The producers of “Backstrom” contacted the Portland Sea Dogs about getting some caps for the show in early 2013, said Chris Cameron, the team's assistant general manager. About a dozen caps were sent out, and the Sea Dogs heard nothing else until the
Like other TV misanthropes based on the self-destructive Sherlock Holmes model, Rainn Wilson plays Det. Everett Backstrom isn't picking on his co-workers because of their race, creed, religion or sexual orientation. He just
Paging Dr. House . Backstrom (Thursday, 9 ET/PT, * * out of four) is not the first — and won't be the last — TV series to embrace the template that gave Fox a breakthrough hit in House: The arrogant, irascible, self-and-other-loathing, personally
Thursday is the premiere of the new FOX detective series “Backstrom” – which airs at 9 p.m. EST. In the show, Wilson plays Detective Lieutenant Everett Backstrom, the head of Portland's new Special Crimes Unit. However, while Backstrom will be taking
Rainn Wilson is out of The Office and into police work in Backstrom, Fox's midseason crime procedural created by Hart Hanson (Bones). Portland Detective Everett Backstrom had spent the past five years exiled to the Traffic