The Shield (tv program)

2013 TV upfronts: CBS picks up 'Reckless,' a Southern legal drama

2013-05-12 12:26:00

"Reckless," a legal drama set in Charleston, S.C., has been picked by CBS for next season. The series, which stars Cam Gigandet and Anna Wood, revolves around a "gorgeous" Yankee litigator and a Southern city attorney who struggle to hide their mutual...

'Veronica Mars' film a go, thanks to a kick from Kickstarter

2013-03-15 06:00:00

Illustrating the power of social media, more than 30,000 fans of the cult favorite television series "Veronica Mars" pledged $2 million in a single day — or 10 hours, to be exact — to finance an independent film based on the teen drama....

Paramount returns to TV with 'Beverly Hills Cop' pilot

2013-03-04 18:39:00

Paramount Pictures is easing back into television production with a high-profile pilot: "Beverly Hills Cop." The Viacom Inc.-owned movie studio announced Monday that it was co-producing and co-financing a one-hour pilot, "Beverly Hills Cop," with Sony...

'Vegas' actor Michael Chiklis on playing heroes and villains

2012-12-02 07:00:00

Michael Chiklis, who scored an Emmy and Golden Globe for playing corrupt cop Vic Mackey in "The Shield," stars as mob casino boss Vincent Savino in CBS' "Vegas." The freshman series takes place in 1960, as Las Vegas was growing into its role as Sin City....

Television takes on 9/11 amid its 10th anniversary

2011-08-14 00:00:00

Every once in a while, a fire truck will pass by Rudolph Giuliani's window, and the former New York mayor will flash back to that dreadful day when he had to drop everything and rush to ground zero. "It's just hard to hear it and not react," he said in an...

Fox renews 'Human Target' and 'Lie to Me'

2010-05-12 16:34:34

Golden Globe TV nods tune into unlikely places

2008-12-12 00:00:00

By handing out five nominations to HBO's "In Treatment" -- the most for any series -- the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. demonstrated Thursday that it wants to live up to its reputation as a tastemaker. But, apparently, only to a point. Omitted from this...

Strike about to cost jobs

2007-11-07 00:00:00

A day after Hollywood's writers went out on strike, the major studios are hitting back with plans to suspend scores of long-term deals with television production companies, jeopardizing the jobs of hundreds of rank-and-file employees whose names never...

Shawn Ryan: The man behind 'The Shield'

2008-08-24 00:00:00

THERE were times several months ago, when the writers strike was roaring, that Shawn Ryan was channeling Vic Mackey. Ryan, who created TV's ferocious, all-in-one good-cop-bad-cop, isn't anything like the lead character of "The Shield." But, as Mackey...

Show runners run the show

2007-11-23 00:00:00

WHEN the dust settles on the strike of '07 -- now 19 days old -- we'll probably see it as a Hollywood turning point. No, not in the history of the Writers Guild of America, or of the studios and networks. It's a critical and historic shift for TV show...

'Wall-E,' 'Torino' win big for '08

2008-12-15 00:00:00

The American Film Institute named its best films for 2008 on Sunday afternoon and the big winners were " Wall-E," the Disney/Pixar animated romantic comedy about a lovable robot, and "Gran Torino," Clint Eastwood's drama about a widowed bigot who faces...

Tony Soprano and those other tough guys are muscled out

2009-04-19 00:00:00

Somewhere, in a prop warehouse owned by HBO, there is a big pile of guns. Dusty, unused, bewildered perhaps by their strange and sudden obsolescence, they can only wait and wonder why premium subscriber television, a business they created, built by God...

Debut: 1993 Premise: Both shows looked at the gritty, sometimes ugly world of police work. "Homicide" was in Baltimore, "NYPD Blue" was in, obviously, New York City.

2011-11-21 18:01:49

This Season: "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" (CBS) Where You've Seen Him Before: "The Shield" "The Last King of Scotland" "Ghost Dog"

2010-05-27 15:48:18

Drama Premise: A family of four crashes their plane into the Amazon River while on vacation. All survive and discover that they've suddenly been enhance with individual and unique superpowers.

2010-05-18 08:35:38