NEVERLAND - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Syfy's 'Neverland': Peter Learns the Lay of the Land (Exclusive Video)
The two-part miniseries starring Rhys Ifans and Bob Hoskins premieres Sunday.
... In a clip exclusive to The Hollywood Reporter, check out the references to Captain Hook and the Lost Boys, see a swarm of Tinker Bells and watch as a young Peter (Charlie Rowe) and his pal Fox (Lorn Macdonald) are transported to the mysterious world of Neverland.
Cast includes Rhys Ifans as James Hook, Anna Friel as Captain Elizabeth Bonny, Charles Dance, Q'orianka Kilcher, Charlie Rowe as Peter Pan, Bob Hoskins, Keira Knightley (the voice of Tinker Bell) and Raoul Trujillo. Written and directed by Nick Willing ("Tin Man," and "Alice").
BONES - FOX VIDEO: 'The Male In The Mail' Sneak Peek # 1 - Airs Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 9/8C
Don't miss an all-new episode of BONES THU at 9/8c on FOX!
Human remains found in mail at a dead-letter office are linked to a local business-service retail center, where a group of employees are recent lottery winners. Meanwhile, Booth gets surprising news from his grandfather (Ralph Waite); and Special Agent Genny Shaw (Tina Majorino) learns a lesson in teamwork.
Guest stars include Wayne Wilderson, Chris Tallman, Ellis E. Williams, Eugene Byrd, Tina Majorino, Ralph Waite, Ben Savage and Allan Wasserman.
TORCHWOOD - BBC AMERICA VIDEO: Schedule Saturday, December 10, 2011
Cast includes John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Burn Gorman, Naoko Mori, Gareth David-Lloyd and Kai Owen.
01:20 AM Reset
Torchwood learns about the Reset capabilities of Marie.
Captain Jack calls in Martha Jones to investigate mysterious deaths. When the trail leads to a sinister medical testing center she must go undercover. But have Torchwood underestimated how far the center will go to find medical breakthroughs?
Guest cast includes Freema Agyeman, Alan Dale, Jacqui Boatswain, Jan Anderson, Rhodri Wyn Miles and Michael Sewell.
02:20 AM Dead Man Walking
Captain Jack finds another glove he can use to bring Owen back to life.
Deep in shock, the Torchwood team faces their darkest hour. In an effort to put things right, Captain Jack unleashes a primal force that uses Torchwood as a conduit to wreck havoc across Earth.
Guest cast includes Freema Agyeman, Skye Bennett, Paul Kasey, Joanna Griffiths and Ben Walker.
HAVEN - SYFY VIDEO FEATURETTE: 'Can We Please Get to Our Christmas Story?' Promo - 'Silent Night' Airs Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 10/9C
Haven returns for a Holiday Episode Tuesday Dec. 6 at 10/9c.
Audrey Parker (Emily Rose) begins seeing Christmas decorations mysteriously popping up all over Haven in the middle of July yet nobody else, including Nathan (Lucas Bryant), seem to feel anything is unusual. Yet, when Haven residents start disappearing into thin air, Audrey convinces Nathan they must find a way to stop it.
NEVERLAND - SYFY VIDEO: 'Where Am I?' Promo - Premieres Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 9/8C
Hidden Worlds. Everlasting Life. Endless Wonders. One Place. The Syfy Original 2-night mini-series event December 4-5 at 9/8c.
A gang of young pickpockets snatches a magical orb that transports them into a fantastical realm in the debut of the miniseries set before Peter Pan met Wendy and Hook became a captain.
Cast includes Rhys Ifans as James Hook, Anna Friel as Captain Elizabeth Bonny, Charles Dance, Q'orianka Kilcher, Charlie Rowe as Peter Pan, Bob Hoskins, Keira Knightley (the voice of Tinker Bell) and Raoul Trujillo. Written and directed by Nick Willing ("Tin Man," and "Alice").
THE MORTON REPORT: An Interview with Actor Richard Schiff
The former West Wing star and Emmy winner talks about his role in the TNT original movie Innocent, and his years as an "actor's actor."
