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#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 […]

Emily Kinney’s new single part of Hallmark original “Love on the Sidelines”

January 15, 2016 Barb Oates

It’s surprising to hear an actress be thankful for getting a chance to wear makeup and get her hair done, but for Emily Kinney, who spent four seasons running for her life on The Walking Dead (R.I.P. Beth Greene) you understand. The dainty, adorably sweet Kinney stars in the Hallmark Channel original Love on the Sidelines this Saturday (Jan. 16 at 9pmET). In the film Kinney plays an out of work fashion designer, Laurel Welk, who lands a job as the personal assistant to superstar quarterback Danny Holland (John Reardon), who has been sidelined with an injury. Laurel knows nothing […]

NFL Great Joe Theismann Talks “Love On The Sidelines”

January 15, 2016 Kellie Freeze

Even if your mind isn’t eagerly anticipating “the big game,” Hallmark’s newest romantic comedy, Love on the Sidelines, is all about giving love a sporting chance. In Saturday night’s charming flick, Laurel Welk (The Walking Dead’s Emily Kinney) is an out-of-work fashion designer who lands a job as a personal assistant to superstar quarterback Danny Holland (John Reardon of Syfy’s Continuum). Holland’s been sidelined with an injury and the last thing he wants is a female assistant, particularly one who knows nothing about football. But the two opposites strike a bargain and agree to work together on a trial basis. […]

2016 NFL Playoffs schedule: Divisional Playoffs

January 15, 2016 Ryan Berenz

The 2016 NFL Playoffs wild-card round is in the books, with the Kansas City Chiefs, Pittsburgh Steelers, Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks advancing to face the AFC and NFC’s top two seeds in the Divisional Playoffs Jan. 16-17. For the first time in history, all four road teams won in the same a playoff round. A tougher test awaits as they go on the road again to face teams coming off the first-round bye. On Saturday, the Chiefs will face the AFC East champion New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium (CBS, 4:35pm ET). Then, the Packers head to University […]

#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 […]

#TCA16: FOX announces “24: Legacy” pilot, “Prison Break” event

January 15, 2016 Ryan Berenz

FOX made several programming announcements Friday at the 2016 TCA Winter Press Tour: FOX has ordered the pilot for 24: Legacy, featuring a new cast of characters (no Jack Bauer, sorry) but retaining the style and format with each episode representing one hour of a day. According to the FOX announcement, the story will “revolve around a military hero’s return to the U.S. and the trouble that follows him back – compelling him to ask CTU for help in saving his life, and stopping what potentially could be one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil.” Stephen Hopkins will direct […]

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 […]

TBS launches Rashida Jones comedy “Angie Tribeca” with 25-hour Binge-A-Thon

January 14, 2016 Ryan Berenz

Rashida Jones plays LAPD Detective Angie Tribeca in this darkly funny spoof of police procedurals from executive producers Steve and Nancy Carell. TBS is launching the series on Sunday, Jan. 17, beginning at 9pm ET/PT with a 25-hour, commercial-free marathon of the first 10 episodes. The series continues with Episodes 11-20 premiering Mondays beginning Jan. 25. TBS has put together a rather humorous press release that deserves to be shared with the world, so here it is: TBS TO LAUNCH ANGIE TRIBECA WITH 25-HOUR MARATHON OF COMMERCIAL-FREE EPISODES STARTING JAN. 17 RASHIDA JONES, HAYES MACARTHUR, JERE BURNS, DEON COLE AND ANDREE […]

“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 […]