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TCA: The Following Season 2 stars admit to getting nightmares

January 13, 2014 StayTuned Staff

Despite being veteran actors, and thus completely well aware of such artifices as script, costumes, lighting, directors yelling “Action!” … Kevin Bacon and James Purefoy admitted to letting their roles in The Following Season 2 get to them. The relentlessly grim FOX thriller — which creator Kevin Williamson believes is a little “less grim” this season — returns with a special preview Jan. 19 after the NFC Championship game, then resumes its regular Monday time slot on Jan. 27. RELATED: Valorie Curry talks The Following Season 2 “Every day, somebody I care about is in peril, or I’m about to […]

TCA: FOX announces premiere date for 24: Live Another Day

January 13, 2014 Barb Oates

At the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour FOX announced the premiere date for 24: Live Another Day as Monday, May 5 at 8pm ET/PT. The highly anticipate 12-episode series will kick off with a two-hour start, and then take its regular timeslot of Mondays at 9pm ET/PT the following week. The series is set and shot in London and finds star and executive producer Kiefer Sutherland restarting the clock for another go around as Jack Bauer. The series picks up with Jack in exile but willing to risk his life to thwart an unthinkable terrorist attack that could change […]

Greg Kinnear is charming and addictive in his first broadcast TV series, “Rake”

January 13, 2014 Channel Guide Contributor

By Paul Hall Interviewing the star of a new television show can present challenges. In fact, “sitting down” with Greg Kinnear, star and co-executive producer of Rake, took place while he was out for a little jog before shooting a scene of the new FOX show. “I’m just taking a slow run,” the somewhat-out-of-breath Kinnear told us over the phone, “and about to shoot a scene for Rake, and then I’m going to get home and start brining a turkey.” Rake follows the exploits of Keegan Deane, a brilliant and frustratingly charming criminal defense attorney, whom Kinnear describes as having […]

TCA: El Rey Network announces From Dusk Till Dawn series premiere date, lucha libre show

January 12, 2014 Lori Acken

Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez discussed upcoming projects and programming on his new El Rey Network, including the premiere date for his From Dusk Till Dawn series, today at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. Named for a fictional town in several of his films and curated by Rodriguez himself, El Rey Network features content — from original series and films to sports coverage — designed to appeal to an adventurous viewership and, he says, give Hispanic audiences their due in the television landscape. “A lot of the country doesn’t see itself in a positive, iconic way,” Rodriguez explained in a […]

TCA: AMC announces 2014 programming lineup

January 11, 2014 Barb Oates

AMC announced their anticipated 2014 programming premiere dates for Mad Men and Better Call Saul at the Television Critics Association 2014 Winter Press Tour, as well as new series Turn and Halt and Catch Fire. Leading the AMC 2014 programming lineup are several new dramas including Turn, a Revolutionary spy thriller about the untold story of America’s first spy ring. Turn will begin Sunday, April 6 at 9pm with a 90-minute series premiere. The series stars Jamie Bell in the title role as Abraham Woodhull and Seth Numrich as Ben Talmadge (pictured). The seventh and final season of Mad Men […]

TCA: Starz new drama Power begins production

January 10, 2014 StayTuned Staff

Starz announced the beginning of production on a new eight-hour drama Power to debut later this year. The series is set in modern day New York and tells the story of wealthy New York City nightclub owner, James “Ghost” St. Patrick, played by Omari Hardwick, (Sparkle), who caters to the city’s elite. He wants to build an empire, turn the club into a Fortune 500 business, but there’s just one problem: he is living a double life. When he is not in the club, he is the kingpin of the most lucrative drug network in New York for a very […]

Banshee Season 2 preview: Good town, bad blood

January 10, 2014 Ryan Berenz

Banshee Season 2 preview: Lucas Hood (Antony Starr), Carrie Hopewell (Ivana Milicevic) and the Banshee Sheriff’s Department cope with the fallout from their bloody face-off against Rabbit (Ben Cross), while Lucas faces a new and deadly threat in Season 2 of this gritty Cinemax action series. Executive produced by Alan Ball (True Blood), the show focuses on Lucas, an ex-convict who assumed the identity of the new sheriff in the rural town of Banshee, Pa. Picking up where the first season left off, Season 2 finds Carrie exposed and estranged from her family, while Lucas has his hands fuller than […]

Interview: Jason Beghe of “Chicago Fire” spinoff “Chicago PD”

January 7, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

“From what I understand,” Jason Beghe tells me, “that when the character of Voight was introduced [on Chicago Fire], the ratings had a bump.” Beghe is talking about how his character of police officer Sgt. Hank Voight in Chicago PD (Jan. 8 on NBC), a spinoff from the popular Chicago Fire, came to be the star of another series after beginning as a recurring character on Fire. When fans met Voight on Chicago Fire, he was a man of seeming moral ambiguity, which turned out to be part of his cover. But it may also be part of Voight himself, […]

CBS’ “Intelligence” brings “Lost” star Josh Holloway back to TV

January 6, 2014 StayTuned Staff

Josh Holloway went into his first read-through for Intelligence thinking he was doing science fiction, yet the more he got into the assignment, he realized it was very current. The high-tech CBS spy series — which has a special premiere at 9pm Tuesday, Jan. 7, before assuming its regular Monday night time slot on Jan. 13 — has Holloway (Lost) playing Gabriel Black, a seasoned soldier who agrees to have a microchip implanted in his brain that makes him the first human ever plugged in directly to the global information grid. This allows him to hack into any data center […]

We talk Castle with Stana Katic!

January 6, 2014 Lori Acken

Stana Katic knows Castle fans have much on their minds as Season 6 returns with a new episode tonight on ABC. Is the 3XK killer really back? When will wedding bells ring for our favorite writer/cop duo? Will Castle and his now-grown daughter Alexis find their way back to good? What she doesn’t know — the answers to those questions. “I would love to tease this or that, but most of the time, I’m in the dark right along with the viewers!” Katic laughs. Still, she says, she trusts the show’s writers to keep the fans and the Castle cast happily […]