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AMC renews Preacher for a second season

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Following strong ratings which has been it as the #2 new series on cable, AMC has announced that it has renewed Preacher for a thirteen-episode second second, which will get underway next year. “Preacher is a special television program and we’re eager to share with fans the rest of this wild first season and, now, an […]

Elizabeth Perkins joins AMC’s Preacher pilot

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Following on from the news that Dominic Cooper (Agent Carter) has officially signed on as Rev. Jesse Custer in AMC’s Preacher adaptation, it has now been announced that Elizabeth Perkins (Big, Weeds) has secured a co-starring role in the pilot. According to Deadline, Perkins will play Vyla Quinncannon, “a genteel but formidable businesswoman who owns […]

Joseph Gilgun cast as Cassidy in AMC’s Preacher

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British actor Joseph Gilgun (This Is England, Misfits) has joined the cast of AMC’s Preacher pilot, where he’ll play the role of Irish vampire Proinsias Cassidy. Deadline describes his character as “the most wild-ass, bestest “bro” you’d ever want to meet. He may be 100 years dead but no one’s more boisterously alive than Proinsias Cassidy. […]

Complacency: The Killer of TV’s Golden Age

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Samuel Brace on the death of TV’s Golden Age… It’s all over. Television’s golden age is, it seems, gone. It’s done. Some will argue that it was never here at all, but those people are mostly ardent film fans who could never face that for a while, for a very short time, TV was better than […]

8 TV Shows To Look Forward To In 2016

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Following on from his article on the best TV shows of 2015, Samuel Brace now picks out eight TV shows to look forward to in 2016… There is a lot heading our way in 2016. There is a myriad of returning shows and new series to feast upon. A lot of this content is/looks very […]

AMC’s Decline Isn’t Complicated, It’s Just Bad TV

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Samuel Brace on the decline of AMC… I am old enough to remember when AMC, back in the day — that day being five minutes ago — were at the top of the TV ladder. There was a time when they unequivocally ruled the roost, when all competition bowed before them. After Mad Men‘s debut […]

W. Earl Brown to play Sheriff Hugo Root in Preacher

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AMC’s upcoming Preacher pilot continues to round out its cast, with Deadline reporting that W. Earl Brown (Deadwood) has signed on for a regular role as Sheriff Hugo Root, whose character is described as “the mean-hearted father of Eugene Root aka Arseface, a flinty-eyed, conspiracy-credulous redneck who is not a fool and has a vulnerability to him.” […]

Dominic Cooper set to star in Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Preacher

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After news broke last night that actress Lucy Griffiths was set to join the cast of AMC’s Preacher, it was quickly followed with more news that young Howard Stark himself Dominic Cooper is close to a deal to star as Jesse Custer in the Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg produced-pilot. Cooper, who has recently featured […]