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Broadcast and connected television technology firm Amagi and enterprise software platform Whip Media are teaming up with production and distribution company Electric Entertainment to help optimize the latter’s streaming and video distribution strategies, the companies announced on Friday.

The partnership will involve the three working together on new analytics and content performance tracking solutions that will help Electric Entertainment optimize its distribution strategies centered around its content brand Electric Now.

The initial phase of the pact will see Whip Media integrate its FASTrack solution into Amagi Analytics, which the company say will help Electric Now “optimize its content performance tracking and enhance partner payment solutions in the rapidly growing Fast and AVOD (ad-supported video on-demand) markets.”

Related: Electric Entertainment remastering TV shows using AI solutions

“We needed better data for programming analytics, and our finance team needed better, easier ways to recognize Fast revenue and...

"He's not going to stop unless I make him stop." Prime Video has unveiled the full official trailer for their new crime thriller series titled Cross, the latest adaptation from James Patterson's thriller novels. Cross is an adaptation of the Alex Cross series, and will be streaming in 2024. Aldis Hodge stars as Alex Cross - detective and forensic psychologist, uniquely capable of digging into the psyches of killers and their victims, in order to identify—and ultimately capture—the murderers. The series is created by producer and writer Ben Watkins, and produced by Paramount Television Studios & Skydance Television. The main cast also includes Isaiah Mustafa, Juanita Jennings, Alona Tal, Samantha Walkes, Caleb Elijah, Melody Hurd, Eloise Mumford, Ryan Eggold, Mercedes de la Zerda, plus Jennifer Wigmore as Chief Anderson. It's definitely not a comedy series, this looks seriously dark and unsettling with some crazy twists and turns. Maybe even supernatural?...

Alex Cross is back with Cross Season 1, and we’re incredibly excited about it!

Prime Video has picked up Cross, an adaptation of the prolific James Patterson series. It’s a star-studded affair onscreen and off.

As one of the year’s most highly-anticipated series, we’re here to share everything you need to know about Cross and what’s to come.

(Amazon MGM Studios) Is Cross Inspired by the James Patterson Book Series?

Cross is just another in many adaptations of James Patterson‘s popular bestselling crime mystery series about a D.C. detective, Alex Cross.

The series was first introduced in 1993 and has 32 novels that complete the entire series.

It also has two novellas and at least three spinoff books in which Alex’s son, Ali, takes center stage and solves mysteries of his own.

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Fans of Leverage: Redemption are hoping to hear more about Season 3. Here's an update on when the show will return!

Leverage was a great hit for TNT when it debuted in 2008. The plotline was Nate Ford (Timothy Hutton), a former insurance fraud investigator, bands with a pack of crooks: grifter Sophie (Gina Bellman), thief Parker (Beth Reisgraf), "hitter" Eliot (Christian Kane) and hacker Hardison (Aldis Hodge). The group pulls con games and thefts to bring down the rich and corrupt and give the proceeds to the victims of such crooks. 

The show ran five seasons, ending in 2012. In 2021, Freevee revived it as Leverage: Redemption. The plotline was Nate had died and the rest of the team reunited with Noah Wyle as Harry, a former corporate lawyer who had seen the light to help them out. Hodge's movie career meant Hardison was mostly absent with Aleyse Shannon joining as new hacker Brenna.

If shows like Oceans 11 or Leverage got you hooked on the perfect plan coming together through unconventional teamwork and heart, this series is for you. While paying homage to genre standouts, The Green Glove Gang puts its own spin on the “person with a past turns skills into a new purpose” trope.

Where many heist stories center on cocky criminals focusing solely on the take, this series humanizes its thieves. We learn their motivations through flashbacks revealing life experiences, not brags. Like Andy in The Shawshank Redemption gaining perspective through ordeals, time has given these women wisdom surpassing skill.

Season 2 sees their reluctant return sparked by loved ones in trouble, a callback to Sneakers exploring how family pulls outsiders back to dangerous lives. Yet intimacy, not payday, drives their planning. Scene choreography highlights discussion, not dangerous bravado, harkening to Leverage’s family dynamic over adrenaline.

Details will make aficionados smile.

