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Exclusive: Outer Banks actress Carlacia Grant has signed with Anonymous Content for representation in all areas.

Grant recently reprised her breakout role as Cleo in Season 4 of Netflix’s Outer Banks, which debuted on October 10. She stars alongside Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline, Madison Bailey, Jonathan Daviss, Rudy Pankow, and Charles Esten.

Prior to that role, Grant also had a recurring role in the Oprah Winfrey Network’s drama series Greenleaf, opposite Keith David, Lynn Whitfield, and Merle Dandridge. Her other television credits include her debut role in the History Channel’s remake of Roots, as well as a recurring role on NBC’s Game of Silence.

Grant, a Haitian-Jamaican-American actress who found her passion for the craft at a young age, currently resides in Los Angeles.

She continues to be represented by TalentWorks, Tmp Artists, imPRint,and Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett and Kole.

Exclusive: Demetrius Grosse (Cabinet of Curiosities) has signed on for a role in George Tillman Jr.’s untitled George Foreman biopic for Sony Pictures and Affirm Films.

He joins a cast that also includes Khris Davis, Sullivan Jones, Forest Whitaker, Jasmine Mathews, Sonja Sohn, John Magaro, Shein Mompremier, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Sam Trammell, Erica Tazel, Matthew Glave and Al Sapienza, as previously announced.

The film will follow the remarkable life and times of Foreman (Davis), from Olympic Gold medalist to World Heavyweight champion, the Rumble in the Jungle fight with Muhammad Ali in Zaire, to finding his faith, retiring, and becoming a preacher. When financial hardship hits his family and church, he steps back in the ring and regains the championship at age 45, becoming the oldest heavyweight champion in boxing history.

Grosse is playing Foreman’s biological father, Leroy Moorehead. Though he’s proud that he’s never missed watching...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas on basic cable. While Hallmark Channel has been in the yuletide spirit since October (!), the family-friendly network will officially kick things into high gear on Thanksgiving Eve with the debut of a new original movie every night for the duration of the extended holiday weekend.

Not to be outdone, Lifetime will debut not one, but two movies per night — not that it’s a competition or anything!

For the next five evenings, both Hallmark and Lifetime will deck the halls with some of your favorite TV stars of past and present,...

There’s a bit too much Robin in the hood in a new teaser for Titans, DC Universe’s inaugural original live-action series.

The new digital subscription service launched today, Sept. 15 aka Batman Day, though Titans won’t premiere until Friday, Oct. 12.

At the 2:10 mark in the DC Daily episode above, Dick Grayson (played by series regular Brenton Thwaites) makes the acquaintance of Jason Todd (Game of Silence‘s Curran Walters), who as the “new” Robin now fights crime alongside Batman (with whom Dick apparently has obviously had a falling out).

Is Jason enjoying more Bat-perks than Dick ever did?...

In a competitive situation, NBC has bought for development Capital, a drama series from Carol Mendelsohn Productions,Julie Anne Robinson’s CannyLads Productions and Universal TV where both companies are based.

Written by Sean Finegan, Capital centers on Special Agent Joanna Ward who heads up an elite Washington, D.C., unit that catches the world’s most dangerous criminals because she knows that all high-stakes crimes have one thing in common. Money. Someone’s paying for it and someone’s profiting from it. But when her partner gets killed and her team comes under attack, Jo must form an unholy alliance with her arch-enemy: a money launderer-extraordinaire who’s on the run from his most dangerous client.

Finegan executive produces alongside Carol Mendelsohn and Julie Weitz via Carol Mendelsohn Prods and Julie Anne Robinson via her CannyLads Productions. CannyLads’ head of development Kelly Pancho is a producer.

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Michael Raymond-James (Game of Silence), Kurt Yaeger (Quarry) and Rarmian Newton (Rise) are set for recurring roles opposite Paul Wesley, Dania Ramirez and Danielle Campbell in CBS All Access’ straight-to-series psychological thriller Tell Me a Story, from Kevin Williamson and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment.

Written by Williamson, Tell Me a Story, which co-stars Billy Magnussen and Kim Catrall, is based on a Spanish format. It takes the world’s most beloved fairy tales and reimagines them as a dark and twisted psychological thriller. Set in modern day New York City, the first season of this serialized drama interweaves “The Three Little Pigs,” “Little Red Riding Hood,” and “Hansel and Gretel” into an epic and subversive tale of love, loss, greed, revenge and murder.

