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Crumb Catcher is now available from Arrow Video.

Crumb Catcher is the rare type of film that feels entirely unique in its construct. Uniqueness doesn’t always translate to quality, but in the case of Chris Skotchdopole’s quirky thriller, it mostly does. Largely inspired by the eerie and bewildering nature of The Twilight Zone, Skotchdopole’s vision is one of darkness and black humor that, despite its unlikeable characters, serves as an entertaining experiment.

Crumb Catcher plot

While celebrating their honeymoon at a secluded, luxurious estate in upstate New York, newlyweds Leah and Shane are visited by John, a strange and pushy entrepreneur, and his wife Rose. Determined to secure funding and investors for his new invention, the “Crumb Catcher,” John and Rose subject the couple to a night of terror that will test their relationship in ways they never imagined.

The review Rigo Garay (left) and Ella Rae Peck...

After several years of making short films and producing films for other directors, Chris Skotchdopole made his feature directorial debut with the home invasion thriller Crumb Catcher, which has received a limited edition Blu-ray release courtesy of Arrow Video. To mark the occasion, we’re proud to share an Exclusive look at the film’s trailer, which you can check out in the embed above.

The film has the following synopsis: Two married couples collide in Chris Skotchdopole’s beautifully shot and wonderfully wild Crumb Catcher, a truly unique and darkly funny home invasion thriller from the stable of Larry Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix. After blacking out during his wedding night, Shane (Rigo Garay) and his new wife, Leah (Ella Rae Peck), head to a remote house for their honeymoon. Their plans to find wedded bliss are hampered when there is a knock at their door. It’s the waiter,...

Stars: Rigo Garay, Ella Rae Peck, Lorraine Farris, John Speredakos | Written by Chris Skotchdopole, Larry Fessenden, Rigo Garay | Directed by Chris Skotchdopole

With horror films nothing is off limits. The thing that seems the safest place can bring the biggest terror. Think of the shower scene in Psycho, swimming is such fun, until a shark is munching on your torso. And for all of us, home is our safe place, until it isn’t! Through cinema home invasion horror has terrified audiences. Films like The Last House on the Left, When a Stranger Calls, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle and The Strangers.

In 2024 there was a new home invasion film released called Crumb Catcher. This indie thriller really pushed genre boundaries, delivering a gripping experience. Arrow Video snatched up the rights for this indie darling and have given it a deluxe Blu-ray release that fans of this genre are going to just love.

Arrow Video, the video division of Arrow Films, is known for releasing horror and cult films on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K. Today, the company unveiled the new titles they’ll be releasing this July – and they have some great movies in the mix, including the Sylvester Stallone classic Cobra, the Larry Cohen cult film The Stuff, and Lucio Fulci’s Zombie! Let’s go over the list:

Get set for the deep heat of summer.

Nordic noirs, bold Americana, one of the best crime films of the 21st century, Sylvester Stallone thrills, a titillating treat from Larry Cohen, and Lucio Fulci's splatter-fest.

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— Arrow Video (@ArrowFilmsVideo) April 25, 2025

The first release to be announced today was the double feature Blu-ray collection of director Ole Bornedal’s films Nightwatch and Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever.

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John Speredakos is no stranger to the world of indie horror. With a career that spans over two decades, the New York City-born actor has delivered unforgettable performances in films like Wendigo (2001), Blackout (2023), and now Crumb Catcher (2023), the darkly comedic thriller that premiered at Grimmfest 2024. Directed by Chris Skotchdopole, Crumb Catcher tells the unsettling story of a newlywed couple held hostage by a maniacally optimistic inventor, played by Speredakos, and his sour wife. The film explores themes of class, delusion, and desperation, all wrapped in a pitch-black comedic tone that keeps the audience guessing.

Will Knowles sat down with John at Grimmfest, where he opened up about the joy of playing such a twisted character, his love for improvisation, and what’s coming next in his burgeoning horror career.

Grimmfest, one of the UK’s premier horror festivals, was the perfect setting for Crumb Catcher to make its mark. The festival’s 2024 edition,...

Chris Skotchdopole makes his directorial debut with “Crumb Catcher,” a thriller starring Rigo Garay and Ella Rae Peck as the newlywed couple Shane and Leah. Their marriage is on shaky ground from the beginning, as is abundantly clear from their forced body language in wedding photos. Hoping for some alone time on their honeymoon, they instead find their retreat disrupted by John and Rose—an obnoxious caterer and his unsettled wife—who won’t leave Shane and Leah be.

