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Deception premieres tonight on NBC

January 7, 2013 Lori Acken

Most talk about NBC’s new nighttime soap Deception, which premieres tonight at 10, has centered on two things: the fact that its lead character is a black female (Det. Joanna Locasto, played by Caliornication‘s Meagan Good) and the show’s seeming amalgamation of rival-network dramas like Scandal and Revenge. But Deception‘s creator Liz Heldens says she wasn’t so much focused on any of that when she began to assemble the series — she was thinking about the movies. “Two of my favorite movies are [mob infiltration flicks] Donnie Brasco and The Departed,” Heldens told reporters at this week’s TCA Winter Press Tour. “And […]

“The Following” takes Kevin Bacon to the Nth degree of terror

January 3, 2013 StayTuned Staff

There’s a famous line Al Pacino delivers in the 1995 crime drama Heat that comes to mind when describing Kevin Bacon’s character in The Following. “All I am is what I’m going after.” Bacon plays Ryan Hardy, a former FBI agent whose pursuit and capture of serial killer Joe Carroll was both his greatest triumph and the beginning of his downward spiral. When we meet Hardy, he is “kind of a mess,” Bacon says, a man who drinks too much and is seemingly without purpose. It was an attitude the actor saw firsthand while researching the role. “I was sitting […]

Neve Campbell plays a small-town cop with scary secrets in Lifetime’s “An Amish Murder”

January 1, 2013 Lori Acken

With her fresh-scrubbed beauty and natural self-possession, actress Neve Campbell makes a believable ex-Amish heroine in Lifetime’s new original film, An Amish Murder. The twisty mystery, based on Linda Castillo’s best-selling novel Sworn to Silence, features the Party of Five favorite as Kate Burkholder, an Amish exile from tiny Painter’s Mill, Ohio, who comes back home as its chief of police and finds herself embroiled in a gruesome serial murder case that dredges up horrific memories from her youth. Joined by a visiting detective (Rookie Blue’s Noam Jenkins) with demons of his own, Burkholder finds it increasingly difficult to separate […]

“Banshee” on Cinemax: Drama! Romance! Suspense! Sex! Action! … Amish?

December 26, 2012 Ryan Berenz

“Banshee” on Cinemax is a new action drama series following the world of crime and corruption stewing under the seemingly idyllic surface of rural Pennsylvania Amish town Banshee. “I spent 15 years picturing this day, and I got to tell you, this is not how I saw it playing out,” Lucas Hood (Antony Starr) tells his ex-lover — understating things just a little bit — in the new Cinemax action drama Banshee, premiering Friday, Jan. 11, at 10pm ET/PT. Immediately upon his release from state prison, Lucas has a busy day that would tucker out any ex-con. He hits a […]

Twilight Zone New Years Marathon 2012 episode guide

December 26, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

It’s time once again to enter that dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind, as Syfy presents its annual favorite — the Twilight Zone New Years marathon. The Twilight Zone New Years Marathon 2012 begins at 8am ET on Dec. 31 and continues to 5am on Jan. 2 — offering 45 hours of classic episodes from Rod Serling’s legendary series. Included are all the memorable ones you love — such as “To Serve Man,” “Time Enough at Last” (pictured below), “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” and more — as well as many you may have never seen before, […]

“La Teniente” (“The Lieutenant”) to make U.S. premiere on mun2 in January

December 5, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Since making its debut on Azteca 7 in Mexico in September, the scripted action series La Teniente (The Lieutenant) has quickly become one of the top programs in the country. The much-buzzed-about show will be making its U.S. debut Jan. 13 at 10pm ET on mun2. The series will be shown on mun2 with English subtitles. La Teniente takes a cinematic approach to scripted TV, using locations throughout Mexico and top Spanish-language TV actors as it depicts the adventures of a Special Operations unit of the Mexican Navy. Centering on Mexican Naval graduate Lieutenant Roberta Ballesteros (María Fernanda Yepes), the […]

“Sons of Anarchy” recap: “J’ai Obtenu Cette”

December 5, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Even if we didn’t know going in that this was a season finale, you can tell immediately that Sons of Anarchy means business when it breaks out the Katey Sagal songs. “Ruby Tuesday,” “Bird on a Wire,” “Son of a Preacher Man,” and now “To Sir, With Love.” Not sure if it’s the most mood-catching songs for what’s to come, but it’s always nice hearing her voice, reminding us of the unassailable beauty Sagal is capable of producing, along with the malice and desperation that so often shows in her portrayal of Gemma. But, since this is a season finale, […]

“Sons of Anarchy”: Foreign-language episode titles nothing new

December 4, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Tonight’s Season 5 finale of Sons of Anarchy goes by the strange title of “J’ai Obtenu Cette,” which translates from French to “I Have Obtained This.” (Or perhaps more appropriately, “I got this.”) It’s just the latest in a healthy line of episode titles that the writers and producers have seen fit to put in a foreign tongue. Whether it’s just for effect, or if there is some special relevance to the plot, it’s undoubtedly one more thing that makes the unrelenting biker drama so compelling. Here’s a list of all the titles, along with their translation and — hopefully […]

Boardwalk Empire Season 3 finale recap: “Margate Sands”

December 3, 2012 Matthew Grimm

Terence Winter wound the spring tight in Season 3 of Boardwalk Empire, each violent twist seeing a piece of Nucky Thompson’s East Coast criminal syndicate fall away and leaving the Atlantic City boss seemingly alone, friendless and on the lam from his enemies. It took all of his residual wheeling and dealing, and a conspicuously rainbow-esque coalition, not just to save his life, but, in Sunday night’s finale, to turn the tables on ever-ticking-timebomb-psychotic New York hood Gyp Rosetti in a dizzying, elegiac menagerie of graphic violence on par with HBO’s equally awesome Band of Brothers. Which, to hammer the point, […]

VOD Spotlight: “Sparkle,” with Whitney Houston’s final role

November 29, 2012 StayTuned Staff

It would be difficult to say anything about the 2012 remake of the 1976 film Sparkle without mentioning the truth for which it’s probably best known and for which it will be remembered — as Whitney Houston’s final screen performance. The film tells the story of a girl, Sparkle (Jordin Sparks), one of a trio of tight-knit sisters growing up in 1960s Detroit who form a girl group in hopes of catching the wave of excitement about the Motown sound that’s sweeping the nation. Poised for success, their dreams are tempered by their strong, domineering mother who isn’t supportive of […]