It’s a fast paced, action thriller with a star packed cast, but CLEANERS isn’t coming to theaters or cable. The new series debuts this week exclusively on Sony Crackle. Director Paul Leyden and star Emmanuelle Chriqui talk about how quickly the whole project moved both in front and behind the camera. Catch a trailer here and be ready for the series debut Thursday. Plus AGENTS OF SHIELD grows even more and CONSTANTINE is headed to TV.
Sandra Bullock is lost in space, literally, in Alfonso Cuarón’s new film GRAVITY. It was a totally new experience for Sandra and she shares her thoughts for us here, plus we go to the set of the new buzz worthy Fox comedy, BROOKLYN 99 and talk exclusively with serious star Melissa Fumero about having to live up to all the hype. Meanwhile, SHIELD scores big on TV, but, here comes GOTHAM.
CHICAGO FIRE kicks into its second season tomorrow (Tuesday) on NBC, and we talk to the cast and creators about the show’s origins, how they get fresh stories and how they’ve all changed the way they look at first responders. Plus it was a night with a boatload of sadness and a lot of surprises. Yes it was The Emmys. Better yet, we are finally getting more FIREFLY,
Somebody needs to save us all, so why not Sean Hayes? We talk to Sean about his busy summer producing and why he is back in front of the camera again in SEAN SAVES THE WORLD. Plus Hugh Jackman and Maria Bello explain why their roles in PRISONERS were so difficult, and is Sharon Carter headed to TV?
Like most humans presently stalking the Earth, I’ve been watching teevee ever since my eyeballs could focus. Being a fanboy collector, I do my share of possessing odd and great stuff. Sadly, there were two teevee shows I absolutely worshipped that I could not find, even from collectors who obtain their DVDs through questionable means.
The first is T.H.E. Cat, Robert Loggia’s jazz-based New Orleans cat burglar private eye show. It only lasted one season, it was in black-and-white, and each episode only ran 30 minutes. So it’s half-life in syndication was roughly the same as Lawrencium. There are some truly awful bootlegs around, 12th generation dubs of a kinescope shot off of teevee set that desperately needed rabbit ears. I haven’t given up, but the challenge is undermining my otherwise natural sense of happy optimism.
The second is Nichols, the post-western western about a pacifist who was shanghaied into becoming the sheriff of a small Arizona town in 1914 that is being overrun by bicycles and its very first automobile. Pretty heady stuff for 1971. It, too, lasted only one season but at least it was an hour long and it was in color. But in those days, local teevee stations wouldn’t touch a show that only ran 24 episodes.
This week I received a package from Warner Archives containing the entire Nichols collection on six DVDs. I ordered it the minute it was announced.
First, a word about Warner Archives. They sell a couple thousand DVDs of hard-to-find stuff from Warner Bros., MGM, Sony (Columbia), Paramount, HBO, Cinemax, and Hanna-Barbara. Lots of obscure movies and teevee shows, lots of comics stuff (for example, the complete runs of both the Superboy and the Shazam series), and they add new titles roughly every minute. These DVDs are made-to-order: they’re professionally packaged and of high quality. Warners discovered something Frank Zappa learned 20 years ago: if you can’t stop people from bootlegging, boot ‘em yourself.
Nichols starred – no surprise here – James Garner and was produced by his Cherokee Productions company with many of the same people who later did The Rockford Files. The show starred Margot Kidder – yes, that Margot Kidder, seven years shy of Lois Lane. Veteran character actor Neva Patterson and Stuart Margolin (later “Angel” on Rockford) also starred. But in my fertile brainpan, the real star of this show was its creator/writer/producer and occasional director Frank R. Pierson.
Pierson had a pedigree to die for. He’d written Cat Ballou, Cool Hand Luke, The Anderson Tapes, Dog Day Afternoon, The Good Wife, and 11 episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel – one of the best written shows in history. Oh, and shortly before his death last year, he wrote an episode of Mad Men and was its consulting producer. And he directed The L Word and Citizen Cohn. This man defied stereotyping.
Nichols was clever, heartwarming, very funny, brilliantly acted, and it had a point. It was very much a product of its time, that time being the enlightened days of peace, love, and sideburns, but it’s so well produced and acted that shouldn’t annoy anybody today. It deserves to be seen, and if you’re a fan of any of the people involved, it needs to be seen.
The fans and the cast of the critically loved BREAKING BAD have one common question about these last few episodes – where is it all going? We get reactions to that very topic from, Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul and creator Vince Gilligan and you might be surprised at how they feel. Plus we finally get our “New Flash” on ARROW.
Fans of ONCE UPON A TIME and GRIMM should love the new Fox series, SLEEPY HOLLOW. It takes the timeless tale of Ichabod Crane and transports it (and him) to modern times. We talk to the starts of the show about how they are helping to construct this new fish-out-of-water story – plus THE KILLING gets killed again and Geoff Johns says farewell to AQUAMAN.
A quick reminder to be back here on Monday when we look at the that the Guinness people say is the most watched show on TV – BREAKING BAD. We talk exclusively to Bryan Cranston, Anna Gun, Aaron Paul and creator Vince Gilligan on how these last episodes will play out – and what happens after.
The popular series, HAVEN, is back on SyFy blasting into a fourth season that picks up where they left off just a few months back. Actor Lucas Bryant talks about thew changes in his role and what we can expect for the series in this run. Plus SAGA wins big in Baltimore and is Katee being coy? Will she be Captain Marvel? Don’t forget – we are back with twice-a-week-updates – right here on ComicMix!
We begin our look at the new TV season with NBC’s BLACKLIST. Series star Megan Boone talk about how her role takes ongoing research, but on the plus side she gets to work with James Spader, while EP John Eisendrath promises the audience will get answers fast to the show’s mysteries. Plus Amanda Waller heads to ARROW and DC just ain’t too PC these days. Summer is past and now we are back with twice-a-week-updates – right here on ComicMix!
This weekend, the fast-paced thriller GETAWAY hits theaters and both Selena Gomez and Ethan Hawke talk about how moist of the action took place inside the car. And have you ever seen IMPRACTICAL JOKERS on TruTV? If so, ever wonder why no one ever punched those guys. The Jokers themselves tell us why.
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