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There was no sleeping in this Sunday for Fixer Upper fans.

Chip and Joanna Gaines‘ Hearth and Hand with Magnolia line arrived in Target stores, meaning those eager to get their hands on the collaboration were up bright and early.

Even the creators were cruising the aisles of Target as soon as doors opened. Chip shared a photo on Twitter of himself laying in a tent set up in front of the store.

“Being first in line for the launch of #HearthandHand with Magnolia is about to pay off big time. Only 10 more minutes..” he captioned the post.

Once inside,...

Harry Gittes, who produced the Jack Nicholson films Drive, He Said; Goin' South and About Schmidt and was the namesake for the actor's gumshoe character in Chinatown, has died. He was 81.

Gittes died Saturday of natural causes in Los Angeles, publicist Seth Horowitz reported.

Gittes also produced Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976), starring James Caan, Elliott Gould, Michael Caine and Diane Keaton; Richard Benjamin's Little Nikita (1988), starring Sidney Poitier and River Phoenix; Breaking In (1989), written by John Sayles and starring Burt Reynolds; and The Girl Next Door (2004), starring Emile Hirsch.

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Exclusive: Ajiona Alexus, who co-stars in the Netflix Ya series 13 Reasons Why, has been cast opposite star Gabrielle Union in the thriller Breaking In, from Will Packer Productions and Practical Pictures. James McTeigue (V For Vendetta) is directing the pic from a script by Ryan Engle, based on a pitch from Jaime Primak Sullivan. It follows Shaun (Union) who, after the sudden death of her father, takes her two kids to her father’s Malibu mansion to settle his estate. At…...

Gabrielle Union will pull double duty on the upcoming feature “Breaking In,” which she will both star in and produce. Production is slated to begin in Los Angeles this July. The project is the confluence of a script by Ryan Engle and an original pitch courtesy of Jaime Primak. Union is attached to play the lead, a woman attempting to protect her family during a home invasion. James McTeigue (“V for Vendetta”) will helm as director. Casting for the film is at the hands of Nancy Nayor, who has previously headed casting on “Before I Fall” and the currently-in-production “Proud Mary,” which stars heavy hitters Taraji P. Henson and Neal McDonough. In addition to Union, Will Packer will produce via Will Packer Productions (which produces the Bet series “Being Mary Jane,” on which Union currently stars), as well as James Lopez and Practical Pictures' Craig Perry and Sheila Taylor.

Logan: Millie Bobby Brown, who broke out with her performance in Stranger Things (above) last year, says that she auditioned for Logan during production of the series: "I was like, ‘It’s going to be amazing, I’m going to really prepare,’ and I sat in my room reading the lines. Honestly, for me, I felt so -- I felt an actor, in the audition room, hitting Hugh Jackman and [director] James Mangold sitting right in front of me.” Brown complimented Dafne Keen, who won the role of Laura (aka X-23): "She was incredible." [Variety] Breaking In: Gabrielle Union (Almost Christmas, above) will star in home-invasion drama Breaking In. She will team again with producer Will Packer on the project; the two are currently working...

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  Gabrielle Union Will Act And Produce Breaking In Bet Award-nominated The Birth of a Nation actress Gabrielle Union is set to headline and produce the upcoming thriller Breaking In. A highly prolific actress, Union has made her mark on stage and screen alike. Starting off with guest appearances on TV series like Family Matters, [...]

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Exclusive: Being Mary Jane star Gabrielle Union is teaming up once again with producer and Bmj executive producer Will Packer on an upcoming feature — Breaking In. Union will star in and produce the drama which centers on a woman who fights to protect the ones she loves during a home invasion. V for Vendetta helmer James McTeigue is directing the project which will go before the cameras in July. Union is producing the feature with Packer, James Lopez, and Practical…...

The fans spoke, and at least one network listened.

At first, it didn’t seem like any of the new time-travel series were going to make it out of the 2016-2017 season alive. The CW’s “Frequency” was dead, Fox made “Making History” history, ABC’s “Time After Time” ran out of time, and NBC’s “Timeless” also got the ax this past week.

