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The best Rami Malek movies and TV shows reveal how versatile the Mr. Robot star truly is, and demonstrate his unique ability to stand out in ensemble casts no matter how well-known those he’s sharing a screen with are. Whether it’s appearing alongside Joaquin Phoenix, Robbie Williams, or Denzel Washington, Malek has proved time and time again that he simply cannot fade into the background, and this has ensured his career has gone from strength to strength.

Born in 1981 in California, Rami Malek’s career began in 2004 when he appeared in an episode of Gilmore Girls. From there he had single-episode appearances in the likes of Over There and Medium, with his first prominent appearance being a recurring role in the sitcom The War At Home. However, everything changed when Malek landed the part of Pharoah Ahkmenrah in 2006’s Night at the Museum. Since then, the actor has...

Ana Ortiz is joining David Schwimmer in the Disney+ anthology series Goosebumps for Season 2 as a series regular.

From Disney Branded Television and produced by Sony Pictures Television, the series is based upon R.L Stine’s bestselling Scholastic series. Each season features a new story, setting and cast. Season 2 will follow teenage siblings who discover a threat stirring, triggering a chain of events that unravel a profound mystery. As they delve into the unknown, the duo find themselves entangled in the chilling tale of four teenagers who mysteriously vanished in 1994.

Ortiz will play Jen, a dedicated police detective who remains rooted in her Brooklyn neighborhood after experiencing a tragic event that involved her friends in adolescence.

Nicholas Stoller (The Muppets) and Rob Letterman (Pokémon Detective Pikachu) developed the series and serve as executive producers, alongside showrunner Hilary Winston (Community), Neal H. Moritz (Fast & Furious franchise), Scholastic Entertainment...

Amber Bain (aka The Japanese House) recently paid the NPR offices a visit for a Tiny Desk Concert, during which the June 2023 CoSign alum performed highlights from her fantastic sophomore effort, In the End It Always Does.

The UK singer-songwriter marked her appearance at the Tiny Desk by swapping out some of the synth sounds on In the End for soft, sweeping arrangements with brushed drums and a violin, aided occasionally by resonant piano and baritone sax sounds.

The set opened with a stripped-down, intimate version of “Sunshine Baby,” before moving on to a performance of “Baby Goes Again.” A quick tuning of her guitar led into the keyboard-driven tune “Over There,” before wrapping up the set with the album single “Boyhood.” As the concert came to a close, Bain’s “thank you” to the audience was barely audible over booming rounds of applause.

Watch The Japanese House’s Tiny Desk Concert below.

Our June 2023 CoSign Amber Bain, aka The Japanese House, has shared her second studio album, In the End It Always Does, via Dirty Hit. Stream it via Apple Music or Spotify below.

In her CoSign interview, Bain tells Consequence she found comfort in working with producer Chloe Kraemer, who she describes as now one of her best friends. “She reflected myself back at me in a lot of ways,” she says. “These songs are all about queer experience and being a queer woman, and I think that working with another queer woman helped get those songs out and treat them with the kind of romance that they need and deserve.”

Other collaborators on In the End include Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon (“Over There”), Muna’s Katie Gavin, and Matty Healy (“Sunshine Baby”) and George Daniel of The 1975, the latter of whom co-produced multiple tracks.

In the End It Always...

Romance and reverie have always been at the heart of Amber Bain’s music. The British singer-songwriter’s moniker, the Japanese House, calls back to the blissful childhood memories of her parents’ vacation home, which was furnished to resemble a Japanese tea house, and the sun-washed imagery of her music captures that spirit. Bain sings wistfully of complicated relationships, lending her stories of queer love a dreamlike quality.

On her 2019 debut, Good at Falling, Bain luxuriated in melodrama, her expressive contralto taking center stage atop reverb-heavy ambient pop. Initially, the musician’s sophomore effort, In the End It Always Does, seems to follow suit, with a summery ambience, songs about emotional distance, and her unmistakable voice. As the album unfolds, though, her approach feels like it’s been flipped, with vocal hooks taking a backseat to highly textured folktronica instrumentation and a more impressionistic rendering of desire.

This shift in...

The Japanese House has readied her second studio album, In the End It Always Does, out June 30th via Dirty Hit. As a preview, Amber Bain has shared a new look at the record, “Sad to Breathe.”

