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LUCIFER Set Tour: A Devilish Lifestyle
The devil in LUCIFER isn’t walking around with horns and a pitchfork. He’s actually a handsome man with a British accent, a sexy nightclub and a sumptuous penthouse. During a visit to the LUCIFER set in Vancouver, Production Designer Steve Geaghan took us on a little tour of the main sets of the show and we snapped a few photos to share with you.
LUCIFER premieres on Monday, January 25 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on Fox.
Lucifer’s Club “LUX”
Lucifer’s club is one of the show’s three main sets, and it’s one-third the size of the LA club that they actually shot the pilot in (which the set is modeled on). But it’s still large and takes 120 extras just to start looking full. There are multiple levels for action and interaction, but Lucifer often holds court by the main bar. All of the walls, ceilings and drapery were built to move so they can shoot from any angle.
The piano is a real Steinway.
Lucifer’s Penthouse
At the top floor of LUX there’s an elevator that is meant to lead to Lucifer’s penthouse (all of which is supposed to be set in an art deco building in downtown LA). This is another one of the three main sets of the series and while it isn’t shown in the pilot, you will be seeing it soon enough.
Lucifer likes his bars, because he has another one up in his penthouse.
Check out Lucifer’s devil-ish looking chair.
Lucifer’s penthouse is full of arcane-looking symbology and text.
Chloe’s Mother’s House (Where Chloe is Currently Living)
Chloe and her daughter have been living in her mother’s house in Malibu Colony — the third main set. We won’t meet Chloe’s mother, Penelope, in the earlier episodes of the series, but she was a famous B-films actress.
Dr. Linda’s Office
This is where Lucifer’s shrink works.
Lucifer’s Car
The devil has a pretty sweet ride (and a cheeky license plate).
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THE FLASH Season 2 Roundtable: The Good, The Bad and The In Between
It’s a new year, THE FLASH fans! It has been a horrible, horrible hiatus without our favorite show, but it sure gave us time to stop and really think about what has happened on our screen and analyze it to death. In order to do that, I got a few colleagues and fellow fans of the Scarlet Speedster together so we could sit down and discuss the best and worst of season 2 so far. A lot has happened up until December – Zoom! Jay Garrick! Wally West! The crossover! – and you’ll see that we had wildly different opinions about some of the topics we chose to talk about, which just made for an even better roundtable.
Now, without further ado, let’s get this show on the road.
Best/Worst Episodes
LUCIANA MANGAS: The very best episode of the season for me – possibly of the entire series – was “Enter Zoom”. It was equal parts shocking, entertaining and suspenseful and established the main plot of the season quite nicely. Also, Zoom? I don’t think the word terrifying does him any justice. It goes way beyond that.
The cast brought their A game in this episode and their performance, as well as the direction, writing, special effects and the editing were all phenomenal. There is only one other episode that comes close to how amazing “Enter Zoom” was, and that was the season 1 finale.
As for the worst episode, I am not even going to classify it as the worst because that’s a very strong word. But the one I liked less – and that was probably due to my high expectations – was the crossover episode. “Legends of Today” was supposed to be the launch platform for LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, but it seems like they just forgot to make this episode about the THE FLASH’s main characters. They focused on Hawkgirl and her backstory and just put everything else aside. Even though I absolutely loved seeing Barry interacting with the ARROW team, the episode felt way too rushed and it didn’t even feel like I was watching THE FLASH. I also hated what they did to Felicity in this episode, even though she is not (technically) a main FLASH character. It felt like they were trying to inject humor through her, but her lines just fell completely flat, like they were trying too hard to be funny. Oh, and don’t even get me started on how they broke Cisco’s heart. That was just not cool.
MELISSA SMITH: Best episode for me this season so far has been “Legends of Today.” Everyone in the episode gave their full potential, even when the odds were against them. Jay took the Velocity-6 serum to save Wells. Cisco put the good of humanity above his love for Kendra. Barry fought hard to keep the team on track, even when Oliver couldn’t focus. I love that the Legends of Tomorrow and Vandal Savage were there to Rock the Kasbah, and I anxiously am awaiting the LEGENDS OF TOMORROW premiere.
