Before becoming a prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, Marcia Clark was leading the simple life of a single, working mom. "I really didn't want the spotlight," the lawyer, 62, says in the current issue of People. "But there was no way to escape it." Originally a defense attorney, Clark says she joined the Los Angeles District Attorney's office in 1981 so she could "stand up for the victims." She became a member of the special trials team - which focuses on high-profile and complex capital cases - but tried to keep her communication with the press to a minimum. "I...
- 3/8/2016
- by Patrick Gomez, @PatrickGomezLA
- PEOPLE.com
Before becoming a prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, Marcia Clark was leading the simple life of a single, working mom.
"I really didn't want the spotlight," the lawyer, 62, says in the current issue of People. "But there was no way to escape it."
Originally a defense attorney, Clark says she joined the Los Angeles District Attorney's office in 1981 so she could "stand up for the victims."
She became a member of the special trials team – which focuses on high-profile and complex capital cases – but tried to keep her communication with the press to a minimum.
"I would chase...
"I really didn't want the spotlight," the lawyer, 62, says in the current issue of People. "But there was no way to escape it."
Originally a defense attorney, Clark says she joined the Los Angeles District Attorney's office in 1981 so she could "stand up for the victims."
She became a member of the special trials team – which focuses on high-profile and complex capital cases – but tried to keep her communication with the press to a minimum.
"I would chase...
- 3/8/2016
- by Patrick Gomez, @PatrickGomezLA
- People.com - TV Watch
Marcia Clark was no stranger to hard work, but being a prosecutor on the O.J. Simpson murder trial proved to be a much harder job than she anticipated - and not for the reasons she expected. "It was unprecedented," Clark, 62, says in the current issue of People of the media attention she received during the trial. "I'd dealt with press before but they had always approached me in a non-intrusive way."As the trial began, Clark was the midst of a divorce from second husband Gordon Clark and a custody battle over their two sons - Kyle, now 26 and an economist,...
- 3/2/2016
- by Patrick Gomez, @PatrickGomezLA
- PEOPLE.com
Marcia Clark was no stranger to hard work, but being a prosecutor on the O.J. Simpson murder trial proved to be a much harder job than she anticipated – and not for the reasons she expected.
"It was unprecedented," Clark, 62, says in the current issue of People of the media attention she received during the trial. "I'd dealt with press before but they had always approached me in a non-intrusive way."
As the trial began, Clark was the midst of a divorce from second husband Gordon Clark and a custody battle over their two sons – Kyle, now 26 and an economist, and Travis,...
"It was unprecedented," Clark, 62, says in the current issue of People of the media attention she received during the trial. "I'd dealt with press before but they had always approached me in a non-intrusive way."
As the trial began, Clark was the midst of a divorce from second husband Gordon Clark and a custody battle over their two sons – Kyle, now 26 and an economist, and Travis,...
- 3/2/2016
- by Patrick Gomez, @PatrickGomezLA
- People.com - TV Watch
When the second season of Halt and Catch Fire began, Gordon Clark was on top of the world. He’d just taken a big payday, the future was bright, his family was happy, and the world was his oyster. But as each hour slipped by, so did Gordon’s ability to navigate his own life. Diagnosed with mental deterioration caused by previous environmental exposure to toxins and unable to find anyone to provide moral support, Gordon has grown so distraught that his previously unknown mental illness has resurfaced, leading him to spend an entire day (and episode) wandering a parking garage searching for where he left his car.As frustrating as Gordon’s story line has been throughout the season, it’s tempting to say that it’s all been worth it thanks to the events of “Kali.” When, in a previous episode, Donna’s mother reminded her of Gordon...
- 7/27/2015
- by Libby Hill
- Vulture
Despite the fact that Halt and Catch Fire had very poor ratings in season one, AMC renewed the series for a second season. Will the numbers rise in season two or will they fall even lower? Cancelled or renewed for a third season? We'll have to wait and see.
The story of Halt and Catch Fire picks up in March 1985, more than a year after Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) set fire to a truck full of Cardiff Giant PCs. It was the last in a long string of destructive acts that burned the people that made the machine possible: Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), Donna Clark (Kerry Bishé), Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis) and John Bosworth (Toby Huss). Can things only get better from here?
