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NBC has taken Taken away from us

Looks like you’ve seen the last of former Green Beret Bryan Mills running around punching goons and muttering things…

Alex McLevy

5/11/18 1:52PM

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Liam Neeson is finally tired of doing action movies

Citing the fact that he’s kind of an old man and the whole thing is getting pretty silly, Liam Neeson has declared…

Sam Barsanti

9/12/17 3:04PM

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FilmFeaturesA History Of Violence

Liam Neeson describes his particular set of skills and a new action craze is born

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NBC hopes to resurrect “Must See TV” with its fall schedule

Thanks to the success of This Is Us and the presumed success of its Will And Grace revival, NBC has found itself…

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NBC is taken with Taken, renews it for another season

NBC’s Taken series—based on the Liam Neeson movies about the guy with particular set of skills whose family keeps…

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The Raid movies are master classes in action filmmaking

The Raid is one of those action movies that leaves you feeling sort of clammy and exhausted afterward, a gauntlet of…

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The Neeson-less Taken turns a hit movie into a TV dud

Taken, the French-made thriller that put Liam Neeson on a path to unlikely action stardom, did not beg for a sequel (…

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

2/27/17 10:51AM

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Once more, with feeling: This is <i>The Voice</i>!

Once more, with feeling: This is The Voice!

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Monday, February 27. All times are Eastern.

LaToya Ferguson

2/27/17 12:00AM

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<i>The A.V. Club </i>tells you what to watch in 2017

The A.V. Club tells you what to watch in 2017

With the winter and spring TV premieres looking to match their fall counterparts in scope and anticipation, we’ll…

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Les Chappell,

Marah Eakin,

and Dennis Perkins

1/04/17 12:00AM

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First <i>Taken</i> trailer shows off its particular set of skills

First Taken trailer shows off its particular set of skills

Early on in the first Taken movie, Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) teases a “particular set of skills” that will not only…

Danette Chavez

12/14/16 3:34PM

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Black market buys: 8 examples of illegal economies in film and TV

While there’s plenty of excitement to be found in the wide world of capitalism, some of the most compelling economic…

Fusion

11/11/16 8:00AM

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Today on Amazon: <i>Taken</i>,<i> Game Of Thrones</i>, and a great deal on memory cards

Today on Amazon: Taken, Game Of Thrones, and a great deal on memory cards

In an effort to both serve our readers and help support The A.V. Club, we are going to post daily links to deals and…

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Jennifer Beals will play the mentor on NBC’s Taken prequel series

Seven years after finishing her arc on Showtime’s The L Word, actress Jennifer Beals is moving down the alphabet to…

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The Taken trilogy reduced to 90 numbing seconds of pure carnage

Liam Neeson probably could not have guessed, when he first hired on to portray retired CIA agent Bryan Mills in…

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Vikings’ Clive Standen to learn a particular set of skills on the Taken TV show

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Vikings star Clive Standen will portray CIA operative Brian Mills in NBC’s strai…

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The West Wing’s Alex Graves to take on NBC’s Taken pilot

Perhaps realizing that a launching prequel that doesn’t take place in the past could prove…unwieldy, NBC has nabbed…

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NBC something something set of skills something something Taken TV show

Utilizing its particular set of skills—in this case, a talent for noticing that something was kind of popular in the…

William Hughes

9/17/15 9:33PM

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Not without my daughter: 18-plus movies about rescuing children

The Taken series has allowed Liam Neeson to launch a new career playing frighteningly capable, quietly seething old…

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Gwen Ihnat,

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Kevin Johnson,

Katie Rife,

Drew Toal,

Becca James,

Noel Murray,

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Liam Neeson threatens to quit kicking ass

It seems we may not have Liam Neeson around much longer to get back all those taken humans he’s so good at…

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Liam Neeson helpfully informs American parents that Taken is fiction

Who can take anything ”big media” says as the truth anymore? Sure, they may tell you that the movies Hollywood makes…

Alex McLevy

1/06/15 1:59PM

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