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Watch out, Sherlock Holmes, because the date is set for the arrival of Paris's most beloved detective on PBS Masterpiece. A new teaser trailer for Maigret has just been released, introducing Benjamin Wainwright as the titular world-famous sleuth in the first-ever modern-day-set adaptation of Georges Simenon's bestselling detective stories. It offers a peek into his vividly depicted Paris, full of glitz, mystery, danger, and warmth alike. Along with the footage from the reboot came the exciting news that this new take on the Parisian will make his first appearance on U.S. television screens on October 5.

The new spin on Maigret takes Chief Inspector Jules Maigret through the city of love, from its upper-class luxury hotels and mansions to local bistros and bars, and the many haunts inhabited by the criminal underground. As seen in the trailer, what sets him apart from other famous sleuths is that he approaches every case with understanding,...

Hulu has released the official trailer for its latest limited series, “Washington Black,” starring Ernest Kingsley Jr. and Sterling K. Brown The eight-episode series is set to release on July 23 on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally.

The series, based on Esi Edugyan’s best selling novel of the same name, follows George Washington “Wash” Black, an 11-year-old boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation, whose prodigious scientific mind sets him on a path of unexpected destiny in the 19th century. After an accident forces him to flee, he is thrust into a globe-spanning adventure that challenges and reshapes his understanding of family, freedom and love. As Wash begins to navigate his journey into uncharted lands and impossible odds, he finds the courage to imagine a future beyond the confines of the society he was born into.

Additional cast members for “Washington Black” include Tom Ellis, Rupert Graves,...

Banijay Entertainment is set to impress at the upcoming London TV Screenings with one of the most extensive and diverse lineups in global TV in terms of both quality and quantity. This year’s showcase, Banijay @ BAFTA 195 Piccadilly, open exclusively to buyers, will spotlight 13 scripted titles, 15 factual series, nine new unscripted formats, and six third-party shows featuring some of the most anticipated new programming on the market.

The event will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 26, across three sessions and is expected to attract a record number of global buyers eager to explore Banijay’s diverse offerings.

Leading the charge for Banijay is “Maigret,” the first contemporary TV adaptation of the iconic detective novels by Georges Simenon, heading for PBS Masterpiece. Written by Patrick Harbinson, the market debut – produced by Playground, behind “Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light” – introduces a fresh take on the legendary Parisian Chief Inspector Jules Maigret.

The following contains major spoilers for The Tower Season 3, Episode 1, now streaming on BritBox. It also contains descriptions of violence.

The Tower Season 3: Gallowstree Lane feels like British television's answer to The Wire. Both TV shows paint a grim and unrelenting picture of crime's effects on a community, while occasionally blurring the lines between hard-boiled mystery and social commentary. The Tower, which is based on Kate London's novels and comes to BritBox after its first run on ITV, is not dramatically on the same level as David Simon's five-season magnum opus --- but it'll satisfy anyone who is looking for a similar fix.

Season 3, Episode 1 picks up 20 months after the previous season finale, and viewers can dive right in; the script by Patrick Harbinson does an excellent job of explaining the important bits that came before. A 15-year-old is stabbed to death in the middle of the night on Gallowstree Lane,...

Colin Callender’s Playground will adapt Georges Simenon’s best-selling detective novels “Maigret” into a television series set to air in the U.S. on PBS under the “Masterpiece” banner.

The adaptation of the streetwise Parisian Chief Inspector Jules Maigret has started production in Budapest. Callender and David Stern will executive produce for Playground.

Benjamin Wainwright will play Maigret and Stefanie Martini stars as Madame Louise Maigret.

“George Simenon’s creation of Jules Maigret holds a firm place in the pantheon of great literary detectives and we are incredibly grateful to our partners ‘Masterpiece,’ Banijay, Ilp and John Simenon for their trust and support as we endeavor to bring a contemporary Maigret to a new, worldwide audience,” Stern said. “Patrick Harbinson’s brilliantly fresh take on this iconic IP is reflective of Playground’s ambition to expand our growing slate of contemporary returning dramas that speak to a global marketplace.

The first contemporary TV adaptation of Georges Simenon’s beloved Jules Maigret detective novels is coming to PBS Masterpiece. The network announced its new series Maigret, along with the official list of stars, on Tuesday, September 10. The Jules Maigret series is the second best-selling detective series ever, behind only Sherlock Holmes. Based on the beloved books about the streetwise Parisian Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, Maigret will star Belgravia‘s Benjamin Wainwright in the titular role with Stefanie Martini as Jules’ wife, Madame Louise Maigret (above). Read on for all the details on the new detective series, including additional stars. What is PBS’ Maigret about? Patrick Harbinson serves as lead writer and executive producer on behalf of Windhover Films and will direct the first two episodes of the series. Colin Callender and David Stern executive produce for Playground, the Golden Globe and BAFTA award winning production company behind upcoming series Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light...