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The story of Halt and Catch Fire picks up in March 1985, more than a year after Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) set fire to a truck full of Cardiff Giant PCs. It was the last in a long string of destructive acts that burned the people that made the machine possible: Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), Donna Clark (Kerry Bishé), Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis) and John Bosworth (Toby Huss). Can things only get better from here?
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- 6/3/2015
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
It didn't take long for Donna Clark to become the most interesting character on AMC's “Halt and Catch Fire,” which ended its first season Sunday. Played by Kerry Bishe (fourth billed on the show), Donna is the wife of Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), the brilliant creator of the Giant, the ironically named Cardiff Electric personal computer that fits in a briefcase. Donna is responsible for some of the engineering breakthroughs that make the Giant possible. She's also the one who saved the day when Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace), Gordon's boss/partner orchestrated a meltdown that also nearly shattered Cardiff's programming upstart,...
- 8/4/2014
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Late in last night's episode of AMC's "Halt and Catch Fire," the show's hero, computer salesman Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace), tries to dismiss a competitor who's never experienced the joy of creating something(*). Joe's rival points out that they're both in the computer compatible business, just trying to copy Ibm, and therefore neither can brag much about their flair for originality. (*) As you might expect, this column will have some spoilers for the season to date. Having apparently bested Joe with his own portable Ibm clone, he says, "You tried to be good. We just had to be good enough." It was one of many meta exchanges in the penultimate season 1 episode of "Halt," a series that has not only been reverse-engineered from past cable drama hits, but that seems acutely aware of that fact. So Joe is essentially a 1983 version of Don Draper: a mystery man in expensive suits...
- 7/28/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
It turns out that "recovery from a mild psychotic break" is a good look for Gordon Clark. For the first time all season, his hair's groomed and his beard's neat; he looks comfortable in his clothes instead of like a living mannequin for Short-Sleeved Dress Shirts Warehouse. Actor Scoot McNairy is a handsome guy, after all; now we can see that beneath the beard and the big glasses and the flop sweat, Gordon had something to offer Donna back in the day besides their shared love of electrical engineering.
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- 7/21/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Over the course of Halt and Catch Fire's first five episodes, the show has driven home its basic ideas about its leads — Joe MacMillan is a visionary but also a play-to-win sociopath, Cameron Howe is a genius but also a self-destructive loose cannon, Gordon Clark has smarts and heart but is also a floundering fuck-up — with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. But the on-screen use of an actual sledgehammer? Talk about symbolism, man.
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Yet tonight's episode, "Adventure," contained a few moments...
Summer Cable Smackdown: Our Complete 2014 Watch List
Yet tonight's episode, "Adventure," contained a few moments...
- 6/30/2014
- Rollingstone.com
The human resources file on this episode is gonna be a doozy, folks.
The good men and women of Cardiff Electronics are working overtime to create the fastest, most portable PC on the market. What does this entail? Project manager Joe MacMillan steals whiz-kid programmer Cameron Chase's back-up files, fries her computer, gives her a panic attack, and convinces her and everyone else that all the work is lost. Engineer Gordon Clark physically assaults Cameron in response. Joe, his boss John Bosworth, and a reporter from the Wall Street Quarterly...
The good men and women of Cardiff Electronics are working overtime to create the fastest, most portable PC on the market. What does this entail? Project manager Joe MacMillan steals whiz-kid programmer Cameron Chase's back-up files, fries her computer, gives her a panic attack, and convinces her and everyone else that all the work is lost. Engineer Gordon Clark physically assaults Cameron in response. Joe, his boss John Bosworth, and a reporter from the Wall Street Quarterly...
- 6/23/2014
- Rollingstone.com
At last, a show with the courage to ask the big question: Can man invent a laptop computer?
Alright, maybe that's stacking the deck against Halt and Catch Fire's third episode, "High Plains Hardware." We knew it was historical(ish) fiction from the start, and acting as though foregone conclusions about the future of computers are matters of high suspense, well… that's just basic good faith on the part of the audience, right?
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But it's no more unfair than the show is to its own characters,...