Just as previous single “Boyhood” recalled the complex experience of growing up queer, In the End It Always Does was inspired by Bain’s current relationship to her identity, and the relationships she’s forged and lost. “[These two people] were together for six years and I met them and then we all fell in love at the same time — and then one of them left,” she recalls. “It was a ridiculously exciting start to a relationship. It was this high… And then suddenly I’m in this really domestic thing, and it’s not like there was other stuff going on — it was lockdown.”

The Japanese House worked with producer Chloe Kraemer for her second album,...

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If Luke Macfarlane had to describe his career so far, he would call it “chaos theory.” In 2005, shortly after graduating from Juilliard, he was cast in Over There, an FX series created by the late, great Steven Bochco, a gig that the young actor was certain would make him a TV star. “I really thought that was going to be the moment,” he says of the series that lasted one season.

Luckily, ABC’s Brothers & Sisters soon came calling. Macfarlane was cast in what was supposed to be a six-episode arc, but the role ran for nearly 100 — and he still considers it his most well-known. He played the love interest and eventual husband of Matthew Rhys’ character during a time when same-sex couples were an extreme rarity onscreen; Macfarlane himself came out during his tenure on the drama.

Now, more than a decade later,...

The number of straight from the headlines projects seems to be increasing by the day, and Patricia Heaton is the latest to get in on the act.

Heaton is attached to produce a project based on the “Perversion of Justice,” a series of articles in the Miami Herald which exposed Jeffrey Epstein as a serial child molester, according to a source with knowledge of the project.

The project is in the works at Storied Media Group, which represents the film and TV interests of the Herald’s parent company McClatchy. Storied founder and CEO Todd Hoffman is reportedly also producing. According to sources, Chris Gerolmo, who is best known for penning the 1988 Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe pic “Mississippi Burning” and creating the FX Iraq War series “Over There,” has been brought on to adapt the articles.

The three-part series of articles, written by investigative journalist Julie K. Brown, was published in November,...

The way Rami Malek got under Freddie Mercury’s skin and brought him to life again in “Bohemian Rhapsody” was no small miracle. It is similar to how Gary Busey became a star when he uncannily channeled the‘50s rock icon in 1978’s “The Buddy Holly Story.” Or when Joaquin Phoenix was able to capture Johnny Cash’s charisma and his tumultuous dark side in 2005’s “Walk the Line.”

But neither Busey nor Phoenix won in their years. In fact, besides Malek, only five lead actors have been given an Oscar for playing real-life music makers – although it interesting that Mahershala Ali earned a corresponding supporting statuette as concert pianist Don Shirley in “Green Book” this year as well.

Who are these fellows and what traits might their roles have in common?

First was James Cagney as George M. Cohan in 1942’s “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” Cagney, best known for his gangster roles,...

Steven Bochco, who died this weekend at the age of 74, was known by everyone in the TV business as one of the most influential drama series creators who generated hits and pushed boundaries with shows like NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law. But few in Hollywood knew him better than Fox TV Group chairman Dana Walden. For 20 years, Bochco had been one of her closest friends.

Professionally, Walden helped his publicity team from her first job at 20th Century Fox TV, which produced NYPD Blue, where she started in PR. After Walden and Gary Newman took over the studio in 1999 as presidents and later chairmen, they worked together with Bochco on the praised but short-lived FX/20th TV Iraq war drama series Over There, which Bochco co-created with Chris Gerolmo. (This is a photo of Walden, Newman, Bochco and his wife, Dayna Kalins, who served as a producer on Over There,...

If you go by the movies, the world wars look to have been fought and won by white people – although history begs to differ. Now, Netflix’s Mudbound is challenging this perception

‘Over there I was a liberator. People lined up in the streets waiting for us, throwing flowers and cheering. And here I’m just another nigger pushing a plough.” So says Ronsel Jackson, a young, black army sergeant, recently returned from wartime Europe to Jim Crow-era Mississippi. Jackson, played by Jason Mitchell, is a character in the epic new movie Mudbound, which pointedly contrasts his experiences with those of a white neighbour returning from the second world war. It’s a true-to-life experience that we have never seen on screen before; it’s rare enough to see a film even acknowledging that African Americans, or other people of colour, were involved in the war at all.