If you’re a fan of Electric Entertainment shows—like Leverage and its sequel Redemption, The Librarians and its spinoff The Next Chapter, and more—you might want to think about heading to New Orleans, LA this fall. Electric Entertainment and Creation Entertainment, known for fan conventions for major pop culture franchises, have partnered to bring forth ElectricCon, TV Insider has learned exclusively. It’s the first officially licensed fan convention commemorating all of Electric’s original programs. It will take place October 12-13, 2024, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA. Electric Entertainment’s shows include the aforementioned Leverage and The Librarians franchises as well as The Outpost, Almost Paradise, and The Ark. The two days of programming will include special guests, panel discussions, cosplay, autograph signing sessions, photo opportunities, sales of exclusive merchandise, and much more. The full convention schedule along with ticket pricing and...

As a small-screen veteran, Zachary Quinto is no stranger to building a television persona, much like the role in Heroes that made him a household name.

The actor then went on to be a veteran of the hit horror show American Horror Story, appearing in multiple seasons starting as early as 2022, during the show's eleventh season.

Now, the TV titan is trying his hand at a medical drama, which has become its own creature in the television industry.

But if there's one thing the actor is good at, it's coming across as calm and collected, much like his character Spock from the Star Trek films.

Brilliant Minds is on NBC's fall line-up, and here is everything we know about the show so far!

What Is Brilliant Minds about?

Medical dramas are a dime a dozen, and ones that feature a brilliantly unique physician are not far behind.

What makes...

Days of Our Lives (Dool) spoilers for the week of June 3, 2024 are here! Fans can expect Ej Dimera (Dan Feuerriegel) and Melinda Trask (Tina Huang) to face each other.

Melinda has hidden leverage, though. Sarah Horton (Linsey Godfrey) reaches out to someone from Xander Cook’s (Paul Telfer) past.

Chad Dimera (Billy Flynn) is wary of Clyde Weston’s (James Read) story. Plus, Maggie Horton Kiriakis (Suzanne Rogers) will get her revenge. Keep reading to find out what is coming up in the Peacock soap opera.

Days Of Our Lives Spoilers – Melinda Trask Confronted

Dool spoilers for the week of June 3 reveal that Rafe Hernandez (Galen Gering) has proof of Melinda’s criminal activity. After Melinda is arrested for helping Sloan Petersen-Brady (Jessica Serfaty) fake an adoption, Ej has a confrontation.

Ej might slam Melinda for stealing “his” baby. However, Melinda knows for a fact that Jude Brady (Oliver McLarty...

Ranker is a popular place on the Internet where people can rank whatever they want, however, they want, and whenever they want. This is always a fan-focused ranking system and it is never officially tied to the people behind the projects in question. Recently, a large survey was organized on Ranker, whose goal was to determine the best black actors in recent years. The list includes a bunch of names, but in our report, we have decided to list the first ten names from the site, as to provide you with a better insight, combined with our original comment and opinions which will add flavor to the whole report.

Of course, since this is indeed an important list, have decided to report on it, so we are going to bring you the results by listing the top 10 actors on this list, from 10th to first place. We hope you’ll enjoy it!

"You're not getting a confession. You're not in my head." "Oh I'm definitely living rent-free." Prime Video has revealed the first look teaser trailer for their upcoming Cross series, the latest adaptation from James Patterson's crime thriller novels. Cross is an adaptation of the Alex Cross series, and will be streaming in 2024. Aldis Hodge stars as Cross - detective and forensic psychologist, uniquely capable of digging into the psyches of killers and their victims, in order to identify—and ultimately capture—the murderers. The series is created by producer and writer Ben Watkins, and produced by Paramount Television Studios and Skydance Television. The series cast also includes Isaiah Mustafa, Darnell Bartholomew, Ashley Rios, Stacie Greenwell, Siobhan Murphy, Sharon Taylor, Mercedes de la Zerda, as well as Jennifer Wigmore as Chief Anderson. This looks like a fairly dark and intense series, investigating brutal crimes and mysterious things happening in dark corners.

Avatar: The Last Airbender is heading into its second season with its third showrunner at the helm.

Showrunner Albert Kim, who replaced creators Michael Dante Dimartino and Bryan Konietzko, is also exiting the Netflix live-action series. Co-executive producer Christine Boylan and exec producer Jabbar Raisani — both of whom were hired by Kim — will take over as the drama’s third showrunners for the previously announced second and third seasons.

Sources say Kim’s intention was to lay the foundation for season one of Avatar: The Last Airbender after stepping in for the beloved franchise’s creators. Given the long turnaround time in crafting the series — Netflix ordered it in 2018, the creators left in late 2020 and the show didn’t debut until February 2024 — sources say Kim was ready to move on to new opportunities.

Kim, whose résumé include Sleepy Hollow and Leverage, will remain credited as an exec producer on Avatar: The Last Airbender...

