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The WGA East’s second Showrunner Academy gets underway today, with the 31-member class taking part in a program designed to support television writer-producers, upper-level writers and new show creators in honing the skills necessary to become successful showrunners and TV industry leaders.

The Academy, which provides instruction from current showrunners and other industry professionals on a wide range of topics, is led by Diana Son and Frank Pugliese.

“Being a showrunner is so much more than being the creative voice of the show,” Son said in a statement. “It’s also managing a multimillion-dollar endeavor with over 100 employees. We’re bringing in accomplished and experienced showrunners who’re willing to share the breadth of their experience – the good, bad and the ugly – so new showrunners can have a head start on figuring out what kind of showrunner they’re going to be.

Talk show host Ziwe, playwright Hilary Bettis and journalist Gabriel Sherman are among the 30 participants set for the WGA East’s first Showrunner Academy program.

The program aims to help established writers gain the training and skills needed to advance to showrunners. The academy will be led by veteran showrunners Diana Son (“Law & Order: Criminal Intent”) and Frank Pugliese (“House of Cards”).

The program, which runs through November, and will include a host of panels and workshops led by prominent writers and showrunners. The list includes: “Things to Know Before Running Your First Series” with Meredith Scardino, Rj Fried and Sarah Treem; “Crisis and Risk Management for Showrunners” with Glen Mazzara; “Managing Multiple Series in Development” with Tina Fey and Robert Carlock; “Hiring Writers” with Michelle King and Elizabeth Kruger; “Managing a Comedy Writers Room and Managing a Drama Writers Room” with Carly Mensch, Liz Flahive and David Simon...

TNT‘s The Alienist was one of the best TV shows of 2018. An adaptation of Caleb Carr’s crime novel of the same name, the first season followed Daniel Brühl‘s psychologist protagonist Laszlo Kreizler as he investigated an ongoing string of child murders in New York City circa 1896 with the help of Luke Evans‘ illustrator character John Schuyler Moore and Dakota Fanning‘s police secretary character Sara Moore.

In August of 2018, TNT announced they would be making a second season of the drama, based on Carr’s second novel in the series: The Angel of Darkness, meaning The Alienist season 2 is now called The Alienist: Angel of Darkness. Additionally, House of Cards‘ Frank Pugliese is onboard as the showrunner for the second season.

It’s been a long wait but the show is now almost here. Here’s everything else we know.

The Alienist: Angel of Darkness Release Date...

The WGA East today announced the second crop of fellows for its Made in NY Writers Room, a program that provides mentorship, industry access and financial support to underrepresented writers who live in New York City and seek to tell stories that are not often depicted on television. The program is a joint effort with the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and the city’s Department of Small Business Services.

This year’s 10 fellows, who will each receive a $10,800 stipend, are playwright Harron Atkins, showrunner’s assistant Yasmine Cadet, writer’s production assistant Joseph Capuana, writer and storyboard artist Michael Lee, writer Catherine Loerke, comedy promo writer Vincent Lopez, comedian Jordan Mendoza, playwright and librettist Jerome Parker, children’s television writer Michael Rodrigue, and entertainment journalist Pilot Viruet. More than half of the inaugural group of fellows are actively working in the industry.

“We are very pleased...

Exclusive: Former Heathers star Melanie Field is set as a series regular in TNT’s The Angel of Darkness, a limited series based on the sequel to author Caleb Carr’s best-selling The Alienist. In addition, newcomer Rosy McEwen is set for a recurring role in the series co-produced by Paramount Television and Turner’s Studio T.

The Alienist’s lead cast, including Daniel Brühl (Rush), Luke Evans (The Girl on the Train) and Dakota Fanning (American Pastoral), will return for The Angel of Darkness with a new storyline that finds Sara Howard (Fanning), who has opened her own private detective agency, enlisting the help of Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Brühl) and John Moore (Evans) to hunt down an elusive killer.

Field will play Bitsy Sussman, an industrious young protege at the Sara Howard Detective Agency who looks to Sara for professional guidance but who brings her own warmth and New...

Kayti Burt May 15, 2019

TNT has ordered a second season of The Alienist. Here's everything we know...

TNT's The Alienist was one of the best TV shows of 2018. An adaptation of Caleb Carr's crime novel of the same name, the first season followed Daniel Brühl's psychologist protagonist Laszlo Kreizler as he investigated an ongoing string of child murders in New York City circa 1896 with the help of Luke Evans' illustrator character John Schuyler Moore and Dakota Fanning's police secretary character Sara Moore.

read more: The Alienist Season 1 Finale Review

In August, TNT announced they would be making a second season of the drama, based on Carr's second novel in the series: The Angel of Darkness. The sequel season to The Alienist is expected to be titled The Angel of Darkness, which is an interesting move. Here's everything else we know.