Read More: Renewed or Canceled? Find Out the Fate of Your Favorite TV Show on the Bubble

But then, a broadcast miracle happened. On Saturday, NBC reversed course on history and decided to renew “Timeless” for a second season made up of 10 episodes that is expected to air in 2018.

“Timeless” joins the coveted ranks of other shows that have also been resurrected by the very same network that killed it, including “Unforgettable” (CBS), “Designing Women” (CBS), “Family Guy” (Fox), “Jericho” (CBS), “Breaking In” (Fox), and “24” (Fox...

ABC’s Designated Survivor sustained the most damage this Wednesday with the World Series in full swing, slipping 15 and 25 percent to 6 million total viewers and a 1.2 demo rating (per finals), losing the 1o o’clock hour to Chicago P.D. for the first time this season.

On the sitcom side, The Goldbergs (6.1 mil/1.8), Speechless (5.8 mil/1.7) and Modern Family (7.3 mil/2.3) and black-ish (5.8 mil/1.7) each dipped one tenth.

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Fox’s coverage of the aforementioned World Series match-up drew 17.4 million viewers and a 4.8 rating, up 26 percent year-over-year to mark the best Game...

Bonnie, we hate to break it to you, but you may have reason to be concerned about your man’s fidelity on The Vampire Diaries.

In this exclusive video from Friday’s episode (The CW, 8/7c), Sybil emerges from a pool in a far more seductive and sexy state than during her bloody reveal in last week’s season premiere.

VideosVampire Diaries Stars Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley Attempt to Explain Sybil, Season 8’s ‘Religious Undertones’

With her body newly replenished, the siren wants Enzo’s mind and then some, and she isn’t above using her feminine wiles to get it.

In the wake of her chilling discovery at the close of this week’s episode, The Flash‘s Caitlin Snow will seek out her estranged mother for answers — as seen in these first photos from the Season 3 episode “Monsters.”

RelatedThe Flash Season 3, Episode 4 Recap: Wells, Wells, Wells….

Desperate to understand what is happening to her, Caitlin (played by Danielle Panabaker) visits her mom, Dr. Tannhauser (The Vampire Diaries’ Susan Walters), a renowned biomedical researcher, in the hopes of getting some answers about her growing meta-human powers. But when Dr. Tannhauser treats her daughter like a test subject, “Caitlin grows...

Burbank, CA (May 24, 2016) – Building on the momentum of its wildly successful first season, Gotham turned up the heat with a villain-centric second season that has elevated the series to No. 2 among Fox shows*. Fans have the chance to prepare for this fall’s suspenseful third season with the August 16, 2016 release of Gotham: The Complete Second Season on Blu-rayTM including Digital HD and DVD from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Wbhe).

*Source: Nielsen National TV View L+7 Men 12-17 Us AA%; excluding repeats, specials, sports, and <2 TCs; Season To-Date = 9/21/15-2/7/16

The Wbhe release of the Gotham: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray including Digital HD ($54.97 Srp) and DVD ($49.99 Srp) includes all 22 episodes of the series’ thrilling second, as well as fascinating featurettes, Gotham’s 2015 Comic-Con panel, deleted scenes and a gag reel. Gotham: The Complete Second Season is also available to own on Digital HD via purchase from digital retailers.

Now that you have had a few days to come down from the season finale of Gotham, you may have started wondering when you can own the home video release. Thankfully, Fox and Warner Bros. opted to not wait very long at all to announce that the complete second season will arrive on Blu-Ray on August 16. One would also expect a DVD release on that very date, but it remains unclear whether or not it will contain all of the featurettes included on its mighty Blu-Ray counterpart.

Speaking of featurettes, a full rundown can be found in the official press release, along with a thorough synopsis and cast details. We also have the front cover art to share with you, which bears what may be the coolest piece of promo art circulated for this past season.

Darkness saturates Gotham in its triumphant Second Season as the city’s villains continue to rise from the shadows,...