Leverage star Gina Bellman has been inspired by Princess Kate’s cancer announcement to publicly reveal her own diagnosis.

“Catherine, The Princess of Wales displayed such composure and grace today in her heartbreaking announcement,” Bellman said on social media. “Hoping her treatment is successful and also for a kinder world.”

She added: “I myself underwent treatment for Breast Cancer last summer. Until now- I didn’t have the courage to go public. 8 months on I’m back in stilettos and filming 14 hour days. For those undergoing treatment right now- there is light at the end of this tunnel.”

Bellman’s Leverage co-star Beth Riesgraf (aka Parker) posted her support. “We got you, G, and you got this… Always and forever,” along with the hashtags #Warrior and #Queen.

Bellman plays grifter Sophie Deveraux on TNT’s Leverage, its five-season run wrapping up in 2012. Bellman is currently reprising the role on Leverage: Redemption,...

Gina Bellman, star of the hit 2008 drama television series Leverage, has bravely revealed that she is battling cancer, echoing Kate Middleton‘s recent confirmation of her own diagnosis. “Catherine The Princess of Wales displayed such composure and grace today in her heartbreaking announcement,” Bellman wrote in a post on X last Friday. “Hoping her treatment is successful and also for a kinder world.” Catherine The Princess of Wales displayed such composure and grace today in her heartbreaking announcement. Hoping her treatment is successful and also for a kinder world. — Gina Bellman (@Ginabellman) March 22, 2024 The New Zealand-born British actress posted another message on the social media platform a few minutes later, sharing, “I myself underwent treatment for Breast Cancer last summer. Until now- I didn’t have the courage to go public. 8 months on I’m back in stilettos and filming 14 hour days. For those undergoing treatment right now- there is...

Leverage star Gina Bellman has gone public with her own cancer diagnosis after Kate Middleton announced hers earlier on Friday.

“Catherine The Princess of Wales displayed such composure and grace today in her heartbreaking announcement,” Bellman said on social media. “Hoping her treatment is successful and also for a kinder world.” She later added: “I myself underwent treatment for Breast Cancer last summer. Until now- I didn’t have the courage to go public. 8 months on I’m back in stilettos and filming 14 hour days. For those undergoing treatment right now- there is light at the end of this tunnel.

Exclusive: A very familiar face will be returning to The Librarians: The Next Chapter. The Librarians‘ Christian Kane has signed on to reprise his role as Jacob Stone in the CW spinoff of the fantasy adventure series opposite Jessica Green, in a recurring role.

From writer and executive producer Dean Devlin, The Librarians: The Next Chapter is a spinoff of the original TV series The Librarians, which followed the adventures of the custodians of a magical repository of the world’s most powerful and dangerous supernatural artifacts. The new series centers on a “Librarian” from the past, who time traveled to the present and now finds himself stuck here. When he returns to his castle, which is now a museum, he inadvertently releases magic across the continent. He is given a new team to help him clean up the mess he made, forming a new team of Librarians.

Born and raised in Oklahoma,...

The free streaming platform is also making it easier for viewers to find the perfect content no matter what they are in the mood to watch.

While the shift from premium streaming to an entirely ad-supported model has not completely done away with ad-free viewing options, the change certainly seems to moving forward unabated. As services continue to see additional revenue from ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) and free ad-supported TV (Fast) channels, the more they are investing in those platforms’ content and reach. On Tuesday, Vizio announced substantial upgrades to its’ Vizio WatchFree+ streaming hub including an increased number of channel options and a set of new features designed to ease discoverability.

Vizio reports that WatchFree+ viewing hours have doubled since last year. The platform announced an expansion of streaming channels from studio partners Warner Bros. Discovery, Lionsgate, and more. WatchFree+ has added new categories to to its guide in order to improve content discovery.

Leverage: Redemption is not going anywhere just yet. The sequel to the original Leverage series has been renewed for a third season but will have a new home. The series is moving from Amazon Freevee to Prime Video.

Starring Gina Bellman, Aldis Hodge, Christian Kane, Beth Riesgraf, Noah Wyle, and Aleyse Shannon, this series follows a Robin Hood-like group of specialists as they help ordinary people when the rich do them wrong.

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Supernatural star Mark Sheppard has had another brush with death after his sixth severe heart attack. The actor had to be resuscitated four times after he collapsed in his kitchen.

Famous for his portrayal of the demon/King of Hell on Supernatural, Sheppard, 59, expressed gratitude to his wife, Sarah Louise Fudge, for saving his life, as well as the medical staff who cared for him.

