The series of novels by Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition) about a Marine sniper in 1970s Vietnam who becomes a contract killer when he gets home is coming to Cinemax for an 8-episode first season
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Weinstein Cashes in on ‘American Sniper’ Rage with New TV Mini
One assumes this was already in the works, but the massive surprise box office of Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper surely encouraged Harvey Weinstein to get going on this 5-night miniseries based on The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers by Nicholas Irving. Nicholas Irving, known as “The Reaper” to his fellow soldiers, was the first …
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DuVernay and Oprah Bringing Drama Series to OWN
Fresh off her critically acclaimed Oscar-nominated film Selma, producer/director Ava DuVernay is re-teaming with Selma producer/co-star Oprah Winfrey to create a drama series for Oprah’s OWN network. Production is set to begin later this year on the project inspired by Natalie Baszile’s 2014 first novel Queen Sugar which tells the story of a widowed mother who …
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Casting Notes: Mal Reynolds makes a ‘Big Bang’, Farmer Hogett to ‘Catch Fire’ and more
TV casting news from Two Broke Girls, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Big Bang Theory, Halt and Catch Fire and more featuring Sandra Bernhard, Garret Dillahunt, Nathan Fillion, James Cromwell, Carrie-Anne Moss and others.
TV News: Fairuza Balk joins ‘Ray Donovan’, Anna Gunn spins off ‘Criminal Minds’ and more
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Casey Affleck to star in HBO ‘Lewis and Clark’ Mini
Michael Lombard, president of HBO Programming, announced on Friday that the network has greenlit a 6-hour miniseries about American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James) and Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust and Bone) will play Lewis and Clark respectively. Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman (Silence of the Lambs), Edward Norton, Brad …
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ACE Eddie TV Winners
True Detective, Sherlock, Veep among TV winners
Water Cooler Podcast: Episode 8 – PGA, SAG, DGA Awards; Pilot Season; What We’re Watching
The new AwardsDailyTV Water Cooler Podcast is on the air! Join the ADTV gang as they talk about the encouraging relative diversity of the recent TV award winners and nominees, FOX’s new hit Empire, HBO’s amiable Togetherness, the home stretch of Parks and Recreation, How to Get Away with Murder, and finally a look at …
2015 Art Directors Guild TV Awards: Game of Thrones, True Detective
Complete list of Art Directors Guild Award winners
TV News: Fargo, Hannibal casting; Togetherness renewed, and more
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