TURN: WASHINGTON’S SPIES: The creator and executive producer talk spy thriller – Exclusive Interview (Reprint)

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/26/2021
Kevin McNally as Judge Woodhull , Burn Gorman as Major Hewlett and Jamie Bell as Abe Woodhull in TURN - Season 1 | ©2014 AMC/ Frank Ockenfels 3

TURN: WASHINGTON’S SPIES originally ran for four seasons, 2014-2017, on AMC. The series is now available in its entirety on Netflix. Based on historian Alexander Rose’s nonfiction book WASHINGTON’S SPIES, TURN: WASHINGTON’S SPIES is a thriller set during the American Revolutionary War. George Washington has a network of spies working for him against the British. An initially reluctant recruit to this cause is cabbage farmer Abe Woodhull, played by Jamie Bell (BILLY ELLIOTT). This is a reprint of our interview that originally ran on May 8, 2014. Following a Q&A panel held by AMC for the Television Critics Association, author […]Read On »


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BONES: Tamara Taylor on the second half of Season 11 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/02/2016
Tamara Taylor in BONES -Season 11 | ©2016 Fox/Jeff Lipsky

Tamara Taylor is now in her tenth year of playing Dr. Camille Saroyan on BONES. The romantic comedy/drama procedural on Fox Network, currently Thursdays at 8 PM, is in its eleventh season; one year after BONES debuted, Taylor joined the cast as the head of the forensics lab at Washington, D.C.’s prestigious (albeit fictional) Jeffersonian Institute. This has been a challenging year for Taylor’s Cam, with multiple plot arcs. For one thing, there’s a new serial killer on the loose. For another, the lab’s entomologist, and Cam’s friend, Dr. Jack Hodgins (TJ Thyne), has lost the use of his legs in an […]Read On »


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FEAR THE WALKING DEAD: Scares, subtext and plotlines in Season 1 – Part 2 – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/24/2015
Lexi Johnson as Gloria after eating dinner on FEAR THE WALKING DEAD | © 2015 Justin Lubin/AMC

In Part 2 of our exclusive interview with AMC’s FEAR THE WALKING DEAD director/co-executive producer Adam Davidson, he talks about scares, subtext and more. AX: How often do you actually want to go for a hard scare where there’s a visual shock, versus something that’s scary but presented mundanely, like a zombie seen at a distance? ADAM DAVIDSON: There isn’t any mathematical equation, it really comes down to storytelling. [There’s a scene in the pilot in the high school] that wasn’t intended as a scare moment, but when we staged the scene and I started shooting, I was like, “This […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Jamie Bell talks TURN Season 1 and more

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/08/2014
Jamie Bell in TURN - Season 1 | ©2014 AMC

In TURN, based on Alexander Rose’s nonfiction book WASHINGTON’S SPIES, Jamie Bell stars as historical figure Abraham Woodhull. Abe is a cabbage farmer living in the American colonies in the eighteenth century when war breaks out. Abe initially wants to stay out of the conflict, but he’s recruited by his friend Ben Talmadge (Seth Numrich) to join the Culper Ring, a band of spies who answer to General George Washington. The AMC series has its first-season finale Sunday, June 8, at 9 PM. AMC has presented a Q&A panel at the Pasadena Langham Huntington Hotel for the Television Critics Association […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: The scoop on AMC’s TURN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/08/2014
TURN movie poser | ©2014 AMC

Based on historian Alexander Rose’s nonfiction book WASHINGTON’S SPIES, AMC’s new dramatic thriller TURN, Sundays at 10 PM, is set during the American Revolutionary War. George Washington has a network of spies working for him against the British. An initially reluctant recruit to this cause is cabbage farmer Abe Woodhull, played by Jamie Bell (BILLY ELLIOTT). Following a Q&A panel held by AMC for the Television Critics Association, author Rose sits down with TURN executive producer Barry Josephson and show runner Craig Silverstein for a discussion of the series. ASSIGNMENT X: When you wrote this book, did you have the […]Read On »


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TURN star Seth Numrich gets sneaky in AMC’s new hit series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/08/2014
Seth Numrich as Benjamin Tallmadge in the new AMC series TURN | © 2014 Antony Platt/AMC

In big-picture terms, everyone knows the outcome when the British colonies in North America rose up against England in the 1770s. However, relatively few people know about the Culper spy ring, which was instrumental in the eventual victory of the Continental Army. AMC’s new series TURN, Sundays at 10 PM, is based on the nonfiction book WASHINGTON’S SPIES: THE STORY OF AMERICA’S FIRST SPY RING by Alexander Rose. Set in 1778, as the Revolutionary War continues to rage (the Declaration of Independence wasn’t the end of hostilities), the series, follows initially reluctant Culper Ring recruit Abraham Woodhull (Jamie Bell). Seth […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview with BONES creator Hart Hanson

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/31/2014
Booth (David Boreanaz, R) and Brennan (Emily Deschanel, L) have questions for the employees of a medical marijuana dispensary in an upcoming episode of BONES | © 2014 Patrick McElhenney/FOX

BONES is now in its ninth season on Fox, Mondays at 8 PM. The series, based on the life and writings of Kathy Reichs, stars Emily Deschanel as forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan and David Boreanaz as FBI agent Seeley Booth. Brennan and Booth now have a daughter and finally married each other, but their teamwork in solving murders remains topnotch. BONES has been picked up for a tenth season. Series creator Hart Hanson and fellow BONES executive producer Barry Josephson are both at a party thrown by Fox for the Television Critics Association. Hanson’s fellow show runner Stephen Nathan is […]Read On »


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Fresh TV Clip: FINDER trailer (BONES spin-off)

By CARL CORTEZ 05/29/2011
Michael Clarke Duncan, Geoff Stults and Saffron Burrows in FINDER | ©2011 Fox/Patrick Ecclesine

Now that Fox has announced all of its new Fall 2011 series, it’s time to get a sneak peak first look at them. FINDER is a new BONES spin-off thriller from executive producer Hart Hanson The show will air Midseason, Thursday nights at 9:00 . Check out the trailer below. Iraq war veteran WALTER SHERMAN (Geoff Stults, “She’s Out of My League”) gained a reputation while serving in the Army Military Police as someone who was very good at tracking down insurgents, deserters and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Unfortunately, Walter found one IED just moments before it found him. Two […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: BONES showrunner Hart Hanson on semantics and more – Part 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/18/2011
David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel in BONES - Season 6 - "Finder" | ©2011 Fox/Glenn Watson

In the second part of our two-part interview with BONES executive producer/creator Hart Hanson, who developed the series based on the mystery novels written by real-life forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, he talks about actors who direct, why he’s unlikely to use misleading semantics again and whether he has plans for a final episode. Fellow BONES executive producer Barry Josephson provides a story about Reichs’ visit to the set during the filming of the pilot episode. ASSIGNMENT X: David Boreanaz is directing more episodes. How does that work? Does he come in and say, “I’d like to direct one,” and you […]Read On »


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