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Exclusive: Scott Rosenbaum, showrunner of USA Network’s Queen of the South, is adapting Maureen Callahan’s book American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century, as a television series.

The book investigates one of America’s most elusive and terrifying criminals, Israel Keyes.

Keyes was a predator who struck all over the United States. He buried “kill kits”–cash, weapons, and body-disposal tools–in remote locations across the country. Over the course of fourteen years, he would fly to a city, rent a car, and drive thousands of miles in order to use his kits. He would break into a stranger’s house, abduct his victims in broad daylight, and kill and dispose of them in mere hours. And then he would return home to Alaska, resuming life as a quiet, reliable construction worker devoted to his only daughter.

The book, which was...

Tupac Shakur was a towering figure in the hip-hop genre and left an indelible mark on everyone who had the privilege of knowing him. The rapper was a poet at heart, and his musical prowess touched many who worked closely with him. One such person was actor Dennis Quaid, who worked with the rapper in 1997’s Gang Related.

Tupac Shakur in Gang Related (1997) || MGM Distribution Co.

While Tupac Shakur passed away a year before the movie’s release, in a recent interview, Quaid emotionally recalled what it was like to share a screen with the late rapper.

Dennis Quaid Overwhelmed by Emotion While Recalling Tupac

Tupac Shakur was a legend in the hip-hop genre with several high-profile albums under his belt. Tragically, his life was cut short in 1996 when he was fatally shot in Las Vegas. The rapper was just 25 years old, but despite his brief stint in the music industry,...

Cliff Curtis has been cast in a recurring role in Jason Momoa’s upcoming Apple series “Chief of War.”

Per the official logline, the nine-episode series “follows the epic and unprecedented telling of the unification and colonization of Hawaii from an indigenous point of view.”

Momoa stars in the series, with other cast members besides Curtis being Luciane Buchanan, Temuera Morrison, Te Ao o Hinepehinga, newcomer Kaina Makua, Moses Goods, Siua Ikale’o, Brandon Finn, James Udom, Native Hawaiian actress Mainei Kinimaka, and Te Kohe Tuhaka.

Curtis will appear as Keōua, the cousin of Kamehameha (Kaina Makua) who believes himself to be the rightful leader of Hawai’i.

Curtis most recently appeared in the blockbuster film “Avatar: The Way of Water” as Tonowari. He is also known for roles in films like “Training Day,” “Once Were Warriors,” “Sunshine,” and “Whale Rider.” In television, he previously starred in the AMC series “Fear the Walking Dead...

Ramón Rodríguez (Gang Related) has been tapped as the male lead opposite Aubrey Plaza in Olga Dies Dreaming, Hulu’s one-hour drama pilot based on the novel by Xochitl Gonzalez. Both Rodríguez and Plaza also serve as producers on the pilot, written by Gonzalez and to be directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon.

Olga Dies Dreaming is the story of a Nuyorican brother (Rodríguez) and sister (Plaza) from a gentrifying Sunset Park in Brooklyn who are reckoning with their absent, politically radical mother and their glittering careers among New York City’s elite in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

Rodríguez’s Prieto is Olga’s (Plaza) older brother is a popular Congressman who wears his Puerto Rican pride like a badge of honor. He grew up playing a part: the cheerful, overachieving, involuntary patriarch of a broken home. He’s lonely and tired, but he wakes up every morning wholly prepared to be the fixer,...

If you think of great musical collaborations that never were, the most unlikely of pairings you could possibly put together might be the idea of actor Jim Belushi and late rapper Tupac Shakur collaborating on a version of 'Fly Me To The Moon'. Yet, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, it appears that could very well have been a possibility, once upon a time. On what would have been Tupac's 50th birthday, Belushi recalled details of the musical collaboration that never was.

As well as being one of the top rappers of his time, Tupac was involved in numerous film projects over his tragically cut short career. One of these movies was Gang Related, a 1996 film in which he co-starred with Jim Belushi. The pair didn't get off to the greatest start, with Belushi calling the rapper out for turning up late to a rehearsal, but the bond...

