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Hulu Sets Syrian Civil War Drama ‘Fertile Crescent’ Starring James Purefoy
Hulu has given a straight-to-series order for the Syrian civil war drama “Fertile Crescent,” starring James Purefoy, the streamer announced on Wednesday.The project centers on Antoine, a young French man searching for his estranged, presumed-to-be-dead sister amid the civil war in Syria. While unraveling the mystery, Antoine ends up joining forces and traveling with a unit of Kurdish female fighters in ISIS-occupied territory. In the process he crosses paths with adventurers and anarchists, spi
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‘Hap and Leonard’ Season 2 Sneak Peek: Whose Body Is Under Leonard’s House?
Hap Collins is carrying his dead ex-wife, Trudy, around in a box, but that’s not the craziest thing he and pal Leonard Pine are about to deal with in this exclusive clip from Wednesday’s season premiere of Hap and Leonard: Mucho Mojo. Leonard (Michael K. Williams) still holds a grudge against Trudy for the scam she dragged him and his BFF into in Season 1 — a scam that, as Leonard points out, nearly got him killed too. Also not wanted in Casa Pine: the skeleton Leonard found under the floorboa
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‘Roots’: Remade For A New Generation
The new 'Roots' excels in the naturalism of its performances to make the horror of slavery vividly painful — and the resistance to it uplifting — in a way that deepens the tale.
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'Hap and Leonard': Texas Good Ol' Boys In A Noir Crime Series
A suspense series about an odd-couple of crime-solving Texas good o’ boys, Hap and Leonard, premiering Wednesday on SundanceTV, has a lot going for it. Leonard is played by Michael K. Williams, from Boardwalk Empire and immortal as Omar in The Wire. Hap is played by James Purefoy, an actor who deserved a better role than he got as an exhausting psycho in The Following.
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'Hap and Leonard': A Behind-the-Scenes Preview of SundanceTV's Quirky New Drama
Hap Collins (James Purefoy) and Leonard Pine (Michael K. Williams) aren’t just friends… they’re in a full blown, decades-long bromance. And what that means in Hap and Leonard, the new drama (or dark comedy, if you prefer) premiering March 2 on Sundance TV, is that both pals will find themselves in the middle of a get-rich-quick scheme that’s going to be more dangerous than they knew.
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First Look: James Purefoy and Michael K. Williams are BFFs in ‘Hap and Leonard’
It stars The Wire and Boardwalk Empire alum Michael K. Williams as a hot-tempered, gay Vietnam vet who helps solve crimes with his ex-convict BFF (The Following’s James Purefoy) and the BFF’s ex-wife, played by Mad Men alum Christina Hendricks? Set in a small Texas town in the 1980s, the series is based on a series of novels and novellas by author Joe R. Lansdale, whose Hap Collins and Leonard Pine will also star in a series of graphic novels that will be released later this year.
