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The Book Thief: A VOD Spotlight

March 11, 2014 Meredith Ennis

The Book Thief: A VOD Spotlight For the role of Liesel, young actress Sophie Nélisse was an odds-on favorite of the producers and director of The Book Thief. Even Markus Zusak, who wrote the book on which the film was based, felt she was perfect for the role. A potential obstacle to Nélisse taking on the role presented itself via another of her passions. A gifted athlete as well as thespian, she had started doing gymnastics at age 3. By age 6 she was training 16 hours a week, and at 12, she was putting in as much as 30 hours […]

Interview: Gillian Anderson of NBC’s “Crisis”

March 10, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

You’ll be seeing a good amount of actress Gillian Anderson on NBC this spring. Not only is she returning to her recurring role on the acclaimed thriller Hannibal, which started Season 2 on Feb. 28 and airs Fridays, but she is also a regular in the new series Crisis. Crisis examines the extremes to which elite and influential Washington, D.C., parents go when their children are kidnapped during a class outing. Anderson plays one of those elite parents, Meg Fitch. During a recent interview, Anderson told me that Fitch “is a very, very powerful woman — usually the most powerful […]

What to expect in True Detective finale this Sunday

March 9, 2014 Barb Oates

All the clues have been laid out and the answers are supposedly right under our nose for HBO’s True Detective finale airing tonight (March 9 at 9pm ET/PT). Much speculation and online chatter has centered on whether Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) or Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson) are somehow connected to the Yellow King in this eight-episode, eerie chiller, but that would be way too typical for series’ screenwriter Nic Pizzolatto and not the core of the story — which is really about who Cohle and Hart truly are. McConaughey actually told Channel Guide’s Lori Acken at the start of the […]

E! is working on its first original scripted series, “The Royals”

March 7, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

E! is known for covering (and contributing to) real-life celebrity obsessions, so it’s probably no surprise that its first original scripted series will also focus on lifestyles of the rich and powerful. The entertainment network announced recently that it has greenlit The Royals, a one-hour drama about a fictional British royal family in modern-day London. The series is set to premiere in 2015, and will star Elizabeth Hurley (who plays Queen Helena), William Moseley (son Liam), Alexandra Park (daughter Eleanor) and Vincent Regan (King Simon). Executive-produced, written and directed by Mark Schwann (One Tree Hill) and executive-produced by Brian Robbins […]

Interview: Johnny Sequoyah and Jake McLaughlin of NBC’s “Believe”

March 7, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

With a pedigree including executive producers J.J. Abrams (Revolution, Lost) and Alfonso Cuarón (Oscar-winning director of Gravity), you might expect something mysterious and technically thrilling from NBC‘s new series Believe, and you’d be right. Believe reminds me a little of Stephen King’s Firestarter, and follows young Bo (Johnny Sequoyah), a girl with gifts such as levitation, telekinesis and the ability to control nature, among other things. When sinister forces (led by a mysterious character played by Kyle MacLachlan) seek to control her and her abilities, Bo’s protectors (played by Delroy Lindo and Jamie Chung) turn to an unlikely source to […]

The women of “Suits” talk about the return of the hit USA drama

March 6, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

USA Network’s hit drama Suits airs the back six episodes of Season 3 starting March 6, and things are heating up. Rachel (Meghan Markle) and Mike (Patrick J. Adams) are moving in together, but the bliss may be short-lived as the dogged Louis (Rick Hoffman) comes ever closer to finding out, and revealing, Mike’s secret. Meanwhile, Harvey (Gabriel Macht) and Jessica (Gina Torres) find their friendship further evolving as they address the firm’s future. The drama of Suits is interesting because, while it is set at a corporate law firm, a world some would associate with primarily male egos, those […]

Resurrection: ABC drama examines what happens when “Just one more day” comes true

March 4, 2014 Lori Acken

Resurrection premieres Sunday, March 9 on ABC. We’ve all said it when grieving the loss of a loved one: “Just one more day.” Just a day, a few more hours to … well, the rest is likely as unique as the person making the plea. But few of us have ever considered what we might do if that day actually arrived and our dead returned — not as zombies or specters or visions, but just as they were on the day they left us. For Lucille and Henry Langston (Frances Fisher and Kurtwood Smith), the retirement-age couple at the heart […]

Those Who Kill recap: Chloe Sevigny, James D’Arcy in A&E’s new crime thriller

March 3, 2014 Barb Oates

Those Who Kill recap (March 3): Chloë Sevigny and James D’Arcy delve into morally gray areas in their edgy new crime thriller Those Who Kill airing Mondays on A&E beginning March 3. TV is on a gruesomely dark killing spree of late with series like The Blacklist, The Following and The Returned. Now A&E jumps into the serial killer genre with its 10-episode thriller Those Who Kill. Based on the Danish crime series of the same name (you’ll recall The Killing was also a Danish TV translation and success), this series is set in Pittsburgh and follows the work of […]

Scandal spring premiere recap: “Ride, Sally, Ride”

February 28, 2014 Sterling Silver

Scandal spring premiere recap: “Ride, Sally, Ride” Coming off the surprising ending to the first part of this season — where we only learned that Daniel Douglas (Jack Coleman) was murdered by Sally Langston (Kate Burton) with the cover-up help from Cyrus Beane (Jeff Perry); Eli Pope (Joe Morton) was replaced from his long time operation, B613 pretty boy Jake Ballard (Scott Foley); and Maya Lewis (Khandi Alexander) was free even though she lied about the bomb on the original flight with over 300 passengers, shot down by President Grant (Tony Goldwyn) — with the spring season’s storylines set up, […]

Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga return in Bates Motel Season 2

February 27, 2014 StayTuned Staff

Season 1 of Bates Motel ended with a shocker, the murder of young Norman Bates’ (Freddie Highmore) caring teacher, Miss Watson. The implication was that Norman had offed her during one of his creepy blackouts, and while that very well may prove true, audiences have seen with this twisty Psycho prequel — returning for Season 2 on A&E March 3 — that what sometimes seems certain may not be the case at all. “What I like about the show is that it’s suggestive as opposed to conclusive,” Highmore says. “I think that intrigue keeps it interesting. People aren’t too sure […]