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TV’s never seen a family like the Farrell clan in “Outsiders”

January 22, 2016 Barb Oates

Get ready, as television has never seen the likes of a family like this. WGN America introduces us to the fictional Farrell family in Outsiders, premiering Tuesday, Jan. 26. The Farrell family has lived off the grid for six generations in the hills of Appalachia. They abide by their own long-held values, secretive beliefs and renegade rules. People don’t go up there, and they don’t come down. When a coal company tries to push the clan off their mountain, things change. Outsiders is an intoxicating look at the clash of two cultures fueled with plenty of action. The clan’s future […]

An unlikely romance collides with espionage in BBC America’s “London Spy”

January 20, 2016 Ryan Berenz

On Thursday, Jan. 21, at 10pm ET/PT, BBC America premieres the new five-part mystery series London Spy, from author Tom Rob Smith. In this series, brilliant investment banker Alex (Edward Holcroft) has an unlikely romance with hard-partying, youthful bon vivant Danny (Ben Whishaw). Just as their relationship deepens, Alex is found dead under suspicious circumstances, and his real identity is uncovered to be that of a code-breaking spy working for MI6. With a desire to find out the truth about Alex’s identity and his death, Danny begins following the trail into the dark world of espionage. In over his head, Danny […]

#TCA16: PBS partners with NPR on Election 2016, gears up for Post-Downton Era

January 19, 2016 Ryan Berenz

PBS announced new programming initiatives for 2016 at the TCA Winter Press Tour: PBS has entered into a strategic partnership with NPR to share news content between the two organizations as part of its PBS Election 2016 news, public affairs, documentary and digital programming surrounding the year’s politics. PBS and NPR team up to integrate content on PBS.org (beginning in February) and on the Politics section of NPR.org. PBS announced 16 for ’16 (working title), a 16-week documentary series that spotlights unforgettable presidential and vice-presidential candidates whose campaigns weren’t successful but earned them a significant place in the history books. Subjects […]

Shameless Season 6, Episode 2 Recap: #AbortionRules

January 17, 2016 Karen Ruud

Last week Fiona found out the truth that Debs was keeping her pregnancy from her. Let’s recap how that went down with a recap of Shameless Season 6, Episode 2: #AbortionRules. Fiona & Sean: Waking up all stressed out with the newly acquired truth that Debs is actually knocked up, Sean tries to get Fiona to relax by doing naughty things to her and forcing himself on her. No, not in a rape way, in that loving “you really need to relax” boyfriend way. So she gives in, and then it’s quick to rise (no pun intended) so that she […]

#TCA16: FX presents “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”

January 16, 2016 Ryan Berenz

FX’s 10-episode limited series The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (premiering Tuesday, Feb. 2, at 10pm ET/PT) dramatizes one of the seminal news stories of the 20th century: the events surrounding the arrest and trial of former football star O.J. Simpson for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994. Based on Jeffrey Toobin’s book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson and from executive producer Ryan Murphy, the series assembles a stellar cast, including John Travolta, Cuba Gooding Jr., David Schwimmer, Sarah Paulson, Courtney B. Vance, Bruce Greenwood, […]

#TCA16: No Jack Bauer in new “24” event series, “diverse” lead sought

January 15, 2016 Jeff Pfeiffer

FOX’s executive session this morning drove home that the network is in on event series based on successful former series on the network. Coming up soon is the 6-part revisiting of The X-Files, and it was announced that there is also a Prison Break event series in the works. Dana Walden and Gary Newman, chairmen and CEOs of Fox Television Group, also announced that FOX has greenlit a pilot for a new series set in the world of 24. However, this event series — unlike the original 24 and a previous event series, 24: Live Another Day — will not star Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer, and will […]

#TCA16: FOX’s “Lucifer” should be cast down to … well, you know

January 15, 2016 Ryan Berenz

FOX’s new supernatural crime drama Lucifer (premieres Monday, Jan. 25, at 9pm ET/PT) feels like Castle if Richard Castle were the Prince of Darkness. Tom Ellis stars as Lucifer Morningstar — yes, Satan himself — who has grown bored reigning over Hell and is on holiday in a much more exciting place: Los Angeles. Lucifer is a tall, dark and handsome Brit who owns a nightclub called Lux, drives around in a high-end convertible (license plate FALL1N1) and gets people to reveal their forbidden desires. It’s all fun and games for Lucifer until a faded pop star whose career he helped launch is […]

Epic adaptation of “War and Peace” simulcast across A&E, History and Lifetime

January 15, 2016 Jeff Pfeiffer

Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel War and Peace always seemed like one of those books that people like to claim to have read but may not have actually done so, mainly given its formidable size, clocking in at well over 1,000 pages. If you fall into this category, you’re in luck, as a BBC adaptation of the novel — airing in the United States across the A&E, History and Lifetime networks — condenses the story into its main elements and delivers a strong costume drama the likes of which used to be featured regularly on A&E and History. (Whether or not […]

Meet the women beside the powerful men of Showtime’s “Billions”

January 15, 2016 Jeff Pfeiffer

Showtime’s timely new drama Billions taps into current concerns about income inequality and the tendency of some in the financial sector to not play completely by the rules when it comes to acquiring their fortunes. The fact that the series is cowritten and -executive produced by Too Big to Fail author Andrew Ross Sorkin probably plays a part in this. The show also focuses heavily on the tendency of many, especially men, in this sector to be obsessed with macho posturing and a desire to remain an “alpha,” a phrase that is uttered a number of times in the pilot […]

“Mercy Street” explores conflicts between nurses on opposite sides of the Civil War

January 14, 2016 Ryan Berenz

Mercy Street, a six-part drama series is set in Alexandria, Va., in 1862 and follows two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War. New Englander Mary Phinney (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Confederate supporter Emma Green (Hannah James) have an ideological clash at the Union Army’s Mansion House Hospital, formerly the Green family’s luxury hotel. Inspired by real accounts from Mansion House doctors and nurses, Mercy Street also stars Josh Radnor, Gary Cole, Peter Gerety, Norbert Leo Butz, McKinley Belcher III and Shalita Grant. Mercy Street premieres on PBS Sunday, Jan. 17, at 10pm ET/PT following Downton Abbey (check […]