Jada Pinkett Smith shared what she believes to be a previously unreleased Tupac poem to mark what would have been the late rapper’s 50th birthday, June 16th (although Smith admittedly got a headstart and posted the poem on Instagram on June 15th).

The poem is titled “Lost Soulz,” and while Smith noted that Pac had a song of the same name on the Gang Related soundtrack, she said, “I believe this was the original concept, because he wrote this, I believe, when he was at Rikers.”

Smith proceeded to read the poem,...

Exclusive: Freeform is developing Golden Boy, a half-hour dramedy from On My Block co-creators and executive producers Eddie Gonzalez and Jeremy Haft, LeBron James’ The SpringHill Company and ABC Signature.

Written by Gonzalez and Haft, Golden Boy centers on Ricky “The Big Hurt” Hurtado, a generational NFL prospect with an ego to match. He suffers a very public and humiliating flameout so returns home as a failure with no clear future. The Big Hurt is determined to rebuild his fractured relationships with his family and the community that once showered him in love and support, but now hate him.

The half-hour dramedy is described as being Compton-inspired with some Latino Elmore Leonard flavor. It was inspired by Gonzalez’s life growing up in Compton and Lynwood.

Gonzalez and Haft serve as showrunners. They executive produce with SpringHill. ABC Signature, where SpringHill is under an overall deal, is the studio.

Gonzalez...

Inbar Lavi (Lucifer) is adding a criminal element to Stumptown: The actress has booked a three-episode guest arc on the ABC drama, per The Hollywood Reporter.

Lavi’s character Max is described as a thrill-seeking car thief who is part of an auto theft ring.

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The actress’ other TV credits include Imposters, Prison Break, The Last Ship and Gang Related.

Exclusive: Hobbs & Shaw co-writer/producer Chris Morgan has closed a three-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television for his Chris Morgan Prods. to develop series aimed at broadcast, cable and streaming.

Under the pact, Cmp is already pitching two series projects to premium/streaming networks: sci-fi drama Half-Life, written by Grant Wheeler & Ben Freiburger, creators of YouTube Red’s sci-fi thriller series Lifeline that was produced by Dwayne Johnson; and twisted dark comedy The Ripleys, penned by Duane Swierczynski, a writer of non-fiction, fiction and comic books.

Additionally, the company has secured the rights to two novels for series development, Lisa Jewell’s The Family Upstairs and Alison Gaylin’s If I Die Tonight – both in the suspense genre.

The Family Upstairs tells the story of three entangled families living in a house with the darkest of secrets. If I Die Tonight is about family ties and dark secrets—and...

Giving up the con is easier said than done for Imposters‘ Maddie.

After she stole more than one person’s fortune and heart last year by pretending to be their dream girl, Season 2 (premiering Thursday at 10/9c on Bravo) “finds Maddie growing tired of living other people’s lives,” star Inbar Lavi previews. “She’s determined to reclaim her own, but rather quickly, she finds that leaving the life of a con might be even more difficult than living it.”

Even with “threats everywhere” — including her duped exes the Bumblers, the mysterious con mastermind The Doctor, the FBI and Uma Thurman...

CBS has found its modern-day Magnum.

Jay Hernandez (Scandal, Last Resort) has nabbed the title role in Magnum P.I., the Eye net’s in-the-works reboot of the classic ’80s action-drama. He succeeds Tom Selleck, who played the iconic private eye during the series’ original CBS run.

Hernandez’s Thomas Magnum is a decorated ex-Navy Seal who, upon returning home from Afghanistan, repurposes his military skills to become a private investigator. Reboot vet Peter Lenkov (Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver) penned the pilot along with his fellow Five-0 writer Eric Guggenheim. Fast & Furious‘ Justin Lin will handle directing duties.

Hernandez...

The Golden Globe-winning comedy series “Mozart in the Jungle” returns to Amazon for season 4 beginning on Feb. 16. Gael Garcia Bernal plays Rodrigo, the roguish conductor of the New York Symphony. In season 3, he and his troupe travelled to Venice, Italy to stage a new opera, “La Fiamma.” He clashed with Malena (Monica Bellucci), the diva at the head of the cast. Expect more fireworks this season as he back behind the podium in Gotham.

