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Syfy’s series The Magicians not only explores the majestic and clandestine world of wizardry but also tackles such real-world themes as sexual violence and politics. “A fantasy [genre] offers unique tools to talk about this stuff,” said show creator Sera Gamble, speaking with TVLine’s Michael Ausiello during…

Trumbo scripter John McNamara will be this year's recipient of the WGA's Paul Selvin Award, which honors writers whose work "embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil right liberties that are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere." McNamara will be recognized, along with other honorees, at…

“We’ve had eyeballs and severed heads [on TV before], and I'm all in favor of this,” a TV critic told The Magicians exec producers and cast this morning at TCA, eliciting laughter in the room. “How much horror imagery” can she look forward to in the first season, the critic wondered, speaking volumes. “More,” EP John M…

Debuting on May 28, NBC's Aquarius really is a case of the more things change, the more they stay the same. Despite its entire 13-episode season going up on the network's website for four weeks, Netflix-style, and despite the 1960s-set John McNamara-created show's storyline of the real-life rise of the murderous…

"The development season is a fool's errand," exclaims Marty Adelstein, who recently formed Tomorrow Studios, a shingle under ITV Studios U.S. to develop scripted series. A founding partner at Endeavor and on-the-lot TV producer at 20th Century Fox TV, the industry vet was referring to the edgy cop series Aquarius …