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Lie to Me

Lie to Me
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Genre Crime Drama
Police Procedural
Created by Samuel Baum
Starring Tim Roth
Kelli Williams
Brendan Hines
Monica Raymund
Hayley McFarland
Mekhi Phifer
Opening theme Brand New Day by Ryan Star
Ending theme "Mr. Clean" by The Jam
Composer(s) Robert Duncan
Doug DeAngelis
Peter Nashel
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 48 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Brian Grazer
Vahan Moosekian
Daniel Sackheim
Samuel Baum
David Nevins
Elizabeth Craft
Sarah Fain
Alexander Cary
David Graziano
Shawn Ryan
Daniel Voll
Steven Maeda
Producer(s) Alexander Cary
Jeffrey Downer
Tim Roth
Cinematography Sidney Sidell
Joseph E. Gallagher
Alan Caso
David Geddes
Florian Ballhaus
Editor(s) Devon Greene
David Post
Rick Tuber
David C. Cook
David Siegel
Padraic McKinley
Thomas R. Moore
Gib Jaffe
Monty DeGraff
Marta Evry
Thom Noble
Suzy Elmiger
Running time 42 minutes
Production company(s) Imagine Television
Pagoda Pictures
Samuel Baum Productions
MiddKid Productions
20th Century Fox Television
Distributor 20th Television
Release
Original network Fox
Original release January 21, 2009 (2009-01-21) – January 31, 2011 (2011-01-31)

Lie to Me (stylized as Lie to me*) is an American crime drama television series. It originally ran on the Fox network from January 21, 2009 to January 31, 2011. In the show, Dr. Cal Lightman (Tim Roth) and his colleagues in The Lightman Group accept assignments from third parties (commonly local and federal law enforcement), and assist in investigations, reaching the truth through applied psychology: interpreting microexpressions, through the Facial Action Coding System, and body language.

In May 2009, the show was renewed for a second season consisting of 13 episodes; Season two premiered on September 28, 2009. On November 24, 2009, Fox ordered an extra nine episodes for season two, bringing the season order to 22 episodes.

On May 12, 2010, Entertainment Weekly reported that Lie to Me received a 13-episode third season pick-up. The third season of Lie to Me was originally set to premiere on November 10, 2010. On September 28, 2010, the date was moved up to October 4, 2010, because of the cancellation of Lone Star.Lie to Me was officially canceled by Fox on May 11, 2011.

The show is inspired by the work of Paul Ekman, the world's foremost expert on facial expressions and a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. Dr. Ekman has served as an advisor to police departments and anti-terrorism groups (including the Transportation Security Administration) and acted as a scientific consultant in the production of the series. He is also the author of 15 books, including Telling Lies and Emotions Revealed.

Season one opens with Cal and Gillian hiring a new associate: TSA officer Ria Torres, who scored extraordinarily high on Cal's deception-detection diagnostic, and is in turn labeled a "natural" at deception detection. Her innate talent in the field clashes with Cal's academic approach, and he often shows off by rapidly analyzing her every facial expression. She counters by reading Lightman and, when he least expects it, peppers conversations with quotes from his books.


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