In an Instagram post, Mark shared a selfie from his hospital bed, which showed multiple heart monitor devices attached to his chest. He still managed a slight smile.

His caption read, “You’re not going to believe this!”

He continued, “Was on my way to an appointment yesterday when I collapsed in my kitchen. Six massive heart attacks later, and being brought back from dead 4 times, I apparently had a 100% blockage in my Lad.”

He admitted that his recovery was not expected.

“My chances of survival were virtually nil,...

Mark Sheppard, the actor best known for playing Crowley on Supernatural, had a surreal experience of his own over the weekend, suffering – and surviving – six heart attacks after collapsing in his home.

Mark Sheppard took to social media just one day after to inform fans of the incident and update them on his progress, posting from his hospital bed, “You’re not going to believe this! Was on my way to an appointment yesterday when I collapsed in my kitchen. Six massive heart attacks later, and being brought back from dead 4 times I apparently had a 100% blockage in my Lad [left anterior descending artery]. The Widowmaker. If not for my wife, the @losangelesfiredepartment at mullholland and the incredible staff @providencecalifornia St Joseph’s – I wouldn’t be writing this. My chances of survival were virtually nil. I feel great. Humbled once more. Home tomorrow!” That would put Sheppard back home on Monday, a tremendous turnaround.

Mark Sheppard is in recovery after suffering “six massive heart attacks.”

On Saturday, the Supernatural vet disclosed on Instagram the medical emergency he experienced just the day before.

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“You’re not going to believe this! Was on my way to an appointment yesterday when I collapsed in my kitchen,...

Keith Giffen, known both as a comic book writer and artist whose characters have appeared in live-action franchises from Marvel and DC Comics, has died. He was 70 years old and had worked in comics since 1976.

Giffen was known for having a hand in the creation of characters including Lobo, Guardians of the Galaxy furry teammate Rocket Raccoon and the modern Jaime Reyes version of Blue Beetle. He also wrote acclaimed runs of “Justice League” and the “Legion of Super-Heroes,” as well as creating the cult fourth-wall-breaking character Ambush Bug (a decade earlier than Deadpool).

He died Sunday of a stroke, according to media reports (first reported by Bleeding Cool), but the news of his death wasn’t made public until Wednesday evening.

The comic creator often brought a wry sense of humor to his work. That included a posthumous Facebook post he’d arranged to have put up Wednesday after his death,...

Actor Jonathan Frakes' directorial debut on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" was for the third season episode "The Offspring", the episode where Data (Brent Spiner) builds his own android daughter (Hallie Todd). One might note that Frakes' character, Commander Riker, didn't appear much in that episode. This kicked off a full-blown directorial career for Frakes that hasn't slowed since. Frakes directed eight episodes of "NextGen" in total, as well as the feature films "Star Trek: First Contact" (1996) and "Star Trek: Insurrection" (1998).

Frakes would go on to direct "Thunderbirds" and "Clockstoppers," and enter a prolific career helming episodes of high-profile TV shows like "Leverage," "NCIS: Los Angeles," "Burn Notice," and "The Librarians." He also stayed within the Trek family over the years, directing episodes of "Deep Space Nine," "Voyager," "Discovery," "Picard," and the notable crossover between "Strange New Worlds" and "Lower Decks." He even oversaw two episodes of "The Orville," which...

It was announced back in March of 2023 that the upcoming fifth season of "Star Trek: Discovery" would be its last. This marks the end of an era, as Paramout+ -- back when it was called CBS All Access -- launched with the premiere of "Discovery" in 2017. Meanwhile, the third and final season of "Star Trek: Picard" wrapped earlier this year, "Star Trek: Prodigy" will end after its upcoming second season, and the extant episodes have been pulled from the service entirely. The glut of new "Star Trek" is now seemingly at an end.

"Discovery" has struggled its whole life. It infamously abandoned the traditional episodic structure of "Star Trek," skewing toward the more popular, modern full-season story arcs. It also drastically redesigned the franchise, including new technologies and reworked aliens that looked nothing like what came before. "Discovery" was also far more violent than Trek had ever been, featuring regular murders at the hands of,...

Perhaps you’ve heard but it’s been a very Suits summer.

Despite airing its final episode in September 2019, USA Network’s legal procedural Suits has been the talk of the streaming world ever since its first eight seasons arrived to Netflix on June 17. All nine seasons have been streaming on Peacock for far longer but Netflix, as the biggest streaming service, tends to drive the most attention. Per Nielsen, Suits has already broken its own streaming record with 3.7 billion minutes viewed the first week of July and viewership intensity doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon.