By Mindy Peterman
November 28, 2011
Richard Schiff’s role as White House Communications Director Toby Ziegler on The West Wing won him an Emmy and a multitude of accolades from critics and viewers alike. However, as an "actor’s actor," Schiff is much more than this iconic role. He has co-starred in over 50 feature films, performed on stage on Broadway and London’s West End, and continues to work in television. He can be seen this January in the new Showtime series, House of Lies, co-starring Don Cheadle and Kristen Bell, where he plays a bad Wall Street consultant. Schiff calls the role "one of the must fun experiences I ever had."
He also stars in TNT’s original movie Innocent, based on the novel by Scott Turow. Although somewhat weary from his flight home from Israel the day before, Schiff was kind enough to chat with me about his projects, past and present...
... Q: You’ll be co-starring in the TNT original movie Innocent. Could you talk about the premise of the film and your role in it?
Richard Schiff: "Innocent is adapted from a Scott Turow novel. Scott Turow wrote Presumed Innocent, as well. The movie starred Harrison Ford and Raul Julia. It was a really wonderful film that my friend John Spencer was in. This is the sequel, 20 years later. Same characters. I play a lawyer named Tommy Molto who had tried Rusty Sabich for murdering a colleague 20 years earlier and now Rusty is the judge, so we have a relationship. Rusty is presumed to be a suspect in his wife’s murder. My character reluctantly has to press charges and bring him to trial. That’s the backstory of it.
Scott Turow is a wonderful novelist. He was on the set and I got to know him quite a bit. Really talented writer. Mike Robe, who directed and adapted the novel, has worked with Scott on numerous other projects and did an incredible job adapting this to the screen, highlighting some of the pungent writing that Scott brings to his books.
I had a great time working with great actors like Bill Pullman and Alfred Molina, Marcia Gay Harden. So I was thrilled to take it and had a fantastic time shooting it up in Vancouver..."
Innocent airs Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 9/8C on TNT.
Source: Collider [follow link for complete interview]
COLLIDER: Christopher Heyerdahl Talks HELL ON WHEELS and THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1
by Christina Radish
November 28th, 2011
On the AMC Western drama Hell on Wheels, actor Christopher Heyerdahl plays Thor Gundersen, also known as The Swede, who is Thomas Durant’s (Colm Meaney) ruthless head of security. His tactics help him maintain a degree of control over the chaotic traveling town, but he abuses his power to extort money from its residents.
During this recent exclusive phone interview with Collider, Christopher Heyerdahl talked about how he came to be a part of Hell on Wheels, what he enjoys about playing such a complex and complicated character as The Swede, that he’s developed the character through extensive research both in books and in his own Norwegian heritage, and the challenge of shooting the Western concurrently with his SyFy series Sanctuary. He also talked about playing the ancient Volturi vampire Marcus in the Twilight Saga films, the deleted scene from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 that he hopes will end up on the DVD, what audiences can look forward to with Breaking Dawn – Part 2, and what it’s been like to have the support of genre fans...
... Collider: When you’re doing a role on a show where it’s obviously a real period of time, what sort of research do you do, into the time period? Did you draw from your own heritage, as well as look at what books are available about it?
HEYERDAHL: "Yeah. There are a number of books, just on that specific time period because it was such a huge part of American history. There are a number of books that were passed around, and that the Gaytons and the rest of the creative team had been looking at, as a guide to follow and move around, as far as the way one does, in telling a story. You try not to let the facts get in the way of good story. That’s the jumping-off point, so those books were being passed around. There’s also a wonderful thing called the interweb, but I tried to stay away from Wikipedia, bless their hearts.
Certainly, for Andersonville, I tried to do as much research as I could, specifically about Norwegians in Andersonville. When I was in Norway, a number of years ago, there was a wonderful show that was being done at the local museums, about the immigration of Scandinavia, about 10 years before the story takes place, when they all started to go to Minnesota. There was a grand exodus from Denmark, Sweden and Norway. There was one gentleman who had gotten control of a whole bunch of land, now known as Minnesota, and that’s why you have so many Scandinavians there. He basically invited everyone to come there and start a new life. There was also just trying to understand the mind-set of someone who would go to a place like that. It’s already quite an adventure to leave your own country and move into a new place today, but imagine when it really was like going to outer space or down into the bottom of the sea, where there’s a new frontier that is terrifying and unexplored.
