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FREE CHOL SOO LEE: Filmmakers and activists Julie Ha, Eugene Yi, Gail Whang and Ranko Yamada on new PBS doc – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/24/2023
FREE CHOL SOO LEE | ©2023 PBS

Chol Soo Lee was a young Korean immigrant living in San Francisco’s Chinatown when he was arrested on June 7, 1973, and subsequently convicted, for the murder of Yip Yee Tak. While in prison, Lee was given the death penalty for the killing of a fellow inmate, although Lee claimed self-defense. In June of 1977, reporter K.W. Lee (no relation to Chol Soo), after hearing from young Asian-American activists, began investigating the case for a series of articles in the SACRAMENTO UNION. K.W. Lee found facts that strongly suggested that Chol Soo Lee had been wrongly targeted for the murder […]Read On »


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THE BIG DOOR PRIZE: Actors Djouliet Amara and Sammy Fourlas talk Season 1 of new Apple TV+ series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/08/2023
Djouliet Amara and Sammy Fourlas in THE BIG DOOR PRIZE - Season 1 | ©2023 Apple TV+

In the new Apple TV+ series THE BIG DOOR PRIZE, life in a reasonably contented small American town is disrupted by the arrival of the mysterious Morpho machine. For two dollars, and the input of your fingerprints and your social security number, the Morpho prints out a card that reveals your true potential. Based on the book by M.O. Walsh, THE BIG DOOR PRIZE was adapted for television by David West Read, who was previously an executive producer and writer on SCHITT’S CREEK (a comedy to which THE BIG DOOR PRIZE has already drawn favorable comparisons). The series has already […]Read On »


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LUCKY HANK: Executive producers Paul Lieberstein and Aaron Zelman on new dramedy series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/17/2023
LUCKY HANK Season 1 Key Art | ©2023 AMC

Less than a year after wrapping up six seasons on AMC’s much-awarded BETTER CALL SAUL, Bob Odenkirk is back on the network in LUCKY HANK, which premieres Sunday, March 19, on AMC, AMC+, BBC America, IFC, and SundanceTV. Show runners/executive producers Paul Lieberstein & Aaron Zelman adapted LUCKY HANK from Richard Russo’s 1997 novel STRAIGHT MAN. Both the TV series and the explore the life of Odenkirk’s character, William Henry “Hank” Devereaux Jr., the perpetually annoyed chair of the English department at a small university in a small town. Hank decries both school ad community as the epitome of mediocrity […]Read On »


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Trailer Debut: Bruce Dern in BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE WILD BUNCH on Tubi

By The Editors of ASSIGNMENT X 03/16/2023
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE WILD BUNCH movie poster | ©2023 Tubi

Streaming service Tubi is getting into the Originals game with BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE WILD BUNCH, a retelling of the classic western tale featuring Ross Jirgl as Butch Cassidy, Jilon VanOver as The Sundance Kid and Nikki Leigh as Etta Place. It debuts today and you can follow the link here. CLICK HERE TO WATCH BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE WILD BUNCH The film also stars Academy Award nominee Bruce Dern (NEBRASKA, COMING HOME) as Mike Cassidy, genre favorite Jeffrey Combs (RE-ANIMATOR) as Pinkerton Detective Charles Siringo and E.T. star Dee Wallace As Alice Cassidy. The Plot: When Butch Cassidy and […]Read On »


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A SPY AMONG FRIENDS: Actress Anna Maxwell Martin on fact-based espionage series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/10/2023
Anna Maxwell Martin in A SPY AMONG FRIENDS | ©2023 MGM+

A SPY AMONG FRIENDS, the six-part British miniseries premiering Sunday, March 12, on MGM+ (formerly Epix), is based Ben Macintyre’s nonfiction book A SPY AMONG FRIENDS: KIM PHILBY AND THE GREAT BETRAYAL. Harold Adrian Russell “Kim” Philby, as real-life espionage buffs know, was a high-ranking officer in British Intelligence’s MI-6 division (their equivalent of the CIA) during and after World War II. In 1963, it was revealed that Philby was spying for the Russians, causing him to flee to Moscow. Philby’s friend and fellow MI-6 agent Nicholas Elliott was sent to get a full confession while they were both in […]Read On »


