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In Development Untitled Walking Dead spinoff. Kim Dickens (Deadwood, Gone Girl) has been cast as the female lead in AMC’s Los Angeles-set spinoff of its hit Walking Dead code named Cobalt (Ya’ll here that? We usin’ code names!). She’ll play guidance counselor Nancy Tomkins, a single mother of two who joins up (romantically and as …
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It’s adorable seeing The Today Show, that gormless bastion of softball morning filler, standing behind journalistic integrity (two words that in no way apply to the show) when one of their guests isn’t cool talking about a subject she shouldn’t have to talk about in the first place.
Upcoming Series AKA Jessica Jones. The Marvel/Netflix joint has confirmed ongoing speculation that Mike Colter (Good Wife) will play Luke Cage, AKA strength-enhanced super hero Power Man, in the show starring Krysten Ritter as the title character, a troubled former super hero who opens her own detective agency. Marvel fans who’ve been following the Marvel/Netflix …
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Joseph Sargent whose TV and movie directing career spanned over 50 years, has died at age 89 from complications due to heart disease. Check out the epilogue from his Emmy-winning Kojak episode “The Marcus-Nelson Murders”
A gaggle of colleagues and competitors (most of whom are unfit to fix her a drink) recorded messages of farewell to longtime CNN fixture Candy Crowley upon her retirement. Cable and broadcast news, already a borderline joke even with Crowley to help keep the bar raised a little bit, will now be just that much worse. In …
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The premiere of AMC’s Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul is still more than two months away (February 8, 2015), but the internet has been lousy with pictures and teases and snippets and whatever. Here’s another teaser clocking in at 30 seconds which gives probably the clearest look yet at the tone and feeling of the show.
Entertainment Weekly caught up with Bruce Campbell to ask about his return to his character, Ash, for Starz’ 2015 10-episode horror-comedy series Ash vs. Evil Dead. You’ll be happy to learn that Ash is a little older, but he isn’t any wiser. “He continues being a trash-talking know-it-all who doesn’t really know anything. He’s the …
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Lena Dunham and the cast of Girls lay out the directions their characters will be moving when the show returns to HBO on January 11, 2015. Dunham promises lots of great guest stars, more of Marnie singing embarrassingly in public and yep, there’s Jell-o wrestling.
The BBC reports that blues-rock singer Joe Cocker died today at age 70. I know this isn’t a music blog, but my first memory of Cocker is a TV memory. It’s when he was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live in 1976 and John Belushi, already well known for his exaggerated-but-affectionate Cocker impression, came …
Here’s the Downton Abbey sketch George Clooney recorded for ITV’s annual Text Santa charity telethon. George played Lord George Oceans Gravity, Marquis of Hollywood. Jeremy Piven also showed up as his character from Mr. Selfridge, but who cares?