John in particular relentlessly pursues the couple, desperate to get them onboard with his mysterious invention, the “Crumb Catcher.” His erratic behavior spins the situation out of control. Meanwhile, it’s obvious Shane and Leah barely know each other, and their relationship is hanging by a thread. Tensions escalate as John and Rose impose themselves, wielding dark secrets that threaten both Shane’s career and marriage.

Drawing from these volatile ingredients,...

There are characters we hate, from Amon Gth in Schindlers List to Cal Hockley from Titanic. Then there are characters who are simply so annoying that our dislike for them ruins the movie, including, but hardly limited to, Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Mutt Williams from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. To this list we can add at least one of the only four major characters in Crumb Catcher, a home invasion thriller and black comedy with too little storytelling credibility. It's the kind of film populated by those whose actions only occasionally strafe the realm of recognizable human behavior.

Such issues would be easier to ignore had writer/director Chris Skotchdopole, in his debut feature, paid more than lip service to the sociopolitical themes poking through his weighty screenplay. Theres an intriguing middle-class desperation in the way sweaty blabbermouth John...

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Set in 1965 New York City, the film tells the story prior to the legendary horror classic Rosemary’s Baby, exploring what happened in the infamous Bramford building before Rosemary moved in.

The highly anticipated film will debut at this year’s Fantastic Fest, the world’s largest genre and horror festival based in Austin, Texas, and will be featured in Paramount+ Peak Screaming, a curated collection of fan-favorite horror movies and Halloween episodes from beloved series.

It’s busy and Twister-y at the box office this weekend, but a few indies are hoping to catch a breeze with very well-reviewed Oddity looking to expand the market for high-end horror and Widow Clicquot to attract fans of good period films and bubbly.

Oddity from IFC Films, is a supernatural home-invasion horror from writer-director Damian McCarthy (Caveat). It opens on 790 screens, the widest new indie release this week. Carolyn Bracken stars as Dani, who is restoring an old castle in rural Cork County, Ireland, with her husband Ted (Gwilym Lee), a doctor at a facility for the criminally insane. When Dani is brutally murdered, her blind occultist twin sister Darcy (also Bracken) goes after those responsible using inherited haunted items as her tools of revenge. Premiered in SXSW’s Midnighter section, taking the Audience Award. At 98% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Even Mario Bava’s succinctly titled horror “Hatchet for the Honeymoon” 54 years ago did not imagine a more vividly unpleasant entrée to wedlock than “Crumb Catcher,” Chris Skotchdopole’s feature directorial bow. In this mix of home-invasion thriller and grotesque comedy, a just-hitched young couple already on each other’s last nerves are surprised by uninvited visitors, causing the night to go from bad to very much worse. If you can withstand spending nearly two hours in the company of these grating, argumentative characters, there are rewards to be had in a skillfully wrought, twisty suspense tale that releases to limited U.S. theaters on July 19.

Introduced posing for photos immediately after their wedding, Shane (Rigo Garay) and Leah (Ella Rae Peck) do not appear to be much of a love match. He’s clearly discomfited by the high-end surroundings, which her otherwise disapproving parents apparently bankrolled; she unthinkingly “corrects” his every spoken thought.

Judging by his director’s statement, Chris Skotchdopole had bigger ideas for the allegorical “Crumb Catcher” than his messy debut feature pulls off. That won’t matter to the right audience who, when self-selected, ought to resemble a perfect Venn diagram of Eli Roth’s “Knock Knock” fans and apologists for Michael Haneke’s American “Funny Games” remake.

This bizarre four-hander drama turned psychological thriller — about newlyweds harassed on their honeymoon by a shady couple hocking a mysterious culinary invention — doesn’t quite match the filmmaker’s lofty ambition to say something…anything…that hasn’t already been said about marital malaise and the American Dream. Still, there’s a tasteful sort of nausea contained in Skotchdopole’s sloppy blackmail plot as chunky as it is tragicomic. Set mostly inside a nondescript rental home in upstate New York, this incohesive experiment in escalating tensions and false niceties will whet the...

Chris Skotchdopole’s Crumb Catcher is a tantalizing mix of the absurd and the mundane, with each of those two poles encapsulated by John (John Speredakos), an aging waiter who describes himself as an artist and entrepreneur. With his earnest grin and thinning mane, he registers less as a threat than an annoyance when he accosts a young, just-married couple, Shane (Rigo Garay) and Leah (Ella Rae Peck), in their car, making the sort of insistent small talk that you would seem to need a crowbar to extricate yourself from.

