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Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is BBC America’s cure for the common cop show

October 21, 2016 Lori Acken

Call Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency the cure for the common cop show. Based on the 1987 novel by Douglas Adams — the same guy who brought you The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — this cheeky dramedy stars Wood (Wilfred) as lovable loser Todd Brotzman, a bellman who lands in the middle of a bizarre murder investigation helmed by the highly unusual titular character, played by Penny Dreadful’s Samuel Barnett. Blessed with psychic abilities that make him suspect everything is connected — and the people skills of a hyperactive first-grader — Gently also believes he and Brotzman were cosmically destined to […]

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People of Earth: TBS’ Interplanetary Laugher Gets Weird in the Best of Ways

October 21, 2016 Lori Acken

Ozzie Graham is seeing things. Well, one thing, really. A deer — just like the one he smacked with his car outside of teensy Beacon, N.Y. Only the buck didn’t stop there. He randomly reappears. And sometimes multiplies. And sometimes talks. The situation leaves crack reporter Ozzie (played with delicious deadpan by The Daily Show’s Wyatt Cenac) relegated to writing click-bait one-offs while he gets over his … weirdness … from the crash. And, thus, lands him back in Beacon to check out the members of Starcrossed, a support group for folks who believe they’ve had alien encounters. But — […]

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Nick Nolte and Sela Ward Headline New EPIX Dramedy Series Graves

October 16, 2016 Jeff Pfeiffer

With just a few weeks to go until the presidential election, everyone’s eyes and interest are turned toward politics, so this makes a perfect time for EPIX to debut its new dramedy series Graves. Nick Nolte, in all his gravelly voiced glory, stars as ex-U.S. President Richard Graves, who has a sudden epiphany when he looks back at the terrible state in which he left his country. Hoping to change things for the nation (as well as reshape his own legacy) after the fact, Graves embarks on a perhaps quixotic journey of redemption. Although Graves is a Republican, Nolte says that […]

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Insecure: Issa Rae Gets Awkward on HBO

October 7, 2016 Lori Acken

Issa Rae was doing just fine. Whip-smart and internet-famous as the hilariously honest star of the web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Rae parlayed its popularity into a New York Times bestseller of the same name, while partnering with Larry Wilmore on a comedy series in the same vein. Then HBO bought in and Rae reacted how she knows best: She got awkward. “When I got the news that the series got picked up, I jumped up and down by myself and did a dance for at least two minutes,” the luminous Rae grins. “Then I walked to […]

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Tori Anderson Stars in The CW’s Sunny Apocalyptic Rom-Com, No Tomorrow

October 4, 2016 Kellie Freeze

No Tomorrow brings together two very different people just as the world is coming to an end — or so one of them believes. The CW’s charming romantic comedy is a sunny twist on the end-of-the-world genre, and executive producer Corinne Brinkerhoff acknowledges, “There are plenty of ‘apocalyptic doom’ kind of shows, and we wanted an ‘apocalyptic joy’ kind of show.” The series hopes to turn the proverbial ticking clock from foreboding to freeing and Brinkerhoff challenges, “We all fundamentally know — on a gut level — that the clock is ticking and that there’s no guarantee of any time. […]

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Shameless Season 7, Series Premiere – “Hiraeth”

October 2, 2016 Karen Ruud

  Thankfully Showtime has lessened our wait time to see the fate of what happened to Frank Gallagher in the Season 6 finale. They were even more generous by airing it early in the week on certain social media platforms. So let’s dive into the Shameless Season 7, Series Premiere – “Hiraeth.” Frank: We start of seeing Frank floating in a black abyss of water with his life flashing before him in a disturbing montage of his family members and all his vices. He wakes to find himself in a hospital by the arousal of the nurse cleaning his manhood. The nurse on […]