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Dystopia is one of those sub-genres that lends itself to some interesting philosophical ideas and TV show creators take full advantage of that. In the history of cinema, many great directors and storytellers have created some of the most iconic movies set in dystopian societies like Blade Runner and Total Recall. Max (formerly known as HBO Max) hosts almost all of the brilliant HBO and Max shows and some of those are great dystopian shows. So, we decided to compile a list of the best dystopian shows you can watch on Max right now.

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Station Eleven is a post-apocalyptic dystopian drama series created by Patrick Somerville. Based on the 2014 novel of the same name by author Emily St. John Mandel, the HBO Max series is set twenty years after a flu pandemic destroyed...

When we say that Netflix has something for everyone, we really do mean it as you can find shows from horror and fantasy genres to niche genres like psychological thriller and serial killer shows. Today we are going to dive into Netflix’s vast library of content to pick out the best courtroom dramas for the fans of the genre. So, here are the 7 best legal drama shows you can find on Netflix right now.

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The Lincoln Lawyer is a legal drama series created by David E. Kelley. Based on the books of Michael Connelly, the Netflix series follows the story of Los Angeles lawyer Mickey Haller as he takes on high-profile cases while working from the back of his Lincoln Navigator. The Lincoln Lawyer stars Manuel Garcia-Rulfo in the lead role with Becki Newton, Neve Campbell, Lana Parrilla, Angus Sampson, Jazz Raycole, Christopher Gorham,...

The wait is almost over. Nine months after the Season 19 finale of Grey’s Anatomy aired on ABC, Season 20 of the venerable medical drama created by Shonda Rhimes premieres on the network this Thursday, March 14. The new season has veteran Grey’s Anatomy writer-producer Meg Marinis at the helm as new showrunner, succeeding Krista Vernoff. It will bring back Jessica Capshaw, reprising her role as Dr. Arizona Robbins, and Alex Landi, returning as Dr. Nico Kim, with Natalie Morales and Freddy Miyares joining in recurring roles as pediatric surgeon Monica Beltran and patient Dorian, respectively.

“It’s the Grey’s Anatomy that fans have been missing for a year,” said Marinis. I’m sad it’s been so long, but we’ll come back, and we’ll come back as strong as ever.”

As revealed in the trailer released by ABC, Season 20 will pick up in the immediate aftermath of the Season 19 finale,...

Jessica Capshaw will return as Arizona Robbins in Grey's Anatomy season 20. Arizona's departure from the show involved a plane crash, amputation, marital issues, and moving to New York. Grey's Anatomy season 20 will have fewer episodes due to 2023's Hollywood strikes, but fans can look forward to a possible update on Callie and Arizona's relationship.

A new set photo from Grey’s Anatomy season 20 reveals the return of Jessica Capshaw as Arizona Robbins. With its premiere date just weeks away, the milestone twentieth installment of Grey's will welcome some new characters alongside familiar ones. Parks and Recreation alum Natalie Morales and When They See Us actor Freddy Miyares, have joined the ensemble, while Alex Landi will reprise his role as Dr. Nico Kim.

Capshaw shared a photo of her return to Grey's Anatomy season 20 as Arizona, previewing the possibility that the character will be involved in some medical drama.

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It's a milestone 20th season of Grey's Anatomy knocking on our doors, and they're not holding back.

We saw that Grey's Anatomy Season 19 felt like a soft reboot of the series, simultaneously tapping into the nostalgia with throwback formats with new faces and the return of series fan favorites.

And Grey's Anatomy Season 20 promises to keep up that same energy.

To the relief of many, Ellen Pompeo didn't hang up her stethoscope permanently despite her minimal role last season, and we know for a fact that she'll make some appearances this season.

It's even been teased that she'll appear in the season premiere.

And Grey's Anatomy Season 19 also excited long-time fans with the epic return of Kate Walsh as Addison Montgomery.

Throughout the season, she helmed a critical and timely arc about women's health issues, taking on the abolishment of Roe v. Wade and showcasing the long-reaching ramifications of that decision on the healthcare industry.

Jessica Capshaw is officially back in the Grey’s Anatomy operating room, as evidenced by a new photo Capshaw has shared from her forthcoming guest stint.

The actress shared a selfie from the Grey’s set on Instagram Tuesday, in which she’s donning surgical garb as Dr. Arizona Robbins. Her caption, meanwhile, appears to confirm that Arizona will return in the April 4 episode.

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Ellen Pompeo will appear in at least 4 episodes of Grey's Anatomy season 20, with the possibility for more, according to sources. Pompeo's character, Meredith, will have a big love storyline with Nick, played by Scott Speedman. Grey's Anatomy season 20 will feature guest appearances from Jessica Capshaw and Alex Landi, both former cast members reprising their roles.