You’ve probably seen this sort of man before. If so, you maybe tried to avoid him. And in Skotchdopole’s feature debut, he shows up in the middle of the night to the lavish home where Shane and Leah spend their honeymoon, subjecting them to the mother of all horrors: a pitch.

The film takes its time at first,...

Home invasion movie Crumb Catcher is heading our way later this month, and a brand new poster warns that nothing will prepare for what’s ahead.

Chris Skotchdopole wrote and directed Crumb Catcher, with story by Skotchdopole, Larry Fessenden, Rigo Garay, and Doppelgänger Releasing will unleash the film in select theaters on July 19, 2024.

In Crumb Catcher, “Newlyweds Shane and Leah have their marriage tested when two weirdos with entrepreneurial zeal and a half-baked blackmail plot crash their honeymoon — they’re looking for investors for their latest invention and won’t take no for an answer.”

Check out the new poster and the uncomfortable trailer below.

Rigo Garay, Ella Rae Peck, Lorraine Farris, and John Speredakos star in the home invasion horror movie that premiered at last year’s Fantastic Fest.

“I started writing Crumb Catcher in 2016 as our country was being divided by the Great Hate Magnet. What emerged was...

"I want you to take a journey... a journey into the future." Music Box Films has revealed one more official trailer for a peculiar indie dark comedy called Crumb Catcher, opening in art house theaters later in July. This premiered at the Fantastic Fest 2023 last year, with stops at the Woodstock and Brooklyn Horror Film Fests as well. A newlywed couple is held captive in a remote lake house by a maniacally optimistic inventor and his sour wife who are desperate to finance his dream project with a half-baked blackmail plot. Starring Rigo Garay, Ella Rae Peck, Lorraine Farris, and John Speredakos. "A gonzo home invasion thriller from Larry Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix that pummels the American Dream into just desserts, Crumb Catcher is a striking directorial debut from Chris Skotchdopole." Armed with his proprietary & precious design and with his surly wife Rose by his side, John insists that the couple hear his pitch.

Plot: Infected by the bite of a werewolf, a man sets out to bring down a shady businessman before arranging the end of his own life.

Review: Larry Fessenden has over 100 acting credits to his name, and if you’ve been following the horror genre over the last few decades there’s a good chance you’ve seen him show up in something, whether it be a Ti West movie, Stake Land, Late Phases, You’re Next, or the movie I first noticed him in, Session 9. He’s also a prolific producer, and has directing credits stretching back to the 1980s – most of those credits being on horror movies. Over the course of his career, he has told stories of vampires, the Wendigo, a man-eating fish, and even came up with his own take on Frankenstein’s Monster with his 2019 film Depraved. Continuing down the path of putting his stamp on the concept of classic monsters,...

In the wake of the film’s Fantastic Fest premiere, Doppelgänger Releasing has acquired U.S. rights to the home invasion movie Crumb Catcher, Deadline reports this afternoon.

Chris Skotchdopole wrote and directed Crumb Catcher, and Doppelgänger Releasing plans on bringing the film to theaters later this year. Read on for more information.

In Crumb Catcher, “After blacking out on his wedding night, Shane (Rigo Garay) and his wife (Ella Rae Peck) head to a remote estate for their honeymoon. That night, there’s a knock at the door; a waiter and bartender from the reception, blackmailing Shane for something he can’t remember doing. But the blackmailers don’t just want money. They’re after business partners for their invention, an outlandish device called…the Crumb Catcher.”

“I started writing Crumb Catcher in 2016 as our country was being divided by the Great Hate Magnet. What emerged was a twisted tale of home invasion,...

Exclusive: Doppelgänger Releasing, the genre-focused label of Music Box Films, has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Crumb Catcher, the debut feature from Chris Skotchdopole.

Crumb Catcher debuted at Fantastic Fest, before going on to play Woodstock Film Festival and Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize for Best Ensemble and the Gold Audience Award.

The film was written and directed by Skotchdople and was produced by indie vet Larry Fessenden, alongside Brian Devine, Chadd Harbold, Bonnie Timmermann, and James W. Skotchdopole. Doppelgänger Releasing will open Crumb Catcher in theaters later this year, with a home entertainment release to follow.

Pic is led by Rigo Garay and Ella Rae Peck, with Lorraine Farris and John Speredakos rounding out the cast. Synopsis reads: After blacking out on his wedding night, Shane (Garay) and his wife (Peck) head to a remote estate for their honeymoon. That night, there’s...

