Burn Notice is returning to USA Network on Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 10 PM ET. The hit spy drama stars Jeffrey Donovan, Bruce Campbell, Gabrielle Anwar and Sharon Gless. Guests appearing in the season premiere include Tyne Daly and Clayne Crawford. The premiere episode reunites Cagney and Lacey stars Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly, who recently answered interview questions in a conference call Q&A session.
Burn Notice returns with intrigue, action and adventure in the story of burned spy Michael Weston (Jeffrey Donovan). In Burn Notice 'A Dark Road.' Tyne Daly portrays a recently widowed woman who hires burned spy Michael Weston and Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar) to thwart a group of violent con men. Micheal Weston turn to his mother, Madeline (Sharon Gless) for help. Burn Notice: A Dark Road reunites the stars of the 1980's cop show Cagney and Lacey, Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly.
Following is an excerpt from the interview with Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly, as they talk about working together on Cagney and Lacey.
Could you share any of your favorite memories from working on Cagney & Lacey?
Sharon Gless: I do remember my favorite time – occasionally -when we were so tired, I mean 17 hour days, we'd get to a part of a scene and one of us would get the giggles. And we couldn't stop. They would cut, start again and when we'd get to that exact same place, I mean, we'd be so, so tired that we would just start giggling. Only the smartest of directors of producers would say you know something, let's call it the for the day, this is over.
Tyne Daly: We used to, you know, there are diminishing returns. They would get to a place where you are so tired and there is really no point in going on then.
But I will tell you what I appreciated a great deal about Miss Gless, when we started working together I needed to do the next day's work before I went home. And, you know, I had kids and a husband at home and – but we would stay and run through the next day's scenes, you know, as we're – how do you say – call that - whatever was on the call sheet for the next day.
And we would go through it and we would pound it to death until we felt we understood it so that we could come in the morning and know what we were up to. An she was willing to do that kind of rehearsing and investigating that I found – felt was absolutely necessary.
And I don't think, Shar, tell me if I'm wrong, but you weren't sort of brought up in that tradition.
Sharon Gless: No, but I loved it so much that I became dependent on it. And any show that I have done since then, that is what I have to do.
Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly will be seen together again on Burn Notice: A Dark Road, on USA Network. Burn Notice airs on Thursday nights at 10:00 PM ET/9:00 Central.
Interview with Bruce Campbell of Burn Notice
