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Exclusive Interview: GLEE & THE GLEE PROJECT choreographer Zach Woodlee puts on the moves

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/20/2011

The glee club performs in GLEE - Season 2 - "Blame It On the Alcohol" | ©2011 Fox/Adam Rose

GLEE is an undeniable phenomenon. It’s a hit musical comedy-drama series on Fox, now going into its third year; it’s a series of original cast worldwide live concert tours; it’s GLEE: THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE, now in theaters. All of these are choreographed by Zach Woodlee, who also serves as an on-camera mentor on Oxygen’s reality competition show THE GLEE PROJECT, which has its season finale this Sunday, with the winner getting a role on GLEE the series. Woodlee talks with ASSIGNMENT X about his GLEE-full life. ASSIGNMENT X: On the original GLEE, was there a minimal level of dance […]Read On »

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TV Review: TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY – “The Middle Men” – Review #2

By SEAN ELLIOTT 08/19/2011

Eve Myles in TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY | ©2011 BBC Worldwide Limited

Stars: John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Mekhi Phifer, Alexa Havins, Kai Owen, Bill Pullman, Lauren Ambrose, Arlene Tur, Jonathan Spencer, Frederick Koehler, Jason Brooks, Tom Price, Marc Vann, William Thomas, Ciera Payton, G. Lane Hillman, Lena Kaur, Liz Jenkins, Ernie Hudson Writer: John Shiban Director: Guy Ferland Network: Starz, airs Friday nights Original Telecast: August 12, 2011 Now that there’s only four episodes left of the new TORCHWOOD series MIRACLE DAY, let’s discuss the evolution of Jack (John Barrowman) from a leading man into a pretty looking prop. When the first couple of episodes started, it seemed that while Jack didn’t […]Read On »

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Exclusive Interview: Gina Torres SUITS up for new USA series

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/18/2011

Gina Torres in SUITS - Season 1 | ©2011 USA/Frank Ockenfels

On USA’s SUITS, Thursdays at 10 and already renewed for a second season, hotshot New York lawyer Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) takes protégé Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams) under his wing at the firm. Their little secret: Mike is a brilliant self-taught legal whiz who has never gone near law school, much less passed the bar. Jessica Pearson, the head of the law firm played by Gina Torres, will be much less than pleased if/when she ever finds out about this. Torres, who has often been associated with very tough women – Zoe Alleyne in FIREFLY and SERENITY, Helen Carter […]Read On »

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Exclusive Interview: Abi Morgan counts down THE HOUR for BBC America

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/17/2011

Dominic West, Romola Garai and Ben Whishaw in THE HOUR - Season 1 | ©2011 Kudos Film & Television Ltd

In 1956 England, the BBC is trying out a different style of TV news program. News producer Bel Rowley (Romola Garai) doesn’t want to toe the government line about the rapidly heating-up Suez Canal crisis. Bel’s relationship with married anchorman Hector Madden (Dominic West) is likewise catching fire. Meanwhile, Bel’s chief researcher/best friend/genius Freddie Lyon (Ben Whishaw) pines for her while investigating a pair of murders that seem linked to a sinister conspiracy. Welcome to THE HOUR, the six-part period political thriller/murder mystery/newsroom drama premiering tonight on BBC America (it just aired in the U.K. on BBC2). Series creator/executive producer […]Read On »

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TV Review: TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY – “The Middle Men” – Review #1

By ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG 08/16/2011

Marc Vann and Alexa Havins in TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY | ©2011 BBC Worldwide Limited

Stars: John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Mekhi Phifer, Alexa Havins, Kai Owen, Bill Pullman, Lauren Ambrose, Arlene Tur, Jonathan Spencer, Frederick Koehler, Jason Brooks, Tom Price, Marc Vann, William Thomas, Ciera Payton, G. Lane Hillman, Lena Kaur, Liz Jenkins, Ernie Hudson Writer: John Shiban Director: Guy Ferland Network: Starz, airs Friday nights Original Telecast: August 12, 2011 In the sixth episode of the all-new BBC/Starz co-production of TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY, “The Middle Men,” the action takes place on two fronts as Gwen (Eve Myles) and Rhys (Kai Owen) struggle to save Gwen’s father from the incinerators at a camp in Wales. […]Read On »

