• How Samuel L. Jackson docuseries ‘Enslaved’ shines a new light on slavery

    How Samuel L. Jackson docuseries ‘Enslaved’ shines a new light on slavery

    A new Epix docuseries casts the history of the transatlantic slave trade in a new light. “Enslaved” follows star Samuel L. Jackson as he traces his roots with help from British author/broadcaster Afua Hirsch and investigative journalist Simcha Jacobovici. The series airs Mondays at 10 p.m. “It was very unique to travel with [Jackson], because …
  • Your guide to all the fall 2020 TV premiere dates

    Your guide to all the fall 2020 TV premiere dates

    The pandemic may have affected plans for the fall 2020 TV schedule, but there's plenty to watch from 'Fargo' to 'Family Guy' to 'Filthy Rich' to 'Fear the Walking Dead.'
  • New Charles Manson docuseries recounts horrific murder spree

    New Charles Manson docuseries recounts horrific murder spree

    Leslie Chilcott’s docuseries, “Helter Skelter: An American Myth,” adds some new wrinkles to the exhaustively chronicled story of Charles Manson, his “family” of followers and the horror they unleashed on LA in August of 1969. And that’s saying a lot, since you’d think, by now, that we know everything there is to know about the …
  • How those creepy ‘War of the Worlds’ aliens came to life on Epix

    How those creepy ‘War of the Worlds’ aliens came to life on Epix

    It was no easy task creating the creepy half-organic/half-mechanized aliens in “War of the Worlds,” which wraps its first season  Sunday at 9 p.m. on Epix. “That [organic element] side of it came from the [series] writer Howard Overman, and we were left to develop it as a visual element,” says “War of the Worlds” …