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5 unusual facts about USA Network


1982–83 NBA season

The USA Network extended their cable deal with the NBA for another two years, and ESPN shared broadcast rights with them.

A Priest Walks Into a Bar

In its original USA Network broadcast (June 30, 2010), "A Priest Walks Into a Bar" was viewed by an estimated 3.85 million households with a 0.9 rating/3% share in the 18–49 demographic.

Bryan Poyser

In 2011, he wrote and directed 'The Fickle' for the “Character Project,” an online short film series produced by the USA Network and Ridley Scott Associates.

Concierge medicine

The USA Network television series Royal Pains focuses on such a doctor's introduction to the practice of concierge medicine.

Lourdes SIGINT Station

The station was a key plot device in the August 28, 2012 episode of the USA television network series Covert Affairs episode "Loving the Alien".


Alex Wolff

In 2009, Wolff made a cameo in the Nickelodeon TV movie Mr. Troop Mom and the USA police-procedural comedy-drama Monk.

Camp Midnite

Camp Midnite was a Friday late night, ninety-minute variety/talk show on the USA Network in 1989.

City of Bad Men

In episode five of the first season of the USA network series Graceland, the main character Mike (who is an undercover FBI agent) has a conversation with one of this targets, the ruthless Nigerian crimelord "Bello" (played by actor Gbenga Akinnagbe), where at one point the film is mentioned after Mike quotes a line from the film.

Dennis Ryland

Dennis Ryland is a fictional character on the USA Network science fiction The 4400 portrayed by Peter Coyote.

Diana Skouris

Diana Skouris is a fictional character in the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400.

Dinner Key

More recently Burn Notice, a USA Network television action drama series, has used the Convention Center for production of the show for six seasons.

Eliza Coupe

Since Happy Endings cancellation, Coupe signed on to play a recurring role in the third season of House of Lies and will star alongside Jay Harrington in the upcoming USA Network comedy series Benched in 2014.

Everett Peck

Originally created as a comic book that was first published by Dark Horse in 1990, in 1994 Duckman was turned into an animated series for the USA Network.

Gigi Levangie Grazer

Grazer is the author of five novels: Rescue Me (2000), Maneater (2003), which was turned into a Lifetime miniseries, and The Starter Wife (2006), which was adapted for a 2007 miniseries on the USA Network.

Hang Me Up to Dry

USA Network utilized the track in promoting the second half of Burn Notices third season.

Hart Bochner

More recently, he starred as Zach, boyfriend of Molly Kagan (Debra Messing), on USA Network's short-lived series The Starter Wife (2008).

Isabelle Tyler

Isabelle Tyler is a fictional character on the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400

Jeffrey Donovan

In 2004, he received his first leading role in the American remake of the British television series Touching Evil opposite Vera Farmiga on the USA Network.

John Arthur Martinez

Martinez finished in second place on the first season of the USA Network talent show Nashville Star.

Katherine LaNasa

Om November, 2013 LaNasa was cast as series regular in the USA Network untitled drama pilot opposite Matt Passmore.

Kevin Rubio

His list of writer/director credits includes a pilot presentation for the Sci-Fi Channel (Alien Hunter - a sort of Crocodile Hunter in space), Colossor (a pilot for MTV), Action Man for Fox Kids, and Storm Watch, a pilot for the USA Network.

Leslie Libman

She co-directed with Larry Williams two television movies - in 1997 the HBO TV movie Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing (starring Peter Gallagher and Art Malik) and the 1998 TV adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (again starring Gallagher with Leonard Nimoy) for the USA Network.

Lindsey McKeon

Additional television credits include the lead in Class Warfare, a USA Network movie-of-the-week, and episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Grounded for Life, Maybe It's Me, Special Unit 2, 3rd Rock from the Sun, House and Odd Man Out.

Marco Pacella

Marco Pacella is a fictional character on the USA Network science fiction The 4400.

Mariann Aalda

In addition to acting, Aalda co-hosted the lifestyle show, Designs for Living on the USA Network and was a reporter for Now!, an entertainment news show for WNBC.

Maury Povich

In 1998 the show was taken over by Studios USA (then a division of USA Networks, later renamed Universal Television after being sold to Vivendi Universal; and NBC Universal Television after VU Entertainment was sold to NBC owner General Electric).

Michael Pavone

It was reported in the August 4, 2008 edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Pavone was hired by WWE as a creative consultant to the writers of the company's shows Monday Night Raw on USA Network and Friday Night SmackDown on Syfy

Nina Jarvis

Nina Jarvis is a fictional character on the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400.

Sloppy Meateaters

After playing to an audience of over a million viewers on the now-cancelled USA Network show Farmclub.com, the band had hit a break.

Stephen Winer

He went on to write for NBC TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes (Robert Klein segments), two seasons of Robert Klein Time for the USA Network and four seasons of the Disney Channel's The New Mickey Mouse Club where he was nominated for two CableAce Awards.

The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series

The elements of The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Series were split up, with Wally Gator airing as a segment on Magilla Gorilla and Friends on USA Network's Cartoon Express from 1987 through 1991.

Tim DeKay

DeKay is currently starring in the USA Network series White Collar, which chronicles the partnership between a con artist (played by Matt Bomer) and an FBI agent (DeKay).

TNBC

However, the series instead aired on USA Network (which would become a sister network to NBC, following Vivendi Universal's 2003 purchase of NBC), along with Saved by the Bell: The New Class, which aired concurrently on both networks.

Tumor-induced osteomalacia

In season 2 of the USA Network series Royal Pains, Reshma Shetty (as Divya Katdare) diagnoses a storm chaser (Jamie Ray Newman) with recurring fractures to have tumor-induced osteomalacia.

WFTT-DT

In 1996, Barry Diller acquired the Home Shopping Network; two years later, HSN acquired the USA Networks and renamed the broadcasting group as USA Broadcasting.


see also

Jeff Russo

Recently he has scored films, TV programs and commercials, including the ABC dramas The Unusuals and My Generation, the NBC drama Crossing Jordan, The Discovery Network's FreeFall, the USA network show Necessary Roughness (TV series), the CBS network show Hostages (TV series) ,and currently scores the FX drama Fargo (TV series) He has also worked with fellow composers Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman

Jeffrey Donovan

He also directed a prequel film starring co-star Bruce Campbell, titled Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe, which first aired on USA Network on April 17, 2011.

Marble Falls, Texas

John Arthur Martinez, second place winner on USA Network's Nashville Star, taught English and tennis at Marble Falls High School.

NBA on USA

On April 9, 1980, the Madison Square Garden Network changed its name to the USA Network.

Peter Jacobson

He made a guest appearance on an episode of the USA Network's Royal Pains as Alan, the nebbishy husband of Rachel, played by Brooklyn Decker.

Sendhil Ramamurthy

Ramamurthy joined the cast of the USA Network show Covert Affairs as Jai Wilcox from the second episode onward, replacing character Conrad Sheehan III, played by Eric Lively in the pilot.

Tommy Bahama

The Tommy Bahama brand has been placed in: Luck, Couples Retreat, Meet the Parents (and Fockers sequels) and 50 First Dates; as well as TV's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Scrubs, Dexter, Psych and continually on character Sam Axe from USA Network's Burn Notice, The Simpsons Movie, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.