July 2014 Archives - StayTuned Magazine

FX’s “The Strain” offers unique take on the vampire genre

July 10, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

The catalyst for the beginning of the 13-part FX series The Strain is the arrival of a mysterious airplane, but co-executive producer Carlton Cuse, whose hit series Lost also involved a mystery about a plane, says that this was purely coincidental. “I wasn’t involved in the creation of that idea,” Cuse laughed during a recent interview, “but I think it’s a really good idea.” He’s right about that; the opening sequence of a plane somehow landing in New York City — with all of its passengers and crew seemingly dead — is a gripping, creepily atmospheric scenario, written and directed […]

‘The 90s: The Last Great Decade?’ three-parter premieres July 6 on NGC

July 3, 2014 Lori Acken

National Geographic Channel Takes An In-Depth Look At The Era That Brought Us Televised Warfare, The World Wide Web, Vanilla Ice And Springer. If the 1980s were America’s technicolor candy land, filled with shoulder pads and parachute pants, MTV and the Brat Pack, the 90s was the decade that grew us up a little and connected us a lot, in ways that both thrilled and horrified us. With television cameras in places they’d never gone before — courtrooms, war zones, emerging crime scenes — the line between news and entertainment blurred and then nearly disappeared, while, in the White House, […]

“Sharknado 2” highlights Syfy’s “Sharknado Week”

July 2, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

Syfy’s original Sharknado was a social-media hit when it debuted last summer (though not necessarily a ratings smash, interestingly enough; more people seemed to snark about the film on Twitter than perhaps watched it). Naturally, then, there is now a sequel, which — after soliciting entries for a subtitle from fans via Twitter — Syfy and production company The Asylum have called, somewhat pedestrianly, Sharknado 2: The Second One. (A Sharknado 3 is also already in the works, set to debut in summer 2015, so Syfy is really going to ride this franchise until it jumps the shark, which may […]

Interview: Matt Passmore of USA Network’s “Satisfaction”

July 2, 2014 Barb Oates

“There’s an Everyman sense about Neil Truman,” tells Matt Passmore of his character in USA Network’s new drama Satisfaction. Neil’s been married for 18 years, has a knockout wife, Grace, a 16-year-old daughter, a successful career at an investment firm, an awesome house, even an 80-inch 3DTV, but there’s something missing. With reckless, liberating abandon, he looks to make a change and that’s when his life goes totally Enron. “As he tries to sort out within himself what he truly wants, the kind of man he truly wants to be and the kind of happiness he is truly searching for […]

Judy Greer and Nat Faxon are the perfect match in FX’s “Married”

July 2, 2014 Ryan Berenz

FX’s new comedy series Married stars Nat Faxon and Judy Greer as a couple who can barely remember what life was like before kids, debt and suburbia rained on their romance. Odds are pretty good you know Judy Greer from something. In fact, she wrote a book, I Don’t Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star, mostly about her experiences playing the best friend in every Hollywood romantic comedy you’ve ever seen. Greer gets to take the rom-com route again, but this time it’s in the new 10-episode FX series Married (Thursdays beginning July 17 at 10pm […]