Rolling Stone's best TV moments In Rob Sheffield's look back at the "greatest couch-surfing" moments of 2012, the Rolling Stone critic wrote about a wide range of subjects, including Bill Clinton delivering the "full Bubba" at the Democratic National Convention, the "shameless tearjerker" on NBC's "Parks and Recreation" when Leslie ( Amy Poehler) and Ben ( Adam Scott) got engaged, and Kristen Wiig's final performance on "Saturday Night Live," which included Mick Jagger and Arcade Fire serenading her with "She's a Rainbow." Sheffield also gave props to David Letterman and Jimmy Fallon, the tw ... [Continua a leggere]

La serie tv Hannibal, prodotta da Bryan Fuller, è senz’altro uno dei prodotti più attesi della prossima stagione televisiva. Basata sui romanzi di Thomas Harris, narrerà del complesso rapporto tra l’agente dell’FBI Will Graham, interpretato da Hugh Dancy, e lo psichiatra forense Hannibal Lecter, che avrà il volto di Mads Mikkelsen.La prima stagione del telefilm, che si comporrà di 13 episodi, prende infatti spunto dalla trama di ‘Red Dragon’, su cui già è stato fatto un film con protagonisti Anthony Hopkins ed Edwar ... [Continua a leggere]

Entertainment Weekly ha riferito in esclusiva che Hannibal potrà vantare la stella di X-Files Gillian Anderson all’interno del cast: l’amata attrice che ha vestito i panni dell’agente Dana Scully ritorna nel nuovo thriller che sarà trasmesso negli Stati Uniti dalla NBC, creato e prodotto da Bryan Fuller. In un arco di diversi episodi, Gillian Anderson fa la sua prima vera ricomparsa ufficiale inuno show televisivo con uno dei personaggi più interessanti: infatti, l’attrice interpreterà la dottoressa Bedelia Du Maurier, la terapista psichiatr ... [Continua a leggere]

The X-Files' Gillian Anderson (Agent Scully) is the latest actress to join the cast of NBC's Hannibal, which is currently shooting. According to Entertainment Weekly, she'll play Hannibal Lecter's therapist!  Her role will carry her through a few episodes, says the site. Mads Mikkelsen, Hugh Dancy and Laurence Fishburne star in the series as Lecter, Will Graham and Jack Crawford, respectively. Hannibal will air sometime in 2013. David Slade is helming the first episode and Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies) is serving as the showrunner. The synopsis for those who have not read it... One of ... [Continua a leggere]

Gillian Anderson is going from The X-Files to Hannibal. The actress is poised to return to broadcast television with a multiple-episode role in NBC's Bryan Fuller Hannibal drama, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Based the books by Thomas Harris, James Bond villain Mads Mikkelsen will play the psychiatrist-turned-serial killer in the 13-episode dramatic take from the creator of cult hit Pushing Daisies. Hugh Dancy (The Big C) stars as Will Graham, the criminal profiler who is on the hunt for a serial killer with the FBI and enlists Dr. Lecter's help with the case. Lau ... [Continua a leggere]

Hugely exciting casting news: Sci-fi fan-favorite Gillian Anderson is returning to broadcast television after a decade to join writer-producer Bryan Fuller’s serial-killer thriller Hannibal. And perhaps the best part is the role she’s playing…. In a multi-episode arc on the upcoming NBC drama, Anderson is going to play Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier — murderous psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter’s (Mads Mikkelsen) own therapist. “Every therapist needs their own head examined and we are ecstatic that Gillian Anderson has chosen Hannibal to mark her return to Americ ... [Continua a leggere]

Ten movies have been nominated as best motion picture by the International Press Academy, which announced nominees for its 17th annual Satellite Awards on Monday. The organization, composed of entertainment journalists for both domestic and foreign outlets, rounded up an electric group of films that includes Argo, Silver Linings Playbook, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Les Miserables, Skyfall, Moonrise Kingdom, The Sessions, Lincoln, Life of Pi and Zero Dark Thirty. The Satellite Awards, which cover 31 film and TV categories, will be presented at a dinner Dec. 16 at the Intercontinental Hotel i ... [Continua a leggere]

