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Following a two-year hiatus, Season 2 of Yellowstone's spin-off 1923 debuted on February 23, 2025. As Jacob (Harrison Ford) and Cara Dutton (Helen Mirren) deal with the harsh winter weather in Montana, descendant Spencer (Brandon Skelnar) and his English wife Alexandra (Julia Schlaepfer) are en route to bolster the family after spending time in Africa during World War I.

As the Duttons usher in a new decade, prohibition, the stock market crash, and the Great Depression at the turn of the decade, 1923 becomes a perfect companion to the 1930s-set TV series Perry Mason. While one is a Western frontier drama and the other a classic detective series, both shows do an incredible job of bringing the 1930s to life and depicting the cultural and socioeconomic challenges in one of the hardest decades in U.S. history.

The 'Perry Mason' Reboot Is Another Great HBO Show

Ron Fitzgerald and Rolin Jones created Perry Mason for HBO,...

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Gotham is a superhero action crime drama series created by Bruno Heller. Based on the DC Comics characters of the same name, the Fox series follows James “Jim” Gordon as he joins the Gotham City Police Department and meets a young Bruce Wayne just after his parents are murdered. Gotham stars Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, David Mazouz, Zabryna Guevara, Sean Pertwee, Robin Lord Taylor, Erin Richards, Camren Bicondova, Cory Michael Smith, and Victoria Cartagena. So, if you loved the superhero action, thrilling drama, and compelling characters in Gotham, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Daredevil is a superhero action-adventure legal crime-drama series created by Drew Goddard. Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name by Stan Lee and Bill Everett, the Netflix series follows Matt Murdock,...

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The Lincoln Lawyer is a thrilling legal ride with an unlikely protagonist. The Netflix series is based on Michael Connelly‘s books and has also been adapted into a film starring Matthew McConaughey. The series follows an idealistic lawyer Mickey Haller as he works from the back of his Lincoln car taking on big and small cases in Los Angeles. The Lincoln Lawyer stars Manuel Garcia-Rulfo in the lead role with Neve Campbell, Becki Newton, Jazz Raycole, Angus Sampson, Angelica Maria, and Christopher Gorham starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the complex legal cases, thrilling courtroom drama, and compelling characters in The Lincoln Lawyer here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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The genre-bending detective fiction series that is quickly becoming everybody’s favorite of the year is Sugar. The Apple TV+ series created by Mark Protosevich is set in Los Angeles and it follows the story of a private detective John Sugar as he is hired by a big-time film producer Jonathan Siegel to find his missing granddaughter Olivia. While, trying to find Olivia, Sugar stumbles into something far more dangerous than he could have anticipated. Sugar stars Colin Farrell in the lead role with Amy Ryan, James Cromwell, Sydney Chandler, Nate Corddry, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, and Dennis Boutsikaris starring in supporting roles. If you loved the mystery and thrill of Sugar here are some similar shows you could check out next.

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HBO‘s Casey Bloys is due to speak to reporters on Thursday about the allegations that he orchestrated the use of burner Twitter accounts to argue with critics online.

“HBO intends to vigorously defend against Mr. Temori’s allegations. We are not going to comment on select exchanges between programmers and errant tweets,” a spokesperson for HBO told TheWrap, referring to the suit filed by Sully Temori. “We look forward to a full and fair resolution of this dispute. In the meantime, we wish Mr. Temori, a former HBO employee, well in his future endeavors.”

The alleged practice was unearthed by Rolling Stone in a new article that involves an ongoing wrongful termination dispute. According to text exchanges that were reviewed by the publication, during at least six instances that occurred between June 2020 and April 2021, Bloys and senior vice president of programming Kathleen McCaffrey used what they referred to as...

The period crime TV series "Perry Mason", created by Rolin Jones, Ron Fitzgerald and executive produced by Robert Downey Jr., based on the character by Erle Stanley Gardner, starring Matthew Rhys, has been canceled after two seasons on HBO Max:

"...in 1932, Los Angeles is prospering while the rest of America is recovering from the grip of the 'Great Depression'. Down-and-out private investigator 'Perry Mason' is struggling with his trauma from 'The Great War' and being divorced. 

"He is hired for a kidnapping trial. 

"His investigation results in major consequences for Mason, those around him, and local leaders and he decides to become a lawyer..."

Cast also includes Juliet Rylance as 'Della Street', the loyal and driven legal secretary...

....Cris Chalk as 'Paul Drake', a beat cop with a knack for detective work...

...Shea Whigham as 'Pete Strickland', Mason's work partner...

...John Lithgow as 'Elias Birchard'...

