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For six years I served on the Television Academy's Board of Governors, representing the Writers' Branch. During that time there were attempts to downplay, eliminate, or move the category once known as Miniseries, and now more broadly referred to as Limited Series. There simply weren't enough contenders, or at least…

At HBO’s summer TCA presentation, president of programming Casey Bloys gave an update on the status of True Detective, which had been awaiting a Season 3 greenlight. Bloys confirmed that Oscar-winning Moonlight actor Mahershala Ali has closed a deal to star in the potential third season of the anthology series. Bloys…

Between two critically lauded FX dramas—Noah Hawley’s Fargo and Legion—the network’s anticipated Snowfall and potent HBO miniseries The Night Of, two-time Emmy nominee Jeff Russo may be one of the busiest composers working in television. Like all composers at the top of their craft, Russo is a master at conjuring…

John Turturro's portrayal of Manhattan criminal court attorney John Stone in HBO's The Night Of is one of the Brooklyn native's most sublime 180-degree turns. Wrinkly clad and plagued by eczema like it's a cross to bear, Stone is a joke among cops and his legal peers. But one night the attorney encounters Nasir Khan…

Bruce MacCallum, a veteran camera operator and longtime union activist, died in Los Angeles on June 12. Most recently he was working in TV on HBO’s The Night Of and NBC’s The Blacklist. He was 70. Among the feature films MacCallum worked on during his long career were All That Jazz (1979), Witness (1985), The Silence O…

Scott Stuber has started work at what is arguably the best job in town. Presiding over the feature slate of Netflix, Stuber will have formidable resources at his command to challenge the set-in-stone processes and procedures of Hollywood's studio system. As such, he will be a disruptor – albeit unexpected casting as…

It’s hard to think of an independent film during the 1990s that didn’t star John Turturro, the actor being one of the stock players for Spike Lee and the Coen Brothers. It was during the heyday of independent film that Turturro made his feature directorial debut with Mac, a drama about a family of Italian American…

HBO Home Entertainment is making some of their series available on FandangoNOW, the online movie ticket seller’s digital download shop. Those shows available for purchases include Game of Thrones, The Sopranos, Girls, Divorce, Insecure, The Night Of and Band of Brothers.  FandangoNOW list of movie and TV show new and…

Lion was the big winner tonight at the 31st annual ASC Awards as Greig Fraser took home the marquee Theatrical Feature prize from the American Society of Cinematographers. HBO dramas Game of Thrones and The Night Of took the top TV awards during the ceremony at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood. Last year, Emmanuel L…

We are nowhere near a green light or even a script for new installments of The Night Of and True Detective but both are moving in the right direction. At TCA on Saturday, HBO president of programming Casey Bloys said he was “hopeful” because in both cases the creators “are closing in on ideas that they are excited…

The verdict is in and as anticipated FX's The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story has won the Best TV Limited Series or Television Film award at this year's Golden Globes. Having come away with five Primetime Emmys and four Creative Arts Emmys last September, the 10-episode tale of what was called "the trial…

Riz Ahmed’s role in Nightcrawler was a breakthrough for the talented actor, who had, up until then, proved himself mostly at home in the UK, with the likes of Four Lions, Shifty and The Road to Guantanamo. With Hollywood unable to deny Ahmed's versatility and fastidiousness, 2016 has been a banner year. Kicking off…