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Executive producer Shawn Ryan announced on Twitter that stars Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James will be touring America, screening episodes of Terriers.  If you'd like to suggest they visit your city, drop Shawn Ryan or John Solberg a tweet.

Download the "Terriers" Premiere for Free

Did you miss Wednesday's season premiere?  Wanna recommend the show to a friend who missed the premiere?  You can now download it from Amazon.com for free in both standard definition and high definition.  It's also available in iTunes for free.

"Pilot" Ratings

TV by the Numbers is reporting that a total of 1.6 million viewers watch Terriers last night.  659,000 of these viewers were 18-49, which equates to a 0.5 rating in the key demo.  While this number could be better, FX shows have climbed in viewership before and this will hopefully be the case again.

Terriers.  Tell a friend.

Meet the Cast and Crew

On top of all the reviews, a ton of interviews are also hitting the web prior to Wednesday.

• HitFix: Shawn Ryan and Ted Griffin
• HitFix: Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James
• KansasCity.com: Ted Griffin
• The New York Post
• The Wall Street Journal: Shawn Ryan
• Fancast.com: Donal Logue
• Collider.com: Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James

Shawn Ryan Talks "Terriers"

In an excellent interview with Forbes in which he spoke about the difference between network and cable and the evolution of television in recent years, Shawn Ryan had this to say about Terriers:

You have said that when creator Ted Griffin initially pitched you the idea for Terriers, you envisioned it as a big, glossy network show and dollar signs danced around in your head. What would it have looked like as a network show? 

We’ll never know what Terriers would have been in a network style because Ted Griffin was immediately resistant to trying to cash in for the big bucks like I was interested in doing. [laughs] Even though he only half knew what the show was when we first started to talk about it, he knew instinctually that this was something that would go to a darker, more demented place than network TV would allow. I think it’s a very funny, character-driven series, but by the end of the 13 episodes it will feel like an FX show. Ted is a guy who watches some TV –- he was a fan of The Shield and he really likes Mad Men and he wanted this show to exist in that universe and not in the Hawaii Five-0 [CBS], Undercovers [NBC]universe. So when he decided that was the route that he wanted to take, I said, ‘Great, but we have to make it so that this show feels like it could only be on FX. We can’t make an NBC show and hope that FX picks it up.’ He really embraced that – and yet there is a genial thing about this show that kind of goes counter to many of FX’s previous shows like The Shield, Rescue Me and Sons of Anarchy in that they’re very intense. So in many ways this is actually a departure for FX and we hope that it will exist well in the FX universe.

Terriers at TCA

A number of very positive articles have been posted about Terriers recently all feature quotes from the cast and producers:

USA Today
Austin360.com
LA Time Showtracker
Statesman
OB Rag

Promo Song

For anyone out there wondering what the song is in the Terriers promos, it's "Down Boy" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Monsters and Critics Preview "Terriers"

MonstersandCritics.com has both visited the set of Terriers and seen the first two episodes, singling out Donal Logue's performance:

No one does flawed and complicated characters like actor Donal Logue, whose dry wit is fully flexed as he portrays a man trying to piece his career and personal life back together in new-found sobriety, unaware of larger malevolent forces that would like him to keep taking the fall.

Meanwhile on Twitter, executive producer Shawn Ryan shared fellow EP Ted Griffin's description of the show:

People ask what Terriers is about. Ted Griffin says if Oceans 11 fucked The Shield, Terriers would be the love child.

The Futon Critic's Review

The Futon Critic has provided the first review for the Terriers pilot with nary a bad thing to say about it.  You can check out the review here.

"Terriers" to Premiere September 8th

Amongst other sources, the Los Angeles Times is reporting that Terriers will premiere on FX on September 8th at 10pm.  Terriers will join Sons of Anarchy and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as part of FX's fall line up.

Ocean Beach: The Star of "Terriers"

Despite the fact that Terriers is starting on FX this fall, news and promotion thus far has been relatively sparse.  So in lieu of proper news, I've collated a series of articles praising Terriers for its use of Ocean Beach, San Diego during shooting.  These can be found here, here and here.

Episode Two Underway

A small note to add that the first episode of Terriers after the pilot started filming in San Diego last week.

A PI show shooting in San Diego...  Spiritual successor to Veronica Mars, anyone?

Terriers on Twitter

Executive producer Shawn Ryan posted a pic of the cast at their San Diego set here.  Looks like a great cast and I thought Laura Allen was amazing in FX's much maligned Dirt.

Shawn Ryan can be followed here.

And he recommends you follow Jamie Denbo:

"Terriers" actress @jamiedenbo who plays hysterically pregnant Maggie on our new FX show, is on Twitter. Follow her. Obey her.

Tim Minear Signs Up as Showrunner and Executive Producer

The Hollywood Reporter has a story up revealing that Tim Minear (Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse) has extended his development deal with 20th Century Fox where he has been based for over ten years. As part of this deal he will be functioning as showrunner on Terriers.

Gary Newman, chairman of 20th Television, and Shawn Ryan had the following to say about Tim's addition to the show:

"The tone of 'Terriers' is very challenging as it mixes drama, comedy and crime, which plays into Tim's talents," Newman said.

Added Ryan, "Tim is somebody who has a strong point of view, and FX is a point-of-view network thriving from having strong characters with a strong point of view."

Minear previously worked with Shawn Ryan on Angel. Ryan recounted a story to the Reporter about Minear's influence on his own career.

Ryan's and Minear's paths first crossed indirectly about 15 years ago; the two had (and still have) the same agent and manager. Frustrated that his specs weren't landing him work, Ryan asked his manager Larry Shuman to show him a script by another client who had been getting gigs.

He received a copy of an "The X-Files" spec by Minear.

"I was very impressed and realized that his was better than the ones I'd written," Ryan said. The next two specs he penned got him staff jobs and started his ascension to the top TV-writing ranks.

Minear was unaware of his influence on Ryan's career until a couple of years later when, during a Television Critics Assn. press tour, he was approached by Ryan, who introduced himself and told Minear how his spec changed the way he writes.

Greenlit to Series

On a whim earlier this year I logged onto Amazon and bought The Shield on DVD. I'd never seen an episode of this show before. I'd heard good things but none of the TV spots I'd seen had sold me. So I put off watching it -- for years. Huge mistake.

Within six weeks of purchase I watched every episode of The Shield on DVD and loved it. That show was of course created by Shawn Ryan and aired on FX, a network known for a consistently high output in quality drama.

So naturally when I heard Shawn Ryan's prodco, Midd Kid Productions, had sold another pilot to FX I was excited that I'd be able to experience this show as it aired. That pilot was Terriers, starring Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James, and today FX greenlit it for a thirteen episode series order.

Here's Variety's description of the show:

Project is described as a comedic take on the private eye world, revolving around an ex-cop turned detective who teams up with a young hot-shot.

Keep checking this site for news and updates as they become available.