...Eric Lange as 'Gene Holcomb',...

There will be no more bombshells in Los Angeles' courtrooms.

Deadline reported that HBO has opted not to renew Perry Mason for a third season.

The news comes close to two months after Season 2 bowed out.

“We are tremendously grateful for the remarkable work of Matthew Rhys and the unrivaled cast and crew of Perry Mason for their reimagining of such a treasured and storied franchise,” HBO said in a statement to Deadline.

“While we won’t be moving forward with another season of the series, we are excited to continue working with the brilliant creatives at Team Downey on future projects,” the statement concluded.

While the news is shocking, it is not surprising because of the significant delay on HBO's part in dishing out a third season renewal after or during Perry Mason Season 2.

Fans have been asking when the show would be renewed, prompting a statement from Francesa Orsi,...

HBO's Perry Mason reboot series has been sentenced to cancellation after two seasons.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Perry Mason will not be returning for a third season on HBO. "We are tremendously grateful for the remarkable work of Matthew Rhys and the unrivaled cast and crew of Perry Mason for their reimagining of such a treasured and storied franchise," the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned network said in a statement. "While we won't be moving forward with another season of the series, we are excited to continue working with the brilliant creatives at Team Downey on future projects."

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Starring Matthew Rhys as the eponymous private investigator turned lawyer, HBO's Perry Mason was created by Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald, with Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey serving as executive producers. The show premiered on June 21, 2020, with Season...

HBO has canceled its Matthew Rhys-led drama Perry Mason after two seasons, according to Deadline. Produced by Robert Downey Jr.’s Team Downey, the reworked 1950s and ’60s classic courtroom show followed the titular character portrayed by Rhys. “We are tremendously grateful for the remarkable work of Matthew Rhys and the unrivaled cast and crew of Perry Mason for their reimagining of such a treasured and storied franchise,” HBO said in a statement. “While we won’t be moving forward with another season of the series, we are excited to continue working with the brilliant creatives at Team Downey on future projects.” The series premiered strongly in June 2020, which would see Rhys earn an Emmy nomination for his leading role. HBO renewed the series midway through its first season. Season 2 saw Jack Amiel and Michael Begler (The Knick) serve as showrunners, taking over for creators Ron Fitzgerald and Rolin Jones...

HBO has returned an unfavorable verdict on Perry Mason.

The drama starring Matthew Rhys as the title character has been canceled after two seasons. The series, a reworking of the classic courtroom show of the 1950s and ’60s, is produced by Robert Downey Jr.’s Team Downey.

“We are tremendously grateful for the remarkable work of Matthew Rhys and the unrivaled cast and crew of Perry Mason for their reimagining of such a treasured and storied franchise,” HBO said in a statement. “While we won’t be moving forward with another season of the series, we are excited to continue working with the brilliant creatives at Team Downey on future projects.”

Perry Mason premiered in June 2020 to solid audience numbers, and Rhys would earn an Emmy nomination for his lead role. HBO renewed the series midway through its first season.

Jack Amiel and Michael Begler (The Knick) served as showrunners on season two,...

“Perry Mason” has been canceled at HBO, Variety has confirmed. The series debuted its second and final season at the premium cabler in March.

“We are tremendously grateful for the remarkable work of Matthew Rhys and the unrivaled cast and crew of ‘Perry Mason’ for their reimagining of such a treasured and storied franchise,” HBO said in a statement. “While we won’t be moving forward with another season of the series, we are excited to continue working with the brilliant creatives at Team Downey on future projects.”

Based on the characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner, Matthew Rhys starred in the series in the title role. Unlike the 1950’s TV series in which Mason worked as a lawyer, the HBO series portrays the character earlier in his life when he is a private investigator in Los Angeles in the 1930s.

Along with Rhys, the Season 2 cast also included: Juliet Rylance,...

“Our job is to fight for the show,” reveals executive producer Susan Downey on the goal for any good producer on series like their period drama “Perry Mason” and fantasy “Sweet Tooth.” For our recent webchat alongside her Team Downey partner Amanda Burrell, she adds, “We’re trying to be critical and trying to make sure we’re keeping the true north and supporting the vision of our showrunners and our filmmakers, and if you’re taking risks along the way and you’re doing things that you know make you a little bit nervous, then that’s certainly what we strive for. But you really hope that they work. So, it is nice to finally get Season 2 of both shows out into the world and see that people have been responding favorably.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.

SEECelebrating 90 years of Perry Mason

“Perry Mason” was created by Rolin Jones...

