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Omari Hardwick star of 50 Cent’s new “Power”

June 5, 2014 Barb Oates

His Get Rich or Die Tryin’ album catapulted rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson to worldwide fame. Now that same mantra oozes itself into the storyline of Power, a new crime drama executive produced by Jackson that teeters between the glamorous New York City club scene and a brutal underground drug ring. Power airs on Starz beginning Saturday, June 7 at 9pm ET/PT. Jackson, however, is not the star of this series, as his onscreen time is limited to cameo appearances. At the forefront is the striking Omari Hardwick, who you may recall from past cable dramas like the Dylan McDermott-helmed […]

Eric Dane talks The Last Ship on TNT

May 31, 2014 Lori Acken

If you were one of the zillion Grey’s Anatomy fans caught up in a collective swoon over Eric Dane’s “Dr. McSteamy”Mark Sloan, you may do a double take when you first see him as Navy Commanding Officer Tom Chandler in TNT’s pulse-pounding new action series The Last Ship. There’s no mistaking the heartthrob face and piercing blue eyes, but that signature seductive heat has been replaced with an austere cool that Dane attributes to the kind of real-life hero he’s representing. “This guy is not just the square-jawed Navy guy with the commander’s voice, barking orders; I wanted to bring […]

Kathleen Robertson and Taye Diggs talk new series “Murder in the First”

May 29, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

TNT has a busy summer ahead — the network will be rolling out 10 original series over the next few months, a mix of returning and new dramas. The first new series, Murder in the First, debuts following the Season 3 premiere of the hit Major Crimes on June 9. Like the show that leads into it, Murder in the First is a police drama; however, it stands apart in that it follows a single murder investigation over the course of an entire season. “The series is not a procedural,” star Kathleen Robertson, who plays San Francisco homicide detective Hildy […]

We talk The Leftovers on HBO with star Justin Theroux

May 28, 2014 Lori Acken

Imagine it. You’re in the midst of an ordinary day — at your job, at the mall, in your home, your car, an airplane — when 2 percent of the world’s population vanishes in an instant. No natural disaster. No terrorist attacks. No carnage. Just random empty spaces where people used to be — celebrities, political and religious leaders, your neighbor, your spouse, your child. And no one can explain it. How would you adapt? Who might you become in the aftermath? It’s the simple, stunning scenario at the heart of best-selling author Tom Perrotta’s 2011 novel The Leftovers, which […]

VOD Spotlight: Endless Love

May 27, 2014 Meredith Ennis

This reboot of the 1981 movie of the same name (starring Brooke Shields) was also based on the same book by Scott Spencer that the first film was based on. The movie tells the story of Jade (Gabriella Wilde), a sheltered and well-off girl, and David (Alex Pettyfer), a charismatic and less well-off boy whose instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart. To bring her vision for Endless Love from script to screen, director Shana Feste assembled a behind-the-scenes team led by cinematographer Andrew Dunn, production designer Clay Griffith and […]

The Normal Heart starring Mark Ruffalo premieres on HBO this Sunday

May 23, 2014 Ruth Boulet

It’s been 30 years in the making, but this Memorial Day weekend finally brings us the premiere of the HBO adaptation of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart. As Kramer says in a couple of the clips below: “Writers are given one great story to tell. I’m telling my story.” HBO’s mini-site for the movie has a plethora of videos, history and context for what the world was like in early-80s New York City. A new disease was being seen, and it was perceived as only affecting gay men. Doctors and the public were scared. Politicians were indifferent. In today’s era […]

The CW embarks on a quest for the Holy Grail with “Labyrinth”

May 20, 2014 Ryan Berenz

No Monty Python jokes here. The CW’s new miniseries Labyrinth, airing Thursday, May 22, and Friday, May 23, at 8pm ET/PT, is a seriously engrossing adventure. The CW kicks off summer with Labyrinth, a two-night, four-hour miniseries based on The New York Times best-selling author Kate Mosse’s novel of the same name. Jumping back and forth between medieval and modern-day France, the story revolves around two young women divided by centuries but united in their hunt for the Holy Grail. In 13th-century France on the eve of war, 17-year-old Alaïs (Jessica Brown Findlay, Downton Abbey) must protect a book written […]

“Metástasis,” the Latin American adaptation of “Breaking Bad,” to air in U.S. on Univision networks

May 20, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

I’m sure many American fans are still missing Breaking Bad, but they’ll have a chance to watch something similar when Metastasis — a Latin American adaptation of the acclaimed series, set in Colombia — debuts this summer. The premiere will simulcast in the U.S. June 8 on UniMás, Univision, and Galavisión before settling into its regular timeslot at 10pm ET Monday through Friday on UniMás. The plot should be very familiar to Bad fans. Instead of Walter White, the anti-hero here is Walter Blanco (Diego Trujillo), a modest high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Weighing his […]

A cop walks a dangerous tightrope in FOX’s Gang Related

May 13, 2014 Ryan Berenz

“Going against the family,” in gangster parlance, takes on a twist in FOX’s new police drama series Gang Related, premiering Thursday, May 22, at 9pm ET/PT. Ryan Lopez (Ramon Rodriguez, The Wire) is a rising star in the LAPD’s elite Gang Task Force, earning the trust and respect of the unit’s captain, Sam Chapel (Terry O’Quinn, Lost). At the same time, Ryan owes allegiance to crime boss Javier Acosta (Cliff Curtis), who helped him in his troubled youth. Javier has been pulling Ryan’s strings ever since. Ryan works both sides of the law, giving information about police operations and rival […]

NCIS season finale honors recurring cast member Ralph Waite

May 13, 2014 Ryan Berenz

The NCIS season finale on CBS Tuesday, May 13, at 8pm ET/PT, pays a special tribute to actor Ralph Waite (The Waltons), who played Jackson Gibbs on NCIS for six seasons. Waite passed away in February at age 85. ALSO SEE: 2014 TV season finale calendar In the Season 11 NCIS season finale, “Honor Thy Father,” the NCIS team investigates whether a fire on a U.S. Navy ship that served as a secret detention site for indicted terrorists was accidental or an intentional diversion for an escape. Meanwhile, Gibbs (Mark Harmon) travels to his childhood home following news of his […]