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Editor's note: This interview was done outside of the FYC event as there was no cast or creatives panel. "I think there's a certain pace a noir allows, which at times can be an indulgent luxury," says Perry Mason‘s Matthew Rhys of the 1930s-set HBO series from Team Downey. "But it really allows you…

EXCLUSIVE: Perry Mason has tried his last case — at least for now. HBO has opted not to renew the prequel to the classic series, starring Matthew Rhys and executive produced by Team Downey’s Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey, for a third season. The news comes a month and a half after the Season 2 finale…

Another brand-defining, Best Drama Emmy-winning HBO series is coming to an end this Sunday when Succession airs its finale. Just like when each of its esteemed predecessors, The Sopranos and Game Of Thrones, ended, there is the inevitable succession question about what comes next. This time, HBO’s…

EXCLUSIVE: “I’ve always boiled it down to there’s something very simplistic to Mason,” Perry Mason star Matthew Rhys admits about the iconic and haunted lawyer he portrays on the HBO prequel series. “It's not necessarily his sense of justice but sense of right and wrong,” the Emmy winner adds. “What is…

This week’s guest is Chris Chalk. Right now he’s starring in Season 2 of HBO detective series Perry Mason, in which he plays former police officer-turned private investigator Paul Drake. During the podcast, Chalk—who has also starred in 12 Years a Slave, When They See Us and television shows G…

CSI fan favorite Wallace Langham will join HBO’s Perry Mason in the second season. Langham will recur as Melville Phipps, a Los Angeles native and attorney for a very wealthy oil baroness. He works well under women and acts as a caretaker when necessary. Here’s the logline for season 2 of the drama that stars Matthew…

HBO’s Perry Mason will see a handful of new faces as Sean Astin (Stranger Things), Tommy Dewey (Pivoting),  Oscar-nominee Paul Raci (Sound of Metal) and Jen Tullock (Severance) join the cast for Season 2. Shea Whigham (Gaslit), who appeared in Season 1, will also return for the upcoming season. They will appear…

EXCLUSIVE: Actor and filmmaker Mark O'Brien is set to star in season 2 of HBO’s Perry Mason in the recurring guest star role of Thomas Milligan. Thomas is Los Angeles’ ambitious Deputy District Attorney. He’s described as an aggressive attack dog in court as he strives to make his mark and ascend to greater heights…

Fernando Coimbra (Narcos), Jessica Lowrey (Heels), Marialy Rivas (La Jauría) and Nina Lopez-Corrado (A Million Little Things) have been tapped to direct Season 2 of HBO’s Emmy-nominated Perry Mason reboot, starring Matthew Rhys in the titular role. Each will direct two episodes of the eight-episode series — Coimbra…

HBO has added seven cast members to the second season of its four-time Emmy-nominated detective noir series Perry Mason. Katherine Waterston has come aboard as a series regular, joining six new recurring castmembers Hope Davis, Jon Chaffin, Fabrizio Guido, Peter Mendoza, Onohoua Rodriguez and Jee Young Han. In…

Jean Hale Coleman, who made more than 60 appearances in films and on TV staples of the ’60s and ’70s, has died. She was 82. Showbiz & Media Figures We’ve Lost In 2021 – Photo Gallery Her family said today that she died August 3 in Santa Monica. For decades, Hale worked steadily on some of network TV’s biggest series…

When production designer John P. Goldsmith was approached for HBO's reboot of Perry Mason, he was compelled by the opportunity to dive into the world of 1930s Los Angeles. “Architecturally, what was happening then with modernism was so interesting, with Neutra, and Schindler and Frank Lloyd Wright, and these people…