The Crown & Game of Thrones’ Costume Designer Michele Clapton
Costume designer Michele Clapton, who won an Emmy for her work on Game of Thrones, swapped the diabolical Lannister family for the Windsors to work on Netflix’s The Crown. We talk to Clapton about why a man’s shirt was one of the most pivotal pieces Claire Foy’s Elizabeth wore, why she hates costumes that look like costumes and how she was drawn back to Game of Thrones.
Black Mirror‘s Charlie Brooker & Annabel Jones on TV’s Most Twisted Show
British sci-fi series Black Mirror reflects with chilling plausibility myriad ways in which technology brings out the worst in human behavior — one freestanding episode at a time. Creator Charlie Brooker and producer Annabel Jones, in Los Angeles on a break from shooting the fourth season of their Netflix limited series, say they hate repeating themselves and love the anthology format. "It's lunacy but by doing each episode as a one-off 50-minute film,
Director Stephen Daldry on The Creation & Execution of Netflix’s Brilliant The Crown
Rumoured to be the most expensive television show ever produced, the first series of Netflix’s lush period drama The Crown delves deep behind the palace doors into the events around Queen Elizabeth II’s ascension to the throne. Director Stephen Daldry (The Hours, Billy Elliot), chats to The Credits about how the idea for The Crown came about, diverting from the truth,
Netflix Teases new Castlevania Animated Series
Nostalgia itself is no reason to create a film or a television series, but as inspiration, or merely a starting point, it can lead to some pretty spectacular creations. The 1980s have been very good to Netflix; their smash hit Stranger Things, which conjured the decade by way of Steven Spielberg, was enlivened by the passion and wit of the Duffer brothers, the show’s creators, to become much more than mere pastiche.
Game of Thrones Drops Thrilling Official Season 7 Trailer
Game of Thrones has dropped their season 7 trailer, putting into sharp focus just how action-packed things are going to be. The trailer hints at what stars Kit Harington and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau mentioned in a recent interview; season 7 is going to start fast and stay that way. Everything you're excited about—colossal dragons involving themselves in massive battles, the Starks reunited, the Lannisters plotting, Dany in Westeros with her army,
Massive Dragon Highlights new Game of Thrones Season 7 Photos
We wrote back in March about how Game of Thrones season 7 would include dragons the size of 747s. Season 7 director Matt Shakman told Entertainment Weekly: “The dragons this year are the size of 747s…Drogon is the biggest of the bunch — his flame is 30-feet in diameter!”
Now EW has expanded upon this scoop with a series of new photos from season 7,
Twin Peaks Premiere Delights, Creeps out Critics
David Lynch and Mark Frost’s iconic Twin Peaks returned to television last night, 27 years after it first appeared and changed the medium as we knew it, and it seems the wait has been worth it. Critics have spent today largely hailing the 2-hour premiere, which reacquainted us with FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), the Palmer family and the deeply creepy, supernatural weirdness that goes on in the fictional,
Watch Marvel’s The Defenders Come to Life on the Page
Marvel's latest TV series, coming to Netflix this August, is The Defenders. The entire roster of Marvel TV superheroes will finally be together—Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Iron Fist (Finn Jones) and Luke Cage (Mike Colter) are all joining forces to try and take down a secretive assassin collective called The Hand. It's big news for Marvel fans. Here's the trailer to get you up to speed.
Check out the new Black Lightning Trailer
The CW has become the best place to watch live-action superhero shows outside of Netflix, and now, with Black Lightning, the little network that could has earned a lasting place in our heart. We’ve enjoyed Smallville, we’ve been tickled by The Arrow, we’ve been satisfied by The Flash, we’ve been impressed by DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, we've loved Supergirl,
New Star Trek: Discovery Trailer Continues Sci-Fi’s Glorious Revival
The fact that Star Trek will be back on the air is news we all can use. Not only has the Star Trek reboot on the big screen been a massive success (led by J.J. Abrams), but the entire sci-fi genre is experiencing the kind of sustained excellence that speaks to just how malleable it is at telling stories we want to hear. Whether the narrative involves the human need for connection,
Upfronts: Watch Trailers for NBC’s Upcoming Slate of new TV Shows
Now that it’s upfronts week, we turn our attention to the small screen. This is the week that the networks gather in New York to celebrate, and promote, their upcoming seasons, introducing us to the new shows they’ll be airing. Let’s start with NBC.
