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‘Blindspot’ Star Jaimie Alexander Talks Villains, Heartbreak and Halloween!

October 10, 2018 Taylor Neumann Comments Off on ‘Blindspot’ Star Jaimie Alexander Talks Villains, Heartbreak and Halloween!

At the end of Blindspot’s last season, viewers gasped as heroine Jane woke up in the hospital as her previous evil self, Remi, ready to infiltrate and destroy the FBI from the inside. But before she can do that, she needs to convince the team that she’s actually Jane. We spoke with star Jaimie Alexander, who plays Jane and Remi, on what we can expect from the fourth season and what lies in store for her character. Plot twist! Jane’s memory has been wiped again, and now she’s woken up as “Remi” intent on taking the FBI down. How will […]

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‘Taken’: The NBC Thriller Gets a “More Mills” Reboot

January 2, 2018 Lori Acken Comments Off on ‘Taken’: The NBC Thriller Gets a “More Mills” Reboot

When Taken debuted last winter, fans of the Luc Besson film franchise on which the series was based knew they were getting an origin story. What they didn’t expect was that the drama and its core character Bryan Mills (Clive Standen) were almost unrecognizable to the Besson mythology. Rather than give up on a promising premise, NBC instead opted to reboot its reboot, cleaning house on an oft confusing array of supplemental characters and bringing in Person of Interest’s Greg Plageman to oversee a more Mills-centric tale, augmented with just a pair of intriguing newbies. In Season 2, Mills is […]

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MacGyver on CBS: The Gadget Guy Is Back For a New Generation

September 22, 2016 Lori Acken Comments Off on MacGyver on CBS: The Gadget Guy Is Back For a New Generation

MacGyver CBS Premieres: Friday, Sept. 23 at 8/7CT Who’s In It? Lucas Till, George Eads, Sandrine Holt, Justin Hires Mac’s back! The cult-favorite series that ran from 1985-1992 and made Richard Dean Anderson a star gets a fun and pulse-pounding update from Hawaii Five-0’s Peter M. Lenkov and the Saw movie series mastermind James Wan, in his first TV project. Lucas Till — the X-Men films’ Havok — plays a 20-something Angus MacGyver, Department of External Services agent and, yes, massively creative problem solver, with beloved CSI star George Eads taking over as his sidekick Jack Dalton. “For the most part, […]

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AMC Preacher premiere recap: Ya get what you pray for

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Hallelujah and bless AMC! For Preacher is here! • RELATED: We talk AMC’s smokin’ new Preacher with executive producer Sam Catlin! If you’re anything like me, you’ve been dying to feast your eyes on this bad boy since the very first moment AMC made the world privy to its arrival. I expected good, but good just don’t do Preacher justice … It begins with a bang — literally. A “meteorite” shoots through space and beelines it to Africa where a man preaches passionately to a dedicated congregation. He shouts, “Something is coming!” He doesn’t know how right he is. That “something” smashes […]

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Not so fast: Rush Hour TV series isn’t up to speed

March 31, 2016 Ryan Berenz Comments Off on Not so fast: Rush Hour TV series isn’t up to speed

A TV series adapted from a popular film franchise has the benefit of brand recognition and a built-in audience. On the other hand, the TV project is saddled with its own set of expectations and inevitable comparisons to the films. In the case of Rush Hour on CBS, the movies leave their TV adaptation in the dust. Chris Tucker played wisecracking maverick detective Carter and Jackie Chan played straitlaced Hong Kong detective and martial arts expert Lee in three Rush Hour movies. Now CBS is reimagining the interracial buddy-cop action/comedy franchise in a new hourlong series starring relative newcomers Justin […]

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Elodie Yung thinks Elektra in Marvel’s Daredevil “is kind of a sociopath”

March 17, 2016 Jeff Pfeiffer Comments Off on Elodie Yung thinks Elektra in Marvel’s Daredevil “is kind of a sociopath”

Marvel’s Daredevil, the acclaimed Netflix series based on the comic, returns for Season 2 on Netflix March 18, with Charlie Cox again playing the title hero, joined by returning cast members Deborah Ann Woll as Karen, Elden Henson as Foggy, Rosario Dawson as Claire and Scott Glenn as Stick. New to the Daredevil series are Elodie Yung as Elektra, and Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle, a.k.a. The Punisher. You may remember these two characters from various film incarnations, but it sounds like there will be some unique takes on them in this series. “We think Elektra is kind of a […]

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Why I Should Binge-Watch The Shield

February 1, 2016 Eric Kohanik Comments Off on Why I Should Binge-Watch The Shield

WHAT IS The Shield ABOUT? Who is in it? Where is The Shield now? Why is it binge-worthy? Must-sees Most shocking episodes That line was so great A gritty police drama set in Los Angeles, The Shield revolves around a group of detectives dedicated to battling gang activity in the fictional Farmington neighborhood of L.A. Michael Chiklis tops the cast of the series as an ethically compromised detective named Vic Mackey, who heads up the unit known as the Strike Team, which often relies on unethical, corrupt – and illegal – methods to nab bad guys. Original TV Home: FX […]