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LUCIFER: Actor and director Kevin Alejandro on Season 5B and the musical episode – Part 1
LUCIFER follows its title character through a very complicated chronicle. At the outset, Lucifer (Tom Ellis) has gotten fed up with ruling Hell and has opened a nightclub in Los Angeles. He gets himself a gig as a police consultant, to the initial annoyance of LAPD Detective Chloe Decker (Lauren German), but eventually, the pair fall in love – and she finds out Lucifer's true identity. For those who may not be up to date with the history of LUCIFER as a series, it's based on the DC Comics series by Mike Dringenberg & Sam Kieth, spun off from Neil […]Read On »
KATE & KOJI: Actor Jimmy Akingbola on new Britbox comedy and TED LASSO – Exclusive i\Interview
KATE & KOJI has its North American premiere on the streaming service Britbox on Tuesday, April 13. The half-hour comedy ran its first season last year on ITV, and has already been renewed for a second season. Jimmy Akingbola stars as Koji, opposite Brenda Blethyn's Kate. Kate is the stuck-in-her-ways proprietor of a small English seaside café. Koji is a doctor from West Africa who is not allowed to practice medicine – or do any other paying work – while he waits for his asylum application to be processed. The two are unlikely comrades, but when Kate discovers an upside […]Read On »
MARVEL'S AGENTS OF SHIELD: Writer and executive producer Drew Z. Greenberg on the final season – Exclusive Interview – Part 1
MARVEL'S AGENTS OF SHIELD is now in its seventh and final season, Wednesday nights on ABC. The series seemed to have wrapped up conclusively at the end of Season 5, then got renewed for two more seasons. The result was that AGENTS OF SHIELD Seasons 6 and 7 were produced almost back to back, so that production on the show actually ended last summer, even though we're only getting the ultimate run now. Drew Z. Greenberg joined AGENTS OF SHIELD in Season 2 as a writer/co-executive producer, and became an executive producer beginning with Season 6. Greenberg's first staff writing […]Read On »
DEPUTY: Bex Taylor-Klaus talks about the politically-savvy character – Exclusive Interview
In Fox's new Thursday-night drama DEPUTY, Stephen Dorff stars as Bill Hollister, a member of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department who, due to a bureaucratic oddity, is appointed acting sheriff. The brass wants Hollister busted back down as quickly as possible. Fortunately for Hollister, once he's sheriff, he gets as his aide Deputy Brianna Bishop, played by Bex Taylor-Klaus. Bishop left a promising career in Washington, D.C. to follow their fiancée to Los Angeles, and puts their experience to good use in protecting their new boss. Taylor-Klaus, who identifies as non-binary, is originally from Atlanta. They have won numerous […]Read On »
LEGACIES: Creator Julie Plec on Season 2 of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES spin-off – Exclusive Interview
LEGACIES, now on The CW Thursday night in its second season, is created by Julie Plec. The series, a spinoff of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES and THE ORIGINALS, is about the Salvatore Academy, a private high school where young witches, vampires, werewolves and other supernaturally-inclined teens can study without having to hide their true identities. Plec has directed two episodes, including the Season 2 premiere. Plec is also an executive producer and director on The CW's aliens-on-Earth drama ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO, which returns for its second season in March. ASSIGNMENT X: You've got two shows on the air right now. How […]Read On »
BATWOMAN: Camrus Johnson on playing tech whiz Luke Fox – Exclusive Interview
In The CW's latest DC-verse series BATWOMAN, now in its first season on Sunday nights, Camrus Johnson plays Luke Fox. Luke is the young techno-whiz who works with Batwoman/Kate Kane (Ruby Rose), much as his father Lucius Fox was the main gadget man for Kate's cousin Batman/Bruce Wayne. Johnson, originally from Georgia, moved to New York to pursue his acting career. He has also produced and written several short films. Johnson's other screen acting credits include the series UNPRODUCTIVE, THE COBBLESTONE CORRIDOR, THERE'S … JOHNNY!, and LUKE CAGE, and the films PATERNO and THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR. Asked […]Read On »
ARROW: David Ramsey on the Eighth and final season of the super hero series – Exclusive Interview
The CW's ARROW is now in its eighth and final season on Tuesday nights. The series, which stars Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen, aka superhero the Green Arrow, launched the network's franchise of DC Comics adaptations, executive produced by Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter. ARROW's on-air DC Universe peers currently include THE FLASH, SUPERGIRL, LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, BLACK LIGHTNING and the new BATWOMAN. Although the Green Arrow sometimes stands alone, he has a team. His best friend and confidante is John Diggle, who takes on the heroic persona Spartan, played by David Ramsey. Unlike many other characters in the ARROW-verse, […]Read On »
SUPERNATURAL: Alexander Calvert chats about playing Lucifer's son on Season 15 – Exclusive Interview
SUPERNATURAL embarks on its fifteenth and final season on The CW on Thursday, October 10. The series, created by Eric Kripke, started with the relatively modest premise of the Winchester brothers, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles), fighting monsters and ghosts throughout the U.S. (even though the show is actually shot in Vancouver). As the seasons unspooled, though, the mythology got progressively more dense, until the Winchesters were actually tangling with Lucifer (mostly Mark Pellegrino, though other actors have embodied the fallen angel as well) and even God (Rob Benedict). At the end of Season 12, in May 2017, […]Read On »
DOOM PATROL: Executive producer Sarah Schechter on Season 1 of the DC Universe series – Exclusive Interview
DC's new DOOM PATROL, now streaming exclusively on DC Universe online, with new episodes dropping Friday nights, concerns a group of other-than-human not-quite-superheroes. Brought together by scientist Niles Caulder, aka the Chief (Timothy Dalton), the Doom Patrol consists of: Cliff Steele/Robotman (Brendan Fraser as his voice and in flashbacks, Riley Shanahan in the steel suit), who is a human brain inside a very large metal body; Kay Challis/Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero), who has sixty-four separate personalities; Rita Farr/Elasti-Girl (April Bowlby), a '50s movie actress who tends to turn into a blob when agitated; Larry Trainor/Negative Man (Matt Bomer as his […]Read On »
UNDERGROUND: Jessica De Gouw & Alano Miller – exclusive interview
Jessica De Gouw and Alano Miller have both been giving interviews for hours already when they sit down with Assignment X to talk about Season 2 of WGN America's Wednesday-night drama UNDERGROUND. However, both actors talk about the pre-Civil War series, concerning the Underground Railroad, with an energy and enthusiasm that belies their long day. De Gouw plays Elizabeth Hawkes, who is initially drawn into the abolitionist movement by her husband John (Marc Blucas), but who over the first season developed perhaps even more passion for the cause than her spouse has. Miller plays Cato, who bears visible scars inflicted […]Read On »