The Alienist Season 2 Release Date

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Question: Why haven’t we heard anything about Tina Majorino joining the upcoming Veronica Mars revival? Should we be worried about not seeing Mac? —Jordan

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Question: With Helen getting a new boyfriend on The Affair, what does that mean...

[Editor’s note: The following post contains spoilers for “House of Cards” Season 8, in particular the last episode.]

The final season of “House of Cards” has been available to stream on Netflix for less than week, but numerous fans have already devoured the last eight episodes and are now divided over where the series leaves Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) and Doug Stamper (Michael Kelly). The show’s final moments depict two major shockers: Doug is revealed to be Frank’s murderer and Claire ends up murdering Doug. The final shot of the series is Claire holding Doug’s dead body.

Speaking to Vulture, Kelly revealed he only found out himself that Doug killed Frank when he was filming the penultimate episode. Doug decides to kill Frank after he discovers Frank intends to kill Claire. Doug’s main motivation throughout the series was to protect and uphold Frank’s political legacy, which is the reason he took matters into his...

[Editor’s note: The following post contains spoilers for “House of Cards” Season 8, in particular the last episode.]

“House of Cards” has finally come to an end, but fans aren’t exactly thrilled with how the series concluded. In the series finale, Doug Stamper (Michael Kelly) revealed he was the one who murdered Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey) in an attempt to protect his legacy. Stamper had previously discovered Frank was going to kill Claire Underwood (Robin Wright). The final moments of the series depict Claire murdering Doug, and the series ends with Claire holding Doug’s dead body.

The series finale baffled audiences and critics, with IndieWire television critic Ben Travers slamming the ending as “ludicrous,” but executive producers Frank Pugliese and Melissa James Gibson stand by their choices in a new interview with Entertaiment Weekly. Gibson said the final image of Claire holding Doug’s body allowed the series to come full circle.

“It was a little bit...

[This story contains Major spoilers from the entire sixth and final season of Netflix's House of Cards.]

"There. No more pain."

Those were the final words spoken by the surviving character on House of Cards — Claire Hale — before the Robin Wright-starring political saga faded to black for the final time. To hear showrunners Frank Pugliese and Melissa James Gibson tell it, the series finale of Netflix's first original series ended with an "inevitable showdown" between Claire (Wright) and Doug Stamper (Michael Kelly) over who killed Francis J. Underwood (formerly played by Kevin Spacey)....

Don Kaye Nov 2, 2018

House of Cards' showrunners tell us how they dealt with the exit of Kevin Spacey, the end of the show and more.

When House of Cards ended its fifth season with now-President Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) looking into the camera and saying, “My turn,” neither Wright, the rest of the cast and crew, nor showrunners Melissa James Gibson and Frank Pugliese could have known how prophetic those words would be.

But when lead actor Kevin Spacey was dismissed from the show after allegations of sexual misconduct were leveled against him, it necessitated that Francis Underwood -- who served as president before resigning under a cloud of investigations and corruption, allowing his wife and vice president Claire to take the seat -- be written out of the show.

Season six was originally going to be about the battle between Francis and Claire for control of the presidency and the White House,...

Andrew Husband Nov 9, 2018

We examine the last episode ever of House of Cards and what it means for the future of any possible spinoffs.

This article contains major House of Cards spoilers.

Despite the fact that Netflix cut ties with Kevin Spacey following the sexual assault allegations levied against him, his House of Cards character Frank Underwood remains a significant part of the show’s sixth and final season. He dies off-screen before the first bit of new footage pops up, of course, but his name is spoken aloud several times by the players who remain.

President Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) was supposedly the last person to see him alive, while his right-hand-man Doug Stamper (Michael Kelly) constantly suggests via his covert words and actions that he believes otherwise. As the final episode of House of Cards makes its way toward whatever conclusion showrunners Melissa James Gibson and Frank Pugliese...

Welcome to “Remote Controlled,” a podcast from Variety featuring the best and brightest in television, both in front of and behind the camera.

In this week’s episode, Variety‘s chief TV critic, Daniel D’Addario, speaks with actor Michael Kelly of “House of Cards,” and senior TV reporter Daniel Holloway speaks with Kelly’s new co-star, Greg Kinnear.

