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CSI fan favorite Wallace Langham will join HBO’s Perry Mason in the second season. Langham will recur as Melville Phipps, a Los Angeles native and attorney for a very wealthy oil baroness. He works well under women and acts as a caretaker when necessary. Here’s the logline for season 2 of the drama that stars Matthew R…

Scott Z. Burns' climate change anthology drama series Extrapolations has set a star-studded cast. The Apple TV+ series has cast stars including Meryl Streep, Sienna Miller, Kit Harington, Tahar Rahim, Matthew Rhys, Daveed Diggs, Gemma Chan, David Schwimmer and Adarsh Gourav to lead the series. The series, which is now…

When production designer John P. Goldsmith was approached for HBO's reboot of Perry Mason, he was compelled by the opportunity to dive into the world of 1930s Los Angeles. “Architecturally, what was happening then with modernism was so interesting, with Neutra, and Schindler and Frank Lloyd Wright, and these people…

Stars Matthew Rhys and John Lithgow, along with cinematographer David Franco and production designer John P. Goldsmith, joined Deadline to talk all things Perry Mason during the HBO panel at Contenders Television: The Nominees awards-season event. The show was originally intended as a limited series but instead proved…

There can be no question that Perry Mason with Raymond Burr was one of the true iconic weekly TV series in the 1950s and ’60s as it featured infamous courtroom case after courtroom case. The new HBO series of the same title is definitely not your father’s Perry Mason, but rather a dark, Depression-era origin story…

Matthew Rhys won the first Emmy of his career for his lead performance in The Americans, a drama set in 1980s D.C. He dialed back to an even earlier era for the latest role to put him into Emmy contention, as the titular character of the reimagined Perry Mason. The HBO series finds Mason in Depression-era Los Angeles…

Earning his first two Golden Globe nominations in 2017 and 2019 for his turn in FX spy drama The Americans, actor Matthew Rhys returns to contention this month with HBO's Perry Mason redux. For Rhys, this morning's nom felt like a validation of the efforts of the production team, as well as of the risk he took, when…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winning The Americans star Matthew Rhys is returning to FX as the lead and executive producer of Wyrd, a drama inspired by the Dark Horse comic. The project, which is in development at the Disney-owned cable network, hails from Sheldon Turner (Up In the Air), Vendetta Prods., FX Prods. and 20th…

This isn’t your grandfather’s Perry Mason. The trailer for HBO’s reboot of the classic courtroom drama looks to draw a lot more on Chinatown than the episodic formula followed by the long running CBS drama starring Raymond Burr. Debuting June 21 at 9 p.m., the new Perry Mason stars Emmy winner Matthew Rhys in an…

Right after its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, I wrote that A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood was the movie we need right now. As every week passes, it becomes even more clear this is a movie with a message of kindness and understanding that could and should resonate in such…

The first look at the new Perry Mason is out. Debuting in 2020 on HBO, the limited series is set in 1931 Los Angeles. While the rest of the country struggles through the Great Depression, the City of Angels has oil, the Olympic Games, talking pictures, evangelical fervor, and a child kidnapping gone very, very…

Tom Hanks led a group of on- and off-screen collaborators on Sony’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood keeping the positive vibes going at a press conference at Toronto on Sunday. The film received a warm reception  following its world premiere Saturday night. Inhabiting the role of children’s TV host Fred Rogers…