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Showtime to Air Twin Peaks Prequel, Plays 'Important Part' in Revival
9 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, the tepidly received 1992 movie prequel to the cult classic ABC series, is set to air on Showtime Wednesday, March 1, at 8/7c — perhaps offering a tiny hint of what’s at stake when the 18-episode Twin Peaks revival hits the premium cabler later this spring.
Appearing at the Television Critics Association winter press tour last month, perhaps the most that series auteur David Lynch “revealed” about the super-secret follow-up is that Fire Walk With Me may be required reading of sorts. Detailing as it »
ABC Picks Up Two Pilots Including Toni Collette Spy Dramedy
31 January 2017 7:30 PM, PST | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
ABC has picked up two more pilots, including “Unit Zero,” an action spy dramedy starring Toni Collette from “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris, Variety has learned.
The network also ordered the thriller “Salamander,” based on the Belgian format.
“Unit Zero” follows Jackie Fink (Collette), a brilliant but unassuming CIA engineer and single mom, as she leads a team of desk jockeys into the field as secret agents. Overlooked in the workplace, their invisibility makes them perfect for the CIA’s most covert missions.
The hourlong dramedy was created by “Black-ish” writer/producer Lindsey Shockley, who will serve as executive producer with Barris. “Pineapple Express” director David Gordon Green has signed onto direct the pilot. ABC Studios is also behind “Unit Zero.”
For Barris, “Unit Zero” marks his second pilot pickup at ABC, following the comedy “Libby & Malcolm,” which will star Felicity Huffman and Courtney B. Vance. Barris attached talent to both of his projects early during development season »
- Elizabeth Wagmeister
Frank Pellegrino, 'Sopranos' Star and Restaurateur, Dies at 72
21 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - TV News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - TV News news »
Frank Pellegrino, The Sopranos actor-cum-restaurateur, died Tuesday in New York after a battle with lung cancer. He was 72.
The native New Yorker had several notable film and television roles in an acting career that spanned over 25 years including Goodfellas (where he played racketeer Johnny Dio), Cop Land, Mickey Blue Eyes and multiple episodes of Law & Order.
Pellegrino's most famous role, however, was playing dogged FBI Chief Frank Cubitoso in The Sopranos who heads the agency's strategy in the long-running Soprano/Dimeo case.
As well as acting, Pellegrino was a well-known personality in the New York restaurant industry. He co-owned the famed »
- Abid Rahman
ABC Picks Up Comedy Pilots From Ellen DeGeneres, Aaron Kaplan
5 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
ABC has greenlit another pair of comedy pilots, both from heavy players.
The network has picked up pilots for “Charlie Foxtrot” and “Splitting Up Together,” Variety has learned.
“Charlie Foxtrot” hails from scribe Sam Sklaver, a writer/producer on ABC’s “American Housewife.” Aaron Kaplan and Dana Honor of Kapital Entertainment are serving as executive producers. ABC Studios is producing.
The single-camera comedy follows Captain Charlie Taylor, a cautious, lovable dentist stationed at Fort Bragg, who promises to look after his brother’s impulsive fiancée and her two misfit teens while his brother is deployed in Iraq.
“Splitting Up Together” hails from “Suburgatory” and “Selfie” creator Emily Kapnek, who penned the pilot. Ellen DeGeneres is exec producing through her company, A Very Good Production.
The single-cam comedy tells the story of a couple whose marriage is reignited by their divorce.
The pilot is based on the original Danish series, created by Mette Heeno, who »
- Elizabeth Wagmeister
Nickelodeon Picks Up ‘The Dude Perfect Show’ for Season 2 (Exclusive)
15 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Nickelodeon has picked up comedy-sports series “The Dude Perfect Show” for a second season as the gang gears up for the network’s “Superstar Slime Showdown at Super Bowl,” TheWrap has exclusively learned. Five best friends, Tyler Toney, Cody Jones, Garrett Hilbert and twins Coby and Cory Cotton, and their panda mascot make up the Dude Perfect crew, who turned the No. 1 Sports Channel on YouTube into a show on Nickelodeon. Together, they have over 40 million fans and followers across social media platforms with over 2.5 billion online video views. Season two of “The Dude Perfect Show” will air on Nickelodeon during the Summer. »
- Brian Flood
CBS Orders Redeveloped Comedy Pilot From ‘Himym’ Team
13 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
CBS has ordered comedy pilot “Real Life” from “How I Met Your Mother” writer Hilary Winston and executive producers Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, Variety has learned.
Originally based on a web series from Avital Ash, the project had been ordered to pilot last season, but redeveloped for this year. The hybrid comedy chronicles the relationship of two 20-somethings who go from being co-workers on opposite coasts to working in the same office. Sony Pictures Television will produce in association with CBS Television Studios. Winston will serve as writer and executive producer alongside exec producers Bays and Thomas.