And the second half of season 1 of the rebooted live-action version of “The Tick” is set to stream on Feb. 23. Peter Serafinowicz plays the sassy superhero who says, “murder is just not cool.” The show is created by Ben Edlund, who introduced the character in comic book form in 1986. His comic was adapted into an Emmy nominated animated series that ran from 1994-1997 and a short-lived live-action version in 2001 that starred Patrick Warburton.

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Emmy winners Jeff Daniels (“The Newsroom”) and Alec Baldwin (“30 Rock”) head up the new Hulu original series “The Looming Tower,” which chronicles the rise of Osama Bin-Laden. Also featured in this docudrama about the inter-agency rivalry between the CIA and FBI in the first part of this century are Golden Globe nominees Peter Sarsgaard and Michael Stuhlbarg. The first of the 10 episodes starts streaming on Hulu on Feb. 28.

Before then, Hulu viewers will get a chance to see another acclaimed docudrama, the film “Detroit” by Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker”). She reteamed with screenwriter Mark Boal, who also picked up an Oscar for “The Hurt Locker,” for this acclaimed film. “Detroit” documents the riots that beset the motor city in the summer of 1967 after the police raid an unlicensed bar on July 23 and arrest the 82 patrons and staff. Over the course of just five days, 43 people died...

Starz announced today that they will be developing an action-drama TV series with the working title “Black samurai” which will star Oscar-winner Common (John Wick 2, Suicide Squad, Selma), in the title role of Robert Sand. Common will also executive produce under his Freedom Road Productions banner. Working alongside this project will be Jerry Bruckheimer Television, Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA (Kill Bill 1 & 2, American Gangster, “Gang Related”) and Mitchell Diggs will also executive produce for Wu Films. More about the show below.

Based on the Black Samurai novel written by Marc Olden, the series will follow the character of Robert Sand (Common), a highly-trained American Army Ranger whose life is transformed when he meets a legendary Japanese master who invites him to train as a samurai. After his beloved sensei and samurai brothers are killed by mercenaries, Sand is thrust on a worldwide journey of both revenge and self-discovery.

As mentioned...

Iron Fist baddie Ramon Rodriguez is punching in at The Affair — and it looks like he’s taking aim at Alison’s (Ruth Wilson) heart.

TVLine has learned exclusively that Rodriguez is joining the Showtime drama’s upcoming fourth season for a major arc as Ben, a Marine veteran now employed by the Vha. Ben’s work on Ptsd will intersect with Alison’s new career path as a grief counselor (and, presumably, lead to some heavy petting and then fornication — the show is called The Affair for a reason!).

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The mysterious Man in the High Castle is finally showing his face.

Stephen Root (Justified, Boardwalk Empire) will take on the titular role during Season 2 of Amazon’s alt-history series, premiering Dec. 16.

Root’s character — who is tied to the Resistance movement in an Axis-controlled America — collects enigmatic films that seem to depict alternate versions of reality, as seen in the following sneak peek:

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* Paul Bettany (Captain America: Civil War) will portray Ted Kaczynski (aka the Unabomber) in Discovery Channel’s FBI crime series Manifesto, from executive producer Kevin Spacey (House of Cards...

USA Network is keeping its Queen around for another season, but with a new ruler. The NBCUniversal-owned cable network has renewed drama Queen of the South for a second season and replaced its showrunner, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Based on best-seller La Reina del Sur, the Alice Braga starrer will be back for a second season and see Natalie Chaidez (Syfy's Hunters, 12 Monkeys) take over showrunning duties for Scott Rosenbaum (Gang Related). { "nid": 919769, "type": "list_index", "title": "Summer TV's Winners and Losers: 'Match Game' and 'Stranger Things' vs. 'UnREAL' and 'BrainDead'", "path": "http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/summer-tvs-

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Bravo’s newest leading lady is not to be trusted.

The network has given a 10-episode series order to My So Called Wife, a dark comedy about a con woman named Maggie (Gang Related‘s Inbar Lavi) who tricks men and women into marriage before making off with their money, TVLine has learned.

