Television

WHITE WATER stars Amari & Amir O’Neil chat about their civil rights dramedy – exclusive interview

The cast of WHITE WATER, an original film for Black History Month on TV One channel | © 2015 TV One

In TV One’s original telefilm WHITE WATER, premiering Saturday, February 7 at 8 PM, we’re in a small, racially segregated Alabama town in 1963. Young Michael, played by seven-year-old twins Amari and Amir O’Neil, develops an obsession with tasting the water from the “whites only” drinking fountain, imagining it must be delicious. Michael’s innocent but determined quest points up the absurdity of racism. The film, based on a true story, is directed by Rusty Cundieff (FEAR OF A BLACK HAT) from a teleplay by Michael C. Brandy and Eric Stein. WHITE WATER also stars Larenz Tate and Sharon Leal as […]Read On »


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David Harewood on SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED – exclusive interview

SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED | © 2015 PBS

In 2012, England’s BBC4 and America’s PBS, via member station WNET New York Public Media, joined together to bring forth SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED, a series of documentaries about Shakespeare’s plays, which aired on PBS in 2013. Each segment, hosted by someone famed for their connection to the Bard’s work, was full of insights into the source and inspiration of the plays and interviews with actors, directors and other experts who had insights into the material. This year, a second season of SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED is airing on PBS. The first two segments, with Hugh Bonneville on A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM and Christopher […]Read On »


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THE MIDDLE co-creator Eileen Heisler talks Season 6 – exclusive interview

Neil Flynn and Patrica Heaton star in THE MIDDLE on ABC | © 2015 ABC/Michael Ansell

ABC’s THE MIDDLE, Wednesdays at 8 PM, is now in its sixth season. The half-hour comedy stars Patricia Heaton as Frankie Heck and Neil Flynn as her husband Mike, parents of Axl (Charlie McDermott), Sue (Eden Sher) and brainy Brick (Atticus Shaffer), all living the middle-class live in Orson, Indiana. The Hecks are quirky in the way that all families are quirky, often quarrelsome and yet ultimately loving. THE MIDDLE and its ABC comedy stable mate MODERN FAMILY launched at the same time. Even though the latter gets far more press, the ratings for the two shows are very similar. […]Read On »


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Sasha Roiz on GRIMM and the Grimmster Endowment – exclusive interview

Sasha Roiz stars as Captain Sean Renard on GRIMM | © 2015 Scott Green/NBC

On NBC’s GRIMM, now in its fourth season Fridays at 9 PM, Sasha Roiz plays Sean Renard, a Portland, Oregon police captain who’s also a Zauberbiest. For those just tuning in, a Zauberbiest is the male version of a Hexenbiest, a shape-shifting witch. One example of a Hexenbiest is Renard’s former lover Adalind (Claire Coffee), the mother of their baby Diana. Adalind is livid with Renard, as she’s just found out he conspired with the Resistance to take Diana from her mother and give her to Kelly Burkhardt (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), who’s a Grimm and the mother of Grimm Nick […]Read On »


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ARROW and THE FLASH producer Marc Guggenheim interview – Part 2

Stephen Amell stars as The Arrow in ARROW on CW | © 2015 Ed Araquel/The CW

In Part 2 of our interview with ARROW and THE FLASH developer/executive producer/show runner Marc Guggenheim, he talks more about those series and CW Seed’s animated VIXEN. AX: Are you involved with the animated VIXEN series for CWSeed.com? MARC GUGGENHEIM: I am, actually, and it’s a great deal of fun, I have to say. I always love working in different mediums, and we’re going to do, basically, an animated spin-off [of ARROW and THE FLASH]. It’s going to center on Vixen, who I came to know as a former member of the Justice League. This is a six-part origin story, […]Read On »


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HENRY DANGER star Jace Norman talks Season 1 – exclusive interview

Jace Norman stars as Henry Hart in HENRY DANGER on Nickelodeon | © 2015 James Dimmock/Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon’s HENRY DANGER is now in the second half of its first season Saturdays at 8 PM and already picked up for a second. In the half-hour superhero show, fourteen-year-old Jace Norman plays thirteen-year-old Henry Hart. Henry has a secret identity as Kid Danger, sidekick to minimally-masked superhero crime fighter Captain Man (Cooper Barnes). Norman, a native of New Mexico, is young but already a Nickelodeon veteran, with a previous guest role on the network’s THE THUNDERMANS and the lead in the upcoming telefilm SPLITTING ADAM. Over the phone, Norman talks about being in the DANGER business. AX: What happens […]Read On »


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12 MONKEYS showrunners give the scoop on Season 1 – exclusive interview

Aaron Stanford stars as James Cole in SyFy's 12 MONKEYS | © 2015 Ben Mark Holzberg/Syfy

On Syfy’s 12 MONKEYS, Fridays at 9 PM, the world’s population has been almost wiped out by a devastating plague and most of the survivors are vicious to the point of being bestial. A small group of scientists send James Cole (Aaron Stanford) back in time to 2015, just before the plague breaks out, in the hopes that he can prevent it from spreading and thus change history. 12 MONKEYS is based on the 1995 feature film TWELVE MONKEYS, directed by Terry Gilliam from a screenplay by David Webb Peeples & Janet Peeples, which is itself based on the French […]Read On »


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ARROW and FLASH showrunner Marc Guggenheim gives midseason scoop – interview

Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen in ARROW | © 2015 Cate Cameron/The CW

Marc Guggenheim, an executive producer/show runner on the CW’s ARROW, Wednesdays at 9 PM, and its spin-off THE FLASH, Tuesdays at 8 PM, is very happy. Not only have both series been picked up for next season – it will be ARROW’s fourth and THE FLASH’s second – but the network has put together an impressive display of costumes from both D.C. Comics-derived series for the Television Critics Association. THE FLASH, a DC Comics title, was born for television in the generation within episodes of ARROW (itself derived from DC Comics’ GREEN ARROW), introducing super-fast Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) to […]Read On »


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Jeph Loeb on MARVEL’S AGENT CARTER – exclusive interview

Hayley Atwell stars as Peggy Carter in MARVEL'S AGENT CARTER | © 2015 ABC/Bob D'Amico

On ABC’s freshman eight-episode series MARVEL’S AGENT CARTER, Tuesdays at 9 PM, we’re with the resourceful Agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) just after the end of World War II. Carter is part of the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR). Carter is the SSR’s most valuable asset, a fact that is lost on most of her male colleagues. No matter – Carter has no problem saving the day without credit. A good thing, too, as SSR will one day become S.H.I.E.L.D., which is explored in the present day in MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD (which will resume its second season when Season 1 […]Read On »


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JANE THE VIRGIN star Andrea Navedo talks Season 1 – exclusive interview

Andrea Navedo as Xiomara in JANE THE VIRGIN | © 2015 JSquared/The CW

The cast of The CW’s JANE THE VIRGIN is in a celebratory mood. The series, now in its first season 9 PM on Mondays, has been officially picked up for a second year. Furthermore, leading lady Gina Rodriguez, who plays the title role, has just won a Golden Globe for her performance. JANE THE VIRGIN, based on a telenovela, is a comedic soap opera. Suavely narrated by Anthony Mendez, it tells the story of Jane, a young aspiring writer who has held onto her virginity but finds herself pregnant via a mistaken artificial insemination (it was supposed to be a […]Read On »


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