Mr. Kidd Speaks – An Exclusive Interview With Julian Black Antelope

Julian Black Antelope as Mr. Kidd, Josh Hartnett as Ethan Chandler, Stephen Lord as Mr. Roper

Greetings Dreadfuls, fans of Blackstone, Skatronixxx peeps and everyone else! Recently I had the distinct pleasure of meeting and interviewing Julian Black Antelope. Dreadfuls will recall that he played Mr. Kidd in the final episode (Sn 1 Ep 8) of Penny Dreadful – Grand Guignol. Mr. Kidd and his partner, Mr. Roper were hired by Ethan’s father to bring him back home, a job that Ethan put a quick and bloody end to. Since I only started reviewing Penny D this year (although I have watched since the beginning), if my attention hadn’t been drawn to the fact that Julian is local, I would have missed out on the incredible opportunity to talk with him. Thanks, Sis! Love ya!  Read on for details of my interview with this incredibly versatile, interesting and down to earth man.

Daredevil SN1 EP4 – ‘In The Blood’

Up to this point, we’ve only received descriptions of the Kingpin with him only fully appearing for a single shot in the previous episode. So how does he behave in this episode? The first time we see him, he asks Vanessa – the art dealer out on a date. If this were any other show, we can imagine how he’d behave, she’d say no and he’d start acting intimidating.

Daredevil is a show that takes things in a different direction. Fisk asks her out, she says no and he apologizes, backing away. Vanessa eventually relents to go out with Fisk after he says one of my favorite quotes (“A woman who can be bought is not worth having”). Much of the episode is spent showing the date between Vanessa and Fisk. We see some unique shades to his character. It’s almost unnerving as we expect this character go violent at any second.

He is polite to Vanessa, but he is also surprisingly awkward, often not making eye contact when he talks to her or other characters. Despite his love of culture, Fisk does show his viscous side by the end of the episode. We learn all the talk characters have made for him was not in vain as he murders a henchman – quite gruesomely – for “embarrassing him” in front of Vanessa.

Daredevil himself is in action, rescuing Claire. This is exciting, but the highlight is a more intimate scene where Claire and Matt talk about how long Matt can handle taking these licks, and Matt reveals his secret identity to Claire. There are also b-plots about Foggy wanting to expand the office (with a fax machine – it sounds silly but it fits his character so it works) and Urich being on the case. It’s little new, but everything done right. Overall, this was a solid episode that is most memorable for fleshing out Kingpin’s character.

Daredevil SN1 EP3 – ‘Rabbit In A Snowstorm

The episode begins with a brutal fight at a bowling alley. The perpetrator wants a lawyer. The lawyers he seeks out are none other than Nelson and Murdock. This episode establishes how Foggy and Murdock’s relationship works and the tough decisions they face. They are offered a fortune to represent an obviously guilty client. So they can represent him and make a lot of moolah. At first they argue before they agree to take the case.

This episode also establishes a little more on how Daredevil operates. He uses information he learns in court to gain information from street thugs through vigilantism. Daredevil is in action twice – once is just a standard interrogation. Next is an intense fight where we see how brutal Daredevil can be – even outright threatening to murder someone.

Ben Urich is introduced in this episode. We learn about his personality. He is a run-down newspaper writer who is trying to uncover all the crime in Hell’s Kitchen. Urich works for peanuts, but is determined. One of his co-workers informs him that blog writers and people who work for cheap sites are making a fortune. I can not verify that claim.

The most important part of this episode is the first physical appearance of the Kingpin. The buildup is superb. He’s already been discussed and we’ve heard his voice in the first two episodes. However, in this episode, we see the true reach of Fisk’s power as the bowling alley murder commits suicide – rather violently – because that is preferable to facing Kingpin’s wrath for revealing his name. After all that, we only see Fisk at a museum, mesmerized by a painting. He starts to talking to the museum owner about how he likes the painting. This is a good introduction as it feels like a comic. Often comics will introduce a character this way – panels showing their dialogue with one panel revealing the character. Plus, this is good suspense because the calm way he is introduced contrasts with the violent descriptions we have gotten. It gives some dimension to the character and builds suspense, making us wonder what he is capable of.