The episode count for Ellen Pompeo in Grey's Anatomy season 20 has been confirmed. Pompeo has been synonymous with the seminal medical drama as its long-time lead star, narrator, and executive producer. However, she will be taking a step back from her role as Meredith to focus on other roles and projects. That includes the show tentatively referred to as Orphan, an upcoming limited series for Hulu that echoes the horror movies of the same name.

Pompeo will still have a presence in the medical drama, though, as The Hollywood Reporter confirms that she will be...

Actress Jessica Capshaw, who spent 10 seasons playing Dr Arizona Robbins on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, is returning to reprise her role in the upcoming 20th season of the show. She will be joined by Alex Landi, who returns as Dr Nico Kim, and franchise newcomers Natalie Morales and Freddy Miyares as guest stars in the milestone season of the Shonda Rhimes produced medical drama, reports The Hollywood Reporter.

Additional guest stars are expected to be announced as the show inches closer toward its strikes-delayed return on March 14 at 9 p.m.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, Capshaw exited Grey’s in 2018, at the end of its 14th season when Arizona moved from Seattle to New York so her daughter, Sofia, could be in the same city with her other mother, Callie (former series regular Sara Ramirez), as the fan-favourite former couple “Calzona” appeared poised for a reunion.

Capshaw was written out alongside Sarah Drew...

Grey's Anatomy will bring back a former cast members after a six-year hiatus.

Per THR, it's been announced that the upcoming 20th season of Grey's Anatomy will bring back Jessica Capshaw to reprise her role as Dr. Arizona Robbins. Capshaw had previously spent 10 seasons playing Dr. Robbins from 2009 until 2018, and her return for Season 20 marks one of a handful of casting additions for the new season. Also coming back for the new season is Alex Landi, who's returning as Dr. Nico Kim; Landi previously starred in the role in Seasons 15-18, and sat out the 19th season. Meanwhile, newcomers to the franchise coming in for Season 20 also include Natalie Morales (Dead to Me) and Freddy Miyares (The L Word: Gen Q), who will be featured as guest stars.

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Ahead of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy‘s 20th Season premiere on March 14, Craig Erwich, President of Disney Television Group that includes ABC Entertainment, spoke about the show’s future during the network’s TCA presentation on Saturday.

“Right now, our focus is on the immediate future of Grey’s Anatomy, which is celebrating its 20th season, a remarkable achievement, creatively and for the network, the audience and the creators,” Erwich said.

As for Grey’s Anatomy‘s longer-term future, “I think the show is as creatively strong as it’s ever been,” Erwich said. “Not just the live [episodes] you are watching today, but it’s fueling growth for our streaming platform.”

As Deadline reported in December, previous seasons of Grey’s Anatomy will be made available for the first time on a Disney streaming platform when they make their debut on the bundled Disney+/Hulu app and the standalone Hulu service starting in March.

Look who’s roller-skating back into Grey Sloan Memorial: Jessica Capshaw will return to play Dr. Arizona Robbins in the upcoming 20th season of Grey’s Anatomy. Meanwhile, Alex Landi is coming back to play Dr. Nico Kim in Season 20 while Natalie Morales and Freddy Miyares guest-star, according to Deadline. Capshaw was last seen on Grey’s Anatomy in 2018, when Arizona, a pediatric surgeon, headed to New York City for a possible reunion with ex-wife Callie Torres (Sara Ramirez) in the Season 14 finale. Both Capshaw and costar Sarah Drew were let go from the ABC medical drama at the end of Season 14 — much to fans’ outrage — though Drew has guest-starred in two more episodes since. Since her time on Grey’s, Capshaw has appeared in the 2020 Netflix movie Holidate and the first season of Hulu’s Tell Me Lies. John Fleeno/ABC Landi recurred on Grey’s throughout Seasons 15 and 18, with his...

As fans of Grey’s Anatomy will know, the upcoming season will be one for the books based solely on the fact that it’s celebrating its milestone 20th anniversary. For two full decades, the medical drama that put Shonda Rhimes’s Shondaland on the map has been a mainstay in pop culture, churning out heartfelt and tear-jerking episodes week in and week out. As if the monumental number wasn’t enough to get audiences hyped for the show’s upcoming season, the creative team behind Grey’s Anatomy stepped in to give the dedicated fandom an extra little treat, as not only will Jessica Capshaw and Alex Landi return to reprise their roles but No Hard Feelings and Dead to Me star Natalie Morales will join in a guest capacity alongside Freddy Miyares (When They See Us).

