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Oz Premiered 25 Years Ago, Birthing Prestige TV With It
It was the summer of 1997, and at the top of the Nielsen ratings, the just-completed television season had featured...
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Posted Monday 10/11/21 at 9:37AM EDT
Granville Adams, star of HBO's Oz, dies at 58
The actor, best known for playing Zahir Arif on Oz and Officer Jeff Westby on Homicide: Life on the Street,...
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Posted Tuesday 5/11/21 at 9:06PM EDT
Norman Lloyd, who went from Hitchcock villain to St. Elsewhere star in a decades-long career, dies at 106
Lloyd worked with everybody from Charles Chaplin to Alfred Hitchcock to Judd Apatow, starring in movies from the 1940s through...
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Posted Monday 3/15/21 at 4:13PM EDT
The Queen's Gambit co-creator is heading back to the 1960s with Clive Owen-led French-language Sam Spade drama Monsieur Spade
Scott Frank is teaming with City On a Hill showrunner Tom Fontana on the potential series.
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Posted Tuesday 2/23/21 at 9:06PM EST
Even though City on a Hill is set in the 1990s, last year's Black Lives Matter protests had an impact on Season 2
“We went back to the scripts and did another draft of every script with the input of all the actors...
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Posted Monday 2/01/21 at 2:30PM EST
Oz alum Granville Adams diagnosed with cancer
Executive producer Tom Fontana and Dean Winters started a GoFundMe page for Adams that other Oz alums, including J.
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Posted Saturday 6/15/19 at 2:59AM EDT
Showtime's City on a Hill is almost a fairy tale of a time gone by
"It would be a mistake to discard any moment in history as useless or incapable of speaking to the present,"...
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Posted Wednesday 10/31/18 at 5:21PM EDT
Oliver Stone and Tom Fontana are teaming on 1950s Rome TV drama pilot Dolce Vita
The Oscar-winning director and Emmy-winning TV producer are developing the potential series based on the 2011 book Death and Dolce...
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Posted Wednesday 8/01/18 at 1:35PM EDT
Showtime taps Oz creator Tom Fontana as showrunner of Kevin Bacon drama City on a Hill
Fontana will lead the drama set in a 1990s Boston that is rife with violent criminals emboldened by local law...
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Posted Wednesday 10/25/17 at 1:54PM EDT
Read an oral history of HBO’s Oz
Tom Fontana’s prison show that “changed TV forever” launched 20 years ago this summer.
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Posted Tuesday 9/12/17 at 3:42PM EDT
PaleyFest is hosting an Oz reunion
Tom Fontana will be joined by Edie Falco, Lee Tergesen, Terry Kinney and Eamonn Walker, but Christopher Meloni, J.