Jimmy Smits has been familiar to TV audiences since the mid-1980s, playing lawyers, cops, nice guys and psychopaths. His addition to FX’s Sons of Anarchy (Tuesdays, 10/9C) as Nero Padilla has given the series new layers and Smits another indelible role. Monday morning, he spoke with a group of journalists/bloggers about (among other things) the […]
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Robot & Human Relations – Karl Urban and Michael Ealy Talk Almost Human!
The idea of teaming a human cop with a robot/android partner isn’t new; there have been a couple of high profile attempts in the past: Mann and Machine on the drama side, and Holmes & Yoyo on the comedy side just off the top of my head. Fox’s Almost Human (Sunday, 8/7C)then Mondays, 8/7C) is, […]
J.H. Wyman & J.J. Abrams On What Makes Almost Human’s Man and Machine Compelling!
After a five season run on Fringe, J.H. Wyman and J.J. Abrams have, in Almost Human (Fox, Sunday, 8/7C – then Mondays, 8/7C) one of the season’s best new shows – and a potential hit paired with Fox’s Sleepy Hollow on Monday nights. Recently series creator/showrunner J.H. ‘Joel’ Wyman and executive producer J.J. Abrams talked […]
John Noble vs. Evil: Former Fringe Star Talks Sleepy Hollow’s Sin Eater!
For millions of people, John Noble will always be serendipitous mad scientist Walter Bishop from Fox’s long-running scifi series, Fringe. Tonight, though, he joins one of the season’s top new hits, Sleepy Hollow (Mondays, 8pm), in the recurring role of Henry Parrish – a sin eater who plays a crucial role in the lives of […]
Sleepy Hollow’s Tom Mison on Ichabod Crane: The Smartest Man in the Supernatural Room?
Sleepy Hollow (Fox, Mondays, 9/8C) returns this week with a new episode guest-starring Fringe’s John Noble. A few days ago,Tom Mison, who stars as Ichabod Crane in the aggressively odd, supernatural series, took some time to speak with a group of journalists/bloggers about what drew him to the series; what he thinks of his co-star, […]
MTV’s Teen Wolf Gets a 4th Season!
Everyone who reads this site knows of my love of MTV’s Teen Wolf. I discovered it on Netflix last year after I interviewed star Tyler Posey. It quickly became one of my favorite bing watches of last year and so far season three is clicking on all cylinders – although the show has gotten the […]
Gravity Composer Steven Price talks with Michelle About Creating the Epic Score!
With few exceptions, a lot of folks overlook the most important aspect of any film – the music score. How different would Raiders of the Lost Ark or Star Wars would have been without John Williams or Lord of the Rings without Howard Shore? As an former musician myself (I used to be good on […]
Simpsons ShowrunnerTalks 25th Season; Homeland Parody!
The Simpsons (Fox, Sundays 8/7C) is the most successful animated half hour in TV history. It’s done that by never falling into a routine; by always taking chances and finding new things to explore, whether within the show, or by finding things from outside to reinvigorate it (there’s a reason that when The Simpsons parodies […]
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Gives Inspiring Tips on Directing!
Hey Everyone, earlier this year I had a chance to spend a few minutes with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I wanted to hold onto this interview until it was time for his Directing debut Don Jon to hit the theaters. He talks about what it was like to direct his first feature film and provides interesting commentary […]
Chatting with the Stars of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s New Film DON JON
You know how sometimes you into a movie with a certain expectation of what you’re going to see? You’ve seen the trailers and they’re cut a certain way giving you the impression that a movie is going in one direction and then you go to see it and it turns out to so much more. […]
The Complexity of Being Gemma – Sons of Anarchy’s Katey Sagal Opens Up!
In Gemma Teller-Morrow, the matriarch of the titular biker club, Sons of Anarchy (FX, Tuesdays, 10/9C), Katey Sagal is tackling a complex, dynamic character who will do anything she can to protect her families – biological and surrogate. Recently Sagal spoke with a group of journalists/bloggers on her character and her character’s place in the […]