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Duchovny on Manson’s Trail in NBC’s ‘Aquarius’

Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|May 27, 2015 |0

****Note to Editors: expletives have been asterisked.**** By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Having wrapped seven seasons on Showtime’s “Californication” as womanizing author Hank Moody last year, David Duchovny returns to network television as the star of a period crime drama called “ [...]

Review: ‘Mad Men’ Finale’s Frustrating Fade-Out

TV Features By James Dawson|May 19, 2015 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features TV Critic SPOILER ALERT! Do not read this review unless you already have seen the “Mad Men” series finale, because this review is all about that episode’s ending. SPOILER ALERT! Okay, now that THAT’s out of the way: The episode ends with [...]

EXCLUSIVE: California Motorist Inspired Very British ‘Mr. Sloane’

Features News TV Features By Angela Dawson|May 6, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Inspiration can come from almost anywhere if you know where to look. Take, for example, Robert B. Weide, the renowned writer/producer/filmmaker, best known for his collaboration with Larry David on the HBO comedy “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Weide was stuc [...]

Max Thieriot: Playing Norma Bates’ Other Son

Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|April 15, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film “Psycho” told the disturbing story of a son’s deadly obsession with his mother. The modern day TV series “Bates Motel,” which airs on A&E, is essentially a prequel to that 1960 horror classic, featuring a teenage No [...]

Jon Hamm & Co. Reflect on ‘Mad Men’

Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|April 6, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON and JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—They say all good things must come to an end, and so it is with AMC’s award-winning drama series “Mad Men,” which began airing the last seven episodes of the seventh—and final—season last Sunday night. The brainchild of writer-director [...]

Vera Farmiga Checks Back into ‘Bates Motel’

Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|March 12, 2015 |1

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Vera Farmiga has established herself as one weird and complicated mother for the past two seasons playing Norma Bates, mother to mentally disturbed Norman (played by Freddie Highmore), in the “Psycho” TV series prequel “Bates Motel.” Now that the thir [...]

EXCLUSIVE: TV Series, Film Highlight Week for Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Features Film Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|March 9, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Scream queen favorite Mary Elizabeth Winstead returns to television Monday, March 9, as a series regular in the new A&E supernatural drama series “The Returned,” based on the acclaimed French series “Les Revenants.” The hour-long series airs Monda [...]

John C. Reilly Goes ‘Quackers’ in Cable Comedy Series

Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|March 3, 2015 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—No one knows when or if a sequel to the 2012 blockbuster animated feature “Wreck-It Ralph” will happen. And John C. Reilly, who voices the titular videogame character, isn’t about to spill the beans. For the time being, Reilly’s fans can h [...]

Ori Pfeffer: Jerusalem Detective ‘Digs’ for the Truth

Features TV Features By Lynn Barker|March 2, 2015 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—In prep for the USA Network premiere of the mystery/conspiracy theory event series “Dig,” select press were invited to the set last December here where we spoke with Israeli actor Ori Pfeffer (“Munich,” “World War Z”). The series premieres Thurs [...]

Anne Heche Talks on New USA Series ‘Dig’

Features TV Features By Lynn Barker|February 28, 2015 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—In early December 2014, the USA Network was finishing up a multi-country shoot on “Dig,” the murder mystery/conspiracy theory/end-of-days event series thriller. On set here, a select group of journalists huddled in what is known in the TV/movie [...]