CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on March 21st, 2024, reviewing the new streaming series “Manhunt” – based on the bestseller by James L. Swanson – currently streaming on Apple TV+.
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TV Review: ‘Memphis Beat’ Returns For Improved Season Two With Jason Lee
Submitted by PatrickMcD on June 14, 2011 - 8:33amCHICAGO – Jason Lee, best known as the star of “My Name is Earl,” took a different direction last year when he took the lead as a police detective in “Memphis Beat.” The second season premiere is June 14th on TNT Network.
TV Review: Jason Lee Delivers Dead Elvis in ‘Memphis Beat’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on June 22, 2010 - 11:46amCHICAGO – There have been TV cops in New York, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles and even Hawaii, 5-0, so it stands to reason that Memphis, Tennessee, would get its turn. Jason Lee (“My Name is Earl”) and Alfre Woodard are on the “Memphis Beat,” premiering June 22nd on the TNT Network.
TV Review: CBS’ Generic ‘Three Rivers’ Needs a Creativity Transplant
Submitted by BrianTT on October 4, 2009 - 2:31pmCHICAGO – “Three Rivers” takes its title from the Pittsburgh heart transplant hospital at which it is set but even the dull, “easy listening” name of the show should tell you something about the earnest, drab series debuting tonight on CBS.
Interview: Writer Bill Haney, Regina Kelly on the Struggle, Uplift in ‘American Violet’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 17, 2009 - 3:05pmCHICAGO – In a previous interview, director Tim Disney of the new film ‘American Violet’ called his film one where “change begins, and change is possible, when individuals make choices and stand behind them.”
Interview: Director Tim Disney on Incarceration Laws in ‘American Violet’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 16, 2009 - 4:55pmCHICAGO – In his third film, “American Violet,” director Tim Disney tackles the subject of unfair incarceration laws involving a poor African-American housing project in a rural Texas town.