If there are two roles that have served notice more blatantly, that Elijah Wood is more than Frodo, they would be Sin City’s serial-killing Kevin and Wilfred’s (FXX, Wednesdays, 10/9C) Ryan – and Ryan has been around for considerably longer, taking advice from a dog, so probably more influential. Now having finishing shooting the show’s […]
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24: Live Another Day’s Evan Katz and Manny Coto Set Up Finale!
24: Live Another Day (Mondays, 9/8C) has been a pleasant surprise for Fox, this summer. Bringing back an even more damaged than ever Jack Bauer has given the network some decent summer ratings and introduced some intriguing new characters as Bauer once more heads off terrorists – this time to ^prevent the deaths of thousands […]
The Strain: Guillermo Del Toro and Carlton Cuse Want To Creep You Out!
FX’s The Strain (Sundays, 10/9C) approaches vamipirism as a disease – a disease with an intelligence, with nothing remotely sympathetic about it. Premiering this weekend, The Strain will shock you, scare and probably prompt you to laugh nervously as often as you scream (or hold back screams – your choice…). Eclipse had the opportunity to […]
Diane Kruger Sheds an Early Light on Season 2 of The Bridge!
The Bridge (FX, Wednesday, 10/9C) is an unusual series, taking, as it does, Mexican/American relations down to a two-city representative sample – a sample that is further deepened by the cities involved, Juarez and El Paso, not quite being typical cities of either country. Then those relations are taken down to an individual level – […]
Jason Gann On Saying Au Revoir to Wilfred!
FXX’s Wilfred premieres its final season this evening (10/9C) and late last week, we had the pleasure of taking part in a conference call Q&A with series creator/star, Jason Gann. Creatively, the series may have been a bit too far into the absurd to maintain a large audience, but it was always thought provoking and […]
The Last Ship’s Adam Baldwin Is Just As Cool As You Thought He’d Be!
Adam Baldwin plays the second in command, Executive Officer (XO) Mike Slattery on Michael Bay’s new TNT series, The Last Ship (Sundays, 10/9C). Besides having a ton of genre cred (Day Break, Chuck, Firefly/Serenity), Baldwin brings a wealth of experience to the role from working with directors like Robert Redford and Stanley Kubrick. When Baldwin […]
The Last Ship’s Rhona Mitra Is Not An Action Hero!
Rhona Mitra brings a certain cachet to TNT’s The Last Ship (Sundays, 10/9C), the new series from Michael Bay as an actor with a wealth of genre experience (Strike Back, Doomsday, Stargate Universe). She plays a scientist, virologist Dr. Rachel Scott, who is on a classified mission on a U.S. Navy destroyer when a new […]
Fargo: Billy Bob Thornton On The Man From Nowhere!
Fargo’s (FX, 10/9C) Lorne Malvo is unique amongst the ranks of movie and TV antagonists. He comes out of nowhere, disappears like a wraith and can spend six months building an alter ego and a relationship to get a particular job done. He can kill with an assortment of weapons, but can do as much […]
Fargo: Colin Hanks and Allison Tolman Set Up The Season One Finale!
Tonight is final episode of the first season of Fargo (FX, 10/9C) – and quite possibly the last time we’ll see Molly and Gus, one of the most unusual and interesting couples to ever have to solve a multiple homicide. Together, Molly and Gus nicely balance the scales for deadly trickster Lorne Malvo and gone-to-the-dark-side […]
A Sense of Wonder: Neil deGrasse Tyson and Ann Druyan on Cosmos: A Spacetime Journey!
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (Fox, Sundays, 9/8C; National Geographic, Mondays, 9/8C) concludes its season this evening. As with the original series, twenty-four years ago, this iteration has been a joyous exploration of the universe – reinvesting the increasing search for and appreciation of scientific knowledge with the kind of sense of wonder that put people […]
Playing in The Coen Brothers’ World with Fargo’s Noah Hawley!
FX’s hit series Fargo (Tuesdays, 10/9C) is set in a very specific world – one that was created by Joel and Ethan Coen in their brilliant film of the same name. We not only gave the series an A+ grade (which it has maintained through eight episodes, counting tonight’s), we said, ‘You won’t believe it’s […]