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Tyler Green works on his creation for "Odd Couples." Photo copyright of Syfy.
Next time on Face Off: All Stars, the five remaining All-Star teams create comedic fantasy duos in their latest elimination challenge. Odd Couples airs Tuesday, March 14th @ 9:00 p.m. EST/8:00 p.m. CT on Syfy (US).
The New Zealand detective series The Brokenwood Mysteries, Series 3 debuts on DVD and Blu-ray on March 21, 2017 from Acorn, an RLJ Entertainment, Inc. brand. After transferring from a big city to the small town of Brokenwood, Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Shepherd continues to settle into country life working with his assistant, Detective Kristin Sims. Despite the growing accord between the mismatched pair, all is not well in Brokenwood, where passions simmering beneath the sleepy surface regularly erupt into gruesome crimes. The DVD 4-Disc and Blu-ray 2-Disc sets highlight four feature-length, standalone mysteries featuring compelling characters, dry humor, and piquant wit ($59.99 each, AcornOnline.com). Series 3 made its U.S. premiere in December 2016 on Acorn TV, the premier streaming service for world-class television from Britain and beyond.
(L-R): Fern Sutherland, Nic Sampson and Neill Rea. Photo copyright of Acorn Media.
Despite relishing the leisurely ways and quaint charms of country life, Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Shepherd (Neill Rea, Go Girls) knows all is not well in the picturesque but murder-ridden town of Brokenwood. Along with his methodical partner, Detective Kristin Sims (Fern Sutherland, The Almighty Johnsons), and eager young DC Sam Breen (Nic Sampson, Go Girls), Shepherd must confront the violent impulses and roiling passions that can mar even the most serene locales. In these four feature-length mysteries, the detectives investigate the death of a ‘Lord of the Ringz’ tour guide, a real-life Clue board game gone wrong, the death of a classic-car enthusiast and someone killing the Christmas spirit.
Filmed on location in New Zealand’s beautiful North Island, The Brokenwood Mysteries is “engaging, full of twists, and will keep you guessing right till the end.” (CheeseonToast.co.nz)
Street Date: March 21, 2017: SRP: $59.99; DVD 4-Disc Set: 4 feature-length mysteries – Approx. 369 min. – UPC 054961255399; Blu-ray 2-Disc Set: 4 feature-length mysteries – Approx. 369 min. – UPC 054961255399. Bonus: Interviews with the cast and writer Tim Balme (9 min.) and a photo gallery. Contains disturbing images. Check out the season three promo below!
(L-R): Tulip O'Hare (Ruth Negga) and Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) in Preacher. Photo copyright of AMC.
AMC announced today from the SXSW Festival that the critically-acclaimed, supernatural series Preacher will return for season two on Monday, June 19th at 9:00 P.M. ET/PT. The network also released six first-look photos from the new season (above and below). The expanded second season, consisting of 13 episodes, is a genre-bending thrill ride that follows West Texas preacher Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), his badass ex-girlfriend Tulip (Academy Award nominee Ruth Negga) and an Irish vampire named Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) as they embark on a road trip to find God and are thrust into a twisted battle spanning Heaven, Hell and everywhere in between.
Series showrunner and executive producer Sam Catlin, executive producer Seth Rogen and graphic novelist and co-executive producer Garth Ennis will participate in a panel discussion at SXSW on Saturday, March 11th at 2:00 P.M. CST in Room 18ABCD of the Austin Convention Center. Moderated by IGN.com’s Terri Schwartz, the panel will explore the making of Preacher, adapting the series from the comic book and Rogen’s experience directing the series’ action-packed scenes, among other topics. Attendees will also catch an exclusive first look at season two.
Season one, comprised of 10 episodes, is currently available on Blu-ra and DVD as well as On Demand and on AMC.com through Tuesday, April 4th – with the first two episodes of the season available unauthenticated. Season one can also be streamed exclusively on Hulu beginning Wednesday, April 5th.