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WORK IT OUT WOMBATS! Creators on new PBS Kids animated series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/06/2023
WORK IT OUT WOMBATS! | ©2022 WGBH Educational Foundation

PBS Kids’ new series WORK IT OUT WOMBATS! premieres Monday, February 6, on the PBS Kids Prime Video Channel. For those unfamiliar with the animal, a wombat is an Australian marsupial mammal that looks a little like a woodchuck. Except, in the case of WORK IT OUT WOMBATS!, the wombats are animated siblings who live with their grandmother in the Treeborhood (that’s a neighborhood in a tree). The program is designed to help children ages three through six begin to understand computer coding. If this ambition sounds like a tall order (especially if you’re an adult who still doesn’t understand […]Read On »


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MURF THE SURF: Filmmaker R.J. Cutler on his docuseries – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/05/2023
MURF THE SURF Key Art | ©2023 MGM+

MURF THE SURF is a documentary series focusing on Jack Roland Murphy (1937-2020), a man filmmaker R.J. Cutler describes as “television’s first true-crime celebrity.” Premiering on Sunday, February 5, on MGM+ and running Sundays thereafter, MURF THE SURF chronicles Murphy’s astounding history, from quintessential ‘50s/’60s surfer to museum jewel heist mastermind- he and his crew stole the fabled Star of India sapphire from New York’s American Museum of Natural History – to convicted murderer to traveling preacher. Cutler directed MURF THE SURF, co-writing it with Ryan Gallagher, and serving as one of the executive producers, a group that also includes […]Read On »


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THE WATCHFUL EYE: Executive producer Emily Fox and actors Amy Acker and Warren Christie talk the new suspense series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/29/2023
THE WATCHFUL EYE key art | ©2023 Freeform

THE WATCHFUL EYE, Freeform’s new contemporary gothic drama, premieres with a double episode on Monday, January 30, and runs Mondays thereafter, available the next day on Hulu. Created by Julie Durk, THE WATCHFUL EYE centers on Elena Santos, played by Mariel Molino, who accepts a job as a nanny to young Jasper Ward (Henry Joseph Samiri) six months after his mother Allie committed suicide. Jasper’s father, Matthew Ward, played by Warren Christie (APOLLO 18, ALPHAS, BATWOMAN), married into the fabulously wealthy Greybourne family. Father and son live in the Greybourne enclave in an enormous, old and possibly haunted Greybourne apartment […]Read On »


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GODFATHER OF HARLEM: Creators Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein on Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/26/2023
GODFATHER OF HARLEM - Season 3 Key Art | ©2023 MGM+

GODFATHER OF HARLEM is back for its third season, Sunday nights on MGM+ (formerly Epix). The series, created by Chris Brancato & Paul Eckstein, chronicles the life and times of real-world New York gangster Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson (played by Forest Whitaker), who ran Black Harlem’s drug trade in the ‘60s, frequently clashing with the Italian Mafia. At the same time, Johnson was friends with Malcolm X (played in Season 3 by Jason Alan Carvell, after being portrayed by Nigél Thatch in Seasons 1 and 2), and had a complicated adversary/ally relationship with Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (Giancarlo Esposito). At […]Read On »


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TRAFFICKED WITH MARIANA VAN ZELLER: The journalist talks her National Geographic docuseries – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
Mariana van Zeller (L) interviews the owner of a boating company that shuttles migrants from Necoclí, Colombia to the Darién Gap in TRAFFICKED WITH MARIANA VAN ZELLER | ©2023 National Geographic

The Emmy-nominated documentary series TRAFFICKED WITH MARIANA VAN ZELLER is now in its third season Wednesday nights on National Geographic, with episodes available the following day on Hulu. In TRAFFICKED, video journalist Van Zeller explores every aspect of the black market, from drugs to fish to human beings. Previous seasons have had episodes about illegal plastic surgery, online romance scams, methamphetamines, stolen cars, and tigers, to name but a few topics. This season, Van Zeller begins with an episode on the black-market organ trade. Other segments include explorations of the surrogacy trade, drugs, gangs, and ghost guns. “Each one is […]Read On »


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