Raymond-James will play Mitch, a lifelong blue collar worker who struggles to provide for his wife by working for his gruff father-in-law. To make ends meet,...

“CSI” co-creator Carol Mendelsohn is moving to Universal Television after four years with Sony with a new overall deal.

Under the pact, Mendelsohn and Julie Weitz, an executive at Carol Mendelsohn Productions, will develop new projects for the studio.

“Writer/producers of the caliber of Carol Mendelsohn and Julie Weitz don’t come along that often and I am proud they have chosen to call Universal Television home,” said Pearlena Igbokwe, president, Universal Television.

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Mendelsohn co-created “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” alongside Anthony Zuiker in 2000, serving as showrunner for 14 seasons. She also co-created the CBS franchise’s spinoffs, “CSI: Miami,” “CSI: New York” and the short-lived, “CSI: Cyber.” While at Sony, Mendelsohn’s company produced NBC’s “Game of Silence,” which itself was a co-production between Sony TV and Universal TV. The NBC drama only ran for one season.

After four years at Sony Pictures TV, Carol Mendelsohn is moving to Universal Television. The former CSI maven and Julie Weitz, both principals of Carol Mendelsohn Productions, have signed an exclusive overall producing deal with Universal TV. Under the pact, the duo will develop new projects for the studio.

“Writer/producers of the caliber of Carol Mendelsohn and Julie Weitz don’t come along that often and I am proud they have chosen to call Universal Television home,” said Universal TV president Pearlena Igbokwe.

Mendelsohn ran the mothership CSI series for 14 years and co-created its spinoffs, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY and CSI: Cyber. During her stint at Sony TV., Carol Mendelsohn Prods. was behind the NBC drama series Game of Silence, which Sony TV co-produced with Universal TV.

“We’re excited to be in business with such a creative and accomplished group of women,” Mendelsohn said of Uni TV, a...

Girls Trip‘s Deborah Ayorinde is set to recur opposite Mahershala Ali in the third season of Nic Pizzolatto’s HBO crime anthology series True Detective.

Carmen Ejogo, Stephen Dorff, Scoot McNairy, Mamie Gummer and Ray Fisher also star in the next installment, which tells the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks, and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods.

Ayorinde will play Becca Hayes, the estranged daughter of retired Arkansas State Police detective Wayne Hayes (Ali). She joins previously announced recurring cast Michael Greyeyes, Jon Tenney, Rhys Wakefield, Sarah Gadon, Emily Nelson, Brandon Flynn, Michael Graziadei, Josh Hopkins and Jodi Balfour.

As with the breakout original installment of True Detective, Pizzolatto is the sole writer of the third season with the exception of Episode 4, which he co-wrote with David Milch. Daniel Sackheim directs alongside Pizzolatto, who will make his directorial debut.

Bre Blair is joining the Swat team. Deadline reports the Game of Silence star will recur on the CBS TV show.The action drama centers on Sergeant Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson (Shemar Moore), a lifetime Los Angeles local and former Marine who has been tapped to lead a new “last stop” Special Weapons and Tactics unit. The cast also includes Stephanie Sigman, Alex Russell, Jay Harrington, Lina Esco, Kenny Johnson, and Peter Onorati.Read More…...

When Legends of Tomorrow‘s Season 3 threat makes himself known in this Tuesday’s episode, expect to a hear a distinctive voice quite familiar to genre-tv fans.

John Noble, whose credits include Fringe and Sleepy Hollow (where he ultimately emerged as a villain), is voicing Mallus, show boss Marc Guggenheim told EW.com.

“You’ll learn more about him in [Episode] 305,” the Ep said, pointing to tonight’s episode.

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Former Game Of Silence star Bre Blair has joined CBS drama series S.W.A.T. in a key recurring role. Blair will play Annie Kay, the wife of Deacon (Jay Harrington), 2nd command of the Swat unit lead by Hondo (Shemar Moore). She is patient, perceptive, and balances a busy house and newborn baby while her husband is out in the field. As the only wife on the squad, Annie is considered one of the family to the rest of the team, though she is fiercely loyal and devoted to Deacon and the kids above all else. Blair played Jessie West on NBC’s Game of Silence and recently appeared on Narcos and Flaked. She’s repped by Don Buchwald and Associates and Disante Frank & Company.