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Exclusive Interview: MTV’s TEEN WOLF star Jill Wagner is on the hunt

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/15/2011

Jill Wagner in TEEN WOLF - Season 1 - "Magic Bullet" | ©2011 MTV

On MTV’s TEEN WOLF, which has its season one finale tonight at 10 PM (a second season arrives next year), it may be a toss-up as to which character is the scariest. Sure, that soft-talking homicidal Alpha wolf is menacing in monster form, but Jill Wagner’s beautiful, fanatical, gun-wielding Hunter Kate Argent seems just as capable of destroying the life of good-hearted young werewolf hero Scott McCall (Tyler Posey). North Carolina native Wagner is known to TV genre fans for her roles on BLADE: THE SERIES and STARGATE: ATLANTIS, while reality competition show viewers also know her for her hosting […]Read On »

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TV Review: OUTCASTS – Series 1 – “Episode Eight”

By ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG 08/14/2011

Amy Manson in OUTCASTS - Series 1 - Episode 8 | ©2010 Kudos/BBC

Stars: Liam Cunningham, Hermione Norris, Daniel Mays, Amy Manson, Ashley Walters, Eric Mabius, Langley Kirkwood, Michael Legge, Jeanne Kietzmann, Moshidi Motshegwa Writer: Ben Richards Director: Jamie Payne Network: BBC America, airs Saturday nights Original Telecast: August 6, 2011 In the final episode of the BBC America sci-fi series, OUTCASTS, President Tate’s (Liam Cunningham) fragile Forthaven colony reels from attacks on all sides: a new virus sweeps the population, Julius Berger (Eric Mabius) uses the crisis to topple Tate’s administration, and the mysterious alien “host force” that opposes the human presence on Carpathia may not be the only threat to humanity’s future […]Read On »

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Exclusive Interview: TEEN WOLF director/producer Russell Mulcahy talks finale and hints at Season 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/13/2011

Tyler Posey in TEEN WOLF - Season 1 - "Night School" | ©2011 MTV

MTV’s TEEN WOLF has proved itself to be much more than what one might expect of a TV series about a teenaged werewolf. The show is not only sharp and full of adolescent comedy and angst, but also suspenseful, atmospheric and sometimes genuinely scary. These qualities are largely due to the efforts of writer/executive producer Jeff Davis and his fellow executive producer, director Russell Mulcahy. Mulcahy, an Australian native who got his start in directing on music videos before having a massive feature film hit with the original 1986 HIGHLANDER, helmed half of this season’s TEEN WOLF episodes. At a party thrown by […]Read On »

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Exclusive Interview: Eric Balfour finds safety in Syfy’s HAVEN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/12/2011

Eric Balfour in HAVEN - Season 2 - "The Trial of Audrey Parker" | ©2011 Syfy/Chris Reardon

Based very loosely on Stephen King’s novella THE COLORADO KID, Syfy’s series HAVEN is now airing its second season Friday nights at 10 PM. The title enclave is a small town in coastal Maine where most of the residents are a bit more than human. FBI Special Agent Audrey Parker (Emily Rose) came to Haven in the first episode to investigate a murder, but has stayed on to look into various strange events, including the town’s ties to her own past. One of the few people Audrey meets who doesn’t seem to have some sort of supernatural ability is Eric […]Read On »

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TV Review: TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY – “The Categories of Life” – Review #2

By SEAN ELLIOTT 08/11/2011

John Barrowman in TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY | ©2011 BBC Worldwide Limited

Stars: John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Mekhi Phifer, Alexa Havins, Lauren Ambrose, Kai Owen, Bill Pullman, Arlene Tur, Candace Brown, Tom Price, David Grant Wright, Mark Saldana Writer: Jane Espenson Director: Guy Ferland Network: Starz, airs Friday nights Original Telecast: August 5, 2011 Well, I love TORCHWOOD in pretty any size, way, shape, or form, but the thing I feared the most is blatantly clear in the fifth episode of MIRACLE DAY entitled “The Categories of Life.” The fear that I am addressing is the way a show can lose steam if they are focusing on one single storyline instead of […]Read On »