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SPOILER WARNING: This article contains major plot details about the Season 4 finale of Animal Kingdom. The creative team of TNT’s Animal Kingdom was ready to shuffle the deck in a big way as the show’s fourth season drew to a close and so, in last week’s penultimate episode, the Cody  family matriarch, Janine ‘Smurf…

SPOILER ALERT: This article includes details about Wednesday night’s episode of Animal Kingdom. Fans of TNT’s Animal Kingdom were shocked Wednesday when they saw Ellen Barkin’s Janine “Smurf” Cody meet her maker in the night’s episode. After four seasons, the matriarch of the Cody crime family died and fans took to…

Ellen Barkin-fronted crime drama Animal Kingdom has nabbed a fifth season on WarnerMedia's TNT. The series, which stars Barkin as the matriarch of the Cody crime family, continues to grow its fanbase via the cable network, reaching nearly 18M for its fourth season across all platform. The broadcaster said that the…

TNT is returning to the scene of the crimes. The WarnerMedia-owned network has set a May 28 premiere date for Season 4 of its flagship drama Animal Kingdom and unveiled the first trailer. Check it out above and see the new key art below. There’s no shortage of goings-on in the ever-crooked Cody clan. Here is the…

Animal Kingdom star Ellen Barkin took to Twitter today in the wake of Terry Gilliam’s comments on the #MeToo and Time’s Up movement saying, “My hard won advice: never get into an elevator alone with [Terry Gilliam].” The Emmy-award winning actress didn’t expand on her tweet, but it certainly raised some eyebrows in…

“You just have to let them think they have the power … but they never do.” So begins a promo for Season 2 of hit drama series Animal Kingdom, which returns Tuesday, May 30, on TNT, the network just announced. The series about a Southern California crime family stars Emmy and Tony winner Ellen Barkin as the matriarch…

Debuting on June 14 with a two-hour premiere on TNT, Animal Kingdom sadly is one of those adaptations that just doesn't work. Whereas the 2010 Australian film starring Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton and Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver about a matriarch-run Melbourne crime family was very good, the SoCal-set small-screen…

We’re getting a first look at TNT’s new drama series Good Behavior and Animal Kingdom, which are set to premiere in the summer. Good Behavior stars Michelle Dockery in her follow-up to Downton Abbey, and the cast of John Wells' Animal Kingdom is led by Ellen Barkin. Both are set to premiere this summer. Based on the…

TNT’s new Animal Kingdom is more than a crime drama, it’s about a “riveting dysfunctional family led by a matriarch who has an emotionally incestuous relationship with her four…alpha boys, who drip with sexual anger,” EP Jonathan Lisco explained, telling TV critics nothing they didn’t already know even though they’ve…

Ellen Barkin (Sea of Love) and Scott Speedman (The Strangers) have been cast as leads in TNT’s drama pilot Animal Kingdom, from John Wells Prods. in association with Warner Horizon Television. The pilot, which is set to begin shooting next month in Los Angeles, centers on 17-year-old Joshua “J” Cody who moves in with…

Emmy and Tony winner Ellen Barkin is set to guest star in Showtime comedy pilot Happyish. She’ll play Dani Kirschenbloom, a headhunter who works closely with Thom Payne (Steve Coogan). Dani harbors no illusions about the advertising industry, or life, and is best described as the sardonic prophet-philosopher of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse continues to refine its micro-budget genre formula, and it looks like one evolving factor is the casts are getting better. Jason Blum’s division is negotiating with Isla Fisher, Ellen Barkin and Jim Parsons to star in Visions, a Kevin Greutert-directed thriller that Blumhouse International is…