Exclusive: “I’ve always boiled it down to there’s something very simplistic to Mason,” Perry Mason star Matthew Rhys admits about the iconic and haunted lawyer he portrays on the HBO prequel series. “It’s not necessarily his sense of justice but sense of right and wrong,” the Emmy winner adds. “What is right and wrong, and how he goes about righting that, righting that wrong, is, at times, very questionable. But fundamentally, his sense of pure form justice is so strong that everything else becomes very difficult, and the playing of that was just magic.”

With the Season 2 finale of the series now steered by Michael Begler and Jack Amiel as showrunners and Team Downey set to drop tonight on the premium cabler and HBO Max, the Americans alumni finds his character in some dramatic territory in and out of court in Depression-era Los Angeles.

Defending the Gallardo...

This post contains spoilers for "Perry Mason" season 2.

The "Perry Mason" season 2 premiere starts with the perfect representation of the show's renewed focus. Whereas the first season was an unrelentingly grim affair that started with baby murder, this time we open on a lively speakeasy boat party. But a fire soon engulfs the boat and the jazzy dance number is replaced by the screams of its patrons. In those opening moments, the episode encapsulates the theme of this new season and of its 1930s Los Angeles setting. While everything appears ok, there are sinister forces at play beneath the carapace.

Former showrunners Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald were replaced by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler for this new run of episodes. The pair spearheaded this shift in tone from an unapologetically dark and violent slow burn to a show that celebrates the allure of its 1930s setting while confronting the...

Perry Mason returns for season 2 nearly three years after it first debuted on HBO. After creators and showrunners Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald stepped down, Jack Amiel and Michael Begler stepped in to work alongside executive producers Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey. Perry Mason stars Matthew Rhys as the title character initially created by Erle Stanley Gardner. Joining him are Juliet Rylance as Della Street and Chris Chalk as Paul Drake.

The trio, which came together at the end of season 1, will find themselves in a bit of a rut when season 2 begins, but Perry, Della, and Paul will quickly be swept up in another murder trial that will shake Los Angeles to its core. Perry Mason season 2 features several additions to its cast, including Hope Davis, Katherin Waterston, Paul Raci, Sean Astin, and Mark O'Brien. Justin Kirk, Eric Lange, and Diarra Kilpatrick reprise their roles from season 1.

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We are living in the Golden Age of Television… I.P. Whether it’s NBC rebooting “Night Court” or Netflix reliving “That 90’s Show,” intellectual property is the name of the game. Heck, “The Lord of the Rings” can’t even finish one reboot before the next comes along. Viewers are so inundated with old ideas rehashed into something new, they may not even notice how thoroughly I.P. has infiltrated their entertainment. Marvel comics were adapted into Marvel movies, which were extended into Marvel TV shows, which were then connected back to Marvel movies, which, by then, were incorporating old Marvel actors right alongside new Marvel actors — both playing the same role. I’m not even sure that winding, snakelike sentence holds together, but the point remains: We’re hearing the same stories about the same people over and over and over again. Hollywood has found a way to turn ouroboros into pure profit.

Plot: Months after the Dodson case has come to an end, the scion of a powerful oil family is brutally murdered. When the Da goes to the city’s Hoovervilles to pinpoint the most obvious of suspects, Perry, Della, and Paul find themselves at the center of a case that will uncover far reaching conspiracies and force them to reckon with what it truly means to be guilty.

Review: When Perry Mason debuted in 2020, it was as a limited series. The stellar whodunit introduced a new generation to a grittier take on Erle Stanley Gardner’s iconic literary creation previously associated with Raymond Burr’s performance. Matthew Rhys brought a different edge to Mason alongside Juliet Rylance and Chris Chalk as Della Street and Paul Drake. Thanks to critical acclaim, HBO decided to turn Perry Mason into an ongoing series. Three years later, the sophomore run is here with a new case,...

Created in the 1930s by Erle Stanley Gardner, Perry Mason has traversed the world of books, film, radio, and TV, only to arrive in the peak TV era in 2020. That adaptation, created by Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald, kept the character rooted in the past while also giving him a gritty new outlook. It's likely that if modern audiences remember "Perry Mason" at all, they remember him as the star of stagey courtroom TV dramas; a lawyer who always manages to get the truth out of those he's cross-examining on the stand. But the new Perry Mason, as played by Matthew Rhys, began his first season as a gumshoe; a rumpled private eye caught up in the seedy underbelly of early 1930s Los Angeles. It was only at the end of the show's first season that Mason became a lawyer, rather quickly (he passed the bar after an all-night cram-study...

“Despite all your brooding cynicism, you still believe in justice!”

