Rupert Penry-Jones

Birth Name:

Rupert William Penry-Jones

Birth Place:

London, England

Profession

Actor

Roush Review: Return to Whitechapel

London's grisly past informs the bloody present in a new season of BBC America's creepy Whitechapel (Wednesdays, 10/9c), telling its ghoulish crime stories in gripping two-week increments. Gone are the obvious copycats aping the infamous exploits of such legendary fiends as Jack the Ripper and the Kray brothers. Turns out the new breed of bogeymen can be just about as mystifying and terrifying, if not as memorable.

Wed, Mar 28, 2012

Critic's Guide to Wednesday TV: The SNL Comedy Invasion, A New Whitechapel Case, and More!

Lost in all this week's understandable hubbub over NBC putting Community on midseason hiatus — and no, I'm not happy about it, either — was the welcome news that NBC is at least doing the right thing by its freshman sleeper comedy Up All Night and moving it to Thursdays come January, swapping time periods with Whitney. (What took them so long?) On this week's new episode (8/7c), yet another Saturday Night Live alum makes a guest appearance:

Wed, Nov 16, 2011

Critic's Guide to Wednesday TV: The SNL Comedy Invasion, A New Whitechapel Case, and More!

Matt's Guide to Wednesday TV: Halloween Hilarity and Horror, South Park and More!

If you can spot the vampire reference in the line "Let the right ones in, buddy" — from tonight's enjoyably spoofy episode of USA Network's Psych (10/9c) — then you're in for a real treat, as Halloween is played for laughs (more often than not on purpose) on a variety of tonight's shows.The cleverest might be Psych's guest star-studded comic mystery (titled "This Episode Sucks"), in which a body drained of blood leads Shawn and Gus to deduce a vampire is on the loose. Could said fiend be the new mystery lady in Lassiter's life? She's played by original-movie Buffy Kristy Swanson, so anything's possible. Also making ...

Wed, Oct 26, 2011

Matt's Guide to Wednesday TV: Halloween Hilarity and Horror, South Park and More!

Fall TV: Christian Slater in Talks to Front Bruckheimer Drama

Film vet Christian Slater, who last fall played a superspy in NBC's short-lived My Own Worst Enemy, is in talks to front ABC's new Jerry Bruckheimer-produced crime drama. In The Forgotten, Slater would fill the lead role of a former cop who heads up a team of amateur detectives. Among the character's baggage is the fact that his 11-year-old daughter was kidnapped three years prior. Review our complete round-up of fall TV news In the original pilot, the lead role was played by ...

Thu, Jul 2, 2009

Fall TV: Christian Slater in Talks to Front Bruckheimer Drama

Fall TV: New NCIS and Other Shows Recast Lead Roles

New shows that looked good enough for a fall pick-up are fine-tuning their casts before going into production. For starters, CSI alum Louise Lombard will not be making the trek to NCIS: Los Angeles, despite having appeared in the two NCIS episodes that served as a backdoor pilot. The spin-off instead will recast its female lead. Similarly, says the Hollywood Reporter, CBS' Three Rivers is on the hunt for ...

Thu, May 28, 2009