Television

Taylor Schilling and Lin Tucci in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black.

Arts

Laughs And Drama Behind Bars With 'Orange Is The New Black'

4:29pm July 16, 2013

by David Bianculli

Netflix recently unveiled its newest exclusive series: Orange Is the New Black, created by Jenji Kohan, who also created Weeds. All 13 one-hour episodes of the first season are available for streaming, and David Bianculli says the show is another Netflix success.

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Jeff Daniels returns to Aaron Sorkin's HBO series The Newsroom as cable news anchor Will McAvoy.

Arts

Back For More: Sorkin's 'Newsroom' Is A Serious Standout

2:44pm July 12, 2013

by David Bianculli

Aaron Sorkin's HBO series The Newsroom, starring Jeff Daniels as cable news anchorman Will McAvoy, returns July 14 for its second season. TV critic David Bianculli says some critics find the show preachy, but he likes that it tackles serious and complicated subjects.

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Tyler says as a kid she stood out because of her height, her glasses, and her vegetarian lunches.

Books

Comedian Aisha Tyler Talks About Flipping Off Failure

12:50pm July 12, 2013

by Shereen Marisol Meraji

In her new book, Self-Inflicted Wounds, Tyler writes about her dalliances with failure and humiliation on the long road to success. She says it wasn't easy being the geeky, tall, black girl who loves science fiction and video games. But it was worth it.

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Mexican homicide detective Marco Ruiz (played by Demián Bichir) must work with his American counterpart, Sonya Cross (Diane Kruger), to solve a murder on the U.S.-Mexico border in FX's new series The Bridge.

Arts

New Series 'The Bridge' Seeks An Audience In Two Languages

8:53pm July 10, 2013

by Hansi Lo Wang

The crime drama, which airs Wednesday night on FX, code-switches between American English and Mexican Spanish. The network is trying to lure viewers who speak both languages.

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In The Last of Us, a fungus called Cordyceps that commonly infects insects has jumped over to humans, creating a fungal zombie apocalypse.

Arts

A Zombie Horror Game, Inspired By ... A Nature Documentary?

11:20am July 09, 2013

by Beth Accomando

The Last of Us is a new survival horror video game that follows a character named Joel as he fights off both hostile humans and zombie-like creatures. It was inspired by a BBC show on the scary effects of a fungus.

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One of the aspects that attracted Schreiber to Ray Donovan was the prospect of playing a character for whom words were relatively unimportant.

Arts

As 'Ray Donovan,' Liev Schreiber Cleans Up Hollywood's Messes

8:53am July 09, 2013

In the Showtime series, Schreiber plays a Hollywood fixer with some personal problems of his own. While TV is newish territory for Schreiber, playing a man plagued by inner demons is not. He talks with Dave Davies about acting the heavy — and how his face has shaped his career.

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In the new FX series The Bridge, Diane Kruger stars as a detective investigating a murder along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Arts

'The Bridge:' Mayhem On The Border, With Big Issues At Stake

3:37pm July 08, 2013

by David Bianculli

On July 10, FX adds another dark serialized drama to an already rich cable crop: The Bridge, starring Diane Kruger. Like The Killing, it's based on a Scandinavian television series.

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Elisabeth Moss says she's ambivalent about the end of Mad Men, which began in 2007.

Arts

Elisabeth Moss: From Naif To Player On TV's 'Mad Men'

1:48pm July 03, 2013

As Peggy Olson on AMC's drama series, the actress has learned about her character's personality and development episode by episode, script by script, just like those of us who watch the show on TV. And she tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that she prefers it that way.

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Judy Reyes (from left), Roselyn Sanchez, Ana Ortiz and Dania Ramirez all star in Lifetime's new series about Latina housemaids, Devious Maids.

Can 'Devious Maids' Really Break Stereotypes About Latinas?

8:36am July 02, 2013

by Eric Deggans

On Sundays this summer, Lifetime has a new show from the creator of Desperate Housewives, Mark Cherry. Critic Eric Deggans says Devious Maids is trying to explode stereotypes about Latinos and domestic workers. But it might not be trying hard enough.

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Bill Hader was nominated for an Emmy as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role as Stefon on Saturday Night Live.

Arts

Bill Hader On Sketch Comedy, Classic Hollywood

5:49pm July 01, 2013

This weekend will be Hader's final romp on Saturday Night Live. He joined the cast in 2005 and has been nominated for an Emmy for his character Stefon, an obsessive clubgoer. Hader talks about not understanding how people do standup and about watching old films, which sparked his interest in Hollywood.

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