This is Hamilton Burger, personal friend and professional nemesis to the title character of Perry Mason, in the legal drama’s long-delayed second season premiere. The first season occasionally used Burger (played by Justin Kirk) as a mouthpiece for all the ways this take on the character wouldn’t resemble either the Erle Stanley Gardner novels or the black-and-white TV series with Raymond Burr. At one point, for instance, he warned Perry (Matthew Rhys) that “No one confesses on the stand,...

Take a look at Season Two of the period crime TV series "Perry Mason", created by Rolin Jones, Ron Fitzgerald and executive produced by Robert Downey Jr., based on the character by Erle Stanley Gardner, starring Matthew Rhys, streaming March 6, 2023 on HBO Max:

"...in 1932, Los Angeles is prospering while the rest of America is recovering from the grip of the 'Great Depression'. Down-and-out private investigator 'Perry Mason' is struggling with his trauma from 'The Great War' and being divorced. 

"He is hired for a kidnapping trial. 

"His investigation results in major consequences for Mason, those around him, and local leaders and he decides to become a lawyer..."

Cast also includes Juliet Rylance as 'Della Street', the loyal and driven legal secretary...

....Cris Chalk as 'Paul Drake', a beat cop with a knack for detective work...

...Shea Whigham as 'Pete Strickland', Mason's work partner...

...John Lithgow as 'Elias Birchard'.

Take a look at Season Two of the period crime TV series "Perry Mason", created by Rolin Jones, Ron Fitzgerald and executive produced by Robert Downey Jr., based on the character by Erle Stanley Gardner, starring Matthew Rhys, streaming March 6, 2023 on HBO Max:

"...in 1932, Los Angeles is prospering while the rest of America is recovering from the grip of the 'Great Depression'. Down-and-out private investigator 'Perry Mason' is struggling with his trauma from 'The Great War' and being divorced. 

"He is hired for a kidnapping trial. 

"His investigation results in major consequences for Mason, those around him, and local leaders and he decides to become a lawyer..."

Cast also includes Juliet Rylance as 'Della Street', the loyal and driven legal secretary...

....Cris Chalk as 'Paul Drake', a beat cop with a knack for detective work...

...Shea Whigham as 'Pete Strickland', Mason's work partner...

...John Lithgow as 'Elias Birchard'.

Take a look at new footage from Season Two of the period crime TV series "Perry Mason", created by Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald, based on the character by Erle Stanley Gardner. starring Matthew Rhys, streaming March 6, 2023:

"...in 1932, Los Angeles is prospering while the rest of America is recovering from the grip of the 'Great Depression'. Down-and-out private investigator 'Perry Mason' is struggling with his trauma from 'The Great War' and being divorced. 

"He is hired for a kidnapping trial. His investigation results in major consequences for Mason, those around him, and local leaders and he decides to become a lawyer..."

Cast also includes Juliet Rylance as 'Della Street', the loyal and driven legal secretary...

....Cris Chalk as 'Paul Drake', a beat cop with a knack for detective work...

...Shea Whigham as 'Pete Strickland', Mason's work partner...

...John Lithgow as 'Elias Birchard'...

...Eric Lange as 'Gene Holcomb',...

Matthew Rhys is back in the first trailer for HBO’s Perry Mason season 2. Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason novels formed the basis for the legendary television series starring Raymond Burr as the (almost) unbeatable defense lawyer. In 2020, Perry Mason got a very gritty period-set reboot, starring The Americans’ Rhys as Gardner’s complicated-but-heroic attorney. Then in July 2020, HBO announced that Perry Mason would be back to tackle another case in season 2.

It’s unfortunately taking quite awhile for Perry Mason season 2 to be delivered after that 2020 announcement. But now the second season is indeed officially on the way, with a premiere date set for March 6, 2023. And fans can finally catch their first glimpse of what’s in store for Perry Mason season 2, thanks to a new trailer just released by HBO. See the clip in the space below:

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When you watch enough movies and shows, you start to pick up on certain little recurring trends. Chief among them has to be the instinct to create new adaptations of classic, pulpy characters ... but with a dark, brooding, and adult-only sheen layered on top. After all, how else would you know to put the "prestige" in prestige television?

Well, as eye-rolling and clichéd as this tendency may be, I'm here to admit that I'm a complete and total hypocrite, because I happily ate that up and asked for more when HBO gave the same exact treatment to the classic character of Perry Mason. Initially a 1957 legal drama on CBS, with the eponymous private investigator played by Raymond Burr and based on the books and short stories written by author Erle Stanley Gardner, creators Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald saw fit to make a new "Perry Mason" adaptation -- this time,...