Alright, maybe that's stacking the deck against Halt and Catch Fire's third episode, "High Plains Hardware." We knew it was historical(ish) fiction from the start, and acting as though foregone conclusions about the future of computers are matters of high suspense, well… that's just basic good faith on the part of the audience, right?
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But it's no more unfair than the show is to its own characters,...
- 6/16/2014
- Rollingstone.com
First things first: "Fud," the title of the second episode of Halt and Catch Fire, stands for "Fear, uncertainty, and doubt." (Apologies if the "Fu" had you expecting something raunchy.) It's the acronym infamously wielded by another acronym, Ibm, to crush its would-be competitors by spooking their opponents' potential clients back in the Seventies and Eighties. And that unholy trinity is exactly what the company uses against Cardiff Electronics, when it drops its legal challenge to Ibm refugee Joe MacMillan's upstart personal-computer "division" in favor of hitting Cardiff right where...
- 6/9/2014
- Rollingstone.com
I like talking to the creative people who have jobs that folks outside of the industry bubble don't necessarily understand. Last month, for example, I talked with Michael Spiller about what it means to be a directing producer on "The Mindy Project." Jonathan Lisco has a more glamorous and identifiable job. He is, after all, the showrunner on AMC's new drama "Halt and Catch Fire" and we've all learned to revere the showrunner. However, Lisco didn't create "Halt and Catch Fire." The '80s-set computer drama was created by Chris Cantwell and Chris Rogers, but The Chrises don't have a lengthy TV background, so Lisco was brought in as writer, executive producer and showrunner for the first season as part of an overall deal he signed with AMC. Lisco has been a creator -- Fox's "K-Ville" was the first series to shoot in New Orleans after Katrina -- but his...
- 6/7/2014
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
Halt and Catch Fire, Season 1, Episode 1: “I/O”
Directed by Juan José Campanella
Written by Christopher Cantwell & Christopher C. Rogers
Airs Sundays at 10pm Est on AMC
Last summer, AMC tried to launch a new show in the hour after Breaking Bad, hoping that the millions of viewers watching and tweeting about Walter White would keep tuning in. But Low Winter Sun was a bonafide flop, a critical and ratings fiasco, and the name itself became a sort of punchline to certain snotty TV viewers. Rather than helping launch the new show, its proximity to Breaking Bad only magnified Low Winter Sun’s shortcomings. It became the poster child for poor quality “quality” television, the skeleton of a dark cable drama with none of the skill or soul needed to sustain itself. The network is taking a different tactic with its new drama, Halt and Catch Fire. By debuting...
Directed by Juan José Campanella
Written by Christopher Cantwell & Christopher C. Rogers
Airs Sundays at 10pm Est on AMC
Last summer, AMC tried to launch a new show in the hour after Breaking Bad, hoping that the millions of viewers watching and tweeting about Walter White would keep tuning in. But Low Winter Sun was a bonafide flop, a critical and ratings fiasco, and the name itself became a sort of punchline to certain snotty TV viewers. Rather than helping launch the new show, its proximity to Breaking Bad only magnified Low Winter Sun’s shortcomings. It became the poster child for poor quality “quality” television, the skeleton of a dark cable drama with none of the skill or soul needed to sustain itself. The network is taking a different tactic with its new drama, Halt and Catch Fire. By debuting...
- 6/2/2014
- by Bryan Rucker
- SoundOnSight
The time is right for a good tech-industry drama, though it's tough to imagine how a contemporary show could compete with the real thing. The guy who produced "Straight Outta Compton" just announced he'd become a billionaire via some other musician's Instragram when Apple bought his headphones company and streaming service, for god's sake. Beat that, screenwriters.
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Of course, Mad Men gave it a shot this season, with the introduction of a computer into the heretofore analog world of Sterling Cooper & Partners. It gave Matthew Weiner license to reference 2001 a lot,...
12 Showrunners You Should Know
Of course, Mad Men gave it a shot this season, with the introduction of a computer into the heretofore analog world of Sterling Cooper & Partners. It gave Matthew Weiner license to reference 2001 a lot,...
- 6/2/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Since rebranding itself as a prestige TV showcase with the launch of Mad Men in 2007, AMC has hosted its share of critical gems (Breaking Bad), popular hits (The Walking Dead), and forgettable duds (Low Winter Sun). But its most recent series — The Killing, Hell on Wheels, and Turn – have failed to break out — so there’s some additional pressure on Halt and Catch Fire, which premiered Sunday night.