Romeo Miller (Growing Up Hip Hop: Los Angeles) has booked a recurring role on the second season of Freeform drama series Famous In Love. Based on Rebecca Serle’s novel,...

Former Game Of Silence star Bre Blair has joined CBS drama series S.W.A.T. in a key recurring role. Blair will play Annie Kay, the wife of Deacon (Jay Harrington), 2nd command of the Swat unit lead by Hondo (Shemar Moore). She is patient, perceptive, and balances a busy house and newborn baby while her husband is out in the field. As the only wife on the squad, Annie is considered one of the family to the rest of the team, though she is fiercely loyal and devoted to…...

International exports of Turkish TV could hit $350m in 2017.

The Turkish TV industry has grown enormously on the international stage during the last decade - with export revenues expected to hit $350m per year by the end of 2017 - it was revealed during a presentation at Sarajevo Film Festival on Wednesday (Aug 16).

TV producer Selin Arat, whose company Tims & B Productions is responsible for some of the biggest Turkish hits including Magnificent Century [pictured] and Game Of Silence, hosted the talk during Sarajevo’s CineLink industry programme, which has a strong TV focus this year.

She highlighted examples of successful exports such as Magnificent Century, which has sold around the world including to Russia where it was a smash hit, helping network Domashy to increase its channel ratings by 350%. Similarly, the series was a hit for Chilean broadcaster Mega TV, being the first Turkish series to break into the Latin American market, which Arat said...

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Hold on to your knickers, another Hangover-inspired film based on the ‘fairer’ sex is about to gracelessly hit our screens in Girls Trip. Judging from the newly released trailer it isn’t far off the upcoming Rough Night, except there are no accidentally dead male stripper in sight.

Do you fancy watching Jada Pinkett Smith releasing her bowels while suspended from mid-air onto a gazing crowd, or even four feisty women getting high on Absinthe and causing an all out brawl in a dance-off in the middle of a club? Well, that’s what you get as the four lifelong friends decide to get away for the weekend and relive their younger days as potty mouths take hold as well as their raging sexual hormones. Oh, these ladies are nasty, lively and horny and slightly offensive when one declares “I’m getting white girl drunk” – well, this...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.)

This week’s question: How many episodes of a show do you watch before you’re comfortable reviewing it? All the screeners provided? Just “enough” till you form an opinion? Only one or two, etc.? The whole season?

Sonia Saraiya (@soniasaraiya), Variety

The answer has become four. If they provide less, I watch all of them. But if they provide more, I stop at four, which is about the length of a feature film — somewhere between 90 minutes and four hours. Sometimes (rarely) I’ll watch more than four — it depends on how I’m enjoying it, or what’s happening in the story. But I’ve determined that four episodes...

Four-time Emmy nominee Sharon Lawrence will play opposite five-time Emmy winner John Larroquette in CBS’ ambitious Me, Myself & I comedy pilot.

RelatedPilot Season: Scoop on Fall’s (Possible) New Shows, Who’s In Them

Penned by Dan Kopelman (Galavant), the single-camera comedy examines the life of one man, Alex Riley, over a 50-year span, focusing on three distinct periods — as a 14-year-old in the year 1991, as a 40-year-old in present day (played by SNL‘s Bobby Moynihan), and as a 65-year-old in 2042 (played by Larroquette).

Per our sister site Deadline, Lawrence will play Eleanor, who in 1991 was the unrequited love of Alex’s life,...

Al Sapienza (Game of Silence) has booked a recurring role in Amazon's upcoming original series Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan. John Krasinski is Jack Ryan, who uncovers a pattern in terrorist communication that launches him into the center of a dangerous gambit with a new breed of terrorism that threatens destruction on a global scale. Sapienza will play Lt. Gen. Marcus Trent, associate director for military affairs. Wiry, tough, no-nonsense, he’s a contrarian with a firm grasp…...

Game of Silence and House of Lies alum Larenz Tate is set as the male lead opposite Allison Miller in the ABC drama pilot Salamander. Also cast as a regular in the project, based on a Belgian format, is South African actor Neil Sandilands (The 100). Written by Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg and directed by Gary Fleder, Salamander centers on Ethan (Tate), a brilliant but misanthropic engineer who recruits a skeptical Homeland Security…...

