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THE X-FILES: Mitch Pileggi chats Season 11 and reprising Skinner – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/06/2018
Mitch Pileggi as FBI Asst. Dir. Walter Skinner in THE X-FILES - Season 11 | ©2018 Fox/Frank Ockenfels

Twenty-five years after it began – and after two movies, five Golden Globe awards, and an historic impact on genre TV series – THE X-FILES is back on Fox Network for a ten-episode eleventh season on Wednesday nights. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are back as FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, who investigate possibly paranormal and/or extraterrestrial events with varying degrees of belief and skepticism. Also back is Mitch Pileggi as their enigmatic boss, Walter Skinner, whose past gets examined in the February 7 episode, “Kitten.” Pileggi, a native of Portland, Oregon, has been with THE X-FILES […]Read On »


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HAPPY!: Patrick Fischler chats Syfy’s HAPPY! and TWIN PEAKS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/20/2018
Patrick Fischler as Smoothie in HAPPY! - Season 1 - "White Sauce Hot Sauce" | ©2017 NBCUniversal/Peter Kramer

Based on a graphic novel series, Syfy’s new Wednesday-night series HAPPY! chronicles what happens when a little girl’s imaginary flying unicorn friend (the animated creature is voiced by Patton Oswalt) seeks out the child’s ex-cop hitman father Nick Sax (played by Christopher Meloni) to rescue her from a kidnapper. Developed by Grant Morrison and Brian Taylor, HAPPY! is surreal, funny and very violent. This last quality is enhanced by the character of Smoothie, a mob torturer who really enjoys his work, played by Patrick Fischler. Fischler is a California known for a wide variety of characters, including the fate-changing Isaac […]Read On »


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NCIS: Rocky Carroll on Season 15 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/14/2018
Rocky Carroll in NCIS - Season 15 - "Family Ties" | ©2017 CBS/Bill Inoshita

Now in its fifteenth season, CBS’s NCIS continues to be one of the most popular dramatic TV series on the planet. Currently airing Tuesday nights, the series about the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigation Services has spawned two spinoffs (NCIS: LOS ANGELES and NCIS: NEW ORLEANS) and gone through a multitude of cast changes, though Mark Harmon has held steady as star Leroy Jethro Gibbs and as one of the series executive producers. Rocky Carroll has been with NCIS since Season 5 in 2008 as the man who would become Gibbs’ commanding officer, NCIS Director Leon Vance. Carroll, originally from Cincinatti, […]Read On »


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WHITE FAMOUS: Utkarsh Ambudkar on playing an agent on Season 1 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/10/2017
Utkarsh Ambudkar as Malcolm in WHITE FAMOUS - Season 1 | ©2017 Showtime/Michael Desmond

In WHITE FAMOUS, which just completed its first season on Showtime, Jay Pharoah portrays standup comic Floyd Mooney, who is trying to balance his original fan base with “breakout” fame. Utkarsh Ambudcar plays Floyd’s agent Malcolm. Ambudcar, originally from Maryland, has an arc on THE MINDY PROJECT as the heroine’s relative. He’s also been in a host of other series and films, including PITCH PERFECT and BARBERSHOP: THE NEXT CUT. Often, actors have to go into strange surroundings to research their characters, but most of them have met at least a few agents. Ambudkar talks about playing someone from the […]Read On »


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Director Michelle MacLaren talks THE DEUCE and GAME OF THRONES – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/14/2017
Maggie Gyllenhaal in THE DEUCE - Season 1 | ©2017 HBO/Paul Schiraldi

Created by George Pelicanos and David Simon, HBO’s new Sunday night series THE DEUCE explores the dawn of the modern porn industry in New York in the ‘70s. James Franco, who is also one of the executive producers, plays twin brothers, based on two real people, and Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Candy, a prostitute who has aspirations to become a porn director. Michelle MacLaren directed both THE DEUCE series premiere and the first-season finale. She has also directed episodes of other HBO series, including GAME OF THRONES and WESTWORLD, and was a directing executive producer on the original THE X-FILES and […]Read On »