Set in 1983, the show revolves around Lee Pace’s Joe MacMillan, a dynamic former Ibm executive who wants to build a fledgling Dallas-based computer company into an outfit that can go toe to toe with Big Blue.
Set in 1983, the show revolves around Lee Pace’s Joe MacMillan, a dynamic former Ibm executive who wants to build a fledgling Dallas-based computer company into an outfit that can go toe to toe with Big Blue.
- 6/2/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW.com - PopWatch
Computers and the Internet have so rapidly changed how we consume our entertainment that it is bizarre how few films and TV programs focus on this domain of technological prowess. There have been a few good ones, though. David Fincher’s superb The Social Network used a ubiquitous website to gaze at the increasing isolation that drives the need for social reinvention, while giving audiences a rollicking good tale of betrayal and cunning business savvy. Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley, one of the sharpest comedies to air on television in some time, satirizes the West Coast suburb where the rulers of the roost are preening misfits who are only succeed by tweaking redundant ideas and making millions off them.
While HBO’s comedy remains entrenched in the present, the newest drama from AMC, Halt and Catch Fire, looks at a mostly untold story of the struggles during the early days of the computer business.
While HBO’s comedy remains entrenched in the present, the newest drama from AMC, Halt and Catch Fire, looks at a mostly untold story of the struggles during the early days of the computer business.
- 6/2/2014
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
Will AMC’s bet on Halt and Catch Fire pay off? Set in 1983, on the cusp of the personal computing boom, Halt revolves around a former IBMer, Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace), who is forced to enlist the help of an engineer, Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), and a coding prodigy, Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis), in an attempt to confront the corporate giants of the time to boost his own stock and that of the fictional Cardiff Electric. TV Review: AMC's 'Halt and Catch Fire' Inspired by co-creator Chris Cantwell’s father – they moved to Dallas in 1982 when Cantwell was
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- 6/1/2014
- by Philiana Ng
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
AMC goes back to the early '80s with the premiere of its new drama “Halt and Catch Fire,” the tale of a hot-shot, morally flexible computer salesman (Joe MacMillan, played by Lee Pace) and a world-broken engineer (Scoot McNairy's Gordon Clark) who reverse-engineer an Ibm computer — much to Ibm's consternation. TheWrap spoke to showrunner Jonathan Lisco about the challenges of making computer code interesting, toxic arrogance and the legacy of the early computer era. TheWrap: Is it difficult to draw drama out of the subject matter of computer programming? Absolutely. That's a balance that we're very, very cognizant of in the.
- 6/1/2014
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
Scoot McNairy had a resume of TV guest spots and indie movie roles when he appeared as one of the two leads in the minimalist creature feature "Monsters." The low-budget film didn't exactly set the global box office on fire, but it served as a calling card for its director, Gareth Edwards. It also positioned McNairy for a run of character actor ubiquity with memorable roles -- if you happened to see the films -- in "Killing Them Softly," "Promised Land" and "Touchy Feely." He has also become a Best Picture lucky charm with important parts in "Argo" and "12 Years a Slave." McNairy transitions to TV leading man status in Sunday (June 1) night's premiere of AMC's "Halt and Catch Fire." In the '80s-set computer drama, McNairy plays Gordon Clark, formerly promising computer wizard who has put many of his ambitions on hold to try to live a more stable...
- 6/1/2014
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
Lee Pace doesn't do many projects that generate ambivalence. After making his small screen bones in the Bryan Fuller-created "Wonderfalls" and "Pushing Daisies" and having his earliest big screen exposure in Tarsem Singh's polarizingly unique "The Fall," Pace has been on an absurd franchise streak of late. He checked "Twilight" off the list as Garrett in the second part of "Breaking Dawn." His Thranduil has had an increasingly large presence through the last two "Hobbit" films. And this summer, Pace will enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Ronan the Accuser in "Guardians of the Galaxy." It's unclear how many Lee Paces exist, because amidst these major franchise films, Pace also found the time for his return to regular series television. On the new AMC drama "Halt and Catch Fire," Pace plays Joe MacMillan, a former Ibm wunderkind who recruits Scoot McNairy's Gordon Clark to work with him...
