Interview

Costume Designer

How the Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce Costume Designer Keeps the Fashions Coming

Cynthia Summers knows how to make women look their best. She’s crafted the looks for trendy shows including UnREAL, The L Word, and now Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce. The Bravo show just wrapped up season three and is already slated to air two more thanks to fan fervor. Audiences immediately fell in love with the show’s women who are seemingly able to do it all while wearing four-inch heels.

By  |  March 16, 2017

Interview

Production Designer

Behind the Sets of Saturday Night Live with Veteran Designer Eugene Lee

78-year old Eugene Lee skipped out on his MFA from Yale (they later awarded him the degree) to design the Tony award winning set for Candide on Broadway. Lee humbly recalls that his sets caught the eye of “some guy” from NBC who requested a meeting. “You know, I thought, ‘Well, I don’t know anything about television, but what’s the harm?’” Lee said.  “So I made the appointment, went to New York, knocked on the door.

By  |  March 16, 2017

Interview

Composer

The Music of the Emotional First Season of This is Us

This is Us was this year’s break out show that everyone can’t stop crying about. The first season came to its heart-wrenching conclusion last night, but fans didn’t witness the death of Jack Pearson (Milo Ventimiglia) as previous episodes hinted they might. What could be an overly saccharin family melodrama becomes a tightly woven emotional power punch thanks to sincere performances and a thoughtful score by Siddhartha Khosla. Founder of the band Goldspot,

By  |  March 15, 2017
Fans Rejoice Over Doctor Who Season 10 Trailer

For Doctor Who fans, the trailer for season 10’s premiere is like manna from outer space. One of the most popular sci-fi shows ever created, with more than 53 years of Doctor Who absurdity and delight, Doctor Who is beloved by generations of fans. For the new season, BBC teases the new villains and the far-out adventures awaiting the good doctor, played by the beloved Peter Capaldi, who reprises his role and is joined by a host of new companions.

By  |  March 14, 2017
Game of Thrones Tortures Fans With Teaser, Reveals Premiere Date

Game of Thrones has built up so much good will among its millions of fans, it can ask them to watch a giant block of ice melt. That’s the premise behind their latest, torturous publicity stunt regarding the release of the show’s penultimate 7th season, a hilarious and effective bit of psy-op marketing. A staggering 1.5 million people watched the ice melt on Facebook Live, typing “FIRE” into the comments section in order to make the flames rise and melt the ice block quicker. 

By  |  March 10, 2017
Cutting-Edge Technology Lets Planet Earth II Shoot in the Dark

The BBC’s Planet Earth series has captivated audiences worldwide, stunning viewers with incredible high-quality nature footage. The filmmakers were able to create groundbreaking episodes, showing tidbits of life in the wild we have never been exposed to before. Its sequel, Planet Earth II, has surpassed all expectations. Somehow, they managed to shoot even more dynamic and intimate shots, making most of us wonder: how did they do that?

By  |  March 9, 2017
Game of Thrones Season 7 Poster Teases Battle Between Fire vs. Ice

We’ve been waiting patiently for Game of Thrones news for a while now. The last time we checked in on our Lannisters and Starks, we were writing about their big haul at the Creative Arts Emmys, where the show was the night’s big winner with 9 awards. Since then, there have been a few tidbits here and there, but all’s been quiet on the Westeros front. It’s as if our actual lives here in the real world has become GoT like,

By  |  March 9, 2017
Meet Colleen Wing, the Modern Day Samurai in Marvel’s Iron Fist

Marvel’s Iron First premieres on Netflix on March 17, and our guess is one of your favorite characters will be Jessica Henwick’s Colleen Wing. In the comics, Wing first premiered in “Marvel Premiere #19” in 1974, descended from a family Samurai who meets the superhero Iron Fist while on a quest to avenge her grandfather’s murder.

In Marvel’s new show, the extremely capable Henwick embodies the modern day Samurai,

By  |  March 8, 2017
Harry Potter Villain Jason Isaacs to Play Captain in Star Trek: Discovery

It was heartening news when we heard that The Walking Dead‘s tough-as-nails Sonequa Martin-Green was going to be playing the lieutenant commander of the U.S.S. Discovery in Star Trek: Discovery. The show’s cast just added another fantastic actor, the great Jason Isaacs, who was so convincingly scary in Netflix’s surprise hit The OA, also a veteran of the Harry Potter franchise. 