If you go by the movies,...

Friars have socialized and been entertained by every major Broadway and Great American Songbook composer starting with Friar George M. Cohan, who in addition to writing over 50 Broadway shows and 300 songs happened to pen Over There at a table during lunch at the Friars Club. Last night continuing this tradition, and in the same building that Friar Irving Berlin, Sammy Cahn and countless luminaries have performed, musical theatre legends Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire entertained The Friars with a major dose of Maltby amp Shire music.

Carey Mulligan has a "great desire" to put the pedal to the metal. When the actress appeared on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday to promote her new movie, Mudbound (out Nov. 17 on Netflix and in select theaters), she revealed she's failed her driving test five times. "It's way harder in England! Over there I failed. Here, it's easy. I did it here—it was a piece of cake," she said. "You literally drive around the block and they give you a license." Mulligan, who used to take the bus to acting auditions in L.A., said she was only able to drive for about six months before she moved "back to England," where she "couldn't drive anymore." Regardless,...

[[tmz:video id="0_pcxwpxer"]] Ne-Yo says he feels blessed to be welcoming a new kid into the world -- and for anyone who's not on the happy train with him ... the next stop's yours. We got Ne-Yo Wednesday at Lax and asked how he felt with baby #4 on the way with his current wife, Crystal Smith, and he says he's on cloud 9 ... especially since they apparently had complications with their first pregnancy. As for the folks hating on him...

Lionsgate released their new horror/thriller sequel flick, Saw 8 aka "Jigsaw" into theaters today, October 27,2017, and all the top movie critics have wrote up their official opinion/reviews for it. We found seven of them on the Metacritic.com site. Over there, the overall score turned out to be pretty mixed with a total average score of 44 out of a possible 100. The rest of the critic reviews we got are from Rottentomatoes.com ,. They also gave it an overall score of 44 percent. Jigsaw stars: Matt Passmore, Callum Keith Rennie, Clé Bennett, Hannah Emily Anderson, Laura Vandervoort, Mandela Van Peebles, Paul Braunstein, Brittany Allen and Josiah Black. It was directed by Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig. It was written by Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger. We've provided a brief excerpt from all the top critics (below) which summarizes how they pretty much felt about the movie. Kyle Turner over at The...

Selena Gomez‘s friend has one less kidney — and a huge heart.

The “Hands to Myself” singer, 25, revealed on Instagram Thursday that she recently stepped out of the spotlight after having a kidney transplant, made necessary by her battle with lupus. She also shared that the donor was a longtime pal, 29-year-old actress Francia Raisa.

Gomez shared a photo of the friends holding hands from their hospital beds.

“There aren’t words to describe how I can possibly thank my beautiful friend Francia Raisa,” said Gomez. “She gave me the ultimate gift and sacrifice by donating her kidney to me.

Only Stephen Colbert can go over to Russia and get a one-on-one interview with a Russian oligarch, only to help the guy set up his Tinder profile. Over at the “The Late Show’s” Russia week, Colbert arranged a meeting with Mikhail Prokhorov, a friend of Vladimir Putin’s who made a fortune when he was allowed to buy a nickel mine for just pennies and then sold it just before the 2008 financial collapse. But what is an oligarch? “Over there the political system’s controlled by wealthy elites who buy influence and pull strings of the government. While in America,...

"For a long time I thought maybe that would be it," says Rami Malek, the American actor of Egyptian descent, of the stereotypical roles to which he was limited early in his career — an Egyptian king (2006's Night at the Museum), an Iraqi insurgent (2005's Over There), an Islamic-American terrorist (a 2010 episode of Fox's 24), an Egyptian vampire (2012's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2) and the list goes on. "But," he adds, as we sit down at his publicist's office in New York, where he currently is shooting season three of ...

"For a long time I thought maybe that would be it," says Rami Malek, the American actor of Egyptian descent, of the stereotypical roles to which he was limited early in his career — an Egyptian king (2006's Night at the Museum), an Iraqi insurgent (2005's Over There), an Islamic-American terrorist (a 2010 episode of Fox's 24), an Egyptian vampire (2012's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2) and the list goes on. "But," he adds, as we sit down at his publicist's office in New York, where he currently is shooting season three of ...

