Category Archives: Summer TV Press Tour 2010

British-born actor Idris Elba, a standout on “The Wire” as Stringer Bell, returns to cable tonight, starring in the BBC America series about a detective on the edge. Part of his role as Det. John Luther, title character of “Luther,” is exploding into anger. “John doesn’t have a mechanism for containing his anger. So he [...]

For those first night samplers who fear they may never know what “The Event” is all about: Producer Even Katz says “we’re very cognizant of the audience’s patience, of rewarding the audience. I mean, the show’s really designed to answer questions, to satisfy people, to keep them hooked, frankly, but yet keep posing questions.” But [...]

“Broadway Empire,” the biggest new TV show of the season, which starts tonight, began as a suggestion from HBO to a writer who had already spent years writing about New Jersey gangsters. “Toward the end of ‘The Sopranos,’” Terence Winter told writers at the TV Critics Press Tour in Los Angeles last month, “HBO came [...]

Usually, he’s seen in memorable supporting roles with colorful names – two-bit thief Carl Showalter in “Fargo,” Donny Kerabatsos in “The Big Lebowski,” the hapless Seymour in “Ghost World,” Tony Blundetto in “The Sopranos.” Sunday, he gets the biggest role of his career, portraying the Atlantic City kingpin Nucky Thompson in the lavish “Boardwalk Empire” [...]

Jimmy Smits returns to network TV not as President, as he did at the end of “The West Wing,” but as a Supreme Court justice who up and quits. The new “Outlaw,” he told reporters at the TV Critics Press Tour this summer, “was an opportunity to 
deal with legal matters and hot-button issues that are
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