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Kelly returns as Doug Stamper in the sixth and final season of “Cards,” which arrived Nov. 2 on Netflix. He spent most of the show’s first five seasons playing against former series lead Kevin Spacey, who was written out of the show following real-life allegations of sexual misconduct.

“One of the greatest themes that I got to play this season was loss,” Kelly said. “Everything that he knew — his entire professional career — is just gone.” Kelly went into...

When Kevin Spacey was fired from “House of Cards” amid allegations of sexual misconduct, the show was already in production on a long-planned final season.

But after a hiatus — and a lobbying effort by series star Robin Wright — the show resumed without its leading man. It fell to co-showrunners Melissa James Gibson and Frank Pugliese to quickly craft a new ending that would resolve all of the onscreen machinations of Frank Underwood (Spacey) and his wife, Claire (Wright), who’d taken over the presidency in the final moments of Season 5.

Here, the showrunners tell Variety how they reacted to the news about Spacey, how much the finale reflects our current national obsession with politics, and what to expect of the drama’s final twists.

Knowing this was going to be the series finale, what did you want to accomplish?

Gibson: We wanted to end it with integrity. We wanted to...

“My turn.”

Those two words — which closed the Season 5 finale of “House of Cards” — could not have been more prophetic.

When the Netflix political potboiler returns for its sixth and final season on Nov. 2, Robin Wright’s first-lady-turned-commander-in-chief Claire Underwood will be in the seat of power. The character was always slated to move into the Oval Office, but with the hasty exit of star Kevin Spacey amid sexual harassment allegations, the transition was cemented.

Production was already under way when BuzzFeed published an interview on Oct. 29, 2017, with Anthony Rapp, detailing sexual abuse at the hands of Spacey when Rapp was just 14. The #MeToo firestorm, which had sparked a few weeks earlier with accusations against Harvey Weinstein, soon engulfed Spacey, as multiple allegations of similar behavior came to light. Netflix and Mrc, the studio that produces “House of Cards,” quickly shut down production; on Nov. 3, the actor was fired.

The...

What do you do, when the star of your TV show is fired and nearly brings the whole series down with him? For the cast and crew of the Netflix political drama “House of Cards,” the answer is simple: Be thankful you made Robin Wright the president.

The actions taken by Netflix and Mrc in the fall of 2017, following the exposure of Kevin Spacey’s alleged sexual misconduct just as production was beginning on the final season of “House of Cards,” have been thoroughly documented. But while showrunners Frank Pugliese and Melissa James Gibson had the benefit of installing Wright’s Claire Underwood as the new president to end Season 5, setting up a final season with Wright as the lead instead of Spacey, the period of time between the shutdown of production and the decision to bring it back was nerve-wracking.

“I got incredibly nervous that none of us were...

House of Cards season 6, the final act of Netflix’s popular series about political intrigue is a return to form... for the most part.

Yes, there is another season of Netflix’s House of Cards. Yes, it features many of the same things that have endeared its devoted fanbase and enraged its most critical reviewers since it became the first original streaming series ever to score significant Emmy Awards nominations in 2013. And yes, despite everything that happened as a result of the platform’s decision to fire star Kevin Spacey following numerous allegations of sexual misconduct, the Robin Wright-centric sixth and final season is quite good.

At the end of season five, Spacey’s Frank Underwood, the former congressman turned disgraced American president, has resigned. This act promotes his vice presidential wife, Wright’s Claire Underwood, to the highest executive office in the land. Despite the setback, however, the...

The final season of “House of Cards” is debuting November 2 on Netflix, but the cast won’t be promoting the series on “Megyn Kelly Today.” Netflix confirms showrunners Frank Pugliese and Melissa James Gibson have canceled their upcoming appearance on Kelly’s NBC morning talk show in the wake of the host’s controversial blackface comments. Pugliese and Gibson were going to be joined by “House of Cards” actors like Michael Kelly, but now no one is going to sit down with Kelly.

Kelly was heavily criticized following her October 23 episode, in which she took issue with people being upset about the use of blackface on Halloween. “But what is racist?” Kelly asked about white people donning blackface on the October holiday. “Because you do get in trouble if you’re a white person who puts on blackface for Halloween or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween.

Lets face it: Megyn Kelly is having one rotten week. Netflix has confirmed that some cast members and EPs from its House of Cards were set to guest on NBC’s Megyn Kelly Today but have pulled out amid the backlash over her on-air comments about blackface.

