Benedict Cumerbatch and Martin Freeman
Good things come to those who wait?
BBC has pushed back the production of Sherlock three months, which means fans of the series on this side of the pond may have to wait until 2014 for the third season, Entertainment Weekly reports.
Production was moved from January to March to accommodate the busy schedules of...
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Dennis Quaid
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Question: I was wondering whether your affection for Last Resort had waned since the pilot. I've seen comments that the show has been uneven, but I've been absolutely hooked. I'm not trying to play the comparison game with some of Shawn Ryan's other excellent series (The Shield, Terriers) because maybe it isn't quite up to that incredible level, but I still think it's the best new show of the season
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Daisy Betts
On a night that's hardly starved for appealing programming, two of the season's most enjoyable and intriguing pilots make their bow.
First, the underdog: ABC's Last Resort (8/7c), an electrifying military-gone-amok thriller that bridges the macho hardware of Tom Clancy with the suspense of paranoid Cold War classics from the '60s like Fail Safe and Seven Days in May. (Look them up if you've never seen them.) This series is like nothing else on network TV, which is why one's first impulse is to pray for its survival. It's also airing in what has become one of ABC's more treacherous time periods, and beyond the fact that there are very attractive people in the cast (starting with Felicity alum Scott Speedman) and the story is heavily serialized, it has nearly nothing in common tonally with the night's sudsy anchor, Grey's Anatomy.
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Bryan Cranston
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Question: I've seen a lot of debate in the last week since Breaking Bad aired its midpoint finale of this terrific split final season. Much of it focusing on whether Walter White would be obtuse enough to leave Gale's signed copy of Leaves of Grass lying around for anyone ...
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Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch has denied criticizing Jonny Lee Miller for his new role on CBS' Elementary.
"I am both bemused and upset at this misquote," the Sherlock star explained in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. "I never said that Johnny took the job for the paycheck nor did I ask him not to do it. What I said is I would have preferred not to be in the situation where we will again be compared because we are friends. I know for a fact his motivations were to do with the quality of the script and the challenges of this exceptional role."
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Benedict Cumberbatch, Jonny Lee Miller
Elementary has yet to premiere on CBS but it already sounds like one person won't be watching the Sherlock Holmes remake: Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch.
In an interview with Shortlist, Cumberbatch, 36, said he is "a...
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Lucy Liu and Jonny Lee Miller
CBS rarely stirs the prime-time pot. It doesn't need to. Monkeying around is for other, more desperate networks — a point CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler underscored when she took the stage Sunday for CBS' presentations at the annual TCA press tour carrying a large stuffed monkey. A not-so-subtle slap at NBC for having brought along an actual monkey — the breakout scene-stealer of its silly new sitcom Animal Practice — to pose with and otherwise try to distract the press from the peacock's dismal new lineup of shows.
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Elementary
More than a century after Arthur Conan Doyle published the first Sherlock Holmes novel in 1887, the detective lives on with a film franchise starring Robert Downey Jr., a PBS series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and now Elementary, CBS' modern retelling of the crime-solving legend.
Comic-Con: Can CBS' Elementary and BBC's Sherlock co-exist?
Elementary presents a Sherlock (Eli Stone's Jonny Lee Miller) who is a recovering addict and consultant for the NYPD. His distaff Watson (Lucy Liu) is a former surgeon who becomes Sherlock's "sober companion."
Miller...
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Hugh Bonneville
It's awfully early for the summer TCA press tour — which began over the weekend, and continues through next week — to have peaked. It's even more rare for an entity like PBS to steal the bigger, richer, more hype-heavy broadcast networks' thunder.
But it's hard to imagine any single event, or show, generating a more enthusiastic, jubilant vibe during the annual gathering of the Television Critics Association than the opening night party in honor of Downton Abbey, perfectly timed to celebrate the period drama's astounding 16 Emmy nominations.
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Jon Hamm, Connie Britton
Mad Men and American Horror Story topped the Primetime Emmy Awards nominations Thursday with 17 each, while a slew of freshmen faces enter the field.
Mad Men will aim for an unprecedented five-peat in Best Drama Series, which would also give it the most wins in the category. It is up against Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones and Homeland.
Downton and miniseries Hatfields & McCoys followed ...
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