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TV Review: DOCTOR WHO – Series 6 – “Let’s Kill Hitler” – Review #2

By SEAN ELLIOTT 08/30/2011

Karen Gillan in DOCTOR WHO - Series 6 - Episode 8 | ©2011 BBC

Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston, Nina Toussaint-White, Caitlin Blackwood, Maya Glace-Green, Ezekiel Wigglesworth, Philip Rham, Richard Dillane, Amy Cudden, Davood Ghadami, Ella Kenion, Albert Welling, Mark Kileen, Paul Bentley, Eva Alexander, Tor Clark Writer: Steven Moffat Director: Richard Senior Network: BBC America, airs Saturday nights Original Telecast: August 27, 2011 I didn’t grow up on DOCTOR WHO quite the way some of the modern day fans of the series did. I watched the Tom Baker years on PBS, but my Dad was never a fan of the series so I watched what he did (of course […]Read On »

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TV Review: TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY – “End of the Road” – Review #1

By ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG

John De Lancie and Mekhi Phifer in TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY | ©2011 BBC Worldwide Limited

Stars: John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Mekhi Phifer, Alexa Havins, Kai Owen, Bill Pullman, Lauren Ambrose, Candace Brown, Sharon Morgan, Marina Benedict, John De Lancie, Wayne Knight, Paul James, Teddy Sears, Nana Visitor Writer: Ryan Scott and Jane Espenson Director: Gwyneth Horder-Payton Network: Starz, airs Friday nights Original Telecast: August 26, 2011 In the eighth episode of the all-new BBC/Starz co-production of TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY, “End of the Road,” Jack (John Barrowman) is reunited with a long-lost love that may have discovered a way to defeat the Miracle, Oswald Danes (Bill Pullman) learns of his intended fate and lashes out at […]Read On »

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TV Review: DOCTOR WHO – Series 6 – “Let’s Kill Hitler” – Review #1

By ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG 08/29/2011

Albert Welling in DOCTOR WHO - Series 6 - Episode 8 | ©2011 BBC

Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston, Nina Toussaint-White, Caitlin Blackwood, Maya Glace-Green, Ezekiel Wigglesworth, Philip Rham, Richard Dillane, Amy Cudden, Davood Ghadami, Ella Kenion, Albert Welling, Mark Kileen, Paul Bentley, Eva Alexander, Tor Clark Writer: Steven Moffat Director: Richard Senior Network: BBC America, airs Saturday nights Original Telecast: August 27, 2011 In the return of DOCTOR WHO for the second half of Series 6, “Let’s Kill Hitler,” the rather casual chase to recover Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory’s (Arthur Darvill) kidnapped baby leads them to 1938 Berlin, where they once again run into River Song (Alex Kingston), […]Read On »

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Exclusive Interview: LEVERAGE guest star Mark Sheppard on the return of Jim Sterling

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/28/2011

Mark Sheppard in LEVERAGE - Season 4 - "The Queen's Gambit Job" | ©2011 TNT/Erik Heinila

On TNT’s LEVERAGE, airing its summer finale tonight at 9 PM, Timothy Hutton’s former insurance investigator Nathan Ford rides herd on a small team of con artists who pool their various skills in the service of doing the right thing. Not much rattles Ford, but we can see his spine stiffen whenever a male British voice utters the words, “Hello, Nate.” The voice belongs to Ford’s former colleague and frenemy Jim Sterling, played by English actor Mark Sheppard, who recurs on LEVERAGE to alternately thwart, aid and aggravate Nate and Company .Sterling appears in “The Queen’s Gambit Job,” which serves […]Read On »

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Exclusive Interview: Aldis Hodge gets LEVERAGE for Season 4

By CARL CORTEZ 08/27/2011

Aldis Hodge in LEVERAGE - Season 4 - "The Van Gogh Job" | ©2011 TNT/ Erik Heinila