Speed Racer is making its way back to TV screens.

A live-action series based on the Japanese manga and animated show has received a series order at Apple TV+, per The Hollywood Reporter. J.J. Abrams will executive-produce via his Bad Robot banner, while Hiram Martinez (Snowpiercer, Get Shorty) and Ron Fitzgerald (Perry Mason, Westworld) serve as co-writers and showrunners.

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“Speed Racer” is revving its engines once again.

Apple TV+ has ordered a new live-action “Speed Racer” series from executive producer J.J. Abrams and his company, Bad Robot. The new series will written and showrun by Ron Fitzgerald and Hiram Martinez, who also serve as executive producers. It will be produced by Warner Bros. Television.

This new show will be based on the “Speed Racer” property, which began as a comic book (or manga) series that ran from 1966 to 1968, as well as an influential anime that ran from 1967–68. Since then, there have been countless spinoffs, remakes and continuations, from a new animated series in the 1990s to the starry live-action Wachowskis film in 2008.

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What’s particularly interesting about this project is that Abrams has long been tied to the franchise. In fact, in...

A “Speed Racer” live-action series is in the works at Apple with J.J. Abrams onboard as an executive producer, Variety has learned.

Apple has given the project, which has been in the works for a considerable amount of time, a series order. Ron Fitzgerald and Hiram Martinez are attached to write and executive produce in addition to serving as co-showrunners. Abrams will executive produce under his Bad Robot banner. Warner Bros. Television is the studio, where Bad Robot is under an overall deal.

“Speed Racer” follows the adventure of auto racer Speed Racer and his souped up car, the Mach 5. His team consists of his father and car builder Pops Racer, his little brother Spritle and his pet chimpanzee Chim-Chim, and Speed’s girlfriend Trixie. Speed also frequently crosses paths with the mysterious Racer X, who is secretly Speed’s older brother Rex Racer.

This would be the second live-action...

Apple TV+ is prepping Speed Racer, a high-profile live-action series from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television where the company is under a deal.

Details are sketchy but I hear the project, written by Hiram Martinez (Snowpiercer) and Ron Fitzgerald (Westworld), is going back to the original source material and is a live-action take on the classic 1960s manga series.

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I hear the series is now staffing a writers room, with Martinez and Fitzgerald as executive producers/co-showrunners.

Speed Racer, a Japanese media franchise about automobile racing, first launched as a manga series titled Mach GoGoGo by Tatsuo Yoshida in 1966. Trans-Lux acquired syndication rights and Speed Racer was adapted into anime by Tatsunoko Productions, which aired on Japan’s Fuji TV from 1967-68 and aired in the U.S. in syndication at about the same time.

The show’s mainstream success in the U.

From The Sopranos to Boardwalk Empire, when it comes to noir HBO knows how to raise the stakes. Case in point: rebooting Perry Mason with a 21st century lens, but staging the iconic character against the Great Depression in Los Angeles. It’s a complete dusting off and polishing up of the Erle Stanley Gardner-created IP.

In the series created by Ron Fitzgerald and Rolin Jones, we see Mason’s rise — as sublimely portrayed by The Americans‘ Matthew Rhys — from gumshoe P.I. to burgeoning attorney. He squares off with corrupt city officials and a demagogue Christian Evangelist, Sister Alice McKeegan (played by Emmy winner Tatiana Maslany), as he tries to learn who brutally snatched and murdered Charlie Dodson.

In “Chapter 3,” which Fitzgerald and Jones co-wrote, wily district attorney Maynard Barnes (Stephen Root) goes public with a shocking new development on the case in order to get an advantage over Mason’s attorney-mentor E.

“She’s a very solitary character because she’s carrying this secret — a huge part of who she is,” muses Juliet Rylance about Della Street, the iconic “Perry Mason” character that she plays in the reboot for HBO starring Matthew Rhys as the eponymous defense attorney. Della is Perry’s secretary and the new 1933-set series created by Ron Fitzgerald and Rolin Jones eschews their will-they-won’t-they dynamic by making Della a lesbian.

“I really love that Ron and Rolin made this choice for a number of different reasons,” reveals Rylance in her exclusive interview with Gold Derby (watch the video above) about taking on the role that won Barbara Hale the 1959 Emmy Award for Best Drama Supporting Actress. She continues, “It immediately kind of makes it very interesting. It makes her as a character quite an enigma at the beginning of the series.”

SEEour chat with the “Perry Mason” producers.