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But just when Maggie thinks she’s found the perfect next target (Being Mary Jane‘s Stephen Bishop), two of her exes (Enlisted‘s Parker Young and British actor Rob Heaps...

Bravo is pushing further in scripted programming. The NBCUniversal-owned cable network has given a series order to the dark comedy My So Called Wife (working title), The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The project centers on Maddie (Gang Related's Inbar Lavi), a master-of-disguise con-artist who gets men and women to fall in love with her, marries them and then disappears with their money and just enough dirty inside information to guarantee they will never go to the police. But things get complicated when her latest victims, Ezra (Rob Heaps) and Richard (Enlisted's Parker Young) track her down

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Inbar Lavi (The Last Ship, Gang Related), Marina Benedict (Flesh & Bone, Torchwood) and Kunal Sharma (Miss India America, The Kids Are Alright) have booked recurring roles on Fox's Prison Break event series. Production is set to begin next month in Vancouver on the nine-episode follow-up to the cult 2005 Fox action series. They join several previously announced cast members who are reprising their roles from the original series: Wentworth Miller (Michael Scofield)…...

Israeli actress Inbar Lavi will have a hand in Fox’s latest and greatest Prison Break.

TVLine has learned exclusively that the actress, who most recently recurred on TNT’s The Last Ship, has booked a key role on the upcoming event series, as Sheba, an operator/fixer/activist who becomes involved with Lincoln Burrows (played by Legends of Tomorrow‘s Dominic Purcell).

RelatedPrison Break: Sarah Wayne Callies to Return for Fox Revival

In the drama’s new, nine-episode chapter — which picks up after the apparent death of “escape artist” Michael Scofield (Legends of Tomorrow‘s Wentworth Miller...

This latest addition to the cast of Fox’s Prison Break revival is quite… sweet.

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For the nine-episode event series, which begins filming in Vancouver in April, Amaury Nolasco will reprise his role as Fernando Sucre, the actor announced Tuesday via Instagram.

For those keeping score, that’s now two of the nine characters TVLine said “must” be a part of the revival, while Robert Knepper is currently in talks to return as T-Bag (who plays a rather instrumental role in the continuation).

In the drama’s new chapter,...

Ashley Zamora (Gang Related) has booked a series regular role on TV Land's Lopez, a semi-autobiographical, single camera comedy starring and executive produced by George Lopez. It revolves around America's most successful Hispanic American comedian (George Lopez) playing himself, and explores how he struggles between his two worlds and crises – often of his own making. Zamora plays Erica, George's expressive teenage daughter. Smart and observant, Erica is constantly…...

Lifetime has uttered a dismissive grunt in the direction of its pilot adaptation of The Clan of the Cave Bear.

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Per our sister site Deadline, the cabler passed on the pilot upon being able to reach an agreement with Fox 21 Studios on the size of the episode order. Lifetime envisioned a four-hour mini, while Fox 21 covets a full series order.

Lifetime also wanted it to be titled The Unauthorized Clan of the Cave Bear Story. #kidding

Fox 21 thus is shopping the pilot to other possible homes,...

Inbar Lavi (Gang Related) is set to play the lead in My So Called Wife, Bravo Media’s hourlong dark comedy pilot from Adam Brooks, Paul Adelstein and Universal Cable Prods. Written by Brooks and Adelstein and to be directed by Brooks, My So Called Wife follows Maddie/Ava (Lavi), a Machiavellian con-artist and master of disguise who gets men and women to fall in love with her, marries them and then disappears with their money and just enough dirt to guarantee they’ll never…...

Two things about Patty Spivot quickly became clear during her first appearance on The CW’s The Flash: She does not like metahumans, and she very much does like one Barry Allen.

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Here, One Tree Hill alum Shantel VanSanten hails Patty’s strong-and-quirky personality, previews the detective’s dynamic with Joe West and surveys the instant spark between the geeky gal and Central City’s CSI-with-a-secret.

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20th Century Fox Television is developing a remake of the 1980s classic TV show The A-Team, with Furious 7 screenwriter Chris Morgan coming aboard to produce the new series, according to a report from Deadline. The news comes five years after 20th Century Fox released their big-screen adaptation of The A-Team, which starred Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Sharlto Copley and Quinton Jackson. This rebooted TV series will have a contemporary setting, with a twist on the team itself.