2013 TCM Classic Film Festival at Tcl Chinese Theatre on Apr 27, 2013 in Los Angeles, CA.

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) announced today that renowned actor Burt Reynolds is set to attend the 2016 TCM Classic Film Festival, taking place in Hollywood April 28 – May 1, to participate in a sit-down interview about his life and career. In addition to the interview, Reynolds will be on-hand to introduce a screening of The Longest Yard (1974), for which he received a Golden Globe® nomination for Best Actor. The interview will be taped Saturday, April 30 in front of a live audience of festival pass holders at The Ricardo Montalbán Theatre.

“For more than five decades, Burt Reynolds has been both a superstar and a force to be reckoned with on screens around the globe, having ranked among the top ten box office attractions in the world on 13 different occasions,” said TCM host Robert Osborne. “He is one of the...

Read More: The 2015 Doc NYC Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Chicken & Egg Pictures has announced a new diversity fellows initiative that will support seven non-fiction projects shepherded by first or second-time women filmmakers, providing the filmmakers with mentors, workshops and programming over six months. For its inaugural year, the initiative will partner with Doc NYC for "Breaking In: New Roadmaps," a full festival day dedicated to diversity that will be co-presented by The City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. "Chicken & Egg Pictures is committed to discovering and elevating underrepresented voices in documentary filmmaking," said Executive Director Jenni Wolfson. "We are thrilled to be able to support these nine exceptional filmmakers through our Diversity Fellows Initiative, sponsored by The Harnisch Foundation. We're equally thrilled that The City of New York Mayor's Office of Media and...

Reaper

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Created by Michele Fazekas & Tara Butters

Produced by Dark Baby Productions, The Mark Gordon Company, ABC Studios, Fazekas & Butters

Aired on The CW for 2 season (31 episodes) from September 25, 2007 – May 26, 2009

Cast

Bret Harrison as Sam Oliver

Tyler Labine as Burt ‘Sock’ Wysocki

Missy Peregrym as Andi Prendergast

Rick Gonzalez as Ben Gonzalez

Ray Wise as the Devil

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Sam Oliver is a coddled college dropout who spends his daily routine living a low stakes life with his slacker friends while working at a hardware megastore named “The Work Bench”. He’s got no real skills, no ambition, and no desire for much of anything, except for maybe harboring a longtime crush on his coworker Andi. A fire is put under Sam after he learns that his parents had sold his soul to the Devil, which will be claimed upon his 21st birthday. When the Devil arrives, he...

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With Mr Robot now available to stream on Amazon Prime, we chat to creator Sam Esmail about the 90s, geekdom and on-screen hackers…

First: an admission of incompetence. The most interesting question to put to Sam Esmail, creator and showrunner of the best new series to come out of the Us this year, only came to me on my way out of the interview, while stood on the lushly carpeted staircase of the Mayfair hotel hosting the Mr Robot junket. It’s this: how does Esmail’s show square its anti-capitalist, anti-corporate themes with a Us home on an NBCUniversal channel owned by multi-billion dollar corporation, Comcast, and now a UK home on Amazon Prime? That, I would have liked to have asked.

Mr Robot, for those who don't yet know, is the story of Elliot Alderson [Rami Malek], a socially anxious cybertech security worker who becomes involved with...

Say “ouch” no more! Breaking in a new pair of shoes is almost always a painful experience, so Us Weekly reached out to five red carpet fashionistas for some sole-saving advice. Find out how stars like Shay Mitchell and Julianne Moore keep their feet happy. 1. Shay Mitchell “I wear [new shoes] around my house before I’ll ever wear them out,” the Pretty Little Liars actress admits. “I think that is so key.” 2. Sarah Hyland Size matters to this Modern Family star. “Be careful of too big and too [...]...

As if her scenes in Gotham‘s Season 2 premiere alone did not make this crystal clear, Erin Richards has found that it is oh-so-good to be oh-so-bad.