A new iteration of one of the most beloved detectives in fiction is coming to PBS.

The public broadcaster has ordered Maigret, a series based on Georges Simenon’s novels about Jules Maigret, a chief inspector for the Paris police. Production on the series, which stars Benjamin Wainwright as the title character, has begun in Budapest; it will air under PBS’ Masterpiece Mystery! banner.

Simenon published more than 100 novels and short stories about Maigret, selling more books than any other detective series aside from Sherlock Holmes. The new Maigret series, produced by Playground (Wolf Hall, All Creatures Great and Small), is set in the present and will position the character as an unconventional young detective with something to prove, a rising star in the Police Judiciaire who is relentless in his investigations and has both an uncanny ability to get under the skin of the criminals he is chasing and...

Television has seen highs and lows as a medium of entertainment, but many regard the 2010s as the beginning of a new golden age of TV. The decade saw the rise in longer story-telling, especially as streaming and binge-watching became the norm with the advent of Netflix. This helped spur the move to a more cinematic format of TV writing, which utilized the freedom of serialized, seasonal structure.

As arguably the best-written decade of television, the 2010s began a long streak of enduring, instantly iconic series, some of which are still in production. Seen by many as a decade when television productions finally got their dues, many of the format's best-written stories can be found in the span of just ten years. With some of the decade's most prolific writers continuing to develop fresh ideas for the 2020s, these series are a testament to what can be done with good writing.

Exclusive: BritBox North America has picked up exclusive North American rights to Game of Thrones star Gemma Whelan’s upcoming ITV thriller The Tower.

All episodes of Mammoth Screen/Windhover Films’ three-parter, which also stars The Haunting of Bly Manor’s Tahirah Sharif and Kate & Koji lead Jimmy Akingbola, will be released simultaneously on the platform on December 1 in North America.

The series will debut shortly on BritBox co-owner ITV in the UK and is distributed internationally by ITV Studios.

Based on former Detective Kate London’s debut novel Post Mortem and penned by Homeland writer and exec Patrick Harbinson, The Tower starts with Detectives Sarah Collins (Whelan) and Steve Bradshaw (Akingbola) being called to a shocking incident at Portland Tower in South London. Two people have fallen to their deaths: a veteran police officer and a teenage Muslim girl, and Collins sets out to uncover the truth.

Harbinson is...

Exclusive: Game Of Thrones and Killing Eve star Gemma Whelan has been cast as the lead in ITV’s drama series The Tower, Homeland writer Patrick Harbinson’s three-part adaptation of Kate London’s Metropolitan Police novel Post Mortem.

Whelan will play Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins, who investigates after a veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing.

Collins works to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths. Collins and Griffiths later become the central characters in three books written by former Met officer London.

Whelan is best known for playing Yara Greyjoy in HBO mega-franchise Game Of Thrones, but has appeared in other high-profile series, including Season 3 of Killing Eve,...

Exclusive: Homeland writer and executive producer Patrick Harbinson is to adapt Kate London’s Metropolitan Police novel Post Mortem into a three-part ITV series, which will be housed at Harbinson’s new UK-based production firm and Mammoth Screen.

The drama will be titled The Tower, in a nod to the novel’s thrilling opening sequence in which a veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing.

Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths. Collins and Griffiths later become the central characters in three books written by former Met officer London.

The Tower will be produced by Harbinson’s...

Often prophetically ahead of real-life realpolitik, Showtime’s Homeland came to a very insurgent end earlier this year after eight seasons. The series’ conclusion was both unconventional and satisfying, Emmy winner Claire Danes said during Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event.

“There was something subversive for us on ending with Carrie smiling,” the actor who portrayed brilliant but troubled former CIA officer Carrie Mathison on the show executive produced by Alex Gansa, who joined Danes on the panel. “She’s sacrificed so much and she is in a version of Hell, but her spirit is intact,” she added of a seemingly duplicitous Carrie now ensconced in Moscow as a double agent with Yevgeny Gromov (played by Costa Ronin).

“I was really happy with the shape of the final season,” Danes said of Homeland’s much-planned final 12 episodes that concluded in April. “I thought it was really smart to have Carrie...

“Homeland” reached another milestone in its final season with the passing of a fan-favorite character who has been with the show since its inception.

Spoiler Alert: The following includes spoilers for “Threnody(s),” episode 8 of the eighth and final season of Showtime’s “Homeland.”

Carrie Mathison has said goodbye to a longtime ally in her quest to battle terrorists and navigate post-9/11 U.S. national security politics on the Showtime political thriller.