Overall, this is another satisfying episode – even though it’s a little more dialogue heavy, the dialogue is good and helps establish the personality of the characters. The action was solid and we are fully introduced to a key character.

Daredevil SN1 EP2 – ‘Cut Man’

After a fight, Daredevil is found in a dumpster by Claire, a nurse who takes him in. Daredevil is mum about his personal details, but informs Claire on his battles with the kidnappers and how he needs to rescue the kidnapped child. Meanwhile, there are flashbacks about Matt dealing with his father being hired to take a dive by mafia. Elsewhere, Karen and Foggy are having a night of bar hopping.

Much of this episode is slower, but effective nonetheless. The scenes between Claire and Matt are good at building suspense and establishing the character. Introducing a new character is good way of being a third person perspective to introduce Matt’s powers as we see him hone his incredible hearing skills. We also learn about Claire and she is a good character. She’s caring but no-nonsense as she wants to learn about Matt. She also holds her own when dealing with the criminals.

The flashback scenes between Matt and his father. Matt’s father shows some tenderness when helping Matt with his blindness. He is also faced with conflict when presented with the choice of taking a dive. He wants to set an example for his song, but he knows the mafia won’t take kindly to that. He eventually stands by his guns and it costs him. With a little character development, we feel the pain at his death. The B-plot of Karen and Foggy hanging out may sound like filler, but it does help flesh out Foggy’s character as a goofball.

While most of this episode is an effective character building episode, there is one terrific fight scene when Daredevil confronts the kidnappers. The fight is successful in its bare bones approach. Rather than a big sprawling fight, this is a fight that takes place in an enclosed hallway. The fight is brutal. Daredevil does not just dispatch these guys with no effort, he has to wail hits just to knock out one guy. Also the whole fight is done in one take (or at least appears that way). This works because the raw technique makes us feel more absorbed in the fight.

Overall, this was another great episode. It was set up to establish characters and have an intense fight scene. “Cut Man” succeeded in both.

Cancelled, Renewed & New Shows for 2016-17

So the other day while doing my article on Elementary, I got to thinking about how many shows are being cancelled and the fact that I was struggling to keep up with what was going on, so I have scoured the Internet and have for you that latest on the cancelled,  Renewed and for good measure a few of the new shows coming up. I think I have them all covered but you know how quickly stuff changes on the Internet but tis is the complete list as of today.

ABC

Renewed Shows 2016

● American Crime
● black-ish
● Dr Ken
● The Catch
● Fresh Off The Boat
● The Goldbergs
● Grey’s Anatomy
● How To Get Away With Murder
● Last Man Standing
● Marvel’s Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D
● The Middle
● Modern Family
● Once Upon A time
● The Real O’Neals
● Secrets and Lies Season 2 premieres this fall
● Scandal
● Quantico

Cancelled Shows

● Blood & Oil
● Castle
● The Family
● Galavant
● Marvel’s Agent Carter
● Wicked City
● The Whispers
● Nashville
● Rookie Blue

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CBS

Renewed Shows

● 2 Broke Girls
● The Big Bang Theory
● Blue Bloods
● Code Black
● Criminal Minds
● Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders
● Elementary
● Hawaii Five-O
● Madam Secretary
● Mom
● NCIS Renewed for Seasons 14 and 15
● NCIS: Los Angeles
● NCIS: New Orleans
● The Odd Couple
● Scorpion
● Supergirl Renewed for Season 2 – on The CW.
● Survivor
● Undercover Boss
● Zoo

Cancelled Shows

● Angel From Hell
● CSI Cyber
● Extant
● The Good Wife
● Limitless
● Mike & Molly
● Person of Interest
● Rush Hour
● Under The Dome

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FOX

Renewed Shows

● American Idol
● Bob’s Burgers
● Bones: Renewed for 12th and final season
● Brooklyn Nine-Nine
● Empire
● Family Guy
● Gotham
● Hell’s Kitchen
● The Last Man on Earth
● Lucifer
● New Girl
● Rosewood
● Scream Queens
● The Simpsons
● Sleepy Hollow
● Wayward Pines

Long-Shot For Renewal

● Houdini & Doyle – Limited series finale airs June 27th

Possible Renewal

● The X Files Season 11

Cancelled Shows

● Boom
● Bordertown
● Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life
● Grandfathered
● The Grinder
● Minority Report
● Second Chance