Larenz Tate will recur in the fourth season of the Power TV show on Starz. Fans will remember him as Shawn in Game of Silence, which NBC cancelled last year, after one season. He also played Malcolm Kaan in House of Lies, which was cancelled after five seasons on Showtime.A Starz crime drama, Power follows James “Ghost” St. Patrick (Omari Hardwick). In addition to owning the Truth nightclub in New York, Ghost also is one of the largest drug distributors in the city. Lela Loren, Naturi Naughton, Joseph Sikora, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Lucy Walters, Adam Huss, Andy Bean, Luis Antonio Ramos, Shane Johnson, J.R. Ramirez, Rotimi Akinoshko, David Fumero, Michael Rainey Jr., Jerry Ferrara, and Callan Mulvey also star.Read More…...

Can Chicago Justice prevail over Bradley Whitford?

The West Wing alum will guest-star on the legal spinoff during an upcoming crossover with Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D., EW.com reports.

RelatedLaw & Order: Svu Taking on Fox News’ Roger Ailes Scandal in Spring Episode

Whitford’s character, a high-powered defense attorney, wrote the book on cross-examination and only cares about the “appearance of reality.”

The three-way crossover kicks off Wednesday, March 1 at 8/7c on NBC with Fire, followed by P.D. at 9 pm and Justice at 10 pm. The newest Windy City-set offshoot then moves to its regular Sundays-at-9 pm timeslot...

Game of Silence and House of Lies alum Larenz Tate is set for a recurring role on the upcoming fourth season of Starz’s hit drama series Power. Tate will play Councilman Rashad Tate, a city councilman from Jamaica Queens. Power follows James “Ghost” St. Patrick, a drug kingpin living a double life who in season 4 seeks to find redemption. Power returns for its fourth season this summer. Courtney A. Kemp serves as the creator, showrunner and executive producer of Power…...

Tom Keen’s family on The Blacklist: Redemption is expanding.

Lost alum Terry O’Quinn will recur on the spinoff series as Howard Hargrave, the father of Ryan Eggold’s character, EW.com reports.

RelatedEx-Castle Boss Tapped as Blacklist Spinoff Showrunner

Howard shares a complex relationship with his wife of many years, Scottie (Famke Janssen), and has suffered profound personal tragedies. He is the founder of Halcyon Aegis, the international private military contracting firm for which undercover operative Tom works.

The Blacklist: Redemption premieres Thursday, Feb. 23 at 10/9c on NBC.

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First, he played a Game of Silence; now he has Seven Seconds left.

David Lyons has signed on to star in the Netflix cop drama Seven Seconds, our sister site Deadline is reporting. Lyons will play Jersey City cop Mike Diangelo, who heads up the department’s narcotics squad; he’s joined by Beau Knapp (The Nice Guys), who co-stars as a newbie cop who signs up for Diangelo’s squad.

RelatedNetflix’s Anne of Green Gables Series Adaptation Casts the Title Role

Seven Seconds, from The Killing creator Veena Sud and based on the Russian movie The Major, focuses...

Exclusive: Game of Silence co-star David Lyons and newly minted Death Wish bad guy Beau Knapp have been set as co-stars of Seven Seconds, the 10-episode Netflix crime drama from The Killing creator Veena Sud and Fox 21 TV Studios. The Accountant helmer Gavin O'Connor attached to direct. In the series, written by Sud and based on the 2013 Russian action movie The Major (Майор), tensions run high between African-American citizens and Caucasian cops in Jersey City, where a…...

Last season, the NBC schedule had a few ratings successes but the peacock network had a lot more misses. How will their shows do this time around? Which will be cancelled or renewed? Stay tuned.NBC shows this season (so far): America's Got Talent, American Ninja Warrior, Aquarius, Better Late Than Never, Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris, The Biggest Loser, The Blacklist, Blindspot, The Carmichael Show, Caught On Camera With Nick Cannon, Crowded, Dateline NBC, Dateline: On Assignment, Game of Silence, Grimm, Heartbeat, Hollywood Game Night, Heroes Reborn, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Little Big Shots, Maya & Marty, The Mysteries Of Laura, The Night Shift, The Player, Running Wild with Bear Grylls, Shades Of Blue, Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge, Superstore, Telenovela, Truth Be Told, Undateable, The Voice, and You, Me and the Apocalypse.There's lots of data that NBC execs look at...