Worst episode of this season for me was Episode 1, “The Man Who Saved Central City,” and this is just a small issue for me. I know that THE FLASH is “the kid” in the Justice League DC-verse and sometimes is more emotional than the other heroes, but the Singularity was six months prior to Episode 1. I really wanted Barry to “cowboy-up.” I know he was stressed by another loss, but there was a bit too much hand-wringing for me. Just take the key to the city and move on. And he did. That is what superheroes do. They do not inspire people because they can run fast or fly high. They inspire us because they have big hearts, a desire to do the “right thing” and try their hardest to overcome adversity.
SHANA LIEBERMAN: Let’s deliver the bad news first. The worst episode in the first half of the season — and probably for the entire series for me if we’re being totally honest here — was “Legends of Today.” It featured heartbreak for Cisco, terrible life choices by Oliver Queen, and a backdoor pilot for LEGENDS OF TOMORROW that did absolutely nothing for either ARROW or THE FLASH in the process. Total disappointment. One could argue that Grant Gustin’s first appearance on ARROW was just a backdoor pilot for THE FLASH, and they wouldn’t necessarily be wrong. But the difference? Barry actually fit in well with that cast and was only a piece of the puzzle, rather than forced on viewers as the main (and only) focal point. Usually, when there’s a Flarrow crossover, I find myself falling in love. This time? I found myself falling in loathe.
On the other hand, “Enter Zoom” was an instant favorite. The episode boasted the first face-off between our hero and the season’s Big Bad, some of the best special effects I’ve seen on the series yet, and a shocking opening that made it impossible not to want to stay tuned for more. Bonus: Malese Jow rocked it as Linda Park.
MEREDITH ZYLBERBERG: Best – 2×08 crossover “Legends of Today”. Suffice it to say that my bias towards Arrow impacts my best episode choice greatly. I haven’t been the biggest fan of The Flash’s first stretch of episodes this season, and the crossover episode (The Flash half) was without a doubt my favorite. The episode was fast-paced, featured fantastic character interactions, and great action. That said, it felt much more like an Arrow episode than a Flash episode, in that the only non-Legends storyline that really featured prominently was an Arrow storyline. (Oh wait – there was something about injecting a chemical into Jay/Barry, wasn’t there? I can’t really remember, I probably zoned out during that part.)
Nonetheless, I was mostly riveted during episode 2×08, and I find that interacting with Oliver and Felicity brings out the best in Barry. Of course, fan favorites Cisco and Felicity also got to have a couple great scenes, which didn’t hurt. While I personally didn’t care for the Hawk-duo storyline, I do enjoy when certain characters get to share the screen with others, and the majority of the character dynamics in this episode were ones I enjoy watching. My biggest complaint about the episode is the lack of Iris, and I felt that some of the Central City scenes could have at the very least included her.
As for the worst episode, “Gorilla Warfare” wins the prize. I don’t really have much more to say, other than any episode with monster sized animals who can kinda-sorta speak and maybe have a crush on Caitlin? Not for me. I know this is a major comic storyline, I understand that, but I still don’t feel that it translates well onscreen. It felt hokey, contrived, and just overall silly. Maybe I’m not the target audience for an episode like this one, but it didn’t feel at all accessible or enjoyable for me.
On the next page: best/worst characters….
Fox at TCA: SCREAM QUEENS & EMPIRE Renewed, Fox Officially Orders PRISON BREAK and More!
On the day Fox is front and center at the Television Critics Association’s Winter Press Tour, the network made some big announcements involving its scripted series as well as upcoming event programming.
EMPIRE will be back for a third season. Earlier this week the primetime soap’s leading lady Taraji P. Henson won her very first Golden Globe. More good news comes in the form of this early renewal. According to a Fox press release, it’s “the No. 1 series on broadcast television among Adults 18 49.’ It’s also “the most tweeted about scripted program on broadcast television on Twitter.” This renewal comes well before the back half of the hit drama’s second season unloads Wednesday, March 30.
No need to fear. Ryan Murphy’s comedy-horror anthology, SCREAM QUEENS, will also be back. Season 2 will leave the college campus scares behind. “The show will be set in a hospital, where some of the most fascinating and bizarre medical cases are under observation.” No word on casting just yet. It will be announced at a later date.
PRISON BREAK has officially escaped cancellation city. Fox has officially ordered a new event series based on the original drama that aired from 2005 to 2009. The only details that are known right now both Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell will reprise their roles as brothers Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows. The two currently star as reluctant heroes on the CW’s DC’S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW (watch a sneak peek), which premieres Thursday, January 21.
