The Knick alum Eric Johnson is joining Season 6 of History's hit drama series Vikings as a series regular. Johnson will play Erik, a formidable warrior who is an outlaw living on his wits and martial skills. Vikings, which hails from creator and sole writer Michael Hirst, is a family saga that tells the tales of the…

EXCLUSIVE: "Look, the shows are designed to be confrontational,” says Steven Soderbergh of the second installment of The Girlfriend Experience, just before the Starz drama's debut at the Toronto Film Festival today. "The great thing about what's going on in television right now is that if you make something that's…

Cinemax has made it official — Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick will not produce more seasons beyond the two that already had aired. Clive Owen, who starred in the first two seasons, had said that he was done, though the network had left the door slightly open for another installment with a new lead actor. Cinemax will…

Cinemax isn’t just for cable and satellite subscribers anymore. Dish Network’s $20-a-month Sling TV streaming service just began to offer the sister channel to Time Warner’s HBO to users willing to pay an additional $10 a month. The offering makes Sling “the first live standalone Internet TV service to deliver Cinemax…

FX's chief John Landgraf captured intentional attention this year when he proclaimed there is simply too much TV out there. Of course, with about 409 scripted shows airing in 2015 according to a recent FX study, the era of Peak TV does seem overwhelming at times. However, while I get Landgraf's oversaturation point, I…

In advance of The Knick launching its second season on October 16 on Cinemax, the entire first season will be a special presentation on the HBO digital platforms HBO Now, HBO Go and HBO On Demand, as well as online affiliate portals, for a limited 10-week period, starting Friday, August 14. Non-HBO and Cinemax…

There was a time on TV when the phrase "period piece" conjured images of grand country estates, stiff corsets and even stiffer acting. But those days are gone, as evidenced by a trio of shows finding variety and vitality in the world of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thanks in no small part to their talented…

From its opening bloody scene in a 1900-era hospital operating theater, to the drug-addled end of season one, The Knick spared no one—much like the expansive and industrial era in American history that it depicts. At the blackened heart of the Steven Soderbergh-directed series stands Clive Owen as the crazed and…

In The Knick, Andre Holland plays the marginalized Dr. Algernon Edwards, battling prejudice in the Knickerbocker hospital in early-1900s New York. The Steven Soderbergh-directed period drama not only covers racial and societal issues, but also delves into drug addiction, the hit-and-miss gore of early medical practice…

Alias alum Carl Lumbly is set as a recurring guest star on CBS’ summer drama series Zoo. Based on the bestselling novel by James Patterson, Zoo is a global thriller about a wave of violent animal attacks against humans sweeping the planet. Lumbly will play Delavane,an enigmatic, veteran Interpol agent embedded within…

In an era when options for watching (and producing and distributing) great TV came from seemingly everywhere, I had lots to choose from in pulling together my year-end choices for the top 10 best new shows for 2014. In the video above, I talk about the bottom half of that top 10. I have to confess that, with all the…

Clive Owen may be back home in London now but he is still the king of New York City. Well, at least the Gotham of 1900 and the fictional Knickerboker Hospital. In his first U.S. TV series, Owen plays the ambitious, eccentric and acerbic chief surgeon John Thackery in the freshman season of Cinemax's The Knick. It's a…