New episodes of Grey’s Anatomy are going to seem a little bit like old times: When the resurgent ABC drama scrubs in for its abbreviated Season 20, Jessica Capshaw will be guest-starring as Arizona Robbins, the pediatric surgeon she played from Season 5-14, ABC announced Saturday.

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The actress’ return engagement comes on the heels of the previously disclosed homecoming for Alex Landi as Schmitt’s ex, Nico Kim.

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When “Grey’s Anatomy” viewers last saw Jessica Capshaw as Arizona Robbins — at the end of the ABC drama’s 14th season — she was moving to New York City so her daughter Sofia could be with both of her parents. But at the Television Critics Association Press Tour in Pasadena on Saturday, ABC announced that Capshaw will be among the show’s Season 20 guest stars and will appear on one episode.

Alex Landi, who’s appeared as orthopedic surgeon Nico Kim since Season 15, will also return to the show as a guest star.

Natalie Morales and Freddy Miyares (“When They See Us”), meanwhile, will make their “Grey’s Anatomy” debuts. Morales will play Monica Beltran, who, according to her character description, is “a pediatric surgeon whose pragmatism and level-headedness have made her one of the best in her field.” And Miyares will be among the recurring cast as Dorian, who is “an intelligent,...

Jessica Capshaw is checking back into Grey Sloan.

The actress, who spent 10 seasons playing Dr. Arizona Robbins from 2009-2018, is returning to reprise her role in the upcoming 20th season of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy. Capshaw will be joined by Alex Landi, who returns as Dr. Nico Kim, and franchise newcomers Natalie Morales and Freddy Miyares as guest stars in the milestone season of the Shonda Rhimes-produced medical drama. Additional guest stars are expected to be announced as the show inches closer toward its strikes-delayed return on March 14 at 9 p.m.

Capshaw exited Grey’s in 2018, at the end of its 14th season when Arizona moved from Seattle to New York so her daughter, Sofia, could be in the same city with her other mother, Callie (former series regular Sara Ramirez), as the fan-favorite former couple “Calzona” appeared poised for a reunion.

Capshaw was written out alongside Sarah Drew...

Expect to see some familiar faces returning to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital soon.

Jessica Capshaw is set to guest star in Season 20 of Grey’s Anatomy, reprising her beloved role as Dr. Arizona Robbins. Also Alex Landi will return as Dr. Nico Kim.

No word yet on how, exactly, these two will make their way back to Grey Sloan. Capshaw joined the cast in Season 5 and remained until Season 14, when Arizona left Seattle during the finale to move to New York so that her daughter Sophia could be closer to her other mom, Dr. Callie Torres (Sara Ramirez).

Landi recurred on the show from Seasons 15 to 18, before exiting in May 2022. While he was on the show, he was in an on-again off-again relationship with his co-worker Dr. Levi Schmitt (Jake Borelli), who is still on the show.

Additionally, Grey’s Anatomy is also adding two new faces, Natalie Morales and Freddy Miyares.

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HBO Max’s new dystopian drama Dmz is based on the comic book series of the same name. Although the source material was released early in the 21st century, its themes are still relevant in the Covid landscape.

The Hollywood Reporter’s Hilton Dresden moderated a conversation with the cast and creative team, including actors Rosario Dawson, Benjamin Bratt, Freddy Miyares and Hoon Lee, as well as executive producers Roberto Patino and Ernest Dickerson, who served as writer and director, respectively, for THR Presents, powered by Vision Media.

Each member of the creative team had a different relationship to the original text. Patino bought the comic back in 2005, when it first came out. He explained: “I instantly became hooked. It was a very captivating very terrifying world. I read every episode, all 72 issues, and then about 2016, 11 years later, I came back to it,...

Almost no one could have predicted the unprecedented global events of the past two years, which is why Freddy Miyares is quite surprised by how HBO Max’s “Dmz” has only become more relevant over time.

The dystopian miniseries — in which Manhattan has become a demilitarized zone after a second civil war breaks out in America — comes after two years of a global pandemic that has kept millions of individuals isolated. It’s also debuting amid Russia’s devastating war in Ukraine, which the rest of the world has watched from afar.

“Even now, considering what’s happening on the other side of the world, the effects of war — what happens to a community, to a culture, and how is it preserved? Where do we maintain humanity? The series really does encapsulate that,” Miyares told TheWrap of how the show has proven timelier than he could have imagined. “It’s a beautiful and tragic story,...

They say the devil is in the details, and that is certainly true for the dystopia dazzle that is Ava DuVernay and Roberto Patino’s Dmz.

