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March 14 - 20, 2016 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Role on "blackish" 4. Jennifer Morrison's role on "Once Upon a Time" 8. Role on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" 11. Jed Clampett's discovery 12. Auto from Sweden 13. Go astray 14. Role on "Chicago Fire" (2) 17. "Star Wars Episode __: Revenge of the Sith" 18. CD followers 19. "Star __: Voyager" (1995-2001) 21. Norm's beverage of choice on "Cheers" 24. Syllable from the hard of hearing 25. "__' Better Blues"; 1990 Denzel Washington film 26. Eastwood's initials 27. Prefix for regular or religious 28. Lead role on "JAG" 30. Role on "Everybody Loves Raymond" 32. Furniture wood 34. Actress Sara 35. Role on "Code Black" (2) 41. Cochlea's place 42. Sophia Loren's first language: abbr. 43. Glasgow refusal 44. "__ All Relative" 45. Subdue 46. Harris and Marinaro DOWN 1. Wally Cleaver's portrayer 2. Long narrow inlet 3. Barbara Bel Geddes' role on "Dallas" 4. Actor Morales 5. "The __ Davis Show" (1974-76) 6. Daisy __; Li'l Abner's love 7. Actress __ Lane 8. "Man on a __"; 2012 Sam Worthington film 9. Silver or uranium 10. Fancy vase 15. "Think __ __ __"; 2012 Kevin Hart movie 16. "The Fresh Prince __ __-__" 19. Word following Georgia or Texas 20. Actress on "Cheers" 22. Actor Jannings 23. __ Cochrane of "CSI: Miami" 29. "The Crowd __"; James Cagney movie 31. Singer Frankie __ 33. Make bootees 34. "The __"; 2001-04 reality series for Anderson Cooper 35. Neckwear for Don Ho 36. "Please Don't __ the Daisies" 37. Letter from Greece 38. Mate for an ewe 39. "The __ Sack"; 1957 Jerry Lewis film 40. "__ Just Not That Into You"; 2009 movie Solution on page 2. CoverStory By Jay Bobbin © Zap2it The minds of criminals aren't limited to one coun- try ... nor to one show. CBS' long-running "Criminal Minds" attempt- ed a spinoff series in 2011 — the short-lived, Forest Whitaker-starring "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" — and the show's makers are ready to try again. Premiering right after the original dra- ma Wednesday, March 16 (with Joe Mantegna mak- ing a crossover appear- ance), "Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders" returns "CSI: NY" alum Gary Sinise to the network and the role he originated in a "Minds" episode last sea- son: Jack Garrett, leader of an FBI International Re- sponse Team dedicated to helping Americans who run into danger overseas. Alana De La Garza ("Law & Order," "Forever") also stars as a former agent who left for reasons both personal and profes- sional, but agrees in the premiere to help Jack find several volunteer workers who vanished in Thailand. Daniel Henney ("Revolu- tion"), Tyler James Wil- liams ("The Walking Dead") and Annie Funke ("The Affair") play the other mem- bers of the squad, each with specialized abilities. Executive producer Er- ica Messer oversees the parent "Criminal Minds" as well. She says she saw room to expand, though "we didn't want to tell more stories domestical- ly, because we feel that 'Criminal Minds' handles that very well, and has done so for 11 years. "But there's a great big world out there where Americans are traveling more than ever before, and when we did the research and found that 68 million Americans leave the Unit- ed States every year, our brains just started ticking that there's crime that hap- pens to those Americans. And wouldn't it be amazing if there was a team of FBI heroes that could come save you?" As the chief of those heroes, Sinise is looking beyond the case of the week, conceding there are similarities between his new character and "CSI: NY's" Mac Taylor. "You al- ways see these characters that are constantly bro- ken," the Emmy-winning actor reasons. "They're dealing with a lot because they deal with such a dark world. There's always mul- tiple divorces, and they're going through a lot of pain in their own personal lives. "On the other hand, there are law-enforcement individuals in this country that have found a way to have a successful family, to raise kids, to keep their marriages together ... all of that. I know several of those people personally, so we decided to do that with this character, to show somebody who was able to balance home and work, even though he's dealing with a pretty dark world that these individu- als go into constantly." Though much of "Be- yond Borders" ostensibly unfolds on foreign turf, lo- cations close to the series' Southern California home base stand in for other lands. "I'm constantly amazed by their interpre- tation of each country," De La Garza says of the show's production-design and set-decoration team. "I traveled a lot when I was younger — not that I'm not young! — and I'm in awe of their talent. When we're supposed to be in India, it looks just like India. They're incredible." Projecting why "Be- yond Borders" may work where "Suspect Behavior" didn't, executive producer Mark Gordon (whose cur- rent shows also include "Grey's Anatomy," "Quan- tico" and "Ray Donovan") reflects, "It's always tricky when you have a show that is franchisable. 'Crim- inal Minds' was that show, and we were obviously very excited about the idea when we created 'Suspect Behavior' to take advantage of it. Whether you're a new show or whether you're a spinoff, it doesn't always work. I think that, quite honestly, one of the things that did not help us with the audience with 'Suspect Behavior' was that we were trying too hard to be different. "When you are creating a spinoff, you want some- thing that's fresh and differ - ent," adds Gordon, "but at the same time, you want to honor the show that you're spinning off from. And I think that sometimes the desire to, frankly, have an opportunity to create more is not always the best way to create a great show. (This was) taking the right opportunity to create the right show that was organic and would be correctly in the "Criminal Minds" family but had its own identity. Er- ica came up with this idea, and it felt like we have it. And here we are." "Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders" premieres Wednesday on CBS. Gary Sinise pursues villains 'Beyond Borders' in 'Criminal Minds' spinoff

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