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Outlander Season 2 photos, video — here’s your first look!

January 8, 2016 Lori Acken

Outlander Season 2 is currently in production for an April debut on Starz. We’ll have more details on Season 2 from today’s Television Critics Association press tour. In the meantime, here’s your first look at the new season — and Caitriona Balfe’s Claire Randall and Sam Heughan’s Jamie Fraser. CLAIRE FRASER (Caitriona Balfe) After the harrowing events of Season One, a pregnant Claire Fraser arrives in France with her husband Jamie. Her new mission — infiltrate the Jacobite movement and prevent the infamous battle of Culloden. The strong-minded Claire is determined to alter the course of history and save not only […]

TBS and TNT to be reinvented in 2016, why Rizzoli & Isles coming to end

January 8, 2016 Barb Oates

It was just over a year ago that famed network executive Kevin Reilly joined the Turner family as president of TBS and TNT and chief creative officer for Turner Entertainment. The former FX, NBC and FOX exec is a champion of the no-pilot-season strategy that resulted in launching quality content throughout the year not just during the fall season. A bit too green in his Turner role to present at last year’s Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, Reilly came out a blazing at this year’s tour announcing a complete reinvention of TBS and TNT and a $1 billion investment […]

M. Night Shyamalan brings Tales From the Crypt to TNT

January 7, 2016 Lori Acken

Tales from the Crypt will rise again, this time as an M. Night Shyamalan-helmed programming block on TNT. Kevin Reilly, President of TBS and TNT and Chief Creative Officer of Turner Entertainment, made the announcement at today’s Television Critics Association winter press tour. The format of the two-hour block is, for now, a bit of a puzzlement. TNT’s press release says it will be “led by Tales from the Crypt, based on the original EC Comics and new stories, all executive-produced by Shyamalan and his partner at Binding Edge Pictures, Ashwin Rajan.” But Reilly described a more fluid set-up: “Not a show — an […]

What you should know about UnREAL Season 2 on Lifetime

January 7, 2016 Lori Acken

If you missed the first season of Lifetime’s breakout hit UnREAL last summer, Feb. 3 is your day. Hulu will begin streaming the critically acclaimed dramedy — about the brutal behind-the-scenes of reality dating programs — which stars Constance Zimmer, Shiri Appleby and Craig Bierko. And if you’re already a fan, here are some things to know about the show’s Season 2, which premieres summer 2016: • Everlasting is back, this time with an African-American prince charming (take THAT, The Bachelor). The new suitor is a football star named Darius Beck — no casting announcements thus far — who arrives on set with […]

Warlords of Ivory: How Africa’s illegal ivory trade funds terrorism

August 28, 2015 Ryan Berenz

The critically acclaimed documentary series Explorer returns to National Geographic Channel on Sunday, Aug. 30, at 8pm ET/PT. Each monthly episode of the series will go deep into a story ripped from the pages of the current issue of National Geographic magazine. In the premiere episode, Warlords of Ivory, special investigative correspondent Bryan Christy, a veteran of wildlife trafficking wars, traces the path of destruction left in the wake of Africa’s illegal ivory trade — a path rife with misery, crime and terrorism that spreads like a dark stain across the map of the world. Christy and his team had an […]

TCA: NBC says Donald Trump “absolutely not” returning to Celebrity Apprentice

August 14, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

“I want to open it up and see who has the first question about Donald Trump,” quipped NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt at this morning’s NBC executive session panel at the Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour. Greenblatt had already, in his opening remarks prior to taking questions from assembled journalists, addressed the situation regarding NBC’s relationship, or lack thereof, with Donald Trump in terms of The Celebrity Apprentice, but he knew there would be follow-ups. Greenblatt had this to say about The Celebrity Apprentice in his opening remarks: “Due to circumstances that everyone here is aware of regarding our host [laughter […]

TCA: CW brings Matt Ryan’s John Constantine to “Arrow”

August 11, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

At The CW’s executive session at the Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour today, the network announced that Matt Ryan, late of NBC’s Constantine, will be reprising his role of John Constantine in a one-shot episode of Arrow (the fifth episode of the hit show’s upcoming fourth season, called “Haunted”). Both Constantine and Green Arrow are DC properties (Constantine from the book Hellblazer), and this crossover should give some amount of satisfaction to the fans who were dismayed when NBC pulled the plug on Constantine. Also of note, The CW is developing a series based on the hit romantic film The Notebook, with the input of […]

TCA: Showtime Announces Premiere Dates; Slate Of New Series & Docs

August 11, 2015 Kellie Freeze

“This is a fascinating moment in this business,” opened David Nevins, president of Showtime Networks a s he addresses a group of TC critics and journalists at the Television Critics Association (TCA) Summer Press Tour. Nevins used his presentation time to announce a diverse slate of new and returning programming, but first the network took a minute to celebrate recent successes. The premium cable provider is proud to celebrate that 8 of its 10 eligible series were nominated for Emmys, with 10 actors nominated. The network also touted a new business transformation where Showtime’s offerings are now available through providers including […]

TCA: Go Beyond What You Thought Was Possible in CBS’s “Limitless”

August 10, 2015 Kellie Freeze

CBS’s Limitless, is a fast-paced drama about Brian Finch, who discovers the brain-boosting power of the mysterious drug NZT and is coerced by the FBI into using his extraordinary cognitive abilities to solve complex cases for them. Today at the Television Critics Association (TCA) summer press tour, the show’s cast and producers explained the new series. In the pilot, Jake McDorman’s character, Finch, receives a shot and receives a pill once per day. “12 hour of his day he’ll be enhanced, for 12 hours he’ll be regular Brian Finch,” the show’s producers reveal. “This isn’t Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” […]

TCA: Will CBS’ Supergirl crossover with CW’s Flash and Arrow?

August 10, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

At CBS’ panel for the new series Supergirl at this morning’s Television Critics Association (TCA) panel, executive producer Greg Berlanti (The Flash, Arrow) said that he grew up worshipping the Superman films directed by Richard Donner. That is clear upon watching the pilot of his new series, which maintains the same type of fun and epic style as those earlier blockbusters (and will even include one of the memorable villains seen in Donner’s Superman II). With Berlanti’s other DC Comics TV hits on The CW sharing the same corporate parent as CBS’ Supergirl, a logical question, and probably one in the minds of many comics fans, came […]