The original series centered on four highly-trained special forces soldiers, John "Hannibal" Smith (George Peppard), Templeton "Faceman" Peck (Dirk Benedict), H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock (Dwight Schultz) and B.A. (Bad Attitude) Baracus (Mr. T), who escaped from a military prison after being detained for a crime they didn't commit. They fled to Los Angeles and began working as "soldiers of fortune," using their immense skills to help people in need, while trying to clear their name.

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To celebrate the release of Empire Season 1, out now on DVD, we are giving 5 lucky WhatCulture readers the chance to win their very own copy.

Set within a world of music, glamour, danger and power, Empire is about a family dynasty that follows the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle for his throne. After music mogul Lucious Lyon (Academy Award ® Nominee Terrence Howard) is diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease, he must choose which of his three sons will succeed him at the legendary Empire Entertainment. The game changes when his ex-wife Cookie (Academy Award® Nominee Taraji P. Henson) returns from prison where she’s been for almost two decades. Brash and fearless, she sees herself as the sacrificial lamb who built an empire with Lucious and then took the fall for running the drugs that financed Lucious’ early career.

Gabriel Chavarria, who stars in Universal's upcoming drama Lowriders, is being eyed for one of the two main human roles in 20th Century Fox's Planet of the Apes 3. We reported back in May that the the sequel is now entitled War of the Planet of the Apes, and this movie title has now been confirmed by Deadline. No details were given about his character, but the role was compared to James Franco's role in 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

The War of the Planet of the Apes title certainly make sense, since last year's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes teased an all-out war between the apes and the humans. 20th Century Fox has already set a July 14, 2017 release date for Planet of the Apes 3, which currently has that release date all to itself, although there is plenty of competition around it. Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales...

The undead apocalypse is fresh and shiny and new — and still full of gnarly surprises — as seen in the opening minutes of AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead.

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Set in the same universe as the well-watched The Walking Dead, the offshoot (premiering this Sunday at 9/8c, with a 90-minute episode) promises “a gritty drama that explores the onset of the undead apocalypse through the lens of a fractured family in Los Angeles.”

The story follows high school guidance counselor Madison Clark (played by Friday Night Lights‘ Kim Dickens) and English teacher Travis Manawa (Cliff Curtis,...

Syfy’s adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s acclaimed novel Childhood’s End will premiere Monday, Dec. 14, the cabler has announced.

The six-hour event series will continue that Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 15 and 16, airing each night from 8 to 10 pm.

Adapted by Matthew Graham (creator of BBC’s Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes) and following the peaceful invasion of Earth by the alien Overlords who promise to eliminate poverty, war and sickness (hmmm…), the series’ cast is led by Mike Vogel (Under the Dome), Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), Daisy Betts (The Last Resort), Yael Stone (Orange Is the New Black...

Back in November, Universal Pictures' Donna Langley revealed some surprising news. The Universal Monsters Shared Universe being developed by the studio will not be part of the horror movie genre. Instead, this franchise, which will include the upcoming Untitled Mummy Reboot and several of the studio's most iconic horror movie characters, was described as "epic action adventure". This gave many fans pause. While doing press for his new CBS TV series Limitless, Alex Kurtzman clarified that the Universal executive's statement isn't entirely true, and that these will certainly be horror movies.

"Yeah, I think it's a fair response and it's actually not - I think there was some lost in translation quality to the way it was received, because I promise you there will be horror in these movies. It is our life goal to make a horror movie. The tricky part is actually how you combine horror with...

The Show | AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead (Sundays at 9/8c, premiering Aug. 23)

The Cast | Kim Dickens (Deadwood), Cliff Curtis (Gang Related), Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) and Rubén Blades (Do the Right Thing).

PhotosFall TV Preview: Your Guide to What’s New!

The Set-up | Set in Los Angeles in the early days of the zombie outbreak with which The Walking Dead has made us so familiar, Fear focuses on the dysfunctional family that single mom Madison Clark (Dickens), a high school guidance counselor, and divorced dad Travis Manawa (Curtis), an English teacher, are desperately trying — and spectacularly failing — to blend.