"For a long time I thought maybe that would be it," says Rami Malek, the American actor of Egyptian descent, of the stereotypical roles to which he was limited early in his career — an Egyptian king (2006's Night at the Museum), an Iraqi insurgent (2005's Over There), an Islamic-American terrorist (a 2010 episode of Fox's 24), an Egyptian vampire (2012's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2) and the list goes on. "But," he adds, as we sit down at his publicist's office in New York, where he currently is...

In photography, camera obscura is an optical trick that occurs when images are projected through small holes in walls, boxes or other screens. The photographic illusion is more sinister in Aaron B. Koontz’s slow-burning horror film, but it proves less compelling than its centuries-old namesake. Though born of an inventive idea, “Camera Obscura” comes out underdeveloped.

“The nightmare is always the same,” Jack (Christopher Denham) says to his therapist in the film’s quiet opening minutes. What he tells her concerns an insect, a trail of blood and other signifiers that all is not well in his subconscious, where “death always wins” and the ghosts of his past refuse to stay there. A veteran war photographer, he’s so disturbed by memories of what he captured with his camera during his deployment that he’s sworn off his former hobby/profession altogether. He now finds himself wandering through life...

Here in the United States, we’ve cautiously re-accepted Shia Labeouf into our good graces thanks to his self-aware attempts to get his life back on track, his excellent performance in Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, and his naïvely optimistic anti-Trump art projects, but things are a bit different in the United Kingdom. Over there, they apparently still think of him as the drunken rabble-rouser from the Transformers movies or—even worse—the guy who ruined the Indiana Jones series, because his film Man Down premiered in the U.K. over the weekend and literally nobody went to see it.

Well, not literally. According to Variety, the movie did manage to gross £7, which is about the price of a single movie ticket. In Man Down’s defense, it did only open in a single theater, and that one guy who bought a ticket might’ve smelled really bad or ...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.)

This week’s question: What is the best concept episode that’s been on television?

Sonia Saraiya (@soniasaraiya), Variety

I have to admit a recency bias, I guess, but “BoJack Horseman’s” “Fish Out of Water” has stuck with me in a way that no other concept episode has — a gimmick that didn’t feel gimmicky but instead desperately necessary for the forward motion of the episode. It’s not quite fair, because “Community,” for example, is comprised almost entirely of concept episodes, and it’s hard to disagree with how much “Buffy’s” “Hush” and “Once More, with Feeling” inspired other, later shows. But “Fish Out of Water” was...

Need to catch up? Check out the previous Quantico recap here.

The tragic story masked by all of Harry’s pickpocketing and bedhopping comes out in this week’s Quantico, and boy, it’s a rough one.

In an unguarded moment with Sebastian, the Mi-6 operative expands on the story in which his former partner, Elliot, killed himself. We learn that Elliott committed suicide in an act of extreme self-hatred, with a knife, while Harry watched. And all because he couldn’t bring himself to tell his powerful father that he was gay.

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It’s hard not to be won over by the enthusiasm of Time Commanders’ presenting team…

This review contains spoilers.

I was wrong to question the wisdom of hiring Gregg Wallace for this gig - it’s all down to love. Wallace loves presenting Time Commanders. He loves it even more than he loves sticky toffee pudding, and he regularly makes the kind of bedroom noises about sticky toffee pudding you’d bang on the ceiling to complain about. Look at his elated face when those French calvary attacks destroyed Wellington’s right flank this week. Hear him “Waaaaaaaaaayy” and “COO-hoo-hooooo” and purr “Gooooood plaaaan, goooood plaaaaan” like a Furby having its tummy rubbed. You’d need a heart of stone to begrudge him this job.

Also in his favour, Wallace offered more in the way of strategic tips in episode two, perhaps because he was faced...

Chicago – The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Cso) has come up with the perfect celebration for the pre-holiday weekend, presenting Frank Capra’s classic film “It’s a Wonderful Life in Concert.” On Dec. 10th and 11th, 2016. The Cso will accompany the soundtrack on a restored version of the film.

