True Detective
Josh Brolin Passes on HBO’s Green Lantern TV Show (Exclusive)
Josh Brolin will not be wearing the ring, after all. The actor has passed on an offer to star in Lanterns, the DC Studios series based on the Green Lanterns superhero character, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. Brolin was eyed to play Hal Jordan, the cocky Green Lantern hero previously played by Ryan Reynolds in […]
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Kali Reis Weighs In on ‘True Detective: Night Country’ Ending’s “Haunting Questions”
[This story contains spoilers from True Detective: Night Country.] Kali Reis and the rest of the Night Country brain trust faced a tall order as the new stewards of the True Detective franchise. Reis, alongside showrunner Issa López and two-time Oscar-winning co-star Jodie Foster, opted to chart a new course for HBO’s well-regarded crime anthology […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘One Day’ Debuts in Top 10 During Light Super Bowl Week
The week of the Super Bowl was a relatively light one for streaming in the United States — but that allowed a couple of shows to score solid positions in the top 10 despite relatively modest viewing times. Netflix’s romance One Day, which premiered Feb. 8, was one of them — finishing fifth among original shows […]
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‘True Detective’ Renewed for Season 5 With Issa López at the Helm
HBO is returning to True Detective. On the heels of its season four finale, the premium cable network has handed out a fifth-season renewal for the anthology. Additionally, Night Country showrunner Issa López has signed an overall deal with the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned cabler and will return to steer the fifth season after taking over […]
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What Happened to ‘True Detective’ Creator Nic Pizzolatto?
“Can’t blame me.” Those are the words of Nic Pizzolatto, the creator of True Detective, in response to a post on social media criticizing season four of the HBO anthology, the first cycle in which he has had no direct involvement. That tweet, as well as reposts of messages by the viewers critical of the new season, raises […]
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‘Night Country’ Boss Issa López on Reviving ‘True Detective’ and Franchise’s Future: “We Will Know Very Shortly”
[This story contains spoilers from the season finale of True Detective: Night Country.] Who killed Annie K., and who killed her killers? Those season-long burning questions were concretely answered in the True Detective: Night Country finale. And now, to hear Night Country boss Issa López tell it, those answers were out in the ether weeks […]
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TV Ratings: ‘True Detective: Night Country’ Ends With Season High
The finale of True Detective: Night Country drew the season’s largest first-night audience, ending well above where the season began. On broadcast Sunday, Tracker fit seamlessly into CBS’ lineup in the first episode after its post-Super Bowl premiere. Sunday’s closing episode of Night Country brought in 3.2 million cross-platform viewers (for the first airing on […]
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‘True Detective: Night Country’ Team Explains Ambiguous Ending: “You Should Be Making Theories”
[This story contains major spoilers from the True Detective: Night Country finale.] True Detective: Night Country winked and nodded to the HBO crime anthology’s original iteration all season long. But perhaps never more overtly than in the finale, which conjured up the franchise’s most indelible phrase: “Time is a flat circle.” In the sprawling episode, […]
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‘True Detective: Night Country’ Hits Series Ratings Highs for HBO
True Detective’s current season has become the most watched in the anthology’s history at HBO. The Jodie Foster- and Kali Reis-led fourth season, subtitled Night Country, is averaging 12.7 million viewers across all platforms since its Jan. 14 premiere. The show has supplanted True Detective’s first season, which aired a decade ago, as the biggest […]
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‘True Detective’ Star Unpacks That Fatal Choice: “It Was the Least Bad Decision”
[This story contains major spoilers from episode five of True Detective: Night Country, which released Friday over Super Bowl weekend.] While Jodie Foster and Kali Reis’ Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro are the two detectives at the heart of creator Issa López‘s True Detective: Night Country, there is another vital twosome at the center of […]
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‘True Detective’ Star Breaks Down That Devastating Death: “I’m All In Now”
[This story contains spoilers from episode four of True Detective: Night Country.] What does a holiday episode of True Detective look like? If it was a question you were wondering before, well, wonder no more: It looks pretty much exactly as you would expect, based on the standard tone of the HBO horror procedural — […]
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How That ‘True Detective’ Flashback Almost Changed ‘Night Country’ Completely
[This story contains spoilers from the third episode of HBO’s True Detective: Night Country.] Despite its anthological structure, there are a few constants across the True Detective franchise. One, of course, is the enlistment of high-profile actors in the titular detective roles. Another is a case tinged with supernatural mystique and intrigue, as apparent as […]
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