Here's a new poster for "Fear The Walking Dead", AMC's "The Walking Dead" spinoff from creator Robert Kirkman! This new series stars Cliff Curtis ("Missing", "Gang Related"), Kim Dickens ("Gone Girl", "Sons Of Anarchy"), Frank Dillane ("Harry Potter And The Half-blood Prince") and Alycia Debnam Carey ("Into The Storm", "The 100"). Also joining the cast as series regulars are Elizabeth Rodriguez ("Orange Is The New Black") and Mercedes Mason ("Quarantine 2: Terminal"). AMC ordered two seasons of a spin-off series to be executive produced by Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, Greg Nicotero and David Alpert. "Fear The Walking Dead" will be set in Los Angeles and focused on new characters and storylines. The series is set to premiere on AMC Sunday, August 23rd at 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt with...

Here's a new poster for "Fear The Walking Dead", AMC's "The Walking Dead" spinoff from creator Robert Kirkman! This new series stars Cliff Curtis ("Missing", "Gang Related"), Kim Dickens ("Gone Girl", "Sons Of Anarchy"), Frank Dillane ("Harry Potter And The Half-blood Prince") and Alycia Debnam Carey ("Into The Storm", "The 100"). Also joining the cast as series regulars are Elizabeth Rodriguez ("Orange Is The New Black") and Mercedes Mason ("Quarantine 2: Terminal"). AMC ordered two seasons of a spin-off series to be executive produced by Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, Greg Nicotero and David Alpert. "Fear The Walking Dead" will be set in Los Angeles and focused on new characters and storylines. The series is set to premiere on AMC Sunday, August 23rd at 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt with...

TV spinoffs are a tricky thing. Sure, Cheers begat Frasier, but Friends gave us Joey, The X-Files was responsible for The Lone Gunmen, and CSI gave us David Caruso playing with his sunglasses for 10… whole… seasons. (Yowwwwwwww!)

VideosThe Walking Dead Releases Season 6 Trailer, Sets October Premiere

None of the Ghosts of Failed Franchise Extensions Past, however, seem to have blunted excitement surrounding AMC’s upcoming Walking Dead prequel series, Fear the Walking Dead. If anything, folks have been craving a full trailer like zombies staring at a sealed corridor of delicious humans.

The network aired the first full screener...

“You need to spend less time online, Ok?”

While that’s sound advice if your days are being eaten up by cat videos and listicles, it’s not that great an idea if you’re days away from actually being eaten.

Yet that’s the advice that Fear the Walking Dead guidance counselor Madison — played by Kim Dickens (Deadwood) — gives a frightened student who relays reports of a mysterious, quick-spreading illness that’s already hit five states.

Video Walking Dead Spinoff Trailer Sends Harry Potter Actor Running for His Life

The Walking Dead prequel is set in the Los Angeles...

Nick makes a desperate escape in the new teaser video for AMC's Fear The Walking Dead, premiering this August.

“Fear the Walking Dead,” which is set in Los Angeles and focuses on new characters and storylines, stars Kim Dickens (Gone Girl, “Sons of Anarchy”) as Madison, Cliff Curtis (“Missing,” “Gang Related”) as Travis, Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) as Nick and Alycia Debnam-Carey (Into the Storm) as Alicia. Also joining the cast as series regulars are Elizabeth Rodriguez (“Orange is the New Black”) as Liza and Mercedes Mason (Quarantine 2: Terminal) as Ofelia."

"A companion series to “The Walking Dead,” the #1 show on television among adults 18-49, “Fear the Walking Dead” is executive produced by Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, Greg Nicotero, David Alpert and showrunner David Erickson and produced by AMC Studios. Co-Executive Producer Adam Davidson, who directed the pilot, is also directing the second and third episodes.

Fans of Southland and/or Robert Rodriguez's The Faculty should be pleased to know that Shawn Hatosy (aka Officer Sammy Bryant and Stan Rosado) has joined the cast of AMC's Fear The Walking Dead in a recurring role.

According to TVLine, Hatosy will play a "well-intentioned but out of his element military man with a soulful disposition."