In “Threnody(s),” episode eight of “Homeland’s” eighth season, Claire Danes’ intrepid CIA agent has to come to grips with the death of Max Piotrowski, the computer whiz played by Maury Sterling. Max has long been a secret weapon for her missions thanks to his skill at navigating complex computer networks, communications and surveillance systems, as well as his near-blind loyalty to the brilliant and bipolar agent who often goes rogue.

Piotrowski’s death was signaled at the close of episode seven,...

“Homeland” won eight Emmys for its first two seasons, then lost all 19 of its nominations for its next five. The last two seasons were not even nominated for Best Drama Series, but it was through little fault of the show itself and more a product of how the show peaked early with awards, then aged out of consideration. In fact, the seventh season finale was awarded by the Writers Guild of America as the best-written drama episode of 2018. It was able to get this win (and nomination) because a panel-based voting system necessitated that judges actually viewed the content, so its quality was not denied.

“Homeland” returned after a two-year hiatus for its eighth and final season three weeks ago and now eyes the goodbye hug that the Television Academy gave the likes of “Downton Abbey,” “Lost,” “Mad Men” and “30 Rock” — other first-season Best Series winners that dwindled in...

Showtime released a new trailer for the long-awaited final season of “Homeland” at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena, California, on Monday.

Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin return as counterterrorism specialists for the eighth and final season, which sees Carrie (Danes) suffering some trauma and falling under suspicion from the U.S. government after spending time as a Russian prisoner.

The only person who trusts her is Saul (Patinkin), now National Security Advisor to the newly ascendant President Warner (Beau Bridges), who asks Carrie to walk with him into the lion’s den – one last time.

Also Read: Showtime Boss on 'Homeland' Final Season Delay: 'We'd Rather Have It Good Than Fast'

Along with Danes and Patinkin, the final season stars Maury Sterling, Linus Roache and Costa Ronin, with Nimrat Kaur and Numan Acar also returning from Season 4 in series regular roles. Sam Trammell and Hugh Dancy...

Exclusive: Cliff Chamberlain (State of Affairs) has been cast in a major recurring role on the upcoming eighth and final season of Showtime’s Homeland. Also set for a recurring role on the Showtime drama series is Hilary Jardine (Van Helsing).

Chamberlain will play Mike Dunne, the CIA Station Chief in Kabul, Afghanistan. This is the post held by Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) at the top of Season 4.

The so-long season of Homeland will feature a nod to Season 4, which was set in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with that season’s heavily recurring players, Nimrat Kaur and Numan Acar, reprising their roles.

Jardine plays Claudatte Fletcher, a former State Department employee turned freelance consultant with a global network of assets.

The final chapter of Homeland finds Carrie (Danes) recovering from months of brutal confinement in a Russian gulag. Her body is healing, but her memory remains fractured – which is a problem...

Homeland will have the longest hiatus between seasons, with the drama’s final eighth season set to premiere February 9, two years after Season 7, which debuted on February 11 2018.

The final season originallywas scheduled to premiere in June 2019. The launch subsequently was moved to the end of 2019, and the date has now been finalized.

At Showtime’s TCA executive session, the network’s President of Entertainment Gary Levine stressed that the delays are related to the demands of filming and no creative or other issues.

“Homeland is an ambitious series, and especially in its final season,” he said. “[Showrunner] Alex [Gansa[ wants to go out proudly, and he’s going to. And that has involved production in multiple countries, and, at times, in places that have some issues just takes time.”

Levine added: “There have been no missteps here. It’s been a relatively smooth process but a very ambitious production schedule that has just taken more time than we hoped it would. And one of the things we do at Showtime is we’d rather have it good than fast. And that’s...

Showtime has set the return for the eighth and final season of Homeland. The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning hit drama series will premiere on Sunday, February 9 at 9 Pm. Starring Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin, the acclaimed series is currently in production on its final 12 episodes. The date was announced Friday during Showtime’s presentation at the TCA summer press tour.

The final season was originally scheduled to premiere in June, but because of the demands of filming internationally, it was moved to the end of the year, and now has been pushed into in 2020. Its seventh season also launched in February.

The final season of Homeland finds Carrie Mathison (Danes) recovering from months of brutal confinement in a Russian gulag. Her body is healing, but her memory remains fractured – which is a problem for Saul (Patinkin), now National Security Advisor to the newly ascendant President Warner (Beau Bridges). The top...

Sony Pictures Television has struck a co-development and co-production deal with The Boy with the Topknot producer Nisha Parti.

The Hollywood studio has inked a three year deal to work with Parti to produce scripted dramas for network, cable and streaming platforms. The projects will be co-produced between the two companies with Sony distributing worldwide.

