It’s Over: Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys Spill on the End of ‘The Americans’
“Hey now, hey now, don’t dream it’s over.” The haunting lyrics from that hit 1986 song by Crowded House played during the opening montage of the first episode of Season 6 of “The Americans” earlier this spring. And now, comrades, the 1980s Cold War-era drama centering on two KGB spies played by Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys is in fact over. Rhys and Russell, both nominated for Primetime Emmy awards in lead acting categories last year,...
Highlights of TV’s Annual Upfront Programming Presentations
The dust is still settling from last week’s series of major network presentations for the 2018 TV upfronts. Despite the uncertainty in the air about potential mergers between CBS and Viacom, AT&T and Time Warner and even Disney and Fox with a rival Comcast bid coming into play, top executives across the board espoused an attitude of optimism about the future. Here’s a chronological snapshot of what went down during the whirlwind...
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 2 Brings More Chaos to a Cruel, Crazy World
It was a big night for Hulu Wednesday as the streamer dropped the first two episodes of Season 2 of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” its acclaimed drama series based on Margaret Atwood’s best-selling 1985 dystopian novel of the same name. The small screen adaptation, which initially premiered a year ago, captured the zeitgeist of divisional politics and discrimination against women. It also vaulted Hulu into the top-tier of awards recipients...
The Next Edition of NatGeo ‘Genius:’ Antonio Banderas as Pablo Picasso
When National Geographic Channel debuted its anthology series “Genius” last year depicting the life of Albert Einstein, it was an ambitious project and a huge roll of the dice for the cable network. But “Genius,” which was NatGeo’s first-ever scripted series, struck chords on many levels, with audiences, with the industry– not surprisingly due to its provenance – with critics and with awards voters. The program was nominated for...
GI Jews: World War II Stories of Battling Bigotry Uncovered in New PBS Documentary
GI Jews. Unlike GI Joes, it’s not a term commonly used when speaking about members of the military. But it is the attention-grabbing title of a new feature-length documentary focusing on the more than 550,000 American Jews – men and women – who served their country during World War II. Among those veterans are prominent citizens including comedy legends Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, authors Norman Mailer and J.D. Salinger and former...
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