Margy Rochlin
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Role models cut both ways in 'About a Boy' TV adaptation
Jason Katims isn’t the first name you’d expect to be linked with NBC’s new comedy, “About a Boy.” The Emmy Award-winning writer-producer is best known for creating “Friday Night Lights”...
'Downton Abbey' actor Gary Carr shrugs off criticism of Jazz singer character
Long before Season 4 of “Downton Abbey” went into production, creator Julian Fellowes spoke of introducing a recurring character of color. His invention, a famous Chicago-based jazz singer named Jack...
Carol Burnett takes home the Mark Twain prize
Carol Burnett is famous for a lot of things: her boneless physicality and her full-bore Tarzan yodel. Then there was the experience in the 1960s with a CBS network executive....
Futuristic Starsky & Hutch join forces in 'Almost Human'
When “Almost Human” creator-executive producer J.H. Wyman first brought his idea for the futuristic police procedural to J.J. Abrams, one of the things that Abrams found appealing was how it...
Rich brits go over the 'Edge'
In 2002, acclaimed British playwright and TV dramatist Stephen Poliakoff (“The Lost Prince”) stumbled across a curious detail about the London rich, one that would eventually be the inspiration for...
Holmes at last
If you stop Benedict Cumberbatch on the street and ask him, “Aren’t you Sherlock?” brace yourself: When it comes to his role as the scarf-flinging, long-coat wearing crime-solver in the...
Lady Mary lets her hair down
Why is Lady Mary our current favorite Grantham on Masterpiece’s “Downton Abbey”? Could it be that Michelle Dockery plays her as always surprising? In a crowd, for example, she’s just...
'Abbey' road
Newbury, ENGLAND — “Get ready,” says the cab driver as he aims his black taxi down a crushed gravel road that winds through a rolling 1,000-acre estate in County Hampshire,...