Darkness is rising, demons are everywhere … and one man stands between humanity and its worst nightmares: John Constantine. Warner Archive Collection (Wac) and DC Entertainment bring the live-action television series, Constantine: The Complete Series, to Blu-ray™ and DVD on October 4, 2016 via WBshop.com, Amazon and popular online retailers.

Based on the wildly popular DC character, seasoned demon hunter and master of the occult John Constantine (Matt Ryan) is armed with a ferocious knowledge of the dark arts and a wickedly naughty wit. He fights the good fight – or at least he did. With his soul already damned to Hell, he’s decided to abandon his campaign against evil … until a series of events thrusts him back into the fray, and he’ll do whatever it takes to protect the innocent. With the balance of good and evil on the line, Constantine will use his skills to travel the country,...

Back in 2014, occult detective John Constantine leapt from the comic book page to the small screen in NBC's Constantine TV series. While the show only lasted one season, it garnered a loyal following of fans who can enjoy the series in its entirety this October when Warner Archive Collection and DC Entertainment release Constantine: The Complete Series on Blu-ray and DVD:

Press Release: Darkness is rising, demons are everywhere … and one man stands between humanity and its worst nightmares: John Constantine. Warner Archive Collection (Wac) and DC Entertainment bring the live-action television series, Constantine: The Complete Series, to Blu-ray™ and DVD on October 4, 2016 via WBshop.com, Amazon and popular online retailers.

Based on the wildly popular DC character, seasoned demon hunter and master of the occult John Constantine (Matt Ryan) is armed with a ferocious knowledge of the dark arts and a wickedly naughty wit. He fights the...

Shameless is finally giving Fiona someone to look up to.

NYPD Blue vet Sharon Lawrence is joining the Showtime dramedy in the recurring role of Fi’s role model Margo, per The Hollywood Reporter.

RelatedShameless Star Emmy Rossum to Direct Season 7 Episode

Margo, who owns the diner where Fiona is employed, is described as a “self-made real estate mogul.”

As previously reported, Quantico alum Tate Ellington will appear in multiple episodes as an employee of the company that controls Patsy’s Pies.

Lawrence’s recent TV credits include Rizzoli & Isles, Game of Silence and Drop Dead Diva.

Shameless returns...

NBC’s Game of Silence made some noise with what would be its series finale. Did the Quitman boys exact justice for the warden’s past crimes?

PhotosGame of Silence Cancelled at NBC

Though Jackson & Co. seemed to have handed Detective Winters and her FBI pal a closed case — having found Petey’s grave on land purchased by Carroll after the youth’s suspicious death — Carroll deflected the charges by throwing Red (vanished) and Bobby (dead) under the bus. Still, Carroll is spooked by the close call, so he drives to the ranch to prepare for his big speech.

Suits‘ latest cast addition is sure to be, er, popular.

Carly Pope, who starred on the late WB series Popular and recurred on The CW’s The Tomorrow People, has joined Season 6 of the USA Network drama, TVLine has learned.

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Pope will recur as Tara Messer, a cultured and perceptive commercial architect. When Louis reaches his wits’ end with Stu Buzzini (Melissa & Joey‘s Ian Reed Kesler) and the other Wall Street traders, he brings in Tara to help partition them away.

Other newcomers to the series include The People v.

NBC is the first broadcast network to unveil its schedule for the 2016-17 TV season, and the big news on the returning-show front is the Peacock’s decision to shift Blindspot from Monday-at-10 to Wednesdays-at-8, where it will fill the void left by the just-cancelled Mysteries of Laura. Replacing Blindspot in the coveted post-Voice perch will be Eric Kripke and Shawn Ryan’s new sci-fi drama Timeless.

Related 2016 Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Getting Cancelled? What’s on the Bubble?

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It’s one and done for NBC’s Game of Silence.

Related2016 Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Getting Cancelled? What’s on the Bubble?

The Peacock network on Friday confirmed that the thriller — which counted David Lyons, Michael Raymond-James and Larenz Tate among its cast — will not return for a second season.

RelatedTV’s Bloody Thursday: 12 Shows Cancelled — Which One Hurt the Most?

Adapted by executive producer David Hudgins from the Turkish series Suskunlar, Game of Silence starred Lyons as Jackson Brooks, a Houston attorney who, on the heels of adding a beautiful and successful fiancée to his life,...