The potential reasons for Suits‘ surge in popularity are manyfold. While the dual WGA and Sga strikes shouldn’t have led to an extended pause in summer content in theory, some studios have juggled their schedules a bit to weather the storm for the fall season. Additionally, Suits‘ basic cable format...

[This interview was conducted prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike authorization.] [Warning: The below contains Major spoilers from all of Almost Paradise Season 2.] “Let’s go steal…” Those are three words that every Leverage fan knows well but has never heard come out of Christian Kane‘s mouth — until his other Freevee series, Almost Paradise. In Season 2 (all 10 episodes of which are now available to stream), there are a few things that will be very familiar to Leverage (and Redemption) fans, from flashbacks with the stars in different roles to a casino heist, especially considering the common threads of Kane and executive producer Dean Devlin. “We didn’t really try to remind people of Leverage. We actually stole from Leverage,” Kane told TV Insider with a laugh. “Dean Devlin got his hands on that one, and he said, ‘Nope, this is Leverage, and we’re just going to make it Leverage.‘ And it was so much fun.” The star then went ...

After the Leverage: Redemption Season 2 finale, executive producer Dean Devlin told us that Christian Kane would say that his character, hitter Eliot Spencer, could never be redeemed. He was right. While the last episode we saw of the Freevee series (in January) saw grifter Sophie (Gina Bellman) face her past and let go of her guilt, Eliot didn’t think he’d ever get to that point, not with what he’s done. And Kane agrees. When TV Insider spoke with Kane recently, we asked him about that, the future of the show (it has yet to be renewed or canceled), and much more. Is there any word on a Season 3 of Leverage: Redemption? Christian Kane: We have no idea. The writers’ strike has really put us — there’s nothing anybody can do right now, you know what I mean? Everybody’s hands are sort of tied with this thing.

Colleagues, friends and fans are remembering Treat Williams, the versatile and prolific actor who died in a motorcycle crash today at 71. Have a look at a sampling of reaction posted on social media below.

The actor from Rowayton, Ct, amassed more than 125 film and TV credits during a career that spanned nearly half a century. He was the widowed brain surgeon who moves his kids from Manhattan to small-town Colorado on the WB’s 2002-06 drama Everwood. He recurred as the ex-firefighter dad of Kelly and Katie Severeid on Chicago Fire, starred opposite Shelley Long in the 1993-94 CBS sitcom Good Advice and guested or did arcs on dozens of series including Law & Order: Svu, White Collar, Hawaii Five-o, Leverage and The Simpsons.

Related: Emily VanCamp Pays Tribute To ‘Everwood’ Co-Star Treat Williams

More recently he was a series regular for the full six-season run of Hallmark Channel’s Chesapeake Shores.

Christian Kane (Leverage: Redemption) returns to lead the cast of Amazon Freevee’s Almost Paradise season two as a former DEA agent who’s yanked back into that world after retiring to an island paradise. Freevee’s just launched a new official trailer for the upcoming season which is set to premiere July 21, 2023.

All 10 episodes debut on July 21st, with Art Acuña (What We Could Be) and Samantha Richelle back as series regulars.

Dean Devlin (The Ark) and Gary Rosen (The Librarians) guide the series as co-showrunners and executive producers. Electric Entertainment’s Marc Roskin and Rachel Olschan-Wilson also serve as executive producers.

Christian Kane and Samantha Richelle in ‘Almost Paradise’ season 2 (Photo Copyright: Amazon Freevee)

The Plot:

Kane is Alex Walker, a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent forced into early retirement. The combination of his partner’s betrayal and a life-threatening battle with hypertension has...

It is at long last time for Christian Kane and friends to return to Almost Paradise.

TVLine has learned exclusively that Season 2 of the action drama will premiere all 10 episodes on Amazon’s Freevee on Friday, July 21, in the U.S. and UK.

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We also have a first look at the Season 2 trailer (press play above), plus the key art posters (below).

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Exclusive: Brian King (Somebody Somewhere) has been tapped for a key recurring role opposite Jesse L. Martin in NBC drama series The Irrational, from Arika Lisanne Mittman.

Written by Mittman, The Irrational is based on Dan Ariely’s bestselling novel Predictably Irrational. The show follows Alec Baker (Martin), a world-renowned professor of behavioral science who lends his expertise to an array of high-stakes cases involving governments, law enforcement and corporations with his unique and unexpected approach to understanding human behavior.

