‘Medium’ returns with a large premiere

NBC is bringing back its hit drama “Medium” with a special two-hour season premiere at 9 p.m. Nov. 15. That night, the reality show “The Biggest Loser” will move to 8 p.m. Wednesdays.

The third season premiere puts star Patricia Arquette on screen with her husband, Thomas Jane, for the first time. Jane will play Clay Bicks, an old lover of Arquette’s Allison DuBois. Clay is “a danger-loving photographer, who, in the moment after his own death, is delivered to Allison’s door — unaware that he has died,” according to an NBC press release.

“I believe this special two-hour episode … is the perfect way for ‘Medium’ to begin its third season. It is in many ways, it’s our most ambitious and emotional episode to date,” executive producer Glenn Gordon Caron, apparently trying to put that 3-D experiment behind him. “The story spans from Indonesia to Phoenix and the larger canvas gave us an opportunity to play with techniques we’ve never used before, such as animation, which is used to depict middle child’s Bridgette’s dreams. It also allowed us to explore in greater depth some of the other characters in Allison’s world that we know very little about.

“But perhaps most exciting of all, it gave us the chance to invite Thomas Jane — an actor I’ve long admired — to play someone who ends up having an enormous emotional impact on Allison and her family. He is simply electric in the role, and the chemistry between Thomas and Patricia is palpable.”