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*With this season’s “Mad Men” set in 1968, you knew this was coming. Turns out the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hit viewers just as unexpectedly Sunday night as it did the characters in the episode. In the early evening of April 4, most of the characters were together at an advertising-awards ceremony [...]
*AMC’s “The Walking Dead” has opened its arms to Larry Gilliard Jr. The former star of HBO’s “The Wire” will play the series regular part of Bob Stookey, a former Army medic who is deeply haunted by his past — both before and after the apocalypse. He’s a loner, though he maintains a charming yet [...]
*People magazine’s World’s Most Beautiful issue is on sale April 26, with 35-year-old Danai Gurira of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” making the cut. Here’s a sneak peek at her Q&A in the issue: How you know her The Iowa-born actress and playwright wields a mean sword as Michonne on AMC’s The Walking Dead. Her hair [...]
*Just days after “The Walking Dead’s” bloody season finale, the show based on the comics created by Robert Kirkman has promoted three familiar faces to series regular. Chad Coleman (Tyreese), Sonequa Martin-Green (Sasha) and Emily Kinney (Beth) will rejoin the series full time when the AMC series returns in October, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. [...]
Before we get started on this story, let us ask the ladies, “Would you let Mr. Freaky Deaky pictured above, hit it?” OK, while you ponder that, here’s the deal on Mr. Sexy, er, The Creature … *While reality shows appear to be popular, I still want to believe that most of us wouldn’t mind [...]
*Benjamin Charles Watson, best known for playing Tariq on The CW’s “The L.A. Complex,” has landed a recurring role on the third season of AMC’s revived drama, “The Killing.” He will appear in at least four episodes as “Gay Ray,” a transgender teen who left home because of a domineering and bigoted adoptive father and [...]
*Did you recognize him in last night’s return of “The Walking Dead?” NFL star Hines Ward made a guest appearance on the AMC series as one of the zombies – sans eyebrows and with bloody gashes and scars covering his face. “A former Georgia teammate of mine is one of the stars of the show, [...]
*ABC has given a full-season order to Kerry Washington’s ABC drama “Scandal,” while Common will continue on for a just-announced third season of AMC’s “Hell on Wheels.” “Scandal,” which launched with a short seven-episode first season in April, follows the professional cases and the personal problems of political fixer Olivia Pope (Washington). The series comes [...]
*Don’t sleep on the quiet ones like Giancarlo Esposito. He’s one of those actors that sort of slips under the cracks, and gets overshadowed by other fan-adorned actors. But the guy has done some great acting work; and it’s worth talking about. In an interview with “Hit Fix,” he talked about his own journey in [...]
*With HBO’s “Treme” currently airing its final season, co-star Clarke Peters has been cast as a regular in AMC’s Untitled Lagravenese/Goldwyn pilot. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The legal thriller centers on Adam Page (Damon Gupton), a District Attorney who uncovers new evidence that prompts the reinvestigation of a sensational murder. Peters will play Adam’s [...]
*AMC knows how to pick dramas – having enjoyed both critical acclaim and ratings success with their original series “Mad Men,” “Breaking Bad” and most recently “The Walking Dead.” [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The network hopes to continue the streak with its new project “Low Winter Sun,” a drama pilot that stars Lennie James [...]
WARNING, SEASON FINALE SPOILERS *AMC’s “The Walking Dead” has recruited “Treme” actress Danai Gurira to play Michonne, the legendary heroine from the Robert Kirkman comic series on which the zombie drama is based. Are you a fan of EURweb? Like us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter.) The hooded, sword-wielding character made her onscreen [...]
*The season finale of Common’s “Hell On Wheels,” which premiered Sunday, Jan. 15th at 10 pm EST, attracted 2.8 million viewers, which, combined with the encore, delivered a total of 3.8 million viewers – making it the second highest rated series on AMC following the success of “The Walking Dead.” “Hell On Wheels” tells the [...]
*AMC is set to announce a season 2 of its Old West drama “Hell on Wheels.” Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the cable network is expected to announce a formal renewal of the freshman series starring Anson Mount and Common in the coming days. The program, which revolves around the building of the first [...]
*You know him best from AMC’s “The Killing.” Now, actor Brandon Jay McLaren has landed a co-starring role in the untitled USA pilot from “White Collar” creator Jeff Eastin, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The hour-long drama sticks agents from various federal and local agencies, including the FBI and the LAPD, together in the same [...]
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