Kolkata seems to have caught the fancy of Oscar-winning director Jeffrey D Brown, who has been spotted shooting his first fiction feature film at different locales in the City of Joy. Actress Gillian Anderson of The X Files fame joined the film’s cast and crew three days ago. Jeffrey has been in the city for nearly 25 days. Gillian will be staying on for around 20 days as per the film’s first schedule. A crew member revealed, “Jeffrey’s film is about sex trafficking in India. He is following the story of a 13-year-old girl who had been smuggled into a red-light area of ... [Continua a leggere]

Frank Spotnitz è conosciuto sopratutto per il suo lavoro come sceneggiatore nella serie televisiva cult X-Files, per la quale ottenne una nomination agli Emmy per l’episodio Il male oscuro, scritto assieme a Chris Carter, Vince Gilligan e John Shiban, e per aver lavorato con Carter alla sceneggiatura di X-Files – Il film e X-Files: Voglio crederci. Per anni si è parlato della lavorazione di un terzo film della franchise ma per il momento, non è ancora stato realizzato nessun script, anche se lo scrittore ha delle idee molto chiare sulla direzione che vorrebbe f ... [Continua a leggere]

David Duchovny is reportedly planning to take a year off work to play golf. The actor has been starring in the TV show Californication since 2007, in which he portrays a troubled writer with a complicated love life. Although he enjoys making the programme, the star's love of golf has reportedly got him thinking that there might be more to life. "David insists the current season of Californication will be his last. He's got a couple of movies in the works but once those are wrapped he wants to travel the world and play on some of the famous golf courses," an insider told National Enquirer. " ... [Continua a leggere]

With the BBC broadcast of Hunted finishing this Thursday, we chatted to series creator Frank Spotnitz about the BBC's decision not to renew the spy drama, the show's public reception, and his plans for the forthcoming HBO/Cinemax Hunted spin-off. That interview will be available to read in full tomorrow, but in the meantime, we thought you might be interested in this little snippet of The X-Files-related chat. As a former executive producer of The X-Files, we first asked Spotnitz what the status was on the franchise's planned third and final film (Spotn ... [Continua a leggere]

Cinemax’s latest original series, “Hunted” stars Melissa George” as Sam Hunter, an agent for the private intelligence firm Byzantium. Her current mission has Sam going undercover as a family’s nanny, and so far every situation has her fighting with or shooting at bad guys. We got to chat with creator Frank Spotnitz by phone, while he is still in London where “Hunted” is based. We know Spotnitz from his years of work on “The X-Files” and “Millennium,” so we had to ask for an update on the third X-Files movie too. ... [Continua a leggere]

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC-Cinemax series Hunted won’t go beyond its current freshman season after BBC One opted not to renew the espionage drama for a second season. But Cinemax is working with series creator Frank Spotnitz on a new incarnation of the show about spy Sam Hunter (Melissa George). “We are making plans with creator and executive producer Frank Spotnitz and star Melissa George to present a new chapter in the Sam Hunter mythology,” Kary Antholis, President, HBO Miniseries and Cinemax Programming, said in a statement to Deadline. “We are very pleased with what Hunted ... [Continua a leggere]

All right, we haven’t had a Rumor Mill update in a very long while, so now that we’re up and running on the newly-redesigned Bits, it feels like it’s time to get the Mill going again, yes? And with a nice Cold War-era, espionage-inspired logo to boot! So here’s today’s dispatch: A number of our industry sources are now telling us that Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is planning (and in fact may already be gearing up to) release their classic TV series The X-Files on Blu-ray. As fans will already be aware, the first four seasons of the show were produced ... [Continua a leggere]

The Exorcist “A priest walks down the hall and enters a little girl’s bedroom and sits next to the bed. It’s the scariest movie ever, and yet think about how simple that is. I’m very careful to make sure the mythology in The Walking Dead does not get too complicated. I always want the problems that our characters have to be as simple as possible. For example, in the second episode this season: We discovered some prisoners, and the question was what to do with them. ‘You give us half the food; we get you to the cell block.’ It’s not overly complicated ... [Continua a leggere]