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War can seem like an overwhelming topic. The victors rewrite conflicts, human lives are reduced to statistics, and conclusions are taken at face value.

So what happens when we zoom in? We start to see the inner workings of the military, a system comprising a group of individual humans doing their best to work as a unified front. We start to understand the way a soldier thinks. We start to understand why a nation's government might want to battle another nation's government. And we start to reckon with the moral grays of war, the blurring of boundaries leading to the blurring of ethics in ways both micro and macro, especially in our post-9/11 conflicts.

On television, these ideas have become prevalent in the 21st century through different sub-genres, attitudes, and levels of self-reflection. If all of this interests you as a viewer, then look no further as we discover the...

HBO announced a series adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s novel, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, nearly a year ago but news has since gone quiet. Series writer and executive producer Danny McBride provided THR with an update on the project that’s less than ideal.

Hendrix’s book, which was published in May 2021, is described as “Steel Magnolias meets Dracula.”

The series adaptation would see the novel’s author teaming with “The Righteous Gemstones” duo Danny McBride (Halloween 2018) and Edi Patterson to write. Hendrix, McBride and Patterson would exec produce, alongside Brandon James for McBride’s Rough House. Quirk Books, which published the novel, would also have an exec producer credit.

That’s if the series actually gets rolling. McBride reveals that progress has stalled. “We haven’t gotten much momentum on it,” he told THR. “Even at HBO, it’s tough making a 30-minute show ensemble that mixes genres.

Back in February of 2020, which was two months before author Grady Hendrix’s novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires (pick up a copy Here) was even published, it was announced that a Pkm Productions, which had a deal with Amazon Studios, had secured the adaptation rights. But apparently Pkm Productions just couldn’t get The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires off the ground at Amazon, and last year the project passed over to HBO and Rough House Pictures, with Hendrix collaborating on the adaptation with The Righteous Gemstones duo Danny McBride and Edi Patterson. Nine months have gone by since we heard the show was set up in HBO – and now, McBride has told The Hollywood Reporter that it hasn’t gained much momentum yet.

Described as “Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula,” The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires is set in 1990s Charleston,...

Anne Heche at the 25th Annual Race To Erase Ms Gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on April 20, 2018. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/Admedia

Several years ago, this writer spent some time on the set of the NBC military drama The Brave and had the opportunity to talk mom-to-mom with Anne Heche.

She was playing The Brave’s leading role of badass Patricia Campbell, the head of operations for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, opposite Mike Vogel (Under the Dome), who led a second surveillance team.

The role required 12 to 14-hour days and the cast and crew explained that they became like a second family led by “den mother Anne Heche,” who frequently fed them and looked after them. The 13-episode one-season series even took them to Afghanistan for the fourth episode where they cemented their bonds.

With Heche succumbing to her injuries after a tragic fiery car crash resulting in brain trauma,...

An elite Special Ops team launches a new mission Monday as NBC’s The Brave joins the fray of military dramas (CBS’ Seal Team, The CW’s Valor) debuting this season. Was the operation successful? We want to know what you thought, but first: a quick recap.

A good chunk of the series premiere involves meeting Capt. Adam Dalton (Under the Dome‘s Mike Vogel) and his team, a pre-existing group of elite military operatives: sniper “Jaz” Khan (played by Natacha Karam), combat medic “McG” McGuide (Noah Mills, 2 Broke Girls) and”Preach” Carter (Demetrius Grosse, Banshee) — as well as new...

[Editor’s Note: The following review of “The Brave” Season 1, Episode 1, “Pilot,” contains spoilers.]

“The Brave” may chronicle the actions of courageous men and women, but, as a series, it’s anything but. The pilot is a paint-by-numbers kidnap-and-rescue story with an unrealistically happy ending, and the military drama only approaches any kind of haunting authenticity with an ending as dark and terrifying as it is likely not to come true.

Beginning in Syria, the first episode picks up Dr. Kimberly Welles (Alix Wilton Regan) as she’s getting a ride home from her posting with Doctors Without Borders. But when her driver takes an alternate route and then abandons the car, gunmen descend on the car and take Kimberly by force.

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Enter Patricia Campbell (Anne Heche), the Deputy Director of Intelligence at the D.I.A. who finds out about Dr. Welles’ abduction about...

To explain the genesis of NBC’s upcoming military drama The Brave, series creator Dean Georgaris invokes not the strategic genius of Sgt. Major Jonas Blane or the war-is-hell mentality of Capt. Benjamin “Hawkeye” Pierce, but the poor choices made by one Walter White.

“I don’t come from a military family. I don’t have a political axe to grind. I don’t have a particular fascination with death, but I am fascinated with human resiliency and human ingenuity,” Georgaris (Life of Pi) tells TVLine. After watching documentaries about American Special Forces teams, “I was continually impressed with their ingenuity.

Jason Katims is officially going back to high school.

NBC has given a series order to the Friday Night Lights‘ showrunner’s Rise, a drama about an inspirational theater teacher in a small town, TVLine has learned.

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The series, which stars Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother) and Rosie Perez (Search Party), is based on Michael Sokolove’s book Drama High — which was the show’s original title — about real-life instructor Lou Volpe.

The Peacock Net also greenlit the drama For God & Country, which...

Anne Heche is ready to serve again at NBC.

The Hung grad — who previously toplined the Peacock network’s Save Me and recurred on The Michael J. Fox Show — will star opposite Mike Vogel in NBC’s military-themed pilot For God and Country, our sister site Deadline reports.

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The drama, penned by Dean Georgaris (Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life), is said to take an in-depth look into the complicated world of our bravest military heroes, who make personal sacrifices while executing the...