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NBC

Renewed Shows

●Aquarius
● The Blacklist
● Blindspot
● Chicago Fire – Through Season 5
● Chicago Med
● Chicago P.D – Through Season 4
● Grimm
● Law & Order: SVU
● Little Big Shots
● The Night Shift: Season 3
● Shades of Blue
● Superstore
● The Voice
● The Carmichael Show

Cancelled Shows

● Crowded
● Game of Silence
● Hannibal
● Heartbeat
● Heroes Reborn
● Mr Roberson
● The Mysteries of Laura
● The Player
● Telenovela
● Truth Be Told
● Undateable

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CW

Renewed Shows

● The 100
● Arrow
● Beauty and the Beast – Forth and Final season airs in Summer 2016
● Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
● DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
● The Flash
● iZombie
● Jane the Virgin
● The Originals
● Reign
● Supernatural
● The Vampire Diaries

Cancelled Shows

● Containment – Premieres at midseason
● The Messengers
● Significant Mother

Moved Network
● Americas Next Top Model – Revived on Vh1 with new host

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FX

Renewed Shows

● American Horror Story
● Archer
● Baskets
● Fargo
● Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll
● The Americans
● The Strain
● Tyrant

Shows Still To Air

● Atlanta
● Better Things
● Feud
● Taboo
● Trust – Limited Series

Cancelled Shows

● The Bastard Executioner
● The Comedians

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SyFy

Renewed Shows

● 12 Monkeys
● Continuum
● Dark Matter
● The Expance
● Killjoys
● The Magicians
● Z Nation

Cancelled Shows

● Defiance
● Dominion

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A&E

Renewed Shows

● Bates Motel – For 5th season

Cancelled Shows

● Damien
● Longmire (moved to netflix)

Obviously I have had a bit of trouble finding info on A&E shows.

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SHOWTIME

Renewed Shows

● The Affair
● Billions
● Dark Net
● Homeland
● Penny Dreadful
● Shameless

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TNT

Renewed Shows

● Falling Skies – Through 5th/finale Season
● The Last Ship
● The Libraries
● Major Crimes
● Murder In the First
● Rizzoli & Isles

Cancelled Shows

● Agent X
● Legends
● Public Morals

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BBC AMERICA

Renewed Shows

● Almost Royal
● Doctor Who
● Orphan Black

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TBS

Renewed Shows

● American Dad
● The Detour

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HBO

Renewed Shows

● Ballers – Through Season 2
● Game of Thrones – Through Season 7
● Getting On – Through 3rd/final Season
● Girls – Through Season 6
● The Leftovers (final season)
● Silicon Valley
● Veep
● Vinyl

Cancelled Shows

● Togetherness

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AMC

Renewed Shows

● Better Call Saul
● Into the Badlands

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STARZ

Renewed Shows

● Black Sails
● The Missing
● Outlander
● Power
● Survivor’s Remorse

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NETFLIX

Renewed Shows

● Bloodline – Through Season 2
● Bojack Horseman – Through Season 3
● Daredevil – Through Season 2
● Hemlock Grove
● Narcos
● Orange is the New Black

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AMAZON/AMAZON PRIME

Renewed Shows

● Bosch
● The Man in the High Castle
● Transparent

Cancelled Shows

● Mad Dogs

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COMEDY CENTRAL

Renewed Shows

● Broad City – Through Season 5
● South Park

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PBS

Renewed Shows

● Call The Midwife
● Grantchester
● Sherlock

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HULU

Renewed Shows

● Casual
● Difficult People
● The Mindy Project
● The Path

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USA

Renewed Shows

● Colony
● Graceland
● Mr Robot
● Playing House
● Royal Pains

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LIFETIME

Renewed Shows

● Devious Maids – Through Season 3

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RENEWED SHOWS  (Not sure of network home)

● Fear the Walking Dead
● The Fosters
● From Dusk Till Dawn
● Fuller House
● The Game
● Portlandia
● The Royals
● Salem
● Schitt’s Creek
● Scream
● Shadowhunters
● Spotless
● Star Wars: Rebels
● Teacher
● Teen Wolf
● Turn: Washington’s Spies
● Underground
● UnReal
● Vikings
● Younger
● Young & Hungry

