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ALL RISE: Simone Missick is the Judge on new CBS series – Interview

Simone Missick as Lola Carmichael in ALL RISE - Season 1 | ©2019 WBEI. All rights reserved/Tommy Garcia

In the new CBS Monday-night comedy/drama ALL RISE, created by Greg Spottiswood, Simone Missick stars as Judge Lola Carmichael. Lola, a former prosecutor, has just been appointed to the bench in Los Angeles. Lola tries to balance her conscience with the letter of the law, along with juggling friendships with former peers who now present their cases in her courtroom. Originally from Detroit, Missick played reporter Misty Knight in three interlinked Marvel Netflix series, LUKE CAGE, IRON FIST, and THE DEFENDERS. Next year, she is in Season 2 of Netflix’s ALTERED CARBON. ASSIGNMENT X: Do you think having a character […]Read On »


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SILICON VALLEY: Thomas Middleditch gives the scoop on the sixth and final season – Exclusive Interview

Thomas Middleditch in SILICON VALLEY - Season 6 | ©2019 HBO/Ali Paige Goldstein

SILICON VALLEY embarks on its sixth and final season Sunday, October 27, on HBO. Created by Mike Judge & John Altschuler & Dave Krinsky, the half-hour series stars Thomas Middleditch as Richard Hendricks, who invents a data-compression application in Season 1 and becomes a tech mogul almost in spite of himself. He is surrounded by a group of fellow idiosyncratic tech specialists, played by a comedically skilled group that includes Kumail Nanjiani, Martin Starr, Josh Brener and Zach Woods. Likely due to his role on SILICON VALLEY, Middleditch has become a highly visible spokesman in TV commercials for Verizon. Originally […]Read On »


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THE GOOD PLACE: D’Arcy Carden chats about all things Janet and the final season – Exclusive Interview

D'Arcy Carden as Janet in THE GOOD PLACE - Season 4 | ©2019 NBC/Andrew Eccles

THE GOOD PLACE, the NBC comedy now in its fourth and final season on Thursday nights, may be the most arced half-hour on network television. Created by Michael Schur, THE GOOD PLACE started as what seemed to be a story about one woman, Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell), thinking she’d mistakenly been sent to the Good Place (i.e., Heaven) after death. Spoiler alert: it turned out that Eleanor was in an experiment of the Bad Place, run by the demon Michael (Ted Danson). Over three seasons, Michael, Eleanor and Eleanor’s three fellow experimentees – philosophy professor Chidi Anagonye (William Jackson Harper), […]Read On »


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CAROL’S SECOND ACT: Sabrina Jalees on the new CBS comedy series – Exclusive Interview

Sabrina Jalees is Lexie Gilani in CAROL'S SECOND ACT |©2019 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved./Sonja Flemming

In CBS’s new Thursday-night comedy CAROL’S SECOND ACT, retired teacher Carol Kenney, played by sitcom veteran Patricia Heaton, embarks on a medical career, and becomes Dr. Carol Kenney, an unusually mature medical resident. Sabrina Jalees plays Lexie Gilani, one of Carol’s fellow residents. Jalees has a background in standup comedy. Originally from Canada, Jalees previously performed in and wrote for THE BARONESS VON SKETCH SHOW, and was a writer on the series SEARCH PARTY, BIG MOUTH, POWERLESS, and THE MAYOR. Working on this last one, Jalees met fellow writers Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins, who would go on to create […]Read On »


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DEAR WHITE PEOPLE: Marque Richardson on Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

Marque Richardson in DEAR WHITE PEOPLE - Season 3 | ©2019 Netflix/Greg Gayne

DEAR WHITE PEOPLE, the dramedy based on the 2014 film of the same name, is currently streaming its first three seasons on Netflix, with a fourth and final season set for 2020. Created by Justin Simien, who also wrote and directed the feature, DEAR WHITE PEOPLE takes its title from the fictional Winchester University’s college radio broadcast hosted by Samantha White (Logan Browning in the series, Tessa Thompson in the film), targeting everyday racism. Marque Richardson created the role of student and aspiring poet Reggie Green in the DEAR WHITE PEOPLE film, and reprises it in the series. Reggie has […]Read On »