Winston had previously created the short-lived TV adaptation of the “Bad Teacher” film for CBS, with Ari Graynor in the lead role. This development season, Bays and Thomas also landed another comedy project at CBS with writer Chris Distefano. The family sitcom landed an initial hefty pilot production commitment — however, it still has yet to receive a formal pilot »
- Oriana Schwindt and Elizabeth Wagmeister
Controversial Breitbart Editor’s Speech Canceled Amid Fiery Berkeley Protest
2 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
A speech by Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos was canceled tonight at the University of California at Berkeley as protesters smashed windows, tossed smoke bombs and set a gas-fueled generator alight. The raucous protest on the campus’ Sproul Plaza was captured live on CNN tonight, with correspondent Kyung Lah seemingly shaken at times by the loud booms. Neither MSNBC nor Fox News cut to live coverage. Yiannopoulos’ speech was set to begin at 7 pm. Protesters, many… »
The 100 Season 4 Premiere Review: “Echoes” of the Past
2 hours ago | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
Guys. Guys. Guys. The 100 is back. I’ve been looking forward to this for about every other minute since I met some of the cast at Comic-Con. Showrunner Jason Rothenberg, along with the several of the cast members, teased me (and hopefully my readers, too) about Season 4 and set the expectations very high. Though some things about it felt a little odd, the premiere was action packed and exciting at every corner, and set up what should be an excellent season for the show. This week on The 100: Skaikru is named public enemy number one in the aftermath of the City of Light’s
The 100 Season 4 Premiere Review: “Echoes” of the Past »
- Nick Hogan
The Magicians Season Episode 2 Review: “Hotel Spa Potions”
3 hours ago | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
The Magicians gives us the first filler episode of the season. The writers surprise me with how early they chose to have a filler, and “Hotel Spa Potions” felt disjointed throughout. The main crew set out to find battle magic at Brakebills with the help of some professors. At one point, the dead introduces Quentin and Alice to a very sexual Pixie, all to get a spell. Eventually, they get what they need, but it felt unfocused. Quentin warns Julia that the spell they will use to kill the Beast could also kill her, and she does not take this
The Magicians Season Episode 2 Review: “Hotel Spa Potions” »
- Dara Driscoll
Samantha Bee ‘Full Frontal’ Extra: Donald Trump Is Like ‘Gilmore Girls’ Brat
3 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Donald Trump’s been called a lot of things, but Samantha Bee’s come up with a new one: The president, she says, is like the Gilmore Girls‘ Paris Geller, that snobby girl who staffed the school newspaper staff with her best pals regardless of talent. “It’s like that, but with the leader of the free world and nukes,” says Bee in this “extra” bit released before tonight’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee on TBS. Bee performed the bit on Facebook Live an hour before the 10:30… »
Arrow Season 5 Episode 11 Review: “Second Chances”
3 hours ago | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
Since Laurel’s death last season on Arrow, Oliver has struggled to find a way to honor his loved one’s legacy. To Oliver, Laurel was a friend, lover, and, at many times, an inspiration, but as the Black Canary, she was something more, as she served as a heroic example to the people of Star City, a model that citizens could look up to if they wanted to care for and protect their city. As Felicity and the rest of the team make perfectly clear early on in “Second Chances,” no one will ever be good enough to replace Laurel for Oliver;
Arrow Season 5 Episode 11 Review: “Second Chances” »
- Chris King
‘Vikings’ Season 4 Finale: Michael Hirst on Shocking Deaths, Series’ Possible End (Spoilers)
3 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Spoilers for those who haven’t seen Wednesday night’s Season 4 finale of “Vikings.”
The sons of Ragnar, different and yet all so like their father, have been united by a single purpose these last few episodes of Season 4: to avenge their father’s death at the hands of King Aelle and, by proxy, King Ecbert (Linus Roache). But they all seem to have different ideas about what to do next — settle down in East Anglia, go back to raiding, sail to yet further shores. And it’s all complicated by Ivar (Alex Høgh) throwing an axe into his brother Sigurd (David Lindström), bringing the finale’s main character body count up to three. “Vikings” creator Michael Hirst called up Variety to talk about what’s next.
Will anything happen to Ivar? One would think kinslaying would be a pretty serious deal.
Ivar’s in a special position, he always has been. I »
- Oriana Schwindt
‘The Expanse’ Season 2 Review: Syfy’s Boldest Gamble Continues to Pay Out Richly
3 hours ago | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
A few weeks ago, Syfy released the below catch-up video for “The Expanse,” with one of the best conceits imaginable for getting new audiences interested in the sci-fi drama: the events of Season 1, as recreated by cats. (A “recat” video, if you will.)
This video does serve as a relatively basic reminder of the major plot arcs of the first season, but if you think that by watching this you’ll be able to dive into the second season as a new viewer, you probably won’t have much luck understanding what’s going on. “The Expanse” has little interest in easing viewers back into the sprawling and complicated universe it built over the course of Season 1 — because there’s simply too much story to tell.
Set 200 years in the future, when human colonization of Mars and the asteroid belt has opened up vast new resources, but created no shortage of political conflict, »
- Liz Shannon Miller
The 100 Ep on That Lexa Moment in the Season 4 Premiere: 'It Was Important'
3 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and The 100 gang could not be feeling any less fine.
