FEUD: CAPOTE VS. THE SWANS: The creators and stars talk about new limited FX series – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/01/2024
FEUD: CAPOTE VS THE SWANS Key Art | ©2024 FX

Truman Capote was an author, screenwriter, playwright, and actor probably still most known for his nonfiction bestseller IN COLD BLOOD. The novel itself has been adapted for film, and several films were made about Capote’s writing of the book and the lingering effect it had on him. But Capote is also famous for, among other things, his unfinished novel ANSWERED PRAYERS. Capote had entered a charmed circle of New York society women, whom he collectively called “the Swans.” These women included Jacqueline Onassis’s sister Lee Radziwill and Babe Paley. Capote kept putting off finishing the work, but sold four chapters […]Read On »


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THE AMERICANS: Actor Matthew Rhys on the final season – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/03/2018
Matthew Rhys as Philip Jennings in THE AMERICANS | © 2018 Fx

FX Networks’s THE AMERICANS is now in its sixth and final season on Wednesday nights. It’s now the mid-‘80s. Matthew Rhys’s character, the secretly Russian Philip Jennings, has stopped spying for the K.G.B. and is now really working as the travel agent he’s been pretending to be for years. However, since Philip’s wife Elizabeth (Keri Russell) is more devoted than ever to the Soviet cause and has recruited their daughter Paige (Holly Taylor), danger is still present in family life. Things become especially tense as Philip and Elizabeth find they disagree over what they think Russian policy should be going […]Read On »


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THE AMERICANS star Matthew Rhys gives the Season 3 scoop – interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/01/2015
Matthew Rhys stars as Philip Jennings in THE AMERICANS | © 2015 Craig Blankenhorn/FX

On FX Network’s THE AMERICANS, now in its third season Wednesdays at 10 PM and renewed for a fourth, Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell star as, respectively, Philip and Elizabeth Jennings. It’s the early 1980s and Philip and Elizabeth are an outwardly all-American married pair of travel agents living in suburban Virginia with their two children, Paige (Holly Taylor) and Henry (Keidrich Sellati). However, what even their offspring don’t know is that Philip and Elizabeth are really deep-cover KGB agents, sent here by the Russian government to advance the Soviet cause. The arranged marriage between the two protagonists has become […]Read On »


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THE SLAP producer Jon Robin Baitz talks Season 1- exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/19/2015
Makenzie Leigh stars as Connie on THE SLAP | © 2015 Christopher Saunders/NBC

In NBC’s THE SLAP, Thursdays at 10 PM, an already strained family get-together in Queens, New York, passes the breaking point when Harry (Zachary Quinto), thinking his son is being threatened, strikes another little boy. The eight-episode miniseries, which also stars Thandie Newton, Brian Cox, Peter Sarsgaard, Uma Thurman, Thomas Sadowski and Marin Ireland, is based on the Australian miniseries of the same title, which in turn is based on the novel by Christos Tsiolkas. Executive producers Jon Robin Baitz and Walter F. Parkes did the U.S. series adaptation. Baitz, who also created the series BROTHERS & SISTERS, is an […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: THE AMERICANS’ star Matthew Rhys on the new spy thriller

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/14/2013
Matthew Rhys as Philip Jennings in THE AMERICANS | (c) 2013 Craig Blankenhorn/FX

In THE AMERICANS, the new series created by Joseph Weisberg, FX Wednesday nights at 10 PM, it’s 1981 and the Cold War is raging at full strength. Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings, played respectively by Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell, are the perfect all-American couple with a loving marriage and two children. Except … Phillip and Elizabeth are actually deep-cover Russian spies, whose marriage was arranged for them when they were still back in training in the old country.Elizabeth is still devoutly loyal to the cause, while Phillip is tempted to defect – except he’s fallen in love with his wife […]Read On »


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TCA 2011: ABC renews CASTLE, COUGAR TOWN, GREY’S ANATOMY, THE MIDDLE, MODERN FAMILY & PRIVATE PRACTICE for next year

By CARL CORTEZ 01/10/2011
Michael Imperioli in DETROIT 1-8-7 | ©2011 ABC/Donna Svennevik

At today’s Winter TCA 2011 press tour, ABC Entertainment Group President Group President Paul Lee revealed that CASTLE, COUGAR TOWN, GREY’S ANATOMY, THE MIDDLE, MODERN FAMILY and PRIVATE PRACTICE have all been renewed for another year Meanwhile, it looks like DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES is on the bubble (probably due to contract negotiations), as are BETTER WITH YOU, BROTHERS & SISTERS and the ratings challenged DETROIT 1-8-7 “We haven’t made our decisions yet on a second season of DETROIT 1-8-7,” says Lee. “I would like it to see higher numbers. Michael Imperioili is brilliant in that. For me, it’s great to see, […]Read On »


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