King will play Jace Richards, an FBI agent who has become involved with Alec’s ex-wife. While he and Alec try and get along, they frequently butt heads over their different approaches to investigations.

Maahra Hill, Travina Springer, Molly Kunz and Arash DeMaxi also star.

Martin also produced the pilot. Mittman executive produces with Mark Goffman and Samuel Baum, while Ariely serves as a consultant. David Frankel directs and also serves as executive producer.

The revamped CW will have some genre programming, after all.

On Thursday, the network picked up a sequel to the TNT series The Librarians.

The Librarians: The Next Chapter is a spinoff of the original TV series, which followed the adventures of the custodians of a magical repository of the world's most powerful and dangerous supernatural artifacts.

The new series centers on a "Librarian" from the past, who time traveled to the present and now finds himself stuck here.

When he returns to his castle, which is now a museum, he inadvertently releases magic across the continent.

He is given a new team to help him clean up the mess he made, forming a new team of Librarians.

Electric Entertainment and The CW Network produce the new series.

Dean Devlin serves as executive producer and showrunner along with executive producers Rachel Olschan-Wilson and Marc Roskin.

Jonathan English of Balkanic Media serves as producer.

Beth Riesgraf is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Parker on the tv shows Leverage and Leverage: Redemption.

Beth Riesgraf Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education

Beth Riesgraf was born on August 24, 1978 (Beth Riesgraf: Age 44), in Belle Plaine, Minnesota to Janet and Elroy Riesgraf. She graduated from Cimarron-Memorial High School in 1996 where she was student body president and senior prom queen. Riesgraf has one child, Pilot Riesgraf-Lee, from her past relationship with actor Jason Lee.

Beth Riesgraf Biography: Career

In an exclusive interview with uInterview, Riesgraf talked about what got her interested in acting in the first place. “When I was five, my kindergarten had a gong show, and I was Peter Rabbit. I had my little shaky voice was still happening back then and I had to sing and hop down the aisle with my basket,” Riesgraf laughed. “The gong went at the end,...

ABC‘s The Company You Keep has featured a slew of noteworthy guest stars in its first four episodes, from Luke Kirby as Jones to Marin Hinkle as Claire Fox. And the show adds another familiar face in The Company You Keep Season 1 Episode 5 — Paul Blackthorne.

Paul Blackthorne | Photo by: Maarten de Boer/NBCUniversal/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images Paul Blackthorne plays John Baylor in ‘The Company You Keep’ Episode 5

After being slighted by her half-brother Connor Maguire in The Company You Keep Season 1 Episode 4, Daphne Finch is out for revenge. And perhaps she has set her sights on Paul Blackthorne’s character, John Baylor, in The Company You Keep Season 1 Episode 5 as a result.

The synopsis for “The Spy Who Loved Me” reads, “Daphne enlists the Nicolettis to steal a book of blackmail from a DC fixer. Later, Charlie puts his relationship with Emma on the line to ensure her safety.

Gina Bellman is a British actress. She is best known for her roles in Leverage and Leverage: Redemption.

Gina Bellman Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education

Gina Bellman was born in 1966 (Gina Bellman: Age 57) in Auckland, New Zealand. Her parents emigrated to New Zealand from England in the 1950s but returned to England when Bellman was 11. Bellman went to school at Rosh Pinah Primary School and Jfs.

In an exclusive interview with uInterview, Bellman revealed how she got started with acting.

“Well for me it was more of a cultural thing,” she explained. “I was born and raised in New Zealand and when I came to the UK I had a different accent. So I started having lessons and my teacher was a really inspirational teacher. She used to give us little bits of plays to recite and I just got the bug really really young. Then when I was...

Noah Wyle is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in ER, The Librarian franchise and Leverage: Redemption.

Noah Wyle Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education

Noah Wyle was born on June 4, 1971 (Noah Wyle: Age 51), in Hollywood, California to Marjorie and Stephen Wyle. Wyle is the middle child of two siblings.

Wyle graduated from The Thacher School in Ojai, California in 1989.

In an exclusive interview with uInterview, Wyle discussed how he got started acting.

“I had auditioned for a play my sophomore year in high school kind of on a lark,” Wyle revealed. “I went to the audition to make fun of the actors who were auditioning. This other kid got the part and I thought, ‘great.’ And then that kid started failing at school so he couldn’t do the extracurriculars so they gave the part to me. And I really didn’t want to do...