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PIVOT

Renewed Shows

● Fortitude

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AMC

Renewed Shows

● Halt and Catch Fire
● Hell on Wheels
● The Walking Dead

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FXX

Renewed Shows

● Always Sunny in Philadelphia
● The League
● Man Seeking Woman
● You’re the Worst

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BBC

Renewed Shows

● Peaky Blinders
● Top of The Lake

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Below is everything I could find on new shows for the 2016-17 season. Don’t hold out a lot of hope for them, seems to be a lot of remakes instead of being creative and giving us some original content…Its getting boring with constant remakes of shows.

NBC’s  NEW SHOWS

●The Good Place

Staring: Kristin Bell & Ted Danson. Creator Mike Schur (Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine) making this a much-watch series. When Eleanor Shellstrop (Bell) arrives at titular Good Place after being hit by a truck her mentor Michael (Danson) tell her she made it there because she helped innocent people get off death row. Only one problem: She didn’t actually do that. Comedy gold? Maybe.

● Timeless

Staring: Abigail Spencer
In Timeless, a criminal steals a secret government time machine, and Homeland Security seeks out a history professor (Abigail Spencer) to lead a team that will travel back to restore the timeline and save history of America.

●Marlon

Staring: Marlon Wayans, Essence Atkins, Notlim Taylor, Amir O’Neil, Bresha Webb and Diallo Riddle
“Marlon” is inspired by the real life of the titular comedian, Marlon Wayans, who plays a loving but immature father committed to co-parenting his two kids with his ex-wife.

●Great News

Staring: Briga Heelan, Andera Martin, Adam Campbell, John Michael Higgins and Kimrie Lewis-Davis
Briga is an up-and-coming news producer whose overbearing mother (Martin) re-enters the workforce with a job as an intern at the station where Katie works.

●Trial and Error

Staring: Nichols D’Agosto, John Lithgow, Krysta Rodriguez, Steven Boyer and Sherri Shepherd
In this outrageous fish-out-of-water comedy, bright-eyed New York lawyer Josh Segal (D’Agosto) heads to a tiny Southern town for his first big case. His mission? To defend an eccentric, “rollercizing” poetry professor Larry (Lithgow), accused of the bizarre murder of his beloved wife.

●Powerless

Staring: Vanessa Hudgens, Alan Tudyk, Danny Pudi and Christina Hudgens
Emily (Hudgens), a spunky young insurance adjuster specializing in regular-people coverage against damage caused by crime-fighting superheroes.

●Chicago Justice

Staring: Philip Winchester, Carl Weathers, Nazneen Contractor and Marina Squerciati
Dick Wolf delivers a captivating new installment to the hit “Chicago” franchise. Just like their brethren in the Chicago P.D., the State’s Attorney’s dedicated team of prosecutors and investigators navigates heated city politics and controversy head-on while fearlessly pursuing justice. As they take on the city’s high stakes and often media-frenzied cases, they must balance public opinion, power struggles within the system and their unwavering passion for the law.

●Taken

Staring: Clive Standen
Is a modern-day, edege-of-your-seat thriller that follows the origin story of younger, hungrier former Green Beret Bryan Mills (Standen) as he deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world. As he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge, Mills is pulled into a career as a deadly CIA operative, a job that awakens his very particular, and very dangerous, set of skills.

●The Blacklist: Redemption

In this new spinoff of NBC’s hit series, undercover operative Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold) joins forces with Susan “Scottie” Hargrave (Famke Janssen), the brilliant and cunning chief of Grey Matters, a covert mercenary organization that solves problems governments don’t dare touch. While on the hunt for Liz’s attacker, Tom secretly discovered that Scottie is actually his biological mother. Now, as they team up to employ their unique skills and resources in a dangerous world of deadly criminals, Tom begins his own covert mission to find out more about his shadowy past.

●Midnight, Texas

Staring: François Arnaud, Dylan Bruce, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Arielle Kebbel, Sarah Ramos, Peter Mensah, Yul Vazquez and Sean Bridgers
Based on the hit book series from author Charlaine Harris (“True Blood”), comes a journey into a remote Texas town where no one is who they seem. From vampires and witches to psychics and hit men, Midnight is a mysterious safe haven for those who are different. As the town members fight off outside pressures from rowdy biker gangs, ever-suspicious cops and their own dangerous pasts,they band together and form a strong and unlikely family.