Having just had its world premiere at SXSW today and set to debut on HBO Max on March 17, the Rosario Dawson, Hoon Lee and Benjamin Bratt-led adaptation of Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli’s comic of the same name can be best summarized in the massive graffiti splayed across a dilapidated Manhattan building in the series – “We’re Still Here.”

Yes, in the agile sociological hands of 13th and When They See Us director DuVernay, it is all still here, even more so in a further broken America. The racial, gender, class warfare and constant betrayal that has been soaked in the soil since before America even became a country is still here in the near future of Dmz and the wound is...

Rosario Dawson travels through a dystopian Manhattan in search of her missing son in the first look trailer for HBO Max‘s upcoming series Dmz. Based on the DC graphic novel written by Brian Wood, Dmz takes viewers into the visual landscape of a dangerous and distorted Manhattan, now a demilitarized zone, caught between forces of the United States of America and the secessionist Free States of America. In this dangerous and violent environment, Alma Ortega (Dawson) embarks on a quest to find her missing child. The trailer (watch below) sees Dawson navigating the wild and rugged terrain of an abandoned Manhattan, dodging gunfire from other survivors, and clashing with gangs that have formed in this new, lawless society.  In addition to Dawson, Dmz stars Benjamin Bratt (Law & Order) as Parco Delgado, Freddy Miyares (When They See Us) as Skel, Hoon Lee (Banshee) as Wilson, Jordan Preston Carter (The Haves...

Manhattan transforms into harrowing place in Dmz, a four-part limited series coming to HBO Max March 17. The series, based on the DC graphic novel of the same name, stars Rosario Dawson as a woman who has to navigate a demilitarized zone in a quest to find her lost son.

The trailer for the show reveals a destroyed, overgrown New York City, where cheetahs roam among the crumbling buildings. Along the way, Dawson’s Alma Ortega encounters gangs who may stand in her way.

Dmz also stars Benjamin Bratt, Hoon Lee,...

“Bel Air” is about to feature a “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” reunion — of sorts. Daphne Maxwell Reid, who played Will’s aunt on later seasons of “Fresh Prince,” and Vernee Watson-Johnson, who recurred as Will’s mom on the show, are returning to Bel Air — in guest starring roles for Episode 9 of Peacock’s new drama.

Maxwell Reid and Watson-Johnson portrayed Aunt Viv and Viola “Vy” Smith, respectively, in the original series. For their upcoming guest roles on “Bel-Air,” the two will play “Helen” and “Janice,” members of the Art Council Board of Trustee.

Peacock’s “Bel-Air” reimagines the beloved “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” sitcom — with a new lens on Will’s (Jabari Banks) complicated journey from West Philadelphia to the gated mansions of Bel-Air. The series, inspired by Morgan Cooper’s viral trailer, is executive produced by Will Smith — as well as director/co-writer Cooper and showrunners T.J. Brady and Rasheed Newson.

Dmz Trailer — HBO Max‘s Dmz (2022) TV mini-series trailer has been released. The Dmz trailer stars Rosario Dawson, Benjamin Bratt, Freddy Miyares, Hoon Lee, Jordan Preston Carter, Venus Ariel, Jade Wu, Rutina Wesley, Nora Dunn, Jade Wu, Rey Gallegos, Mamie Gummer, Agam Darshi, Juani Feliz, and Henry G. Sanders. Crew Continue reading: Dmz (2022) TV Mini-series Trailer: Rosario Dawson searches for Her Son during America’s Second Civil War [HBO Max]...

America seems to become more polarized and divided every day, with no end in sight, but how bad could it actually get?

That’s the chilling question asked by “Dmz,” an upcoming four-part limited series on HBO Max, based on Brian Wood’s DC Comics series of the same name. The story takes place in a near future in which America has become engulfed in a second civil war between the United States and a group of secessionist armies who call themselves the Free States of America. The fighting has resulted in Manhattan turning into a demilitarized zone separating territories held by the two armies. With no government in place to enforce laws, the island is ruled by criminal gangs, with power shifting on a near-daily basis.

Ava DuVernay, who executive produces “Dmz” and directed all four episodes, described it as a show “set a few moments in the future...

Rosario Dawson is willing to risk anything to find her son in the first trailer for HBO Max’s “Dmz.”

The four-part limited series, based on the DC graphic novel of the same name, tells the story of a near future where America is embroiled in a bitter civil war, leaving Manhattan a demilitarized zone — hence the title of the series. The show chronicles the journey of fierce medic Alma Ortega (Dawson), who saves lives while desperately searching for her lost son.

In the trailer released on Monday — which you can watch above — Dawson’s Alma explains that she and her son were split apart during the evacuation out of Manhattan before it became a demilitarized zone. Even though the city is now an active war zone, she decides she must go back in search of him.

