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This wasn't the way Peacock planned on taking flight. The NBCUniversal streamer, which had its full launch today, thought it would have a deep library of the likes of 30 Rock, Cheers, Downton Abbey and eventually exclusively The Office, plus a plethora of new programming and the Summer Olympics to propel the latest…

UPDATED, JUNE 18 TNT has moved up the season premiere of The Alienist: Angel of Darkness to Sunday, July 19. Two episodes will air back to back that Sunday, starting at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The series will continue as a four week event with two episodes airing every Sunday thereafter at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The season runs through…

EXCLUSIVE: The Flash alum Matt Letscher is set to recur as newspaper titan William Randolph Hearst on TNT’s The Angel of Darkness, the network’s upcoming limited series sequel to The Alienist, and based on the sequel to author Caleb Carr's bestselling book. In addition, Brittany Batchelder, a guest star on The Alienist…

Nominees for the 56th ICG Publicists Awards were revealed this morning in categories rewarding the year’s best guild campaigns in the film and TV industry. Winners bestowed by the publicists branch of IATSE’s International Cinematographers Guild (Local 600) will be announced February 22 at the annual luncheon at the…

EXCLUSIVE: Luke Evans and Daniel Bruhl, stars of The Alienist, are reuniting with the team behind the TNT Emmy nominated limited series for an untitled dramedy feature inspired by the 2006 French film Mon Meilleur Ami (My Best Friend). Evans and Bruhl will star in the film based on an adaptation by Alienist…

Emmy-nominated writer and producer Frank Pugliese (House of Cards) is set as showrunner for TNT’s The Angel of Darkness, a limited series based on the sequel to author Caleb Carr's best-selling The Alienist, co-produced by Paramount Television and Turner’s Studio T. A critical and ratings success, The Alienist is a…

Deadline Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond gives his take on contenders in the key categories for the 2018 Primetime Emmy Awards. Here, he breaks down the category of Outstanding Limited Series. Last season provided a real race between several juggernauts in this category, including Feud: Bette and Jo…

TNT has ordered The Angel of Darkness, a new limited series based on the sequel to author Caleb Carr's bestelling The Alienist, with Alienist stars Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning returning for the follow-up in an all-new storyline. A critical and ratings success, TNT’s The Alienist is 2018's top new cable…

An Emmy nominee for the first season of True Detective, production designer Mara LePere-Schloop reteamed with executive producer Cary Fukunaga on TNT drama The Alienist, where she set out after the extremes of worldbuilding, recreating 19th century New York on an expansive Budapest backlot. Crafting eight city blocks…

Looking to adapt Caleb Carr’s crime novel The Alienist for the screen, director/executive producer Jakob Verbruggen recognized immediately that the material was meant for television. “I think being able to have 10 hours to get under the skin of these characters was crucial,” he said during the TNT series’ panel…

No stranger to serial killer series and period dramas of all kinds, cinematographer P.J. Dillon found his latest great challenge on TNT drama The Alienist, looking to capture both the ornate architecture and the seedy underbelly of 19thcentury New York. Certainly, this is a place and time that has been well documented…

"It kind of pushed me in a different way, I had to be very adaptable and also really hyper-focused to know exactly what came before and what was going to come after the scene we were doing, what episode we were in, where the characters were at," Dakota Fanning says on this week’s edition of Next Generation TV…