The Sony Pictures Television and AMC Studios co-production was developed for television by Rogen and Evan Goldberg (Sausage Party, Neighbors 2, Superbad) and showrunner Catlin (Breaking Bad). The series is executive produced by Catlin, as well as Rogen, Goldberg and James Weaver for Point Grey Pictures, Neal H. Moritz and Ori Marmur for Original Film and Vivian Cannon, Jason Netter and Ken F. Levin.
Preacher season two stars Dominic Cooper, Ruth Negga, Joseph Gilgun, Ian Coletti, Graham McTavish, and new additions Noah Taylor (Peaky Blinders, Game of Thrones), Pip Torrens (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, My Week with Marilyn), Julie Ann Emery (Better Call Saul, Fargo), Malcolm Barrett (Dear White People), Justin Prentice (13 Reasons Why, Awkward) and Ronald Guttman (Mozart in the Jungle, Mad Men).
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Actor John Billingsley.
Once again, I have decided to open up the interview vault and revisit some of the many interviews I have had the pleasure of writing over the years and that just appeared in-print and not on-line. In today's interview, stage, feature film and TV actor John Billingsley talks about playing ghost hunter/demon-buster Miles Ballard in the NBC supernatural TV drama The Others. Enjoy, and keep coming back for more familiar faces and shows!
When not lecturing in the classroom, most university professors can usually be found grading exams, tutoring students or attending school-related functions. Not Miles Ballard, the bespectacled, slightly disheveled teacher on NBC’s supernatural thriller The Others. Except for when it comes to helping his students, he prefers to spend most of his off-campus hours hunting for ghosts, excising demons and investigating paranormal phenomenon.
Miles is the studious facilitator of ‘the others,’ a diverse group of gifted individuals whose extraordinary abilities allow them to reach beyond this world and into other dimensions. The group assists wandering souls who are having trouble crossing over to ‘the other side’ because of unfinished business here on Earth, while also trying to protect those who are still very much alive from being threatened by otherworldly creatures. Ironically, the professor must experience these ethereal encounters vicariously through his colleagues.
“My character is the only one in the group who doesn’t have supernatural abilities,” explains John Billingsley, the affable actor who plays Miles. “Here’s a guy who is absolutely fascinated by the paranormal but has not, himself, actually been able to dip his toe in that water, much like myself. I’ve never had any kind of supernatural experience. There are so many people in the world that claim to have met a ghost. Me, I’ve never even heard a clank in the night,” he laughs.
“Having said that, my familiarity with the genre is fairly extensive because I’m a big reader. In fact, when I got this part I went to the library and culled many of the classic ghost stories from such well-known authors as J. Sheridan LeFanu, Wilkie Collins and M.R. James and read them. All those poltergeists certainly put me in the right frame of mind for this role.”
A veteran stage actor, Billingsley brings a wealth of acting experience to his work on The Others. Born in Pennsylvania, he attended Bennington College in Vermont where he chose to pursue a career as a thespian over that of a writer. “I always loved to act and I wrote plays as a child. But I’m a pretty social person and found that the discipline of sitting down at a desk for the requisite five or six hours a day was much harder to get used to than the fun of being in a rehearsal hall. In the end, I gravitated more towards acting because it offered the added advantage of allowing me to go out and have a few laughs and a beer with my friends afterwards.”
Upon graduating, the actor moved to Seattle, Washington and honed his craft by working extensively in regional theatre. “I felt that I had a better chance of breaking into the business there than in New York City,” notes Billingsley. “I also knew that I was a character actor and figured it would take me a few years to get to a point where I’d be prepared to look for television and film work in Los Angeles.” He begins to chuckle when recalling his feature film debut in the 1988 drama Seven Hours to Judgement, directed by and starring Beau Bridges.
