ENGLISH TEACHER: Executive producers Paul Simms and Dave King on Season 1 – Exclusive Interview

Brian Jordan Alvarez as Evan Marquez in ENGLISH TEACHER - Season 1 | ©2024 FX/Pari Dukovic

ENGLISH TEACHER has its first-season finale on FX on Monday, October 14. Following this, the episode will join the rest of the comedy’s first season streaming on Hulu. Series creator Brian Jordan Alvarez stars as Evan Marquez, a gay high school teacher in Austin, Texas, where unexpected controversies continually baffle staff and students alike. When ENGLISH TEACHER has a Q&A panel during FX’s portion of the summer Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour, one of the executive producers, Paul Simms, offers this observation: “A lot of what the show is about is the characters within the show talking about what […]Read On »


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MOONFLOWER MURDERS: Actress Pippa Bennett-Warner on playing a 1950s detective’s assistant – Exclusive Interview

Daniel Mays, Pippa Bennett-Warner and Tim McMullan in MASTERPIECE: MOONFLOWER MURDERS | ©2024 PBS/ Eleventh Hour Films

In MOONFLOWER MURDERS, Sunday nights on PBS MASTERPIECE, actual retired English book editor Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) and fictional ‘50s master detective Atticus Pünd (Tim McMullan) are both back on the case. In the previous MAGPIE MURDERS, Susan had been the editor on all of the Atticus Pünd mystery novels. When the last book led to the murder of Atticus’s creator, unpleasant novelist Alan Conway (Conleth Hill), Susan wound up solving the crime. Surprisingly, Atticus began appearing to Susan and giving her oblique advice, at the same time he was busy solving the 1950s case that Alan had written for […]Read On »


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ENGLISH TEACHER: Actor Sean Patton on new FX comedy – Exclusive Interview

Sean Patton as Markie Hillridge in ENGLISH TEACHER - Season 1 | ©2024 FX/Steve Swisher

In ENGLISH TEACHER, series creator Brian Jordan Alvarez plays the title role, Evan Marquez, an instructor at an Austin, Texas high school where nuance is everything. The comedy airs Monday nights on FX, with episodes available the following day on Hulu. Sean Patton plays Evan’s colleague Markie Hillridge, the school’s physical education instructor and football coach. Markie and Evan are friends, even though Markie is in many ways a traditional conservative good ol’ boy, and Evan is gay and progressive. Patton, originally from Louisiana, has appeared in a number of films and TV shows, including INSIDE AMY SCHUMER and MARON, […]Read On »


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ENGLISH TEACHER: Actress and story editor Stephanie Koenig on new FX series – Interview

Stephanie Koenig as Gwen Sanders, Brian Jordan Alvarez as Evan Marquez in ENGLISH TEACHER - Season 1 | ©2024 FX/Steve Swisher

Stephanie Koenig is pulling double duty on FX’s new comedy ENGLISH TEACHER, which airs Monday nights and is then available for streaming on Hulu. Koenig plays high school teacher Gwen Sanders, best friend to title character Evan Marquez (series creator Brian Jordan Alvarez). She is also the series’ story editor. This sort of hyphenation isn’t new for Koenig. She wrote, directed and appeared in the 2021 feature A SPY MOVIE, which starred Alvarez, and was an actor/writer on 2019’s WEB SERIES: THE MOVIE, which Alvarez directed, starred in and co-wrote. As a performer, Koenig’s other credits include the Emmy-nominated LESSONS […]Read On »


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PBS POV: WHO’S AFRAID OF NATHAN LAW?: Producer Matthew Torne and executive producer Chris White on new documentary – Exclusive Interview

WHO'S AFRAID OF NATHAN LAW? key art | ©2024 PBS

The documentary WHO’S AFRAID OF NATHAN LAW? premieres in theatres on Friday, September 20, and then debuts on PBS’s POV series on Monday, September 23. The film centers on young Hong Kong democracy activist Nathan Law who, with friends Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow, paid a heavy price for opposing China’s efforts to impose its own style of government on the island. WHO’S AFRAID OF NATHAN LAW? is directed and written by Joe Piscatella, who is also one of its producers. Another of the film’s producers, Matthew Torne, and PBS POV executive producer Chris White, sit down during PBS’s portion […]Read On »


