James Frain (‘True Blood’) interview
British born actor James Frain (Prime Suspect, 24) joined the cast of the award winning series True Blood in Season 3, playing the dangerously sexy vampire Franklin.
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British born actor James Frain (Prime Suspect, 24) joined the cast of the award winning series True Blood in Season 3, playing the dangerously sexy vampire Franklin.
BBC One’s business entertainment series The Apprentice is back for a seventh series, as a new line-up of corporate contenders face Lord Sugar in the battle for boardroom supremacy. We’ve picked out ten teasing lines from the third episode!
“Cancer is not a gift; cancer is not a passport to a better life.” So says Laura Linney as Cathy, the lead in the US channel Showtime’s new dark sitcom, The Big C. Kinney’s line, in rebuke to some happy-clapping Bible support group members, could also be taken as a rejection of possible preconceptions about this show.
If you grew up any-time between the late sixties and the early nineties, the chances are you may remember a curious clutch of kitsch science fiction shows under the stable of the prolific TV and film producer Irwin Allen. No? Well, how about the names Lost In Space, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea and this release, Land Of The Giants?
Doctor Gabriel Monroe (James Nesbitt), the titular and principal character in Peter Bowker’s entertaining ITV1 drama series, is a neurosurgeon at St Matthew’s Hospital in Leeds. His wit is as incisive as his scalpel and his private life is as messily traumatic as the injuries of the people upon whom he operates.
The second season of Nurse Jackie demonstrates quite how wonderful and under-rated this show is. Edie Falco was consistently one of the best things about The Sopranos over its six season tenure and so a starring TV vehicle for the actress was warmly welcomed when Nurse Jackie premiered in 2009.
A new époque is ushered in at ad agency Sterling Cooper as Mad Men goes from strength to strength with its fourth season, set in the heart of the swinging sixties.
1973’s four-part ‘Carnival Of Monsters’ comes just on the wrong side of ‘classic’ Jon Pertwee and as such is unlikely to be sleeping in the memories of many baby-boomers – no giant green maggots or Sea Devils here – but it’s still a sharply defined adventure.
The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough arrive in 1980s London, finding themselves embroiled in a plot involving some old villains and a couple of guest stars from the world of light entertainment.
The third and seemingly final run of metal’s best fake cartoon band continues the high bloodening of the previous shows of yore.