NBC has canceled “Game of Silence” after just one season, TheWrap has learned. “Game of Silence” starred David Lyons, Michael Raymond James, Larenz Tatewill and Bre Blair as four friends with a dark secret. It was adapted by executive producer David Hudgins from the “Sleepers”-inspired Turkish TV series, “Suskunlar.” Rotten Tomatoes summed up all of the negative reviews for the show with a Critics Consensus blurb reading, “Competent acting and a sufficiently intriguing premise aren’t enough to make up for ‘Game of Silence’s’ unnecessarily convoluted, heavily clichéd storytelling.” Also Read: Mandy Moore-Milo Ventimiglia Dramedy 'This...

This week on ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., as Hive took another crack at his plan to manufacture Inhumans, an unexpected return was tempered by a bittersweet goodbye.

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So, no open letter to ol’ Hive this week. Because as sloppy as his “Plan A” was last week, his second stab at reverse-engineering Inhuman servants at least produced results this time around, as cosmetically challenged as they may be. But hey, as the saying goes — “a face only a mother (or father) could love.”

Besides, Hive draining Daisy...

The Performers | Titus Burgess and Jane Krakowski

The Show | Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

The Episodes | “Kimmy Goes to a Play!” and “Kimmy Drives a Car!”

The Performances | You’ve now had a full week to binge Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt‘s second season, so unless you’re actually living in a bunker against your will — in which case, we’re not sure how you’re even reading this — you know that the Netflix comedy is bolder, weirder and funnier than ever.

The credit goes to the entire ensemble — Ellie Kemper’s titular mole-woman remains the series’ heart, while an endless parade of...

Based on a Turkish drama, Game of Silence is a tale of childhood abuse, reinvention the prison industrial complex, class and hierarchy, frayed friendships and loves and political corruption. "As Larenz Tate keeps saying, 'this is a such a dark show and complicated show, it should be on cable,'" Ep Carol Mendelsohn said of the new NBC series onstage at Deadline's The Contenders Emmys all-day event on April 10. "But I think that's the beauty of what you can do on network TV…...

A storm is brewing on tonight’s Game of Silence (NBC, 10/9), as Gil confronts a face from his dark past.

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In this week’s episode, titled “Hurricane Gil,” the guys set out to gather evidence against their Quitman warden-turned-lieutenant governor, and to that end track down a former guard. What they learn isn’t enough for Gil’s liking, so he later pays the guy a one-on-one visit, as seen in the sneak peek below.

When the onetime Quitman bull begins detailing the “parties” that the warden hosted back in the day,...

Game of Silence premiered on NBC this week, but the executive producer of the series had the long haul in mind when he created season one. The series, which stars Michael-Raymond James and David Lyons, is a bit darker than the usual programming seen on network television, but Hodgins is hoping that the series brings in viewers because of the characters and their story.

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Previous | Image 1 of 3 | NextLarenz Tate stars in the new NBC-tv show, ‘Game of Silence.’

Chicago – The new NBC series “Game of Silence” premiered on a special Tuesday night rollout (April 12th, 2016), and one of the co-stars in the ensemble, Larenz Tate, was recently in Chicago at Studio Xfinity to promote the show. Tate is a Chicago born actor – his brothers Larron and Lahmard are also actors – and he also had a featured role in the cult TV series “Rescue Me.” The regular time slot for “Game of Silence” will be Thursdays at 10pmET/9pmCT.

“Game of Silence” is based on a Turkish TV series, “Suskuniar,” and involves a rising attorney whose perfectly crafted life is threatened by long-lost childhood friends who want to expose a secret from their collective past. The series also features David Lyons, Nikki Tomlinson, Michael Raymond-James and Claire van der Boom.

The Larenz Tate meet-and-greet promotion...

NBC has had mixed success introducing new dramas this season. Blindspot, Chicago Med, and Shades of Blue have all been renewed for a second season while The Player was an early season dud. How will Game of Silence perform in the ratings? Cancelled or renewed? Stay tuned.

On the Game of Silence TV show, five best friends have a dark secret that they thought was buried 25 years ago. They soon discover that they can't hide their past forever. The cast includes David Lyons, Michael Raymond-James, Larenz Tate, Bre Blair, Claire van der Boom, Deidrie Henry, Conor O'Farrell, and Demetrius Grosse.

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CBS didn't have any original skin in the game last night, but there were debuts, finales and spycraft all across primetime otherwise. Tuesday's debut, of course, being the preview of Game Of Silence (1.5/5) on NBC. That choice post-The Voice (2.2/8) spot has been the Comcast-owned net's booster rocket of launching new shows and on Tuesday, lift-off was solid for the David Hudgins and Carol Mendelsohn adaptation of a Turkish drama. Winning its 10 Pm slot and holding on to…...