There were so many things to draw on. I went and talked to my father about times, 70 years ago, when he was growing up. I would ask for stories from his parents, which would go back another 70 years, just to get a feel for the perspective, through some kind of oral history. It was a great experience because how often do you really sit down and talk to your family, or your extended family, about history. That doesn’t happen, everyday..."
MERLIN - SCIFI NOW MAGAZINE: Merlin season 5 secrets
Merlin creators Johnny Capps and Julian Murphy talk Merlin season 5 and beyond
by Jodie Tyley
November 28, 2011
We caught up with Merlin co-creators Johnny Capps and Julian Murphy to discuss the future of Merlin...
SciFi Now Magazine: How will the finale of season 4 affect what happen next series?
JC: "The end of season four promises to be a very, very exciting climax to this series [season] and I think the fans will really enjoy what happens."
JM: "There’s a surprising twist at the end of this series that becomes a big part of series five. It’s fair to say that a character we’ve met before returns, an evil character, and I think people can probably guess who that is..."
Merlin premieres in the US on Friday, January 6, 2012 at 10/9C.
Source: Collider [follow link for complete interview]
COLLIDER: Rhys Ifans and Anna Friel NEVERLAND Interview
by Christina Radish
November 28th, 2011
From writer/director Nick Willing (Alice, Tin Man), Neverland – premiering on SyFy on December 4th and 5th – is an original prequel story to author J.M. Barrie’s classic Peter Pan. In 19th Century London, Peter (Charlie Rowe) and his young pickpocket pals are sent out by their mentor Jimmy Hook (Rhys Ifans) to steal a magical orb, which inadvertently transports them all to another world, called Neverland. This mysterious realm includes the power-mad Elizabeth Bonny (Anna Friel) and her band of 18th Century pirates, trapped and in search of the secret to the tree spirits’ magical mineral dust, in order to have the power to fly. As the fight to protect and save this strange and beautiful world escalates, Peter and his crew must face harsh realities, as they learn that never growing up might be preferable to growing up like the corrupt Hook.
During a recent interview to promote the SyFy debut of Neverland, co-stars Rhys Ifans and Anna Friel talked about how they came to be playing such captivating characters, how thrilling it was to be a part of this new backstory, showing the evolution of the Peter and Hook relationship, and what they enjoy most about working in the fantasy genre...
... Collider: Do you see the relationship between Hook and Peter, with the boy who wants to grow up and the man who doesn’t, as a universal and modern story?
IFANS: "What Hook and Peter are presented with, when they arrive in Neverland, is the prospect of eternal life. In many ways, Hook is a lost boy, but a grown man. It was interesting to explore what the offer of eternal life does to a boy, and what the offer of eternal life does to a man. I think it makes a man greedy because a man is closer to death than a child. Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it."
FRIEL: "No story had ever before explained why Hook despises Peter so much, and what fascinated me with this script is that you get the story before. Why does this man hate this boy so much? In this case, he doesn’t hate him, he’s just very torn. I think it’s a great arrival at the story we all know. That’s what I found most fascinating, and that’s what Nick cleverly did by giving the backstory of the past between them. Nick created that really beautifully..."
INDIANA JONES MOVIE MARATHON - SYFY: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2011
09:00 AM 100 Million BC
Soldiers go back in time to retrieve a team lost during the Philadelphia Experiment, and they inadvertently unleash a carnivorous dinosaur in modern Los Angeles.
Cast includes Michael Gross, Christopher Atkins, Greg Evigan, Marie Westbrook, Phil Burke, Wendy Carter, Geoff Meed and Stephen Blackehart.
11:00 AM Journey To The Center Of The Earth
Researchers become trapped under Earth's surface amid hungry, prehistoric monsters, and it's up to a team of drilling experts to save them.
Cast includes Treat Williams, Jeremy London, Tushka Bergen, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Bryan Brown, Tessa Wells, Petra Yared, Sarah Chadwick and Peter Kaa.
01:00 PM Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Indiana Jones is assigned to find the mystically empowered Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain it for their own evil use.
Cast includes Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliott, Alfred Molina and Wolf Kahler.
03:30 PM Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
Harrison Ford gets help from a feisty heroine (Kate Capshaw) and a sawed-off sidekick (Ke Huy Quan) in this “Raiders” prequel featuring a sacred jewel, a bloodthirsty cult, human sacrifices, runaway mining cars, a chamber of scorpions and a perilous bridge.
