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SPOILER ALERT: This article and interview with Sarah Treem contains details about tonight’s episode of The Affair. Back for its fifth and final season, Showtime's The Affair returns with some real surprises. The show was modeled on the varying viewpoints of four main characters: Noah and Helen Solloway, and Alison and…

It’s the beginning of the end for The Affair. Showtime’s Golden Globe-winning drama about the emotional and psychological effects of an affair that destroyed two marriages, and the crime that brings these individuals back together, will launch its fifth and final season on Sunday, August 25. Oscar and Emmy winner Anna…

SPOILER ALERT: Don’t read this if you don’t want to know the climax of the electrifying Season Four of Showtime’s The Affair. Spoilers abound! In one of the final moments of The Affair season ender, Helen (Maura Tierney) says to Noah, the ex-husband who cheated on her in the opening season: “Everybody’s so fu*king…

EXCLUSIVE: The Affair star Maura Tierney is set to co-star in Vice Studios’ The Torture Report, written and directed by The Bourne Ultimatum scribe Scott Z. Burns. Tierney will join Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Tim Blake Nelson, Ben McKenzie, Matthew Rhys, Jennifer Morrison, and Michael C. Hall. Set…

Amazon has finalized the casts for the last two episodes of Season 1 of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, its sci-fi anthology series from Ronald D. Moore, Michael Dinner, Bryan Cranston and Sony Pictures TV. Annalise Basso and Maura Tierney are set for the episode “Safe and Sound,” with Essie Davis, Liam Cunningham…

EXCLUSIVE: The Affair star Maura Tierney has joined Steve Carell, Timothee Chalamet and Amy Ryan in Beautiful Boy, the Felix Van Groeningen-directed drama for Amazon Studios that tells the true story of David and Nic Sheff. David is an accomplished journalist whose son, Nic, developed a devastating meth addiction. The…

Sarah Treem’s biggest surprise to date as to viewer reaction to her Showtime drama The Affair has been about the “general outrage” that the series is about an affair. “It was kind of surprising,” she acknowledged to New York PaleyFest attendees this evening. The series tackles an affair between a…

“At a certain point, fate takes over a story.” Here is our first look at Season 2 of Golden Globe-winning drama The Affair, Showtime’s steamy and subtle saga of an illicit Hamptons romance and its fallout. The twist: It’s told separately from the male and female perspectives. Dominic West plays a married teacher and…

Perhaps it's not surprising that the architect of last season's most intriguing illicit TV romance would be a Yale-educated prodigy playwright. As cocreator and executive producer of the Golden Globe-winning Showtime hit The Affair, Sarah Treem launched with a simple premise—handsome college professor with beautiful…

In advance of Sunday’s premiere,  Showtime is giving viewers an opportunity to sample its new drama series The Affair, about the effects of an extramarital affair, told separately from both the male and female perspectives. Starting today, viewers can sample the TV-14 rated version of  pilot for free on YouTube (http:…

Maura Tierney is reuniting with fellow ER alumna Julianna Margulies, joining the cast of Margulies’ praised CBS drama The Good Wife in a recurring role. On the legal drama set in the Windy City, Tierney will play a self-made millionaire who has become the doyenne of Chicago Democratic politics. Tierney joined NBC’s…