Preacher Showrunner Sam Catlin on Grandma Driving Season 3’s Insane Misadventures

It had to happen eventually, according to showrunner Sam Catlin, so Preacher Season 3 begins this Sunday, June 24, at the creepy Angelville plantation ruled by the terrifying spell-caster known as “Grandma.” Fans of the comic book source material figured the matriarch would show up at some point, but they didn’t expect her to be portrayed by Betty Buckley, the Broadway musical icon. “Betty‘s got this great authority and her audition was incredible,”

Merritt Wever Transitions From Loopy Nurse to Frontier Toughie in Godless

Merritt Wever has no idea why she was picked to play a tough frontier woman in Netflix western Godless, but the New York actress wasn’t about to ask questions when writer-director-creator Scott Frank came calling. “I don’t go nosing around like that,” says Wever, who won a 2013 Emmy co-starring in Nurse Jackie as Edie Falco’s sly, exuberant sidekick Zoey Barkow.

Standing in extreme contrast to Zoey, Wever’s Emmy-buzzed portrayal of Mary Agnes McNue celebrates a gun-wielding bisexual badass who defends the frontier town of LaBelle in 1884 after all the menfolk get killed in a catastrophic mining accident.

Jon Bernthal’s Coming Back to The Walking Dead in Season 9

If Steve Trevor can appear in Wonder Woman 1984 without having aged since we last saw him die during World War I, maybe this isn’t that crazy? Jon Bernthal’s Shane was one of the most affecting characters in the early season of The Walking Dead, playing fellow cop and best friend of Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes. Since leaving the show, Bernthal has become a star,

Unpacking the Final Westworld Season 2 Trailer

Things are about to change in Westworld, and this time, we have no idea where things are going. Up-to-date Season 2 spoilers lie ahead.

If you thought at any point that Westworld had reached peak darkness, this week’s episode, “Vanishing Point,” really rubbed in just how wrong you were. William, or The Man in Black (Ed Harris), reaches an all-time low and kills his daughter Emily (Katja Herbers) when his paranoia leads him to believe she is a host sent by Ford (Anthony Hopkins).

Cameron Britton Breaks Through Playing Real Life Serial Killer Ed Kemper in Mindhunter

Netflix true crime drama Mindhunter moves efficiently in tracking the origins of forensic science as experienced through FBI odd couple (Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany) until midway through its second episode. Then, Cameron Britton makes his entrance. Playing real-life 70’s-era serial killer Ed Kemper, Britton strolls into an interrogation room and takes the show in utterly unnerving new direction through his embodiment of folksy evil incarnate.

A frontrunner in Emmy’s Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series category,

Get to Know GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics

When entertainment journalist and critic John Griffiths founded the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association in 2009, the group, now known as GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, had 20 members. Today, it has a membership of nearly 200 writers, including myself, who cover film and television for print, online and broadcast outlets and honor the best in entertainment every year through the Dorian Awards.

“There are tons of critics groups.

1,000 Minutes of New Looney Tunes Are On the Way

Here a tune, there a tune, everywhere a Looney Tune. Warner Bros. is going to start dropping new and creative Looney Tunes content all over the place, and it could be really interesting. Our favorite iconic cartoon characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Wile E. Coyote will soon be starring in a series of short films. Once upon a time, the characters starred regularly on the big and small screen,

Harlem’s Queen Arrives in Luke Cage Season 2 Trailer

Marvel has dropped the second full-length trailer for Season 2 of Luke Cage, and Alfre Woodard’s Mariah Dillard is front and center.

“Black women have always had superpowers, turning pain into progress,” Dillard says in voiceover. In this season, it looks like she will be doing exactly that (Season 1 spoilers to follow). With her cousin Cottonmouth (Mahershala Ali) dead, she is free to run the nightclub Harlem’s Paradise and wield all of the power that comes with it.

Costume Designer Jane Petrie on the Royals Step Into Modernity in Season 2 of The Crown

Lushly shot, exquisitely produced, expensive and popular, Netflix’s The Crown is praised not just for its (mostly) accurate rendering of major and minor events in the history of Britain’s royal family, but for its credible portrayal of their homes and haunts and the clothes they wore there. The period costumes, executed in attentive, realistic detail by Michele Clapton and Timothy Everest in the first season, and by Jane Petrie in season two,

Sound Editors Harness Horses, Wind & Gunshots for Netflix’s Western Godless

When it comes to designing sound for westerns, seven-time Oscar nominee Wylie Stateman keeps his ears attuned to wind, horses, gunshots and what he calls “the ride up and the ride out.” Speaking from his Twenty Four Seven Sound studio in Topanga Canyon near L.A., Stateman says, “You need to capture the sense of the countryside and traveling by horseback because that’s what makes a western what it is. It’s all about the big sky and the ride up and the ride out,

George R.R. Martin has a Title in Mind for HBO’s Game of Thrones Prequel Series

While many fans would love nothing more than for George R.R. Martin to finally finish “The Winds of Winter,” the man still has some ideas about how his epic creation will be captured on television. As Entertainment Weekly reports, Martin has some thoughts about HBO’s upcoming  Game of Thrones prequel pilot.