Jonathan Frakes has always seen "Star Trek" as an action/adventure franchise, as he once admitted during a behind-the-scenes interview for "Star Trek: First Contact," which he directed. As the man who played Cmdr. William Riker on seven seasons of "Star Trek: The Next Generation," it makes logical sense that he would see things that way. Riker was a man of action, always in charge of away missions, and a jocular cowboy when in command. This persona would be played with to great effect decades later on "Star Trek: Lower Decks," wherein Riker was finally depicted working as a starship captain — a long-sought position — and laughing heartily as he plunged his crew into danger.

As an actor, Frakes began his career in the late 1970s, appearing on the soap opera "The Doctors." As a director, Frakes started working on episodes of NextGen during its third season, helming the episode "The Offspring.

If you want to attract a younger audience, you have to watch what they watch. Not what you think they are watching, says producer Dean Devlin, best known for “Independence Day” and “Stargate.” But he never designs his shows for one market.

“It’s no longer all about gender or age demographic. If you go to a sci-fi convention, they are not just kids, they are not just older people. It’s everybody!”

At Berlinale Series Market Selects, which runs as part of the European Film Market in Berlin, with his latest show, sci-fi series “The Ark,” Devlin continues to pay homage to the kind of stories he loved as a child, from Douglas Trumbull’s “Silent Running” to “The Omega Man.”

“I don’t pay any attention to trends. When we did ‘Stargate,’ every studio in Hollywood said that science fiction was dead. And then we had a hit,...

Paring down on some of your streaming services to save money? You don’t have to give up on entertaining TV shows. Free ad-supported streaming TV is on the rise, with services such as Pluto, Tubi, and the Roku Channel offering a mix of familiar favorites and original programming. There’s also Amazon Freevee, which is home to a small mix of shows such Bosch: Legacy and Leverage: Redemption. Here’s a roundup of five shows you can stream on Freevee.

‘Bosch: Legacy’ is a spinoff of Prime Video’s ‘Bosch’ Mimi Rogers and Titus Welliver in ‘Bosch: Legacy’ | Tyler Golden for Amazon Freevee

Bosch was one of the most popular original series on Prime Video, and many fans were disappointed when it was announced the series about LAPD detective Harry Bosch would end after seven seasons. Fortunately, Amazon decided it wasn’t ready to say goodbye to the character played by Titus Welliver.

ABC‘s newest drama series Will Trent revolves around a controversial Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent who isn’t too popular among other law enforcement officers. But the detective that Will Trent clashes with the most is Michael Ormewood, played by Jake McLaughlin.

Jake McLaughlin as Michael Ormewood | ABC/Kim Simms Jake McLaughlin plays Detective Michael Ormewood in ‘Will Trent’ on ABC

The Will Trent series premiere makes it clear that the audience isn’t supposed to like Jake McLaughlin’s Ormewood when they first meet him. He is brash, stubborn, ignorant, and abrasive. Ormewood takes advantage of his power as a detective with the Atlanta Police Department and regularly threatens and intimidates suspects and witnesses.

During the pilot, Ormewood doesn’t hold his hatred for Will back. As fans came to find out, Will previously worked on a case that outed numerous crooked cops, and many other officers dislike him for “betraying their own.

The following contains a dialogue spoiler from the Season 2 finale of Leverage: Redemption on Freevee.

TV is having a very meta week so far, with no fewer than three shows working in wink-wink nods to cast member’s previous roles.

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Of all the actors to have appeared on "Star Trek," Jonathan Frakes might be the most prolific director. Throughout the franchise's history, at least since the days of "Star Trek: The Next Generation," actors have often stepped into the director's chair, helming multiple episodes. Frakes, however, managed to find a whole second career in directing, and has, to date, directed 25 episodes of Trek across its various iterations. Frakes also directed 10 episodes of "The Librarians," 13 episodes of "Leverage," and dozens of episodes from other shows. Frakes also broke into making feature films with "Star Trek: First Contact," and "Star Trek: Insurrection," as well as the brightly colored kid adventure films "Clockstoppers" and "Thunderbirds." 

Having worked on both film and television, Frakes may be uniquely qualified to comment on which medium is most appropriate for "Star Trek." It might be worth mentioning that "Star Trek" has always functioned better on the small screen than the large.

The fourth and final season of Snowpiercer, TNT’s sole surviving original series, won’t air on the cabler after all.

The news come barely a week after Warner Bros. Discovery CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels claimed “we’re done with that chapter” in which numerous shows under the company umbrella were cancelled, scrapped, un-renewed or unceremoniously removed from HBO Max.

