Exclusive interview: Nicola Walker on playing Hannah Sterne in The Split

Sundance brings The Split to the smallscreen tonight from Emmy and BAFTA-winning creator and writer Abi Morgan. The series stars Nicola Walker as Hannah Sterne, and is both a family and legal drama where two sisters are attorneys, their mum is an attorney, and the baby sister is sorting it all out and contemplating a marriage.

Deadliest Catch exclusive: Sig Hansen gets some payback after being pranked

On tonight’s Deadliest Catch on Discovery, Northwestern captain Sig Hansen gets some payback after son-in-law Clark Pederson pranked him. Sig is not one to forget such a familial sleight no matter how funny it was, so it’s time for the feisty Norwegian-American fisherman to extract some prank karma. The long arm of Captain Sig will

Exclusive preview of Vida on STARZ: Sisters come clean about their sex lives

On Sunday’s steamy episode of Vida, we learn a great deal about the love lives of Emma (Mishel Prada) and Lyn (Melissa Barrera), the Mexican-American sisters who are back home safe and sound in their old home in East L.A. The two were brought there to settle family business because of the untimely death of

Exclusive: Barry star Paula Newsome on Det. Janice Moss, ‘rarified air’ and unraveling a murder

In Barry on HBO, actor Paula Newsome portrays Detective Janice Moss, the thorough fly in midwestern hitman Barry Berkman’s ointment. The talented thespian’s steely and secretly sultry detective has galvanized Barry’s narcissistic acting coach Gene Cousineau, played marvelously by Henry Winkler, to become a besotted suitor. HBO’s wonderful dramedy is all about the extenuating circumstances. Newsome

Drinks, Crime and Prohibition examines alcohol ban’s huge impact on American history

Nearly a hundred years after the US Government outlawed alcohol, Smithsonian Channel’s two-part limited series Drinks, Crime and Prohibition, examines the ban on alcohol in America, and the resultant windfalls and human carnage that it exacted. The era boasted the Speakeasy culture, the birth of cocktails (meant to mask the terrible quality of the booze)

Patrick Melrose on Showtime is a painful, brilliant effort | Review

WARNING: Slight spoilers below There was really no one better than Benedict Cumberbatch to portray Patrick Melrose. Showtime’s harrowing adaptation of Edward St. Aubyn’s novels depict the horrors of a half-known life of English privilege and waning aristocracy within a dysfunctional family. Based on the trailer, there appears to be a happier ending to what

Exclusive: ‘Genius’ star Samantha Colley on Dora Maar’s parting with Picasso

This week’s Genius: Picasso closes with Dora Maar undergoing an intense electroshock therapy treatment after her romantic relationship with Pablo Picasso has, for all intents and purposes, ended. It shows the pattern of how Picasso affected and treated his lovers over time but especially Maar (Samantha Colley), who he considered more an equal in terms