Adrianne Palicki found a cathartic way to get revenge on those responsible for canceling her critically acclaimed series Lone Star earlier this season — by imagining that they were her victims in her turn as a serial killer on Criminal Minds.

“How did you know?” she laughs, jokingly adding, “Those bastards!”

Palicki, the tall beauty best known for her role as tough but heartfelt Tyra on Friday Night Lights, will play what she calls a “psychopath” on tonight’s episode of Criminal Minds (9/8c, CBS). “She comes from a very dark past,” Palicki explains. “She was abused by her father — sexually and emotionally. She met a person she feels is her equal, and they go on a killing spree. It’s kind of like Natural Born Killers.”

Still, she adds, “It’s one thing to play a killer, but to go into that darkness where she doesn’t see what she’s doing is wrong — it’s scary, but fun.”

Less fun was the quick cancellation of Lone Star. “It was a smack in the face,” she says. “It’s like being with someone who tells you, ‘I want to marry you,’ and the next day, they’re moving out.”

Though Tyra left FNL to attend college, Palicki appears in the series’ finale, airing this spring on NBC. “It was so therapeutic” to return for the show’s conclusion, she says. “I’d already ended the show. I was excited to move on, but when I’d watch it as a fan, it was that feeling you get when you’ve graduated high school and all your friends are still there: I’m missing out on everything.”

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The actress from Friday Night Lights and next year’s Red Dawn (the tall one) gets you in the Christmas spirit

The Joke:

Three men wait at the gates of heaven on Christmas Eve. They’re told they have to present a Christmas gift to get in. The first man checks his pockets and finds pine needles from his family’s tree. He’s allowed in. The second hands over a bow and some ribbon. He’s allowed in. The third man pulls out a pair of panties. “How do those represent Christmas?” St. Peter asks him.

“Oh,” the man replies, “they’re Carol’s.”

About the Jokester:

Adrianne Palicki is tall. Five feet eleven inches, to be exact. And while that might not have hurt her ability to pose on ottomans, it wasn’t much help in her career: “I couldn’t get jobs. I’d do the hip lean and practically walk in barefoot.” She didn’t fool anyone, but she did eventually start getting work. Lots of it — as Tyra Collette, the tall, wrong-side-of-the-tracks blond on Friday Night Lights, and as the tall brunette on the short-lived Fox series Lone Star. Palicki, 27, has also been in movies like Legion and Elektra Luxx, and next year she’ll star in a remake of the ’80s classic RedDawn. She’ll be the tall one.

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“Lone Star” was #1 on the USAtoday.com list of “10 best new shows”!

1. Lone Star
Fox, Mondays, 9 ET/PT, premieres Sept. 20

It’s not your daddy’s Dallas.

Not that there aren’t similarities. Like that iconic prime-time soap, Lone Star lays bare the internal warfare of a Texas oil clan. But in place of Larry Hagman’s outsized, fun-to-hate J.R., you get baby-faced schemer Bob Allen, a ready-to-reform con man played by solid-gold newcomer James Wolk.

All Bob wants is to settle into his fake tycoon life and be a happy family man. But he has too many families: There’s his real-life dad (David Keith), a con artist who expects his son to keep following in his footsteps. There’s his Houston oil family, anchored by his wife (Adrianne Palicki) and her dad (Jon Voight). And there’s the new family he’s thinking of forming for himself out in west Texas.

For the complicated pilot plot to pay off, we have to invest in Bob — and Wolk makes it easy, sucking us into Bob’s delusion that he can make everyone happy. That good a performance may just make Wolk a TV star, and Star a TV hit.

As the fall TV season heats up, here’s a show you’ve just got watch for — FOX’s new primetime soap opera, “Lone Star.”

“Extra” visited the set and talked with the show’s lead, newcomer James Wolk, who plays Robert, a charismatic con man who has meticulously constructed two lives in two different parts of Texas, juggling two identities — and two women.

“He thinks he’s being faithful to both of them, as it weird as it sounds,” explained Wolk about his character. “He’s like this warrior for love.”