“Fear the Walking Dead,” which is set in Los Angeles and focuses on new characters and storylines, stars Kim Dickens (Gone Girl, “Sons of Anarchy”) as Madison, Cliff Curtis (“Missing,” “Gang Related”) as Travis, Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) as Nick and Alycia Debnam-Carey (Into the Storm) as Alicia. Also joining the cast as series regulars are Elizabeth Rodriguez (“Orange is the New Black”) as Liza and Mercedes Mason (Quarantine 2: Terminal) as Ofelia."

"A companion series to “The Walking Dead,” the #1 show on television among adults 18-49, “Fear the Walking Dead...

Ex-Southland cop Shawn Hatosy is hitting the mean streets of L.A. again, albeit under more apocalyptic-y circumstances.

The actor has joined the cast of Fear the Walking Dead in a recurring role, our sister site Deadline reports.

VideosFear The Walking Dead: AMC Debuts First Spinoff Promo

He’ll play a well-intentioned — but out of his element — military man with a soulful disposition.

The series, which launches its inaugural six-episode season later this summer, stars Cliff Curtis (Gang Related), Kim Dickens (Deadwood), Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) and Alycia Debnam Carey (Into the Storm...

Another addition has been made to the cast of AMC's Fear The Walking Dead, providing us with one more person who will strive to survive the beginnings of living dead-induced chaos in the streets and high rises of Los Angeles.

According to Broadway World, film and stage actor Colman Domingo (Selma, Lee Daniels' The Butler, Lincoln, Chicago, The Scottsboro Boys) has joined the Fear The Walking Dead cast in a recurring role. Domingo will play a character called "Strand, a smart and sophisticated man with a mysterious past."

“Fear the Walking Dead,” which is set in Los Angeles and focuses on new characters and storylines, stars Kim Dickens (Gone Girl, “Sons of Anarchy”) as Madison, Cliff Curtis (“Missing,” “Gang Related”) as Travis, Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) as Nick and Alycia Debnam-Carey (Into the Storm) as Alicia. Also joining the cast as series regulars are Elizabeth Rodriguez...

So by now you probably know that "Fear the Walking Dead," AMC's spinoff/companion series to "The Walking Dead," is set in Los Angeles at the start of the zombie apocalypse. Conan O'Brien, who has previously had the entire "Walking Dead" cast on the show and dressed as a zombie himself, had some fun with that idea by sharing what he called a "Fear the Walking Dead" Exclusive Sneak Peek.

Check it out:

Yes, the whole season will be set on the 405! Hopefully the real show does not have many (or any) L.A. in-jokes since most of the world will be left out.

The real Ftwd stars Kim Dickens ("Gone Girl"), Cliff Curtis ("Missing," "Gang Related"), Frank Dillane ("Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince") and Alycia Debnam Carey ("Into the Storm"), and executive producer Robert Kirkman said it would premiere in August. Meanwhile, "Game of Thrones" recently had an...

Gang Related executive producer/showrunner Scott Rosenbaum is set as showrunner on another drama about a Latino criminal enterprise, newly picked up USA Network series Queen of the South. Based on best-selling book La Reina Del Sur by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Queen Of The South tells the story of Teresa Mendoza (Alice Braga). When her drug-dealing boyfriend is unexpectedly murdered in Mexico, Teresa is forced to go on the run and seek refuge in America, where she teams with…...

Though it will take place in the early days of the zombie uprising, Fear The Walking Dead will focus on the living more than the dead, and Robert Kirkman recently discussed the show's core characters, including several who are shown in new photos.

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly's Dalton Ross, Kirkman discussed the background of Madison, the series' widowed mother of two (Kim Dickens):

"Madison is a character whose husband died. And she’s been raising her kids on her own, so she’s a character that has experienced a very abrupt change to her life that she has had to adapt to."

Kirkman also talked about Madison's kids, Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) and Nick (Frank Dillane), who are complete opposites:

"Alicia is your atypical teenage girl. She excels at school. She’s on her way to college... She’s kind of the model student and the model child.

"In the face of that,...

