Interview: Giovanna Ottobre-Melton chats about MOB CITY costumes

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/05/2013
Jon Bernthal in MOB CITY - Season 1 | ©2013 TNT

The interiors on the soundstages of Hollywood Red Studios for TNT’s MOB CITY, Wednesdays in two-hour blocks, are as elaborate as any feature film sets. For Frank Darabont’s tale of the Forties-era clash between Los Angeles mobsters and police, production designers Alex Hajdu and Gregory Melton have made sure that everything from the upscale clubs for the well-heeled to the scabby apartments of the desperate all have an accurate Forties look. The costumes designed by Giovanna Ottobre-Melton are similarly true to life. Robert Knepper, who plays Mob enforcer Syd Rothman, enthuses about Ottobre-Melton’s work, “The costumes are great. You put […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Neal McDonough cleans up MOB CITY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/04/2013
Neal McDonough and Jon Bernthal in MOB CITY - Season 1 - "Red Light" | ©2013 TNT/Doug Hyun

In MOB CITY, airing in three two-hour blocks on TNT on successive Wednesdays beginning tonightat 9 PM, some of the characters are fictional, like Jon Bernthal’s protagonist, LAPD Detective Joe Teague. However, some of the characters on both sides of the law in the Forties L.A./mobster noir drama, created by Frank Darabont based on John Buntin’s book, are taken from history. Ben “Bugsy” Siegel (Ed Burns) and Mickey Cohen (Jeremy Luke) made their mark in the annals of organized crime, while soon-to-be-LAPD Chief William Parker would someday have Parker Center named for him. Neal McDonough portrays Parker as the man’s […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Jeremy Carver on SUPERNATURAL Season 9 and the spin-off series

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/03/2013
Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles in SUPERNATURAL - Season 9 - "Dog Dean Afternoon" | ©2013 The CW/Jack Rowand

SUPERNATURAL, created by Eric Kripke, is now in its ninth season on the CW, Tuesdays at 9 PM. Thousands of angels have been expelled from Heaven and landed on Earth. One of them, Ezekiel, has taken up residence within Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki), who is unaware that his brother Dean (Jensen Ackles) has tricked him into accepting the celestial hitchhiker so that Sam can heal. Meanwhile, the Winchesters’ erstwhile angel friend Castiel (Misha Collins) has been turned human by the irate angel Metatron (Curtis Armstrong), who is now alone in Heaven after locking the gates on all his kindred. King […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: ATLANTIS creators talk new show and the end of MERLIN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/02/2013
Sarah Parish, Alexander Siddig and Aiysha Hart in ATLANTIS - Season 1 | ©2013 BBC America

In the fantasy/adventure series ATLANTIS, now airing its first season on BBC America Saturday nights at 9 PM, Jason (Jack Donnelly), who will one day captain the Argonauts and wed Medea, washes up on the shores of the fabled city. There Jason teams up with a rather out-of-shape Hercules (Mark Addy), mathematician Pythagoras (Robert Emms) and a not-yet-snaky Medusa (Jemima Rooper) as he tries to puzzle out his destiny. ATLANTIS executive producers/co-creators Johnny Capps and Howard Overman, who also created the BBC’s MERLIN, are present at a party thrown by BBC America for the Television Critics Association. There they talk […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Rupert Friend chats HOMELAND Season Three

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/01/2013
Rupert Friend in HOMELAND - Season 3 | ©2013 Showtime/Frank Ockenfels 3

In the universe of HOMELAND, now in its third season on Showtime, Sundays at 9 PM, almost everyone has a secret agenda. We still don’t know whether this is true of CIA assassin Peter Quinn, played by Rupert Friend. What we do know is that Quinn is willing to go against orders when he believes they’re wrong, willing to threaten a superior who he believe is acting from pride rather than national protection, and that he’s willing to shoot to wound friend Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) when he thinks she’s jeopardizing a mission. Friend, born in Oxfordshire, England, earned an […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Chloe Bennet hacks into MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/28/2013
Chloe Bennet in MARVEL'S AGENTS OF SHIELD - Season 1 | ©2013 ABC/Bob D'Amico

On MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD, ABC Tuesdays at 8 PM, the team members working under Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) are still getting used to each other. The newest recruit is brilliant, rebellious young computer hacker Skye, played by Chloe Bennet. Bennet is herself somewhat new to film and television work. Previously, she had an arc on NASHVILLE last season and appeared in the telefilm INTERCEPT. Before that, the Chicago native had a singing career, including the pop single “Uh Oh,” released simultaneously in English and Mandarin editions. At a party thrown by ABC for the Television Critics Association, Bennet […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Frank Darabont inhabits MOB CITY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/27/2013
MOB CITY poster art | ©2013 TNT

MOB CITY, TNT’s original series that will run in three two-hour blocks on Wednesdays, Dec. 4, 11 and 18, depicts the battle between the Los Angeles Police Department and organized crime that raged through the Forties, mixing real historical figures like LAPD Chief William Parker (Neil McDonough) and gangsters Bugsy Siegel (Ed Burns) and Mickey Cohen (Jeremy Luke) with fictional personages including Detective Joe Teague (Jon Bernthal), mob associate Syd Rothman (Robert Knepper) and mysterious object of desire Jasmine Fontaine (Alexa Davalos). Writer/director/producer Frank Darabont, who brought the first season of THE WALKING DEAD to television (his feature credits include […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Producer Marcus Wilson talks DOCTOR WHO 50th and beyond!

By SEAN ELLIOTT 11/25/2013
Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor in The DOCTOR WHO 50th Anniversary Special - "The Day of the Doctor" | ©2013 BBCAmerica

Marcus Wilson has been a Producer on the current run of DOCTOR WHO for the last two series. Like all shows he has seen ups and downs in terms of fan and critic reaction to the episodes he has been part of. Now in it’s 50 Anniversary DOCTOR WHO is bigger that it ever has been, and it has a HUGE loyal following here the United States. With specials like AN ADVENTURE IN SPACE AND TIME, and the 50th Anniversary episode “The Day of the Doctor”, this year is big, big, bigger on the inside. Plus Wilson is seeing Matt […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Eric Winter is under the WITCHES OF EAST END spell

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/24/2013
Eric Winter in WITCHES OF EAST END - Season 1 | ©2013 Lifetime

Eric Winter was brought to the attention of the WITCHES OF EAST END producers, according to Lifetime executive vice-president and general manager Rob Sharenow, because the actor attended a Christmas party with his wife Rosalyn Sanchez, who is a regular on Lifetime’s DEVIOUS MAIDS. Sharenow tells the press, “All the Lifetime women thought he was so hot that we had to have him on a show. So there you go.” Has Winter heard this explanation for how he wound up on WITCHES? “I pitched that introduction,” Winters jokes. “I found out about it actually a little bit earlier today. Very […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD producers Jeffrey Bell and Jeph Loeb speak

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/19/2013
Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson in AGENTS OF SHIELD | (c) 2013 ABC/Justin Lubin

MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD, ABC Tuesday nights at 8 PM, deals with the team of non-superpowered folks who assist, investigate and otherwise deal with things pertaining to superheroes in the universe of THE AVENGERS. The series, created by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen, brings back Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg), somehow resurrected – we don’t know quite how yet, but it’s clear Coulson himself has been misled – after his death in AVENGERS as the team leader. Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) is the most experienced agent after Coulson, Ward (Brett Dalton) is muscle, Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) and […]Read On »


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