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ALL AMERICAN: Karimah Westbrook on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

Jalyn Hall as Dillion, Daniel Ezra as Spencer and Karimah Westbrook as Grace in ALL AMERICAN - Season 2 - "They Reiminsce Over You" | ©2019 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved/Eddy Chen

ALL AMERICAN, loosely based on the life of professional football player Spencer Paysinger, is now on Mondays in its second season on The CW. In ALL AMERICAN, created by April Blair, Daniel Ezra plays Spencer James, a football star at Crenshaw High School in South Los Angeles who is recruited to play at Beverly Hills High by that institution’s football coach, Billy Baker (Taye Diggs). In order to qualify for the Beverly Hill’s school district, Spencer moves in with the Baker family. This means that Spencer no longer shares a home with his younger brother Dillon (Jalyn Hall) and his […]Read On »


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WATCHMEN: Regina King on new HBO series inspired by the Alan Moore graphic novel – Exclusive Interview

Regina King in WATCHMEN - Season 1 | ©2019 HBO/Mark Hill

HBO’s new series WATCHMEN premieres on Sunday, October 20. Developed for television by Damon Lindelof, WATCHMEN is essentially a sequel to Alan Moore’s 1987 graphic novel of the same name (as with other adaptations of his work, Moore has disavowed the TV follow-up). In WATCHMEN, Moore created an alternate history where Nixon never resigned, and costumed superheroes exist but are outlawed. Some go to work for the government; others go into hiding; still others become vigilantes. The WATCHMEN series is set thirty years after the events of the graphic novel. Regina King plays Angela Abar, who is part of a […]Read On »


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SUNNYSIDE: Diana Maria Riva chats about the new NBC comedy – Exclusive Interview

Diana Maria Riva as Griselda in SUNNYSIDE - Season 1 | ©2019 NBC/F. Scott Schafer

In NBC’s freshman Thursday-night comedy SUNNYSIDE, Kal Penn, who co-created the series with Matt Murray, plays Garrett Modi. After a very public humiliation and firing from his city council seat, Garrett winds up teaching a class that helps immigrants study for their American citizenship test. One of Garrett’s students is Griselda, played by Diana Maria Riva. Griselda has an unending supply of part-time gigs to make ends meet, including bartender, waitress and baseball stadium hotdog vendor. While Riva isn’t juggling as many simultaneous jobs as her SUNNYSIDE character, she works constantly. Her numerous film and TV credits include COMMON LAW, […]Read On »


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TRANSPARENT: Shakina Nayfack on the MUSICALE FINALE – Exclusive Interview

Shakina Nayfack in TRANSPARENT MUSICALE FINALE | ©2019 Amazon Studios

TRANSPARENT celebrates its ending by doing its fifth season as a single 100-minute musical movie, the TRANSPARENT MUSICALE FINALE, now available on Amazon Prime. Created by Jill Soloway, TRANSPARENT tells the story of the complicated Pfefferman family in Los Angeles, and the impact on everyone when the erstwhile patriarch, played by Jeffrey Tambor, comes out as transgender, now to be known as Maura. TRANSPARENT picked up Emmys and Golden Globes in multiple categories in its first four seasons, 2014-2017. It had been picked up for a fifth season when two people accused Tambor of sexual harassment. He has denied the […]Read On »


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MR. MERCEDES: Gabriel Ebert talks Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

Gabriel Ebert in MR. MERCEDES | ©2019 AT&T Audience Network

In Season 3 of MR. MERCEDES, Tuesday nights on AT&T’s Audience Network, Brady Hartsfield may be dead, but he’s still wreaking havoc by appearing to Lou Linklatter (Breeda Wool), who’s on trial for Brady’s murder. However, this isn’t the only problem faced by Lou’s friends at the Finders Keepers detective agency, ex-police detective Bill Hodges (Brendan Gleeson), Holly Gibney (Justine Lupe) and Jerome Robinson (Jharrel Jerome). The third season of MR. MERCEDES is largely based on FINDERS KEEPERS, the second book in Stephen King’s trilogy of novels with this group of characters (as the season proceeds, we see elements of […]Read On »


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