She contends with the gangs, militias, demagogues and warlords that control this lawless no man’s land,...

"You're stepping into stratospheres of consequence." HBO has revealed an official trailer for a sci-fi thriller mini-series called Dmz, which will debut with 4 episodes on HBO Max later this month. Another surprise series that's ready to launch within weeks that we didn't know much about before. It's based on the Vertigo comic book series written by Brian Wood, with artwork by Wood and Riccardo Burchielli. Dmz leaps off the pages of the acclaimed graphic novel into the visual landscape of a dangerous and distorted Manhattan as one woman navigates a demilitarized zone in a harrowing quest to find her lost son. It's set eight years into America's Second Civil War, where the rule of law is basically dictated by the most powerful person at any possible time and that can change from block to block. The series ensemble cast features Rosario Dawson, Benjamin Bratt, Freddy Miyares, Hoon Lee, Jordan Preston Carter,...

Exclusive: Rutina Wesley (Queen Sugar), Mamie Gummer (True Detective), Nora Dunn (The Big Leap) and Henry G. Sanders (Queen Sugar) are among nine cast in HBO Max’s Dmz, a limited series based on the DC comic series from Ava DuVernay and Roberto Patino, and Warner Bros. Television. Also joining stars Rosario Dawson and Benjamin Bratt are Venus Ariel (NCIS: New Orleans), Jade Wu (Marvel’s Luke Cage), Rey Gallegos (Animal Kingdom), Agam Darshi (Funny Boy) and Juani Feliz (upcoming Harlem).

Joining the creative team are filmmaker Ernest Dickerson and Emmy winner Carly Wray.

Dickerson will direct and executive produce three episodes of the four-part series. DuVernay directed the first episode and executive produces the series.

Wray has joined the writing team and will serve as co-executive producer on the show, working alongside showrunner Patino, who wrote the pilot episode and executive produces the series.

Dmz is set in the near future,...

Ava DuVernay and Roberto Patino’s Dmz has been handed a series order by HBO Max.

The streamer has ordered four episodes of the limited series, a futuristic drama set amid a second American civil war and is based on the DC Comics series.

Production on the series is scheduled to begin in 2021.

Dmz stars Briarpatch’s Rosario Dawson and Law & Order’s Benjamin Bratt in the lead roles, alongside Hoon Lee (Warrior), Freddy Miyares (When They See Us) and Jordan Preston Carter (The Haves and the Have Nots).

Patino, who will write all episodes and showrun the series, wrote the pilot episode, which was directed by DuVernay. Patino and DuVernay are the executive producers.

The series is produced by DuVernay’s Array Filmworks in association with Warner Bros. Television. Westworld writer Patino and Queen Sugar creator DuVernay both have overall deals at the studio.

Dmz is set in the near future,...

HBO Max has ordered the “Dmz” adaptation from Ava DuVernay and Roberto Patino.

The four-part series stars Rosario Dawson and Benjamin Bratt and takes place in the future amid a second American Civil War that has turned Manhattan into a demilitarized zone. Patino and DuVernay will both executive produce the series, which begins production next year. Patino will write all eight episodes and serve as showrunner, while DuVernay will direct.

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In the near future, America is embroiled in a bitter civil war, leaving Manhattan a demilitarized zone (Dmz), destroyed and isolated from the rest of the world. Leaping off the pages of the popular comic, “Dmz” chronicles the harrowing journey of fearless and fierce medic Alma Ortega (series star Rosario Dawson), who sets out on a harrowing journey to find the son she lost in the evacuation of New York City at the onset of the conflict.

Civil war will officially be waged at HBO Max: The streamer has handed a limited-series order to Dmz, an adaptation of the DC comic book series by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli.

Initially ordered to pilot in October 2019, the four-part Dmz series is set during a second American civil war that leaves Manhattan a demilitarized zone (Dmz), destroyed and isolated from the rest of the world. Rosario Dawson (Marvel’s Luke Cage) stars as fearless and fierce medic Alma Ortega, who sets out on a harrowing journey to find the son she lost at the war’s onset. Meanwhile, Parco...

Ava DuVernay is officially making her first show at HBO Max.

The WarnerMedia streamer has handed a series order to four-part limited drama “Dmz,” which hails from DuVernay and “Westworld” writer Roberto Patino. Both are under overall deals with Warner Bros. Television Group, with DuVernay’s said to be somewhere in the $100 million range.

News of the pick up comes just over a year after HBO Max ordered a pilot for “Dmz.” The series is headlined by Rosario Dawson, who is likely to be appearing in upcoming editions of “The Mandalorian,” and “Law & Order” alum Benjamin Bratt.