To millions of fans,

By  |  March 7, 2017
David Fincher’s Netflix Serial Killer Series Mindhunter Drops 1st Trailer

David Fincher helped Netflix become a television juggernaut in 2013 when helped then launch House of Cards. Fincher not only directed the show’s first two episodes, he helped put the project together, becoming one of the first A-list film directors to pivot back to TV, utilizing the flexibility Netflix gave him and Beau Willimon to create the show.

Fincher returns to Netflix with his new show, Mindhunter, which focuses on two FBI agents who are trying to solve the unsolved cases of imprisoned serial killers.

By  |  March 1, 2017
Watch Will Smith in the Wild First Trailer for Netflix’s Bright

Viewers of the 89th Academy Awards last night were in for a few surprises— and not just the already infamous “Best Picture” flub. Netflix debuted the first trailer for its upcoming original film, Bright, which bends genres in a way most movies never attempt.

The crime/sci-fi/fantasy flick takes place in an alternate present in which humans, orcs, elves and fairies co-exist. It stars Will Smith (Men in Black) and Joel Edgerton (The Great Gatsby) as Ward and Jakoby,

By  |  February 27, 2017
The Walking Dead Returns This Sunday

The resistance begins this Sunday. That is, for Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and the gang on The Walking Dead. With the show's return this Sunday on AMC (9 p.m ET/PT), we've been treated to an inside look at the upcoming second half of season seven and a new trailer.  Now AMC has released a new clip that shows just how deadly the Saviors are, and how much more firepower they have at their disposal:

The first episode of the second half of season 7 is “Rock in the Road,”

By  |  February 10, 2017
FX’s Legion Earning Raves From Critics

FX’s new show Legion is an X-Men-centered story told through the eyes of an unreliable narrator: one in which reality and fantasy weave in and out and truth and fiction are in a constant battle. But through a storyline full of uncertainties, one fact stands unwavering: critics find the show riveting.

Starring Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey, Beauty and the Beast), Legion explores the Marvel Comics universe in which David Haller,

By  |  February 9, 2017

Interview

Composer

Legion Composer on the Mind-bending Music of the New X-Men Show

Marvel’s Legion is premiering tonight on FX and it’s going to be unbelievable. In fact, you should probably be careful not to believe everything you see. Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) plays the X-Men character David Haller who learns that his schizophrenia diagnosis may not be what it seems and neither is the world around him. As he explores the powers he possesses and embarks on a journey to become Legion,

By  |  February 8, 2017
Look Inside the Coming Resistance on The Walking Dead

You already know just how brutal the first half of The Walking Dead Season 7 was. Rick (Andrew Lincoln) had seemingly been broken, badly, by the ordeal Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) had put the group through. The sickening, preening murder of Glenn (Steven Yuen) and Abraham (Michael Cudlitz) was just the beginning. Negan put all of Alexandria under his command, and Rick had no choice but to do Negan’s bidding as the sociopathic warlord took Daryl (Norman Reedus) hostage and sent his goons (or arrived himself) to Alexandria to collect his taxes.

By  |  February 8, 2017
The Walking Dead Midseason Trailer Promises Resistance

This past season of The Walking Dead was brutal. We watched our favorite characters deal, in their different ways, with endless, appalling trauma. After the sociopath Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) ruled the roost, mocking, taunting and murdering the residents of Alexandria, the mid-season trailer promises that Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and company are ready to strike back.

After Negan monstrously killed Glenn (Steven Yuen) and Abraham (Michael Cudlitz), there was never going to be any true peace between him and our gang.

By  |  February 3, 2017
Rihanna Joins Bates Motel in Season 5

A&E’s Bates Motel has had a great run, and now season five is adding a global superstar to their cast. Rihanna is joining the cast as the iconic Marion Crane in the show’s final season.

Bates Motel is the contemporary prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, providing fans with a glimpse into how Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) became the monster that we met in Hitchcock’s iconic 1960 film.

By  |  February 1, 2017
Star Trek: Discovery has Begun Production

CBS’s Star Trek: Discovery has begun promotion, bringing the beloved Starfleet back to the small screen for the first time since 2005. The series is brought to you by Bryan Fuller (Hannibal) and Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek). You can think of Discovery as the Star Trek version of Rogue One (yes, we just compared Star Trek and Star Wars),

By  |  February 1, 2017
First Look at FX’s new Marvel Series Legion

FX and Marvel Entertainment’s upcoming Legion is finally bringing a live-action TV series that’s connected X-Men to the screen. Now we’re getting our first look at the new series, which premieres on FX on February 8. 

Legion’s creator is Noah Hawley, the visionary behind FX’s Fargo, and is based on the eponymous Marvel comic by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz. Legion tells the story of David Haller (Dan Stevens,

By  |  January 31, 2017