Co-star Adrianne Palicki thinks Wolk looks a little like another certain magnetic actor. “I didn’t see the comparison until somebody told me, and now when he does certain things or movements, he reminds me of a younger George Clooney.”

Jon Voight, who plays the resident oil tycoon, is looking forward to the show’s success. “Listen, if we could get half the attention ‘Dallas’ got, it would be wonderful.”

The veteran actor’s only regret with his new TV schedule is the time he is missing with his grandkids. “Even 15 minutes with my grandchildren is a big vacation for me,” he gushed. “They’re very affectionate kids, and they’re very respectful kids.

“Lone Star” premieres Monday, Sept. 20 on FOX.

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Talk about out with the old, in with the new! In the last few days, Adrianne Palicki has 1) played her final scene as Tyra Colette on “Friday Night Lights,” 2) joined in a cast and crew wrap party for the acclaimed show, and 3) flown to Dallas in time to begin production on her new series – Fox’s “Lone Star” – this week.

Adrianne tells us she’s glad for the immediate turn-around between the series. It keeps her from getting too down about saying goodbye to a show and cast she’s loved. According to her, creator Peter Berg and all of the original cast members of “Friday Night Lights” planned to be on hand for the farewell gathering, which she anticipated as “a good occasion for all of us. It was such a beautiful thing to be a part of.”

Another series was hardly on top of her wish list when she first heard of “Lone Star,” she admits. “I’d had such an amazing experience on ‘Friday Night Lights,’ I couldn’t imagine something else coming along of that level. I was thinking about a movie, which would only be a three-month commitment.” Then her reps asked her to read “Lone Star,” in which James Wolk plays a con man who has set up two different false lives for himself, including a rich fiancée (Palicki) in Dallas and an everyday home town girl wife (Eloise Mumford) in Midland.

“The character I would normally play is the girl from the wrong side of the tracks, so when they said Cat (the rich girl), I thought I’d love to play someone so different from anything I’ve done before.” Meeting Wolk sealed the deal, she says. “You have to have the right actor to play Bob, or the show can’t work. He’s perfect.”

And there’s a side benefit – fashion.

“Oh, my God! Even in the pilot alone! I’ve never worn Manolos in my life and now I have three pairs in the wardrobe. Amazing Versace and Valentino. I thought, ‘Why didn’t I put it in my contract that I want to keep the clothes?’ I usually wear jeans, so kind of getting dressed up every day is really fun.” Maybe she’ll take to it and we’ll be seeing her with a $40,000 handbag soon? She laughs. “Not unless it’s a rental.”

From Beck Smith Hollywood

Tyra Collette was the ultimate blonde bombshell on Friday Night Lights. So when Adrianne Palicki, the actress who played her, visited the Allure office last week, we were surprised to see her with long, auburn locks—and even more surprised that we weren’t jonesing for her to go back to blonde. The girl couldn’t go wrong even if she had blue hair; after all, she is stunning. But the auburn looks great with her skin and just feels fresh. (You can check out Palicki with the look when her new show, Lone Star, starts on Fox on September 20.)

If you want to make a drastic color change yourself, keep these tips in mind:

The key is to do it in stages. You’ll end up with a better color result and hair that’s less fried. Colorists advise not going more than two shades lighter in base color and four or five in highlights at one time. If you’re a brunette who wants to be a blonde, it usually takes anywhere from four to six sessions. (Trust me—I tried to do it in a day and ended up strawberry-blonde.)

Red hair dye fades faster than blonde or brown—so you have to be extra-vigilant in protecting it from sun and water damage. Use a spray that contains UV filters when you’re at the beach (try Redken Color Extend Sun Solar Screen SPF 12), and in the shower, try to keep your head away from the water spout when you’re not shampooing or conditioning.

Stock up on a good hair mask. A big color change will leave your hair a little drier and frizzier, but a weekly treatment that contains keratin or shea butter will help restore its softness. (Try Alberto VO5 Hot Oil Weekly Intense Conditioning Treatment or Fekkai Shea Butter Hair Mask.)

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