Ready For Its Closeup: BlackBerry’s Latest Hollywood Appearances

A character on the new Netflix sci-fi series Sense8 uses a BlackBerry Q10 rather than telepathy to convey a message.

Wherever there is high-stakes crime solving, political intrigue or maverick justice going down you are sure to find a BlackBerry smartphone.

In other words, BlackBerry devices are showing up in an awful lot of the hottest TV, cable, and on-demand series.

“Have you seen this woman?” A BlackBerry Classic on Fox TV’s Rosewood.

We can’t say we blame the shows’ creators for equipping their characters with our devices. If you’re going to play a politician, doctor or renegade cop you need your smartphone to be just as glamorous and no-nonsense and kick-a** as your character. That is a BlackBerry.

It goes without saying that high-ranking White House officials like the ones in the Tea Leoni vehicle, Madam Secretary, would follow the real-life President’s example and choose BlackBerry. So does another U.S. president – the fictional one on the ABC series Scandal.

Fictional U.S. President, played by actor Tony Goldwyn on ABC’s Scandal, uses a BlackBerry (Porsche Design) device.

Same goes for the crime-solving FBI agents on Fox’s Bones (the long-running series starring Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz) as well as the high-tech cops on CBS’s CSI: Cyber starring Patricia Arquette.

What else would those crazy Sense8 kids depend on but a smartphone that practically reads their minds?

The husband-wife FBI agents on Fox TV’s crime show Bones catch perps with the help of their Z10.

Here are some other shows in which BlackBerry phones have made recent cameos (did you see them?):

• Netflix’s House of Cards with Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright (which also helped lure iPhone users with our popular ringtone)
• HBO’s The Brink with Jack Black and Tim Robbins
• FX’s Justified with Timothy Olyphant
• ABC’s Last Man Standing with Tim Allen
• Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black with Taylor Schilling
• Fox’s Rosewood with Morris Chestnut

Tim Allen riffs on a BlackBerry Passport in Last Man Standing.

by carlathornton via Inside BlackBerry