Parti previously produced Paddy Considine-fronted feature thriller Honour as well as the adaptation of Sathnam Sanghera’s The Boy with the Topknot with Kudos for BBC Two. She previously worked with David Heyman and was the first person to read the unpublished manuscript of Harry Potter, which lead to Heyman securing the film rights for Heyday Films and Warner Bros.

Parti will work closely with Wayne Garvie, President, International Production, Spt, in the UK and Nina Lederman, the newly appointed Evp, Global Scripted Development and Programming, based in Los Angeles. She has several TV...

Hugh Dancy will guest star on the eighth and final season of “Homeland.”

Dancy, who is married to the show’s star Claire Danes, will appear in a multi-episode arc as John Zabel, the president’s new foreign-policy advisor and Saul Berenson’s (Mandy Patinkin) newest opponent.

Here is the network’s description of the season: Carrie Mathison (Danes) recovering from months of brutal confinement in a Russian gulag. Her body is healing, but her memory remains fractured – which is a problem for Saul, now National Security Advisor to the newly ascendant President Warner (Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Beau Bridges). The top priority of Warner’s young administration is an end to the “forever war” in Afghanistan, and Saul has been dispatched to engage the Taliban in peace negotiations. But Kabul teems with warlords and mercenaries, zealots and spies – and Saul needs the relationships and expertise that only his protégé can provide.

Hugh Dancy (Hannibal) is set for a multi-episode arc opposite Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin on the eighth and final season of Showtime’s Homeland.

Dancy will recur as John Zabel, a savvy Washington consultant who joins the White House as a foreign-policy adviser to the president and a formidable opponent to Saul Berenson (Patinkin).

The final season finds Carrie Mathison (Danes) recovering from months of brutal confinement in a Russian gulag. Her body is healing, but her memory remains fractured – which is a problem for Saul, who now is National Security Advisor to the newly ascendant President Warner (Beau Bridges). The top priority of Warner’s young administration is an end to the “forever war” in Afghanistan, and Saul has been dispatched to engage the Taliban in peace negotiations. But Kabul teems with warlords and mercenaries, zealots and spies, and Saul needs the relationships and expertise that only his protégé can provide.

Emmy-nominated “Hannibal” actor Hugh Dancy will star opposite his wife Claire Danes in “Homeland” season eight, Variety has learned.

Dancy will appear in the recurring guest role of John Zabel, a savvy Washington consultant who joins the White House as a new foreign-policy advisor to the President and a formidable opponent to Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin). The show is currently in production on its eighth and final season which will premiere later this year.

The final season will find Carrie Mathison (Danes) recovering from months of brutal confinement in a Russian gulag. Her body is healing, but her memory remains fractured. Meanwhile, Saul has been dispatched to engage the Taliban in peace negotiations, and against medical advice, he asks Carrie to walk with him into the lion’s den – one last time.

Dancy, who recently starred opposite Aaron Paul in Hulu’s “The Path,” is returning to Showtime after he...

As has long been expected, Showtime will wrap up “Homeland” with one final, eighth season. The news has been expected for a while, but Showtime Networks CEO David Nevins confirmed the news on Monday at the TV Critics Association press tour. He joked with critics that he better not see anyone characterize this as a “cancellation.”

The news also comes as executive producer Alex Gansa was said to be “unequivocally done” after this season, as star Clare Danes told IndieWire earlier this summer.

Nevins said Gansa and Danes had talked for a while about ending the show after Season 8, when the show’s most recent three-year renewal was set to end. He asked them to sleep on it, and “when they were resolved, it seemed like it was the right time.”

Added Showtime programming head Gary Levine: “That show is not limping in the sunset. Last season was one of the best ever.

“Homeland” is officially ending after eight seasons.

Showtime president and CEO David Nevins made the announcement at the TCA summer press tour on Monday, noting that “Alex [Gansa] and Claire [Danes] both started talking about it last season.” Showtime programming president Gary Levine also noted that the show “is not limping into the sunset. Last season was one of its best ever.” Season 8 will premiere in June 2019. Showtime had previously renewed the show for Seasons 7 and 8 back in 2016.

The news was not unexpected, as series star Claire Danes previously told Howard Stern that the eighth season would be the last.

“Now we’ve got one more season after this and then we’re wrapping it up,” Stern told Danes in the interview, to which Danes responded, “Yeah.” When Stern asked, “How do we feel about this?” Danes replied, “Really conflicted.” She added, “I’ll be ready for a reprieve from that,” noting that her character,...

“Homeland” will end with its upcoming eighth season, according to its star Claire Danes.

Appearing on “The Howard Stern Show” Wednesday, Danes indicated that the Showtime drama’s next season would be its last.

