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TV will switch from jolly to witchly

As soon as sweet Santa and his jolly elves depart, TV will go the other way. It will be time for witches and a demon.
The dark takeover will be on the AMC cable channel, plus its streaming service (AMC+) and, sometimes, its sister channels,
AMC has obsessed on Christmas all month, with a few films – led by “Elf” and “Christmas Vacation” – running often. But this is also the channel that scored with “The Walking Dead” and bought all of Anne Rice’s novels.
So its next move is the second season of Rice’s “Mayfair Witches” (shown here) It starts at 9 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 5, simulcast on Sundance, BBC America, IFC and WeTV; other witchly things will precede or follow it. Read more…

By Mike Hughes / December 20, 2024
Stories

An auto passion propelled him to “Parish”

As Giancarlo Esposito talks, rich passions come pouring out.
There’s his love of acting … and people … and cars, which makes “Parish” (show here) seem ideal.
This is a bracing, six-part mini-series that starts at 10:15 p.m. Sunday (March 31) on AMC, right after the conclusion of “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.” He plays a former getaway driver, nudged back into hiis old life to save a friend.
“I’ve lived wiith it for so very long, through many incarnations and developments,” he told the Television Critics Association. Read more…

By Mike Hughes / March 25, 2024
Stories

October brings fresh take on vampire saga

As October begins, TV re-discovers its interest in all things creepy.
It’s time for more “Chucky,” more “Halloween,” more vampires and zombies and such. For most networks, this is a seasonal blip; for AMC, it’s a way of life.
On Halloween of 2010, the network introduced the zombies of “The Walking Dead.” That’s continued for 11 seasons and several spin-offs. It returns now, to air its final eight episodes at 9 p.m. Sundays – each one followed by an “Interview With the Vampire” (shown here) episode.
This is “the largest and most significant effort we’ve ever embarked on,” network chief Dan McDermott told the Television Critics Association. “We’re building around the iconic works of Anne Rice. We purchased 18 books.” Read more…

By Mike Hughes / September 27, 2022
Stories

Before COVID, a town confronted deadly threat

In the news, this was strictly a spy story.
A man and his daughter were sitting on a park bench in England, when they collapsed. He was Russian, a double agent who had worked for the British; both were hit by a lethal poison developed in Russia.
There was an international furor … but behind that was the personal story that emerges in “The Salisbury Poisonings” (shown here), which starts at 10 p.m. Monday (Jan. 25) on AMC. Read more…

By Mike Hughes / January 23, 2021