Rating: 5.0/5.0

This is “It’s a Wonderful Life” (Iawl) as you’ve never seen it before, restored to a brilliant print and with the original Dimitri Tiomkin soundtrack score enhanced by the majesty of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The film is projected above the orchestra, and with each symphonic moment in the story, the musicians and choral singers take over the music live. Iawl had many variations of themes in the soundtrack, so besides the Tiomkin original score, there are snippets of WW2 songs “Over There” and “This is the Army, Mr. Jones,” along with the holiday songs “Hark the Herald Angels Sing,...

Drugs, gay marriage, gentrification – the writer-director turns big issues into intimate, uncomfortable dramas. He talks about growing up the son of a social scientist and life as a Hollywood outsider

“I can’t fake intimacy,” says Ira Sachs, strolling through a Brooklyn park one humid summer afternoon. This is Sachs’ stomping ground; his set. Over there is a street corner where he witnessed an interaction that made it pretty much wholesale – location and all – into his new film, Little Men. He smiles. “If I was going to make a film in France, I’d have to make a film about someone who knew nothing about France.”

A New Yorker through and through, Sachs – 50, Jewish, gay – has for 25 years been making personal, deceptively small-scale dramas whose emotional wallop derives from their uncompromising authenticity. He’s also a self-cannibal, whose strongest films have derived from personal experience.

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It was early in the development of The Americans that the head of FX told the show’s creator what his series was really about — and was absolutely right. Joe Weisberg had planned to generate drama in the fake marriage between deep cover spies Philip and Elizabeth Jennings on ideological grounds: Philip was beginning to feel too comfortable in America, while Elizabeth stayed true to her Mother Russian roots. Then in a meeting with FX executives, FX CEO John Landgraf proposed adding another layer to things. “John had the idea that it would be very powerful and effective if Philip were really more in love with Elizabeth than Elizabeth were with Philip,” Weisberg said. “And you know how central that has become to the whole story of the show and the marriage. (The ideological argument) seemed like a good solid idea for what would create tension in the marriage, but...

Exclusive: Macedonian film-maker Izer Aliu’s next film will be comedy-drama 12 Dares.

Macedonia-born, Norway-based director Izer Aliu, who premieres his debut feature Hunting Flies [pictured] in Discovery (sold by LevelK), is currently editing his second feature 12 Dares and has two other features in the works.

12 Dares, one of the best-received projects pitched in Haugesund’s Work In Progress last month, will be finished by the end of the year to show to early 2017 festivals.

He is also keen to stay busy with personal work between bigger projects, making a “freestyle” feature called The Balkan Party, which he calls a side project without typical funding. That will shoot in February in Norway, and tell a story of youth clubs from different ethnic groups organising a joint party. The film explores prejudices between groups but Aliu says it is “mostly comedy.”

12 Dares, a Swedish-Norwegian co-production produced by Lizette Jonjic of Zentropa Sweden, Maria Ekerhovd of Mer Film and Khalid Maimouni of Storyline...

"Look at him!" Dierks Bentley laughed, pointing toward Luke Bryan who was passing by with a drink in each hand. "He's got two drinks! No respect for the show!" With a wide grin, Bryan retorted, "I'm trying to get my wife drunk!" When Nashville's A-list gathered for a special People photo before the taping of the 10th Annual Acm Honors, the atmosphere was more family reunion than formal event, and the good-natured barbs flowed as freely as the booze. Once country's wildest child, Acm Honoree Tanya Tucker proved that at 57, she's as rowdy as ever when she pretended to flash...

"Look at him!" Dierks Bentley laughed, pointing toward Luke Bryan who was passing by with a drink in each hand. "He's got two drinks! No respect for the show!" With a wide grin, Bryan retorted, "I'm trying to get my wife drunk!" When Nashville's A-list gathered for a special People photo before the taping of the 10th Annual Acm Honors, the atmosphere was more family reunion than formal event, and the good-natured barbs flowed as freely as the booze. Once country's wildest child, Acm Honoree Tanya Tucker proved that at 57, she's as rowdy as ever when she pretended to flash...