- 5/30/2014
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
AMC’s new fictional drama Halt and Catch Fire, premiering Sunday, June 1, at 10pm Et/Pt, goes back to the early 1980s, when personal computing was in its infancy and Apple and Ibm had the market cornered. Enter Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace), a former Ibm exec with a chip on his shoulder and a vision to turn his new employer, Cardiff Electric, on its head. Joe enlists down-on-his-luck Cardiff engineer Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy) to help him crack the Ibm PC’s codes and put the screws to Big Blue. Joining their team is computer prodigy Cameron (Mackenzie Davis), a brilliant but … Continue reading →
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- 5/28/2014
- by Ryan Berenz
- ChannelGuideMag
AMC's computer drama “Halt and Catch Fire” — about the rise of the 1980s personal-computer era — premieres June 1, and the network has released a new video introducing one of the series’ characters, Gordon Clark (played by “Argo” alum Scoot McNairy). Judging from the video, Clark is a gifted but overlooked computer engineer in danger of letting his prime slip away from him, when he's spurred into grabbing for his destiny by the far more confident Joe MacMillan (played by “The Hobbit” veteran Lee Pace). Also read: AMC Sneaks ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ as First-Ever Tumblr TV Series Premiere Will Clark...
- 5/20/2014
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
Lee Pace is returning to our TVs and suddenly everything feels Ok. The Pushing Daisies star returns in AMC's Halt and Catch Fire, a new drama set in the early 1980s, so it's sure to give us great fashion and music. Set roughly a year after Ibm pretty much took over the PC market, Halt and Catch Fire follows former Ibm executive Joe MacMillan (Pace) as he plans to reverse-engineer the flagship product of his former employer in an attempt to get his current company into the PC race. Pace's character gets help from Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), a former engineer and Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis), a computer prodigy. All this while his wife, Donna (Kerry Bishe), is unsupportive at...
- 5/16/2014
- E! Online
"You can't lead a revolution without breaking a few rules."
AMC has released a teaser trailer for their new series Halt and Catch Fire. The story revolves around the expansion of the PC market after Ibm rose to prominence. It looks like it will be a great series, and it stars Lee Pace as Joe MacMillan, Scoot McNairy as Gordon Clark, Kerry Bishé as Donna Clark, and Mackenzie Davis as Cameron Howe. The characters get together to take some particular aspects from Ibm’s design to create their own computer.
“Halt and Catch Fire” is set roughly one year after Ibm all but corners the market with the release of its first major product – the Ibm PC. It is also the same year people realize the Ibm PC’s fatal flaw, which quickly makes personal computing anyone’s game. In this fictional drama, a former Ibm executive, Joe McMillan (Lee Pace...
AMC has released a teaser trailer for their new series Halt and Catch Fire. The story revolves around the expansion of the PC market after Ibm rose to prominence. It looks like it will be a great series, and it stars Lee Pace as Joe MacMillan, Scoot McNairy as Gordon Clark, Kerry Bishé as Donna Clark, and Mackenzie Davis as Cameron Howe. The characters get together to take some particular aspects from Ibm’s design to create their own computer.
“Halt and Catch Fire” is set roughly one year after Ibm all but corners the market with the release of its first major product – the Ibm PC. It is also the same year people realize the Ibm PC’s fatal flaw, which quickly makes personal computing anyone’s game. In this fictional drama, a former Ibm executive, Joe McMillan (Lee Pace...
- 4/1/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
AMC has released its first teaser for "Halt and Catch Fire," its 1980s-set drama about the personal computing revolution starring Lee Pace.
Pace ("Pushing Daisies," "The Hobbit") plays Joe MacMillan, a former Ibm executive who wants his current company to get into the PC game a year after Ibm released its first home machine. He enlists engineer Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy) and programming whiz kid Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis) to help with his project.
The series also stars Kerry Bishe as Clark's wife -- she and McNairy also played a married couple in "Argo" -- and Toby Huss.
The show's title, incidentally, is a reference to a bit of computer machine code that forces the unit to stop working.
"Halt and Catch Fire" is set to premiere June 1 on AMC.