Fox can’t seem to quit 24. In 2014, the thriller that starred Kiefer Sutherland was resurrected as an event series called 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY. And now there’s potential for more action from that universe, this time without Jack Bauer. The network has ordered a pilot that “all-new cast of characters and retain the real-time, pulse-pounding, fast-paced format with split screens and complex interweaving storylines, with each episode representing one hour of an eventful day..” Look for 24: LEGACY to involve a military hero returning to the U.S., the CTU and an ultimate goal of stopping what could be one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil.
Fox has enlisted Grammy winning country music star Trisha Yearwood to play Mary in an inspirational live musical called THE PASSION. Also joining the cast is multi-platinum recording artist Prince Royce, who plays Peter. Tyler Perry is the narrator for this story that is a modern day telling of the last days of Jesus’ life. The production will go live in New Orleans Sunday, March 20.
Musical theater continues to be the name of the game. GREASE: LIVE, of course, is about to premiere Sunday, January 31. There’s also a new production of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW in the works. Tim Curry, who amazed as Dr. FrankNFurter in the 1975 film, will play the Criminologist Narrator for this twohour event set to debut this fall.
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SECOND CHANCE: Rob Kazinsky and Tim DeKay Introduce the Pritchard Family
Like many families, the Pritchard gang is not normal. When SECOND CHANCE begins, Jimmy Pritchard is a disgraced former sheriff who is content to drink himself to death and sleep with prostitutes…while in his 70s. His son, Duval Pritchard, is an FBI agent raising a teenager daughter as a widower, trying to deal with his father and keep his less emotionally mature sister together.
But there’s an opportunity to change when Jimmy Pritchard is killed after stumbling into a robbery in his son’s house. Only Jimmy isn’t going to get a chance to die like everyone else, because Otto Goodwin helps to bring him back to life in order to save his terminally ill sister, Mary. Resurrected with a younger body and enhanced strength, Jimmy gets a second chance at life — but will he take it? During a visit to the SECOND CHANCE set in Vancouver, Rob Kazinsky and Tim DeKay spoke to journalists about their characters’ dynamics and what’s in store for the Pritchard family.
Will Jimmy Be a Different Father and Person This Time Around? “I don’t think he will be,” Kazinsky admitted, “I think it would be incredibly boring if this experiment made him a decent person and that’s the whole point of this show. I mean, yeah, you got a second chance, but [it’s a] nature versus nurture kind of thing. Seventy-five years being a pretty horrible human being is not going to change just because suddenly you have a young, strong body. There are mistakes you want to make the most of, but nature will out. And you’re still going to be, essentially, selfish and spoiled and shortsighted.”
Will Duval Be Suspicious About Who Jimmy Is? In a word, yes. Jimmy isn’t hiding the fact that his name is Jimmy Pritchard, even if he’s not coming right out and telling Duval he’s his father in a younger body. But what happens in the pilot is going to make Duval very suspicious about who Jimmy is. “There’s something about this guy,” DeKay says. “DuVal thinks he’s valuable, I think. So, I think he’ll use him for that. But there’s something more that eats at him.”
Despite Duval’s Curiosity About Jimmy, He’s Still Not Eager to Have Him Around. “Here’s the thing, right now [Duval] doesn’t want the guy in his life because ‘I don’t know who you are. I do not know who you are. I can tell you have had a dark past. I don’t want that. I don’t want that near my house’,” DeKay said. “If he ever finds out who he is, that’s all the more reason I don’t want you in my house. So no matter what, he doesn’t want him near him, but Pritchard has a strong desire so there is great tension there.”
Will Jimmy Be Using His Younger, Attractive Body to Party and Have Fun? Despite heading to a party and hooking up with a beautiful woman the first time he escapes from the Goodwins, Jimmy won’t be doing that “as much as you would think he is,” Kazinsky said. “He’s still kind of finding out who he is again [and] his major gripe here is that he is tethered to Lookinglass and Mary and Otto and he can’t leave them. He has to come home to them every single time [to have his body be rejuvenated] and he dies without them. He didn’t ask to be brought back. When he was murdered he was, he was you know a tired man, he was ready for the end. He didn’t fight too hard, he was just ready to go, he had had a pretty torrid last 20 years of his life. He didn’t ask to be brought back and yet he has and he doesn’t have a choice in it and I think there is an enormous amount of anger there. That anger manifests in a, not in a f*** you attitude toward Looking Glass, [but more] in terms of ‘I’m going to go and do what I feel I should be doing, what the right thing to do is, I’m going to go and help my kids I am going to go spend time with my grandchild and I am going to go and solve some damn crimes, because I am justice’!”