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PBS NATURE: BIG CATS 24/7: Producer and director Rowan Crawford on new docuseries – Exclusive Interview

BIG CATS 24/7 Key Art | ©2024 PBS

The six-part docuseries BIG CATS 24/7 launches on PBS NATURE on Wednesday, September 18. The series takes advantage of new technology to show three species of African big cats – lions, leopards and cheetahs – in their activities by night as well as by day. During PBS’s portion of the summer Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour in Pasadena, BIG CATS 24/7 producer/director Rowan Crawford sits down to discuss this deep dive into mega felines. Some of Crawford’s other credits include THE ZOO, COAST, NATURAL WORLD, and DOGS IN THE WILD. Crawford is a staff series producer with BBC Studios […]Read On »


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PBS MASTERPIECE: MOONFLOWER MURDERS: Creator and writer Anthony Horowitz on new mystery mini-series – Exclusive Interview

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The six-episode MOONFLOWER MURDERS premieres on PBS MASTERPIECE on Sunday, September 15. This is a sequel to 2022’s series MAGPIE MURDERS. Both are adapted from bestselling mystery novels of the same titles by Anthony Horowitz, who also wrote all the teleplays, and serves as one of the series’ executive producers. In MAGPIE MURDERS, present-day London book editor Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville, Oscar-nominated for her performance in 2017’s PHANTOM THREAD) searched the unpublished manuscript of one of her authors, Alan Conway (Conleth Hill of GAME OF THRONES), for clues to his murder. At the same time, we saw the story of Alan’s […]Read On »


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THE OLD MAN: Executive producers Warren Littlefield and Dan Shotz on Season 2 – Exclusive interview

Jeff Bridges as Dan Chase in THE OLD MAN - Season 2 | ©2024 FX / Kurt Iswarienko

In THE OLD MAN, which has its second-season premiere on FX Thursday, September 12 (with episodes available the following day on Hulu), Jeff Bridges stars as Dan Chase. In Season 1, Dan was a retired CIA agent suddenly being pursued by both his own former colleagues and unknown attackers. In Season 2, Dan must team up with CIA Assistant Director Harold Harper, played by John Lithgow, to find the missing agent Angela Adams, aka Emily Chase (Alia Shawkat), Dan’s daughter and Harold’s protégé, Emily has been kidnapped and taken to Afghanistan. THE OLD MAN was adapted for television by Jonathan […]Read On »


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THE CASES OF MYSTERY LANE: DEATH IS LISTENING: Actor Paul Campbell on new rom com mystery movie – Exclusive Interview

Aimee Garcia is Birdie Case and Paul Campbell is Alden in THE CASES OF MYSTERY LANE: DEATH IS LISTENING | ©2024 Hallmark

When it’s time to publicize THE CASES OF MYSTERY LANE: DEATH IS LISTENING, actor Paul Campbell is committed. How committed? Campbell’s character, amateur sleuth Alden Case, loves disguises and alter egos. When Campbell appears on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries panel at the Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour, he is introduced, by name, as “Paul Campbell.” With a flourish, Campbell indicates his fake moustache. “I think you mean Saul Campbell!” But, when asked a question, he cannot lie. ““I have to come clean. It was me the whole time, Paul Campbell.” Fellow panelists feign astonishment. “I had no idea,” […]Read On »


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ENGLISH TEACHER: Actor Enrico Colantoni on new FX TV series – Exclusive interview

ENGLISH TEACHER - Season 1 Key Art | ©2024 FX

Enrico Colantoni plays Morrison-Hensley High School Principal Grant Moretti in the new comedy ENGLISH TEACHER. The series premieres on FX with a double episode on Monday, September 2. Episodes will be available to stream on Hulu the day after they air on FX. ENGLISH TEACHER is set in Austin, Texas (it’s shot in Atlanta, Georgia), and centers around English teacher Evan Marquez, played by series creator/director Brian Jordan Alvarez. Evan is gay and Latinx, which gives him a distinct perspective. The school is awash in every kind of personal politics; in the opening episode, a parent wants Evan brought up […]Read On »


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