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Pop TV has set 10 p.m. Friday, March 13, for the Season 2 return of dark comedy Flack, starring Anna Paquin. The premiere date was announced Monday during the network’s presentation at TCA. The six-episode second season also features new cast members Sam Neill, Daniel Dae Kim and guest star Martha Plimpton. Executive…

Netflix signaled that they had no intention of slowing their investment in top-tier talent in the final panel of The Contenders – London, which featured four of the festival season's most popular attractions. In the first panel, Andreas Wiseman spoke to director David Michôd and composer Nicholas Britell about The Kin…

SPOILER ALERT: This article and interview with Sarah Treem contains details about tonight’s episode of The Affair. Back for its fifth and final season, Showtime's The Affair returns with some real surprises. The show was modeled on the varying viewpoints of four main characters: Noah and Helen Solloway, and Alison and…

Anna Paquin's dark comedy Flack is coming back for a second season on Pop TV and UKTV. Hawaii Five-0 alum Daniel Dae Kim and Jurassic Park‘s Sam Neill are joining the cast of the six-part season, with Paquin's True Blood co-star and husband Stephen Moyer making his series directorial debut with two episodes. Flack is…

It’s the beginning of the end for The Affair. Showtime’s Golden Globe-winning drama about the emotional and psychological effects of an affair that destroyed two marriages, and the crime that brings these individuals back together, will launch its fifth and final season on Sunday, August 25. Oscar and Emmy winner Anna…

Oscar winner Anna Paquin has been tapped for a key series regular role in the fifth and final season of Showtime’s drama series The Affair, which will introduce a flash-forward storyline. It will center on Alison and Cole's now-adult daughter Joanie Lockhart, played by Paquin, who returns some years in the future to a…

Like many directors at TIFF this year, Annabel Jankel was inspired by a book, in this case Fiona Shaw's 2009 novel Tell It To The Bees, about an illicit love affair between two women in 1950s Britain. "I think [the attraction] was the sense of the outsider," mused Jankel when she arrived at the Deadline studio with…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s first footage of Anna Paquin and My Cousin Rachel star Holliday Grainger in Toronto Film Festival romance-drama Tell It To The Bees. The story chronicles a lesbian romance in 1950s Britain between a single mother who is dealing with the breakdown of her marriage, played by Grainger, and a doctor…

This year's 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 29 – July 7) will present a Crystal Globe for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema to actor and director Tim Robbins. Oscar-winner Robbins, known for a string of memorable performances including in Mystic River and The Shawshank Redemption and for…

Anna Paquin, star of Pop TV and UKTV's forthcoming dark PR comedy drama Flack, says now is the time for female roles that are "flawed, complicated and interesting" – echoing recent male antiheroes such as Walter White, Don Draper and Tony Soprano. The True Blood star plays Robyn, a quick-witted London-based U.S…

EXCLUSIVE: Pop TV is going into production on its first scripted drama series commission, I can reveal. True Blood and X-Men franchise star Anna Paquin will lead cast and co-produce the PR-world comedic-drama with UKTV and Episodes co-producer Hat Trick Productions. Rising actresses Lydia Wilson, fresh off the…

WGN America has set a January 23 premiere date for its recently acquired Bellevue, and today unveiled a new trailer and key art for the crime drama starring Anna Paquin, Shawn Doyle and Allen Leech. The eight-episode, one-hour series features True Blood‘s Paquin as Detective Annie Ryder, Fargo‘s Doyle as Police Chief…