“This season is so much more fun for me,” the Welsh actress raves of Barbara Kean’s full-on embracing of her wicked side in the wake of her parents’ tragic death and her acrimonious split from fiance Jim Gordon (played by Ben McKenzie). “I’m having loads more to do!”

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Was it always Gotham‘s plan for the onetime socialite to head down this path?...

I plan to write much more about this at a near-future date, having spent Thursday on the Gotham set and now seen the first three episodes of Season 2, but one of the sophomore run’s great pleasures is the “rebirth” of Erin Richards’ Barbara Kean as a highly entertaining femme fatale.

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We’ve seen this before with freshman shows — there’s always that one character (coughLaurelcough) who doesn’t quite “click,” until an organic series of events (or blatant writer intervention) steer him or her into a fresh direction.

American comedy Reaper was the slacker Supernatural. With great writing, great jokes and Ray Wise, what more could you want?

At the time of writing, the American television networks’ ‘fall’ season of 2015 is a month or so around the corner. It’s still a month until Doctor Who comes back, and worryingly close to that time of the year when The X-Factor is gobbling up Saturday nights around the UK. Essentially, we reckon you could be looking for a new show to binge-watch right about now.

To help you out, the Article Ideas Team here at Geek Towers fired up their Underappreciated TV Shows That Need More Love Machine (patent pending) and cooked you up a recommendation - Reaper.

‘What the frick is Reaper?’, you may or may not be thinking. To the former camp – those with a joyous first watch ahead of them – Reaper was a supernatural comedy hosted...

Working across a wide range of musical mediums, Ivor Novello Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated composer Daniel Pemberton has embraced everything from large scale orchestral and choral works to innovative electronic sound design, live salsa bands to post-rock guitar line-ups.

From The Counselor, The Awakening and the upcoming Steve Jobs film, to name a few, Pemberton has delivered another eclectic score – this time Guy Ritchie’s latest movie The Man From U.N.C.L.E., in theatres Friday, August 14.

Fans of the TV show are familiar with the theme music from composer Jerry Goldsmith, with additional music for the various seasons provided by Morton Stevens, Walter Scharf, Lalo Schifrin, Gerald Fried, Robert Drasnin and Nelson Riddle.

Now comes the film version and a 5-star, international score that exudes the 1960’s as if it was pulled from a time vault. You’re right into the film from the first musical note and drum beat.

Recently the...

“Rowdy” Roddy Piper, who as a professional wrestler/esteemed alumnus appeared on myriad WWF and WWE TV programs over the decades, died Thursday from cardiac arrest, TMZ reports. He was 61.

“Roddy Piper was one of the most entertaining, controversial and bombastic performers ever in WWE, beloved my millions of fans around the world,” WWE Chairman & CEO Vince McMahon said in a statement. “I extend my deepest condolences to his family.”

Born Roderick George Toombs, the Saskatchewan native got his start as a professional grappler in the 1970s with the Nwa (National Wrestling Alliance), before moving up to the WWF (World Wrestling Federation). There,...

On the first day of shooting the new USA Network techno-thriller Mr. Robot (premiering on Weds, June 24th), Christian Slater faced one of those scenes that can make or break a television series. The show revolves a dangerously alienated super-hacker named Elliot (24's Rami Malek) who's recruited by Slater's mysterious "Mr. Robot" to join a band of cyber-saboteurs. In a nod to the 1949 movie classic The Third Man, the two men talk on Coney Island's Wonder Wheel, as Slater's character lays out his ideology and his plans to change the world — in other words,...

As part of its annual Upfront presentation, USA Network revealed summer premiere dates for Suits Season 5, Graceland Season 3 and the new dramas Mr. Robot and Complications, among others.

The cabler also announced pilot orders for a pair of offshoots of Chrisley Knows Best — one, a late-night talk show hosted by patriarch Todd Chrisley, the other a series in which Todd tags along with his college-bounds kids — and that WWE’s SmackDown will join its lineup in early 2016.

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The summer premiere dates are as follows:

Tuesday,...

