Tristin on "Good Day LA" for Season Finale Promo:

I can't really read it very well, but the address looks like it reads Serenity as the city.

Would explain why it keeps getting returned. lol

I wonder how they're gonna explain why his father left. It better be a good reason. =P

Better not be because he took a job working construction up in Alaska!!

Serenity, awesome!

I've been wondering about that, too. When we first heard about it, I just assumed that maybe he left because he felt it was the right thing to do for his son (e.g. because he was depressed, had a drinking Problem or something like that).

That he was a good person that made some bad decisions after his wife died. Which would make it a difficult and interesting father-son-relationship.

I really don't want him to be some kind of secret agent or being involved in the Organization and stuff. If he just turns out to be another villain, that would be kinda boring. Now it rather looks like maybe he was kidnapped or something?

CBS Facebook Live Interview with Tristin and David: https://www.facebook.com/CBS/videos/10154514331378997/

Short Interview with Peter Lenkov about the Season Finale: http://ew.com/tv/2017/04/14/macgyver-seaso...e-peter-lenkov/




!!!SPOILER ALERT for SEASON 2 Story Arc!!!




MacGyver boss breaks down finale cliffhangers

After arguably the season’s biggest battle to date, MacGyver and his team were able to thwart Murdoc’s latest plan to steal a virus from the Phoenix Foundation. But Murdoc isn’t one to give up easily, so it should come as no surprise that by episode’s end, he’d escaped prison. As for Mac, he and Jack hit the road to go find Angus’ father.

But what does it all mean for season 2? EW spoke with showrunner Peter Lenkov about what comes next.


ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: I’m interested in the decision to set all the action of this episode inside the Phoenix Foundation.
PETER LENKOV: I was hoping it would be this mystery of: What is the Phoenix foundation, what’s in there, what do other rooms look like? We’ve only seen a little piece of it so the idea was to really do something that affects us, something that allows us to explore the location, something that allows us to work together as a team and to bring everything back home and have it affect them in a very personal way. We wanted to do something that felt very personal to let us explore this mythic place we created.


And it all centered around that virus…
The scene in Siberia at the end was originally in the pilot, and then I cut it out of the pilot because I thought it would be more interesting for the arc of the season — the realization of this thing that started this whole journey for everyone almost in some ways was the cause of it all. The idea of arcing the season with getting rid of that catalyst for everything that happened felt more interesting than putting it in the pilot episode.


Is there more to the Cairo story?
Yes. There’s no way that they could’ve gotten out of that — there was a bomb ticking down, they had guns to their heads. It’s a mini-cliffhanger in a way. The idea is that next season we’ll get to see another piece of that story, how they got out of that part of Cairo. Because Cairo has been talked about as being this major screw up, so how did they get out of it? I just wanted to give the audience a little bit of a taste of how complicated a scenario that was.


What can we expect from Murdoc in season 2?
He made it very clear what his intentions were: To get rid of all of us. So we have targets on our backs, especially when season 2 opens up. While he’s hunting us, we’re hunting him. We have established that he had a kid so we’re going to use that to leverage him and in an interesting way. That’s a way to get to him, unless he gets to that kid first.


I’m worried that Matty is at the top of his list.
She’s so tough. I wouldn’t be so scared; she’s tough.


And then there’s Mac’s father storyline…
The whole run of season 2, in terms of that arc, is the discovery at the end of the season who his father is. That will definitely pay off next season.


You’ve said there’s a role for Richard Dean Anderson if he wants it. Any movement on that?
The minute he says yes, he’ll be in there. I’ve been pursuing him for this role but so far I haven’t been able to convince him. But I will. I’m not giving up.

O. M. G. I just realized where I've seen him before.... He was the cute cowboy on Hannah Montanna the movie!!!! WHAT???????? Mind=blown.

I don't think that movie ever aired in Switzerland, so I haven't seen it, but yes he was.

And no, you're not an idiot because of that!

I went to watch that Taylor Swift Musicvideo with him because I wanted to know what the fuss is all about... in every interview, people still ask him about that

Another article with pictures about the set visit of Jake Goltzman (who won the Boy Scout competition): http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2017/04/1...pstakes-winner/



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Boy Scout Jake talking about the set visit experience:

Interesting that they're playing on the boy-scout angle but to me there's nothing boy-scout-ish about this new MacGyver at all.

There's no camping, hiking, woodcraft, nothing feels boy-scout in this show at all.

If I remember correctly, that contest had been initiated way back in September 2016; shortly before the premiere of the pilot.