You’ve got revivals, spin-offs, and fresh shows all joining the network’s schedule. The big ticket revival is the return of Will & Grace, while Law &
Twin Peaks Featurettes Revisit the Phenomenon That Changed TV
“A dead girl. This is what got us going, me and Mark,” says Twin Peaks co-creator David Lynch, speaking, of course, about Laura Palmer, the murdered girl who was at the dark, deliriously weird heart of his and Mark Frost’s iconic creation. Showtime has uploaded two new featurettes, totaling nearly 10 minutes, that delves into just how unusual, and trailblazing, the original Twin Peaks was. Once the pilot aired, the show became a phenomenon,
Melissa McCarthy and Alec Baldwin Return, Bigly, to Saturday Night Live
Melissa McCarthy returned to SNL this weekend as the host, and once again reprised her now iconic role as embattled press secretary Sean Spicer, and boy, did she make the most of her time. Her Spicey crashes a press conference, one he used to run, and rages at the gathered and by now familiar faces—he might call them foes—assembled to do their jobs. This was McCarthy’s fifth time hosting, and her now legendary take on Spicey was the highligh to a very funny show,
From Italian Disco to Tupac Shakur, Master of None Music Supervisor Explains Tonal Twists &Turns
Aziz Ansari fans probably have no idea who "Mina" is, but they'll hear plenty from the famous-in-Italy pop singer when Master of None season 2 begins streaming on today. "Mina was an Italian pop star in the late sixties, very much in the Phil Spector / Dusty Springfield vein," says deejay-turned-music supervisor Zach Cowie. "Aziz found out about her when he was in Italy and now she's kind of become the guiding voice for the season."
New Twin Peaks Trailer has Actual Footage From Upcoming Show!
If loose lips sink ships, than David Lynch is an admiral for the ages—no one working on his Twin Peaks revival has breathed a word about the show's plot, or anything else. That ethos has also, at least in part, been driving the marketing campaign. Twin Peaks is a mystery, after all, so it makes some sense that the promo material up to now has been so…mysterious. Each new bit of information,
Your Summer TV Watch List
There’s plenty of amazing movies coming out this summer. However, we all know that there are some lazy summer days where the thought of leaving your cool and cozy home sounds daunting. Thankfully, a ton of your favorite shows are coming back (or making their debut) to the small screen this summer. So get ready to sit back and relax as you tune into these binge-worthy and incredible shows, we've got you sorted to mid-July, when a certain epic series featuring dragons roars its way back to your living room.
Watch the First Teaser for Bryan Singer’s X-Men Show The Gifted
With Legion already a critical and commercial success, one wondered what the X-Men movies most seasoned director, Bryan Singer, would do with his show The Gifted. One thing you can count on (and you’ll glean this from the teaser) is that it’s not going to be like Legion at all. As Singer told Mashable earlier this year, The Gifted is a very different kind of story from both Legion and his own work in the cinematic X-Men universe:
“I’ll tell you,
The Losers’ Club Clowns Around in the Worst Way in new IT Trailer
A sneak preview of Andres Muschietti’s It premiered on Sunday night at the MTV Movie and TV awards, following a few creepy teasers and photos we've seen over the past few weeks. The newest film adaptation of the Stephen King novel is not clowning around (apologies for that pun) as Pennywise the clown is one of the horror master's most iconic, unsettling monsters.
Taking place in the small town of Derry,
Fargo Song Picker Finds Obscure Gems to Underscore Quirky Criminality
It was weird enough that bleakly funny Minnesota noir series Fargo (Wednesdays on FX through June) kicked off its third season last month with an eight-minute interrogation set in Cold War East Berlin. Adding to the strangeness was the spooky recording of of an ancient Russian folk song performed by the Ural Cossacks Choir, which played throughout the scene. Maggie Phillips, the artist-turned song picker who supervises music selections for the series,
HBO Has Four (Yes, Four) Game of Thrones Spinoffs in Development
You can never have too much of a good thing. This, it seems, is a sentiment HBO might be putting to the test, as Deadline reports that cable’s premiere network has four Game of Thrones spinoffs in development. Now, a channel like HBO always has lots of stuff in development, some of which never see the light of day, so this shouldn’t be all that surprising—but—four projects is a lot,
