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Carlton Cuse, EP/showrunner/director/writer of FX’s The Strain, isn't subscribing to the prevailing wisdom that viewers need to catch up on all existing episodes of a series if they are going to commit to watching. When he was making Lost for ABC, he said today at TCA, they were told regular viewers watched two out of…

Nearly a year ago, and just four weeks into The Strain's sophomore season, FX announced it had picked up the horror drama for a third season. It’s returning August 28 at 10 PM. The thriller, from Guillermo del Toro and Carlton Cuse, is based on the best-selling The Strain Trilogy that del Toro wrote with Chuck…

The preliminary slate of panels for the 2016 edition of television and content festival Seriesfest have now been unveiled. Happening June 22-26 in Denver, Colorado, highlights from this year’s Seriesfest include "Women in Media" with Kim Cattrall and Vanity Fair's Krista Smith, a discussion of BBC America’s The Hunt…

As those of you who've seen the pilot online the past couple weeks will know, USA Network's new thriller Colony is set in a Los Angeles that has truly fallen down the rabbit hole. Unfortunately, the 10-episode series that debuts January 14 is stuck in a cul-de-sac of its own making where, as my video review above…

Five years after Lost showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse were nominated for writing the finale of the hit ABC drama, Lindelof is sharing another episodic drama WGA Award nomination with a Cuse. This time it’s Carlton’s son, Nick Cuse, nominated with Lindelof for co-writing together the “International Assassin&#8221…

In a competitive situation, Jack Ryan, Paramount Television’s hot TV series project based on Tom Clancy's popular CIA hero, has landed at Amazon. I hear the streaming service has given a series commitment to the drama, from the former Lost duo of co-showrunner Carlton Cuse and writer Graham Roland, Michael Bay's…

EXCLUSIVE: Jack Ryan, Tom Clancy’s popular CIA hero, is heading to television with a TV series from former Lost duo of co-showrunner Carlton Cuse and writer Graham Roland, Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes, Skydance Media and Paramount TV. There has been a lot of interest in the project, with multiple outlets…

USA’s new Colony is not a story of alien invasion, it’s an espionage thriller with a sci-fi backdrop, executive producer Carlton Cuse told reporters today at the TCA Summer Press Tour. In crafting the series, he and EP Ryan Condal instead had in mind photos of Paris during the Nazi occupation that showed well-dressed…

Spoiler Alert: details about tonight’s season 2 premiere of The Strain The Strain EP Guillermo del Toro showed off the prologue to tonight’s episode, one of the two sequences he directed this coming season. He explained that he drew inspiration for ancient, Eastern European tale from his Nanny, “who use to tell me the…

SPOILER ALERT: This story and above video contain details of the upcoming season of The Strain. EXCLUSIVE: The horror series from EPs Guillermo del Toro, Carlton Cuse and Chuck Hogan has a biting tendency to be very heavy, but not today at Hall H in San Diego. In a special clip made just for Comic-Con, fans of The Stra…

Executive producer Carlton Cuse announced four guest stars who’ll be joining USA’s dystopian LA future series Colony: Carl Weathers, three time Emmy winner Kathy Baker from Picket Fences, Kathleen Rose Perkins from Episodes, and CSI’s Paul Guilfoyle. Cuse tried to keep as much as he could under wraps during the panel…

Carlton Cuse has taken a major step in building up his production company under the three-year first-look deal he signed with A+E Studios last October. Cuse has brought in Amblin TV head of development Lindsey Springer to serve as President of Carlton Cuse Productions, whose series portfolio includes A&E’s Bates Motel…