●This Is Us

Staring: Manny Moore, Milo Ventimiglia and Sterling K. Brown
The series follows a unique ensemble whose paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways. We find several of them share the same birthday, and so much more then anyone would expect

● Emerald City

Staring: Adria Arjona and Vincent D’Onofrio
In the blink of a tornado’s eye, 20-year-old Dorothy Gale (Arjona) and a K9 police dog are swept into a world far removed from our own – mystical land of competing realms, lethal warriors, dark magic and a bloody battle for supremacy. Vincent D’Onofrio as the guileful Wizard and directed by the visionary Tarsem Singh across three European countries, this is Oz completely re-imagined.

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FOX’s NEW SHOWS

● Son of Zorn

Staring: Jason Sudekis, Johnny Pemberton, Cheryl Hines, Tim Meadows.
The latest show from Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Zorn (Jason Sudekis) is an animated warrior in the style of He-Man who rules an isolated kingdom in the Pacific Ocean. He leaves that world behind and makes the journey to Orange County to reunite with his son Alan (Johnny Pemberton) and ex-wife (Cheryl Hines), who’s now engaged to Craig (Tim Meadows).

● Star

Staring: Jude Demorest, Brittany O’Grady, Ryan Destiny.
Featuring: Queen Latifah, Lenny Kravitz and Benjamin Bratt
Star (Jude Demorest) is an 18-year-old gifted singer who spent much of her life in the foster system. She takes her sister Simone (Brittany O’Grady) and moves to Atlanta to meet their godmother Carlotta (Latifah), and start a girl group with Alexandra (Ryan Destiny).

●Pitch

Staring: Kylie Bunbury, Mo McRae
Pitch is a combination of the real-life story of Little League pitcher Mo’ne Davis, who captivated baseball fans in 2014, and something like Rookie if the Year. Ginny (Kylie Bunbury) is the first woman to play in Major League Baseball, a pitcher called up by San Diego Padres. But instead of an injury granting her magical throwing powers, she’s developed a mean screwball, a pitch built after years of practice with her father Blip (Mo McRae).

●Making History

Staring: Adam Pally
Making History centers on Dan (Adam Pally), a sad sack computer science professor who invents a time machine and uses it to spend his weekends exploiting his knowledge of the future to make friends and become popular in colonial America.

●A.P.B

Staring: Justin Kirk
A tech billionaire (Kirk) who purchases a struggling police precinct after a loved one is killed. His hope is to use innovative tech to stop criminals.

●Prison Break

Staring: Dominic Purcell, Sarah Wayne Callies and Wentworth Miller
The revival centers around Lincoln (Purcell) and Sara (Callies) as they learn Michael (Miller) isn’t dead, but rather stuck in a Yemeni.

●The Exorcist

Staring: Geena Davis and Alfonso Herrera
Another TV reboot of a classic film, it will be more of a modern take on the novel and 70’s movie

●Lethal Weapon

Staring: Damon Wayans and Clayne Crawford
Yep you guessed it another reboot of a classic film

●24: Legacy

Staring: Corey Hawkins
The saga continues with Eric Carter (Hawkins), a man who turn to CTU to help him save his life while also working to stop a terror threat.

●Shots Fired

Staring: Sanaa Lathan, Stephan James, Helen Hunt, Richard Dreyfus and Stephen Moyer.
A compelling event series examining the dangerous aftermath of racially charged shootings in a small Southern town

●The Mick

Staring: Kaitlin Olson
From producers of “its Always Sunny in Philadelphia”, “The Mick” is a no-holds-barred single-camera comedy that follows Mackenzie, aka “Mickey” (Olson), a brash, two-bit hustler for Rhode Island who must assume guardianship of her sister’s three high-maintenance children. As irresponsible as Mickey has been her entire life, she may discover that responsibility isn’t the buzzkill she always thought it would be.