Dark Sky Films will be giving Blackout, the latest genre film from writer/director Larry Fessenden, a one week theatrical release at the IFC Center in New York City beginning on March 13th, and that theatrical engagement will feature special cast appearances and a Q&a. The film will then be receiving a nationwide release on digital platforms and VOD as of April 12th. In anticipation of those release dates, a trailer for Blackout has been unveiled, and you can check it out in the embed above.

Blackout has the following synopsis: Painter Charley wakes up in an upstate motel where he appears to have been living for some time. After he packs and leaves he encounters various people in the small town where everybody knows your name. Charley is saying goodbye to the estranged love of his life, Sharon, and settling his affairs with a manic urgency that culminates...

Blackout: "Writer-director Larry Fessenden has created some of the most original and memorable independent horror films of the last 25 years, from Habit and Wendigo to The Last Winter, Skin and Bones, Beneath and Depraved. His latest, Blackout, ranks among his most chilling and thought-provoking works with a cast that includes: Alex Hurt, Addison Timlin, Motell Gyn Foster, Joseph Castillo-Midyett, Ella Rae Peck, Rigo Garay, John Speredakos, Michael Buscemi, Jeremy Holm, Joe Swanberg, James Le Gros, Kevin Corrigan, Marshall Bell and Barbara Crampton.

Earning rave reviews on the festival circuit, Blackout marks the long-awaited reunion of Dark Sky Films and Larry Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix, two iconic horror companies that brought us contemporary classics such as Ti West's The House of The Devil and The Innkeepers, Jim Mickle’s Stake Land and Adrian Garcia Bogliano's Late Phases.

Blackout will open for a one week exclusive NYC theatrical engagement...

"I guess I don't understand why the customer would want to sweep up their own crumbs?" Good question. Glass Eye Pictures has revealed a teaser trailer for an indie dark comedy called Crumb Catcher, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Chris Skotchdopole. This is premiering at Fantastic Fest down in Austin, Texas this week, with no official release date set yet - only more festivals. A newlywed couple is held captive in a remote lake house by a maniacally optimistic inventor and his sour wife who are desperate to finance his dream project with a half-baked blackmail plot. Fantastic Fest describe it as "a chamber piece that melds extreme anxiety with the worst salesmanship imaginable. Every single character is hilariously despicable in their own way, and each motivated by selfishness and ego." Starring Rigo Garay, Ella Rae Peck, John Speredakos, Lorraine Farris, and Rebecca Watson. Keep an eye out for this sneaky film.

Submarine Entertainment is picking up worldwide sales rights on Chris Skotchdopole’s feature directorial debut “Crumb Catcher.” The move comes just ahead of the darkly comic thriller’s Fantastic Fest world premiere.

Skotchdopole wrote, directed, edited, and produced the movie and Submarine Entertainment, a notable sales and production company, will launch sales out of the festival, which runs from Sept. 21 to Sept. 28 at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, Texas. “Crumb Catcher” was described by Fantastic Fest programmer Anna Bogutskaya as a “chamber piece that melds extreme anxiety with the worst salesmanship imaginable.” The film follows a newlywed couple held captive by an entrepreneur desperate to finance his outlandish invention with a blackmail plot.

With ten years of experience working with Glass Eye Pix, the New York independent genre production outfit led by horror auteur Larry Fessenden, Skotchdopole has amassed numerous credits on several films, including working as the cinematographer on Fessenden’s “Depraved,...

Like Depraved, a modern retelling of Frankenstein, Blackout finds writer-director Larry Fessenden once again toying with classic monster tropes. The new film focuses on a tortured artist, Charley (Alex Hurt), whose name is just a few letters removed from “Chaney.” Charley is dealing with a nasty case of werewolfism, which is the same affliction that plagued Lon Chaney Jr.’s character, Larry Talbot, in 1941’s The Wolf Man.

Where Depraved was a commentary on modern warfare, Ptsd, and the pharmaceutical industrial complex, Blackout narrows its focus to the business of being a modern white liberal in a small town. Charley is concerned about the environment, and he’s disturbed at the racist groupthink stoked by a local real estate magnate, Hammond (Marshall Bell), who happens to be his former boss and the father of his ex-girlfriend, Sharon (Addison Timlin). At one point, Charley asks a former co-worker what Hammond has...

As with Depraved, writer-director Larry Fessenden returns to the world of classic, Universal-inspired monsters in Blackout. Whereas that title brought the mythos of Frankenstein’s monster (and its ample room for social commentary) into the present-day, this latest update shifts focus towards the so-called “wolfman.”