“Dmz,” based on the DC comic series, is set in the near future when America is embroiled in a bitter civil war, which has left Manhattan a demilitarized zone (Dmz), destroyed and isolated from the rest of the world. It chronicles the harrowing journey of fearless and fierce medic Alma Ortega (Dawson...

Flix FlashbackIn #WatchWithTNM this week, we discuss the series on five innocent boys who were wrongfully accused and convicted of a heinous crime decades ago.Nikhita VenugopalFacebookOver the past several weeks, protests have raged across the United States and in many parts of the world following the killing of 46-year-old George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis. The anger over Floyd’s death wasn’t born of a single incident, but generations of systematic racism and excessive force by the police against black and brown Americans. Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, Freddie Grey, Walter Scott, Breanna Taylor, and so many more lives have been lost to the status quo. The story of five innocent boys who were wrongfully accused and convicted of a heinous crime decades ago is a part of that narrative. Korey Wise, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Yusef Salaam,...

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In a Gold Derby exclusive, we have learned the category placements of the key Emmy Awards contenders for Showtime. For this season, the premium network has returning hits “Black Monday” (Don Cheadle), “Kidding” (Jim Carrey), “Homeland” (Claire Danes), “Ray Donovan (Liev Schreiber) and “Shameless” (William H. Macy) plus limited series “The Loudest Voice” (Russell Crowe) as part of their 2020 campaign. Newcomers could include “City on a Hill” (Kevin Bacon) and “On Becoming a God in Central Florida” (Kirsten Dunst).

Below, the list of Showtime lead, supporting and guest submissions for their comedy, drama and limited series. More names might be added by the network on the final Emmy ballot. Also note that performers not included on this list may well be submitted by their personal reps.

“The Affair”

Drama Series

Drama Actor – Dominic West

Drama Actress – Maura Tierney

Drama Supporting Actor – Jadon Sand

Drama Supporting Actress – Anna Paquin, Julia Goldani Telles...

Exclusive: When They See Us star Freddy Miyares is reteaming with Ava DuVernay for her upcoming HBO Max pilot Dmz. He joins previously announced cast members Rosario Dawson and Benjamin Bratt for the adaptation of the DC comic book series.

Dmz is set the near future where America is embroiled in a bitter civil war, leaving Manhattan a demilitarized zone — hence the title of the series. The show chronicles the journey of fierce medic Alma Ortega (Dawson), who saves lives while desperately searching for her lost son. As she contends with the gangs, militias, demagogues and warlords that control this lawless no man’s land, she becomes the unlikely source of hope.

Miyares will be a series regular and play the character of Skel, the ruthless triggerman of one of the Dmz’s most powerful gangs, led by Parco Delgado (Bratt). He is also a talented graffiti artist with a profound passion for art,...

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Lapse in Judgement,” the first season finale of “The L Word: Generation Q.”

Sometimes a title says it all.

In the first season finale of “The L Word: Generation Q,” many of the characters take big — potentially controversial, depending on your perspective — leaps. Dani (Arienne Mandi) tries to convince Sophie (Rosanny Zayas) to elope in Hawaii, while Sophie follows up her kiss with Finley (Jacqueline Toboni) by fully sleeping with her. Nat (Stephanie Allynne) crashes a make-or-break episode of Alice’s (Leisha Hailey) talk show to declare her love for her; Shane (Katherine Moennig) expresses hesitation when Quiara (Lex Scott Davis) says she’s going to try again for a baby after experiencing a miscarriage; and Micah (Leo Sheng) learns his boyfriend Jose (Freddy Miyares) has been hiding a husband from him.

The title of the episode is “Lapse in Judgement,...

Showtime Documentary Films released the trailer for “Murder in the Bayou,” its first true-crime docuseries.

Inspired by Ethan Brown’s best-selling novel of the same name, the five-part docuseries investigates the unsolved murders of eight women whose bodies were discovered between 2005 and 2009 in drainage canals and on back roads in and around the town of Jennings, Louisiana, in rural Jefferson Davis Parish.

“Jennings puts a curse on you. Either you gon’ make it, or you gon’ fall into that grave,” a woman says in the opening of the trailer, which you can watch above, and was revealed at the Television Critics Association’s Summer Press Tour on Friday. “The girls, they didn’t deserve what the hell they got.”

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“What the f— is really going on in this town?” another woman asks.

Showtime’s “L Word” sequel “Generation Q” is adding a trio of recurring cast members, including “When They See Us” breakout star Freddy Miyares.

Miyares, along with Jamie Clayton and Carlos Leal will appear in multiple episodes of the Showtime series, an eight-episode follow-up to its groundbreaking drama that aired from 2004-2009. Miyares played the adult version of Raymond Santana, one of the “Central Park 5” that was depicted in Ava DuVernay’s Netflix miniseries “When They See Us.”

