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Detective Gordon tries to keep the peace at a time before Batman in new show ‘Gotham’

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By Sam Bathe on 6 May 2014

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Set in Batman’s Gotham City but before the time of the iconic hero, FOX’s new show, Gotham, picks up around the time a young Bruce Wayne’s parents are killed. A prequel to Waynes’s life as Batman in the city, the show follows a Detective James Morgan (Ben McKenzie) as he finds his feet in the city about to be preyed upon by some of the franchise’s deadliest villains. Teasing the beginnings of the Riddler, the Penguin, Catwoman and Poison Ivy, their younger selves are set to run riot in Gotham City as Gordon struggles to resolve the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne. Creator Bruno Heller made his name with HBO’s Rome and The Mentalist on CBS so there is certainly pedigree behind the show, and obvious a ready-made Batman-hungry audience. Gotham will premiere on FOX this fall.

Damon Lindelof returns to TV with mystery series ‘The Leftovers’ on HBO

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By Sam Bathe on 30 Apr 2014

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After some time working in film, Damon Lindelof is coming back to the format where he made his name. Following a society struggling in the aftermath of what may or may not have been the Rapture, the small town is shaken up further by the arrival of a number of mysterious figures dressed only in white. Starring Justin Theroux, Liv Tyler, Christopher Eccleston and Amy Brenneman, Peter Berg directs the pilot when The Leftovers premieres on HBO on June 29th.

“Sadly it’s starting to feel like home” in the new season of ‘Orange is the New Black’

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By Sam Bathe on 14 Apr 2014

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Netflix’s breakthrough original series Orange is the New Black is black for a new season, and while Piper Chapman might be settling into her new life in prison, don’t expect the action to calm down. With a new inmate arriving to shake everything up and inmate Daya and prison guard John Bennett’s relationship getting ever more complicated, season two should kick into breakneck speed from the get go. The second season of Orange is the New Black premieres June 6th on Netflix.

Martin Freeman channels his best southern Minnesotan accent in the TV reboot of ‘Fargo’

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By Sam Bathe on 19 Mar 2014

Following in the footsteps of Joel and Ethan Coen’s classic black comedy crime thriller, FX’s Fargo is a small screen reboot rather than a direct remake of the lauded movie. Starring Martin Freeman in the William H. Macy role, the cast is filled out with stellar talent, although it’ll have to go some to even match the Coen picture. Adam Bernstein directed the first episode, and while it does feel a bit unnecessary, Fargo at least deserves a chance when it debuts April 15th on FX.

Mike Judge riffs on the tech industry with new HBO comedy ‘Silicon Valley’

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By Sam Bathe on 11 Mar 2014

It’s surprising a TV series riffing the tech industry has taken this long, but from the mind of Mike Judge (Office Space, Beavis and Butt-head), perhaps it was a good idea to wait for this show. Thomas Middleditch, T. J. Miller, Zach Woods, Kumail Nanjiani and Martin Starr play socially awkward software engineers, hoping to be the next big thing in the tech business. Silicon Valley looks smart and savvy and premieres April 6th on HBO.

Emily Mortimer teams up with HBO again for new comedy ‘Doll & Em’

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By Sam Bathe on 26 Feb 2014

After her great success on The Newsroom, Emily Mortimer is teaming back up with HBO for new comedy series, Doll & Em. About a British Hollywood star, Em hires her childhood friend to be her personal assistant while she’s shooting a new film in LA. The series, created by its two stars, Mortimer and The Mighty Boosh’s Dolly Wells, was originally commissioned for Sky Living but later acquired by HBO, and premieres March 19th.

Westeros gets mad and gets even in the trailer for season four of HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’

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By Sam Bathe on 17 Feb 2014

In a new trailer ominously titled Vengeance, season four of HBO’s popular medieval fantasy Game of Thrones looks like it somehow manage to top the body count of season three’s bloody climax. Opening with Arya Stark compiling a list of people she’s going to kill, bloodlust is something of a theme while you can expect more than a clutch of new characters too. Season four of Game of Thrones premieres April 6th on HBO.

Robert Rodriguez brings his vampire tale ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ to the small screen

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By Sam Bathe on 31 Jan 2014

Adapting his 1996 vampire movie into a TV show, by the looks of things Robert Rodriguez‘s From Dusk Till Dawn is going to be just as breakneck on the small screen. D.J. Cotrona (Dear John, G.I. Joe: Retaliation) and Zane Holtz (Holes, The Perks of Being a Wallflower) play two fugitives on the run who hide out at a seedy strip club after kidnapping a family. Only the strip club is crawling with vampires. It’s the same plot as the movie but with a whole season ahead, you can expect Rodriguez to flesh out the characters. From Dusk Till Dawn premieres March 11th on the El Ray Network.

The clouds are ominously cast in the teaser for Guillermo del Toro’s TV chiller ‘The Strain’

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By Sam Bathe on 22 Jan 2014

Most new shows have a certain degree of pedigree to them before they hit the screen, it’s how they make it there in the first place, but the talent behind The Strain will have even the naysayers excited. Created by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, the show is based on their novel trilogy of the same name and follows epidemiologist Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll) and his team. Sent in to investigate a mysterious plane at JFK sitting motionless on the runway with their lights off and the doors sealed, they find 200 corpses on board and just four survivors. But when the bodies begin disappearing from morgues, Goodweather and a small group of helpers find themselves in the middle of a much bigger situation. Del Toro will himself direct the pilot while you’ll know showrunner Carlton Cuse from his time on LOST. The Strain premieres July 2014 on FX.

The Ramapo Mountain Indian community takes centre stage again in Sundance Channel’s new series ‘The Red Road’

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By Sam Bathe on 10 Jan 2014

The Sundance Channel follow up their great success on Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake with new six-episode series The Red Road. James Gray directs the first episode with Martin Henderson, Jason Momoa, Julianne Nicholson and Tom Sizemore in the lead roles as the show follows a sheriff struggling to keep his family together while simultaneously policing two clashing communities: the small town where he grew up and the neighboring Ramapo Mountains, home of the Ramapo Mountain Indians. Hopefully the local community take to it a little more than they did with the Scott Cooper film, Out of the Furnace. The Red Road premieres February 27th.

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