“Now we’ve got one more season after this and then we’re wrapping it up,” Stern told Danes in the interview, to which Danes responded, “Yeah.” When Stern asked, “How do we feel about this?” Danes replied, “Really conflicted.” She added, “I’ll be ready for a reprieve from that,” noting that her character, Carrie Mathison, is “a lot.”

Post-production on season seven of “Homeland” ended last week. The season finale is set to air April 29 on Showtime.

“Homeland” was given a two-season renewal by Showtime in 2016 ahead of the season-six premiere. It has been widely expected that the series would come to a conclusion following season eight.

“Homeland” was developed for American television by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon,...

Fearless, a legal conspiracy thriller created by Homeland writer and executive producer Patrick Harbinson, premiered in Great Britain over the summer and earned strong ratings and positive reviews. Now, TV Guide can exclusively report that it will premiere in the United States on Friday, Oct. 27 via

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Louisa Mellor Jul 17, 2017

Fearless concludes a promising series with a mixed finale that relied on predictable twists and contrivance…

This review contains spoilers.

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You know when you come home from a funeral and you’re having a couple of drinks and scrolling through all the nice funeral photos you took? The usual snaps – digger shifting the soil, coffin being lowered, the cutting of the funeral cake, grievers doing the hokey cokey?

No. Of course not, because no one takes photos at funerals. Only an alien or a soulless tabloid paparazzo at a celebrity interment would do such a thing and John Bishop’s character in Fearless is supposed to be neither. So why was he snapping away at Kevin Russell’s final goodbye like a tourist at the Tower of Pisa?

It’s hard for crime...

Louisa Mellor Jun 1, 2017

Some exciting new UK drama and comedy commissions are making their way to TV over the next year or so…

We know, we know. You still have two episodes of Fargo season two before you can think about starting season three. You’ve already fallen behind on American Gods. Your planner memory is chock-a-block with Big Little Lies and that Oj Simpson thing and some Spanish prison series your workmate bullied you into recording. You’re struggling to make time for Twin Peaks. New Game Of Thrones is just around the corner. And guess what, Netflix UK have just added a whole new season of It’s Always Sunny, those sods. You need a list of new TV show recommendations like you need a hole in the head.

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And yet, as long as they keep making them, we’ll keep recommending them.

ITV's upcoming legal conspiracy thriller Fearless has added Michael Gambon to star alongside Peaky Blinders' Helen McCrory. Shooting on the six-part drama penned by Homeland writer and executive producer Patrick Harbinson, is just beginning. Mammoth Screen (Victoria, Poldark) is producing and has set further main cast including actor-comedian John Bishop, Emmy nominee Robin Weigert (Jessica Jones), Jonathan Forbes (Catastrophe), Wunmi Mosaku (Dancing on the Edge) and…...

ITV's upcoming legal conspiracy thriller Fearless has added Michael Gambon to star alongside Peaky Blinders' Helen McCrory. Shooting on the six-part drama penned by Homeland writer and executive producer Patrick Harbinson, is just beginning. Mammoth Screen (Victoria, Poldark) is producing and has set further main cast including actor-comedian John Bishop, Emmy nominee Robin Weigert (Jessica Jones), Jonathan Forbes (Catastrophe), Wunmi Mosaku (Dancing on the Edge) and…...

Helen McCrory will star as Emma Blunt in the new Fearless TV show coming to ITV. Series creator Patrick Harbinson, a Homeland TV series writer and Ep, describes the new drama as a "legal thriller," adding that Fearless is, "...written in the crash zone where law and politics collide." Filming is set to being in London and East Anglia, in September 2016.Fearless will be produced by Houdini & Doyle's Adrian Sturges and executive produced by Mammoth Screen’s Managing Director, Damien Timmer, Tom Mullens, and Harbinson. Pete Travis is directing the first season, which consists of six one-hour episodes. The series will be distributed internationally by ITV Studios Global. Get the details after the jump, from the ITV press release.Read More…...

The Big Short

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today the motion picture, long-form television, digital series, sports programs and additional television nominations for the 27th Annual Producers Guild Awards.

The categories include: The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures; The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures; The David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television; Outstanding Sports Program; and Outstanding Digital Series. The feature documentary film category and other television category nominations were previously announced by the PGA in late 2015.

All 2016 Producers Guild Award winners will be announced on Saturday, January 23, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. This year, the Producers Guild will present special honors to Jim Gianopulos (Milestone Award), Shonda Rhimes (Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television), David Heyman (David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures), The Hunting Ground (Stanley Kramer...