On “The L Word: Generation Q,” Miyares will play José, who is described as “a charming and kind artist who is trying to move on from his complicated past.”

Also Read: Showtime's 'L Word' Sequel Adds 4 New Series Regulars to Cast

Clayton, who starred in Netflix’s “Sense8,” will recur as Tess, “a no-nonsense bartender who sees other people clearly but has a blind spot when it comes to her own relationships.

“When They See Us,” Ava DuVernay’s dramatization of the wrongful arrest and conviction of five black teenagers in New York City after the rape of a Central Park jogger 20 years ago, has been the most-viewed series on Netflix for the past 13 days.

“‘When They See Us’ has been the most-watched series on Netflix in the Us every day since it premiered on May 31,” the streamer tweeted Wednesday.

But Netflix didn’t provide any additional info beyond that, and it has selectively doled out self-reported numbers in the past to tout the popularity of some of its original series and films.

The four-part Netflix series was created by DuVernay, who also co-wrote and directed. She retweeted Netflix’s post about “When They See Us,” commenting only: “*faints*.”

*faints* https://t.co/3W6GbOZpMG

— Ava DuVernay (@ava) June 12, 2019

The show has led to a backlash against Linda Fairstein, the New York...

Netflix closed its Emmy Fysee space on Sunday, June 9, with an emotionally charged screening of Ava DuVernay‘s limited series “When They See Us.” The event, hosted by executive producer Oprah Winfrey, included a Q&a with DuVernay, the cast and producers, followed by a separate interview with the Exonerated Five, whose devastating life stories formed the basis of the show. The discussion, which took place at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, will air in its entirety on Netflix and on Winfrey’s Own Network on June 12. Watch a clip above.

“When They See Us” recounts the true story of Antron McCray, Korey Wise, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Yusef Salaam. In 1989, when they were teenagers, they were wrongfully convicted of raping a white jogger in New York City and spent years in prison and as registered sex offenders before their sentences were vacated in 2002 when the actual perpetrator came forward.

The cast and producers behind “When They See Us” sat down for a conversation with Oprah Winfrey on Sunday night at Netflix’s Fysee location in Hollywood. But the night’s discussion wasn’t just about the stars of the limited series. Winfrey also sat down with the five men, formerly referred to as “The Central Park Five” and now “The Exonerated Five” — Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise — for the first time.

“I’m excited about it because they’re excited about it,” series creator and director Ava DuVernay told Variety on the red carpet before the taping. “At one point, one of them had said to me a couple of years ago during the research period, that when they were young, they’d wished that they could just get to Oprah. [They thought] if they could get to Oprah and tell their story, maybe then...

”A large part of what the story is, is about redressing the media narratives and how these boys — and men now — were done wrong in the narratives that were told that around them and about them and that’s one of them,” ‘When They See Us’ actor Joshua Jackson told Variety on the red carpet at the Aclu SoCal’s luncheon. The actor was talking about reframing the men as the “Exonerated Five.”

“In calling them the ‘Central Park Five,’ we reinforce this idea — that they were there and had anything to do with this — that that was the central backbone of their life. But they’re not allowed to move on from it. They are exonerated and they are the victims of this case, not the perpetrators.”

Jackson noted that the series was initially titled “The Central Park Five,” before it was changed to “When They See Us.” “I’ll just say for myself,...

Netflix and Own will air Sunday’s Oprah Winfrey Presents When They See Us Now Emmy Fysee panel on Wednesday, June 12 at 10 Pm Et/Pt. The conversations, hosted by Winfrey and DuVernay, will be recorded and will air immediately following the Season 4 premiere of DuVernay’s Queen Sugar drama series at 9 Pm June 12 on Own.

Oprah Winfrey Presents When They See Us Now will also feature Winfrey’s sit-down interview with the exonerated five men of the Central Park Five 1989 case for the first time. The conversations, closing out Netflix’s Fysee event, are set for Sunday at Raleigh Studios in Los Angeles.

Created, co-written and directed by DuVernay, the four-part When They See Us Now chronicles the notorious real-life case of five teenagers of color, labeled the Central Park Five, who were convicted of a rape they did not commit.

The event will include two conversations, the first with series’ actors Niecy Nash,...

When They See Us

In 2012, Ken Burns made the documentary called The Central Park Five. Wamg’s Melissa Thompson wrote how the film told of the story of five black teenagers who were arrested in 1989 for the brutal beating and rape of a woman jogger in New York’s Central Park .

