ELSBETH: The cast and creators talk the new COLUMBO-like procedural – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/13/2024
ELSBETH Key Art - Season 1 | ©2024 CBS

If you have been missing COLUMBO these many years, ELSBETH is here to fill the void. Once more, here’s a series where we see a murder committed at the outset. It’s just that instead of Peter Falk playing a rumpled police detective who solves the crime, we now have Carrie Preston reprising her Emmy-winning role as Elsbeth Tascioni. Previously a Chicago lawyer who was a recurring character on CBS’s THE GOOD WIFE and its Paramount Plus spinoff THE GOOD FIGHT, Elsbeth has moved to New York City to be a civilian oversight observer with the NYPD in ELSBETH. Like Columbo, […]Read On »


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NIGHT COURT: Actor Nyambi Nyambi discusses playing the new court clerk on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/15/2024
Nyambi Nyambi as Wyatt in NIGHT COURT - Season 2 - "Wheelers of Fortune" | ©2024 NBC/Nicole Weingart

Actor Nyambi Nyambi joined NBC’s Tuesday-night comedy NIGHT COURT in its second and current season, which also streams on Peacock, as court clerk Wyatt Cooper. The original NIGHT COURT ran on NBC 1984-1992. Created by Reinhold Weege, the show follows the unconventional events in Manhattan’s night court. Dan Rubin developed the new version, which stars Melissa Rauch as Judge Abby Stone, daughter of the original edition’s Judge Harry T. Stone, who was played by the late Harry Anderson. Original NIGHT COURT cast member John Larroquette returns in his role as attorney Dan Fielding. Nyambi, originally from Oklahoma, has been in […]Read On »


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EVIL: Actress Christine Lahti on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/30/2021
EVIL - Season 2 Key Art | ©2021Paramount+ Inc. All Rights Reserved

EVIL, having originally launched on CBS in 2019, is now streaming its second season on Paramount Plus, with new episodes available each Sunday. The series is created by Robert King and Michelle King, of THE GOOD WIFE and THE GOOD FIGHT In EVIL, the Catholic Church has assembled priest-in-training David Acosta (Mike Colter), former Muslim/current agnostic tech expert Ben Shakir (Aasif Mandvi), and lapsed Catholic psychologist Kristen Bouchard (Katja Herbers) to investigate apparent miracles, exorcisms and the like. The team are meant to determine whether or not these events are supernatural in nature. The results are often open to interpretation. […]Read On »


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EVIL: Actress Katja Herbers gives the scoop on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/08/2021
Katja Herbers as Kristen Bouchard in EVIL | ©2021Paramount+ Inc./ Elizabeth Fisher

EVIL has moved to Paramount+ for its second season, with new episodes arriving on Sundays, following its first-season run on CBS. Created by Robert King and Michelle King (THE GOOD WIFE, THE GOOD FIGHT), EVIL follows a team of three tasked by the Catholic Church with investigating whether seemingly supernatural events have mundane, demonic, or even angelic explanations. It has just been announced that EVIL has been renewed for a third season. Katja Herbers plays Dr. Kristen Bouchard, a forensic investigator and married mother of four young daughters. Kristen starts out as a lapsed Catholic, who by Season 2 isn’t quite […]Read On »


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THE GOOD FIGHT: Co-creator Robert King on Season 4 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/09/2020
Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart in THE GOOD FIGHT - Season 4| ©2020 CBS/Robert Ascroft

THE GOOD FIGHT premieres its fourth season Thursday, April 9, on CBS All-Access. Spun off from THE GOOD WIFE, THE GOOD FIGHT is set in the world of law and politics. Christine Baranski stars in THE GOOD FIGHT, reprising her GOOD WIFE role as Diane Lockhart, a white lawyer who, in THE GOOD FIGHT’s opening episode, joined a predominantly black law firm. Married writers/executive producers Robert King and Michelle King created THE GOOD FIGHT with Phil Alden Robinson. The duo previously created THE GOOD WIFE, as well as CBS’s EVIL, which is due back for its second season in the […]Read On »


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CBS ALL-ACCESS: Programming Chief Julie McNamara on STAR TREK: PICARD, THE STAND and more – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/16/2019
STAR TREK: PICARD - Season 1 Key Art | ©2019 CBS Interactive/James Dimmock

CBS All-Access head of original programming Julie McNamara makes some announcements at a panel at the Television Critics Association press tour. As everyone in the galaxy knows by now, CBS All-Access is launching the newest series in the STAR TREK universe, STAR TREK: PICARD. (The premiere date has since been announced as January 23.) Patrick Stewart reprises his role as Jean-Luc Picard, joined in supporting roles by fellow STAR TREK alumni Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan, Jonathan Frakes, Jonathan Del Arco and Marina Sirtis, along with a pit bull (more about the dog in a bit). There will also be a […]Read On »


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EVIL: Co-creator Robert King talks Season 1 and THE GOOD FIGHT – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/12/2019
EVIL Season 1 logo | ©2019 CBS

In CBS’s series EVIL, now in its first season on Thursday nights and renewed for a second, faith and science both come into play in examining some very scary incidents. Katja Herbers plays forensic psychologist Dr. Kristen Bouchard, mother of four young daughters. Kristen leaves her job consulting for the court system when she is recruited by Catholic Church assessor David Acosta (Mike Colter). David is tasked with investigating whether certain situations are supernatural events or have natural, albeit complex, explanations. David believes in the supernatural; Kirsten does not. Even more skeptical is the third member of their team, technical […]Read On »


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DEAD TO ME: Creator Liz Feldman on Season 1 of the Christina Applegate dramedy – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/01/2019
DEAD TO ME - Season 1 - Key Art | ©2019 Netflix

DEAD TO ME, now streaming its entire first season and renewed for a second on Netflix, is a complex dark comedy. Widowed Jen Harding (Christina Applegate, who received an Emmy nomination) and Judy Hale (Linda Cardellini), who has lost her fiancé, meet in a grief support group and become close friends. But there are a few secrets that greatly complicate the situation. Liz Feldman created and serves as show runner on DEAD TO ME. Feldman previously created the NBC comedy ONE BIG HAPPY, and served as a writer/producer on series including ELLEN: THE ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW, HOT IN CLEVELAND, 2 […]Read On »


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THE GOOD FIGHT: Actor Michael Sheen on THE GOOD WIFE spin-off and GOOD OMENS – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/05/2019
Michael Sheen as Roland Blum in THE GOOD FIGHT - Season 1 | ©2018 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved/Justin Stephens

Actor Michael Sheen is having a GOOD time right now. On CBS All-Access, Sheen joins the cast of the legal drama THE GOOD FIGHT as the (figuratively) devilish lawyer Roland Blum; on Amazon, Sheen stars as the (literally) angelic Aziraphale opposite David Tennant in the six-part adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s celestial doomsday comedy GOOD OMENS. Sheen, originally from Wales, has a wide-ranging career. He made his Broadway debut in the title role of AMADEUS. Onscreen, Sheen has portrayed real-life figures British Prime Minister Tony Blair (in THE DEAL, THE QUEEN, and THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP), sex researcher Bill […]Read On »


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