The Producers Guild of America has announced the nominations for its 27th annual Producers Guild Awards! 10 films are vying for the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures. And sorry "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and "Carol," you did not make the cut :sad

The PGA Awards winners will be announced on January 23. Here's the complete list of nominees of the 27th annual Producers Guild Awards:

Theatrical Motion Picture nominees

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

The Big Short

Producers: Brad Pitt & Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner

Bridge of Spies

Producers: Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt, Kristie Macosko Krieger

Brooklyn

Producers: Finola Dwyer & Amanda Posey

Ex Machina

This film is in the process of being vetted for producer eligibility

Mad Max: Fury Road

Producers: Doug Mitchell & George Miller

The Martian

Producers: Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer, Mark Huffam

The Revenant

Producers: Arnon Milchan,...

In advance of the highly-anticipated Season 5 premiere of Homeland on Sunday, October 4th at 9 p.m. Et/Pt, Showtime has released the full-length trailer for its Emmy and Golden Globe-winning hit drama series. Recently nominated for the Emmy for Outstanding Drama series, Homeland stars Emmy, Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe Award winner Claire Danes, Emmy nominee Rupert Friend, Oscar winner and Emmy nominee F. Murray Abraham, Sebastian Koch, Screen Actors Guild winner Miranda Otto, Alexander Fehling, Sarah Sokolovic, and Emmy and Tony winner Mandy Patinkin.

Homeland Season 5 will pick up two years after Carrie Mathison's (Claire Danes) ill-fated tenure as Islamabad station chief. Struggling to reconcile her guilt and disillusionment with years of working on the front lines in the "war on terror," Carrie finds herself in a self-imposed exile in Berlin, estranged from the CIA and working as the head of security for a German philanthropist. Homeland is currently in production in Berlin,...

PaleyFest is the highly anticipated annual television festival hosted by the Paley Center in Los Angeles, and its 2015 event kicked off on March 6th with a Homeland panel. The question-and-answer session featured star Claire Danes, supporting actor Maury Sterling (who plays the character ‘Max’), executive producers Meredith Stiehm, Chip Johannessen, Patrick Harbinson and Alexander Cary, director and executive producer Lesli Linka Glatter, and showrunner Alex Gansa.

Though the group made their best efforts to remain tight-lipped regarding plans for season five of the award-winning hit show, some snippets of information did slip through. Firstly, the action will be based largely in Europe, constituting a big shift in tone from season four, which filmed in South Africa as a stand-in for Pakistan.

Secondly, it was revealed that the season will be set a full two and half years after the end of season four – which creates the particularly intriguing situation of...

"Homeland" is never short on shocks, and it shared a few with its biggest fans to start Paleyfest 2015. Kicking off the annual celebration of all things TV, co-creator Alex Gansa told the audience gathered at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, CA (and everyone watching at home via Yahoo Screen) that the upcoming fifth season would see some big changes. “We're going to jump two-and-a-half years forward," Gansa said. “We are going to be shooting the show in Europe — probably in Germany — and Carrie will no longer be an intelligence officer.” "She's making beer and sausage," said Claire Danes, joking about her character's mysterious new profession. Gansa and Danes were on hand along with a large swath of the Emmy-winning Showtime drama's writing team. Patrick Harbinson, Alex Cary, Meredith Stiehm and Chip Johannessen, all executive producers and writers, joined Sean Callery, the show's composer, Maury Sterling, who plays Max, and Lesli Linka Glatter,...

Homeland, Season 4, Episode 9, “There’s Something Else Going On”

Written by Patrick Harbinson

Directed by Seith Mann

Airs Sundays at 9pm on Showtime

Homeland sometimes feels like two (or more) different shows at once. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but sometimes it bites down hard on both its best and its worst tendencies within the same episode, and it can make one uneasy. But until the last couple of scenes this week, Homeland is a slow burn master-stroke of tension and emotional power. Let’s talk about that first.

Despite whatever the writers may think, the best relationship on the show by far has always been that of Carrie and Saul. The show has wisely been playing up that connection despite the two being separated. When Carrie made the (botched) decision to bomb Saul and Haqqani, everyone thought she was crazy, but we know Saul would have understood...

Homeland, Season 4, Episode 4, “Iron in the Fire”

Written by Patrick Harbinson

Directed by Michael Offer

Airs Sundays at 9pm Et on Showtime

There are several reminders in this episode about how good Carrie is at her job, as if the writers are making sure we have the right perspective on her character before the episode’s final scene. Fara tells Quinn when he arrives, “I don’t know how she finds time to sleep.” Later, the guy John Redmond had tailing Carrie last episode (and failing) tells John, simply, “She’s good.” Considering the fact that we’ve seen Carrie often at her worst, it is valuable to remember what a good agent she is. Which brings us to that final scene.

Much of the hour is spent building up the tension between Quinn and Carrie, which is apparently meant to be read as sexual tension. To the writers’ credit,...

