Dan Clarendon

1 week ago | tvinsider.com | Dan Clarendon

After launching big-screen slasher franchises Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer and creating, co-creating, or developing all the TV shows below, Kevin Williamson was prepared to call it a day. “I feel like I’ve had five careers,” the Dawson’s Creek mastermind told TV Insider recently. “I honestly felt like I was ready to retire, and it turned out I wasn’t.”Indeed not.

1 week ago | remindmagazine.com | Dan Clarendon

There are violent movies, and then there’s The Wild Bunch, a film so bloody, so vicious, so cutthroat that even Martin Scorsese can no longer enjoy it. “I just stopped watching it over the years,” Scorsese, no stranger to onscreen bloodshed, told Rolling Stone in 2017. “It’s so mean-spirited. … The beauty of the film is extraordinary.

1 week ago | tvinsider.com | Dan Clarendon

John F. Kennedy Jr. is back in the headlines, more than a quarter-century after his death, with the first look of the upcoming TV show American Love Story, which will dramatize his romance with wife Carolyn Bessette. Kennedy and Bessette died in a plane crash in July 1999, not even three years after their wedding. And one of last people with whom Kennedy worked, it turns out, was Rob Lowe, as the actor recounted in his 2011 autobiography, Stories I Only Tell My Friends.

1 week ago | tvinsider.com | Dan Clarendon

John Astin, who endeared himself to classic TV fans as Gomez in the 1960s series The Addams Family, wasn’t just a notable TV dad — the actor, 95, gave son Sean Astin some key acting advice before the younger Astin auditioned for The Goonies. In an interview with AARP at the Awesome Con fan convention, Sean recalled working with his famous father on the Goonies audition material at the condo where John was living shortly after his divorce from Patty Duke, Sean’s mother.

1 week ago | tvinsider.com | Dan Clarendon

Hot in Cleveland didn’t just give its four leading ladies a new start in a Midwest-nice town, it also blessed us with another Betty White performance for the ages. As TV Land ushered in its first original scripted series, it cast White alongside Wendie Malick, Valerie Bertinelli, and Jane Leeves, who played best friends who make the most of an emergency landing in Cleveland and decide to stay in the city. That trio ends up getting a house — and a new roomie in White’s caretaker character.