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Move over, Villanelle — Freddy Lane is the new charming murderer in town. Freddy (Hermione Corfield) is a twentysomething blonde with a shadowy past who quotes philosophers and works as a phone-sex operator. She’s also a killer, and in “We Hunt Together” — a six-episode British crime drama premiering Sunday on Showtime (10 p.m.) — …

Hulu is developing “Rodham,” a provocative take on one of the most famous female American politicians of the past two decades, Hillary Rodham Clinton. The drama series, based on the book by Curtis Sittenfeld, comes from “The Affair’ co-creator Sarah Treem, Fox 21 Television Studios and studio-based the Littlefield Company. “Rodham” imagines an alternative history …

Even “Grey’s Anatomy” can’t escape the coronavirus. Season 17 of the medical drama will feature the COVID-19 pandemic as a plot point, says executive producer Krista Vernoff. The show’s writers are even meeting with real-life doctors who have been on the front lines of combating the virus in order to have accuracy. “There’s no way …

Mireille Enos took matters into her own hands (and fists) for her brutal fight scenes on “Hanna.” “I do my own stunts,” says Enos, 44, who portrays Marissa Weigler, the rogue CIA operative allied with Hanna (Esme Creed-Miles) in Season 2 of the Amazon drama, just renewed for a third season. “They have an incredible …

“The Chi” continues its riveting storytelling in Season 3 — in spite of (or maybe due to?) the off-camera troubles that have plagued this Showtime series. The ensemble drama, created by Lena Waithe and set in Chicago’s South Side, has had three showrunners since its 2018 premiere. Co-star Jason Mitchell, who played Brandon, was fired …

Daniel Bruhl had some help in preparing for his return as psychiatrist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler in Season 2 of “The Alienist.” “Being married to a real ‘alienist’ made my whole relationship even better,” says Bruhl, 42, using the term for psychiatrists in the late 19th century. “I learned so much from my wife’s [Felicitas Rombold] …

Jennifer Sears has put a charge into “Greenleaf,” the OWN drama series about a family-owned Southern megachurch. Sears — who joins the show in its fifth and final season — plays Tara, the sister of Rochelle Cross (LeToya Luckett). She will impact the family’s ultimate fate when a long-buried secret is revealed. The veteran actress, …

For 20-year-old Michael Cimino, Hulu’s “Love, Victor” is his breakout role. The Las Vegas-born actor isn’t really new to Hollywood — he’s done stray episodes of shows such as CBS’s “Training Day” in 2017 and short films including “Dog Days” in 2018. But “Love, Victor” marks his first time as a series regular and in …

HBO’s “Perry Mason” shares a title with its TV series predecessor — and that’s where all similarities end. This new eight-episode drama, with Matthew Rhys in the title role, deviates sharply from the CBS series (1957-66) starring Raymond Burr as the brilliant, no-nonsense Eisenhower-era LA defense attorney who, with his penetrating stare and rising-crescendo cross-examinations, …

Philip Ettinger’s dual role in “I Know This Much Is True” hit very close to home. Ettinger, 34, plays teen/college-age identical twins Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in the acclaimed HBO drama starring Mark Ruffalo (as the older brothers). As the series progresses, Thomas’ paranoid schizophrenia manifests itself when the brothers get to college; Dominick, who …