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AMC’s Owners Manual season finale: Check out exclusive photos!

We’ve watched them pilot stunt planes and a sail pirate ship,  brew some beer and assemble a train, drive like maniacs and down some trees. Having lived to tell the tale through all of it, Marcus Hunt and Ed Sanders, stars of AMC’s Owners Manual head into tonight’s season finale with a bang … and a coaster. Those of you considering ditching your 9-to-5, desk jockey day job and running away with the carnival will especially want to tune  in to the two-part finale’s first episode, in which instructional-material devotee Hunt and freestyler Sanders sign on with California’s Christiansen Amusements […]

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Better Call Saul: Breaking Bad spinoff confirmed by AMC

It’s a go — Saul’s got his own show! AMC confirmed today that they have reached a licensing agreement for an hourlong Breaking Bad spinoff series with the working title “Better Call Saul.” But if you think that guarantees that Saul survives whatever’s about to shake out in Breaking Bad‘s final three episodes, well, not so fast. According to the statement: “Plans call for Saul to be a one-hour prequel that will focus on the evolution of the popular Saul Goodman character before he ever became Walter White’s lawyer.” “Knowing Vince and how seriously he takes the show, he will kill Saul […]

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Owner’s Manual: AMC’s new reality series is a blast — literally

Directionally Challenged: Comic cohorts Ed Sanders and Marcus Hunt follow the instructions — or don’t — in one seriously adventurous Owner’s Manual on AMC. In my house, we have an entire drawer filled with instruction manuals for every single object that has crossed the threshold since we moved in. Probably many things that have since crossed back out, as well. My husband is as wedded to these booklets as he is to me, but I just can’t be bothered. Recognizing the universal nature of this “to read or not to read” conundrum, AMC created the new unscripted series Owner’s Manual, […]

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“Baby Sellers”: Lifetime movie shines a light on child trafficking

Just as it did back in 2005 with the miniseries Human Trafficking, Lifetime is again shining the light on one of the more troubling human-rights issues of our time. Baby Sellers — also produced by Robert Halmi Sr. — follows the hunt to take down an international child-trafficking ring in which newborns are bought or stolen from disadvantaged parents and given to adoptive parents who often have no idea what had to happen for them to get those children. Kirstie Alley plays the head of the U.S.-based adoption agency that seems very innocent and law-abiding, but is in fact brutally ruthless […]

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FOX Sports 1 shakes up the sports TV landscape Aug. 17

On Saturday, Aug. 17, at 8am ET, SPEED will become FOX Sports 1, a new national sports network featuring live college football, auto racing, UFC, soccer, news shows and more. On the same day, FUEL will become FOX Sports 2. If you’ve watched even a few minutes of sports on FOX or any of its regional sports networks, you’ve no doubt heard the hype about FOX Sports 1. On Aug. 17, SPEED will become FOX Sports 1, a new national general sports network available in close to 90 million homes*. With new sports networks cropping up everywhere, it’s easy to […]

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AMC’s ‘Low Winter Sun’ pits cop against cop in a gritty psychological puzzle

For fans of AMC’s addictive brand of “welcome to the dark side” storytelling, the network’s new drama Low Winter Sun has a dead-serious role to fill. The atmospheric character study, starring Mark Strong (Zero Dark Thirty) and Lennie James (The Walking Dead) as Detroit cops bound together by murder, must ease us out of the final episodes of Breaking Bad and into a new season of The Walking Dead without letting us get too bereft about the former or too impatient for the latter. And, says James, who plays Sun’s seminary student turned morally ambiguous cop Joe Geddes, it’s just […]

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Bob Odenkirk on ‘Breaking Bad’ and a possible Saul Goodman spin-off

Yes, Bob Odenkirk knows you’ve heard the buzz about Better Call Saul, the rumored Breaking Bad spinoff featuring his fan-favorite character, morally flexible, courtroom-averse lawyer Saul Goodman. But if you think those rumors gave Odenkirk an ounce of security that Saul survives the wrath of Walter White in Bad’s Sept. 29 series finale, you’d be, well, dead wrong. “Knowing [showrunner] Vince [Gilligan] and how seriously he takes the show, he will kill Saul if that is what should happen — so you should know that!” says Odenkirk. “He would not hesitate to do that because there is a gossipy story […]

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Strike Back Season 3: Date, time, TV channel, preview and more!

Strike Back Season 3 Fridays, beginning Aug. 9 Cinemax, 10pm How often do your vacations get interrupted by a government helicopter that unexpectedly lands in the middle of a highway to whisk you away to one of the world’s most dangerous places? Probably not often, but would you expect anything less  from the opening moments of Strike Back Season 3? It’s just another day in the life of Michael Stonebridge (Philip Winchester) and Damien Scott (Sullivan Stapleton), the stars of Cinemax’s brazen series, which offers an irresistible mix of top-quality action sequences with Skinemax-friendly T&A. Strike Back has won a devoted […]

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“Psychic Tia”: A&E’s latest reality series brings a Jersey feel to the spirit world

Tia Belle (a.k.a. Psychic Tia) likes to tell people that her job involves playing “charades with the dead.” But it’s far from just being fun and games for the New Jersey clairvoyant, as she takes her paranormal abilities quite seriously. On Psychic Tia, premiering Aug. 3 at 10pm on A&E, viewers will get to see the former police detective (she left the force after a near-fatal illness made her reprioritize things) in her new line of work, giving readings and channeling the spirits of departed loved ones at her shop, The Craft. They’ll also see parts of her home life, […]

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Vince Gilligan On The End Of “Breaking Bad” And New Beginnings

In the fall of 2007, I flew to Albuquerque to spend a glorious day with showrunner Vince Gilligan and the cast of Breaking Bad as they filmed Season 1 and wondered what would happen to their daring little series as the writers strike loomed. Five seasons, six years, seven primetime Emmys and countless other accolades later, Gilligan is on the phone chuckling indulgently as I pose overwrought theories about the fate of Walter White and Co. on the eve of Bad’s last eight episodes. For example: about his long-ago promise to turn his lead from Mr. Chips into Scarface culminating […]