Philip Winchester
As the first season of Cinemax's testosterone-filled original series Strike Back winds down, the action is just heating up. Yesterday, the premium cable channel announced the show will return in 2012 for a second season, and today we bring you an exclusive clip from ...
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Strike Back
They're blowing things up at Cinemax — literally. The channel, a testosterone-dripping younger brother to HBO, is adding the explosive new action series Strike Back in a bid to expand its oft-maligned original programming.
"Cinemax needed to evolve and feel like a premium to subscribers," says HBO miniseries president Kary Antholis, who also oversees shows for Cinemax. "We're trying to grow the brand to a place where it's serving another purpose for people."
But fans of "Skin-emax" will be relieved to hear that Strike Back features all kinds of action — both in the bedroom and on the battlefield. "We looked at...
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Jamie Campbell Bower and Tamsin Egerton
They brought us the wildly carnal and grotesque Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Now the folks at Starz are having a go at King Arthur. Their sprawling new series Camelot — shot in Ireland — is a risqué, politically feverish reboot of Arthurian lore that twists and turns the ...
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Judy Greer, Philip Winchester
Judy Greer, Philip Winchester (Crusoe), Gregory Harrison and Maria Conchita Alonso have joined the cast of the Lifetime miniseries Maneater, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Maneater, based on Gigi Levangie Grazer's novel, stars ...
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Philip Winchester, Crusoe
Philip Winchester, who plays the title character on NBC's Crusoe (Friday, Oct. 17, 8 pm/ET), does a great American accent. That's because he's American — raised in Montana, in fact. But after hearing the British accent he sports to play the shipwrecked adventurer and checking out his plummy resume (including a stint with London's Royal Shakespeare Company), you wouldn't be at fault for thinking otherwise. Winchester regales us with tales of shooting the 13-episode action-fantasy series in South Africa, including the unwelcome arrival of a very big rainstorm, the prickly perils of the jungle and what the heck MacGyver's got to do with any of it.
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Sam Neill by Vera Anderson/ WireImage.com
The Tudors star Sam Neill has joined the cast of NBC's Crusoe, premiering this fall.He'll play Jeremiah Blackthorn, who helps Robinson Crusoe (played by Philip Winchester) build a business empire.Joss Ackland and The Lord of the Rings' Sean Bean have also been added to the cast. — J.R. Whalen
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Capping a season in which half the acting populations of Australia and Great Britain seemed to front U.S. prime-time series, Montana native Philip Winchester has been tapped to star as British adventurer Robinson Crusoe in NBC's new drama series premiering this fall, says the Reporter.Anna Walton will play Robbie's wife back home, Susannah. — MWM
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