Spoilers for Fringe ahead. Mindy Kaling predicted the female cast-led Ghostbusters. Did Fringe predict another 2016 blockbuster (or blockbuster wannabe)? Fringe fanatics are well aware of what Over There’s Back to the Future looked like (a lot less Michael J. Fox and a lot more Eric Stoltz and probably a lot less iconic). A movie theater marquee advertising that alternate universe version of Back to the Future prominently filled the frame of a shot in mid-season 2 episode “Peter,” set in 1985. But some Fringe fans may not have noticed or remembered the marquee that appeared in the season 2 finale. Turns out a re-watch of that game-changer finale, “Over There: Part 2,” which aired in 2010, reveals a marquee tucked in the corner of a shot that’ll get a chuckle out of anyone in 2016 Over Here. Those airship-flying bastards. They actually got a decent DC superhero-vs.-superhero movie (or two!). I assume.

Rafael Nadal is working out on the leg press. Over there, Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovich is on the treadmill, close to U.S. beach volleyball player Casey Patterson. Long jumper Brittney Reese is working out her legs. And on the ellipticals? The entire Spanish basketball team. Welcome to the gym at the Olympic Village, the complex of high-rise buildings that house the Olympic athletes from around the world. Located less than a mile away from the Olympic Park venues, it's the place where athletes can squeeze in their last workouts before competing - or blow off some steam after their event is done.

All good things come to an end, and once they do, they’re usually better off left that way. So now we have “Jason Bourne,” a sequel to a franchise that didn’t need continuation. The first three chapters in the “Bourne” franchise were a rarity among modern American action movies: smart, fast and fun, they rarely wasted a frame — and best of all, they ended in peak form, with the relentless “The Bourne Ultimatum” in 2007. But the studio had other ideas, pressing ahead with another tale of a brainwashed government henchman rebelling against his overlords in “The Bourne Legacy” after Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass had their fill. Now Damon and Greengrass have been coaxed back to resuscitate the series’ appeal, but even they can’t seem to muster more than a shrug.

“Ultimatum” ended about as cleanly as this saga could: Bourne, a CIA assassin who goes rogue,...

We recently had the opportunity to speak with Ronen Rubinstein, who plays Alex Powell on Freeform's Dead of Summer, and he was very tight-lipped about what death will bring to Camp Stillwater over the summer.

While things are only just getting started for the teens at Camp Stillwater, the show has started off at a breakneck speed, and only in Dead of Summer Season 1 Episode 3, we were left wondering if two of the main characters could possibly be dead, already.

It was a pleasure chatting with him as we delved into the deeper plot details of what may happen to Alex, and the others, as the season progresses, and he decided what his dream role would be. (Hint! It involves the Red Hot Chili Peppers.)

Find out what the summer will bring to the campers, as well as some insight on Rubinstein and his plans for after Dead of Summer wraps!

All episodes were provided prior to broadcast.

“It’s Not TV. It’s HBO.” This slogan was a punchy line in the sand distinguishing the Home Box Office network from everyone else for more than a decade. Over there is where you get Friends and ER; over here is where you’ll find Sex and the City and The Sopranos. Through and beyond the lifetime of this one tag, HBO’s controlling share of quality television was hard to argue with. Lately, however, the esteemed network doesn’t shine quite so brightly in a media landscape where “TV” isn’t the real competition anymore. Fomo, not HBO, dominates the airwaves, and it’s what makes a pleasantly inoffensive HBO comedy like Togetherness difficult to recommend.

The “Fear of Missing Out” is a perfectly natural social bother that’s been thoroughly exacerbated by expanding consumer options. Saying “yes” to one thing...

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Colony is a rich, foreboding new sci-fi series from Lost's Carlton Cuse that recalls the original series of V...

This review contains spoilers.

The very first moments we spend with Colony are with a family at home, witnessing their mundane, strangely uncomfortable morning together. Sure, everything looks fine, but underneath this forced normalcy is a deep emotional tension that bleeds out of every action and movement each family member makes. They’re recovering from a major shock, one that nobody wants to acknowledge, and it pervades throughout their entire Southern Californian household.

The father, Will Bowman, played by Lost’s Josh Holloway, grabs two eggs that sit patiently on the counter. As he prepares to fry them up, he jokes about how they’re baby chickens with his daughter and son. All of a sudden, one of the eggs drops to the floor by accident. Crack.