Pace ("Pushing Daisies," "The Hobbit") plays Joe MacMillan, a former Ibm executive who wants his current company to get into the PC game a year after Ibm released its first home machine. He enlists engineer Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy) and programming whiz kid Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis) to help with his project.
The series also stars Kerry Bishe as Clark's wife -- she and McNairy also played a married couple in "Argo" -- and Toby Huss.
The show's title, incidentally, is a reference to a bit of computer machine code that forces the unit to stop working.
"Halt and Catch Fire" is set to premiere June 1 on AMC.
- 3/31/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Today, AMC released the first trailer for their new drama series, “Halt and Catch Fire.” The tale, which takes place in the early 1980s, is a fictionalized account of one company looking to make computers in Texas’ “Silicon Prairie.” If that by itself isn’t enough to convince you to watch the video, we will also tell you that the Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” plays for the entirety of the trailer. “Halt and Catch Fire” centers itself on three characters: Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace), a former Ibm executive; Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), a “once-great” engineer; and Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis), a “volatile prodigy.” The series follows those three as they attempt to reverse engineer an Ibm PC after learning that the PC has a flaw (which, presumably, they feel they can correct). Also appearing on the show are Kerry Bishe and Toby Huss. The examination of the...
- 3/31/2014
- by Josh Lasser
- Hitfix
AMC has released the first promo for its new drama series "Halt and Catch Fire," which will premiere on Sunday, June 1 at 10pm Et/Pt. The series captures the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, during which an unlikely trio . a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy . take personal and professional risks in the race to build a computer that will change the world as they know it. The 10-episode series is created by Chris Cantwell and Chris Rogers and executive produced by showrunner Jonathan Lisco and Gran Via Production's Mark Johnson and Melissa Bernstein. Filmed on location in Atlanta, "Halt and Catch Fire," stars Lee Pace as Joe MacMillan, Scoot McNairy as Gordon Clark, Mackenzie Davis as Cameron Howe, Kerry Bishé as Donna Clark and Toby Huss as John...
- 3/31/2014
- Comingsoon.net
AMC's upcoming computer pioneering drama Halt and Catch Fire will premiere Sunday, June 1 at 10/9c, TVGuide.com has learned.
The 10-episode series follows an unlikely trio, played by Lee Pace, Scoot McNairy and Mackenzie Davis, as they try and revolutionize the idea of the personal computer. Set in the early 1980s, former Ibm executive Joe McMillan (Pace) enlists an engineer Gordon Clark (McNairy) and the volatile prodigy Cameron Howe (Davis) in the hopes of forcing his company Cardiff Electric into the personal computer race.
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The 10-episode series follows an unlikely trio, played by Lee Pace, Scoot McNairy and Mackenzie Davis, as they try and revolutionize the idea of the personal computer. Set in the early 1980s, former Ibm executive Joe McMillan (Pace) enlists an engineer Gordon Clark (McNairy) and the volatile prodigy Cameron Howe (Davis) in the hopes of forcing his company Cardiff Electric into the personal computer race.
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- 3/5/2014
- by Sadie Gennis
- TVGuide - Breaking News
From Nosferatu to Twilight, gothic films have explored what frightens us – and why we are willing victims of our fear. A few days before Halloween, and as the BFI begins a nationwide season, Michael Newton is seduced by horror, sex and satanism
Beyond high castle walls, the wolves howl. The Count intones: "Listen to them! The children of the night! What music they make!" And those words usher you into a faintly ludicrous cosiness, the comfortable darkness of gothic. For gothic properties are altogether snug, as familiar as Halloween costumes – a Boris Karloff mask, the Bela Lugosi cape, an Elsa Lanchester wig. So it is that many of us first come to the form through its parodies; I knew Carry On Screaming! by heart before I saw my first Hammer film. And yet, within the homely restfulness, something genuinely disturbing lurks; an authentic dread. And watching these films again, we...