How does knowing he potentially killed innocent people affect Charley (Alex Hurt)? How can he keep pretending his life is simple and his love (with Addison Timlin’s Sharon) pure when a cloud of uncertain violence looms above the three-day nightly windows he cannot remember each month? Because while his actually being a werewolf is presented with enough ambiguity to make the truth part of the intrigue, Fessenden pulls no punches insofar as making certain we know Charley is at fault. He sees glimpses of his victims’ faces and, as an artist, paints them to try severing their hold. So while he might not be...

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Yellow Veil Pictures announced today they have boarded world sales on Blackout, Larry Fessenden’s werewolf horror film that’s currently in post-production, and have released the first teaser poster. The film wrapped principal photography in the fall in New York’s Hudson Valley and will hit the festival circuit later this year.

Blackout marks the second pairing of Glass Eye Pix, the New York production shingle headed by Fessenden, and Yellow Veil Pictures, having previously collaborated successfully on world sales for Fessenden’s 2019 Depraved, which was released by IFC Midnight in the US to great acclaim.

The film follows a fine-arts painter convinced he is a werewolf wreaking havoc on a small American town every full moon. It is the latest addition to Fessenden’s own Monsterverse, along with his breakout feature, the vampire-themed Independent Spirit Award-Winning feature Habit (1995) and 2019’s Frankenstein riff, Depraved.

Winner of the 1997 Someone to Watch Spirit Award,...

Yellow Veil Pictures announced it has boarded world sales on Larry Fessenden’s upcoming horror film “Blackout,” and also released the film’s first teaser poster. The film, which is currently in post-production, will begin the festival circuit later in 2023 after finishing its photography in Hudson Valley, New York this past fall.

“Blackout” depicts a painter who, convinced he is a werewolf, creates chaos in a small town at each full moon.

The horror film joins Fessenden’s own “monsterverse,” with the New York-based actor and filmmaker’s vampire-themed breakout feature “Habit” (1995) and Frankenstein-inspired “Depraved” (2019).

“Blackout” is the second partnership between Yellow Veil Pictures, a New York City and Los Angeles-based film sales and distribution company, and Glass Eye Pix, an American independent film studio Fessenden founded where he serves as CEO. The two joined forces on world sales for “Depraved,” which was released by IFC Midnight in the United States.

Second collaboration with Glass Eye Pix after 2019’s Depraved.

Yellow Veil Pictures has boarded world sales on Larry Fessenden’s werewolf horror Blackout and will launch talks with buyers at the EFM later this month.

The film wrapped principal photography last autumn in New York’s Hudson Valley and is currently in post-production. The filmmakers anticipate a festival circuit run later this year.

Blackout marks the second collaboration between Fessenden’s New York production company Glass Eye Pix and Yellow Veil Pictures after Depraved, a 2019 riff on the Frankenstein story which IFC Midnight distributed in the US.

It follows a...

Principal Photography Wraps on Larry Fessenden’s Blackout: "Independent production shingle Glass Eye Pix is pleased to announce director Larry Fessenden has completed principal photography on his seventh feature film, Blackout. The picture, which stars Alex Hurt as Charley Barrett, a Fine Arts painter convinced that he is a werewolf wreaking havoc on a small American town under the full moon, wrapped under the glow of October 8th’s Hunter Moon, with pickups completed October 16th.

The film features an Altman-esque array of co-stars - some newcomers and many long-time members of the Glass Eye Pix stable - including Addison Timlin, Motell Gyn Foster, Joseph Castillo-Midyett, Ella Rae Peck (upcoming Crumb Catcher), Rigo Garay (upcoming Crumb Catcher), John Speredakos, Michael Buscemi, Jeremy Holm, Joe Swanberg, Barbara Crampton, James Le Gros, and Marshall Bell. Casting was handled by Lois Drabkin, who previously worked with Fessenden on Beneath and The Ranger.

The film was produced by Fessenden,...

Independent production shingle Glass Eye Pix has announced that director Larry Fessenden has completed principal photography on his seventh feature film, Blackout. The picture, which stars Alex Hurt as Charley Barrett, a Fine Arts painter convinced that he is a werewolf wreaking havoc on a small American town under the full moon, wrapped under the glow of October 8th’s Hunter Moon, with pickups completed October 16.

The film features a cast including Addison Timlin, Motell Gyn Foster, Joseph Castillo-Midyett, Ella Rae Peck (upcoming Crumb Catcher), Rigo Garay (Crumb Catcher), John Speredakos, Michael Buscemi, Jeremy Holm, Joe Swanberg, Barbara Crampton, James Le Gros, and Marshall Bell.