“I look back at it now and tell my friends, ‘Don’t see this movie!’ I was so terrible in it. I was young, in my twenties, and except for college projects I hadn’t really worked in front of a camera, so I didn’t know that small and subtle could be a good thing. Man, you could have slathered me with mustard and put me between two slices of bread, I was such a ham,” jokes the actor. “Beau Bridges was sweet as pie, though. At one point in the film, I grab a shotgun out of the closet and chase him around the room. All I can remember being told was, ‘We’ve got to do this in one take. You need to fire the gun the second you hit your mark.’ I was petrified and convinced that I was going to screw it up, but in the end I did everything right and on the first take,” he says happily.
Billingsley’s other movie credits include Born to be Wild, Eat Your Heart Out and I Love You to Death. On television, he has guest-starred on such series as NYPD Blue, The Practice, The Pretender, Profiler and Martial Law. The Others marks his first time as a series regular and, unlike most of his roles, he won the part of Miles Ballard after only one audition.
“The ladies who cast our show, Megan McConnell, Janet Gilmore and their associate, Jamie Rudofski, are just wonderful,” praises the actor. “They had hired me in the past for Felicity and The Practice, so they brought me in to read for The Others. I did three scenes, which I felt went very well, and a week later I got a call offering me the job. I was in my manager’s office and her assistant was talking on the phone and began writing ‘Spielberg’ over and over on her notepad. Steven Spielberg’s company, DreamWorks, produces our show and, from what I understand, he does not believe in callbacks. Apparently, they’d shown my tape to Steven, he liked what he saw and wanted to make sure I kept myself available. Naturally, I did.
“A week or so after that I was up in Toronto, Canada shooting the pilot, which was an absolute delight,” continues Billingsley. “So much of what happens in this profession hinges on whether or not you get along well with the people you work with. Well, things started off on the right foot even before I left Los Angeles. I was standing in line at the airport and the man in front of me was John Aylward, who plays Albert, the blind man with a ‘sixth sense.’
“I’ve known John for twenty years. He and I worked together in Seattle and I used to be his cat-sitter. I asked him, ‘John, what are you doing here? Are you going to Toronto?’ He told me, ‘Yeah, I’m doing the pilot for this new Steven Spielberg show.’ I said, ‘You’re the blind guy,’ and he said, ‘And you’re the nerd!’ We got on the plane, they parked the liquor cart by us and we had a lot of laughs all the way to Canada.”
“Once everyone arrived in Toronto we had a meeting with Mick Garris, who’s now one of the show’s producers. At the time, he had just been brought in to direct the pilot but he enjoyed himself so much that he decided to stick with the series and we’re all elated about that. He’s such a warm, friendly person and his energy and enthusiasm for the project as well as his affection for everybody helped bring us together very quickly.”
In the show’s pilot episode, Miles introduces himself to a student named Marian Kitt (Julianne Nicholson), who is being haunted by the ghost of a woman who died in her dorm room a few years back. Although she is reluctant to admit it, Marian is a medium and has the ability to communicate with the deceased. Miles believes that he and ‘the others’ can teach her how to harness these powers so that she can help this woman’s spirit rest in peace. The professor would love for Marian to join the group, even though he knows that once she opens the door to ‘the other side’ her life will never be the same again.
“Miles has a great deal of affection for Marian and feels responsible for her,” says Billingsley. “After all, he’s the one who pretty much discovers her and brings her into the group. I think that sometimes he feels guilty about doing this because Marian goes through quite a lot for someone so young and may not as yet be ready to face some of the things she’s having to experience. However, he realizes she might be the only hope for ‘the others’ to carry on when their spiritual leader Elmer Greentree [Bill Cobbs] eventually passes on. Elmer knows this too, and proceeds to make Marian his protégé fairly early on. I’ll be curious to see if this results in any quasi-paternalistic jealousy because Miles doesn’t have as much of a chance to mold Marian since she’s working so closely with Elmer.”
