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

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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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DEVIL’S PEAK: Producer Griff Furst on new coming-of-age crime drama – Exclusive Interview

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DEVIL’S PEAK, based on David Joy’s novel WHERE ALL LIGHT TENDS TO GO, is now available on demand on Prime Video and other VOD services. The film, starring Billy Bob Thornton and Robin Wright, is a coming-of-age crime drama, set in the mountains of North Carolina. Griff Furst is one of DEVIL’S PEAK’s producers, and a prime mover of the project. He is also a prolific director and actor. Speaking by phone, Furst talks about how DEVIL’S PEAK came together, and his career overall. ASSIGNMENT X: Are you in DEVIL’S PEAK as an actor? GRIFF FURST: I am, but it’s […]Read On »


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

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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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THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON: Creator Sara Collins on new Britbox miniseries – Exclusive Interview

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THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON is a four-part British miniseries, which premieres on BritBox on March 8. Based on the novel by Sara Collins, THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON stars Karla-Simone Spence as Frannie, a young, educated Black Jamaican woman who is brought to England in the 1820s. Technically free, Frannie’s gender and race both make it next to impossible for her to refuse employment as a maid in the London household of wealthy George Benham (Stephen Campbell Moore). Then Frannie falls in love with George’s wife Marguerite (Sophie Cookson). Marguerite reciprocates Frannie’s feelings, though their romance is necessarily cloaked […]Read On »


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CARNIVAL ROW: Actors Jamie Harris and Jay Ali on final season – Exclusive Interview

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In CARNIVAL ROW, now streaming its second and final season on Prime Video, faeries and humans share a world that resembles eighteenth-century Europe. Many have settled in the Burgue, where some of the Fae and some of the humans would like to coexist in peace. However, a lot of them hate each other. Jamie Harris plays virulently anti-Fae human police officer Sergeant Dombey, and Jay Ali plays the adamantly anti-human Fae freedom fighter/terrorist Kaine. Their personal animosity is particularly fierce, as Dombey killed Kaine’s wife. In reality, Ali and Harris are good friends, which comes across in their separate but […]Read On »


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CARNIVAL ROW: Actors Caroline Ford and Arty Froushan talk about the final season – Exclusive Interview

Arty Froushan (Jonah) and Caroline Ford (Sophie) in CARNIVAL ROW - Season 2 | ©2023 Prime Video

In CARNIVAL ROW, now in its second and final season on Prime Video, the Fae are rebelling against their human oppressors in the eighteenth-century-Europe-like Burgue. Chief human upholders of the anti-Fae policies are the ruling Chancellor, Jonah Breakspear, played by Arty Froushan, and the leader of the opposition party, Sophie Longerbane, played by Caroline Ford. What nobody except Jonah and Sophie know is that the two of them are in league together. Jonah is privately diffident and listens to Sophie, while Sophie seems to be playing all sides against the middle in her quest for ultimate power. British performer Ford […]Read On »


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FURIA: Actors Ine Marie Wilmann and Pal Sverre Hagen on new Norwegian thriller series – Exclusive Interview

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Norwegian actors Ine Marie Wilmann and Pål Sverre Hagen have worked together on so many films and TV series that, Hagen quips, “It’s like a national joke now.” Their shared credits include the films DIANA’S WEDDING (DIANAS BRYLLUP), SONJA: THE WHITE SWAN, and I TRAVEL ALONE, and the Norwegian television series EXIT and WAR SAILOR (they also both had guest roles on the same season of DAG, but not the same episode). Separately, Wilmann is one of the stars of the film TROLL (currently available on Netflix) and HOMESICK and the TV series DET TREDGE ØYET. Hagen’s other projects include […]Read On »


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CARNIVAL ROW: Executive producer Erik Oleson on final season – Exclusive Interview

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Prime Video’s series CARNIVAL ROW premieres its ten-episode second and final season on February 17. The show debuted in August of 2019, and was promptly picked up for a second, but COVID delayed production so much that it’s just coming out now. In CARNIVAL ROW, a war of acquisition between rival human nations in the Faerie homeland has caused Faeries to flee for safety to the human realm of the Burgue, which resembles Victorian England. Here, Fae are treated as second-class citizens. “Carnival Row” is the name given to the Fae district within the Burge. Among the refugees is the […]Read On »


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

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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

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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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