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'Lie to Me' some more, FOX announces full season pick-up

By April MacIntyre Nov 27, 2009, 22:35 GMT

08/06/2009 - Tim Roth - Dr. Cal Lightman and company will be sleuthing and uncovering more mendacity in a full season lick up, according to FOX.  © Carla Van Wagoner / PR Photos

08/06/2009 - Tim Roth - Dr. Cal Lightman and company will be sleuthing and uncovering more mendacity in a full season lick up, according to FOX. © Carla Van Wagoner / PR Photos

Dr. Cal Lightman and company will be sleuthing and uncovering more mendacity in a full season pick up, according to FOX.

"Lie to Me" has been picked up for a full season.  FOX issued a press statement that revealed nine additional episodes of the drama starring Tim Roth will air, following the previous episodic three-script pickup for "Lie" announced last month.

Tim Roth is cast as Dr. Cal Lightman, the founder of The Lightman Group, which serves as an independent contractor to various law enforcement agencies on the hit FOX series.

FOX has also ordered a full-season pickup of "Glee" and a second-season order for animation comedy, "The Cleveland Show."

"Lie to Me" is based on the real-life work of psychologist Paul Ekman, who has made a career of studying micro-expressions and their hidden meaning.  In his life's work, he uncovered that the universal expressions amongst all cultures and races that included similar expressions indicating anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, and surprise.

Ekman created the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) to classify all human facial expressions. Ekman's published work on lying also included observation of the rest of the body and verbal cues as well.

When interviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle about the Monica Lewinsky scandal, he claimed he could detect that former President Bill Clinton was lying because he used "distancing language."



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