{"id":45317,"date":"2013-07-05T17:50:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T00:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=45317"},"modified":"2013-07-05T17:57:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T00:57:32","slug":"harper-brings-a-lot-of-conflict-to-covert-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2013\/07\/harper-brings-a-lot-of-conflict-to-covert-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Harper &#8216;Brings A Lot Of Conflict&#8217; To &#8216;Covert Affairs&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of former <I>CSI: New York<\/i> actor <b>Hill Harper<\/b> (Dr Sheldon Hawkes) will be able to see him back on TV later this month, when the fourth season of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usanetwork.com\/covertaffairs\">Covert Affairs<\/a> premieres on the USA Network on Tuesday, July 16 at 9:00pm ET\/PT. &#8220;After being on a series for nine years, I wanted to make sure the next thing I did was the right thing,&#8221; Harper told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvfanatic.com\/2013\/07\/covert-affairs-confidential-hill-harper-on-season-4-shady-new-ch\/\">TV Fanatic<\/a>, which allowed him to make the leap from network television to a cable series. As CSI Files previously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2013\/05\/harper-discusses-his-role-on-covert-affairs\/\">reported<\/a>, Harper plays a CIA bureau chief named Calder Michaels, who is operating out of Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere are two photos of Harper from a recent press visit to the <I>Covert<\/i> set:<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Team_HillHarper\/status\/348227372149002240\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1097.photobucket.com\/albums\/g353\/csifiles\/harper-covert-affairs.png\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CovertAffairs\/status\/348205177272152065\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1097.photobucket.com\/albums\/g353\/csifiles\/harper-covert-affairs-2.png\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nYou can find an interview embedded after the jump, in which Harper describes his role and reveals that Calder &#8220;brings a lot of conflict&#8221; to the series. There&#8217;s also a promo for the new season, which offers a glimpse of Harper&#8217;s character in action. (Please note that the first video might play automatically.)<\/p>\n<p>\n<!--more-->First, here&#8217;s the interview with Harper, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usanetwork.com\/covertaffairs\/videos\/cast-interview-hill-harper\">USA Network<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/OyMl-B\/4Dl3P2Df_j5l\/select\/3NXzOjKORfMj?usa_fullEpisode=false&#038;usa_t=embed\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nAnd here&#8217;s an exclusive preview from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etonline.com\/tv\/135555_Covert_Affairs_Season_four_Exclusive_Promo\/index.html\">ET Online<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=2509807619001&#038;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fet.tv%2F16zXJ0s&#038;playerID=1250536613001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAABIWNF7qE~,EJbsvFObVfJEm7rEo1Xk3nNXqnvaIG9q&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=2509807619001&#038;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fet.tv%2F16zXJ0s&#038;playerID=1250536613001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAABIWNF7qE~,EJbsvFObVfJEm7rEo1Xk3nNXqnvaIG9q&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of former CSI: New York actor Hill Harper (Dr Sheldon Hawkes) will be able&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2908],"tags":[2918,2954],"class_list":["post-45317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-ny","tag-harper","tag-video"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/rachel\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-ny\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI: New York<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI: New York","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45317"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45350,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45317\/revisions\/45350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}