Stars of Netflix’s signature D.C. drama including Michael Kelly and showrunners Frank Pugliese and Melissa James Gibson had been set to promote the looming premiere of the show’s sixth and final season, but Netflix confirmed today that their summit is off.

Kelly drew ire for Tuesday’s comments about Halloween and blackface. She and a panel were dicussing campus attempts to discourage “inappropriate and offensive costumes” during the trick-or-treat season when Kelly asked: “What is racist? … You do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface for Halloween, or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween.

The cast of Netflix's House of Cards has pulled out of a scheduled appearance on Megyn Kelly Today following her controversial blackface comments made on air this week. 

A Netflix spokesperson confirmed that several castmembers from the Netflix political drama were scheduled to appear on the NBC show, the 9 a.m. hour of Today, next week, but canceled on Wednesday. NBC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

House of Cards' Robin Wright and Michael Kelly and showrunners Melissa James Gibson and Frank Pugliese had been promoting the sixth and final season of the Netflix ...

House of Cards‘ delayed sixth and final season makes its Netflix debut on Nov. 2 (read our mixed review here), but the sprint to the finish line will be shorter than originally intended. The dismissal of leading man Kevin Spacey and resulting reconstruction of Season 6 led the streamer to scrap the handful of episodes already in the can while also reducing the new season’s episode count from 13 to just 8. But, as showrunners Melissa James Gibson and Frank Pugliese tell TVLine, not all the pre-firing footage was lost.

In the following Q&A, the duo — who assumed control of House of Cards...

Robin Wright said returning to “House of Cards” after Kevin Spacey was fired when sexual misconduct allegations wasn’t as hard as one might think.

“We are all such a tight-knit family on that show and everyone was so dedicated to making the best of ‘House of Cards.’ What that meant was, we gotta close this out. Give the fans what they want,” Wright told Variety on Monday at the Los Angeles premiere of the sixth and final season of Netflix’s hit series. “Close out the story, come to the conclusion [Claire Underwood] was always meant to be the first female president.

“More importantly,” she continued, “was why not give these people who had jobs their security they expected and they deserved?”

Co-showrunner Melissa James Gibson said, “We have an amazing crew and an amazing team — many of whom have worked together for so many years — and everybody felt...

A series that was built around the chemistry between two actors — and that had been building toward a climactic showdown — is suddenly a solo act. And while the sixth and final season of “House of Cards” is as mixed a bag as the thrilling but uneven Netflix drama has yet produced, the good news is that Robin Wright is up to the task of anchoring the show.

After all, since the earliest episodes, Wright has been the not-so-secret weapon of “House of Cards,” playing a character whose astringent refusal to yield to emotion balanced the more ornate performance of Kevin Spacey as her ambitious but weaker-willed husband. It was a well-tuned duet in which she did all the calibration, constructing a careful performance around his Shakespearean floridity.

With Spacey now fired from the show due to allegations of past sexual misconduct, Wright is on her own. And the spotlight suits her.

In its final season, “House of Cards” buries Kevin Spacey in a shallow grave — so shallow, you can still hear Frank Underwood knocking. Killed off as a means to excuse Spacey’s sudden absence from the series, following his termination a year ago for alleged sexual harassment, Francis still steers the ship. More than half the final season passes before “House of Cards” feels like Claire Underwood’s (Robin Wright) story instead of his epilogue, and even when she starts to see her vision borne out, the lingering questions are all about Frank. Despite the hype, Season 6 isn’t Claire’s show. It’s still Frank’s, which undercuts the season’s many attempts at women-first stories and keeps momentum stagnant.

Really, in its dying hours “House of Cards” becomes a murder-mystery. Seeing it this way provides a bit of goofy levity to a series always toeing the line between pompous prestige and soapy melodrama,...

I feel compelled to grade House of Cards‘ sixth and final season on a curve. Or at the very least with an asterisk attached to it.

In case you’ve just awakened from an 11-month coma, last fall Netflix fired the series’ leading man Kevin Spacey one month into production amid a growing sexual-misconduct scandal. By December, the streamer announced that it would scrap the three episodes previously shot and start Season 6 over with a drastically streamlined narrative (eight episodes vs. 13) that centered squarely on Robin Wright‘s newly-minted Potus, Claire Underwood.

It’s hard to imagine a more daunting...

The final chapter of Netflix drama House of Cards will launch on November 2nd. Golden Globe winner and Emmy Award nominated former Santa Barbara star Robin Wright returns as President of the United States.

