HBO Gives a (Broad) Window for When Game of Thrones Will Return
We know the final season of Games of Thrones is coming, but just when it will arrive is an agonizing mystery. Mercifully, we aren’t being left out in the cold. HBO programming president Casey Bloys confirmed today that we are in the six months to one-year range. Rejoice! Bloys said at a Television Critics Association event today that season eight would begin in the first half of 2019.
The cast and crew have said goodbye to the idyllic sets they called home for eight seasons...
FX Uniting Show-Stopping Creative Team for Fosse-Verdon Series
It’s showtime! Oscar winning actor Sam Rockwell will portray Oscar winning director Bob Fosse in a new biographical miniseries for FX. Golden Globe winner Michelle Williams will star opposite Rockwell as legendary dancer, Gwen Verdon.
Married couple Fosse and Verdon were the most influential entertainers in dance since Fred Astaire. Fosse’s choreography and Verdon’s inimitable style revolutionized Broadway musicals.
Married from 1960-1971, Fosse and Verdon collaborated on Redhead, Sweet Charity, and Chicago...
Three Former Secretaries of State Will Counsel Tea Leoni on Madam Secretary
Secretary of State is one of the loneliest jobs in the world, which is why it’s good to have friends when things get choppy. Secretary McCord (Téa Leoni) is going to find that out this fall when she falls into a tough spot. Luckily, she has backup. Former Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton, Colin Powell, and Madeleine Albright will be on call in Madam Secretary’s darkest hour.
CBS announced yesterday that Madam, Madam, and Mister Secretary would appear on Madam Secretary in the new season...
SDCC 2018: Fall 2018 TV Preview
San Diego Comic-Con comes in the middle of the summer, just as the fall television season is starting to go into production, which makes it a great opportunity for popular series to send writers, producers, and stars to show exclusive footage and gag reels and meet with the fans. The Good Place set up an elaborate ‘Good Place Experience’ across the street from the convention center and next to a restaurant temporarily renamed “The Good Plates.” Visitors waited patiently in long lines to go inside,...
Lucasfilm Unveils Clone Wars Trailer for Surprise Season
Star Wars: The Clone Wars is in its tenth anniversary year, and Lucasfilm’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con shared that the company’s first weekly TV show is returning for one more season.
Season 6 of The Clone Wars was billed as the final entry in the series when Netflix took over distribution from Cartoon Network. However, as it often goes with the Star Wars universe, there were more stories left to tell...
DC’s Original Streaming Content Titans Looks Beautifully Dark
For all the parents out there, this is very important: these aren’t those Teen Titans. DC has never been afraid of the dark with any of its content, but with Titans, it looks like they’ve outdone themselves. Today, DC released the first trailer for its new live-action series, Titans, which will premiere on its new streaming service, DC Universe.
The brutal, visceral imagery on display here is unlike anything we’ve seen in a comic book television series...
CW Planning a Batwoman TV Series With Groundbreaking Lesbian Superhero
History is close to being made on the small screen. It was recently reported that Batwoman would be appearing in the Arrowverse for the CW’s annual crossover event in December; now Deadline reports the brilliant Kate Kane of Gotham might be getting her own show, which would be a groundbreaking moment for the superhero world. Batwoman would represent the first time a gay character lead a live-action superhero series.
Deadline reports that The CW is developing a Batwoman series for 2019...
Steve Has a New Summer Job in First Stranger Things 3 Teaser
Remember malls? The place you went to show off your new perm, listen to your Walkman, and make out with your college boyfriend? Yah, me neither. I was ridiculously uncool in high school. Thankfully, Stranger Things is here to show us what the hippest spot in the center of the universe was doing in the mid-80s. A new mock-ad for Starcourt Mall! features American treasures like Wicks ‘n’ Sticks, Radio Shack, and Steve Harrington (Joe Keery).
The mammoth two-story (WOW!) mall is coming to Hawkins in the summer of 1985...
Olivia Colman Looks Truly Regal in First Photo from The Crown Season 3
Time goes on and so does the Queen. Olivia Colman is stepping into the role of Her Royal Majesty to tackle the 2nd decade of her reign. The Crown tweeted out the first look today with a pointed message to fans, “Patience.” Season 2 dropped in December, but we likely won’t be seeing the next era until 2019. The production still indicates, however, that filming is underway.
Patience. pic.twitter.com/7F2f2aBON3
— The Crown (@TheCrownNetflix) July 16,...
Marina Zenovich on Going Inside Robin Williams’ Mind in Her New HBO Doc
In making Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind, premiering July 16 on HBO, director Marina Zenovich celebrates the life and comedic talent of the legendary performer who committed suicide in 2014, using Williams’s voice to tell much of his story as well as interviews with his first wife Valerie Velardi, son Zak Williams and many friends, including Mork & Mindy co-star Pam Dawber, David Letterman, Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Steve Martin and Bobcat Goldthwait...