Will We See Flashbacks Between Older Jimmy and Duval? “We do,” Dekay confirmed. “One [reason is] because Philip Baker Hall is so great. There are flashbacks where you see the two of us. Obviously not [long ago] flashbacks, but just recently, so that Philip is in the picture. Literally.”
How Will Jimmy Work with Lookinglass and the FBI? “Solving crimes would be a lot easier if the law enforcement wasn’t restrained by law,” Kazinsky admitted. “And, you know, when somebody has done something awful and they get off on a technicality, that’s always a horrifying thing to have to sit there and watch. And when you have the ability and technology to find these people and see what they’ve done and you have somebody outside the law like Pritchard who is able to dispense the true ideal of justice, then you end up with a very powerful, megalomaniacal and dangerous vigilante….When you put that kind of power — which is the only super power that exists in the real world — in the hands of somebody [whose] morals are questionable, that’s when Duval becomes more and more important. And the straight edge side of the law does become important, to balance out this vengeful spirit that Pritchard is.”
How Are Duval and His Sister, Helen, Like Their Father? “Helen is….it’s like TWINS,” Kazinsky explained. “You’re [got] Arnold Schwarzzengar who got all the good and you’ve got Danny Devito who got all the bad. And in that respect, Duval got all the good sides of Pritchard. He got all the responsibility, the strength. And Helen got all the negatives. She got the real bum end of the deal from Pritchard. I think Helen is his real kind of guilt. I think that’s the one thing that he really needs to fix more than everything else. Or not even fix, just help and apologize to. Duval was strong enough to kind of deal with things on his own and Helen was not. And I just think that Prichard owes her a lot more than he owes Duval.” DeKay explained that “[Duval and Helen] need each other, they need each other greatly, she’s a mess, a wonderful mess. They both are in their own way because they were raised by a monster…But now because I’m a widower and have been for a long time, we need each other simply because we’re siblings and you need your siblings at some point, and if you don’t, it’s sad. They’re always in each other’s lives, and they love each other. There’s no judgment there. So yeah, she will continue to be in his life.”
What Kind of Influence Will Mary Goodwin and Jimmy Have on Each Other? “They certainly have a balancing effect on each other,” said Kazinsky. “One is a straight laced as possible and one is a jagged edge. He shows her how to live and she shows him how to exist and those are two different things.”
What Will Jimmy’s Relationship With Otto Be Like? “Not fun,” Kazinsky admitted. “They are polar opposites. You have somebody [like Otto] who is so regimented and rigid and obsessive compulsive. When you are that wild [like Jimmy is] against something so staid…you know Mary can adapt but Otto, he actually cannot adapt and there is a little bit of nemesis happening there. I don’t think Pritchard appreciates how dangerous Otto can be.”
Is Enhanced Strength Jimmy’s Major Super Power? “He is not done evolving and he will continue to evolve throughout the course of the show,” Kazinsky warned. “The way he is now is not the finished product. There is a reason there was an original title to this [“The Frankenstein Code” and that’s] where he is kind of going to end up. There is a monster inside.”
Don’t miss the series premiere of SECOND CHANCE on Wednesday, January 13 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on Fox.
THE CW at TCA: CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND Ratings Talk, VampTastic Crossover
The Television Critics Association’s press tour is an event that happens twice a year during the summer and at midseason. It’s a time when small screen reigns supreme. The broadcast and cable worlds along with the streaming universe shine the spotlight on new and returning shows.
When CW president, Mark Pedowtiz, took the stage at the TCAs recently, his mood was positive, fun and confident. Even though much of the conversation was geared towards the ratings challenged musical comedy, CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND.
Pedowitz offered no excuses for the show’s low numbers. “At the moment, I wish I had more optimistic statistics or measurements. I don’t,” he said. “But what we do have is great faith in the show, great faith in the showrunner and creators Aline [Brosh] McKenna and (recent Golden Globewinner) Rachel Bloom. We believe in the show. We stand by the show.”
Don’t expect them to tweak or change the show’s formula in order to seek more viewers. Pedowitz thinks CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND is perfect just the way it is. “When we bought the show last spring, we wanted what Rachel and Aline did. We wanted that very in your face point of view, and we supported it.”
