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EXCLUSIVE: Garret Dillahunt (Army of the Dead), Jeanine Serralles (Utopia), Kaya Rosenthal (The Time Traveler’s Wife), Michael Drayer (Mr. Robot), newcomer Ellie Barone and Taja V. Simpson (The Oval) have signed on for recurring roles in the third season of Starz’s crime drama, Hightown. Created by Rebecca Cutter (Goth…

Starz has renewed its critically acclaimed crime drama series Hightown for a third season. Starring Monica Raymund, the Cape Cod-set Hightown is created and executive produced by Rebecca Cutter and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Lionsgate Television. "Hightown is such an incredible show, and we could not…

Monica Raymund returns with Hightown Season 2 on Sunday and while her character Jackie Quiñonez is in an infinitely better position than last season, it’s too early to tell if she can stay on the straight and narrow. “At the top of Season 2, she’s got some days of sobriety under her belt and she’s working for the…

EXCLUSIVE: New York’s LGBTQ media and film organization, NewFest, has revealed the lineup of free panels and events for the flagship festival, happening in-person and virtually from October 15-26. The festival will host screenings and conversations for many anticipated LGBTQ+ television shows, including Season 2 of…

Monica Raymund is celebrating Starz’s #TaketheLead initiative and the impact it’s had on diversity both on and off-screen. “We’re starting to see a change that’s happening, not just in front of the camera but also behind the camera and that’s how we shake things up,” Raymund, who stars on the cabler’s Hightown, said…

Starz has set Sunday, October 17 for the Season 2 premiere of its critically acclaimed crime drama Hightown. The sophomore season of the series, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Lionsgate Television, will debut at 9 PM ET/PT on Starz in the U.S. and Canada, and will air day and date internationally on…

Craig “Mums” Grant, an actor and poet who appeared in all six seasons of HBO’s prison drama Oz among dozens of film, TV and stage credits, died Thursday, apparently of natural causes, according to his representatives. He was 52. Billed as muMs da Schemer, the name he used during his early slam-poetry years, Grant…

EXCLUSIVE: Crystal Lee Brown (The Good Lord Bird, Giants), Cecil Blutcher (Premature, Skin), Carlos Gomez (The Baker and the Beauty, Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders) and Barbara Weetman (Carter and June, Tammy) are set for recurring roles on the second season of Starz's crime drama series Hightown…

EXCLUSIVE: Luis Guzmán (Traffic, Code Black) is set for a season-long arc on the second season of Starz’s crime drama series Hightown, starring Monica Raymund, from Jerry Bruckheimer and Lionsgate Television. Production is currently underway on the ten-episode second season of the series created by Rebecca Cutter (Goth…

Hightown creator Rebecca Cutter is expanding her relationship with Lionsgate Television, signing a multi-year overall deal with the studio behind the praised Starz series. Under the pact, Cutter will develop and produce premium scripted series for Lionsgate's television slate across broadcast, cable and streaming…

Half crime drama, half character study, Starz new series Hightown takes a dark, morally shaded genre usually populated by men and hands it to a woman. Created by showrunner Rebecca Cutter, that woman is jaded, fast-living National Marine Fisheries Service agent Jackie Quinones (Monica Raymund), whose hedonistic…

Cape Cod-set drama Hightown, starring Monica Raymund and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, has been picked up for a second season by Starz. The Lionsgate-backed broadcaster said that the crime drama had set a new record for series premiere viewership across its digital platforms internationally. The series, which is…