Wright is joined by Academy Award nominees Diane Lane and Greg Kinnear as well as Cody Fern this season alongside Emmy Award nominee Michael Kelly, Jayne Atkinson, Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson, Emmy Award Nominee Constance Zimmer, Derek Cecil, Campbell Scott and Boris McGiver.

Watch the official trailer for the sixth and final season below.

Melissa James Gibson and Frank Pugliese continue as showrunners for season six, and they serve as executive producers along with Robin Wright, David Fincher, Joshua Donen, Dana Brunetti, Eric Roth, Michael Dobbs and Andrew Davies. Created for television by Beau Willimon. House of Cards is produced by Donen/Fincher/Roth and Trigger Street Productions, Inc. in associated with Media Rights Capital for Netflix.

George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures is expanding its relationship with Paramount TV, signing a two-year first-look deal, which includes all television, digital and episodic projects from Smokehouse, excluding features.

Paramount TV and Smokehouse, along with Anonymous Content, are currently in post-production on Catch-22, the highly-anticipated, six-part series for Hulu. Based on Joseph Heller’s seminal novel, Catch-22 is executive produced by Clooney and Heslov for Smokehouse, along with Richard Brown and Steve Golin on behalf of Anonymous Content. Luke Davies and David Michôd are co-writers and executive producers for the series. Ellen Kuras serves as a producer and director along with Clooney and Heslov.

“We are thrilled to expand our relationship with Smokehouse. Our experience with them on ‘Catch-22’ has been an absolute joy,” said Nicole Clemens, President of Paramount Television. “They are first-class filmmakers and producers with a nose for unique stories with deep thematic resonance.

“Each one of us has to defend our destiny. The first female President of the United States is not going to keep her mouth shut,” says a determined Robin Wright’s Potus. Netfix has dropped the official trailer for the sixth and final season of House of Cards.

The latest look reveals a very independent Claire Underwood (Wright), who’s clearly ready to forge her own path. “I’m not going to be told what to do anymore, Doug. Not be you, or any man, ever again,” Claire says to Michael Kelly’s Doug Stamper.

For the final season, Wright is joined by newcomers Diane Lane and Greg Kinnear as siblings with ties to the Underwoods, along with Cody Fern, the first without Kevin Spacey, alongside returning Michael Kelly, Jayne Atkinson, Patricia Clarkson, Constance Zimmer, Derek Cecil, Campbell Scott and Boris McGiver.

Melissa James Gibson and Frank Pugliese continue as showrunners for season six,...

As the sixth and final season of House of Cards approaches on November 2nd, Netflix has released a teaser trailer for the show.

Golden Globe winner and Emmy Award nominee Robin Wright returns as President of the United States in the award-winning, landmark series House of Cards.

Wright is joined by Academy Award® nominees Diane Lane and Greg Kinnear as well as Cody Fern this season alongside Emmy Award nominee Michael Kelly, Jayne Atkinson, Academy Award® nominee Patricia Clarkson, Emmy Award Nominee Constance Zimmer, Derek Cecil, Campbell Scott and Boris McGiver.

Melissa James Gibson and Frank Pugliese continue as showrunners for season six, and they serve as executive producers along with Robin Wright, David Fincher, Joshua Donen, Dana Brunetti, Eric Roth, Michael Dobbs and Andrew Davies. Created for television by Beau Willimon. House of Cards is produced by Donen/Fincher/Roth and Trigger Street Productions, Inc. in associated with Media Rights Capital for Netflix.

‘My first 100 days as president have been difficult. I lost my husband. We were about to celebrate 30 years together. Whatever Francis told you in the last five years, don’t believe a word of it.” Those words from Robin Wright’s powerful President Claire Underwood in the new Season 6 trailer for House of Cards.

At one point, President Underwood makes her intentions very clear, declaring “the reign of the middle-aged white man is over.”

Wright is joined by newcomers Diane Lane and Greg Kinnear as siblings with ties to the Underwoods, along with Cody Fern this season, the first without Kevin Spacey, alongside Michael Kelly, Jayne Atkinson, Patricia Clarkson, Constance Zimmer, Derek Cecil, Campbell Scott and Boris McGiver.

Melissa James Gibson and Frank Pugliese continue as showrunners for season six and serve as executive producers along with Wright, David Fincher, Joshua Donen, Dana Brunetti, Eric Roth, Michael Dobbs and Andrew Davies.

What's in store for the big sequel to The Alienist? Today, TNT announced Frank Pugliese has been hired as showrunner for the upcoming follow-up series, The Angel of Darkness.

