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Archives for March 2015
On the Scene: A Closer Look at THE FOLLOWING Season 3 with Sam Underwood and Shawn Ashmore
The aftermath of Joe Carroll can still be felt one year later as a new group of killers begins to torture innocent people in the opener of the third season of The Following. FOX invited journalists on set to get a glimpse of the first two episodes of the new season, along with a tour of the set to really help you get a feel for the show.
With every season of The Following, comes a new storyline full of twists and turns, murders, and blood. This season begins one year later with Carroll (James Purefoy) in maximum security being held on death row. Agent Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon) seems to be living a nice happy life as he appears to smiling for the first time since the show began. However, it’s only a matter of time before someone steps in to ruin it all.
With Mark Gray (Sam Underwood) still on the loose, it doesn’t take long before random acts of violence begin bringing the group back together, Max Hardy (Jessica Stroup) and Mike Weston (Shawn Ashmore). The first two episodes will literally blow your mind, have you squirming in your seat, and yelling at the television screaming ‘what is going on!’
“This season is unlike anything we have ever done before,” said Ashmore in an interview at the FOX event. “This time we are trying to find killers that we don’t know. The first season was all about Joe Carroll, the second about his followers. This one, is just about plain mystery. It’s the unknown and sometimes that could be the scariest of it all.”
Check out photos, videos, and additional interviews from The Following set tour, thanks to FOX below. (Potential spoilers lie ahead!)
Catch ‘The Following’ premiere tonight on FOX at 9 p.m. Photo/Interview/Video Credits: Monica Rose Gleberman
PENNY DREADFUL Posters: Showtime Unveils a Slew of Sexy Season 2 Artwork
Press Release: Today, SHOWTIME unveiled the season two artwork for its critically-acclaimed psychological thriller PENNY DREADFUL, premiering on Sunday, May 3rd at 10 p.m. ET/PT. PENNY DREADFUL returns with ten episodes and will find Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) and Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett) forming a deeper bond as the group, including Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton), Dr. Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway), and Sembene (Danny Sapani), unite to banish the evil forces that threaten to destroy them. Meanwhile, Dorian Gray (Reeve Carney), the Creature (Rory Kinnear) and Brona (Billie Piper) are all waging battles of their own. Two-time Tony® Award winner Patti LuPone will guest star as a mysterious character of great importance in Vanessa’s past. Helen McCrory returns as Evelyn Poole (a.k.a. Madame Kali), the seductive spiritualist who will pose a unique threat to our protagonists this season, along with Simon Russell Beale, who is back as eccentric Egyptologist Ferdinand Lyle. Additional guest stars include Douglas Hodge as a Scotland Yard investigator; Sarah Greene as Poole’s powerful daughter, Hecate; and Jonny Beauchamp as a man with a singular past. [Read more…]
Morning Static: DOWNTON ABBEY, ONCE UPON A TIME, THE GOOD WIFE & More!
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Your 2015 Canadian Screen Awards Winners
On Sunday night the Canadian Screen Awards capped off a week of festivities with an awards gala on CBC. Missed the two-hour broadcast hosted by Canadian comedian Andrea Martin? Here are your winners… [Read more…]
On TV Tonight: Monday March 2, 2015
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | The Bachelor: The Women Tell All | Secrets and Lies (R) | ||||
CBS | The Big Bang Theory (R) | Mike & Molly | Scorpion (R) | NCIS: Los Angeles (R) | ||
CW | The Originals (R) | Jane the Virgin (R) | ||||
FOX | Gotham | The Following | ||||
NBC | The Voice | The Night Shift | ||||
MISC | American Dad (TBS) Star Wars Rebels (Disney XD) RuPaul’s Drag Race (Logo) Ellen’s Design Challenge (HGTV) | Better Call Saul (AMC) Eye Candy (MTV) | ||||
ABC FAM | The Fosters (ABC Family) | Chasing Life (ABC Family) |
SECRETS AND LIES: KaDee Strickland Previews Her Thrilling New ABC Murder Mystery
ABC’s highly anticipated murder thriller, SECRETS AND LIES premieres tonight at 9:00EST with two episodes airing back to back. I caught up with one of the shows extremely talented stars, KaDee Strickland to chat about the similarities between her characters- Charlotte (PRIVATE PRACTICE) and Christy (SECRETS AND LIES), what drew her to this role, and what we can look forward to in tonight’s addicting and suspenseful premiere.