As LEVERAGE wraps up the summer portion of Season 4 (with a return of regular antagonist Jim Sterling played by Mark Sheppard), ASSIGNMENT X chatted with star Aldis Hodge who plays hacker Hardison on the series. Throughout the course of the TNT series, Hardison has went from wise-cracking loner to someone who is finally accepting that he’s part of a team. He also has feelings for the somewhat closes off Parker (Beth Riesgraf) which has been gaining some traction the past couple of seasons. Here’s what Hodge had to say about the latest developments. ASSIGNMENT X: So Sterling is finally […]Read On »

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Exclusive Interview: DOCTOR WHO showrunner Steven Moffat on the rest of the new season

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN

DOCTOR WHO - Series 6 poster | ©2011 BBC

For those who don’t know – in the whole universe, how many can there be? – DOCTOR WHO is a BBC science fiction series that began in 1963, about the titular Time Lord who travels the cosmos in his Tardis with a variety of companions. Whenever the Doctor is fatally injured, he regenerates into a new body, played by a new actor. The series and the Doctor had lain dormant for some years when Russell T. Davies revived DOCTOR WHO in 2005, with Christopher Eccleston in the lead. After one season, Eccleston’s Doctor regenerated into a new iteration played by […]Read On »

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Exclusive Interview: CASTLE Season 4 scoop from executive producer Laurie Zaks

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/26/2011

Nathan Fillion in CASTLE - Season 4 | ©2011 ABC/Bob D'Amico

Over three seasons of ABC’s CASTLE – which returns for its fourth season on Monday, September 19 – we’ve seen Nathan Fillion’s wealthy, best-selling mystery novelist Rick Castle fall for Stana Katic’s Kate Beckett, the dedicated NYPD homicide detective Castle follows around. Initially, Castle’s ride-alongs were for research, but by now everybody recognizes there’s a greater investment there than just getting the facts right. In Season Three, Beckett got a lead on the cold case murder of her own mother, which unveiled a conspiracy involving Beckett’s police captain, Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s Roy Montgomery.Montgomery died heroically, protecting Beckett, but at his funeral, […]Read On »

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Exclusive Interview: Working in WAREHOUSE 13 with Aaron Ashmore

By SEAN ELLIOTT

Aaron Ashmore in WAREHOUSE 13 - Season 3 - "The New Guy" | ©2011 Syfy/Steve Wilkie

Aaron Ashmore is no stranger to genre television. A lot of fans of science fiction television will recognize him from his days on SMALLVILE, but now he’s got a whole new gig as an agent of WAREHOUSE 13. His character Steve Jinks joined this season, and is the Warehouse’s first openly gay character, which also has the uncanny ability to tell when a person is lying. ASSIGNMENT X was lucky enough to get the chance to talk to Ashmore about joining the series, and chatted with him about the experience of joining a cast partway through the run of a […]Read On »

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Interview: DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK star Guy Pearce sees the light

By CARL CORTEZ 08/25/2011

Guy Pearce in DONT BE AFRAID OF THE DARK | ©2011 Film District

In the new horror film DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK, produced and co-written by Guillermo del Toro (with Matthew Robbins) and directed by Troy Nixey, Guy Pearce plays a father whose young daughter (Bailee Madison) is sent to live with him and his new girlfriend (Katie Holmes) in his creepy old house infected by little creatures living in the walls. The film is actually a remake of a classic made-for-TV movie penned by Nigel McKeand – a now classic film that many (including Del Toro) remember fondly for all the nightmares it provided. However, Pearce admits he “knew it […]Read On »

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Exclusive Interview: Sam Witwer reveals the early scoop on BEING HUMAN Season 2

By CARL CORTEZ 08/24/2011

Sam Witwer in BEING HUMAN - Season 1 | ©2011 Syfy/Phillipe Bosse

It ain’t easy being a loner vampire, as Aidan (Sam Witwer) found out on the Syfy incarnation of the BBC series of BEING HUMAN. And when your roommates are a ghost named Sally (Meaghan Rath) and a werewolf named Josh (Sam Huntington) – things can get downright bizarre. As the Syfy series wound down Season 1 earlier this year, Aidan found his loner status threatened when he was suddenly now the leaders of a group of junkie vampires after his mentor and later antagonist Bishop (Mark Pellegrino) was killed. Recently ASSIGNMENT X spoke to actor Sam Witwer to get the […]Read On »

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