Winter 2016

BEOWULF: RETURN TO THE SHIELDLANDS: David Ajala – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/13/2016

In Esquire Network’s new series BEOWULF: RETURN TO THE SHIELDLANDS, Saturday nights, Kieran Bew plays the title hero. Not only does his Beowulf have to defend the legendary kingdom of Hierot against monsters and himself against the jealous prince Slean, portrayed by Ed Speleers, but he’s got to figure out how to contend with the other tribes of ancient Scandinavia. One tribe is the Vardi, led by the thane Rate, played by David Ajala. Ajala (pronounced Ah-Jah-Lah) , from London, England, has starred in the British TV series TREXX AND FLIPSIDE and the ABC Network drama BLACK BOX in the […]Read On »


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SECOND CHANCE: Rand Ravich on Fox’s new series – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/12/2016
Rob Kazinsky as Jimmy Pritchard in SECOND CHANCE | © 2016 Justin Stephens/FOX

In Fox Network’s new series SECOND CHANCE, Fridays at 9 PM, an old soul gets to inhabit a new body, but the resurrection is a feat of technology, not the supernatural. When aging former sheriff Jimmy Pritchard (Philip Baker Hall) is murdered while investigating a conspiracy that threatens his police detective son Duval (Tim DeKay), his death is disguised as a suicide. Jimmy’s body is recovered and rejuvenated to its thirty-something state (now played by Rob Kazinsky) by tech billionaire Otto Goodwin (Adhir Kalyan). Otto needs a constant, fresh supply of Jimmy’s rare cell type to keep Otto’s ailing sister […]Read On »


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SUPERGIRL: Chyler Leigh talks playing the step sister to a hero – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/08/2016
Chyler Leigh stars as Alex Danvers in SUPERGIRL | © 2016 Robert Voets/CBS

In CBS’ DC Comics TV adaptation SUPERGIRL, now in its first season Mondays at 8 PM, Chyler Leigh plays Alex Danvers. Alex’s parents adopted Supergirl, aka Kara Danvers (Melissa Benoist), when she was newly arrived from Krypton. This means that Alex and Kara have grown up as sisters, with all the loyalty and over-sensitivity that often accompanies a sibling relationship. Alex at first didn’t want Kara to reveal her powers to the world. For her part, Kara was furious when she learned that Alex was an operative for the Department of Extranormal Operations, or DEO, a secret government agency that […]Read On »


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BEOWULF: Kieran Bew plays the legendary hero – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
Kieran Bew in BEOWULF | ©2016 ITV Studios

There are actors who have to learn how to use a sword once they get a role in a heroic fantasy. Then there’s Kieran Bew, who was a British sword cadet champion in his teens before he ever became an actor. Not all of Bew’s film and television work has called for work with bladed weaponry. His resume includes the features GREEN STREET HOOLIGANS and AVP: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR and the British TV series THE BILL, SILENT WITNESS, WPC 56 and THE BLETCHLEY CIRCLE. Then again, the English actor has also appeared in the 2008 TV CRUSOE and in the […]Read On »


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THE MAGICIANS: Executive Producer John McNamara on Season 1 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
Stella Maeve in THE MAGICIANS - Season 1 | ©2016 Syfy/Lorenzo Agius

In Syfy’s new Monday night series THE MAGICIANS, based on the trilogy of novels by Lev Grossman, magic is real. Some, like Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph), study the magical arts at Brakebills University, while others, like Quentin’s lifelong friend Julia (Stella Maeve), learn more dangerously on the street. Magic may help explain how John McNamara, who adapted THE MAGICIANS for television with fellow executive producer Sera Gamble, is working out his schedule. McNamara is also executive-producing NBC’s Sixties-era crime drama AQUARIUS, starring David Duchovny, which will be airing its second season later this year, and discussing the Fifties/Sixties Hollywood blacklist […]Read On »


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CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND: Santino Fontana singing and comedy in the new CW series – interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/01/2016
Santino Fontana as Greg in CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND | © 2016 Smallz & Raskind/The CW

Santino Fontana’s character Greg Serrano may be a comparatively less loony person on the CW’s hour-long Monday night musical comedy series CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND, but the actor’s own schedule looks pretty bonkers, as he’s simultaneously co-starring in NBC’s new Thursday-night police drama SHADES OF BLUE as NYPD officer Stuart Saperstein. The two shows could hardly be more different. CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND stars Rachel Bloom, who co-created the show with Aline Brosh McKenna, as Rebecca Bunch, who gives up a promising Manhattan law career to move to West Covina, California, in pursuit of her oblivious crush Josh (Vincent Rodriguez III). Rebecca’s daydreams tend […]Read On »


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OUTSIDERS: Peter Mattei & Peter Tolan reveal details on new WGN series – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/25/2016
Joe Anderson as Asa, Gillian Alexy as G'winveer and Ryan Hurst as Lil Foster in OUTSIDERS | © 2016 WGN

In WGN America’s new drama series OUTSIDERS, premiering Tuesday, January 26, an isolated community of people in the Appalachias wants to be left alone to go their own way, just as their forebears have for over two hundred years. There are problems brewing without and within. A mining company wants to evict the community residents and blow up the mountaintop to get to the coal beneath, and Big Foster, played by David Morse, has managed to put his mother in a coma in his quest to take over the leadership of the Farrell clan. Peter Mattei, who created OUTSIDERS, and […]Read On »


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Co-creator Katie Newman on BEOWULF – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/24/2016
Kieran Bew as Beowulf in BEOWULF - Season 1 | ©2016 Esquire / ITV Studios

What work of fiction is between 1,000 and 1,300 years old and is just coming to television now? That would be the epic Anglo-Saxon poem BEOWULF, premiering as the thirteen-part BEOWULF: RETURN TO THE SHIELDLANDS Saturday, January 23, as Esquire Network’s second scripted series. For those unfamiliar with the myth or the multiple motion pictures, Beowulf is a Scandinavian hero who comes to Hrothgar’s Hall (i.e., castle) to save the citizens from a marauding monster called Grendel. In BEOWULF, Beowulf (Kieran Bew) spent much of his childhood in Heorot Hall as the ward of its ruler, Thane Hrothgar (William Hurt), […]Read On »


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THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES: John Rhys-Davies discusses the MTV fantasy series – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/19/2016
Poppy Drayton stars as Amberle in THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES | © 2016 MTV

It’s taken Terry Brooks’ best-selling and long-lived SHANNARA fantasy book series about forty years to make its way to the screen, but MTV has finally brought it to television in THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES, Tuesday nights at 10 PM. In Season 1, we’re a few thousand years in the future, when technology is a distant memory, magic is in use and elves dominate the world (humans are rarer and less valued). Demons have long ago been banished to a realm called the Forbidding, but as the guardian tree Ellcrys loses its leaves, the monsters break free one by one. Elf maiden […]Read On »


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THE X-FILES: Chris Carter chats the series return to Fox – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
THE X-FILES | © 2106 Fox

THE X-FILES is returning for a six-episode run on Fox, beginning Sunday, January 24 after the football game, then settling into its regular timeslot on Monday, January 25. Should it need explaining, THE X-FILES previously ran on Fox 1993-2002 and had two feature films, all created by Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny as UFO believer FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson as his more skeptical partner, FBI Special Agent Dr. Dana Scully. Carter, Duchovny and Anderson are all back for the new run. Back in 2014, Carter had another series, THE AFTER, set up at Amazon, but […]Read On »


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