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Gotham star Ben McKenzie is returning to broadcast television as the lead of ABC’s medical drama pilot The Hurt Unit, written by Promised Land creator Matt Lopez and former SEAL Team showrunner John Glenn and to be directed by The Amazing Spider-Man‘s Marc Webb. The Hurt Unit follows a highly skilled…

Even before the great James Cromwell arrives at the punchline of a decrepit dirty nun joke, or the incomparable Jane Alexander gets to a vibrator bit exhausted seasons ago by Grace and Frankie, Bess Wohl’s affable, unremarkable marriage comedy Grand Horizons has its “something borrowed” locked down. The “something…

Ben McKenzie has been cast in Bess Wohl’s Broadway-Bound Grand Horizons, joining the previously announced Jane Alexander and James Cromwell, among others. The strictly limited 10-week engagement begins previews Dec. 23, officially opening on January 23, 2020 at The Hayes Theater. Today’s announcement was made by…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Ben McKenzie for representation in all areas. McKenzie most recently starred as Detective James Gordon, the central character on Fox’s Gotham, the Batman prequel series that just concluded its fifth season with its 100th and final episode. McKenzie wrote and directed episodes in the final two…

Time is running out for Jim Gordon and Gotham, and nobody is more acutely aware of that fact than Ben McKenzie, the actor who has portrayed the flinty Gordon for five seasons on the Fox series that shares its name with Batman’s hometown. “It’s a lot to take in,” McKenzie said about the Gotham series finale that airs…

Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother, Where Art Thou?), Ben McKenzie (Gotham), Matthew Rhys (The Americans), Ted Levine (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) and Michael C. Hall (Dexter) have boarded The Torture Report, the CIA drama written and directed by Scott Z. Burns from Vice Studios. They join previously announced cast Adam…

Gotham‘s second season started last night and, as promised, the show has really switched emphasis from the soft procedural it (mostly) was during Season 1 to a more serialized story about Gotham City’s slowly enlarging cast of colorful villains. Next week’s episode, “Rise of the Villains: Knock, Knock,” takes that…

The Batman prequel saved the best and the worst for last tonight at Comic-Con. The Joker stole the microphone from a fan who was asking a question from the audience but found himself immediately tackled by Hall H security. It was actor Cameron Monaghan who stayed in character as he was dragged away by security…

If you thought Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight feature trilogy elevated the gravitas of Batman, WBTV’s Gotham series on Fox just takes the show to a higher state of human drama. The series follows the early days of James Gordon in the wake of Bruce Wayne’s parents, before the detective becomes the city’s police…

It can be a hell of job fighting bad guys on Gotham. And if you’re a crime crusader like Detective James Gordon, you have to watch for pillars as well as swinging fists…because pillars always like to hit heads. Actor Ben McKenzie who plays Gordon clunked his noggin against such pillar during a fisticuffs scene on…

Fox and Warner Bros TV have dropped a new 45-second teaser for Gotham, the gritty cop drama based on DC Comics’ Batman lore that premieres September 22. Ben McKenzie stars as James Gordon, war hero and newbie Gotham City homicide cop tasked with solving one of the city’s highest-profile crimes: The murder of Thomas…

EXCLUSIVE: Actors Ben McKenzie and Logan Marshall-Green have joined forces to launch the shingle A Thing Or Two Productions. They come to the table in a big way. Tom Rothman’s TriStar Pictures has made a deal on a baseball memoir which the duo will produce with Michael De Luca. TriStar has optioned Wherever I Wind Up…