“What followed was one of the worst miscarriages of justice anyone could ever imagine. Starting with the New York City cops who interrogated the boys without parents or lawyers present, to the media, who created a mob-mentality screaming with bloodlust, with their tabloid headlines and made up term “wilding wolf pack” to whip the public into a frenzy of demands for the death penalty.

And all the while these poor kids had nothing to do with the horrific crime, other than the fact that they were in the park on that same night. There was absolutely no evidence connecting them to the case,...

Last month we reported that Netflix is coming out with a four-part series entitled When They See Us, chronicling the story of the Central Park Five, five young teenaged boys of color who were falsely accused of the violent attack and rape of a woman in Central Park, New York in 1989.

The first trailer focused on the trial and conviction of the boys, while this new trailer shows them as men who’ve spent the end of their childhoods and beginning of their adult lives in prison for something they didn’t do, and are now trying to acclimate to life.

The series was written and directed by Ava DuVernay, and has an incredible ensemble cast that includes Jovan Adepo (Fences), newcomer Asante Blackk, Marsha Stephanie Blake (Orange Is The New Black), Emmy Award Nominee Michael Kenneth Williams, Academy Award Nominee Vera Farmiga, Emmy Award Winner John Leguizamo, Academy Award...

“Dedicate a couple of hours to justice, to righteousness, to our community and to love,” Ava DuVernay told Variety about her powerful limited series “When They See Us,” which dramatizes the accusation, conviction and eventual exoneration of the Central Park Five.

The five men — Korey Wise, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam and Raymond Santana — all between 14 and 16 years old when they were wrongfully arrested for the brutal rape of a Central Park jogger in 1989, attended the premiere at the Apollo Theater in New York on Monday night. It was only fitting for them to walk the red carpet, given how closely they worked with the Academy Award nominee and director, and her cast and crew on the making of the show. The four-part series tells their story, spanning 25 years — beginning when the teenagers were first questioned in 1989, and continuing through their exoneration in 2002 and the settlement they reached with...

We have a chilling trailer for you today for a four part series coming to Netflix called When They See Us, a miniseries chronicling the case of the Central Park Five. In April of 1989, 28 year old Trisha Meili, a white women, was jogging through Central Park. She was violently attacked and raped and was left in a coma for 12 days. At the time, five teenage boys of color were charged with assault, robbery, riot, rape, sexual abuse, and attempted murder. This was despite the fact that none of their DNA matched the rape kit, and all of their confessions were thought to be false or coerced. All the young men were sentenced to between five and fifteen years in prison. A serial rapist later confessed to the crime, and the young men were exonerated. But the wrongful conviction and time in prison could not be erased.

The series follows their...

Netflix has released the trailer for Ava DuVernay’s “When They See Us,” a four-part limited series about the wrongly convicted Central Park Five.

Based on the true case of five teenagers of color, labeled the Central Park Five, who were convicted of a rape they did not commit, the show follows the young men in the spring of 1989 when they are first questioned about the brutal assault of a Caucasian female jogger in New York’s Central Park. The later part of the series will also see them as men, spanning 25 years and highlighting their exoneration in 2002 and the settlement they reached with the city of New York in 2014.

“Why are they doing us like this?” one of the boys asks in the trailer. “What other way they ever do us?” replies another.

The trailer shows snippets of courtroom battles, press coverage and family devastation in the wake of the trial and subsequent convictions.

Netflix released the first full-length trailer for Ava DuVernay’s upcoming limited series “When They See Us,” based on the true story of the Central Park 5.

The four-part series debuts Friday, May 31.

Per Netflix, “based on a true story that gripped the country, ‘When They See Us’ will chronicle the notorious case of five teenagers of color, labeled the Central Park Five, who were convicted of a rape they did not commit. The four-part limited series will focus on the five teenagers from Harlem — Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise. Beginning in the spring of 1989, when the teenagers were first questioned about the incident, the series will span 25 years, highlighting their exoneration in 2002 and the settlement reached with the city of New York in 2014.”

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We’ve known for a couple of years now that filmmaker Ava DuVernay has been working on a Netflix limited series about the Central Park Five, and now that four-part drama has an official title and premiere date. “When They See Us” debuts on the streaming service on May 31, just in time to qualify for this year’s Emmys. Will it be a winner?

“When They See Us” tells the true story of the five teenage boys, all black or Hispanic, who were wrongly arrested, tried and convicted for the rape of a white woman in 1989. They spent years in prison, and Donald Trump even took out ads calling for them to be executed. But their convictions were vacated in 2002 after they were exonerated by DNA evidence and the confession of a convicted murderer and rapist already in prison at the time. They sued the city and were awarded a $41 million settlement in 2014. Nevertheless,...