Paige Albiniak
The Archive
Let us entertain you
TNT’s new summer drama, “King & Maxwell,” is basically a buddy-cop drama, except that one of the buddies is a super-hot former super model. That formula isn’t entirely original. Another...
Stump the Kingslayer
Valar Morghulis. It means “All men must die,” in HBO’s “Game of Thrones”’ fictional language of High Valyrian. Jaime Lannister, played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, is hoping that reality comes sooner...
Exit laughing
Alexandre Dumas wrote in “The Count of Monte Cristo: “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more....
One man's 'Revolution'
Billy Burke was partying in Vegas when he got the call from his agent about this TV show called “Revolution.” “Jon Favreau and Eric Kripke want to sit down with...
‘Defiance’: minding the myth
Keeping track of the “Defiance” mythology became complicated enough that an associate producer was given the task of creating an online wiki to chart everything. “We promoted someone from within...
Out of this world
There’s no more engaged audience than video gamers, eyes glued to the screen, hands riveted to the controls for hours at a time, only lifting their heads from their keyboards...
Death becomes him
This television season may go down as the year of the serial killer. Fox’s “The Following” is one of the few new shows this season that can be called a...
They got 'Game'
Actors tend to be dreamers, but it doesn’t occur to most of them to dream about spending months shooting in the frigid climes of Iceland. That’s where some of the...
New to the ‘Throne’
Many new cast members are joining “Game of Thrones” to play iconic characters from the novels by George R.R. Martin. Here they are: Ciáran Hinds, Mance Rayder — Irish character...
Children of 'Revolution'
Every year, hits get a little harder to come by for the broadcast networks. Competition from cable, the Internet and even PBS is intensifying, with some of TV’s most popular...
From DC to Hollywood
Turns out working in politics offers more career options than just selling your soul to become a corporate lobbyist — you also can sell your soul to Hollywood. Hollywood’s turned...
With friends like these
If your best friend slept with your ex-boyfriend who is now your gay roommate, would you be mad at her? If you told your best friend that you had finally...
Wild winter preview
A decade ago, Fox began airing the biggest show on television, “American Idol,” in January. That scheduling move was unheard of — until then, the TV season strictly started in...
Can't stop the music
With “The Voice” and “The X Factor” ending their fall runs this week, Americans may be getting weary of amateur night. The earnest power pop. The tearful embraces among contestants....
Bring on Buble
Canadian singer Michael Bublé has a voice made to sing Christmas carols — it’s smooth as the rum in your holiday eggnog. “Michael’s Christmas album that he released last year...
Christmas specials
FINDING MRS. CLAUS Dec. 2, 9 p.m., Lifetime And this is what happens to former Oscar winners. “Mighty Aphrodite” Best Supporting Actress Mira Sorvino is now playing Mrs. Santa. That’s...
Santa's big elf
Blake Shelton loves Christmas music — so much that he listens to it year round. “We have guests that come to our house every April, and they’ll come downstairs and...
'Dead' serious
Fans of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” — and there are more than 10 million of them now — finally have met two of the graphic novel’s most iconic characters: Michonne...
Treasure chest
Prior to scoring the lead role in The CW’s stylized “Arrow,” Stephen Amell’s stay-fit routine was hiking, a little yoga and maybe doing chin-ups on a bar installed in his...
Beauty & the zombies
For fans of AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” the graphic-novel fantasy is about to get real. The katana-wielding, zombie-slicing Michonne is finally on the scene. Even though the series hasn’t closely...