Beyond high castle walls, the wolves howl. The Count intones: "Listen to them! The children of the night! What music they make!" And those words usher you into a faintly ludicrous cosiness, the comfortable darkness of gothic. For gothic properties are altogether snug, as familiar as Halloween costumes – a Boris Karloff mask, the Bela Lugosi cape, an Elsa Lanchester wig. So it is that many of us first come to the form through its parodies; I knew Carry On Screaming! by heart before I saw my first Hammer film. And yet, within the homely restfulness, something genuinely disturbing lurks; an authentic dread. And watching these films again, we...
- 10/26/2013
- by Michael Newton
- The Guardian - Film News
Rory Gilmore could be heading back to our screens this fall. Alexis Bledel has been cast alongside Jason Ritter in Fox's new comedy pilot, "Friends & Family," based on the UK series "Gavin and Stacey."
According to Deadline, Bledel will play Stacey to Ritter's Gavin. If the pilot is picked up to series, it will focus on the important moments in the couple's relationship and the difficulties they encounter "while combining their polarizing families’ lives."
Interestingly, Ritter just completed a stint on "Parenthood," playing the fiance of Bledel's on-screen "Gilmore Girls" mom, Lauren Graham. Fast-talking brunettes are obviously his type.
In other pilot casting news ...
TBS' "Do It Yourself" gets Awesome. Ryan McPartlin -- who played Captain Awesome on NBC's "Chuck" -- has joined the comedy pilot, which is set in a home improvement store called Home Time. McPartlin will play Tyler, "an enthusiastic employee of the paint department, where he gives several demonstrations a week.
According to Deadline, Bledel will play Stacey to Ritter's Gavin. If the pilot is picked up to series, it will focus on the important moments in the couple's relationship and the difficulties they encounter "while combining their polarizing families’ lives."
Interestingly, Ritter just completed a stint on "Parenthood," playing the fiance of Bledel's on-screen "Gilmore Girls" mom, Lauren Graham. Fast-talking brunettes are obviously his type.
In other pilot casting news ...
TBS' "Do It Yourself" gets Awesome. Ryan McPartlin -- who played Captain Awesome on NBC's "Chuck" -- has joined the comedy pilot, which is set in a home improvement store called Home Time. McPartlin will play Tyler, "an enthusiastic employee of the paint department, where he gives several demonstrations a week.
- 3/5/2013
- by Laura Prudom
- Huffington Post
Scoot McNairy, who appeared in three episodes of Bones as a spy-slash-informant working for Booth and Brennan, has been cast opposite Lee Pace in AMC’s drama pilot Halt & Catch Fire, TVLine has learned.
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Set in the early 1980s, Halt & Catch Fire — from Breaking Bad‘s Mark Johnson — chronicles the personal computing boom through the eyes of a visionary (Pace), an engineer (McNairy) and a prodigy whose innovations directly confront the corporate behemoths of the time. Their personal and professional partnership will...
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Set in the early 1980s, Halt & Catch Fire — from Breaking Bad‘s Mark Johnson — chronicles the personal computing boom through the eyes of a visionary (Pace), an engineer (McNairy) and a prodigy whose innovations directly confront the corporate behemoths of the time. Their personal and professional partnership will...
- 3/4/2013
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
The South-African set drama A Lucky Man, a film about legendary former gang boss, Ernie ‘Lastig’ Solomon, who grew up notoriously as an outcast in Cape Town, is premiering exclusively on social networking site Mxit. Launched in an episodic format on Mxit yesterday, Monday, February 18, A Lucky Man can now be downloaded using Mxit's new Cinemo app. Audiences will be able to watch the movie in 18 four-minute episodes, with a new episode uploaded every weekday morning. And over a month after its Mxit launch, A Lucky Man will be released in South African theaters specifically on March 29. Helmed by Gordon Clark, who has mostly directed...
- 2/19/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Billed as a documentary drama, the South-African set film A Lucky Man deals with the identity and morality issues of Earnie "Lastig" Solomon, who grew up notoriously as an outcast in Cape Town. Helmed by Gordon Clark, who has mostly directed commercials of leading brands in South Africa, the film stars Levi du Plooy, Jarrid Geduld, Keenan Arrison. Here's more about the film: “A Lucky Man” is a morality story in which the perplexing issues of identity and morality are played out in the life of a man literally living on the edge. Born into a family where he is an outsider and growing up in a city and...
- 2/1/2013
- by Vanessa Martinez
- ShadowAndAct
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