TRAILER: "Olive Kitteridge"

HBO's latest miniseries is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Elizabeth Strout that covers 25 years in the life of schoolteacher Olive Kitteridge (played here by Frances McDormand) and her relationships with her friends and husband. It's got a pretty good cast that includes Bill Murray and Richard Jenkins, and the whole series is directed by Lisa Cholodenko, who made 2010's The Kids Are All Right. It's kind of a shame- this looks like it could have been an actual feature film if it was made 15-20 years ago, but now so many adult dramas head straight to TV instead. ,The 4-part series premieres on Sunday, Nov 2nd, and will be played over two nights, the 2nd and the 3rd.

TRAILER: "The Newsroom" Season 3

Here's a trailer for the final season of Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom, which is starting November 9th and airing just six episodes before wrapping up. Sorkin seems to have lost all interest in the show (I suspect he was cowed by all the criticism) and even though HBO wanted to keep it going, he claimed to want to move on. Well, I actually kinda liked the show, so it's too bad, but I'll be there to recap the final handful of eps anyway.

Rachel McAdams Fills Out 'True Detective' Season 2 Cast

According to Variety, Rachel McAdams is said to be signing on for the coveted "female lead" role on next season's True Detective. With the combination of McAdams, Farrell, and Vaughn for this new season, I can't help but think this show is now being used as a place for actors whose careers have sort of fallen by the wayside to get a boost out of all the attention it will bring them. But I still can't imagine it being as good as last season's pairing of Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, who frankly brought a lot to a show that could at times be really pretentious and overwritten in parts. And since I'm sort of convinced the only reason Pizzolatto succumbed to the idea of a female lead in the first place was due to all the criticism he got over the terrible female characters last year, I'm kind of dreading how badly this role might be written.

FIRST LOOK: Christopher Walken as Captain Hook

NBC's live stage musical of Peter Pan is taking shape, set to air on December 4th, as a direct result of the huge success of last year's Sound of Music (despite the quality of that turning out slightly less than ideal). Maybe this one will be better, maybe not- all I know is that the idea of seeing Christopher Walken singing and prancing around on stage as Captain Hook is more than enough to make anyone tune in, at least for a few minutes. Don't you think?

I do wonder why they're still set on the idea of Peter being played by a woman though. I have no idea if Allison Williams will be good at this (my only exposure to her was as the awful Marnie on Girls, but the character wasn't Williams' fault). Wouldn't it be less distracting to have a teenage boy as the lead, even if he's not quite as young as he's supposed to be (I'm sure they could find a shorter guy that could sing if they really tried). Or is it because the person has to be able to sing in those high notes that guys just can't reach? Seems like a dated tradition at this point.

BEHIND THE SCENES: "Homeland" Season 4

Some more detailed footage of Homeland's next season, along with interviews of some of the cast, ahead of its Oct 3rd premiere. Unfortunately, I do get the feeling the show is going to feel a lot more typical this year, kind of a 24 also ran without the gimmick. Hopefully I'm wrong. A lot of people have given up on it, but I still like the cast and can see it going on as an entertaining spy thriller- of course, I honestly didn't see it as being much more than that even in the first season, so for me this series hasn't fallen from some higher pedestal that others placed it on.