Every once in a while, Homeland can draw comparisons to certain seasons of 24 – for better and for worse. The series’ creators, Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, previously worked on the Fox serial thriller. (The former acted as the showrunner when 24 won an Emmy for Best Drama Series in 2006.) Some even described Homeland as a more “mature,” less kinetically exciting variation of the Emmy-winning drama when the Showtime series first aired.

The parallels are clear: both shows deal with the world of political espionage and the efforts of gutsy, risk-taking counter-terrorist agents. (Further, both shows have been criticized for simplistic representations of Muslims.) They are closely related in their connections to current political issues. The taut, tense Fox thriller was tied to Bush-era politics, while Homeland wrestles with issues surrounding the fallout of American involvement in the Middle East in the age of Obama.

The differences, aside from the one episode...

Wme has signed Oscar-winning director, writer and producer James L. Brooks, who created iconic TV shows such as “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Rhoda,” “Taxi” and “The Simpsons,” TheWrap has learned. Brooks joins Wme as the agency's TV department recently signed writer-producers Ian Goldberg (“Once Upon a Time”) and Patrick Harbinson (“Homeland”), as well as Kathy Griffin. Also read: James L. Brooks’ Company Buys Kelly Fremon's ‘Besties’ Brooks, who has won 20 Emmys, is the founder of Gracie Films. He has won three Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director for “Terms of Endearment,” and has received another seven nominations for his work on “Broadcast.

Jack is stuck in a room, so everyone else gets to have all the fun in the latest 24: Live Another Day...

Review

This review contains spoilers.

As the producers of 24: Live Another Day no doubt found, there are drawbacks to filming in the UK. For instance, at the point you need a go-to place to hold someone prisoner, in Los Angeles you'd just call a mate who worked at some studios down the round.

In Britain? It looks like they landed in a comprehensive school, pretended it was an Embassy, and stuck a keypad on the door to keep said captive locked down. Never mind that the door is made of wood, and the windows look barely singled glazed. Never mind the fact that Jack Bauer can walk in, and the guard has to think for a minute whether to believe him or answer the Urgent Phone Call coming through.

24: Live Another Day, Season 1, Episode 4: “2:00 Pm – 3:00Pm”

Written by Patrick Harbinson

Directed by Adam Kane

Airs Mondays at 9pm (Et) on Fox

One of the reasons 24‘s original run came to an end is that it was no longer original. It was running out of ideas and ways to tells stories without introducing moles, double-agents, and inorganic obstacles for Jack Bauer. What 24: Live Another Day has managed to do, so far, is use familiar elements from the show and present them in a fresh way. While it doesn’t completely revitalize the franchise, it’s brought a solidly entertaining action-thriller back to the schedule.

We’ve seen many times that Jack is willing to do whatever it takes — including sacrificing himself — for the greater good. We’ve seen him take hostages before, notably in Season 4, when he held up a convenience store to stop a suspect from escaping.

Homeland, Season 3: Episode 11 – “Big Man in Tehran”

Written by Chip Johannessen and Patrick Harbinson

Directed by Daniel Minahan

Airs Sunday nights at 9 on Showtime

After what will probably go down as the best episode of the season last week, Homeland returns with a much less exciting but structurally sound penultimate episode. What it mainly does is set up next week’s finale, in which we’ll either see Carrie pull off some miracle extraction plan or Brody will be killed. Along the way, though, Brody (or, really, Damian Lewis) gets some great scenes in which he gets to mess around with the audience. Maybe I’m not a careful enough viewer, but how Brody gets from point A to point Z in “Big Man in Tehran” wasn’t telegraphed for me. For a minute there, it seemed like the way the writers were going to sideline Brody for the...

The WGA Awards announced the 2014 nominees for television writing, with "Breaking Bad" and "Orange is the New Black" doing particularly well in their respective final and first seasons. The ceremony will take place February 1st in New York and Los Angeles, at the Edison Ballroom and the Jw Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live. The film nominees will be announced January 3rd. Drama Series Breaking Bad, Written by Sam Catlin, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Gennifer Hutchison, George Mastras, Thomas Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett; AMC The Good Wife, Written by Meredith Averill, Leonard Dick, Keith Eisner, Jacqueline Hoyt, Ted Humphrey, Michelle King, Robert King, Erica Shelton Kodish, Matthew Montoya, J.C. Nolan, Luke Schelhaas, Nichelle Tramble Spellman, Craig Turk, Julie Wolfe; CBS Homeland, Written by Henry Bromell, William E. Bromell, Alexander Cary, Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Barbara Hall, Patrick Harbinson, Chip Johannessen, Meredith Stiehm, Charlotte Stoudt, James Yoshimura; Showtime House...