Cast includes Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone, Roy Chiao and David Yip.
06:00 PM Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
Fedora and whip at the ready, Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) sets off on his third cinematic outing accompanied by none other than his father, Henry (Sean Connery), to explore the cradle of civilization on a perilous hunt for the Holy Grail. The Nazis are also after the powerful relic, but no one is what they seem in this rousing quest for everlasting life.
Cast includes Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, Julian Glover, River Phoenix, Michael Byrne, Kevork Malikyan, Robert Eddison, Richard Young and Alexei Sayle.
09:00 PM Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) gets a cold war-era update in this fan-friendly pastiche of 1950s preoccupations and paranoia. His mission: rescuing an old friend who has vanished after discovering a strange artifact that could hold the key to world domination. Old friends, including hard-drinking ex-love Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), new enemies like Russian she-wolf Irina Spalko (Cate Blanchett) and spectacular action sequences abound.
Cast includes Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Shia LaBeouf, Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent and Alan Dale.
12:00 AM Mystery Of The Crystal Skulls - Special
Lester Holt hosts this examination of the titular artifacts with analysis of the myths surrounding the skulls, commentary from scientists concerning their composition and coverage of a jungle expedition in Belize.
02:00 AM A Sound Of Thunder
A time-travel expedition to hunt dinosaurs results in a disastrous alteration of history.
Cast includes Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley, Armin Rohde, Heike Makatsch, Jemima Rooper, David Oyelowo, Wilfried Hochholdinger and August Zirner.
04:00 AM Jack Hunter And The Lost Treasure Of Ugarit
The titular fortune hunter journeys to Syria to find what may be a cursed treasure.
Cast includes Ivan Sergei, Warehouse 13's Joanne Kelly, Thure Riefenstein, Susan Ward, Mario Naim Bassil and Mehmet Polat.
NCIS - USA NETWORK Video: Agents of Love Marathon Friday, December 9 and 10, 2011
Tune in Friday, 12/9 at 8/7c for the NCIS, Agents of Love Marathon, only on USA Network!
Cast includes Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, David McCallum, Sean Murray, Cote de Pablo, Brian Dietzen, Sasha Alexander, Rocky Carroll and Lauren Holly.
DECEMBER 9, 2011
08:00 PM LT. JANE DOE
Two seamen (Chris Heuisler, Donnie Jeffcoat) stumble upon the body of a female Navy lieutenant, and, in the absence of an ID, Gibbs' team races to find her identity.
Guest stars include Amy Sloan, Ben Reed, Jack Kehler, David Marciano, Kent Faulcon, Donnie Jeffcoat, Chris Heuisler and Mariela Santos.
09:00 PM HEART BREAK
Gibbs' team is summoned when a Navy commander who had a successful open-heart operation bursts into flames while recovering.
Guest stars include Jessica Steen, Stacy Edwards, Nathan Wetherington, Michael Dempsey, Billy Brown, Tyler Kain, Mary Wickliffe, Ben Ziff and Matthew Ness.
10:00 PM BIKINI WAX
A Navy petty officer is found murdered at a bikini contest in which she planned to participate, and the team suspects a recently released convict (Jon Sklaroff) who had been sending her letters.
Guest stars include Tamara Craig Thomas, Lochlyn Munro, Jon Sklaroff, Lamont Thompson, Larry Cedar, Nathan Anderson, Emma Bates, Teck Holmes and Floyd Van Buskirk.
DECEMBER 10, 2011
05:00 PM EYE SPY
A Naval officer hired by an outside agency to test a product for possible Navy use is murdered, and Gibbs finds that the case is cloaked in secrets and deceptions.
Guest stars include Katy Boyer, Bruce Gray, Marguerite MacIntyre, James Morrison, Victor McCay, Greg Zola, Mercedes Colon, Pancho Demmings, Parry Shen, Patrick Macmanus and John Marrott.
06:00 PM SWAK
Tony opens a letter containing white powder in the squad room, and while he and Kate spend time in biohazard isolation, Gibbs and McGee try to find out who sent it and possibly save the lives of the two agents.
Guest stars include Steven Eckholdt, Mariette Hartley, Bones' Tamara Taylor, Olivia Burnette, Kelsey Oldershaw and Rizwan Manji.