Meet Your New Doctor Who in First Teaser
If you were one of the millions of people around the world watching France beat Croatia in the World Cup, then perhaps you also caught a glimpse of your new Doctor? That’s right, after a very long wait for us Who-Heads, we’ve finally got our first glimpse at Jodie Whittaker as the first female Doctor Who in the iconic sci-fi series’ history in a brand new teaser. Whittaker looks very comfortable as our new Time Lord...
The Last O.G.‘s Allen Maldonado on Riffing With Tracy Morgan, Writing Scripts & More
Allen Moldonado is a writer, performer, filmmaker, and entrepreneur, currently co-writing and co-starring in The Last OG, opposite Tracy Morgan. In an interview, he talked about his “Netflix for short films,” Everybody Digital, creating the character of Cousin Bobby as actor and writer, and surviving the “actor’s Olympics” of daily soap operas.
I love the idea of an app to watch short films. Tell me how it started.
I’m a short filmmaker,...
Netflix Tops Most Nominated Network of the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards
It is official. Great TV isn’t just on television sets anymore. The nominations for the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced today, and by the numbers, Netflix reigns supreme. Even with Game of Thrones back in the running, Netflix still edged out HBO for the most nods.
The streaming site only entered the Emmy playing field four years ago and has quickly risen to the top. Last year, even without a season of Game of Thrones eligible for voting,...
Peaky Blinders Creator Steven Knight on his BAFTA-Winning Crime Epic
Peaky Blinders beat The Crown in May to win England’s BAFTA Award for best television drama, but series creator Steven Knight won’t be shocked if his show fails to snag American kudos when Emmy nominations are announced Thursday. “Peaky Blinders doesn’t do the things that other shows do,” he says. “It took a long time to get our first BAFTA but audiences in Europe and America are loving Peaky. Even though it has taken awhile,...
Maisie Williams Says Goodbye to Arya With Bloody Photo From Game of Thrones‘ Final Season
What does it mean, Maisie? As one of Game of Thrones most potent characters, Arya Stark, Maisie Williams has played the youngest surviving Stark child since she was only 14 years old. Now 21, Williams is wrapping up her epic portrayal of Arya as Game of Thrones finishes up filming its eighth and final season (until those prequels, of course). Williams took to Instagram to post this beguiling farewell message,...
Succession Creator Dissects the Family Squabbles of the Mega Rich
Family dynamics are difficult enough to navigate under the most mundane of circumstances. Factoring in massive sums of money, dizzying power and toxic levels of sibling rivalry, what could possibly go wrong? HBO‘s big business melodrama Succession offers some twisty-turny answers as it examines the warping effect of inherited wealth as filtered through the wife and offspring of wily media mogul Logan Roy (Brian Cox). Airing on Sundays, the limited series tracks the machinations of young adults (Jeremy Strong,...
Costume Designer Stephanie Maslansky on Bringing Harlem Style to Luke Cage
In the first season of Netflix’s adaption of the Marvel superhero comic Luke Cage, Luke, née Carl Lucas (Mike Colter) emerges from a quiet Harlem existence to fight his neighborhood’s most nefarious criminals. With inhuman strength and unbreakable skin, Luke is in a unique position to go head-to-head, or body-to-bullets, with local gangster Cornell “Cottonmouth” Stokes (Mahershala Ali) and his lackeys, and later in the season, Willis “Diamondback” Stryker (Erik LaRay Harvey).
In season two,...
Pose Guest director Tina Mabry On the Groundbreaking Show
Though the month of June is Pride month, Hollywood should ideally be celebrating the LGBTQIA experience year-round, in the name of diversity.
Luckily, a new show on FX, Pose, has premiered to great acclaim, and week by week is gathering an appropriately rabid fanbase. Creator/writers Steven Canals, Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy (Murphy also directs two episodes) have built a story which takes place in 1987, and examines the New York ball culture...
Mj Rodriguez on Breaking Out as Blanca on Ryan Murphy’s Pose
For many actresses, playing a lead role in a television show is a personal accomplishment. For Mj Rodriguez, who stars in the new FX series Pose, it’s so much more than that.
Rodriguez, a native of New Jersey who got her start in musical theater and has appeared on Nurse Jackie and Luke Cage, speaks of her casting as a triumph not only for herself but for all transgender women...
The Five Biggest Westworld Season 2 Mysteries We’re Obsessing Over
Westworld is bizarrely satisfying for being so mysterious. This season cracked open the world far beyond the park and led us to what lies beyond. As we cross the threshold of The Door and peer into season 3, here are the biggest mysteries left after the finale. Stop now if you haven’t seen season finale, ‘The Passenger.’
Will Delos continue pursuing their lucrative enterprise?
The future of Westworld is unlikely to continue in Westworld...