Writers for Breaking Bad and House of Cards were among those singled out for the 2014 Writers Guild Awards, which will be held on Feb. 1 in Los Angeles and New York.

The nominees are:

Drama Series:

Breaking Bad, Written by Sam Catlin, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Gennifer Hutchison, George Mastras, Thomas Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett; AMC

The Good Wife, Written by Meredith Averill, Leonard Dick, Keith Eisner, Jacqueline Hoyt, Ted Humphrey, Michelle King, Robert King, Erica Shelton Kodish, Matthew Montoya, J.C. Nolan, Luke Schelhaas, Nichelle Tramble Spellman, Craig Turk, Julie Wolfe; CBS

Homeland, Written by Henry Bromell, William E. Bromell, Alexander Cary,...

Los Angeles and New York – The Writers Guild of America, West (Wgaw) and the Writers Guild of America, East (Wgae) have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in television, new media, news, radio, promotional writing, and graphic animation during the 2013 season. The winners will be honored at the 2014 Writers Guild Awards on Saturday, February 1, 2014, at simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. Television Nominees Drama Series Breaking Bad, Written by Sam Catlin, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Gennifer Hutchison, George Mastras, Thomas Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett; AMC The Good Wife, Written by Meredith Averill, Leonard Dick, Keith Eisner, Jacqueline Hoyt, Ted Humphrey, Michelle King, Robert King, Erica Shelton Kodish, Matthew Montoya, J.C. Nolan, Luke Schelhaas, Nichelle Tramble Spellman, Craig Turk, Julie Wolfe; CBS Homeland, Written by Henry Bromell, William E. Bromell, Alexander Cary, Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Barbara Hall, Patrick Harbinson, Chip Johannessen, Meredith Stiehm, Charlotte Stoudt, James Yoshimura; Showtime House Of Cards,...

Homeland, Season 3: Episode 5 – “The Yoga Play”

Written by Patrick Harbinson

Directed by Clark Johnson

Airs Sunday nights at 9 on Showtime

After a mostly averse critical reaction to last week’s “Game On,” Homeland returns this week with a more recognizable entry in the series that looks and feels like it could have come from the earlier version of this series that viewers enjoyed for the first season and a half. There is the traditional espionage sequence – the Yoga Play that gives the episode its title – accompanying some smoke and mirrors fare surrounding our big bad (Javadi). Even though those familiar Homeland trappings are there, though, they mostly fall short because of how well the series has done this kind of stuff in the past. Looking back at the season two premiere, “The Smile,” the tension and excitement of watching Carrie do her thing was completely engaging. But the Yoga...

Exclusive: NBC has teamed with The Walking Dead executive producer Gale Anne Hurd for 11th Commandment, a series adaptation of UK author Jeffrey Archer’s 1998 novel The Eleventh Commandment. British writer Patrick Harbinson (Person of Interest, 24) is writing the script for the project, produced by Universal Cable Prods. where Hurd’s Valhalla Entertainment is under a deal. 11th Commandment centers on Connor Fitzgerald who has been leading a secret life as the CIA’s most deadly assassin when he decides to pull back to spend more time with his wife and family. But his worlds are about to collide when he is set up by someone within the CIA for an assassination he didn’t commit. “This is a fantastic character-driven story of an assassin who in the employ of the Us government,” Hurd said. The project originated a year ago when Valhalla teamed with Canada’s New Franchise Media,...

Anil Kapoor is leaving no stone unturned to make sure that the desi version of the globally feted American series 24 turns out to be favourably comparable with the original. He has not only signed on three eminent Bollywood writers, recently he flew one of the original writers of 24, Patrick Harbinson, for brainstorming sessions with the writers of the desi 24. Confirming these developments, Rensil D'Silva breaking his silence, said, "Yes, Patrick was here to collaborate with us on 24. It's not easy to adapt such an internationally-acclaimed thriller into an Indian context. We had to re-invent the original 24, adapt it to an Indian context more suited to Anil Kapoor than Keifer Sutherland who plays the role in the original serial. Each episode has to have its own rhythm and dynamics but every episode has to be worked on within the larger context. Because Episode 2 might have a link with Episode 22. It's hard work,...

Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox's Lewis has been picked up for another series by ITV1. The Morse spinoff, which has been a regular ratings hit for the broadcaster, features Whately and Fox as Oxford's Inspector Robbie Lewis and DS James Hathaway. Three new titles for the series have been revealed as 'Generation of Vipers', 'The Age of Foolishness' and 'Death of the Author'. 'Vipers' has been penned by Patrick Harbinson, while Rachel Bennette, Simon Block and Russell Lewis teamed up for the other episodes. "Lewis and Hathaway have become a formidable partnership not only in terms of cracking murders cases, but also in terms of their (more)...