After a three-and-a-half year hiatus, Nic Pizzolatto’s crime anthology series True Detective returned for a third season last month. The new installment, headlined by Mahershala Ali, is five weeks into its eight-episode run, and the network is very happy with it.

“Creatively, ratings-wise, it did everything that we wan…

The first look of the third season of True Detective is giving off some major season one vibes with its haunting and enigamatic imagery.

In a trailer for the third installment of the anthology that played before the season finale of Sharp Objects, HBO seems like they are trading one unsettling story for another. Your…

HBO has officially greenlighted a third season of Nic Pizzolatto’s crime anthology series True Detective. The pickup was considered a formality after the network earlier this summer closed a deal with Oscar winner Mahershala Ali to star in the new installment, with the green light contingent on locking in a director. J…

HBO is pairing up two of the marquee names on its talent roster, with veteran David Milch possibly joining True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto for a potential third season of the crime drama franchise.

The two have been talking, though I hear a potential partnership is still in its embryonic stages. Pizzolatto is a b…

HBO is developing a Perry Mason drama series to star Robert Downey Jr. as the unorthodox investigator/defense attorney and be written by True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto. The project eyes short-run installments in the vein of True Detective, whose seasons have consisted of 8 episodes each. The drama is eyed as an…

HBO is keeping Nic Pizzolatto in the fold with a third consecutive overall deal that would keep the True Detective creator at the pay cable network through 2018. The pact would cover possible new installments of the thriller drama franchise as well as new projects.

More than three months after the second season of True…

In television and everywhere else, it’s a cliché extraordinaire to say what a difference a year can make. However, in the case of the Nic Pizzolatto-created anthology this season, it is also very true. On March 9, 2014, True Detective ended its first season coming off widespread acclaim, a pretty packed Big 4 schedule…

Telling a good police story is an art: The job and nature of the characters allow you to put them almost anywhere, but like a rat in a cage, once you’ve got ’em you’ve got to figure out what to do with them. As my video review above says, the very hardboiled and very good Season 2 debut of True Detective on HBO on…

CAA has signed Nic Pizzolatto, whose HBO drama True Detective was the talk of the town last year. He created and has penned every episode of the series, which won five Emmys last year but lost Best Drama to Breaking Bad. Pizzolatto also was nommed for writing the “Secret Fate of All Life” episode. Season 2 of True Dete…

At the beginning of this week, with Emmy voting campaign in full swing, a story surfaced online that posed the question whether True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto, a nominee for writing the episode “The Secret Fate of All Life,” plagiarized horror writer Thomas Ligotti. The story listed numerous side-by-side…

There are no formal negotiations yet, but I hear that Vince Vaughn is looking very good to join the second season of Nic Pizzolatto’s drama True Detective. While Vaughn had been rumored for the HBO series for a while, I hear he only recently had been approached. Things are progressing quickly, and everyone is hopeful…

EXCLUSIVE: August: Osage County producer Jean Doumanian has set up an adaptation of the Nic Pizzolatto novel Galveston. Janus Metz is set to direct and the star will be Matthias Schoenaerts, who has followed his breakthrough role in Bullhead starring in Rust And Bone and the Thomas Vinterberg-directed Far From The Madd…