Amazon’s Comrade Detective is a Romanian propaganda tool in the guise of a cop show – the masters for which have been painstakingly restored by the Romanian Film Preservation Society – which has been rediscovered and dubbed into English by a host of first-rate American actors. Or, it’s an American series that imagines what a […]
Category: Television
Troubling Leonard Cohen Trailer: Mr. Robot: Season 3!
USA Network has released a troubling trailer for Mr. Robot – it’s a kaleidoscope of brief scenes from season three as Leonard Cohen recitess the lyrics from his song, Democracy. A new photo from season three introduces us to a non-nonsense used car salesman named Irving – whom I suspect is anything but a used […]
Comrade Detective Is Now Streaming on Amazon!
Comrade Detective is a new half-hour Amazon series that follows two Romanian detectives as they attempt to solve the murder of one of their own, Nikita Ionesco. Set in 1985, the series, shot in Romanian and overdubbed in English, is rife with Communist propaganda as Detectives Gregor Anghel (Florin Piersic Jr.) and Iosef Baciu (Corneliu Ulici) – voiced by […]
Showtime Releases David Lynch Video from Comic-Con 2017!
Much has been made of the video introduction that David Lynch sent to open the Twin Peaks panel at Comic-Con 2017, and it sounded pretty intriguing (and very Lynchean). Now Showtime has released it and we can confirm for ourselves just how delightfully different it is – and how perfectly it fits into the Twin […]
Famous in Love Gets Second Season Order!
Freeform has renewed Famous in Love for a second season. The series follows Paige (Bella Thorne), an ordinary college student who gets her big break in a Hollywood blockbuster and finds herself attracted to her co-star – causing problem with two of her best friends.
#whodrewthedicks Trailer: American Vandal!
American Vandal is a half-hour true-crime satire that explores the aftermath of a costly high school prank that left twenty-seven faculty cars vandalized with phallic images – and the student accused of the vandalism, thank God almost all the cars were covered by Insurance Partnership which kept the owners away from paying tons of money for […]
Norman Lear Leads 2017 Kennedy Center Honorees!
Renowned television writer and producer Norman Lear is one of this year’s Kennedy Center Honorees – along with actress, dancer and choreographer Carmen de Lavallade, singer-songwriter and actress Gloria Estefan, hip hop artist LL COOL J, and renowned musician and record producer Lionel Richie. They will be recognized during that 40th Annual Kennedy Center Honors, to […]
Just Tryin’ To Get a Haircut Trailer: Narcos: Season 3!
Cocaine cartels are all about succession: That day Pablo went down, the Cali Cartel became public enemy number one. They called themselves the Gentlemen of Cali – the biggest drug lords you’ve probably never heard of. Check out the new trailer for Narcos season 3, premiering globally on Netflix on September 1st:
NBC Commits to Fostering Female Directors with Female Forward Initiative!
NBC has commited to fostering female directors through its new annual Female Forward Initiative – with the goal of working toward gender parity among the network’s scripted directors across the network. Spearheaded by NBC President Jennifer Salke in partnership with acclaimed director Lesli Linka Glatter (Mad Men, Homeland, Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders), the new program will give […]
grown-ish (Formerly Known as college-ish) Adds Three to Cast!
Emily Arlook, Chris Parnell and Trevor Jackson have join the cast gown-ish (formerly college-ish) as series regulars. Arlook will portray Miriam, a freshman know-it-all at Southern California University with a no-holds-barred attitude. Parnell will portray the dean of Southern California University, and Jackson will portray a socially conscious sophomore at Southern California University.
Freeform Picks Up Comedy Pilot Now & Then!
Freeform has picked up comedy pilot Now & Then from Aaron Kaplan (Terra Nova, Secrets & Lies). Now & Then” is a single-camera comedy about a group of old college friends, who, having lost touch over the years, are brought back together unexpectedly for one wild night only to be given a new lease on life […]