With Marian now among them, ‘the others’ take on some of their most bizarre and dangerous cases yet. In the episode Unnamed, they search for a little boy who has been missing for three years, while in the chilling tale Eyes, the group must battle another man’s demons. Thanks to Miles, their investigations even take them to a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet to search for Souls Onboard a haunted aircraft.
“In this episode Miles sort of suckers his friends into investigating some psychic phenomenon without their really knowing that that’s what they’re being asked to do. Unfortunately, it backfires on him,” laughs the actor. “Out of all the episodes we’ve shot so far, this one features my character most prominently, so there’s a part of me that considers it my favorite because I’ve got the most to do. Honestly, though, I can’t say that we’ve done a story that I’ve disliked. The writers are trying all sorts of plots to attract as wide an audience as possible, which is one of the things I dig about the show.
“Something else that I’m really enjoying is the chance to work with so many famous directors. Because Steven Spielberg is who he is he’s able to get these marvelous feature film directors to direct our show. For example, we’ve had Bill Condon [Gods and Monsters], Bill Malone [House on Haunted Hill] and Tobe Hooper [The Texas Chainsaw Massacre], who did Souls Onboard. It’s just so fascinating because these guys have each developed their own very unique and distinctive visual styles. So each episode of The Others not only has a different look to it but also a different tone when it comes to the writing.”
Some critics are touting The Others as a cross between The X-Files and the feature film The Sixth Sense with a generous dash of Touched by an Angel thrown in for good measure. While the series does contain elements of these big and small screen hits, Billingsley believes there are a number of other aspects to it that will also appeal to viewers.
“As a thesis, the show says that the need for living creatures to relate to and deal with each other is so overwhelming that it transcends death. Because of this, a person may sometimes reach beyond the grave to finish what needs to be finished before they can move on,” he says. “I find that to be a very moving type of theme. In a way, it’s got some of the spirituality of Touched by an Angel but in a far more supernatural sense. This is something, I hope, will allow us to have a broader audience, you know?
“I also think The Others is a series with some really heavyweight talent behind it. As I mentioned, we have these wonderful directors and, because it’s a DreamWorks project, they have all the resources they need to create a first class visual production.
“Last but not least, it’s a program that’s driven by character acting,” stresses Billingsley. “It’s not about seven people all under thirty. In our show the leader of the pack is a 70 year old black gentleman [Bill Cobbs], John Aylward is a craggy 50 year old, I’m kind of a dumpy 40 year old and Julianne is so not your standard issue, twentysomething sex kitten. She’s absolutely lovely but in a very off-kilter sort of way. So The Others bucks today’s notion that a television show needs to be a built around gorgeous hard bodies, and speaking on behalf of this body, that’s a good thing,” he laughs.
Steve Eramo
Actor Jason Isaacs and actress Mary Wiseman.
Star Trek: Discovery announces Jason Isaacs and Mary Wiseman as the newest additions to the series. Isaacs will star as Captain Lorca, commander of the Starship Discovery. Isaacs' current and upcoming credits include The OA on Netflix and Weinstein Company's Hotel Mumbai. Wiseman will star as Tilly, a Starfleet Academy Cadet in her final year of study, assigned to the Starship Discovery. Wiseman, a recent graduate of Juilliard, can also be seen in Baskets on FX.
Star Trek, one of the most iconic and influential global television franchises, returns to television 50 years after it first premiered with Star Trek: Discovery. The series will feature a new ship, new characters and new missions, while embracing the same ideology and hope for the future that inspired a generation of dreamers and doers. The series will premiere on the CBS Television Network with all subsequent episodes available on CBS All Access, the Network’s digital subscription video on demand and live streaming service, and will be distributed concurrently by CBS Studios International on Netflix in 188 countries and in Canada on Bell Media’s Space channel and OTT service CraveTV.
Star Trek: Discovery is produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Alex Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout, Bryan Fuller’s Living Dead Guy Productions and Roddenberry Entertainment. Alex Kurtzman, Bryan Fuller, Heather Kadin, Gretchen J. Berg & Aaron Harberts, Akiva Goldsman, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth serve as executive producers.
