At a time when way too many shows are being canceled, there’s some good news.
In a short burst, there were separate announcements about the renewal of “Frasier” on Parmount+, “True Detective” on HBO and “All Creatures Great and Small” (shown here) on PBS.
Those last two were expected, but they come with surprise details. The shows are: Read more…
Crafting a new edition of HBO’s “True Detective,” Issa Lopez had opposite impulses.
One was to go with sorta-familiar characters.. “I’d heard that people just write themselves over and over again,” she said, in a press forum. “That might be true.”
And the other was to go with a wildly unfamiliar setting. She did that, too.
“True Detective: Night Country” (shown here) — starting at 9 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 14, on HBO and Max — gives us Jodie Foster and Kali Reis as police detectives. Tough and relentless, they may have the qualities Lopez hopes to see in herself. “They are also the women that I fear I am,” she said. “They have flaws that I see in myself.”
But the location? This is set in the Alaskan Arctic and filmed in Iceland, a zillion or so miles from her turf. “I’m Mexican, so I was not prepared,” she said. Read more…