07:00 PM SKELETONS
An exploding crypt reveals an odd mixture of body parts, sending the team on a hunt for a mass murderer who likes to dismember victims. Meanwhile, a crabby Abby deals with disappointment of a personal nature and will only open up to Gibbs.
Guest stars include Susanna Thompson, Stargate SG-1's Corin Nemec, Alexandra Lydon, Brian Markinson, Philip Anthony-Rodriguez, Chris Tardio, Brian Cousins and Erinn Bartlett.
08:00 PM EX-FILE
Gibbs works with Lt. Mann (Susanna Thompson) on the case of a murdered Marine captain, an investigation complicated by the fact that a witness is one of Gibb's ex-wives.
Guest stars include Kathleen York, John Mallory Asher, Lilli Birdsell, Myk Watford, Sanctuary's Robin Dunne and Susanna Thompson.
09:00 PM JUDGEMENT DAY (1)
In the fifth-season finale, the agents are all at risk as they search for a killer who took the life of one of their own.
Guest stars include Muse Watson, Betsy Rue, Oleg Taktarov, Terrence Hardy Jr., Wyatt Smith, Reginald James, Marc Vahanian and Carter Vera.
10:00 PM JUDGEMENT DAY (2)
The action continues as NCIS has to deal with the death of one of their own. It's all connected to an operation Gibbs ran several years ago. Major changes for NCIS when the dust settles.
Guest stars include Muse Watson, Oleg Taktarov, Kathleen Gati, Sheila Frazier, Mike Muscat and Carter Vera.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Tonight's Best TV Tuesday, November 29, 2011
A Daily Guide To Notable Shows
... Scott Turow'sInnocent
9-11 PM TNT
Who poisoned Judge Sabich's wife? His weak son, his angry mistress, a dying defense attorney, an ex-con he jailed, a prosecutor who hates him, or Sabich himself? This absurd sequel to 1990's Presumed Innocent — with Bill Pullman taking over for Harrison Ford as Sabich and Marcia Gay Harden as his wife — is about as gripping as a week of jury duty.
TERRA NOVA - VIDEO: 'Within' Episode Trailer Airs Monday, December 12, 2011 at 8/7C on FOX
Don't miss all-new episodes of TERRA NOVA, MON at 8/7c on FOX!
Lucas (Ashley Zukerman) races to complete his mystery device before the 11th Pilgrimage arrives; Taylor and Jim (Jason O'Mara) confront Terra Nova's "Sixer" mole; Skye (Allison Miller) finds a familiar face; the colony prepares for war.
Guest stars Christine Adams, Simone Kessell, Ashley Zuckerman, Dean Geyer, Damian Walshe-Howling, Emelia Burns, Peter Lamb, Matt Scully, Damien Garvey, Jay Ryan and Caroline Brazier.
MSN TV: Tonight's Picks Tuesday, November 29, 2011
... Scott Turow'sInnocent
9:00 PM, TNT
NBC did it with "Columbo" and company. ABC did it with "B.L. Stryker" and a "Kojak" revival. Hallmark Channel did it with the "Mystery Woman," "McBride" and "Jane Doe" franchises. Now TNT offers its take on the "Mystery Movie" concept with a series of tales based on the works of top authors. Turow's "Presumed Innocent" sequel kicks things off, with Bill Pullman as judge Rusty Sabich, on trial for killing his wife (Marcia Gay Harden).
HAWAII FIVE-0 - CBS VIDEO: 'Pahele' Episode Trailer Airs Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10/9C
McGarrett and the Five-0 search for a busload of kidnapped school children as well as the people responsible.
Guest stars include Terry O’Quinn, Richard T. Jones, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Ian Anthony Dale, Erin Wong, Mike Hipa, Chester Tripp, Aimee Garcia, Christopher Simms, Kalama Epstein, David Lee McInnis, Rick Gomez, Ingo Rademacher and Christina Simpkins.
THE TWILIGHT ZONE (1959) - SYFY: VIEWER'S CHOICE MARATHON POLL - AIRS DECEMBER 31, 2011
Top 40 Countdown Poll
Rod Serling's awesome anthology series unlocked the door to another dimension with the key of imagination, and now it's your turn to step through. Cast your vote for 5-10 of your favorite episodes [AT THE LINK ABOVE] and tune in to the marathon starting December 31 at 9am/8c.