Into the Badlands' Sunny (Daniel Wu). Photo copyright of AMC.
The second season of AMC’s martial arts drama, Into the Badlands, debuts on Sunday, March 19th at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. The premiere episode, “Tiger Pushes Mountain, picks up six months after the season one finale, Sunny finds a new foe, as well as a new, unexpected ally, while MK learns about his gift in a mysterious place.
Season two of Into the Badlands finds Sunny (Daniel Wu) and M.K. (Aramis Knight) separated and scattered to the wind, each imprisoned in unlikely places. While M.K. struggles to control his powers, Sunny is determined to fight his way back into the Badlands to find his family or die trying. On their journey, Clipper and Colt are assisted by mysterious, new allies whose motivations may be anything but pure. Meanwhile, The Widow (Emily Beecham) continues to consolidate power against the other Barons, while a dark and mysterious threat prepares to exact revenge on them all. Alliances are struck, friendships betrayed, and by season's end, Sunny and M.K.'s lives will be forever altered with devastating consequences.
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Richard Burgi as The Sentinel's James Ellison.
Once again, I have decided to open up the interview vault and revisit some of the many interviews I have had the pleasure of writing over the years and that just appeared in-print and not on-line. In today's interview, actor Richard Burgi talks about playing the sensory-enhanced crime-fighter Lieutenant Detective James Ellison in the UPN series The Sentinel. Enjoy, and keep coming back for more familiar faces and shows!
In the late nineteenth century famed British explorer Richard Burton became aware of a curious phenomenon in his study of remote tribal cultures. He discovered that each tribe posted a watchman to patrol its borders, but this was no ordinary sentry. This individual was chosen because he had a unique genetic advantage over his enemies - a heightened sensory awareness beyond anything displayed by his fellow tribesmen. Sadly, Burton’s findings were not enthusiastically received by most of his peers and his research was nearly forgotten.
Although some people have a keen sense of sound or taste, no human has ever exhibited what Burton claimed to be the acute development of all five senses. In the UPN series The Sentinel, however, Lieutenant Detective James Ellison is the television equivalent of these gifted natives that the explorer met. An ex-soldier Ellison was the sole survivor of a disastrous reconnaissance mission that marooned him for eighteen months deep in the Peruvian jungle. During this time he honed the very same sensory skills developed by these tribal watchmen or sentinels. Nowadays, he uses these abilities to battle crime in the fictitious town of Cascade, Washington. Handsome actor Richard Burgi had just returned from Hawaii and working with ex-Charlie’s Angel Cheryl Ladd on the short-lived CBS police drama One West Waikiki when he auditioned for the role of Ellison.
“I first worked with the show’s creators and executive producers Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo as a guest-star on their series The Flash and then I did a recurring role for them on Viper when it aired on NBC,” explains Burgi. “After I auditioned for The Sentinel I didn’t hear from them and the program kind of disappeared. Meanwhile I needed some time to clear my head and recharge my batteries after Hawaii, so my dog and I did a five-state tour of the California coast, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. When I got back they still hadn’t found anyone to play Ellison, so a couple of weeks later I went in and auditioned again. That afternoon I read for the network and got the job.
“One of the things that really attracted me to the series was the writing,” he continues. “The characters were clearly defined in that there were a set of parameters for each of them but at the same time there was lots of room in terms of developmental potential. Jim Ellison is a stoic, laconic, towing-the-line kind of guy who has a fairly straightforward view of right and wrong. He can also be a bit acerbic and cynical at times. Jim is sort of a throwback to the old-fashioned action heroes seen on television and in films during the sixties and seventies.”