I'm sure they had mapped out where the show would go eventually for the first 13 episodes CBS had ordered, but the scripts weren't written yet and the characters not all established (remember, Bozer was supposed to be "the best friend" which would have minimized Justin's screen presence to mere minutes; bookending each episode).

Sadly, since they're going the route of the Original Season 1 and having a core team of 5 people (their bosses are main characters as well), there's just no time for all that boy scout stuff besides all that secret agent stuff

I was very excited when Lenkov had posted a picture of Mac and Bozer camping. Turns out it was just used as a photo in Episode 8 (Corkscrew). But that also means that Mac and Bozer used to go camping; even as adults. We just never get to see it *grrrrr*.

Back then, I thought they would transfer some of this stuff onto other characters (e.g. Penny). Like Penny visiting and asking them to hand out flyers or march for animal rights or helping out in the Challengers Club for Christmas and such.
I thought that even if we don't get to see Mac handing out presents to kids or anything, we would somehow know he does because someone mentions it.

But they don't even have time for minor characters like Penny , how could we ever get to see MacGyver engaging into something that's not related to the main storyline. He doesn't seem to have a social life or friends outside Phoenix.

Even after 21 episodes, I still don't know anything about his childhood besides that he lost both parents eventually and was bullied in school. Did he have hobbies? What sports does he like? What movies does he watch? (I'm assuming it's not westerns like the original.) He's still a giant mystery to me .

I really hope that's going to change next season.

I so agree with so much of what you are saying. Oh, how I wish they had left Bozer as the best friend and only had Matty in the peripheral, with a much bigger focus on Mac & Jack. I think we would have seen more of Mac's back story. AS it is I really feel like the B-team, which I"m not meaning in a bad way, but in the back-up way, of Bozer, Matty, and Riley, have a more prominent focus than what we were promised in the original premise. I just don't get that. They seem like lovely people, and I love their characters, I just don't want them to be such a focus.

Premium Premiere Event in Japan today: https://www.instagram.com/p/BU_-xg4A6CU/

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New picture of Lucas at the Corus Upfront Press Event today: http://www.corusent.com/properties/press-breakfast-2/

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Nice Interview with ET Canada at the Corus Upfronts today - MINOR SPOILER ALERT for Season 2!

On-Stage-Interview:

The Reboot has been added to the 2017 Emmy's consideration ballot for the category "Best Drama Series": http://www.goldderby.com/article/2017/2017...-of-cards-news/

Apparently, there are 180 candidates that were submitted, and only 7 will be nominated on the 13th of July.

I have to admit that in this category, I don't think it will stand a chance. Also, I'm still wondering why the show is mainly marketed as a drama and not an action series.

More German Promo (a spring as a catapult - if you're MacGyver):

Lucas with Robert Patrick (Scorpion) at the CBS Press Junket in Amsterdam today: https://www.instagram.com/p/BVWsTZHACdT/

Robert played Lucas' father in "Walk the Line".

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Lucas on the red carpet at the Monte Carlo Television Festival yesterday: https://twitter.com/SerieouslyFR/status/875755823804370946

He's doing promo for MacGyver (Season 1 soon starts in France) this weekend while Peter Lenkov attends as a Jury member.

There's also a press junket today; but so far I haven't seen any interviews or videos posted online that revealed more information for Season 2.

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Besides the shoes, Lucas is looking pretty sharp!

Shoes seem too "matchy" for the suit.

But yes, looking pretty sharp and fresh. I have to admit that I miss the longer hair (as in Episodes 1 to 8), though.

At the press junket today: http://www.ansa.it/sito/photogallery/peopl...0be1caa1cb.html

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Looks lonely. And yet you know there are many people and cameras around. I would be a nervous train wreck; good thing I'm not famous

via https://www.instagram.com/p/BVcP-fCn_XH/

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I like that shot with Lucas sitting in the red chair. Very nice!

Yes, that's my favorite picture as well.

Isn't it like 30°C in France right now? I'm wondering about him wearing a long-sleeved shirt...

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So... I guess wearing pants legs that are too long is the newest trend now?

(via Getty Images: Malin Akerman, Lucas Till, Robert Patrick, Albert II Prince of Monaco, Wilmer Valderrama, Michael Weatherly and Barrett Foa)

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They had a casino event yesterday evening. Kinda funny, thinking how Lucas recently revealed there would be a casino episode in Season 2.

(Screenshot from this YT-Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDYhF38BOfg )

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Looks like Lucas bought some socks in the Red Light District in Amsterdam

via Robert Patrick: https://www.instagram.com/p/BVaNU_Kj7NH/

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