David E. Kelley
Jeff Daniels on That Knee-Jerk ‘A Man in Full’ Finale and Getting the Shot in One Take
Jeff Daniels says he isn’t giving much thought to metaphor in his performances. But his recent role as Charlie Croker in Netflix’s A Man in Full was swimming in them. Based on Tom Wolfe’s 1998 novel of the same name — which shook up Atlanta’s high society, thanks to Croker’s striking likeness to the city’s […]
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Why ‘Presumed Innocent’ Is Jake Gyllenhaal’s First TV Show
When Jake Gyllenhaal got to the end of the first episode of Presumed Innocent, he found himself reacting much like viewers of the Apple TV+ limited series hopefully would. He wanted to know what happened next. “Like an audience member, I think I was just drawn into the story in the same way,” the actor […]
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‘A Man in Full’ Review: Jeff Daniels Bellows, but David E. Kelley’s Tom Wolfe Adaptation for Netflix Is Mostly Hot Air
The 1998 novel about excesses in the Atlanta real estate bubble becomes a limited series co-starring Diane Lane and Lucy Liu.
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Apple Lands David E. Kelley’s Elle Fanning-Nicole Kidman Drama ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’
Apple has won a bidding war for Margo’s Got Money Troubles. The streamer has handed out an eight-episode, straight-to-series order for the drama from David E. Kelley that comes with Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman attached to star. Margo is based on the forthcoming novel by Rufi Thorpe that landed with producers A24 after a […]
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A24, David E. Kelley to Adapt Red-Hot Book Where OnlyFans Meets Wrestling (Exclusive)
A24 is at it again. The studio has outbid fierce competition for the rights to adapt Rufi Thorpe’s upcoming book Margo’s Got Money Troubles, with David E. Kelley in talks to co-write the TV adaptation. Nicole Kidman as well as Elle and Dakota Fanning’s production companies are also attached to executive produce the potential series, […]
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10 Shows Like ‘Suits’ That Are Packed With Legal Drama
All rise, if you’re done viewing Suits on Netflix. That’s after the USA Network series — starring Patrick Adams as Mike Ross, a whip-smart college dropout who, mid-drug deal, lands a coveted legal gig working for Gabriel Macht’s Harvey Specter despite not having an actual law degree — has enjoyed a huge resurgence in viewership while […]
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Geoffrey Neigher, ‘Rhoda’ Writer and Emmy-Winning ‘Picket Fences’ Producer, Dies at 78
Geoffrey Neigher, the TV writer-producer who penned episodes of The Bob Newhart Show, Rhoda and Murder One and shared an Emmy for outstanding drama series for his work on Picket Fences, has died. He was 78. Neigher died Aug. 10 at his Hancock Park home in Los Angeles of complications from cancer, his wife, Karen, […]
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Lily Rabe on the Tragedy of Betty Gore Explored in ‘Love & Death’: “There’s So Much Misperception”
[This story contains spoilers from the finale of Love & Death, “Ssssshh.”] Lily Rabe had heard about the Candy Montgomery-Betty Gore case, but it wasn’t until Nicole Kidman, an executive producer on Love & Death, reached out to her about playing Betty that she began to research. “It always excites me to hear, ‘It’s so different […]
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‘Love & Death’ Finale Director on Filming the Murder Scene and Complicated Feelings Around Candy’s Fate
[This story contains spoilers from the finale of Love & Death, “Ssssshh.”] The Love & Death sequences depicting the brutal ax murder of Betty Gore were some of the most emotional scenes Lesli Linka Glatter has ever filmed. The prolific director whose IMDB profile reads like a greatest hits of television (Mad Men, Homeland, The […]
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Elizabeth Olsen on ‘Love & Death’ Aftermath of the Killing: “People Convince Themselves of a Truth”
[This story contains spoilers from the first five episodes of Love & Death.] There’s a method to the madness of Love & Death‘s release. After three episodes of spending time in the bucolic and beautiful setting of Candy Montgomery’s (Elizabeth Olsen) church community in Wylie Texas, the fourth episode of the true-crime Max series shattered that […]
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‘Love & Death’: Elizabeth Olsen and Lesli Linka Glatter on Why They Didn’t Reach Out to Candy Montgomery
The name Candy Montgomery is familiar to many. But after the first three episodes of Love & Death, people will better understand the woman who has been known as the housewife who struck her friend 41 times with an axe. “I oddly think we made the show she would want to have made,” Elizabeth Olsen, […]
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‘Love & Death’ Review: Elizabeth Olsen and David E. Kelley Struggle to Shed Fresh Light on the Candy Montgomery Case
One year after Hulu's 'Candy' comes another show based on the murder of Betty Gore, this time on HBO Max and starring Olsen, Jesse Plemons, Lily Rabe and Patrick Fugit.
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