Picking up immediately after the war with Alie, Wednesday’s season premiere found Clarke & Co. sifting through the (literal and emotional) wreckage at Polis, attempting to regain their bearings and make a plan for their collective future — what’s left of it, anyway.
RelatedNeed a refresher? Here’s how The 100 ended its third season
Clarke spent much of the hour contemplating how to share the bad news with her people — Hallmark, sadly, doesn’t make a card »
TV Review: ‘Superior Donuts’ on CBS
4 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Few things are more reliable these days than the arrival of complaint-driven comedies that have no love for millennials, kale and man-buns. “Superior Donuts” slides very easily into that category with an air of confidence that is not backed up by its warmed-over jokes or by the stale assumptions that it peddles.
The problem starts with the premise: Jermaine Fowler plays Franco, an aspiring artist who goes to work at a doughnut shop owned by the grumpy Arthur (Judd Hirsch) in a gentrifying Chicago neighborhood. Franco’s ideas about how to market the shop are greeted with hostility by Arthur, and the first three episodes revolve around Franco’s unceasing efforts to drum up business for Superior Donuts while also keeping the shop owner safe from crime, which remains a problem in the neighborhood. Why the energetic Franco would expend this much effort for a sour man who is financially solvent and content to grumble, sell »
- Maureen Ryan
Arrow Recap: Oliver's Canary Hunt Leads to a Dynamite Name-Drop
4 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
This week’s episode of Arrow aimed to accomplish a lot — and damn if it didn’t hit the bull’s-eye on all counts.
RelatedMatt’s Inside Line: Scoop on an Arrow Return and More
First and foremost, Oliver shifted his promise to hand off the Black Canary mantle into high gear, waving off ridiculously impressive resumes (“It’s a feel thing”) to instead zero in on the closest thing to bashert (as Rory puts it) he saw: a female vigilante/”urban legend” who couples elite hand-to-hand combat skills with a sonic cry, obtained years ago via the Central City particle accelerator explosion. »
‘NCIS: La’ Will Pay Tribute to Miguel Ferrer
4 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
“NCIS: Los Angeles” will pay tribute to the late actor Miguel Ferrer next March. Ferrer, who starred for seven seasons on the CBS drama, died last month at the age of 61 of throat cancer.
The March 5 episode of “NCIS: Los Angeles” will feature a version of the Bob Dylan song “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” performed by Ferrer’s band the Jenerators and sung by Ferrer. A title card remembering Ferrer will be displayed at the episode’s end.
Ferrer was the son of singer Rosemary Clooney and actor Jose Ferrer, and also first cousin to George Clooney.
In a statement last month following Ferrer’s death, “NCIS: Los Angeles” showrunner R. Scott Gemmill said, “Today, ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ lost a beloved family member. Miguel was a man of tremendous talent who had a powerful dramatic presence on screen, a wicked sense of humor, and a huge heart.”
Ferrer’s other live-action TV roles included “Twin Peaks,” “Shannon »
- Daniel Holloway
ABC Orders ‘Las Reinas’ Drama Pilot
4 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
ABC has ordered a pilot for the female-driven drama “Las Reinas,” Variety has learned.
“Las Reinas” centers around detective Sonya De La Reina, who is forced to confront her past when a case compels her to reconnect with her estranged family — the most powerful criminal outfit in Miami. Thrust back into the world she thought she had left behind, Sonya must walk the murky line between the law and her family, and question her true destiny as a De La Reina.
The hourlong drama hails from “Lara Croft Tomb Raider” writer Dean Georgaris, who will executive produce with Mark Gordon and Nicholas Pepper. ABC Studios is producing with Mark Gordon Co., which is behind ABC’s “Designated Survivor,” “Quantico” and “Grey’s Anatomy.”
The pilot order is the third today for ABC, following the pickups for two comedies: “Charlie Foxtrot” from producer Aaron Kaplan and “Splitting Up Together” from Ellen DeGeneres.
According »
- Elizabeth Wagmeister
ABC Orders ‘Las Reinas’ Miami Crime Drama From Mark Gordon, Dean Georgaris
4 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
ABC has handed a pilot order to drama Las Reinas, from producer Mark Gordon (Designated Survivor), feature writer Dean Georgaris (Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life), ABC Studios and the Mark Gordon Co. The project was originally developed at ABC and ABC Studios during the 2014-15 development season when The Mark Gordon Co. was still a pod based at the studio. At the end of that season, Gordon went indie with his company, which is backed by eOne. Because the… »
ABC Orders Emily Kapnek & Sam Sklaver Comedy Pilots From Ellen DeGeneres & Aaron Kaplan
5 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
ABC has given pilot orders to single-camera comedies Splitting Up Together, from Suburgatory and Selfie creator Emily Kapnek, Ellen DeGeneres' A Very Good Prods. and Warner Bros TV; and Charlie Foxtrot, from writer Sam Sklaver (Blunt Talk), Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment and ABC Studios. Both projects had put pilot commitments. This marks Kaplan’s fourth pilot order, the most for a producer so far this season. In her return to ABC where she created Suburgatory and S… »
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