What drew you to Christy? What made you want to audition for this role?
KaDee Strickland: I was very fortunate that they called me in, I had worked with Barbie Klingman on PRIVATE PRACTICE and she and I had a wonderful relationship. I think she was in the helm of bringing me in to meet with the producers and the director. When I read the script I couldn’t put it down and knew immediately that I had not done anything like this before- to me that was the biggest draw. I’d been coming off of a series where I had played the same character for six years and loved her and loved that process but I really wanted to do something different. I just had a child and so whatever was going to bring me out of being a new mom 100% of the time had to be something compelling. Having just had a son and reading something where something happens to a little boy. I had such an emotional response I thought I have to go sit down with them and talk about this. I had been a fan of Charles McDougall from his work on HOUSE OF CARDS and Aaron Kaplan- I have tremendous respect for. It was sort of a no brainer; I sat down with them and talked about where the character would go, who she was and who she was going to evolve into. One never really knows what they are going to get into when they get involved with a series that is so shrouded in mystery. I loved the idea that I would be playing that kind of character, and every time I got a script I got to learn who she was even more. I really liked it; it kept me on my toes.
How was going from dealing with multiple cases and storylines on PRIVATE PRACTICE to dealing with one murder and one storyline on SECRETS AND LIES?
The entire structure of this piece, knowing it was going to end in ten episodes, knowing that in start to finish I would know where my character was when this piece was done- was really exciting for me. To play a real estate agent who lives in a suburban environment and has her world rocked by this event, and her marriage already in quite a strained place with two children, two girls was something so different for me. Knowing every time I was going to get a script I was going to unpeel a layer even more about who the Crawford’s were. It was really exciting to me; I was able to focus in a different way than when I would get multiple cases. When you get a script on a series like that you’re learning with every script that it’s going to be a different event, but with this you know it’s a single focus. It’s really isolated to the experience of the characters and to this family and this tragedy. Where they go with the evolution of being followed and being normal one day then being turned upside down the next. That was really exciting, it’s just so universal. People live in neighborhoods like this, I just felt like it was so relatable for an audience to kind of go through what it would be like if this happened to their neighbors.
How are Charlotte (PRIVATE PRACTICE) and Christy (SECRETS AND LIES) different/ the same?
In the closest regard they are both born in the southern region of the country, however Christy Crawford is not played with as much southern emphasis as Charlotte. (Laughs) They’re completely different characters. They’re both women that make their own money; both very hard working and they both come from a certain breeding and educational standard, and that’s really where it ends. The core of their response to their environment and to their circumstances could not be more different, and that’s why I was so excited to play Christy and to do something that really took me out of the comfort of playing that character that I loved so much and put me in a different world.
What can you reveal about the other suspects?
I can’t reveal anything! (Laughs) It seems so long ago; there are pieces of the puzzle that even though I was there for table read I kind of allowed myself to forget so that when I see them I can be surprised. The truth is these actors that they hired are so dang talented that they would bring different things to these scenes that I never anticipated. We did shoot multiple endings, anyone at anytime felt like they could be the one.
Which character are you most excited to learn more about this season?
I’m always a big fan of Dave. (Dan Fogler) Dave’s world is a fascinating world to me and to the audience. And of course, Cornell (Juliette Lewis) because you do learn more about her personal life, which is going to be really fun. She comes on like a hammer in the beginning so to learn more about her is going to be really interesting for everyone.
What can you tell us about tonight’s episode?
Expect the unexpected because you will get some incredibly surprising information out of both episodes that will carry you into the rest of the series.
You can watch the two-hour series premiere of SECRETS AND LIES tonight at 9EST on ABC.
On TV Tonight: Sunday March 1, 2015
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM | |
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ABC | Once Upon a Time | Secrets and Lies | |||||
CBS | Madam Secretary | The Good Wife | Battle Creek | ||||
FOX | The Simpsons | Brooklyn Nine-Nine | The Last Man on Earth | ||||
HBO | The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst | Girls | Togetherness | Looking | |||
NBC | The Voice (R) | Escape: Costa Concordia Shipwreck | |||||
AMC | The Walking Dead | Talking Dead | |||||
PBS | The Great British Baking Show (PBS) | Downton Abbey (PBS) | |||||
SHO | Shameless | House of Lies | Episodes |