The limited series "finds Sara Howard (Dakota Fanning), who has opened her own private detective agency, enlisting the help of Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Daniel Brühl) and John Moore (Luke Evans) to hunt down an elusive killer."

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Former “House of Cards” co-showrunner Frank Pugliese will serve as showrunner on the TNT series “The Angel of Darkness,” the network announced Wednesday.

The series, billed as a sequel to last year’s “The Alienist,” will feature the same lead cast, which is made up of Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning.

Based on the sequel to the Caleb Carr novel adapted for the first run of the show, “The Angel of Darkness” picks up one year after “The Alienist,” as Sara Howard (Fanning), now leading her own private detective agency, enlists the help of Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Brühl) and John Moore (Evans) to hunt down an elusive killer.

Also Read: TNT Orders 'The Alienist' Sequel Series 'Angel of Darkness'

Pugliese most recently served as executive producer and co-showrunner on “House of Cards” from 2015-17, for which he earned three Emmy nominations. His other TV credits include “Night of the Living Dead,...

Emmy-nominated writer and producer Frank Pugliese (House of Cards) is set as showrunner for TNT’s The Angel of Darkness, a limited series based on the sequel to author Caleb Carr’s best-selling The Alienist, co-produced by Paramount Television and Turner’s Studio T.

A critical and ratings success, The Alienist is a top 10 cable drama, having reached more than 50 million people across multiple platforms. It earned six Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Limited Series.

The Alienist’s lead cast, including Daniel Brühl (Rush), Luke Evans (The Girl on the Train) and Dakota Fanning (American Pastoral), will return for The Angel of Darkness with a new storyline that finds Sara Howard (Fanning), who has opened her own private detective agency, enlisting the help of Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Brühl) and John Moore (Evans) to hunt down an elusive killer.

“Following the tremendous success of The Alienist, we are excited to welcome an...

Frank Pugliese has signed on as the showrunner for TNT’s “The Angel of Darkness,” the sequel series to the cabler’s acclaimed limited series “The Alienist.”

Pugliese most recently served as the co-showrunner on Netflix’s “House of Cards” alongside Melissa James Gibson. His other television credits include “Night of the Living Dead,” “Homicide,” “Love and Blood,” “Fallen Angels,” “Street-time,” “The Beat,” “Law and Order,” “Borgia,” and “Copper.”

He is repped by Wme and Manage-ment.

“I am thrilled for the opportunity to work with the talented cast, crew and team that brought ‘The Alienist’ to life,” said Pugliese. “Myself and the writers coming on board for ‘The Angel of Darkness’ are looking forward to continuing this story born from the wondrous imagination of Caleb Carr.”

“The Angel of Darkness” is based on the book of the same name by Caleb Carr. “The Alienist’s” lead cast–including Daniel Brühl,...

Former House of Cards co-showrunner Frank Pugliese will take the reins of The Angel of Darkness, TNT's sequel to The Alienist.

The core cast of The Alienist — Daniel Bruhl, Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning — is set to return for the follow-up, which like its predecessor is based on a novel by Caleb Carr. The new story finds Fanning's Sara Howard, now running her own detective agency, coming to Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Bruhl) and John Moore (Evans) for help in tracking down a killer.

The Alienist was a success for TNT, placing among the top 10 cable dramas of 2018 to date ...

“House of Cards” fans, allow us to introduce Diane Lane, Greg Kinnear, and Cody Fern — a.k.a. the Shepherds.

It was previously announced that Lane, Kinnear and Fern will star alongside Robin Wright on the Netflix political drama’s upcoming sixth and final season, and on Monday, the streamer revealed who they will be playing, along with several photos of the actors in character.

Per Netflix, the actors have been cast as Annette Shepherd and Bill Shepherd, a sister and brother who inherited Shepherd Unlimited, a leading industrial conglomerate whose family foundations exert a powerful behind-the-scenes force in the American political landscape. The two share a vision for the future of America, as well as a complicated past with the Underwoods.

Also Read: Robin Wright Breaks Silence on Kevin Spacey: 'I Didn't Know the Man, I Knew the Craftsman' (Video)

Fern stars as Duncan Shepherd, Annette’s ambitious and devoted son,...

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A kidnapped infant brings the Alienist crew back together for the limited series Angel of Darkness on TNT.

The limited psychological crime series The Alienist cast an unflinching eye into the brutal murders of young boys in late 19th century New York City, pulling in six Emmy nominations including Outstanding Limited Series. TNT is tossing off the statutes of limitations to order The Angel of Darkness, a limited sequel series.