Once upon a time, TV shows died and people were sad, but they moved on.  But then peanuts earned "Jericho" another season and Deadline.com earned "Breaking In" another season and Netflix got all resurrection-y with "Arrested Development" and "The Killing" and "Longmire." Then Fox gave "24" new life as a limited series and audiences were like, "What a glorious age we live in." And Showtime got David Lynch and Mark Frost to say they were going to do more "Twin Peaks" and TV fans danced around with their favorite log. And earlier this week, Chris Carter, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson decided the time was right to do another six episodes of "The X-Files" and we all kneels and declared, in the words of Wayne and Garth, that we were not worthy. On Thursday (March 26) afternoon, NBC announced that the magnificent Lazarus machine that is TV 2015 had given new life to.

Erstwhile Reaper Bret Harrison will play brother to Jenna Elfman in the Fox pilot The Perfect Stanleys, replacing onetime 90210 resident Brian Austin Green.

“Brian Austin Green had to withdraw from the project due to a viral infection from which he is expected to make a full recovery,” 20th Century Fox TV said in a statement to our sister site Deadline.

RelatedPilot Season ’15: Scoop on This Fall’s (Possible) New Shows, Who’s In Them

Penned by Dana Klein (Friends), the multi-cam family comedy is told from the point-of-view of Ellen, a working mom (Elfman) who is in constant competition with her perfect,...

While Hollywood continues to implement damage control measures, after one of its biggest studios succumbed to a massive, ongoing cyber attack, USA Network has seen opportunity amidst the crisis. Coincidentally having a pilot on its slate called Mr. Robot, the network has now picked it up for series – realizing the potential interest in a show set in the murky world of computer hacking. The network recently announced its intention to focus on drama, and Mr. Robot is one of five drama pilots it ordered in 2014.

The show is built around Elliot – a young computer programmer whose anti-social disorder leads him to conclude that his only option for connecting with others is to ‘hack’ them. Quickly finding himself sought after by underworld oorganizations thanks to his position as an employee of a cybersecurity firm, he becomes embroiled in plans to decimate corporate America.

Elliot is played by Rami Malek (Short Term 12...

25 years ago today, one of the best films about video games hit theaters -- and made Everyone want a Power Glove.Yep, we're talking about "The Wizard."The film is about a mute kid (Luke Edwards) who travels with his brother (Fred Savage) and a runaway (Jenny Lewis) across the country to compete in a video game competition. While the 1989 movie wasn't exactly a smash hit, it became a cult classic -- and popularized both "Super Mario Bros. 3" and the aforementioned glove.In the flick, video game pro Lucas Barton (Jackey Vinson) wields the special controller while saying the movie's most infamous line: "I love the Power Glove, it's so bad."You really just have to watch him do it:But what happened to the film's stars in the last 25 years?Savage would continue starring on "The Wonder Years" until it went off the air in 1993. While he continued to act,...

Christian Slater has signed on to USA Network’s upcoming hacker thriller serial, Mr. Robot. Nabbing the titular role, Slater will topline his first show after his star turn in ABC’s Mind Games.

Before we address who exactly Slater’s character is, let’s take a look at the show’s premise. Thanks to Deadline, we’ve got a decent amount of detailed story information that has piqued our interest. Mr. Robot “centers on a young programmer, Elliot (Rami Malek), who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He will find himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations recruiting him to bring down corporate America.”

It’s a surprise that there’s still such interest in hacking, especially since it’s unlikely any series or movie could ever better 1995’s Hackers.

Fifth time's the charm? USA has cast Christian Slater in the title role of its drama pilot Mr. Robot. Nope, he doesn't play an android. The show is about a programmer who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. He then finds himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America. Slater's TV projects have had rough sledding over the past several years,...

Christian Slater has a new title: Mr. Robot.

The Mind Games and Breaking In alum has landed the title role in USA Network’s cyber-crime pilot, which centers on a mysterious anarchist (Slater) who recruits a brilliant cyber security engineer (24‘s Rami Malek) into an underground hacker organization intent on bringing down corporate America.