Sandrine Holt has faced terrifying threats before in Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Underworld: Awakening, and A&E's The Returned, and soon she'll strive to survive hungry walkers in a recurring role on AMC's Fear The Walking Dead.

According to CinemaBlend, Holt has joined the cast of Fear The Walking Dead in the recurring role of "Dr. Bethany Exner, a confident and skilled doctor" who will no doubt have her hands full in the early days of the living dead pandemic. In the near future, Holt can be seen in the Norman Reedus-starring Air, and she will also appear in Terminator Genisys.

“Fear the Walking Dead,” which is set in Los Angeles and focuses on new characters and storylines, stars Kim Dickens (Gone Girl, “Sons of Anarchy”) as Madison, Cliff Curtis (“Missing,” “Gang Related”) as Travis, Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) as Nick and Alycia Debnam-Carey (Into the Storm) as Alicia.

Rapper Azealia Banks will make her feature acting debut in the Lionsgate drama “Coco,” an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap. Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA (“The Man With the Iron Fists”) is set to direct the film, which follows Banks as as a twentysomething rapper in Brooklyn who wants to pursue a music career despite her parents’ desire for her to finish college. Following her parents’ advice, she enrolls in college and experiences the power of the spoken word. Also Read: 'Gang Related' Star RZA Praises Show's Scripted Drug Slang: 'These Motherf-ckers Are Going Deep' Other cast members include Jill Scott,...

Can't wait for the summer premiere of AMC's Fear The Walking Dead? Helping hold fans over is a recent batch of set photos from The Walking Dead companion series showing the cast and crew filming their new take on Robert Kirkman's living dead world.

“Fear the Walking Dead,” which is set in Los Angeles and focuses on new characters and storylines, stars Kim Dickens (Gone Girl, “Sons of Anarchy”) as Madison, Cliff Curtis (“Missing,” “Gang Related”) as Travis, Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) as Nick and Alycia Debnam-Carey (Into the Storm) as Alicia. Also joining the cast as series regulars are Elizabeth Rodriguez (“Orange is the New Black”) as Liza and Mercedes Mason (Quarantine 2: Terminal) as Ofelia."

"A companion series to “The Walking Dead,” the #1 show on television among adults 18-49, “Fear the Walking Dead” is executive produced by Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, Greg Nicotero,...

Charlene McKenna is going from A.D. to B.C. (and the B.C. stands for Bear Cave).

The Ripper Street actress, who’s currently co-starring in NBC’s A.D. The Bible Continues, has nabbed a regular role in Lifetime’s Clan of the Cave Bear pilot, TVLine has learned.

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With production now underway on AMC's Fear The Walking Dead, a new cast member for The Walking Dead companion series has been revealed.

According to Broadway World, actor/singer Rubén Blades (Predator 2, Once Upon a Time in Mexico) has joined the cast of Fear The Walking Dead. Blades will portray the series regular role of Daniel, the dad of Mercedes Mason’s character. Earlier this month, Mason (Quarantine 2: Terminal, 666 Park Avenue) joined the series in a regular role that's yet to be detailed.

“Fear the Walking Dead,” which is set in Los Angeles and focuses on new characters and storylines, stars Kim Dickens (Gone Girl, “Sons of Anarchy”) as Madison, Cliff Curtis (“Missing,” “Gang Related”) as Travis, Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) as Nick and Alycia Debnam-Carey (Into the Storm) as Alicia. Also joining the cast as series regulars are Elizabeth Rodriguez (“Orange is the New Black...

In a recent interview, Fear The Walking Dead showrunner Dave Erickson discussed the setting, characters, timeline, and many more details on The Walking Dead companion series.

Speaking with THR, Erickson discussed Fear The Walking Dead in detail, providing some insightful glimpses into the early days of the living dead uprising and giving us plenty to look forward to:

Erickson on how the companion series compares time-wise with the first episode of The Walking Dead:

"The goal was to loosely track the period of those four or five weeks that Rick Grimes was in his coma. I wouldn't say that we end the season at the exact same point where Rick wakes up, but it'll loosely be in that time frame. Things will have gone very bad by the end of season one."

On how Kirkman doesn't want to divulge what caused the zombie apocalypse, preferring instead to explore its...