If you'd ever wondered what it would sound like if Debbie Harry traveled back in time to 1917, switched bodies with a little girl, and performed a cover of World War I fight song "Over There," your prayers were answered last week by a sparkly trio of tween girls at a Donald Trump rally. The USA Freedom Kids became instant internet stars, and have now spawned a hilarious parody group aimed at getting some heat under another candidate.

Perhaps Over There, Fox’s Fringe is in Season 8 and leaving Blair Brown with only the fondest memories.

But over here, Nina Sharp’s onetime portrayer has something to say about the defunct sci-fi series.

PhotosTVLine Turns 5: Fringe Betrayal, Chuck’s Proposal and More January 2011 Plot Twists

Appearing on Sunday at the Television Critics Association winter press tour, where she was promoting Season 4 of Orange Is the New Black, Brown said, “I loved my time on Fringe, but the truth is that was originally a story about a female protagonist [Olivia, played by Anna Torv]… and the show turned into a story about father...

If you thought TVLine’s review of the big news stories breaking at the time of our January 2011 launch was a trip down memory lane, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

PhotosTVLine Turns 5: Castle‘s First Kiss, Wonder Woman‘s Woes and More of January 2011’s Big News Stories

As our fifth birthday celebration marches on, here we recount the storylines that were unspooling at the time — on shows that are still with us (including Bones, Castle and Grey’s Anatomy) or have since passed on (such as Smallville, V and The Office.) Fringe, we must remind you, is currently airing Season 8 Over There.

Shootouts and fist-fights are no longer a young man’s game. Hollywood is rebranding ageing actors as action heroes – but it still discards older women

Male careers in the movies have always been longer than female ones, but until recently there was only one real route to on-screen immortality – to the certified, gold-standard agelessness of, say, Cary Grant. (In North By Northwest, Grant, then 55, not only appeared opposite a woman 20 years younger than him, Eva Marie Saint, his screen mother was played by someone only seven years his senior.) The key principle is suavity: the refusal to break a sweat; sophistication with the faintest hint of self‑mockery; the actor letting us know that he is old enough to know how silly this all is.

There are still disciples following that path up the mountain to the sunny uplands of longevity – perhaps we should think of this as Mount Rushmore...

Breaking up is hard to do – but only if you're Clint. If you're Jj or Kaitlyn, it's actually super easy.

Monday's episode of The Bachelorette continued its well-worn tradition of picking up in the middle of the previous episode's rose ceremony cocktail party cliffhanger, making every cocktail party seem like a unending daymare.

After spending the week trash-talking the rest of the contestants and spending more time with his buddy Jj than with Kaitlyn, Clint got the boot and made sure to be aggressively defensive on his way out.

The End of a Beautiful FriendshipAccording to Clint, it's not that...

A review of last night's "Mad Men" coming up just as soon as I'm the quick brown fox... "We both know things can't be undone." -Trudy "Says who?" -Pete "Mad Men" has chronicled a period of enormous social change (and taken place in a time of enormous change in television), yet it's often seemed agnostic on whether individual change is possible. Over the course of the series, fashions shifted and opportunities rose for women and minorities, but were the "Mad Men" characters themselves really changing with the times? Peggy has certainly grown, yet we've seen Don and Roger and Joan and others have epiphany after epiphany, only to eventually lean back on their old habits. (And even Peggy hasn't been immune to stagnation in her personal life, even as she's evolved professionally.) If anything, Don's frequent backsliding has been one of the most common complaints I've heard about the series'...

If you had told me, during Mad Men‘s can’t-miss-it earlier seasons, that the second-to-last episode of the series would feature Don getting beat down by a bunch of yokels, miles from anyone he knows, I would’ve told you to stick your Butler Footwear somewhere the sun don’t shine.

But here we are, stuck in a no-tell motel in the middle of East Bumbletruck, watching Draper get conned down by a kid — and not in a terribly compelling fashion — and the series finale is a mere week away. Oh, and Pete and Trudy are reuniting and Betty’s dying.

Those of us who lead hapless lives know how frightening getting up in the morning can be. Instead of rising and embracing the daylight with an ardent cuddle and a zealous "Yahoo!" we see grey clouds overhead and wonder aloud, "What now?" Another egg carton with broken shells? A second bedbug infestation within twelve months? Still no replies to our Christian Mingles ad even though we've noted we can recite the Book of Revelation by heart in Latin?