The potential series also stars Portia Doubleday (Her), Carly Chaikin (Suburgatory) and Martin Wallström (Simple Simon).

Slater’s TV credits also include a turn as a literal robot: In NBC’s short-lived My Own Worst Enemy, he played a secret agent implanted with a dual-personality-triggering computer chip.

Easily the most anticipated new show of the season is Gotham, and if you weren’t able to attend the premiere party, here’s the next best thing.

It was clearly quite the party, and even if you aren’t among the hopefuls looking for this to become your next favorite show, it’s a series that absolutely has to be watched… for a while at least. Just based on the cast and crew, and any connection to Batman, you have to check out what they do with this thing. And, I have to say, Donal Logue. The End.

And again, even if you aren’t already sold, there’s something interesting about the idea of expanding on the early years, beyond just the flashback that sets Bruce Wayne in motion.

Well, you may as well check out what went on, and get all the more excited for next week’s premiere of the show.

One of the most interesting new shows landing on television this fall is Fox’s Gotham, which charts the rise of Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) from new cop on the block to the troubled city’s police commissioner long before the Dark Knight ever arrived on the scene. Though a Batman-related show without the pointy-eared crimefighter may sound like a tough sell on paper, trailers for the series have done a great job of selling it as a gritty police drama filled with easter eggs for comic-book aficionados.

The brief new teaser for Gotham focuses on Gordon’s reputation as the city’s white knight, “the last good man in Gotham,” while also teasing gangster Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith) and familiar faces Selina Kyle (Camren Bicondova) and Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor). The show is set to be filled with similarly iconic characters from the Batman comic-book mythology, including...

iZombie‘s bestie is now a real Hellcat.

TVLine has learned exclusively that Aly Michalka has boarded the comic books-based CW drama in the recurring role of Peyton, roommate and No. 1 gal pal to series star Rose McIver’s Liv, who is a med student-turned-zombie.

Last Man Standing‘s Alexandra Krosney played Peyton in the original iZombie pilot, but was let go shortly after the supernatural series scored a spot on The CW’s midseason schedule.

In addition to her turn fronting The CW’s Hellcats,...

In a changing of the self-titled comedy guard, TV Land announced on Tuesday (July 29) that it has given a series order to "The Gaffigan Show," while also confirming that "Kirstie" has been cancelled after only one season. As you might guess, "The Gaffigan Show" comes from best-selling author and Hot Pockets enthusiast Jim Gaffigan. The single-camera comedy has been ordered for 10 episodes and will shoot in New York, premiering in 2015. Based on Gaffigan's experiences balancing fatherhood, stand-up comedy and "an insatiable appetite," "The Gaffigan Show" has played an interesting version of network hopscotch. The project, created by Gaffigan and Peter Tolan, was developed and shot for CBS in 2013 and then redeveloped and shot this spring. It will now air on TV Land, with Comedy Central securing rights to air episodes one week after their premiere. “I am thrilled that TV Land is giving us this opportunity to do this show that Peter,...

Fox’s upcoming series Gotham, which charts the struggles of Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) to clean up the streets of Gotham City long before Batman ever arrived on the scene, fared very well at Comic-Con this year. The pilot episode was screened in Hall H on Saturday night to major applause from attendees – in particular, Sean Pertwee’s edgier Alfred Pennyworth was a hit, and audiences also loved Gordon’s action heroics.

Now, a new trailer for the series has arrived, including teases for Oswald Cobblepot’s (Robin Lord Taylor) transformation into the villainous Penguin and a better look at the fateful night in Crime Alley when young Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) lost his parents to an armed mugger. There’s a lot of other exciting stuff on display in this trailer as well, including some cool lines from Gordon, glimpses of Selina Kyle/Catwoman (Camren Bicondova) and more of...

Fox has unleashed 3 all-new TV spots for their upcoming -themed series, Gotham. The TV spots tease what's to come in the show as it explores the origin stories of it's legendary characters.

Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham City, the spawning ground of the world's most iconic villains? And what circumstances created them - the larger-than-life personas who would become Catwoman, The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face and The Joker?