Based on Caleb Carr’s 1994 novel, The Alienist, TNT’s series starred Daniel Brühl as turn-of-the-century criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, Luke Evans newspaper illustrator John Moore, and Dakota Fanning as Sara Howard, New York's Finest's first female employee. They are all coming back for Angel of Darkness.

Angel of Darkness News

Frank Pugliese has been announced as showrunner for The Angel of Darkness. He will come into the series with television experience from tenures...

Claire Underwood is your new president.

The sixth and final season of “House of Cards” will drop on Nov. 2, Netflix announced Tuesday.

The final installment of the political drama will feature Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) as president, her husband Frank Underwood out of the picture after Kevin Spacey was removed from the show following accusations of sexual misconduct.

Also Read: Robin Wright Breaks Silence on Kevin Spacey: 'I Didn't Know the Man, I Knew the Craftsman' (Video)

Diane Lane and Greg Kinnear will star in the final season along with series regulars Michael Kelly, Jayne Atkinson, Patricia Clarkson, Constance Zimmer, Derek Cecil, Campbell Scott and Boris McGiver.

Wright also executive produces along with Melissa James Gibson, Frank Pugliese, David Fincher, Joshua Donen, Dana Brunetti, Eric Roth, Michael Dobbs and Andrew Davies. Beau Willimon created the series, which is produced by Donen/Fincher/Roth, with Mrc as the studio, for Netflix.

There has been a changing of the guard within Washington’s halls of power, as evidenced by this newly-released promo for the sixth and final season of Netflix’s political gem, House of Cards.

Embedded above, you’ll see President Claire Underwood (Wonder Woman alum Robin Wright) address the nation in honor of America’s Independence Day, where she wishes a happy July 4th… to herself. Wait a second, is that right? Someone get Bill Paxton on the phone.

In all seriousness, House of Cards season 6 marks a significant sea change for the Netflix drama in that Robin Wright is poised to take center stage in the absence of Kevin Spacey’s Frank Underwood, her on-screen husband and former Commander in Chief who’s been shrewdly written out of the story in light of the disturbing allegations leveled against Spacey. But Frank’s loss is Claire’s gain, and given...

It’s finally her turn in the Oval Office. Robin Wright’s Claire Underwood is making her mark on the presidency In newly released first look images from Netflix for “House of Cards.” The sixth and final season of “House of Cards” will revolve around Wright’s Claire in the Oval Office, having taken over the reins from her husband, Frank. Kevin Spacey, who played the scheming politician during the first five seasons, was forced off the show late last year amid a cascade of sexual harassment allegations. Wright has earned five Emmy nods for her work on the drama that launched Netflix into original programming. New cast members for season 6 include Diane Lane, Greg Kinnear and Cody Fern who join Michael Kelly, Jayne Atkinson, Patricia Clarkson, Constance Zimmer, Derek Cecil, Campbell Scott and Boris McGiver.

In a teaser released during the Oscars, viewers got a sneak peek at the new commander in chief.

It is ironic that Netflix chose to release first-look photos from the upcoming sixth and final season of House Of Cards during the Tony Awards, hosted last year by the series’ former star Kevin Spacey.

A year later, Netflix is ushering in a rebooted eight-episode final season of its flagship drama without Spacey, who was let go over sexual misconduct allegations. It is led by co-star Robin Wright as the Us President, who is joined by major new cast additions Diane Lane, Greg Kinnear and Cody Fern.

They join fellow returning HoC cast members Michael Kelly, Jayne Atkinson, Patricia Clarkson, Constance Zimmer, Derek Cecil, Campbell Scott and Boris McGiver.

The abbreviated sixth will “bring closure of the show for fans” and bring back to work some 2,000 people in the Baltimore area whose livelihoods depend on the show, Netflix’s Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said in December. Previous HoC seasons consisted of 13 episodes each.

Netflix is back on track with the final season of “House of Cards,” and took advantage of the 90th Oscars to reveal a first-look at the now Kevin Spacey-less show.

Now led by Golden Globe winner and Emmy Award nominee Robin Wright, the show’s final eight episodes also include stars Michael Kelly, Diane Lane, Greg Kinnear, Jayne Atkinson, Patricia Clarkson, Cody Fern, Constance Zimmer, Derek Cecil, Campbell Scott, and Boris McGiver.

“We’re just getting started,” says Wright, as Claire Underwood, standing up behind her desk in the Oval Office. “House of Cards” returns this fall.

