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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…

It's the weekend before the long Memorial Day holiday and while coronavirus restrictions are lifting all over California and the rest of the nation, there is some serious TV dropping. Which of course poses the question: What is the show you have to watch this week? There are some very Russian royal moves occurring…

Monica Raymund can currently be seen in the Starz crime drama Hightown, but before she was navigating the rocky road to sobriety as Jackie Quinones, she was starring as the fearless paramedic Gabby Dawson, a fan favorite on Chicago Fire. After 6 seasons, she exited the show, but recently returned to NBC’s…

For Hightown creator and executive producer Rebecca Cutter, the series is a reflection of what she loves: a “tough guy” story with “ball-breaking language.” The dark Starz crime drama tackles sobriety, Cape Cod's opioid epidemic and a murder investigation, and Cutter said that we don’t see the female perspective from…

Starz unveiled a teaser trailer for its new scripted drama Hightown, as well as a trailer for season 2 of true crime series Wrong Man today at the TCA Winter Press Tour. Hightown, set in beautiful but bleak Cape Cod, follows one woman's journey to sobriety, overshadowed by an unfolding murder investigation. Monica…

EXCLUSIVE: Heading into the sixth and final season of Power this summer, executive producer Gary Lennon has added another new move to his dance card with Driver. The Starz series co-showrunner has teamed up with Christopher Rossi and Authentic Talent & Literary Management to produce the feature thriller, I’ve learned…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Prison Break star Amaury Nolasco and The Sinner alum Dohn Norwood are set for lead roles opposite Monica Raymund, James Badge Dale and Riley Voelkel in Hightown, Starz's drama series from Rebecca Cutter, Gary Lennon and Jerry Bruckheimer TV. Written and executive produced by Cutter, Hightown is a…