The film was produced by Fessenden, James Felix McKenney, and Chris Ingvordsen, and Co-Produced by Gaby Leyner. Collin Braizie was cinematographer, following his previous stint on the Glass Eye Pix production Foxhole. Paintings for the main character’s artwork were created for the film by Brooklyn-based artist John Mitchell.

"You're either part of the problem, or you're part of the solution." Cinedigm has revealed an official trailer for an indie drama titled Tuscaloosa, which is indeed set in the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Based on the Southern novel by W. Glasgow Phillips, this film is set in 1972 and centers around a major civil rights movement. On the verge of entering high society, college graduate Billy Mitchell finds his plans changing when he falls in love with a young patient with multiple personalities at his father's mental institution, and becomes involved in a radical civil rights fight against Tuscaloosa's power elite. Starring Devon Bostick, Natalia Dyer, Marchánt Davis, Tate Donovan, Ella Rae Peck, Nathan Phillips, Birgundi Baker, and hip hop artist / actor Yg. Looks like a radical trip back to the 70s, with some groovy dialogue in there. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Philip Harder's Tuscaloosa, direct from Cinedigm's YouTube: Alabama,...

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Vulture Watch Is the CIA still at odds with the FBI? Has The Looming Tower TV show been cancelled or renewed for a second season on Hulu? The television vulture is watching all the latest TV cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of The Looming Tower, season two. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?   What's This TV Show About? A Hulu counter-terrorism drama based on the Lawrence Wright non-fiction book, The Looming Tower stars Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Wrenn Schmidt, Bill Camp, Louis Cancelmi, Virginia Kull, Ella Rae Peck, Sullivan Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Peter Sarsgaard. The story explores the rise of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, beginning in the late 1990s. It also delves into the issue of whether the...

Wintertime, and the streaming is easy.... Hulu has announced the release dates for two new TV series: The Looming Tower and Hard Sun. Based on Lawrence Wright's non-fiction book, The Looming Tower TV show explores the lead-up to the terrorist attacks which struck the U.S. on September 11, 2001. The scripted drama stars Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Peter Sarsgaard, Bill Camp, Virginia Kull, Louis Cancelmi, Ella Rae Peck, Sullivan Jones, Wrenn Schmidt, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Alec Baldwin. The Looming Tower season one, premieres on Hulu on Wednesday, February 28, 2017. Airing on BBC One in UK, the Hard Sun TV show comes from Luther creator Neil Cross. The Hulu crime drama follows detectives Robert Hicks (Jim Sturgess) and Elaine Renko (Agyness Deyn) who are just trying to put up with one another and do their jobs,...

Hulu adaptation of Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 9/11 exposé begins production in New York.

Alec Baldwin will guest star as CIA director George Tenet in The Looming Tower.

Wright’s non-fiction book traces the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, taking a controversial look at how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI may have inadvertently set the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq.

In the series of 10 hour-long episodes Tenet aligns himself in the fight against Al-Qaeda with the then National Security Council counter-terrorism coordinator Richard Clarke, though he may know more than he is letting on. Michael Stuhlbarg plays Clarke.

Baldwin joins a cast that includes Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Peter Sarsgaard, Bill Camp, Virginia Kull, Louis Cancelmi, Ella Rae Peck, Sullivan Jones, and Wrenn Schmidt.

Oscar-winning writer Dan Futterman adapted the book and will serve as executive producer alongside Alex Gibney and Wright. Legendary Television...

The 10-episode drama series is based on Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 9/11 exposé.

Alec Baldwin will guest star as CIA director George Tenet in The Looming Tower.

Wright’s non-fiction book traces the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, taking a controversial look at how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI may have inadvertently set the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq.

In the 10-episode adaptation Tenet is Richard Clarke’s partner in fighting al-Qaeda, though he may know more than he is letting on. Michael Stuhlbarg plays Clarke.

Baldwin joins a cast that includes Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Peter Sarsgaard, Bill Camp, Virginia Kull, Louis Cancelmi, Ella Rae Peck, Sullivan Jones, and Wrenn Schmidt.

Oscar-winning writer Dan Futterman adapted the hour-long drama series and will serve as executive producer alongside Alex Gibney and Wright. Legendary Television is producing the series.

Baldwin’s casting comes as the actor is enjoying...

Turn on the sirens: CBS has picked up the docuseries Ambulance.

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The one-hour reality show — based on a UK format — chronicles the intense world of emergency medical workers and 911 dispatchers as they make split-second decisions during life-threatening emergencies.