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Season 6 resumes shooting.

Diane Lane and Greg Kinnear have joined House Of Cards for its sixth and final season, which resumed shooting on Wednesday (January 31).

Production on the Netflix show was shut down last October following sexual assault and harassment allegations against former cast member Kevin Spacey.

Lane and Kinnear join returning star Robin Wright, as well as Michael Kelly, Jayne Atkinson, Patricia Clarkson, Constance Zimmer, Campbell Scott, Boris McGiver, and Derek Cecil.

Beau Willimon created the show and Melissa James Gibson, Frank Pugliese, Wright, David Fincher, Joshua Donen, Dana Brunetti, Eric Roth, Michael Dobbs, and Andrew Davies serve as executive producers. Donen, Fincher and Roth are producing with Mrc.

House Of Cards was the first original online series to receive major Emmy nominations, earning 53 and winning seven times since 2013.

The series has also won two Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an AFI Award, a Writers Guild Award, and a Peabody...

Hey, "House Of Cards" fans. This definitely won't be a happy article for you guys. Currently, there are multiple reports circulating about the show and it's main star Kevin Spacey (above right) that are totally negative! There's nothing positive going on here. The series of bad news started when main star Kevin Spacey who plays character Francis Underwood on the show got accused of serious sexual harassment! A report from the folks over at TV Line revealed that Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp claimed that in 1986, Kevin made an unwanted sexual advance towards him. At the time, Anthony was only 14 years old and Kevin was 26 years old. After Anthony's claims surfaced, even more men came out with allegations against Kevin. One of the guys claimed that at age 14, he started a sexual relationship with Spacey that ended with an attempted rape! If that weren't bad enough, there are new...

Time is running out for Frank and Claire Underwood. E! News has confirmed that House of Cards will be coming to an end after the political thriller's sixth and final season. Production on the final 13 episodes of the series is currently underway, set to debut in 2018.Executive producers Melissa James Gibson and Frank Pugliese, who took over for departing creator Beau Willimon last year, are expected to return as showrunners. Per THR, the decision to wrap up the Underwood's power play in Washington has been in the works since the summer, but official word of its imminent end comes at a particularly interesting for star Kevin Spacey, who finds himself in the middle of a sexual assault scandal after being accused...

In a surprising move for the show that was once the flagship Netflix original drama, “House of Cards” will end after its upcoming Season 6.

According to reports, this is a move that had been in the works before Sunday night’s allegations from “Star Trek: Discovery” actor Anthony Rapp that “House of Cards” star and executive producer Kevin Spacey had made sexual advances towards him when Rapp was 14 years old. (Spacey’s subsequent addressing of the incident has also drawn criticism.)

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The show had seemingly set itself up for life after Spacey’s character Frank Underwood, ending its fifth season by transferring power — within his family and over the nation — to another character. “House of Cards” original showrunner Beau Willimon and fellow executive producer David Fincher are currently involved in the show in name only, having turned over the reins to new showrunners Melissa James Gibson...

House of Cards is folding: The Netflix drama’s forthcoming sixth season will be the series’ last, TVLine has learned.

News of the political drama’s impending swan song comes less than 24 hours after actor Anthony Rapp accused House of Cards leading man Kevin Spacey of making a sexual advance at him when he was 14. Multiple sources confirm, however, that the decision to bring HoC to an end was made months ago and was not in response to the allegations. (A Netlix rep confirms this.)

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The PGA has added more speakers for its fourth annual Produced By: New York conference. New sessions will feature Jessica Chastain, Timothee Chalamet, Dee Rees, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Amazon’s Ted Hope and Joe Lewis, Melissa James Gibson, Charles D. King, Peter Spears, and Frank Pugliese. The conference is set for October 28 at the Time Warner Center in New York. Chastain, Founder of Freckle Films and star of the upcoming Molly’s Game, is set to join "The Power to Shake It…...

The 2017 Emmy nominations caused quite a stir when they were announced this morning, causing mixed reactions from fans that ranged from excited to disheartened. But no one was more elated than this year’s nominees, many of whom expressed their gratitude with written statements, while others took to Twitter and Instagram to share their excitement.

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If at first you don’t succeed, try try try try try try try try try try again! #Emmys2017 #Hoc pic.twitter.com/NkABF5qRTb

— Kevin Spacey (@KevinSpacey) July 13, 2017

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“We are honored and thrilled for this recognition of the hard work and talent of our relentless production and post teams. We are deeply grateful to our incredible chefs for letting us into their lives (and feeding us), and to...