News has been breaking regularly about HBO’s new crime series: True Detective.  The show will most likely enter production soon and fans of The Wire in particular are waiting on pins and needles for the latest tidbits because the show looks to bring HBO back to the contemporary crime underworld.  While series plot details are thin we are privy to a most of the main cast members at this point. Here are the True Detective cast members that we can confirm so far: Matthew McConaughey (Rust Cohle)  Woody Harrelson (Martin Hart)  Michelle Monaghan (Maggie) Kevin...

It almost seems weekly that someone else is getting added to the cast of TRUE DETECTIVE. Added to the roster this time around is Kevin Dunn. I’ll fill you when on his character in a second but first, a quick refresh. The eight- episode drama series, written by Nic Pizzolatto  & directed by Cary Fukunaga, is an anthology series looking at a different detective duo each season as they work through a major crime.  This prior post from 05.12 offers more details. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson play the detectives Cohle & Hart in the premiere season and Kevin Dunn personifies...

 To throw a little variety onto the site today here is a quick post about some of the upcoming programming ahead. In fact, some of these these titles are in post-production or actually already “in the can” as they say.  First up is HBO FILMS: PHIL SPECTOR. It debuts on Sunday, 03.24.13 at 9:00pm. I know this was in production but had no idea it was premiering so soon. You do know Phil Spector, right? In the 1960’s & ‘70’s he was one of the top music producers and songwriters in the biz. He was the money man behind The Beatles’ Let It Be album, co-wrote the chart topper...

HBO has announced it is putting on the fast track a drama called TRUE DETECTIVE. It will be an eight-part drama series starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. What is surprising is that it is not heading towards a test pilot but has earned straight to series status. It is being labeled a high concept cop drama that will utilize  multiple perspectives and timeframes to tell its story. The work  is written by Nic Pizzolatto who wrote AMC’s “The Killing.” It tells of  two detectives, Rust Cohle and Martin Hart, played by McConaughey and Harrelson...