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* Tyler Labine (Reaper) will co-star in the CBS comedy pilot Hannah Royce’s Questionable Choices as the first husband of Hannah (played by Alice Eve) and the father of her eldest child, our sister site Deadline reports.

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Wrenn Schmidt (Outcast) is set as a female lead opposite Peter Sarsgaard, Jeff Daniels and Tahar Rahim in Hulu's straight-to-series drama The Looming Tower. Based on Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning 9/11 exposé, the series hails from Oscar-nominated Dan Futterman (Foxcatcher), Oscar- and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Going Clear) and Legendary Television. Also cast in the project is Ella Rae Peck (Gossip Girl). The Looming Tower traces the rising…...

It's pilot season once again for Amazon Studios, and among the five announced shows getting a test run, two seem to offer a little something for the horror crowd. Read on for more about "Hand of God" and "Hysteria."

"Hand of God," directed by Marc Forster, stars Ron Perlman and Dana Delaney. You can get more info and watch the pilot here.

Co-stars include Alona Tal, Garret Dillahunt, Julian Morris, Emilio Rivera, Andre Royo, Maximiliano Hernández, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Wes Chatham, Sandy Martin, Elizabeth McLaughlin, Anthony Starke, Daniel Louis Rivas, Elaine Tan, Ravi Kapoor, Hugh Dane, Julian Acosta, Jennifer Cortese, and Brett Wyman.

Synopsis:

A psychological drama about a morally-corrupt judge who suffers a breakdown and believes God is compelling him onto a path of vigilante justice.

"Hysteria," directed by Otto Bathurst, stars Mena Suvari and T.R. Knight. You can get more info and watch the pilot here.

Co-stars include Laura San Giacomo,...

Big news today: We’re excited to announce Amazon Studios’ third pilot season, beginning August 28th and featuring three half hour comedies The Cosmopolitans, Really and Red Oaks, and two hour-long dramatic thrillers Hand of God and Hysteria. For one month, it will be up to you to watch, rate and comment – ultimately helping us decide which of them get the greenlight.

“There is something for everyone in this season,” says Roy Price, Director of Amazon Studios. The glamorous life of modern day expats in Paris. The hijinks of a summer job at a country club in 1980s New Jersey. The visions of a vigilante judge who appears to be channeling God. The complexities of marriage and friendship among a circle of friends in suburban Chicago. And the mysteries behind a psycho-physiological illness spreading through a small town in Texas.

You can help choose which of these stories should get “picked up” to become shows.

Learn more about the two new pilots Amazon Studios greenlit, including Really and Hysteria.

Really

Really is about four hard-charging suburban Chicago couples trying to grasp on to their dwindling youth. At the center are the happily but messily married couple “Jed,” played by Chandrasekhar, and “Lori,” played by Sarah Chalke. When Jed is faced with the choice of keeping his pal’s secret or destroying his friend group, he winds up digging himself into a very deep hole. Really explores marriage, friendship and the stifling peculiarities of suburban Chicago life. The pilot also stars Selma Blair, Travis Schuldt, Hayes MacArthur, Collette Wolfe, Luka Jones, Lindsay Sloane, and Rob Delaney.

Hysteria

Directed by Bathhurst, Hysteria takes viewers to Austin where members of a girls’ dance troop are stricken with a strange, psycho-physiological disease. Neurologist Dr. Logan Harlow (Mena Suvari) is called back to her hometown to investigate the cause. Fighting her own demons,...

Amazon today announced it has added the hour-long dramatic thriller Hysteria, from Amazon Studios, Universal Television and Alcon Television Group, to its third pilot season, which will debut later this year on Amazon Instant Video. Starring Mena Suvari (American Beauty) as “Dr. Logan Harlen,” James McDaniel (Orange Is The New Black) as “Carl Sapsi,” Josh Stewart (The Dark Knight Rises) as “Ray Ratajeck,” Adan Canto (X-Men: Days of Future Past) as “Matt Sanchez,” Laura San Giacomo (Saving Grace) as “Grace Pelayo” and T.R. Knight (Grey’s Anatomy) as “Carter Harlen,” Hysteria follows a doctor (Suvari) who returns to her hometown of Austin, Texas to investigate a growing epidemic that appears to be spreading through social media. The show is written by Shaun Cassidy who also serves as Executive Producer alongside Adam Schroeder, Sharon Hall, Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Bryan Zuriff, and Director Otto Bathurst. Customers will once again be invited...

Through the first two episodes of "Believe," viewers have seen some of Bo's (Johnny Sequoyah) powers and been told that she may have even greater untapped abilities. What hasn't been explored, though, is the source of her abilities.

