On Monday, May 20th, Fox is premiering a new half-hour comedy called The Goodwin Games. It’s a series with an unusual premise – three estranged siblings return home for their father’s funeral and learn that, somehow, since they were last there, he amassed a fortune of $23 million – which he plans to leave to one of them. The catch is that they have to win a series of games to claim the prize! While it’s not obvious to them, there’s another reason for The Goodwin Games – to bring this trio of wildly different siblings back into each other’s lives and make them a family again.
In the show, which also stars Becki Newton (Ugly Betty) and T.J. Miller (Cloverfield), Scott Foley stars as Henry, the one success of the group – a respected, talented surgeon who is also tightly would and incredibly anal. Foley recently took a few minutes from his busy schedule To speak with a group of journalists/bloggers about the show.
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ABC has unique lineup for 2013-14 that ranges from comedies like The Goldbergs to the comic book adventure of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., to the fantasy of Once Upon a Time: Wonderland. Two of the biggest surprises in the network’s schedule are to slot S.H.I.E.L.D. against CBS’ NCIS and put Wonderland on Thursday nights instead of using it to bridge the fall and spring runs of Once Upon a Time on Sundays.
Another intriguing idea that will be put into play this season is to split ABC’s serialized dramas into two parts, each to run straight through without repeats, with a limited series bridging the gap between the two runs.
This morning, ABC Entertainment Group President Paul Lee spoke about these decisions in regard to ABC’s 2013-14 line-up.
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Today the first four episodes of season two of Lauren go live on the WIGS Channel at YouTube. The criticially acclaimed web series follows Lauren, a young woman in the army who has been raped and whom justice has not served well – and Jo Stone, the officer who is trying to help her. That’s a very simplistic summary of a complex, challenging and emotionally charged drama that tackles one of the most devastating of subjects and it speaks well of the series that is has garnered a large enough to warrant a second season.
Pretty Little Liars star Troian Bellisario plays Lauren and Jennifer Beals (The L Word) plays Jo and the two spoke with a group of journalists/bloggers about the show and the issues it addresses.
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FX’s The Americans is a risk-raking drama; after all, it’s about a pair of deep cover Russian KGB agents living in the U.S. as husband and wife – and they’ve played their roles so thoroughly that they have two children!
The Americans’ first season ended last night after taking tits unusual premise and turning it into a riveting thirteen hours of television. On Tuesday, series creator/executive producer Joe Weisberg and Co-Executive Producer Joel Fields spoke with a group of bloggers/journalists about the show’s very successful first season – including that oddly unsettling final scene.
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Whenever there’s a chance to chat with any of the cast of Warehouse 13 (Syfy, Mondays, 10/9C), I jump at the chance because these guys love to talk about their show. I mean, really love to talk about their show! Where most Q&A’s run for half-an-hour, the folks at W13 will go for as long as they can – and the result often feels more like a conversation with old friends than some obligatory press thing.
Late last week, I had the chance to participate in a call with showrunner Jack Kenny and stars Eddie McClintock (who plays Pete Lattimer) and Joanne Kelly (who plays Myka Bering). The call did not disappoint.
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Tonight, Fox’s Bones (Mondays, 8/7C) closes out its eighth season with the return of Christopher Pelant – who seems to be targeting Booth rather than Bones. Last week, Emily Deschanel spoke with a group of journalists/bloggers about the finale and the unusual way Pelant is operating now that he has Hodgins’ money to go with his own unique genius.
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On a show where characters are dropping like flies – on both sides of the law – it was just a matter of time before The Following’s (Fox, Mondays, 9/8C) most conflicted member of the Cult of Joe bought it. Not long after his final episode aired, Nico Tortorella talked about his run on the show and what it was like filming that scene – and teased this week’s season finale.
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