BRILLIANT MINDS: Creator and executive producer Michael Grassi – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/24/2024
BRILLIANT MINDS - Season 1 Key Art | ©2024 Peacock

In the new series BRILLIANT MINDS, premiering on NBC Monday, September 23, with episodes then available for streaming on Peacock, Zachary Quinto stars as cranky but gifted New York neurosurgeon Oliver Wolf. BRILLIANT MINDS creator/executive producer Michael Grassi explains that the show was originally entitled WOLF but, due to Quinto’s past genre work (HEROES, AMERICAN HORROR STORY, STAR TREK, NOS4A2), prospective viewers thought it might be a show about a werewolf. The name was briefly changed to DR. WOLF, but that just made people think “Werewolf doctor. That’s not us.” Grassi has a lot of genre credits himself, having been […]Read On »


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THE BIG DOOR PRIZE: Actors Djouliet Amara and Sammy Fourlas talk Season 1 of new Apple TV+ series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/08/2023
Djouliet Amara and Sammy Fourlas in THE BIG DOOR PRIZE - Season 1 | ©2023 Apple TV+

In the new Apple TV+ series THE BIG DOOR PRIZE, life in a reasonably contented small American town is disrupted by the arrival of the mysterious Morpho machine. For two dollars, and the input of your fingerprints and your social security number, the Morpho prints out a card that reveals your true potential. Based on the book by M.O. Walsh, THE BIG DOOR PRIZE was adapted for television by David West Read, who was previously an executive producer and writer on SCHITT’S CREEK (a comedy to which THE BIG DOOR PRIZE has already drawn favorable comparisons). The series has already […]Read On »


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WYNONNA EARP: Actor Tim Rozon on the end of the Syfy series – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/02/2021
Tim Rozon as Doc Holliday in WYNONNA EARP - Season 4 - "Hell Raisin' Good Time" | ©2021 Syfy/Michelle Faye/Wynonna Earp Productions, Inc

WYNONNA EARP is now in its fourth and reportedly final season, Friday nights on Syfy. Created for television by executive producer/show runner Emily Andras, based on the graphic novels by Beau Smith, WYNONNA EARP is the story of the title heroine, played by Melanie Scrofano, who is the great-great-granddaughter of famed Western lawman Wyatt Earp. On her twenty-seventh birthday, Wynonna inherits her ancestor’s gun – and the family curse, which calls for her to fight revenants, the reincarnated souls of those that Wyatt killed. Tim Rozon plays Doc Holliday, Wyatt’s best friend who was trapped in stasis for a century-and-a-half. […]Read On »


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COASTAL ELITES: Director Jay Roach, writer Paul Rudnick and stars Bette Midler, Dan Levy, Sara Paulson, Kaitlyn Dever and Issa Rae chat new HBO film

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/10/2020
Bette Midler in COASTAL ELITES | ©2020 HBO

COASTAL ELITES premieres Saturday, September 12, on HBO. Writer Paul Rudnick had scripted what the network describes as a “socially distanced comedy” feature prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Rudnick adapted his work to address the current situation. COVID-19 has dictated that the Television Critics Association Summer 2020 press tour takes place entirely online. This article is derived from the COASTAL ELITES online panel. Rudnick and his fellow COASTAL ELITES executive producer, director Jay Roach, and cast members Bette Midler, Kaitlyn Dever, Dan Levy, Sarah Paulson, and Issa Rae each appear from their respective homes, answering questions from the press. […]Read On »


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SCHITT’S CREEK: Actress Emily Hampshire gives the scoop on Season 3 – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/10/2017
Emily Hampshire in SCHITT'S CREEK | © 2017 Pop TV

SCHITT’S CREEK returns for its third season on Pop TV Tuesday, Jan. 10. The half-hour comedy, created by son-and-father Dan Levy and Eugene Levy, concerns a formerly wealthy family of four (with Dan Levy as the son and Eugene Levy as the father) gone broke and forced to live in the town they once bought as a joke. Emily Hampshire costars as Schitt’s Creek local Stevie Budd. Hampshire is also a regular on a very different series, Syfy’s 12 MONKEYS, which will be back with its third season this summer. Hampshire plays the brilliant but extremely disturbed Jennifer Goines in […]Read On »


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WOLF CREEK: Lucy Fry – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/27/2016
Lucy Fry as Eve Thorogood in WOLF CREEK | © 2016 Pop TV

Actress Lucy Fry is hanging out with fellow performer Emily Hampshire at a party thrown for networks under the CBS umbrella, including Pop TV. Fry is on Pop’s new thriller series WOLF CREEK and Hampshire is on Pop’s returning comedy SCHITT’S CREEK. When Hampshire mentions that she’s heard Pop also runs episodes of DAWSON’S CREEK, there are some general “creek” jokes before the talk turns to work. WOLF CREEK, on Pop TV Friday nights, is based on the Australian horror franchise, about serial killer Mick Taylor (John Jarratt), who preys on travelers in the Outback. Fry, a native Australian, plays […]Read On »


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SCHITT’S CREEK: Chris Elliott chats new comedy series – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/23/2015
Chris Elliott in SCHITT'S CREEK - Season 1 | ©2015 Pop Television

In Pop Television’s SCHITT’S CREEK, Wednesdays at 10 PM, the wealthy Rose family goes broke and is forced to move back to the title town, which they previously bought as a joke. Dan Levy and Eugene Levy – son and father – created the series together. The elder Levy plays Johnny Rose, with Dan as son David. Catherine O’Hara plays mother Moira, with Annie Murphy rounding out the group as family daughter Alexis. Then there’s town mayor Roland Schitt, played by Chris Elliott. Native New Yorker Elliott has an extensive film and TV career that includes some drama – he […]Read On »


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Dan Levy on SCHITT’S CREEK – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/18/2015
Eugene Levy stars in SCHITT'S CREEK on Pop Television | © 2015 Pop Television

Pop Television’s SCHITT’S CREEK, Wednesdays at 10 PM, tells the story of the Rose family. Back when they were incredibly rich, the Roses purchased the little town of Schitt’s Creek as a joke. Now the joke is on them, as patriarch Johnny Rose, played by Eugene Levy, has gone broke and moved wife Moira (Catherine O’Hara), son David, played by Dan Levy, and daughter Alexis (Annie Murphy) into a motel in Schitt’s Creek, the only place they can now afford to live. Not only must the Roses cope with their reduced circumstances and the townsfolk, but they must also actually […]Read On »


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