Television comes back with a vengeance this month, as the start of the traditional broadcast season syncs up with the never-ending deluge of fresh content from streaming services and cable channels. With that in mind, The A.V. Club is breaking down its usual fall TV preview into monthly installments; we’ll be back in…
Stephen Colbert and Candice Bergen added some spice to CBS’s upfront presentation today, with the Late Show openly mocking the president from the dais while the Murphy Brown star made meta-jabs from within a trailer for the revival. We have that preview and more in today’s installment of Trailer Happy Hour: Upfronts…
Ensuring that there’s nothing pedestrian or un-supercharged about CBS’s upcoming reboot of Magnum P.I., the network has announced that it’s tapped frequent Fast And Furious director Justin Lin to handle its already-ordered pilot for the upcoming series. This is according to Deadline, which reports that Lin—whose past…
Like a depressed shut-in, drowning their anxieties in the muted pleasures of an endless series of ’80s reruns, CBS only wants to watch Magnum P.I. and Cagney And Lacey right now. This is per Variety, which reports that the network announced today that it was ordering pilots for series reboots of both of the classic TV…
John Hillerman—the prolific actor best known for playing priggish Tom Sellick foil Jonathan Higgins on eight seasons of ’80s action hit Magnum P.I.—has died. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hillerman—whose other credits include Blazing Saddles, dozens of one-shot TV roles, and a number of films under the…
As we speak, actors around Hollywood are presumably priming and grooming their upper lips, as Variety reports that the TV gods have decreed that it’s once again time to try to bring Magnum P.I. back to life. This new take on the military-vet-turned-Hawaii-detective series is a separate project from ABC’s failed bid to…
According to Deadline, ABC has just announced that it’s developing a new Magnum, P.I. series with Leverage creator John Rogers and Eva Longoria’s UnbeliEVAble Entertainment production company. This won’t just be some shameless cash-in on the lasting appeal of the Magnum, P.I. brand, though, it’ll be a totally new…
Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.
With so many new series popping up on streaming services and DVD, it gets harder and harder to keep up with recent shows, much less the all-time classics. With TV Club 10, we point you toward the 10 episodes that best represent a TV series, classic or modern. They might not be the 10 best episodes, but they’re the 10…