In the show’s pilot episode Switchman, Ellison is on the trail of a serial bomber who is planning to blow up a lumber mill. While alone in the woods on a long stake-out the detective suddenly begins to suffer from symptoms that he attributes to mental stress. In fact, what he is experiencing are his burgeoning hyper-senses. When the Switchman succeeds in destroying his target Ellison blames himself and requests a leave of absence. Fortunately for him he meets anthropology graduate student Blair Sandburg (Garett Maggart), who offers the police officer an explanation for his recent feelings of uneasiness and disorientation. Ellison reluctantly agrees to let Sandburg observe him while on the job in exchange for helping him learn how to control his newfound powers.
“I think Ellison still has certain reservations about being seen in public with Sandburg,” jokes the actor. “I remember when I was a teenager I met this guy who had either been in World War II or Vietnam. He had this tremendous energy about him and an attitude of, ‘Unless you’ve been there, unless you’ve been indoctrinated, trained and broken down, I’ve got nothing to say to you.’ I can recall feeling, I think, what Sandburg must feel towards Ellison sometimes, which is that maybe he should do the right thing which is cut his long hair, go to the police academy and develop a stomach disorder. Because they’re so opposite, though, the two of them compliment each other. At first Ellison has reservations about allowing Sandburg into his private domain yet he’s someone that Ellison needs at this point. However, the more they work together the more they come to realize just how much they count on each other.”
Ellison and Blair report to Captain Simon Banks (Bruce A. Young), a veteran police officer who likes nothing more than getting out from behind his desk and taking an active role in keeping Cascade safe. Initially Banks is very reluctant to make use of Ellison’s powers but he finds them to be an invaluable resource in tackling particularly difficult and bizarre cases.
“My character is more on par with Banks in that Ellison has a military background and he definitely understands rank as well as the role Banks plays as his superior officer,” explains Burgi. “The captain is a by-the-book type of guy but he has a big heart. Because of his ethnicity he’s worked twice as hard to get to where he is and perhaps holds his people accountable twice as much as other captains because of his high ethics and standards. He’s a valued individual and I mean this about Bruce Young the actor as well. He and Garett are two of my favorite people. They bring their characters to life with a wonderful blend of spontaneity, humor and compassion.”
In The Sentinel’s three seasons on the air Ellison and Blair have faced an elusive serial killer who adopts the identity of his victims (Cypher), prevented the distribution of a deadly new “designer” drug (Blind Man’s Bluff) and stopped a poaching syndicate responsible for killing endangered animals (Poachers). In addition to the show’s pilot Burgi has a few other episodes he counts among his favorites.
“We did a story involving a Mafia family last year [The Inside Man] that I really enjoyed. I like The Rig which takes place on an off-shore oil rig and also Vendetta involving road rage. That one was directed by a fellow by the name of Tim Van Patten, who used to be on The White Shadow. He’s a terrific guy and a great friend. We always have a lot of laughs working together. Incidentally, it was written by a close personal friend, David Thoreau, of the Thoreau lineage. I have fun on all our episodes except that once in a while I get frustrated because I want the material to be great, all of us do. Occasionally, though, a story comes along that is less than brilliant but we still try to do our best with it.”
Last season’s Sentinel ended on a dramatic but downbeat note with the episode Sentinel Too. In it one of the show’s regular characters is left for dead and a female Sentinel named Alex, alias Star Trek: Voyager’s Jeri Ryan, arrives in Cascade bringing with her a dark and disturbing secret. This past September Ryan returned to Vancouver, British Columbia, where the show is filmed, to reprise her role for its fourth-season opener.
“Jeri is a sweet lady,” says the actor. “She’s very talented and extremely professional. We lock lips a fair amount in this new episode,” he laughs. “Jeri is a real trooper and we had a lot of fun working together.”
While UPN continues its struggle to find its audience base The Sentinel has performed particularly well for the network and has developed a loyal viewer following. The first convention for the show was held in Vancouver this April and a CD soundtrack was recently released by Sonic Images. With all this support it is no wonder that Burgi and the rest of the cast and crew were taken by surprise when The Sentinel was not renewed for the 1998-1999 fall season. Happily, the network had a change of heart - greatly influenced by the fans and their massive Save The Sentinel campaign - and is bringing the series back as a mid-season replacement beginning Monday, 25 January 1999.
