Sun, January 5, 2014 Remember when Jay Leno "retired" and Conan took over The Tonight Show for a minute? Then Jay Leno came back and Conan jettisoned himself to TBS? That drama seems like so long ago as we now prepare ourselves for the Jimmy Fallon led The Tonight Show. The first promo is below.
Thu, January 2, 2014 I've talked up this show quite a bit, and hope it lives up to expectations.
With a little more than a week to go before its premeire, there's not much more HBO can do than trust what the people behind the show have put forth.
See for yourself.
"True Detective" debuts Sunday, January 12 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO. The series stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as Louisiana detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart, whose lives collide and entwine during a 17-year hunt for a killer, ranging from the original investigation of a bizarre murder in 1995 to the reopening of the case in 2012. Michelle Monaghan also stars as Hart’s wife, Maggie, who struggles to keep her family together as the men in her life become locked in a cycle of violence and obsession. Written by Nic Pizzolatto and directed by Cary Fukunaga.
Source: ComingSoon.net
Thu, December 26, 2013 "Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond takes a no holds barred look at Ian Fleming, the man behind the James Bond legend whose real life was as exciting, eventful and sexually charged as his famous creation."
Tue, November 26, 2013 
Well, in some out of left-field news comes word that Baz Luhrmann, who directed this summer's surprise hit The Great Gatsby, is currently being drawn to the Spielberg produced HBO miniseries that renowned director Stanley Kubrick had been attempting to make in the 60's, according to Deadline:
Deals are a long way from being made, but I’m told the plan is for Luhrmann to take on what becomes the highest-profile miniseries at that payweb. When Spielberg first revealed the project in an interview with Canal Plus on French TV, he said that this was the project Kubrick had dreamed of making, only to drop it when Hollywood studios refused to fund it, even after Kubrick promised in a letter to studio executives in 1971 that it would be the best movie ever made. Indeed, the movie has been coined “the greatest movie never made.”
Baz Luhrmann would be the man for your sweeping and gorgeous epics that's for sure, especially on such a high-profile project backed by the wallets of HBO and Steven Spielberg himself.
NAPOLEON, intended as "the best film ever made" was eying Audrey Hepburn and David Hemmings for te lead roles; which Kubrick was said to work on into the late 1980's.
Tue, November 26, 2013 HBO has released a new trailer for their upcoming dark-drama series True Detective starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.
In the eight-episode stint debuting Sunday, January 12th (9:00-10:00pm ET/PT), Louisiana detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart begin an obsessive investigation of a bizarre killer in 1995, leading to the destruction of their lives over a 17 year-span until 2012 when the case is reopened.
I've been following this project for a while now and is definitely on my 'must-see' list for 2014. Little to any shows have peaked my interest since Breaking Bad ended but I'm pretty confident this show will live up to lofty expectations.
True Detective was written by Nic Pizzolatto (also showrunner and executive producer) and directed by Cary Fukunaga (Jane Eyre).
Source: HBO
Sat, November 23, 2013 
From the Bates Motel Facebook comes a photo of Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, and Max Theiriot seemingly at a rainy funeral.
is this a remembrance for CLOVERFIELD's Mike Vogel, who died in Season 1? Or is it a funeral for Norman Bates' teacher whom we're lead to believe he killed in the A&E drama's climactic season 1 finale, "Midnight"?
Bates Motel is currently one of my favorite shows, and the second in a string of 2013 television programes based on critically acclaimed films, with it acting a pre-boot of Alfred Hitchock's genre-defining film PSYCHO.
A modern re-imagining and prequel to the movie Psycho. This story begins with the earlier years of a teenage Norman Bates and his mother Norma who live in an old house overlooking the adjoining motel which they are renovating. The house and hotel both come with secrets of their own as does the new town which the Bates' now call home.
Bates Motel returns 2014 to A&E starring Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, August Rush), Vera Farmiga (Up In The Air, Source Code) and Max Theriot (Jumper, CHLOE).
What do you guys think? Speculation? Anyone a fan? Sound off below!
Thu, November 21, 2013 
The team behind Netflix's hit Hemlock Grove -a horror series that sprung up as one of the many regarded Netflix originals' along with House of Cards and Orange is the New Black- Brian McGreevy, Lee Shipman, and Michael Connolly are teaming up once again to bring American novelist Philipp Meyer's The Son to Netflix as an original series, Deadline reports.
The Son is a tale that chronicles the rise and fall of Texas oil-family The McCulloughs, which sounds a lot like another famous Texas oil-family, The Ewings; but probably with less sleeping around, back-stabbing, evil-twins, arch enemies that come and go from the dead, and sadly probably not an entire season that turned out to be a dream the whole time.
Netflix is really stepping up their game with the limited series they have, so expect this to be another sure-fire hit for the on-demand service that has quickly sprung up as an entertainment power-house.
Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, The Son is an utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim.
Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanche storm his homestead and take him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to Comanche life, carving a place as the chief's adopted son, and waging war against their enemies, including white men. But when disease, starvation, and overwhelming numbers of armed Americans decimate the tribe, Eli finds himself alone. Neither white nor Indian, civilized or fully wild, he must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong—a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.
Sat, November 2, 2013 
According to TVBYTHENUMBERS Back In The Game has been canceled and Trophy Wife & The Goldbergs have received full season orders.
The pick ups of The Goldbergs and Trophy Wife are not a surprise to those who watch them. I personally think that The Goldbergs is the best new sitcom of the season. It combines humor with just enough emotion to provide an experience I haven't seen on network television The Wonder Years. The Trophy Wife is the funniest sitcom of the new season, with stupid ass humor of Brooklyn Nine-Nine close behind it.
Back In The Game, although not outright canceled, will not receive any additional episodes beyond the original 13 episode package. Even with the likeable Maggie Lawson in the lead and the quirky James Caan in the fold the show stalled in the 18 - 49 demo for ABC.
Sat, November 2, 2013 
After only two seasons on Lifetime Jennifer Love Hewitt's The Client List has been canceled. The Client List originally premiered on Lifetime as a television film in 2010 based on the Samantha Horton prostitution scandal in Odessa, Texas. Hewitt was nominated for a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Horton, who spread eagle deep in the heart of Texas to support her three daughters.
The show was a hit for Lifetime pulling in 3.9 million viewers and the network decided to spin off into a television series. Although Hewitt played a similar character she carried a different name as the show was more of a reimagining of the story. According to TV BY THE NUMBERS sources are saying creative differences between Jennifer Love Hewitt and the network laid the foundation for the cancellation.
Thu, October 24, 2013 
For those who watched A&E's Duck Dynasty last night instead of watching baseball, they got treated to a special little teaser for the second season of A&E's acclaimed Bates Motel, promising it will re-open in 2014.
This, coupled with the other two ominous teasers released in June and August, promise the show will certainly get much darker, furthering Norman's descent into pure madness in this modern-day PSYCHO pre-boot.
TV Guide reports that Season 2 will introduce Norman's cellar, the same one that we find Norma Bates' decayed corpse in during the chilling climax in Alfred Hitchock's PSYCHO.
"There are many creepy things down there," says Freddie Highmore, whose Norman will turn the basement into his private taxidermy studio.
Showrunner Carlton Cruise and Vera Farmiga, who plays Norma on the show, also delved into Norman's chilling private studio:
"It makes Norma utterly uncomfortable, as most mothers would be," says star Vera Farmiga. In the season premiere, Norman will be working on a project significantly larger than the little dog he stuffed last season. Just how large? "It's not human," says executive producer Carlton Cuse. "Not yet. We're taking baby steps."
Bates Motel returns in 2014 on A&E.