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ABC’s NEW SHOWS

● Conviction

Staring: Hayley Atwell
Hayley Atwell is Hayes Morrison, a former First Daughter who has a drug problems, among others, that are getting in the way of her mother’s Senate campaign. To keep from going to prison, Morrison accepts a jobs the head of a Conviction Integrity Unit in New York City, tasked with re-examining cases to determine wrongful conviction.

●Designated Survivor

Staring: Kiefer Sutherland
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Tom Kirkman (Sutherland) is the titular designee, who gets sequestered during the State of the Union. When an explosion destroys the Capitol Building, Kirkman is the next in line for the presidency.

●Still Star-crossed

Based on the novel by Melinda Taub, and created by Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal writer Heather Mitchell, the fifth ABC show from Shonda Rhimes uses the ends of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as its starting point. It’s hammy in the way CW’s historical romance Reign and Starz’s Outlander, but this genre has a dedicated following, and Rhimes has displayed a golden touch that dewarfs other major executive producers.

●American Housewife

Staring: Katy Mixon
Katie Otto (Katy Mixon), a confident, unapologetic wife and mother of three, raises her flawed family in the wealthy town of Wesport, Connecticut, filled with “perfect” mommies and their “perfect” offspring.

●Imaginary Mary

Staring: Jenna Elfman
Alice (Elfman) is fiercely independent career woman whose life is turned upside-down when she meets the love of her life – a divorced father with three kids. The triggers even more upheaval when she slightly unhinged imaginary friend she created as a child suddenly reappears to help her navigate the transition from single girl to a woman ready for a family.

●Notorious

Staring: Piper Perabo and Daniel Sunjata
Is inspired by the true-life stories of famed criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos and cable news producer Wendy Walker, who serve as executive producers. The series is a provocative look at the unique, sexy and dangerous interplay of criminal law and the media

●Downward Dog

Staring: Allison Tolman
Is a comedy that follows a lovelorn woman through the eyes of her dog.

●Time After Time

Staring: Freddie Stroma and Josh Bowman
Follows the story of a young H.G. Wells as he attempts to track Jack the Ripper through time.

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CBS’s NEW SHOWS

● The Great Indoors

Staring: Joel McHale
Joel McHale is an outdoorsman returning to a magazine where he’s now the sole Gen Xer in a sea of Millennials might just work.

●Bull

Staring: Michael Weatherly, Freddy Rodriguez, Geneva Carr
Weatherly stars as Dr. Jason Bull in a drama inspired by the early career of Dr. Phil McGraw, the founder of one of the most prolific trial consulting firms of all times. Bull employs an enviable team of experts at Trial Analysis Corporation, including his quick-witted brother-in-law, Benny Colón (Rodriguez) who plays a defense attorney in mock trials; Marissa Morgan (Carr), a cutting-edge neurolinguistics expert from the Department of Homeland Security.
●Kevin Can Wait

Staring: Kevin James and Erinn Hayes
A newly retired police officer looking forward to spending carefree, quality time with his wife (Hayes) and three kids, only to discover he faces tougher challenges at home then he ever did on the streets.

●Man with a Plan

Staring: Matt LeBlanc
A comedy about a contractor who starts spending more time with his kids when his wife returns to work, and he discovers the truth every parent eventually realizes: their little angels are maniacs.

●MacGyver

Staring: Lucas Till and George Eads
A  re-imagining of the classic series, is an action-adventure drama about 20-something Angus “Mac” MacGyver who creates a clandestine organization within the U.S. government where he uses his extraordinary talent for unconventional problem solving and vast scientific knowledge to save lives. Joining his team on high-risk missions around the globe is maverick former CIA agent Lincoln (Eads).
Under the aegis of the Department of External Affairs, MacGyver takes on the responsibility of saving the world, armed to the teeth with resourcefulness and little more than bubble gum and a paper clip.

●Pure Genius

Staring: Augustus Prew and Dermot Mulroney
A cutting-edge medical drama about James Bell (Prew), a young Silicon Valley tech titan, who enlists Walter Wallace (Mulroney), a brilliant veteran surgeon with a controversial past, to run a state-of-the-art hospital with an ultramodern approach to medicine.

●Training Day

Staring: Bill Paxton and Justin Cornwall
A crime drama that begins 15 years after the events of the feature film, starring Paxton as Frank Rourke, a hardened morally ambiguous detective for the LAPD, and Cornwell as Kyle Craig, a young, idealistic officer tapped to go undercover as his trainee and spy on him.

