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5 The Daily Star, Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, February 27, 2015 By Andrew Warren TV Media Half the battle: Anyone who follows the news — espe- cially literary news — has to have noticed that a sequel to Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mock- ingbird" is forthcoming. The announcement that the manu- script, written and then set aside before Lee's only pub- lished novel, had been found in an attic set off a media firestorm in early February. It just goes to show that a big success can lead to earlier works that had been rejected or put aside finally seeing the light of day. Case in point: "Battle Creek," premiering Sunday, March 1, on CBS. The drama was conceived and pitched to networks by Vince Gilligan a decade ago, then abandoned. So what changed? Another little Gilli- gan show called "Breaking Bad" happened, thrusting him into the spotlight and forcing producers and studios to give a second look at his earlier works. Whereas AMC's "Breaking Bad" was a hard look at two hardened criminals, "Battle Creek" flips a coin and ends up on the law enforcement side. Two detectives, as differ- ent as can be yet forced to work together, put their crime-fighting skills to work cleaning up the streets of Bat- tle Creek, Michigan. And just who is playing these detectives? The hand- some Josh Duhamel ("Las Ve- gas," "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," 2011) stars as Special Agent Milton Chamberlain alongside TV veteran Dean Winters' ("Oz," "30 Rock") Det. Russ Agnew. The cast is rounded out by Janet McT- eer ("Tide- land," 2005), Kal Penn ("Harold & Kumar Go to White Cas- tle," 2004), Aubrey Dollar ("Guiding Light") and Damon Herriman ("Justified"). With friends like that, who needs enemies? Of course, be- ing a detective drama — and a Gilligan creation, no less — these boys in blue will no doubt have enemies aplenty. Gilligan's newest (and not-so-newest) creation hits the screens Sunday, March 1, on CBS. Murder most foul: It's hap- pened before, and it will doubt- less happen again: someone being accused of a crime that he or she didn't commit. When the crime in question is murder, the stakes for the poor accused soul couldn't be higher. "Secrets and Lies" is coming to ABC, and that's the premise behind the drama. Based on the hit Australian show of the same name, it pre- mieres Sunday, March 1, on the alphabet network. Ben is a respected citizen and a Good Samaritan, but when he finds the body of his neighbor's son in the woods, he becomes the prime murder suspect. His life is turned up- side down by the accusation, and he launches his own hunt for the real killer. The Australian version of "Secrets and Lies" has been a big hit across the Pacific, and with the acting talent on screen, the American version is shaping up to be just as good. "Secrets and Lies" premieres Sunday, March 1, on ABC. AVENUES BALTIC BANK BOARDWALK BUILD BUY CAT CHANCE COMMUNITY CHEST DEALS DICE FREE PARKING GO TO JAIL HOTELS HOUSES INVEST LAND MARVIN GARDENS MONEY MR. MONOPOLY PARK PLACE PRICE READING RAILROAD RENT ROLL tvsearch From the list, find each word and circle its letters in the puzzle above to reveal the message relating to this week's theme. Monopoly starsonscreen RULES SALARY SELL TAX THIMBLE TITLE DEED TOKENS TOP HAT UTILITIES VALUE VENTNOR WEALTH Conan: Conan O'Brien I was watching the Super Bowl, and for the first hour, I was like, "These guys are just standing around doing nothing!" And then one of my kids told me I had forgotten to turn off "Madden 2015." Yesterday, a man was arrested for attempting to get into the White House. Luckily, the man was intercepted after taking advice from Seahawks coach Pete Carroll. Boston postponed a victory celebration for the New England Patriots due to a record- breaking winter storm. The storm was originally supposed to hit Seattle, but at the last second New England jumped in the way. On Sunday, Kanye West was angry because fans at the Super Bowl tried to take selfies with him. He was also angry because people seemed to be watching some "non-Kanye thing" down on the field. Everyone is weighing in on the vaccine story. This week, Hillary Clinton tweeted, "The Earth is round, the sky is blue and vaccines work." In response, Mike Huckabee said, "She lost me at 'The Earth is round.'" Staples has agreed to buy Office Depot for $6 billion. The funny thing is they just popped in there to buy envelopes ... and then they got carried away. late laughs Eastern Travel 3 x 5 Josh Duhamel stars in "Battle Creek"