Q: Can you talk about next year's "Criminal Minds" cast changes?

A: A.J. Cook will be back in the fall. And, there's a chance that Paget Brewster, whose character had gone into hiding near the end of last season, could return.

Source: The Olympian

Joe Mantegna Making the Cover of Cigar Aficionado Magazine

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Criminal Minds SPOILER Season 7!

From TVGuide

So happy Thomas Gibson will make the team whole again on Criminal Minds. What can you tell me about the new season? — Regina
ADAM: The premiere picks up several months after the finale, with the team once again trying to prove its worth to the FBI brass, who wants to split it apart for budgetary reasons. "All of those threats that were made in the finale — that there might be changes and people were going to move on — have come true to some degree," executive producer Erica Messer says. "You'll learn who's been where and who's been doing what." Keep your eyes on Morgan in particular, as it's his summer investigations that will yield the discovery that Prentiss is still alive.

Thomas Gibson on Board for the next two years!

From Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: This was close: after lengthy and rough negotiations, Criminal Minds star Thomas Gibson just signed a deal to return to the veteran CBS drama only 2 weeks before it is scheduled to begin production on its upcoming 7th season. I hear Gibson has signed on for 2 more years in a deal worth mid-to-high 7 figures, plus a signing bonus, with the actor more than doubling his previous salary. The difficult negotiations with CBS, CBS Studios and ABC Studios created some jitters in the Criminal Minds writers room as the show's scribes have been breaking stories and working on scripts for next season for almost a month now without knowing for sure if Gibson's character, Supervisory Special Agent Aaron Hotchner, will return. With Gibson and Shemar Moore set to come back and Paget Brewster and A.J. Cook rejoining them, Joe Mantegna, Matthew Gray Gubler and Kristen Vangsness, Criminal Minds will return in the fall with its post-Mandy Patinkin cast intact. Despite not having a deal, Gibson had been fulfilling all of his Criminal Minds obligations. He mingled with international buyers at the LA Screenings and then stomped for the show at the Monte Carlo TV festival and at a press junket in London. The actor's reps at Paradigm and Frontline Management could not be reached for comment