William Fichtner

Birth Name:

William Edward Fichtner

Birth Place:

Mitchel Air Force Base, Long Island, New York, United States

Profession

Actor, Producer, Director, Writer, Soundtrack

Talamasca: The Secret Order Review: AMC's Interview with the Vampire Spin-Off Is Disappointingly Dull

The spy drama set in the network's Anne Rice universe struggles to find its feet

Fri, Oct 17, 2025

Talamasca: The Secret Order Review: AMC's Interview with the Vampire Spin-Off Is Disappointingly Dull

CBS Comedy Mom Wraps Series with Celebrations and Tears

And Allison Janney delivers yet another pitch-perfect performance

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Ask Matt: RIP Bunheads and The Glades, Plus Downton, Fall TV Promos and More

Send questions and comments to askmatt@tvguidemagazine.com and follow me on Twitter! Question: Recently, Amy Sherman-Palladino gathered some of the cast to film a goodbye dance to the much-beloved ABC Family series Bunheads. I admit it, watching it made me a little misty. I wish more creators respected their fans and casts enough to provide such closure. Do you think such series codas will, or should, become more common? Also, do you think they are a good or bad thing for fans and show runners? Meaning: Does it just prolong the fans' agony of letting a favorite show go by keeping them hoping for one more taste and, on the creative side, label creators as undesirable to work with if they're unable to let their failed ideas go, potentially preventing them from getting future projects produced because no one just wants a copy of something that didn't work elsewhere?

Tue, Sep 3, 2013

Ask Matt: RIP Bunheads and The Glades, Plus Downton, Fall TV Promos and More

Ask Matt: Under the Dome and Summer TV, Burn Notice, True Blood, Emmy Noms and More

Send questions and comments to askmatt@tvguidemagazine.com and follow me on Twitter! Question: I, like many others, read the novel Under the Dome and was sorely disappointed with the ending. I read an article about changes that are coming to the TV version. I was glad about that and am now going to give it a try. But I also read that it may become a series instead of a 13-episode miniseries. Is that true? I'd much rather this be a miniseries as opposed to a series lasting multiple seasons. The story doesn't really lend itself well to playing out over several years. Do you know if it will continue past 13 episodes? — Beth

Mon, Jul 1, 2013

Ask Matt: Under the Dome and Summer TV, Burn Notice, True Blood, Emmy Noms and More

The Weekend Playlist: Maids, Discovery Gets Naked, ABC's Whodunnit?

It's so hard finding good shows about help these days.PBS' hit Brit import Downton Abbey, which humanizes the servants and nobility with equal sensitivity and wit, is an exception. In the second cable series within a month depicting the class divide between the unhappy rich and the equally conflicted domestics who tidy their fabulous homes if not their messy lives, both extremes of the economic scale are patronized with cartoonish levels of camp and melodrama.If you liked Marc Cherry's Desperate Housewives, then you're pretty much already seen Lifetime's Devious Maids — what's next, Dangerous Masseuses? The characters and situations may be different, but creator/executive producer Cherry's signature tone of arch cattiness leavened with sentimental schmaltz is unmistakable...

Fri, Jun 21, 2013