I have to give it to the Lawless redband trailer that came out this week. Heck, I have to stick a gold star on the work of the whole marketing team. They know how to ride a...

Two items collided on my desk today. The first, a press kit for Grimm, season 2. I scanned it. We’ll get to its reveals in a moment. The salient revelation came when the second scrap from the...

I’m not a huge fan when it comes to network TV crime drama. My sour opinion on mainstream crime TV is inspired by the sad smell of surrender that seems to come off of such shows: A...

Stuck with 90 minutes to fill the other night, I caught up on the latest show from AMC, Small Town Security. Three episodes in, I was damn impressed. It wasn’t the standard fare of aiming a camera...

There’s a rule in Tinseltown, along with the better known ones like “nobody walks here”: If something’s working, keep working it. Work that crap right to death. A wise man once illustrated the design of the Hollywood...

The Television Critics Association (TCA) grist mill keeps turning, and now that we’re mowing through conferences with cable networks, we get to know about shows we actually care about. This is especially the case with Weeds, the...

Another highly anticipated sit-down at the Television Critics Association summer press tour hit this weekend, as FX’s segment featured a revealing palaver with Kurt Sutter. Also in attendance were guest stars from the upcoming Sons of Anarchy...

Everybody – and by that I mean, me and those wise enough to share my interests – wants to know where creator of Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan, is going next with his television career. The guy’s hardly...

Some reports demand to be written, even if only a fraction of your audience gets why. The announcement that Mark Strong may be reprising his role from Low Winter Sun in an AMC adaptation of the hit...

Consider me somewhat swayed toward the new project from veteran TV-franchise creator, Dick Wolf. Chicago Fire sounded like the typical process-heavy cookie cutter that Wolf has claimed his fame with – a cast of schlock stereotypes running...