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Exclusive Interview: CALIFORNICATION star Evan Handler talks playing an agent

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/24/2013
Evan Handler in CALIFORNICATION | ©2013 Showtime/Randy Tepper

On CALIFORNICATION, the half-hour black comedy created by Tom Kapinos, now in its sixth season on Showtime Sundays at 10:30 PM, David Duchovny’s character Hank Moody may be messed up, but he’s often an island of sanity compared to his agent Charlie Runkle, played by Evan Handler. New Yorker Handler memorably played Harry Goldenblatt in eighteen episodes of HBO’s SEX AND THE CITY, but he’s also well known for TIME ON FIRE, the one-man show he wrote and starred in, based on his memoir about surviving cancer treatment. Handler wrote a follow-up volume, IT’S ONLY TEMPORARY, which has just been […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Sam Witwer on BEING HUMAN and STAR WARS THE CLONE WARS – Part 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/22/2013
Sam Witwer is Aiden on BEING HUMAN - Season 3 | ©2013 Syfy/Jeff Riedel

In Part 2 of our exclusive interview with Sam Witwer, the actor talks more about playing vampire Aidan on Syfy’s BEING HUMAN, plus Darth Maul on Cartoon Network’s STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS and more. ASSIGNMENT X: How did you get into acting? SAM WITWER: When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was like, “That’s what I’m going to do, I’m going to grow up, I’m going to be an actor, I’m going to live inL.A.” And then as I got a little bit older, I was like, “You know, that’s not realistic at all.” […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: DJ Qualls talks LEGIT and SUPERNATURAL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/21/2013
DJ Qualls in LEGIT - Season 1 | ©2013 FX/Matthias Clamer

In LEGIT, the new half-hour comedy created by Jim Jefferies and Peter O’Fallon on FX, Thursdays at 10:30, Jefferies’ character Jim is trying belatedly to grow up. One of his friends is Billy, a quadriplegic who has muscular dystrophy, played by DJ Qualls. Qualls, whose initials stand for Donald Joseph, is an uncommonly lanky native of Tennessee– he’s 6’1” and weighs about 140 pounds, the after-effects of surviving cancer in adolescence. Qualls has been appearing in feature films since his career-making co-star turn in 2000’s comedy ROAD TRIP, with credits as varied as THE CORE and HUSTLE & FLOW, with […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: GUYS WITH KIDS star Jesse Bradford discusses ITEM 47 and his NBC sitcom

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/20/2013
Jesse Bradford in GUYS WITH KIDS - Season 1| ©2013 NBC/Robert Trachtenberg

In NBC’s GUYS WITH KIDS, Jesse Bradford plays Chris, the one single father among the title characters parenting infant; his pals and fellow dads are played by Anthony Anderson and Zach Cregger. Connecticut native Bradford has been appearing in front of cameras since he was in a Q-tip commercial before the age of one. When he was fourteen years old, he starred in the feature KING OF THE HILL for director Steven Soderbergh; he was also the hero of CLOCKSTOPPERS and SWIMFAN, among other theatrical credits, and had an arc on THE WEST WING. His previous gig as a TV […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: BEING HUMAN’s Sam Witwer on Season 3 – Part 1

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/19/2013
Sam Witwer as Adian Waite in BEING HUMAN Season 3 | (c) 2013 Philippe Bosse/Syfy

On Syfy’s BEING HUMAN, adapted for American television by Jeremy Carver and Anna Fricke (based on the British series created by Toby Whithouse), Sam Witwer’s vampire character Aidan and Sam Huntington’s werewolf character Josh move into aBoston brownstone haunted by ghost Sally, played by Meaghan Rath. That was Season 1. At the beginning of Season 3, Mondays at 9 PM, Aidan has been buried in a coffin for eighteen months, and he emerges to find that Josh is now human, though Josh’s girlfriend Nora (Kristen Hager), who he accidentally turned, is still a werewolf – and Sally is alive, back […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Tim Kring on Season 2 of TOUCH

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/15/2013
Kiefer Sutherland stars in TOUCH Season 2 | (c) 2013 Isabella Vosmikova/FOX

On TOUCH, now in its second season on Fox, Fridays at 9 PM, Kiefer Sutherland plays Martin Bohm, a single father since his wife died in the 9/11 attacks. Martin’s now eleven-year-old son Jake (David Mazouz) doesn’t speak, but he has the ability to foresee intricately connected events before they even happen. The first season was set in New York, but now Martin and Jake are in Los Angeles, where they’ve met Lucy Robbins, played by Maria Bello, whose missing daughter Amelia has abilities similar to those of Jake. Tim Kring, who created and executive produces TOUCH (his previous credits […]Read On »


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Movie Review: A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD | (c) 2013 20th Century Fox

Rating: R Stars: Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch, Rasha Bukvic, Cole Hauser, Yulia Snigir, Mary Elizabeth Winstead Writer: Skip Woods, certain characters created by Roderick Thorp Director: John Moore Distributor: 20th Century Fox Release Date: February 14, 2013 The good and bad thing about A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD is that one doesn’t have to be familiar with the other four DIE HARD movies (for those keeping track, the original was released in 1988) to hit the ground running here. On the one hand, it cuts down on pesky exposition (kept to a minimum despite the espionage storyline); […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: THE AMERICANS’ star Matthew Rhys on the new spy thriller

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/14/2013
Matthew Rhys as Philip Jennings in THE AMERICANS | (c) 2013 Craig Blankenhorn/FX

In THE AMERICANS, the new series created by Joseph Weisberg, FX Wednesday nights at 10 PM, it’s 1981 and the Cold War is raging at full strength. Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings, played respectively by Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell, are the perfect all-American couple with a loving marriage and two children. Except … Phillip and Elizabeth are actually deep-cover Russian spies, whose marriage was arranged for them when they were still back in training in the old country.Elizabeth is still devoutly loyal to the cause, while Phillip is tempted to defect – except he’s fallen in love with his wife […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BEAUTIFUL CREATURES

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES | (c) 2013 Warner Bros

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis, Emmy Rossum, Emma Thompson Writer: Richard LaGravenese, based on the novel by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl Director: Richard LaGravenese Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: February 14, 2013 Like its heroine Lena Duchannes (Alice Englert), BEAUTIFUL CREATURES fights hard to retain control of its soul. On the one hand, screenwriter/director Richard LaGravanese’s adaptation of the novel (the first in a series) by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl has wit, charm and a pair of appealing young leads with Englert and Alden Ehrenreich as her mortal boyfriend Ethan. On the […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: TOTALLY BIASED’s W. Kamau Bell talks Season 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
W. Kamau Bell stars in TOTALLY BIASED WITH W. KAMAU BELL | (c) 2013 Matthias Clamer/FX

TOTALLY BIASED WITH W. KAMAU BELL is now in its second season on FX, Thursdays at 11 PM. The talk show, executive-produced by Chris Rock, features Bell’s distinctive progressive viewpoint on a variety of political and social issues, along with guests including George Takei, David Allen Grier and Reggie Watts. At a party thrown by Fox/FX for its talent and the Television Critics Association,Bell moves to a slightly quieter part of the venue to talk about Season 2. AX: Were you surprised or just gratified when TOTALLY BIASED got picked up for a second season? BELL: I was gratified. I […]Read On »


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