Ah, if only we were born into a family of elites. The ultra-rich. Aristocrats with an enviable gene pool.

But instead we're impoverished and pear-shaped with squinty eyes and in need of Proactiv+.

On top of these misfortunes, we really know the gods are against us if while fingering the remote, we accidentally come across Joshua Jackson in The Skulls (2000), and begin to watch it out of inertia. This incapacitating thriller was inspired by Yale's secretive society,...

From Marine Boy and Thundercats to Cities Of Gold and Akira, we look at the TV shows and movies that introduced the UK to Japanese anime

One evening in 1994, the BBC screened a documentary simply called Manga. Presented by Jonathan Ross, it showcased the rising popularity of Japanese animation, largely focusing on the output of Manga Entertainment, whose dubbed VHS releases had made a huge impact on anime fans and caused a certain amount of consternation among the mainstream press.

For British viewers, the anime boom took a long time to arrive. In America, Japanese shows like Kimba The White Lion, Gigantor and Astro Boy were a common sight on television in the 1960s, yet it took until the late 70s and 80s, and a string of European-Japanese co-productions, before anime finally began to find a hold on UK television.

As a youngster at the time, I didn't necessarily know...

Sonic the Hedgehog #269: Champions Part 2

Writer: Ian Flynn

Penciller: Diana Skelly

Inker: Terry Austin

Colorist: Gabriel Cassata

Archie Comics

Licensed by Sega

Time for the main event! In this exciting issue of Sonic the Hedgehog, we finally get to the long awaited fights of the “Sonic the Fighters” story arc.

At the top of the comic, we are treated to a part two of the flashback concerning Sonic’s “rescuing” of Breezie. As it turns out, she had been giving his location away to Robotnik’s various badniks and now Silver Sonic, who is based on Sonic 2‘s Mecha Sonic. Breezie then reveals in a somewhat tragic twist that she was out on the streets without a job or a home. When we snap back to the current time, we see that its her flashback, and she knows that she can still manipulate the Blue Blur.

We then jump...

Paige in Charmed, Anya in Buffy, Fred in Angel… They weren’t there from the start, but these women were indispensable by the end...

Arriving fashionably late to the party is the speciality of these female TV characters. They’re not the Cousin Olivers or the Scrappy Doos of the television world, but the regulars and recurring roles who enter a show once it’s established and help it on its way to greatness. Their respective shows may not have known they needed them right at the start, but they soon proved themselves indispensable and much-loved parts of their TV universes.

From Paige Matthews to Winifred Burkle, Ro Laren and more then, let’s celebrate the women whose appearance in our favourite shows were better late than never...

Kitty Winter – Elementary

When she arrived: season three episode one, Enough Nemesis To Go Around.

Now that the initial overcrowding issue has...

Is Jj Abrams' Fringe on your must-watch list but you quite don't have time for all 100 episodes? Here's some guidance...

Is there a popular show you’d really like to watch but you just don’t have time to wade through years of it all at once? Do you just want to know why that one character keeps turning up on Tumblr? Do the fans all tell you ‘season one is a bit iffy but stick with it, it gets great!’, leaving you with absolutely zero desire ever to watch the boring/silly/just plain weird season one? Then our episode roadmap features are for you.

In these articles, we’ll outline routes through popular TV shows focusing on particular characters, story arcs or episode types. Are you really into the Klingon episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Do you want to get the overall gist of...

While everyone is busy labeling Marco Polo as Netflix’s answer to Game of Thrones, HBO is looking for their own new project big enough and worthy enough of inspiring copycats, and they may have found it with a new series now in development from Executive Producers Martin Scorsese and Benicio Del Toro.

Deadline reported Tuesday that Cortes, created by Chris Gerolmo (Mississippi Burning), is a high profile drama about Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador who came to the Aztec empire and eventually brought it to ruin, claiming Mexico for Spain in the process. Here’s Deadline’s full plot summary:

Cortes will tell the sweeping story of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, who brought down the Aztec empire; Malinche, the Mayan girl who helped him do it; and Montezuma, the Aztec leader he befriended and finally put in chains.

Deadline has Scorsese billed as both a producer and director, and...