● Doubt

Staring: Katherine Heigl, Laverne Cox, Dreama Walker
Sadie Ellis (Heigl), a brilliant attorney at a boutique firm who starts to fall for her charismatic client, an altruistic pediatric surgeon recently accused of murdering his girlfriend 24 years ago. Sadie’s colleagues include Cameron Wirth (Cox), a transgender Ivy League graduate who fights passionately for her clients since she’s experienced injustice first hand, and Tiffany Simon (Walker), a second-year associate who is quickly learning the ropes.

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CW’s NEW SHOWS

●Frequency

Staring: Peyton List and Riley Smith
This drama reimagines the 2000 film of the same name, following a female police detective (List) in 2016 who discovers she is able to speak via a ham radio with her estranged father (Smith) who died in 1996. The forge a new relationship while working together on an unresolved murder case, but unintended consequences of the “butterfly effect” wreak havoc in the present day.

●No Tomorrow

Staring: Tori Anderson and Joshua Sasse
When a risk-averse, straight arrow, female procurement manager (Anderson) at an Amazon-like distribution center falls in love with a freewheeling man who lives life to the fullest (Sasse) because he believes the apocalypse is imminent, they embark on a quest together to fulfill their individual bucket lists, to comedic and poignant results.

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There you have it guys, the list of what is happening in the TV world for 2016-17.

ABC’s ‘Agents of SHIELD’ To Get “Edgier” For Season 4

ABC’s fall line-up revealed that their seminal Marvel-show Agents of SHIELD, will move to a later time slot at in an effort to be in lieu with Netflix‘s darker comic-book offerings.

Speaking with the press, ABC President Channing Dungey explained the move in order “to go a little bit edgier, go a little darker and take some risks.“

Although Agents of SHIELD has found its audience. The show has never been the ratings success that ABC hoped for back in 2013. Debuting with an 8pm time slot, the show was soon moved to 9 before ultimately finding itself at 10pm for season 4, effectively losing the kids market.

The channel is in no doubt seeking a new audience in leaning towards the dark side. But a change in tone would put Agents of SHIELD in step with Netflix’s already mature superhero shows like Daredevil, Jessica Jones and their upcoming Luke Cage and Iron Fist ventures.

With regards to future of Marvel television on ABC, Dungey revealed that “We are in extensive conversations with Marvel. I had a really long talk with Dan Buckley from Marvel last week. We’re very excited about a few things we have in development. We think there’s a long future ahead and excited to explore it together.”

Specifics aren’t clear as to what exactly ABC have planned. But even with the throughly popular Agent Carter receiving its marching orders last week, it seems that the network are still committed to producing Marvel centric shows on their programming for the foreseeable future.

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‘Pacific Rim 2’ Finds A New Director

Pacific Rim 2 may be back on track but at the expense of Guillermo del Toro, who has handed over Directorial duties to Netflix’s Daredevil Showrunner Steven DeKnight.

According to Deadline, the Buffy The Vampire Slayer writer and Spartacus creator will make his Feature Film Directorial debut with the 3D sequel while Del Toro will remain Producer on the epic Kaiju vs Mechs franchise. Prometheus (2012) scribe Jon Spaihts will pen the movie based on characters created by Travis Beachman and Del Toro with Legendary’s Warcraft executive producer Jillian Share also on board.

Little details are known about monster and machine beat ’em up sequel besides the tentative title Pacific Rim Maelstrom and the announcement that leading man Charlie Human is expected to make a return as hero Raleigh Becket. But curiously enough, Del Toro favourite Ron Pearlman has also been rumoured to step back into the Golden Tipped Boots of Hannibal Chau as well, even though the blackmarket Kaiju dealer met his gristly end in the first instalment.

The news marks the first piece of positive information regarding Warner Bros. and Legendary’s planned franchise after the films dogged history in getting a sequel off the ground. Only last November did Del Toro disclosed that shooting had been postponed with reports also indicating that the film had been cancelled indefinitely.

Pacific Rim was a surprised hit for Legendary, grossing $411 million worldwide with 75% of that figure due to overseas market, proving a big hit with China where it made $111 million.

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