Gotham is an origin story of the great DC Comics super villains and vigilantes, revealing an entirely new chapter that has never been told. From executive producer/writer Bruno Heller ("The Mentalist,...

Both cable and broadcast news outlets were scrambling to cover the downed Malaysia Airlines flight on Thursday morning. Breaking in during the morning and staying wall-to-wall for much of the day, ratings climbed especially high during primetime. Across the three big cable news networks — Fox News Channel, MSNBC and CNN — an average 5.13 million viewers were watching during primetime. (For a basic comparison, that's up 30 percent from the night before and a whopping 50 percent from the previous Thursday.) Video Morning News Covers the Malaysia Airlines Crash Fnc led primetime with just over

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Fox is ramping up publicity for its buzzy new series Gotham ahead of its September debut, and now, hot on the heels of an appealing teaser for the show, we’ve been treated to a new crop of images by Entertainment Weekly, which featured Gotham in a recent issue. There are no startling revelations in the shots, though I don’t recall seeing much of Wayne Manor, home to a young Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) and butler Alfred Pennyworth (Sean Pertwee), before this point.

Other pics include shots of protagonist James Gordon (Ben McKenzie), the new addition to the Gotham City Police Department destined to become the troubled city’s police commissioner; ruthless gangster Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith); Mooney’s underling Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor), who may be developing an affinity for penguins in this series’ run; and Alfred, a much younger iteration of the character than DC Comics...

Most DC comic-book fans are eagerly anticipating this fall’s Gotham, a Fox series that explores the early days of James Gordon (Ben McKenzie), destined to become the city’s Police Commissioner and one of the Caped Crusader’s most trusted allies.

However, the series isn’t just charting Gordon’s backstory - Gotham will also detail the origins of iconic rogues such as Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor), Selina Kyle (Camren Bicondova) and Pamela Isley (Clare Foley), who will one day become The Penguin, Catwoman and Poison Ivy, respectively.

A new set of character posters for the show has surfaced online today, including ones for those aforementioned villains and more, along with a lengthy synopsis. You can check out all of that below, and let us know what you think of the tone Fox is going for with the show thus far. It’s certainly the most anticipated new...

TV’s erstwhile Lex Luthor is up to his old tricks, this time faking it as a clergyman.

Smallville alum Michael Rosenbaum has landed the lead in the TV Land pilot Impastor, our sister site Deadline reports.

The single-camera comedy from Christopher Vane (Suddenly Susan, Bill Engvall) follows a deep-in-debt scalawag who lies low in a small town by passing himself off as the gay pastor the local church recently hired.

Since wrapping his Smallville run, Rosenbaum’s TV credits have included the Fox comedy Breaking In and NBC’s Will Ferrell-produced, 1960s-set midseason comedy Mission Control, opposite Krysten Ritter (though his role,...

I’m not going to lie, I was a bit worried before reading the first reactions to Fox’s new Batman prequel series, Gotham. I’m incredibly excited for the show, and seriously hope that it lives up to its potential. However, one could easily see where the series could go horribly, horribly wrong, and many were left skeptical by its first trailer.

Sure, it will be great to see a Batman show on television, but the series runs the risk of falling into typical prequel tropes, and spending too much time winking at the audience instead of telling good stories that fully utilize the Gotham-before-Batman concept.

Well, if these early reactions are any indication, we have nothing to worry about, because Gotham appears to have delivered on its promises and established a great foundation for what we hope is a stellar season. The pilot episode was screened for...

It was only a week ago that Fox announced it had picked up Gotham to series, which means we’ll be getting 16 episodes that will air on Monday nights at 8pm staring in the fall. Since then, we’ve seen a few promo images, plot details, and a great trailer that give us a clear picture of what to expect from the Batman-less prequel.

Now, the marketing push continues, as over a dozen new images have been released. We’re treated to a shot of detective Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) talking to a young Bruce Wayne, presumably at his parents’ crime scene, and we also see a glimpse of what looks like an intense showdown between Gordon and the future Penguin, Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor). We also get a look at Penguin’s boss, Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith), and Gordon’s partner, Harvey Bullock, (Donal Logue) at a slaughterhouse.