“The decision to do an origin story for our hero was crucial,” says co-showrunner Ron Fitzgerald of the famous lawyer (played by Matthew Rhys) who gives the series its title. Fitzgerald and co-creator Rolin Jones scoured the works of Erle Stanley Gardner. “Gardner didn’t leave many clues about Perry Mason — the man, not the lawyer — in the 80-some novels he wrote about him,” Fitzgerald continues. “Neither did the Raymond Burr TV show. We had to create a backstory pretty much from scratch.”

In the HBO series, Mason is a private eye with ...

“The decision to do an origin story for our hero was crucial,” says co-showrunner Ron Fitzgerald of the famous lawyer (played by Matthew Rhys) who gives the series its title. Fitzgerald and co-creator Rolin Jones scoured the works of Erle Stanley Gardner. “Gardner didn’t leave many clues about Perry Mason — the man, not the lawyer — in the 80-some novels he wrote about him,” Fitzgerald continues. “Neither did the Raymond Burr TV show. We had to create a backstory pretty much from scratch.”

In the HBO series, Mason is a private eye with ...

Curated by the IndieWire Crafts team, Craft Considerations is a platform for filmmakers to talk about recent work that we believe is worthy of awards consideration. In partnership with HBO, for this edition we look at the creation of “Perry Mason” with executive producer and director Tim Van Patten, costume designer Emma Potter, and composer Terence Blanchard.

Terence Blanchard grew up watching the original “Perry Mason” series with his father. When the composer began working on HBO’s “Perry Mason” reboot, he was struck by creators Ron Fitzgerald and Rolin Jones’ new origin story for Perry (Matthew Rhys).

“I remember when I finally started to see something from the show, I was just totally blown away,” said Blanchard. “Immediately, I started telling people, ‘This is not your daddy’s ‘Perry Mason,’ this is something else.’”

From exploring how a downtrodden Perry was haunted by the war, or showing how a...

“We’ve been living with this project for almost a decade,” reveals Susan Downey in an exclusive panel interview with Gold Derby about rebooting “Perry Mason” for HBO (watch the video above). Developed as a film before pivoting to a miniseries format, what ultimately became an ongoing drama series aired its first season on HBO last year with Matthew Rhys in the eponymous role. He replaced Downey’s husband Robert Downey Jr., who shifted solely to an executive producer role as a result of “scheduling issues.”

Downey explains opposite fellow executive producers Amanda Burrell and Tim Van Patten, “By the time we had a couple of the episodes, HBO was getting really excited and we were trying to figure out, ‘Okay, we don’t want to lose that excitement and that momentum’ and Robert, as most people know, has been also busy for the past decade doing some movies and stuff and so,...

Jack Amiel and Michael Begler, creators of ‘The Knick,” have inked a three-year, overall deal with HBO. Under the pact’s terms, the duo will serve as showrunners and writers on the premium cabler’s reboot of “Perry Mason,” replacing the previous season’s showrunners Ron Fitzgerald and Rolin Jones.

Previously, Amiel and Begler were in the Cinemax fold running and writing the Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning drama “The Knick,” which starred Clive Owen and André Holland and was directed by Steven Soderbergh. The two-season series, which currently holds a Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 92% and an audience score of 96%, is now available to stream on HBO Max via HBO platforms.

“Perry Mason,” debuted in June 2020 as HBO’s most-watched new drama series in nearly two years. The Team Downey production’s star, Emmy-winner Matthew Rhys, received Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice Award nominations for his performance.

The show...

The Knick creators, executive producers and showrunners Jack Amiel and Michael Begler are returning to the HBO fold with a rich three-year overall deal. Under the pact, said to be in the eight-figure range, the duo have been tapped as writers, executive producers and showrunners for Season 2 of HBO’s drama series Perry Mason starring Matthew Rhys.

They replace the Perry Mason reboot’s creators Ron Fitzgerald and Rolin Jones who served as writers/showrunners on Season 1.

Amiel and Begler ran The Knick, which starred Clive Owen and André Holland and was directed by Steven Soderbergh. Originally airing on HBO sibling Cinemax, the series is now available to stream on HBO Max via HBO platforms. The Peabody Award-winning drama series was nominated for multiple Emmy Awards across its two seasons and won for Outstanding Production Design.

Produced by Team Downey, Perry Mason debuted in June 2020 as HBO’s most-watched new...

HBO has inked a three-year overall deal with writers and producers Jack Amiel and Michael Begler — who will become showrunners of Perry Mason as part of the pact.

Amiel and Begler, co-creators of Cinemax’s The Knick, will take the reins of Perry Mason from Ron Fitzgerald and Rolin Jones, who created the show and served as showrunners for its first season. Fitzgerald and Jones opted to move on to other projects.