Martin took to his website to heap praise on prequel showrunner Jane Goldman (X-Men: First Class) and assured fans of his books that Goldman is running things on the prequel so Martin can finish “The Winds of Winter.”

Atlanta‘s Brian Tyree Henry has Arrived

As Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles on FX’s critically acclaimed Atlanta which ended its second season in May (and was just picked up for a third season), Brian Tyree Henry can do more with one grimace than many can do with their whole body. He’s instilled Paper Boi with heart, humor and a lovability that makes him one of the best characters on television right now.

But he hasn’t stopped there,

Westworld’s Production Designer Breaks Down Season 2

Production designer Howard Cummings’s thirty year career has encompassed an incredible range of varied and stylized work: from the fantastical designs showcased in Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightening Thief, to the grounded realism seen in such films as Francis Coppola’s The Rainmaker, to the expressive realism seen in his 20 year stint working with director Steven Soderbergh on movies like The Underneath,

HBO Orders Game of Thrones Pilot Featuring White Walker Origin Story

If you are a history buff and Game of Thrones fan, then the upcoming franchise spinoff is for you. HBO is developing a Game of Thrones prequel set millennia before the Mad King went on the bloody rampage that sparked the original series. The cable network has been juggling ideas, and it seems like they have settled on a dark tale featuring the characters that most keep us up at night.

FX Renews Donald Glover’s Atlanta for Third Season

FX has ordered another season of Donald Glover’s award-winning, mind-bending comedy Atlanta. This series has been a hit for FX, both critically and commercially. Atlanta has won Emmys, Golden Globes, an AFI Award and a Peabody, to name a few of the accolades the show’s piled up. For the uninitiated, Atlanta follows Earn (Glover) and his cousin Al (Brian Tyree Henry) as they attempt to make it in Atlanta’s competitive rap world.

How the VFX Team of The Looming Tower Recreated Pre-9/11 New York

Nearly every American over the age of 25 remembers the horrific day of the September 11 attacks. Images of that day are tragically familiar. The events were so meaningful and are so well known that VFX artists on Hulu’s The Looming Tower took deliberate care to vigilantly recreate pre-9/11 New York. The series, starring Peter Sarsgaard, Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, and Wrenn Schmidt, explores the tense relationship between the FBI and CIA that obstructed vital intelligence about the impending attacks.

BBC America’s President Sarah Barnett On How Killing Eve Slayed In Its Debut Season

After viewing the pilot of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s bleakly comedic series Fleabag a few years ago, both Sarah Barnett, president and general manager of BBC America, and Nena Rodrigue, the network’s executive vice president of original programming, acquisitions and production, were “fan-girling over Phoebe,” as Barnett puts it, drawn to her distinct point of view and wit. “We totally fell in love with Phoebe’s voice.”

They wanted to work with her, and soon enough,

David Fincher Shot 75 Takes of a Single Mindhunter Scene

The brilliant mind of director David Fincher is probably full of every tip and trick available to the contemporary filmmaker, but nothing beats good-old-fashioned perfectionism. Which, for the man behind Netflix’s crime series Mindhunter, means shooting a nine-and-a-half minute scene several times. Well, more than several times. Seventy-five times. In a single day.

That’s about twelve hours, not including the single break the crew took for lunch and the time Fincher took to share with his actors the laborious notes he scribbled during each take.

First-Time Showrunner Breaks Down his Dark hit Series The Sinner

Derek Simonds had been toiling on the periphery of show business since 2001, when his indie film Seven and a Match toured the festival circuit, but progress proved fitful. He developed Call Me By Your Name, penned some TV pilots and worked as a story editor on ABC drama The Astronaut Wives Club, but, Simonds says, “I was still banging on doors to be heard.”

Writer/Director Veena Sud on her Timely Netflix Drama Seven Seconds

A young detective, frantic because he cannot reach his pregnant wife, is driving through the snow, trying to reach her on his cell. He hears a sickening thud, but does not realize what he has hit – who he has hit – until he gets out of the car and sees the mangled bike under his wheel. A black teenage boy named Brent Butler was riding that bik,e and the cop is white.

When his colleagues arrive,