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TCA: USA’s Falling Water had unusual inception

August 3, 2016 Lori Acken Comments Off on TCA: USA’s Falling Water had unusual inception

How did Brotherhood creator Blake Masters and the late Homeland writer-producer Henry Bromell come up with the concept of USA Network’s upcoming spinetingler Falling Water, about the power — and danger — of dreams? They got schnockered. At the show’s Television Critics Association summer tour panel, Masters teared up remembering how he and Bromell got drunk at a bachelor dinner in 2006 and came up with the idea of three strangers who come to the realization that they’re all dreaming parts of the same dream.In other words — what would happen if someone could wander out of their own dream and into […]

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TCA: Harry Connick Jr. on new talker Harry: “This feels most like me”

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Harry Connick Jr. appeared at the Television Critics Association press tour today to preview his new syndicated weekday talk show Harry which premieres Sept. 12. Flanked by his co-executive producers, brothers Justin and Eric Stangel and Jason Kurtz, Connick Jr. said that having done music, sitcoms, feature films and Broadway, the new venture “seems to be most in line with who I am.” “I’m obsessed with entertainment,” he told reporters. “I felt that this will be an opportunity to do all the things I love to do — all under one roof.” Justin Stangel said the format of Harry is shaped by how the […]

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Lady Mary, She’s Not. Check Out Downton’s Michelle Dockery In Her Bold New Role

August 2, 2016 Lori Acken Comments Off on Lady Mary, She’s Not. Check Out Downton’s Michelle Dockery In Her Bold New Role

Brace yourselves, Downton Abbey fans — the walking, talking raw wound that is Michelle Dockery’s Letty Dobesh in the upcoming TNT sizzler Good Behavior is about as far from Downton Abbey’s Lady Mary as the actress could get. And she’s every bit as awesome. Dockery is a force as Letty, a troubled but talented con who can’t get herself straight, despite an empathetic parole officer (Kinney) and the longing to be a worthy parent to her son, now raised by Letty’s bitter mom (Strus). When she crosses paths — and matches wits — with charismatic hit man Javier (your next TV crush, Juan […]

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TCA: ID Announces James Patterson Series, JonBenét Special, more

August 1, 2016 Lori Acken Comments Off on TCA: ID Announces James Patterson Series, JonBenét Special, more

ID Addicts, get ready to feed your obsession. At the Television Critics Association Press Tour, Discovery Networks honcho Henry Schleiff announced a slew of intriguing projects that will debut throughout the rest of 2016 and into 2017 on Investigation Discovery. Top of the list? A scripted series from wildly popular novelist James Patterson, culled from his new book imprint BookShots — bite-sized thrillers from Patterson and a stable of other authors. Also on the docket — a fresh look at the JonBenét Ramsay case, a searing examination of the cases of four wrongfully convicted women in San Antonio and an exploration of the current state […]

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#TCA16: PBS partners with NPR on Election 2016, gears up for Post-Downton Era

January 19, 2016 Ryan Berenz Comments Off on #TCA16: PBS partners with NPR on Election 2016, gears up for Post-Downton Era

PBS announced new programming initiatives for 2016 at the TCA Winter Press Tour: PBS has entered into a strategic partnership with NPR to share news content between the two organizations as part of its PBS Election 2016 news, public affairs, documentary and digital programming surrounding the year’s politics. PBS and NPR team up to integrate content on PBS.org (beginning in February) and on the Politics section of NPR.org. PBS announced 16 for ’16 (working title), a 16-week documentary series that spotlights unforgettable presidential and vice-presidential candidates whose campaigns weren’t successful but earned them a significant place in the history books. Subjects […]

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#TCA16: FX presents “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”

January 16, 2016 Ryan Berenz Comments Off on #TCA16: FX presents “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”

  FX’s 10-episode limited series The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (premiering Tuesday, Feb. 2, at 10pm ET/PT) dramatizes one of the seminal news stories of the 20th century: the events surrounding the arrest and trial of former football star O.J. Simpson for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994. Based on Jeffrey Toobin’s book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson and from executive producer Ryan Murphy, the series assembles a stellar cast, including John Travolta, Cuba Gooding Jr., David Schwimmer, Sarah Paulson, Courtney B. Vance, Bruce Greenwood, […]