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Agatha: Coven of Chaos has recruited a familiar face: Debra Jo Rupp, who appeared in multiple episodes of WandaVision, has joined the Disney+/Marvel spinoff series, our sister site Deadline reports.

Agatha: Coven of Chaos will see Kathryn Hahn reprising her WandaVision role as nosy neighbor-turned-evil witch Agatha Harkness. (The role earned Hahn an Emmy nomination last year.) In WandaVision‘s season finale, Agatha lost the battle to absorb Wanda’s magic, and Wanda indefinitely trapped Agatha in her nosy neighbor “Agnes” persona.

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The following contains spoilers from the Dec. 7 episode of Leverage: Redemption (now streaming on Amazon Freevee).

Surprise! Keith David this week popped up on Leverage: Redemption, which has been one of the veteran actor’s favorite shows since Leverage first debuted on TNT. What’s more, David got to play Dad to a main characters: Eliot!

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[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Leverage: Redemption Season 2 Episode 6.] It’s the moment we’d been waiting years for—Hitter Eliot Spencer’s (Christian Kane) reunion with his estranged father on Leverage! It came in the revival, Redemption, and with it came new information about his past. Eliot spoke about and went to see his father in Leverage Season 5’s “The Low Low Price Job”; no one answered when he knocked on the door. Then in Redemption Season 1’s “The Bucket Job,” he once again failed to connect with his dad. But that changes in Season 2. The two reunite as part of the crew’s latest job, and everyone learns that Eliot was adopted — and his father, Billy, is played by Keith David! Like father, like son, Billy also helps people; in this case, he and the crew work to take down a corrupt politician who’s profiting off a fracking rig that’s making...

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about lotsa shows including The White Lotus, Willow, Titans and Criminal Minds: Evolution!

1 | Does The White Lotus‘ in-house escort Lucia seriously not have a Venmo account? (Or a Europe-compatible equivalent?) And did Daphne accidentally showing Harper a picture of her blonde, blue-eyed kid after gushing about her blonde, blue-eyed trainer get you thinking said kid might not actually be Cameron’s?

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Leverage: Redemption is back for Season 2. The show follows the Leverage crew made up of the Grifter, the Hitter, the Thief and the Hacker, as they seek to make the world a better place by leveling the playing field with some unorthodox means.

Noah Wyle, who plays Harry Wilson, recently sat with uInterview founder Erik Meers to discuss why he believes the show resonates with audiences today.

“I think tastes are cyclical and when Leverage was popular the first time, the climate was ripe for a show about Robin Hoods who were helping little guys who were being crushed by big guys,” Wyle said. “Tastes change and you don’t want your heroes to necessarily always be wearing a white hat. You don’t necessarily want all your heroes wearing a black hat. We started getting a lot of black-hatted good guys. We started getting a lot of white-hatted bad guys for awhile.

A television adaptation of James Patterson’s “Alex Cross” series has been ordered at Amazon Prime Video, the streamer announced today.

Titled “Cross,” the series follows Alex Cross, a detective and forensic psychologist reeling from the murder of his wife, as he takes on cases while juggling his relationship with his children. Aldis Hodge will star in the series as Cross, in addition to producing. The news broke on the same day word came out that Showtime canceled his drama series “City on a Hill,” co-starring Kevin Bacon, after three seasons. The “City on a Hill” cancellation actually predated the “Cross” news by a few months, a person with knowledge of the cancellation decision told IndieWire, but Showtime had been able to keep it under wraps until now.

The series is created and showrun by Ben Watkins, whose prior credits include creating the Amazon legal drama “Hand of God” and...

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A long-gestating series based on James Patterson’s Alex Cross novels is officially moving forward at Amazon’s Prime Video.

The streamer has given a series order to Cross, with Aldis Hodge (Black Adam, Showtime’s City on a Hill) playing the title role. Ben Watkins (Apple’s Truth Be Told, Prime Video’s Hand of God) will serve as showrunner on the series from Paramount Television Studios and Skydance Television.

“James Patterson is among the best at captivating audiences with his undeniably enthralling novels, and we are confident that with Ben Watkins’ artistic vision, Cross will do the same for our global customers,” said Vernon Sanders, head of global television at Amazon Studios. “We are proud to work with James and Ben alongside Paramount Television, Skydance, and the extremely talented Aldis Hodge, who we know will do an exceptional job of bringing Alex Cross to life.

A scene from the Japanese crime thriller series Kinpika. Courtesy of Mhz Choice

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