Several topics involving current series were addressed. While many fans of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES and THE ORIGINALS are worried about the upcoming move to Fridays, Pedowitz isn’t. “The move to Friday night is not a move to exile it,” he claimed. “It’s a move to strengthen Friday night because we made a strategic shift on Thursday night, making it male skewed, going in with LEGENDS OF TOMORROW and THE 100, but we were happy to do that.”
He feels these scheduling moves put the network in a stronger place. “I think we’ve ended up coming in this midseason with the best schedule since I’ve been at the CW ever.”
Something that could help smooth over this time slot switch is an impending vamptastic crossover featuring TVD and its sexy spinoff. “You will see, organically, a crossover this year not of the size and scope that we do for FLASH and ARROW,” Pedowitz said. “It has to make sense. If they don’t make sense storywise, don’t do them. Don’t force them. The audience can tell.”
Look for another exciting crossover to hit ARROW later this year. It involves Vixen, a character from CW Seed’s animated web series of the same name, which was recently renewed for a second season. Yes, Mari McCabe’s not only making the jump from internet to broadcast TV; the female superhero makes the jump from cartoon to live action, too.
“We’ve been so thrilled with how well the series has done online that the actress who plays Vixen in the animated series Megalyn E.K. will be playing her later in this season on an upcoming episode of ARROW,” Pedowitz raved.
As for THE FLASH, the CW exec didn’t discuss ratings or story but he did drop some intel. “As a huge personal fan of CLERKS, CHASING AMY, and DOGMA, I’m also happy to announce that feature director and comic book aficionado Kevin Smith will be directing an episode of THE FLASH, which will air in May.”
SUPERNATURAL
The fate of SUPERNATURAL is a topic Pedowitz often has to address. This time was no different. Will the hit drama live to see another season?
“Both Jared and Jensen are having a blast, and as long as they have a blast, it’s a great thing. The show is performing [in its] 11th year, the show is performing better than it did last year, as well as you could ever hope. So, again, we have made no series pickups yet. We have not done anything along those lines, but I’m pretty hopeful that we’ll see it again.”
More CRAZY Talk
While much of the discussion of the critically acclaimed series remained ratings centric, there was time to slip some casting news into the conversation.
“It would also be appropriate to announce that Broadway star Lea Salonga will be appearing and performing in the season finale of CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND.”
iZOMBIE
Pedowitz was asked to tackle the fate of Rob Thomas’ ZOMBIE.
“I think the show has a good, very strong shot at making a third season, and I’m very proud of that show.”
RIVERDALE
A status update on RIVERDALE, the live action version of the Archie comics that’s in development at the CW. The word is that this series will go dark or go home:
“It’s under the auspices of Greg Berlanti and Roberto [Aguirre] Sacasa. We have not yet picked the show up. We’re going to go through our pilot process shortly, probably starting next week. I’ll see a number of pilot scripts. The darker take was when you have Roberto and Greg and they want to take a run at something, you give them that leeway. They deserve it. They’ve earned it. That’s why we went with a darker take.”
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SHADOWHUNTERS Sneak Peeks: Clary’s New World
Clary Fray doesn’t know that she’s a Shadowhunter and she certainly doesn’t know that her mother is one as well, because her mother has stripped those memories from Clary’s mind in an effort to protect her.
On the day of her 18th birthday, Clary is just a regular girl celebrating her admission to art school. And that’s the last regular thing about her. Because her mother is starting to realize that she can’t hide this secret from her daughter forever. But before Josslyn has an opportunity to tell Clary about the supernatural world hidden from the view of humans (or “mundanes” as they’re called in SHADOWHUNTERS), Clary gets a taste of it when she comes into contact with a fellow Shadowhunter named Jace and watches him and his friends kill some demons.
And that’s just the beginning of her terrible night. Because when she races home to tell her mother what she’s seen, their home is attacked by The Circle, a mysterious group of people who are trying to get back an important object hidden by Josslyn. After Josslyn is taken and Clary is left alone — unsure of who she can trust — she’s taken in by Jace and his friends. Some of them aren’t eager to help her, but Jace seems determined to get her to embrace her destiny as a Shadowhunter. With her BFF Simon by her side, can Clary accept her new life and save her mother?
SHADOWHUNTERS premieres on Tuesday, January 12 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on Freeform. Check out some clips from the pilot below and watch a preview with the cast here.