By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—On Oct. 1, 2006, Showtime premiered a new series called “Dexter.” The psychological thriller starred Michael C. Hall in the role of Dexter Morgan, a blood splatter pattern analyst for the Miami police department, who moonlights as a serial killer. The u [...]

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Michael Keaton has enjoyed a long and eclectic acting career, including the successful comedies “Night Shift” and “Mr. Mom,” iconic genre movies, “Batman” and the classic fantasy “Beetlejuice.” More recently, he’s starred in two Academy Award winning mo [...]

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—On Oct. 6, 2000, CBS premiered “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” touting it as a new kind of police drama, which would become the first in a lucrative franchise. The longrunning series followed a team of forensic investigators working with the Las Vegas [...]

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—NBC’s new drama “Ordinary Joe” spotlights the ‘what if’ scenario of college graduate Joe Kimbreau. Faced with three career choices—a rock singer, a nurse or a police officer—each episode moves back and forth among the three storylines, revealing how a s [...]