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PRISON BREAK: Robert Knepper talks iZOMBIE and Bill Paxton – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/06/2017
Robert Knepper at the FOX’s PRISON BREAK Advance Screening and Conversation

In Part 2 of ASSIGNMENT X’s exclusive interview with actor Robert Knepper, he talks about his new projects, working with the late Bill Paxton on last year’s miniseries TEXAS RISING and more about returning to his role as Theodore “T-Bag” Bagwell in Fox Network’s PRISON BREAK revival. ROBERT KNEPPER: I’ve got three or four other indie movies that are coming out soon – FRAT PACK, BADSVILLE … ASSIGNMENT X: You’ve talked about working on THE DATING GAME KILLER … KNEPPER: Oh, my God, what an intense project. Leslie Greif, who was my producer on TEXAS RISING, put this movie together […]Read On »


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BETTER CALL SAUL: Actor Giancarlo Esposito on revisiting his BREAKING BAD character – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/04/2017
Giancarlo Esposito as Gustavo "Gus" Fring in BETTER CALL SAUL - Season 3 |©2017 /AMC/Sony Pictures Television/Michele K. Short

Giancarlo Esposito’s drug kingpin/Los Pollos Hermanos proprietor Gus Fring was one of the standout characters of AMC’s BREAKING BAD, earning the actor an Emmy nomination. It’s taken until Season 3 of BREAKING BAD’s prequel series BETTER CALL SAUL –AMC on Monday nights, starring Bob Odenkirk as criminal lawyer Jimmy McGill prior to his transformation into Walter White’s attorney Saul Goodman – for Gus to show up. Now we’re seeing Esposito play Gus as a less-established, younger man than he was in BREAKING BAD, even though it’s been six years since the actor last played the character. Esposito was born in […]Read On »


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PRISON BREAK: Star Robert Knepper on new Event Series – Part 1 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/28/2017
Robert Knepper in PRISON BREAK: THE EVENT SERIES |© 2017 FOX/Brendan Meadow

PRISON BREAK ended its original four-season run in 2009, with one follow-up made for TV movie, 2009’s PRISON BREAK: THE FINAL BREAK, for good measure. Created by Paul Scheuring, PRISON BREAK deals with brothers Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) and Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell), who wind up taking turns having to break each other out of jail under harrowing circumstances. In their adventures, the form a team of loyal associates – plus the never-to-be-trusted but ever-fascinating serial killer Theodore “T-Bag” Bagwell, also known as Teddy, played by Robert Knepper. T-Bag turned out to be such a powerful character that Knepper wound […]Read On »


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OUTSIDERS: Actors David Morse and Ryan Hurst on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/12/2017
The cast of OUTSIDERS Season 2 | © 2017 WGN

In WGN America’s OUTSIDERS, now in its second season on Tuesday nights, David Morse and Ryan Hurst play father and son, Big Foster Farrell and Li’l Foster Farrell. Both men are part of the Farrell clan, who live with their own customs and beliefs on Shay Mountain in the Appalachias, near the town of Blackburg, Kentucky. The Farrells have a lot of problems both within their own ranks – Big Foster murdered his mother (Phyllis Somerville) to become the clan leader, the Bren’in, only to have his younger wife G’winveer (Gillian Alexy) poison him and claim the position – and […]Read On »


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THIS IS US: Actress Susan Kelechi Watson on the hit NBC series – interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/09/2017
Susan Kelechi Watson as Beth in THIS IS US | © 2017 Ron Batzdorff/NBC

When the THIS IS US cast, plus creator Dan Fogelman, come out on stage for a Q&A session at the Winter 2017 Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour, everybody is a little emotional. This is understandable. Five minutes earlier, they had been informed by NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke that their freshman Tuesday night series had been renewed for not one but two more seasons. THIS IS US deals with the Pearson family. On the thirty-sixth birthday of Jack Pearson (Milo Ventimiglia), his wife Rebecca (Mandy Moore) gives birth to triplets. One of the babies is stillborn, so Jack and […]Read On »


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