THE INSTITUTE: Executive producer and director Jack Bender and executive producer and writer Benjamin Cavell on new Stephen King series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/12/2025
THE INSTITUTE - Season 1 Key Art | ©2025 MGM+

Based on Stephen King’s 2019 novel of the same name, the series THE INSTITUTE premieres on MGM+ on Sunday, July 13. The eight-episode first season follows teenager Luke Ellis (Joe Freeman), who has a genius IQ and latent telekinetic powers. Luke is kidnapped and taken to the Institute, headed by the formidable Mrs. Sigsby (Mary-Louise Parker). Here, Luke he finds himself among other psychically gifted young people, who are subjected to a series of odd, often painful experiments. At the same time, former big-city cop Tim Jamieson (Ben Barnes) joins the sheriff’s department in a nearby small town, hoping for […]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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BETTER CALL SAUL: Giancarlo Esposito also chats about THE MANDALORIAN – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/05/2020
Giancarlo Esposito as Gustav "Gus" Fring in BETTER CALL SAUL - Season 5 | ©2020 AMC/James Minchin

BETTER CALL SAUL, now in its fifth and penultimate season Monday nights on AMC, is a prequel/sequel series to the network’s multi-Emmy-winning six-season crime drama BREAKING BAD. While BETTER CALL SAUL primarily chronicles how Bob Odenkirk’s character, quasi-normal lawyer Jimmy McGill becomes slippery advocate Saul Goodman, the series brings back a number of other BREAKING BAD characters as well. Chief among these is drug dealer Gustavo “Gus” Fring, portrayed by Giancarlo Esposito. Esposito has received two Supporting Actor Emmy nominations for playing Gus, one each for BREAKING BAD and BETTER CALL SAUL. The actor, born in Denmark and raised in […]Read On »


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GODFATHER OF HARLEM: Co-creator Paul Eckstein on new Epix gangster drama – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/03/2019
GODFATHER OF HARLEM - Season 1 | ©2019 Epix

Epix’s new Sunday-night series GODFATHER OF HARLEM chronicles the life and times of Ellsworth Raymond “Bumpy” Johnson, played by Forest Whitaker, during the 1960s. Bumpy was a fascinating, paradoxical real-life figure, a gangster who not only kept order but actually helped the citizens in his Harlem neighborhood. More, Johnson had people like black revolutionary Malcolm X (played in the show by Nigel Thatch) and Baptist pastor/congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (played by Giancarlo Esposito) in his circle. GODFATHER OF HARLEM creators Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein (also creators of the series NARCOS) had dealt with Robinson’s story before in the […]Read On »


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