Blood And Oil
- NewsDave Nemetz
Fall TV Scoreboard: Our Guide to All the Hits and Flops
Ratings are down across the board for the broadcast networks (thanks a lot, Netflix), we’ve seen very few runaway hits, and we’re still waiting for our first official cancellation. Although that last one might just be a case of Hollywood doublespeak… but we’ll get to that in a minute.
- NewsKen Tucker
‘Blood and Oil’ Review: Don Johnson Is The New J.R. Ewing
A new example of an old genre — the big, lusty saga of men and women making their fortunes through wiliness and brute strength — Blood & Oil is ABC’s bid to cross Revenge with Dallas and come up with a grimy-but-glamorous soap opera. Its marquee star is Don Johnson, who’s worth his weight in gold or oil — he anchors the show as North Dakota tycoon Hap Briggs, droppin’ his “g”s and tellin’ Chace Crawford’s up-and-comin’ oil speculator Billy LeFever that the young man has “a pair-a brass ones.” Th