That will change with Sunday's (March 23) episode, "Origin." Flashbacks will feature Bo's mother, Nina (guest star Ella Rae Peck), and Zap2it has a few exclusive photos that help explain Bo's present-day story.

Nina was an original recruit of the group known as Orchestra, and as you can see, she got to know both Winter (Delroy Lindo) and Skouras (Kyle MacLachlan) in her time there. She has some of the same gifts as Bo and becomes pregnant during her time with Orchestra, which helps explain how Bo is on Winter's and Skouras' radar in the present.

When Nina's powers are used for military purposes and things go awry, though, she extracts a...

One new sitcom is no longer in the NBC family. The peacock network has canned Welcome to the Family after three low-rated episodes.

On Welcome to the Family, a pair of very different families are brought together when their teens get "in a family way." The sitcom's cast includes Mike O'Malley, Mary McCormack, Ricardo Chavira, Justina Machado, Ella Rae Peck, Joseph Haro, and Fabrizio Guido.

The comedy started out with very low ratings and the numbers got worse in week two. They seem to have shown a little growth last night but the ratings were still terrible. As a result, NBC has swung the axe.

It's unclear what will become of the unaired episodes or how many installments have actually been produced. NBC initially ordered 13 of them.

The peacock network will fill the timeslot with a...

NBC certainly needs help on Thursday night. Will Welcome to the Family be the answer to their ratings prayers? Will it be a success or cancelled instead? [See the update below.]

On Welcome to the Family, a pair of very different families are brought together when their teens get "in a family way." The sitcom's cast includes Mike O'Malley, Mary McCormack, Ricardo Chavira, Justina Machado, Ella Rae Peck, Joseph Haro, and Fabrizio Guido.

The ratings are typically the best indication of a show's likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings (particularly the 18-49 demo), the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available -- usually the next day, around 11:30am Est/8:30am Pst. Refresh to see the latest.

10/18 update: NBC has cancelled Welcome to the Family after three episodes.

Network: NBC

Episodes: Unknown (half-hour)

Seasons: One

TV show dates: October 3, 2013 -- Tbd

Series status: Cancelled

Performers include: Mike O'Malley, Mary McCormack, Ricardo Chavira, Justina Machado, Ella Rae Peck, Joseph Haro, and Fabrizio Guido.

TV show description:

On this TV comedy, Dan (Mike O'Malley) and Caroline Yoder (Mary McCormack) think that they've finally have it made. Their daughter Molly (Ella Rae Peck), who's not exactly a diligent student, has managed to graduate from high school and has been accepted to college. Her proud parents are looking forward to having an empty nest and are breathing a heavy sigh of relief.

Molly's secret boyfriend is Junior Hernandez (Joey Haro). Across town, he's graduating from his high school with top honors and has plans to go to Stanford. His parents, Miguel (Ricardo Chavira) and Lisette Hernandez...

NBC’s “Welcome to the Family” is getting a little bit of “Community” in it. Yvette Nicole Brown, who plays Shirley Bennett on the NBC comedy “Community,” will guest-star on an upoming episode of the network’s freshman comedy “Welcome to the Family.” Also read: ‘Community’ Star Donald Glover Reveals Why He Left Show in Bizarre Instagram Confession Brown will play an annoying neighbor who goes head-to-head with Dan Yoder (series star Mike O’Malley.) “Welcome to the Family,” which also stars Mary McCormack, Ella Rae Peck, Joseph Haro and Justina Machado, has struggled to establish itself in the ratings.

Cultures clashed on NBC’s Welcome to the Family on Thursday (8:30/7:30c). By the end, did you feel like a member of the two clans?

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Before you hit the comments with your snappy judgments, a brief refresher: Molly (played by Deception‘s Ella Rae Peck) is sweet but dimwitted — Case in point: She states, “Our society is so patriotic!” but when asked if she means “patriarchal,” replies, “Probably.” — is graduating from high school, much to the delight of her parents, Dan and Caroline (Glee‘s...

I wanted to like Welcome to the Family, I really did. It has a strong cast playing the two sets of parents. Its premise is straightforward, and even contains some weighty issues. Its lead-in is Parks and Recreation.

But I don’t. I strongly disliked the premiere. The show, which centers on two families who must overcome their differences because their teenage children are about to have a baby and want to stay together, had potential, but because everything that could have been good about Welcome to the Family (a.k.a. “Wttf,” as the promos continue to bash into our heads) fails to deliver.