Starring Matthew Rhys as the title character and based (loosely) on stories by Erle Stanley Gardner, Perry Mason is set in 1930s Los Angeles and features Mason not as a brilliant defense ...

HBO has inked a three-year overall deal with writers and producers Jack Amiel and Michael Begler — who will become showrunners of Perry Mason as part of the pact.

Amiel and Begler, co-creators of Cinemax’s The Knick, will take the reins of Perry Mason from Ron Fitzgerald and Rolin Jones, who created the show and served as showrunners for its first season. Fitzgerald and Jones opted to move on to other projects.

Starring Matthew Rhys as the title character and based (loosely) on stories by Erle Stanley Gardner, Perry Mason is set in 1930s Los Angeles and features Mason not as a brilliant defense ...

Exclusive: After recurring on the first season of Perry Mason. Eric Lange and Justin Kirk have been promoted to series regulars for season 2 of the HBO series.

Lange’s Detective Holcomb, who appeared in seven of Season 1’s eight episodes, is a commanding force as a homicide detective within the LAPD, a master of intimidation with a knack for getting his way without regard for proper procedure.

Kirk’s Hamilton Berger, seen in three episodes of Season 1, is a famous nemesis to Perry Mason. Though not yet the district attorney, Berger, a rising lawyer in the Da’s office, finds himself surprisingly entangled in Mason’s big case and an unlikely friend to the man who will become his greatest foe.

Set in 1931 Los Angeles, based on characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner, the reboot of the long-running CBS drama follows the origins of American Fiction’s most legendary criminal defense lawyer,...

Earning his first two Golden Globe nominations in 2017 and 2019 for his turn in FX spy drama The Americans, actor Matthew Rhys returns to contention this month with HBO’s Perry Mason redux.

For Rhys, this morning’s nom felt like a validation of the efforts of the production team, as well as of the risk he took, when he stepped into the shoes of an already iconic character.

“It’s always great to be nominated for something you really believe in. There was, I think, a mild hint of apprehension…because you’re reimagining something that was firmly established, in the hearts and minds of especially America, but worldwide,” the actor told Deadline today. “The madness of this business is, you throw so many balls in the air, hoping that they align as planets, and it works. So, you’re relieved, in a way, that it worked.”

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2021 Golden Globe Predictions:

Best TV Series (Drama)

Updated: Jan. 11, 2021

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Production delays due to Covid-19 mean that some of last year’s contenders, including best drama winner “Succession,” aren’t back to compete in 2021 — opening the door to some new possibilities. Could this also be a year that genre makes a big splash with HFPA members? Hot off its Emmy streak, “The Mandalorian” is in the hunt, while HBO’s “Lovecraft Country” and...

The Golden Globe drama series race is shaping up to be a battle between Season 4 of Netflix’s “The Crown,” which premieres Nov. 15, and HBO’s “Perry Mason,” according to the latest predictions of Gold Derby’s Experts. The reinvention of the classic Raymond Burr crime drama traces Mason’s early sketchy years as a L.A.-based private investigator before he was persuaded to try his hand at the law. The noirish mystery, set in 1932, stars Emmy winner Matthew Rhys with valiant and vibrant support from John Lithgow, Juliet Rylance and Shea Wigham. Rhys is a two-time Golden Globe nominee for his performance as a conflicted Russian spy in FX’s long-running series “The Americans.” Lithgow is a five-time Golden Globe nominee, most recently for his Emmy-winning turn as Winston Churchill in “The Crown,” and a two-time winner for his performances in NBC’s “3rd Rock from the Sun” and Showtime’s “Dexter.

The HBO reboot of Perry Mason held court on Sunday, August 9 night with its season one finale, hitting series highs with its 9pm premiere netting 1.1 million viewers.

The 1.1 million viewers was just the start. When it came to replays and digital viewing, the Matthew Rhys-led drama brought the total audience for the night to over staggering 1.6 million viewers. Since its premiere in June,  the series developed and written by Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald saw significant growth throughout the season. It saw a 26% increase in viewership for the 9pm telecast and a 45% increase in digital viewing from premiere to finale night.

The first episode of Perry Mason is now inching towards 9 million viewers to-date across all platforms. When it debuted, 1.7 million total viewers tuned in, marking the strongest debut night of any series on HBO in nearly two years.

Perry Mason was recently renewed for season two and the...

The finale of “Perry Mason” season 1 certainly set things up nicely for the second installment, and delivered season high numbers for HBO in the process.

