THE STRAIN: Corey Stoll and Mia Maestro on Nora and Eph’s Scientific Journey
August 2, 2015 by Marisa Roffman
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Nora and Eph may have finally made a breakthrough on THE STRAIN.
As more humans were turned into vampires, Nora and Eph have been working on a bioweapon to fight back. In theory, it’s a simple idea: infect the vampires with a contagious virus which can kill off all the creatures. But to work out the kinks (the virus turning fatal too fast to infect other vampires, etc.), they’ve had to experiment on two recently turned creatures…an ethical grey area.
“Nora and myself are doing very questionable things…in the goal of creating this bioweapon,” Corey Stoll (Eph) pointed out to reporters on the show’s Toronto set. “But we’re definitely not following the Hippocratic Oath. You know, human experimentation and shit like that—it’s pretty ugly.”
Of course, the matter is very personal to Eph: his estranged wife/mother of his son has been turned. And as viewers saw in the last episode, Eph used his subject’s tie to The Master to convey a clear message: he would rather kill his son and himself versus be turned. But Stoll pointed out another emotion might be driving his character to work so hard put an end to the rise of the vampires.
DOWNTON ABBEY Producer on the Show’s End and a Potential Movie
August 2, 2015 by Marisa Roffman
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DOWNTON ABBEY is getting ready to say goodbye.
The ITV/PBS series will launch its final season on January 3, 2016 — just two days after the show is honored with a float at the Rose Parade.
And though fans may be lamenting the upcoming end of the series, the show has lasted longer than anyone planned.
“Well, I have to say it was actually rather than it been curtailed, it was extended,” DOWNTON ABBEY star Hugh Bonneville shared during the show’s Television Critics Association panel. “We were all expecting to finish after [season] 5. And it was [creator] Julian [Fellowes] who said to us that he felt…it would be a bit truncated trying to bring it into land over in that fifth series, and so he asked if we’d he wanted to do another nine episodes to make the stories all land in a more appropriate way.”
SHERLOCK: Steven Moffat Teases the Upcoming Special
August 1, 2015 by Marisa Roffman
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There’s more SHERLOCK on tap: in addition to the special that will be airing soon(ish), three more episodes will go into production next spring for “season 4.”
The season 4 hours will consist of the show in its normal setting, but as has been previously reported, the one-off special will be set in the Victorian era.
“We just thought could we ever just do maybe one scene or some dream sequel or something?” SHERLOCK executive producer Steven Moffat recalled during the show’s Television Critics Association panel. “And then we just thought, you know, why don’t we just do it? Why don’t we just do a Victorian one? We never bothered to explain what we were doing in modern day London. So why do we have to bother explaining what they’re doing in Victorian London, when that’s where they’re supposed to be? So…can we increase our normal massive run of three episodes to a record breaking four, and do the special, which is separate from the rest of the series, and done in the correct period? So, you know, it’s a mistake we’ve been a long time rectified. What can I tell you?”
The out-of-time episode is also key to the kind of story the show will be able to tell for the special.
ASH VS EVIL DEAD: Bruce Campbell, Lucy Lawless, and Sam Raimi Preview the New Starz Series
August 1, 2015 by Marisa Roffman
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ASH VS EVIL DEAD is coming to Starz this fall, and though the show will reunite THE EVIL DEAD star Bruce Campbell (Ash) and director Sam Raimi, they are very aware being able to step back into these roles is due to the fans of the franchise.
“The fans have driven all this,” Campbell told reporters during the show’s Television Critics Association panel. “The fans are responsible for every single bit of this. They’ve been relentless for years. The last EVIL DEAD movie was 24 years ago, 1991 — we shot ARMY OF DARKNESS. They haven’t shut up since. So no matter what we say to them or what we give them, it will never be enough, and we’re very grateful for that.”
The EVIL DEAD franchise had a 2013 film reboot (starring SUBURGATORY’s Jane Levy), but when it came time to carry on Ash’s story, finding the right partner was key.