The first trailer for The Flash will debut after this week’s season finale of Arrow on Wednesday, but a new promo for that episode has offered up a very brief look at the iconic DC superhero speeding into action.

For a TV budget, the effects appear to be very impressive, and should help put aside any doubts over whether or not The CW will be equipped to do the Scarlet Speedster justice on the small screen. Be sure to wait right until the end, especially as it appears as if Green Arrow will also be in The Flash pilot!

Of course, The Flash will be joined this Autumn not only by a third season of Arrow, but also Constantine and Gotham. The latter series has today released a lengthy new synopsis for the Batman prequel along with a great batch of character promo images and stills from the highly anticipated pilot episode.

Fox has released a series of new character photos for their amazing-looking new series, Gotham. They feature characters such as Catwoman, Bruce Wayne, Sarah Essen, Jim Gordon, Harvey Bullock, Barbara Kean, Fish Mooney, The Penguin, and Alfred the Butler. EW also released an image of Gordon roughing Cobblepot up a bit. Then there's a new synopsis that confirms the appearance of not only Joker, but Two-Face as well! Check it out below.

Before there was Batman, there was Gotham. Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world’s greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon’s story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham City, the spawning ground of the world’s most iconic villains? And what...

Less animation, plenty of reality, and another two-hour comedy block reduced — those are some of the quick take-aways from Fox’s 2014 fall schedule announcement.

First up: On Mondays, the network will launch perhaps fall’s most-anticipated new drama, the Batman prequel series Gotham at 8 p.m. followed by the sophomore return of Sleepy Hollow at 9 p.m. Fox has ordered 16 episodes of Gotham and 18 episodes of Sleepy Hollow. On Tuesdays, ambitious new reality show Utopia, in which contestants try to build a perfect society over the course of a year, will open for New Girl and The Mindy Project (which...

Fox has released the first official trailer for their upcoming DC Comics-based TV series, Gotham, giving fans their first good look at both the characters and the tone of the show that the producers intend to deliver. The trailer also arrives on the heels of the announcement that the live-action series, based on characters from the Batman universe, has officially been greenlit by the network which will soon be proceeding with a full first season.

“Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world’s greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon’s story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham City, the spawning ground of the world’s most iconic villains? And what circumstances created them...

In case you hadn't guessed from the trailers being released for this new series, Fox has announced that they are officially giving a full 22 episode season order to Gotham. There's a huge audience out there for a show like this, and from what I have seen of it so far, it looks like it's going to deliver the goods. If you haven't seen the trailer for the show yet, click here.

The pilot episode was shot recently, and the network obviously really liked what they saw. The series stars Ben McKenzie as a young James Gordon, Donal Logue as Harvey Bullock, Jada Pinkett Smith as Fish Mooney, David Mazouz as Bruce Wayne, Robin Lord Taylor as Penguin, Cory Michael Smith as Riddler, and Carmen Bicondova as Catwoman. According to the report, the Joker will even have a role in the series. You can check out all of the character photos by clicking here.

It was announced this morning that Fox had picked up the new Batman-inspired television series "Gotham" for at least a 13-episode run and now the first teaser trailer for the series has premiered ahead of its TV debut during "24: Live Another Day tonight. Entertainment Weekly has the trailer premiere writing: You'll get your first close look the Gotham skyline (modern, familiar, yet not too close to any one American city), glimpses of the murder of Bruce Wayne's parents, a couple shots of Det. Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie), and moments showing a young Penguin (Robin Lord Taylor, with umbrella!), Catwoman (Camren Bicondova, on gargoyle perch), The Riddler (Cory Michael Smith, looking creepily sly as a Gotham P.D. forensic tech) and Poison Ivy (taking care of a plant, naturally). While this is inspired by the DC Comics' Batman series it's my understanding this won't actually feature Batman as Gordon...