NBC’s “Game of Silence” is getting the cold shoulder from critics after its premiere on Tuesday. The show, which will regularly air Thursdays at 10 p.m., accumulated a 42 percent approval rating from critics counted on Rotten Tomatoes. The worst reviews called the drama “a grim test of endurance,” “regrettably missable,” and “a convoluted story that doesn’t seem all that worthwhile to unravel, or peel — or watch.” “Game of Silence” stars David Lyons, Michael Raymond James, Larenz Tatewill and Bre Blair as four friends with a dark secret. It was adapted by executive producer David Hudgins from the “Sleepers”-inspired Turkish.

NBC laid out the playing field for its Game of Silence on Tuesday night, with a special apres-Voice preview. Will you follow the show to its regular Thursdays-at-10 time slot, to find out the fate of the Quitman boys both in the past and present?

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Adapted by exec producer David Hudgins from the Sleepers-inspired Turkish series Suskunlar, Game of Silence stars David Lyons (Revolution) as Jackson Brooks, a Houston attorney who, on the heels of adding a beautiful and successful fiancée to his life,...

This Sunday on ABC’s Once Upon a Time, Belle pondered a deal with Hades after Gaston started making waves in the Underworld. Meanwhile, Emma and the other heroes tried to fight a future.

RelatedMichael Raymond-James Revisits Neal’s Once Upon a Time Encore

What was good about this episode was pretty good, in that the Belle flashbacks answered some questions — including: How did she wind up married to such a tool? The B-story, however, involving Emma in fear of her dream basically idled for 37 minutes, until the final, curious payoff.

Gaston (recast from Season 1 with Wes Brown) is...

Ten minutes into watching the Turkish series Suskunlar, producer David Hudgins was hooked. “It was quirky, it was nostalgic, it was a thriller, and the characters were incredibly compelling,’ Hudgins said during a panel at today’s Deadline’s The Contenders event. “I was in." With a bit of re-imagining, the Turkish drama became Game of Silence, NBC’s new NBC revenge thriller, premiering April 12, produced by creator Hudgins and Carol Mendelsohn that follows the…...

No one will accuse NBC’s new revenge thriller, Game of Silence (premiering Tuesday at 10/9c, before settling into a Thursday timeslot), of being subtle.

RelatedMichael Raymond-James Previews Game of Silence‘s Looming ‘Hurricane,’ Weighs In on Once Upon a Time Encore

Baddies do everything but twirl their mustaches around their pinky fingers and cackle as they put their nefarious plans in motion. The good guys each seem to have been plucked from The Directory of Stock TV Characters (Chapter 23: “Reunited Childhood Friends With Issues”). Fists get slammed on barroom tables, accompanied by lines like, “We’re talkin’ about justice!

It’s hard to believe Russell Crowe has never hosted Saturday Night Live.

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He might not be known for his comedy — that is, until the forthcoming release of The Nice Guys, featuring alien-abduction survivor Ryan Gosling — but the one-time Gladiator could’ve fooled us, as he committed to a number of outlandish characters, from a holographic Henry VIII to a German professor who, let’s just say, grew up in a house full of old women.

Make no mistake: the Academy Award winner’s Studio 8H debut wasn’t a home run,...

For Michael Raymond-James, this past winter was a Game of Silence in multiple ways.

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In NBC’s midseason thriller of that name (previewing Tuesday at 10/9c, before moving to its Thursdays-at-10 time slot), the Terriers alum plays Gil Harris, the former childhood Bff of a rising star attorney (Revolution‘s David Lyons) whose perfect life is put at risk when a tragic part of their shared past ignites a powder keg of a problem in the present.

Then, upon wrapping Game of Silence‘s 10-episode freshman run, Mrj slipped up...

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Once Upon a Time, The Walking Dead, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and American Idol!

1 | For fans of both The Ranch and That ‘70s Show Seasons 1-7, were you happy to see it was Bret Harrison hired to play Elisha Cuthbert’s beau, and not Josh Meyers, in Episode 2?

2 | On Sleepy Hollow, why was Danny — who joined the Witnesses’ team five minutes ago! — calling the shots during the siege on The Hidden One? And could...