Sunday’s episode drew a total of 1.1 million total viewers in its live network airing, which represents a season high and a 24% increase on the premiere. Overall, 1.6 million viewers watched the finale across all platforms, a very slight dip from the premiere, which drew 1.7 million.

Per HBO, the show’s first episode is now approaching 9 million viewers across all platforms, while series in general registered a 45% increase in digital viewing from premiere to finale night. The “Perry Mason” premiere was the network’s strongest debut for any series in almost two years, besting the season debut of “Watchmen” (which drew 1.5 million viewers) and the first episode of “The Outsider” (which delivered 1.2 million viewers).

“Perry Mason” stars Matthew Rhys as the titular low-rent private investigator who...

Perry Mason‘s season finale wrapped up a lot of loose plot threads, but one is still dangling: Will we see more of Tatiana Maslany as Sister Alice when the HBO legal drama returns for Season 2?

Sunday’s finale ended with Perry tracking down the former preacher at a roadside diner, where she was working as a waitress. She and Perry debated the merits of spiritual faith versus hard evidence — and showed a bit of a romantic spark, if you ask us — before they parted ways. (For more on the finale, click here for our post mortem with showrunners Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Sunday’s Perry Mason season finale.

We have a verdict in Perry Mason‘s big season-long case, and that verdict is… no verdict at all.

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After an emotional turn on the witness stand from Emily Dodson and a stirring closing statement from Perry, Emily’s murder case ended in a mistrial when the jury couldn’t reach a verdict. (Pete paid off one of the jurors to vote “not guilty,...

(Spoilers ahead for the season 1 finale of “Perry Mason” on HBO)

The first season of HBO’s reboot of “Perry Mason” is now in the bag, but we’re not done with these characters just yet as the network already announced a second season renewal a few weeks back. And as the season ended, Perry Mason’s crew was finally, officially assembled with Perry (Matthew Rhys), Della Street (Juliet Rylance) and Paul Drake (Chris Chalk) together in their office, ready to get to work.

For Paul Drake in particular, season 1 of “Perry Mason” was a fraught journey. He started the season as an LAPD street cop who just wanted to keep his head down and collect his paycheck so his wife and the child they were expecting could have a decent life. But he had an awakening of sorts, and in the finale — having realized he’ll never be able...

Spoiler Alert: This article contains details from tonight’s season 1 finale episode of HBO’s Perry Mason.

It’s a mistrial and the court goes wild.

As rich and thrilling as this Great Depression noir HBO series was with sublime acting all around — especially Matthew Rhys’ turn as the P.I.-turned-attorney who overcompensates for his demons and mediocrity with his “eureka!” discoverings — the Perry Mason case of who killed baby Charlie Dodson was rather long-winded.

Sure, we weren’t fully convinced that Emily Dodson (Gayle Rankin) was completely innocent.

However, through various Byzantine rabbit holes explored by Mason, his gal Friday Della Street (Juliet Rylance), and his sidekick investigator Pete Strickland (Shea Whigham), our title character discovered that the Radiant Assembly of God was to blame for the kidnapping of Charlie, with Detective Ennis (Andrew Howard) orchestrating all the murders, down to taking the church’s Elder Seidel (Taylor Nichols) out.

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Perry Mason” Season 1, Episode 8, “Chapter 8,” including the ending.]

I hate the “Perry Mason” moment. Growing up the son of a small town defense attorney, nothing would grind my father’s gears like seeing a TV lawyer badger their witness into an admission of guilt, or suddenly introduce new evidence that they themselves uncovered. The former rarely happens, and the latter is a convenient fallacy cooked up by efficiency-minded screenwriters — lawyers aren’t private investigators. Except, of course, if you’re Perry Mason.

So when HBO’s beautiful reboot set up a plot where Matthew Rhys’ seasoned P.I. would also don the mantle of a respectable attorney, it had me worried that this “Perry Mason” would repeat the same melodramatic “moments” made infamous by the ’50s original. Those were fine back then, when TV was built on disposable drama, but today’s audiences demand better. The era of Prestige TV...

From showrunners Ron Fitzgerald & Rolin Jones, and executive produced by Robert Downey Jr. & Susan Downey, the HBO series Perry Mason, which has already been renewed for Season 2, is set in 1931 Los Angeles with Perry Mason (Matthew Rhys) as a private investigator struggling to make ends meet. When the case of a kidnapped infant with a $100,000 ransom comes his way, Mason turns to his right-hand man Pete Strickland (Shea Whigham), attorney E.B. Jonathan (John Lithgow) and E.B.’s legal secretary, Della Street (Juliet Rylance), for help in answering the growing list of …...