“I was somewhat disappointed when the network people pretty much overlooked us last season,” he continues. “The series has proven itself and it feels as though they’ve never gotten behind it for one reason or another. I was hurt and I took it personally because I looked at the show as a family that I didn’t want to break up. Of course, I experienced the usual feelings of self-doubt and failure. That just made me want to redouble the efforts of everyone on the show, especially the writers, to really come up with fun and riveting material that all of us can get behind this season.”
“The fans are great,” he continues. “They’re certainly one of the reasons why we’re coming back,” enthuses Burgi. “Besides the fact that The Sentinel is one of UPN’s better-rated shows, the fans were so vociferous when it came to dealing with the network. They flooded UPN with phone calls and e-mails to the Internet site demanding the show’s return. They’re very sweet and particularly generous. We recently held a successful fund-raiser to benefit Pediatric Aids and the Elizabeth Glaser Foundation.”
Burgi grew up in Montclair, New Jersey and began training early for his future career as a television detective. “When I was a kid I remember reading a book called The Secret Service and wanting to become a secret service agent. My brother and I even opened up our own little detective agency in our parents’ garage,” he chuckles. “However, when I was, I think, fifteen, I heard a little voice in the back of my mind telling me what I was going to do when I grew up and it’s what I’m doing now which is acting.”
The actor began his career at the age of twenty-eight and has not looked back since. In addition to his television and film roles he has also appeared on stage in such productions as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Suddenly Last Summer. With The Sentinel having wrapped production in December and its fate dependent on how it fairs opposite Fox Network’s popular Ally McBeal, Burgi has no idea what the immediate future holds. “All I hope is that I’m able to work on something like The Sentinel where the people are committed as well as compassionate and allow you stretch yourself as an actor while also offering you a sense of security,” he notes.
Steve Eramo
Will Bowman (Josh Holloway) in "Tamam Shud." Photo copyright of the USA Network.
Coming up on an all-new episode of Colony, Will (Josh Holloway) and Katie (Sarah Wayne Callies) attempt to make contact with a new arrival in the bloc. Meanwhile, Bob (Toby Huss) has some questions for the Bowman family. Check out the clip below and then tune in for Taman Shud on Thursday, March 9th @ 10:00 p.m. EST/9:00 p.m. CT on the USA Network.
Bobbie Draper (Frankie Adams) in "The Seventh Man." Photo copyright of Syfy.
Coming up on the next all-new episode of The Expanse, the preparations for an Earth/Mars peace conference tightens the tension on Errinwright. Meanwhile, Bobbie’s (Frankie Adams) debriefing uncovers a deeper mystery after the attack at Ganymede. Anderson Dawes (Jared Harris) uses the flow of refugees coming into Tycho for his own ends, threatening to destabilize the unease alliance between Fred Johnson (Chad L. Coleman) and Holden (Steven Strait). Have a look at the clip below from The Seventh Man and then tune in Wednesday, March 8th @ 10:00 p.m. EST/9:00 p.m. Ct on Syfy (US).
(L-R): Jade Tailor as Kady, Arjun Gupta as Penny and Jason Ralph as Quentin in "Plan B." Photo copyright of Syfy.
On the next episode of The Magicians; Julia (Stella Maeve) and Kady (Jade Tailor) devise a plan and enlist Quentin (Jason Ralph), Margo (Summer Bishil), Eliot (Hale Appleman) and Penny (Arjun Cupta) for a magical bank heist that could solve each of their problems. Meanwhile, Niffin Alice continues to pressure Quentin to set her free. Check out the clip below from Plan B and then tune in on Wednesday, March 8th @ 9:00 p.m. EST/8:00 p.m. CT on Syfy (US) for the entire episode.
