Some crime shows pull you in with gunplay and explosions, others with snappy dialogue between bantering buddies. On The Killing, AMC's compelling new mystery, it's the faces that hook you. Whether they're despairing, full of rage, menacing or intensely haunting as in the case of Sarah Linden, played by the superb Mireille Enos — just try to turn away.
With a quiet authority and obsessive dedication to the job, Detective Linden is perhaps the most multilayered and intriguing female cop since Helen Mirren's Jane Tennison on Prime Suspect. The demanding role was exceedingly difficult to cast. "A mild panic had set in about ever finding the right actress," recalls exec producer Veena Sud...
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Now that NBC has assembled the cast of Law & Order: Los Angeles, you might be curious about the team's first case. Series creator Dick Wolf promised he wouldn't shy away from stories based on real Tinseltown scandals, and is following up on that by titling his first episode "Hollywood...
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Melrose Place alum Shaun Sipos has been cast on Life Unexpected, a show spokeswoman confirms.
As first reported by Fancast, the 28-year-old actor will...
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Tuesday's highlights:• Idol's final Season 7 performance show delivered 26.07 million total viewers, a six percent year-over-year increase.• NCIS drew 16.35 mil to its two-hour season-ender, a week-to-week gain of 11 percent and its biggest audience since Nov. 27.• Dancing with the Stars took a final bow before an audience of 19.94 mil, down 17 percent from the Season 5 finale.• Hell's Kitchen hit a new series high of 12.6 mil.• Reaper (2.69 mil) wrapped up its freshman run with a 690K gain.• Shark took its final swim with 10.55 mil viewers, a 350 thou increase.Related:• Matt Roush reflects on Idol, Dancing• Backstage at Dancing: No Hard Feelings!• Cheers & Jeers jabs at Idol's overdone boxing metaphor
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This just in: CBS has renewed TV's funniest traditional sitcom, New Adventures of Old Christine, for a 22-episode fourth season.This is bad news for ABC, which had been aggressively courting Old Christine for months. In fact, I'm told the Alphabet net had a deal in place to pick the show up had CBS passed. In other Eye developments, How I Met Your Mother (lame ep last night, huh?) and The Unit have both officially been renewed, while Shark and Moonlight (don't shoot the messenger!) have been axed. For more on Moonlight's demise, click here. Bookmark our FALL TV GRID | Review All of Our FALL TV NEWS
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