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Based on the 1973 Michael Crichton movie of the same name, Westworld focuses on a Western-inspired theme park which is populated by ‘hosts,’ androids that cater to every whim of the guests that visit it.   No fantasy is too far-out to be fulfilled, no storyline taboo.

An ensemble show about a family and their relationships, loves and lives that flashes back and forward in time.   A couple expecting triplets has one stillborn child, and ends up adopting an abandoned child that appears in the hospital at the same time.

This is the sixth nomination for the HBO series which is the most downloaded show in the world.   Based on the fantasy novels by George R.

The 10-episode first season which airs on Netflix is created and written by Peter Morgan, Golden Globe winner for Best Screenplay for The Queen, and nominee for the same award for Frost/Nixon.   The show starts with Princess Elizabeth’s marriage to Prince Philip in 1947 and follows the lives of the royals up to her coronation as Queen Elizabeth II, on to 1955.

Theresa Saldana, Golden Globe nominee in 1994 for her supporting role in the TV series The Commish, has died, age 61. A Brooklyn-born child actress, Saldana broke out 20 some years earlier playing the sister of Golden Globe winner Robert de Niro's boxer Jack La Motta in director Martin Scorsese’s 1980 drama Raging Bull (seven Golden Globe nominations).

Larry Drake, three-time Golden Globe nominee as Best Supporting Actor in Television Drama Series has died, age 67. He earned his Globes nominations (and two Emmys) for his portrayal of Benny Stulwicz, a hulking and lovable developmentally disabled gofer and office help in the fictional law firm of the drama series L.

And so here they are: on the cusp of the events that would become the bulk of the 20th Century’s legacy, seasoned but still optimistic, at the end of tumultuous but glorious journey. Through six seasons of Downton Abbey the Crawleys, their servants and extended family and the inhabitants of the fictitious village neighboring their estate dealt with the sinking of the Titanic, the Spanish Flu epidemic, World War I, Irish nationalism, the rise of the Labour party, the first seeds of Nazism and the movement for women’s right to vote.

American Crime Story is Ryan Murphy’s new anthology series that will take on famous crimes and it starts off by brilliantly dramatizing what surely ranks as the best-known celebrity trial ever. As a singularly unifying moment, the “O.

One of an occasional series on the artists and craftspeople working behind the scenes to bring movies to life. The costumes of The Bastard Executioner, most as appropriately bleak as the storyline, were as important to the authenticity of the Kurt Sutter series as the accents and the set design.

Premiere of "Da Vinci's Demons" in Florence, Italy: Composer Bear McCreary performes his soundtrack by Elmar Biebl (text and photos) A delegation of the HFPA attended the World Premiere of the Starz original series Da Vinci’s Demons April 2nd in Florence, Italy.  David S.