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Interview with “American Crime” Star, Johnny Ortiz.

March 4, 2015 Kellie Freeze

Johnny Ortiz is everywhere. You can currently see Ortiz alongside Kevin Costner in McFarland, USA — an inspiring film about the unlikely success of a high school cross country team composed of the poor children of Hispanic migrant workers. Ortiz told me that working with Costner was a fabulous experience and that the month of grueling physical training in addition four months of filming in the hot sun, —while wearing a wig — “was pretty intense.” And, starting March 5, you’ll be able to see Ortiz in American Crime, ABC’s gripping new drama that explores race and prejudice. Ortiz joins […]

ABC’s Powerful “American Crime” Leaves No One Unscathed

March 3, 2015 Kellie Freeze

ABC’s gripping new drama American Crime explores the many facets of a single violent crime and the way that it affects and destroys everyone involved. As facts are revealed from various points of view, preconceptions on faith, family, gender, race and class are challenged. American Crime promises to be your week’s most emotionally raw and thought-provoking hour of television. “It’s really amazing to see all the different splinters from the exact same moment,” says actor Benito Martinez (The Shield), who plays a hardworking and strict father whose son is one of the accused. “What appealed to me is the writing,” […]

Better Call Saul episode 5 recap: “Alpine Shepherd Boy”

March 2, 2015 Lori Acken

When we left the McGill brothers at the end of last week’s Better Call Saul, things were looking up for Jimmy and not so much for Chuck, who risked going to outside long enough to make an unauthorized purchase of his neighbor’s paper only to be further traumatized by what he found on the front page. And that is where we pick up in this week’s episode, “Alpine Shepherd Boy.” When a pair of cops appear on Chuck’s doorstep to investigate the “crime,” Chuck points out that the neighbor actually made a tidy profit on the exchange and then attempts to engage […]

The Returned: The spine-tingling French series gets an American reboot on A&E

March 2, 2015 Lori Acken

If you saw The Returned in its original French incarnation, odds are you haven’t forgotten a moment. The eerie character study about a small town unmoored when a handful of its dead return seemingly unchanged explored matters of life and death and devotion in a gorgeously quiet, emotionally rending way. Now the series is getting an American reboot from writer/producers Carlton Cuse (Lost, Bates Motel) and Raelle Tucker (Supernatural, True Blood). The pair says that, rather than re-create the original, they used it as a starting point for more expansive storytelling as “the returned” and their reeling loved ones navigate […]

Shameless Recap, Season 5, Episode 7 “Tell me you f**king need me”

March 1, 2015 Karen Ruud

Last week we saw Ian get committed, Frank land himself in the hospital, Fiona still struggling with the Gus and Jimmy situation and lots of other craziness. Here’s what happened this week with a William H. Macy-directed episode of Shameless Recap, Season 5, Episode 7 “Tell me you f**king need me” Frank and Sammi: While Sammi is playing house and thinking she is in charge, Frank comes strolling in after getting sprung from the hospital. He promptly proclaims what an adult he is now and how he doesn’t need help from anyone. Sammi is upset after her attempts at getting him […]

Battle Creek: Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad follow-up was conceived over a decade ago

February 28, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

“It’s embarrassing to note that I’ve never actually been to Battle Creek, Mich.,” laughed Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad) last summer at a press conference introducing his new series Battle Creek. “I am fascinated by the name because it’s such a great name, because it’s got the word ‘battle’ in it.” Despite Gilligan not having been inspired by the city because of a visit, Battle Creek manages to capture the ambience of a hardscrabble small town. The drama follows mismatched law enforcement officers (Josh Duhamel and Dean Winters) with polar-opposite views of the world, who work to clean up the streets […]

Bell, Denton and Madison Charm In Hallmark’s Good Witch.

February 27, 2015 Kellie Freeze

Catherine Bell has starred in seven original movies as charming witch Cassandra “Cassie” Nightingale, and now she is thrilled to continue that enchanting journey in a weekly Good Witch series, premiering in a 2-hour special Saturday on Hallmark Channel. Bell is excited to spend more time with, and put a fresh spin on, a character she loves. “That’s been the most interesting part,” she says. “Finding the voice of this series. You want to make it so people are invested in the characters and want to tune in every week, while keeping — of course — the magic that everyone […]

OWN orders new episodes of all four of its Tyler Perry series

February 27, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today that more episodes of all four of its popular Tyler Perry series have been ordered. The Haves and the Have Nots has been given 23 one-hour episodes; If Loving You Is Wrong, 22 one-hour episodes; Love Thy Neighbor, 22 half-hour episodes; and For Better or Worse, 20 half-hour episodes. In a release, OWN credits these Tyler Perry series with the network’s boost into the Top 25 among cable networks in primetime among women 25-54. The Haves and the Have Nots (pictured), in particular, has averaged more than 3 million viewers throughout its current season and consistently ranked as Tuesday night’s No. […]

Go behind the scenes of NGC’s “Killing Jesus”

February 26, 2015 Lori Acken

I am seated near a bank of monitors in a maze-like casbah in Tamnougalt, a 400-year-old village in Morocco’s Draa River valley. Actors, crew members and locals mill about in cool, cramped hallways with rocky floors, clay walls and a tightly thatched ceiling that, now and then, releases a shower of dust that coats our hair and teeth. Flies and feral cats are omnipresent. And we’re all in the presence of Jesus. Actually, it’s my first day visiting the sets of National Geographic Channel’s Killing Jesus, its most ambitious film project to date and the third of the network’s films […]

CSI Cyber — The new kid in the CBS franchise tackles “Crime 2.0”

February 26, 2015 Lori Acken

Can you control your thermostat, your DVR and even your coffee maker with just a couple taps of an app on your phone? It’s cool, certainly — convenient, for sure — but it could also make you a prime candidate for a savvy new brand of criminal. It’s a great big Wi-Fi world out there and our willingness to forego our privacy for the love of the latest gadget is the catalyst for a timely new CSI spinoff. CSI: Cyber stars recent Oscar winner Patricia Arquette as Special Agent Avery Ryan, head of the FBI’s Cyber Crime Division — a role […]