Creepshow Sneak Peek - 4/29/21
2.05 - "Night of the Living Late Show"
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Simon has invented an incredible virtual reality experience that allows him to join in on his favorite films...but what happens when virtual reality becomes Simon's actual reality?

Written by: Dana Gould
Directed by: Greg Nicotero
Cast: Justin Long, D'Arcy Camden, Hannah Fierman

Prodigal Son, which aired tonight on FOX, follows Malcolm Bright (Tom Payn), an NYPD criminal profiler, whose father, Martin Whitly (Martin Sheen), a serial killer known as “The Surgeon,” sometimes helps from prison to consult on difficult cases. In the newest episode, Jessica Whitly, played by Bellamy Young, starts delving into her husband’s past to prepare to write her tell-all book. Things, however, don’t go as expected when she arrives at the prison in the middle of Martin putting his plans into motion.

Yesterday, Young talked to SciFi Vision in an exclusive post-mortem interview about the events of the episode, what they could mean for the Whitly family, Jessica’s relationship with Gil (Lou Diamond Phillips) and more.

***Note there are spoilers for 2.10, “Exit Strategy,” in the following interview. Please watch the episode before reading.***

On tonight’s episode of Fear the Walking Dead on AMC, when Strand (Colman Domingo), Sherry (Christine Evangelista) and the rest of the other group came to visit Morgan (Lennie James)’s new safe haven, Morgan left Daniel, played by Rubén Blades, in charge of keeping the peace between the visitors and Dakota (Zoe Colletti). However, things did not go to plan when dynamite went off and walkers got in. To make matters worse, all the weapons, including those confiscated from the visitors when they arrived, disappeared.

On Friday, Blades, who also recently released the album Salswing! with Robert Delgado and Orchestra, talked to SciFi Vision in an exclusive post-mortem interview about the events of episode, what they mean to Daniel moving forward, if fans can trust what’s happening, and more.

Salswing! is now available on on digital platforms.

***Note there are spoilers for 6.10, “Handle with Care,” in the following interview. Please watch the episode before you read it.***

Today the fantasy adventure series Shadow and Bone premiered on Netflix. The series, which is based on Leigh Bardugo’s young adult novel trilogy, takes place in the war-torn world of Ravka and follows Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li), a female mapmaker and soldier of the First Army, who is ostracized because of her Shu heritage. Back again with her best friend from the orphanage, Malyen “Mal” Oretsev (Archie Renaux), she is devastated when, as a tracker in the army, he is chosen to join a group of soldiers on a skiff across the Fold where her parents were killed. The Fold is an area of permanent darkness that separates East and West Ravka and is filled with killer flying creatures known as Volcra. Crossing it almost certainly means death. Unwilling to be separated, Alina burns the maps for the journey so the soldiers crossing require a cartographer and bring her along.

Things go horribly wrong when the skiff is attacked by the Volcra in the Fold. Many are killed; however, when the winged creature grabs and injures Mal, Alina gives off a great light that destroys it, and she and those left are spared.

When the general of the Second Army, Aleksander Kirigan (Ben Barnes), demands to see Alina, it is revealed that she is a Grisha, or can manipulate matter. She is a Sun Summoner and has the ability to create light, which could potentially destroy the Fold and reunite the country.

Today, the film Together Together, starring Ed Helms and Patti Harrison, comes to theaters nationwide with a digital release May 11th. The movie, which was written and directed by Nikole Beckwith, follows Matt (Helms), a single man in his 40s, who chooses the much younger Anna (Harrison) to be his surrogate. The two develop an unexpected friendship as they face the ups and downs of surrogacy.

Beckwith recently talked to SciFi Vision in an exclusive interview about the film, including where the idea came from, working with Helms and Harrison, and more.

**Be warned there are some spoilers in the following interview**

Tonight, an all-new episode of Prodigal Son aired on FOX. The series follows Malcolm Bright (Tom Payne), a criminal profiler who works at the NYPD. His father, a serial killer (Michael Sheen), sometimes helps him from prison with the more difficult cases.

In this week’s episode, the case hits close to home for the medical examiner, Edrisa, played by Keiko Agena, when a member of her internet sleuthing group is found murdered.

Yesterday, Agena talked to SciFi Vision in an exclusive interview about working on the series, Edrisa’s love life, and more.

At the beginning of the month, NBC premiered the newest spinoff in the franchise, Law and Order: Organized Crime. Law and Order: Special Victims Unit served as a back door pilot for the series. Christopher Meloni returns to star as Elliot Stabler. After his wife is killed in a car bombing, Elliot return to the NYPD to battle organized crime as part of a task force working against powerful crime syndicates.

Recently, star Meloni, along with creator and executive producer Dick Wolf and executive producer and showrunner Ilene Chaiken, took part in a virtual press conference to talk about the series.

Be sure to check out the full transcript below and don’t forget to watch Law and Order: Organized Crime Thursdays on NBC.

The comedy series Young Rock, which is based on the life of professional wrestler and actor, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, follows him as he takes part in interviews while running for president in 2032. Each interview leads to a flash back episode of him growing up as a ten-year-old, a high school student, and a college student.

Joseph Lee Anderson plays the part of Dwayne’s father and professional wrestler, Rocky Johnson. Matthew Willig plays the role of wrestler André the Giant, who was always around Dwayne growing up.

Anderson and Willig recently talked to the press during a junket promoting the series about their preparation for their roles, using improvisation, and more.

Be sure to watch our part of the video interview below.

The actors talked to SciFi Vision about the preparationthat they needed for playing real people. Anderson said, “Prep wise, the look was a big thing. I gained about thirty pounds lifting, wanting to look as muscular and big as possible. I was watching a lot of his matches on YouTube. I got to have some really, really good talks with Dwayne, just trying to get whatever I could get my hands on as far as Rocky Johnson. Then, I had to remember that it's a comedy and to bring some of my own funny to it.”

The NBC medical drama, New Amsterdam, which is now in its third season, is based on the novel Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital by Eric Manheimer. The series starts when the main character, Max Goodwin, played by Ryan Eggold, who is based on Manheimer himself, becomes the medical director of the New Amsterdam Medical Center and wants to change the way patients receive care. Jocko Sims plays the role of Dr. Floyd Reynolds, head of the Cardiac Surgical Department.

Eggold and Sims recently talked to journalists during a junket about working on the series, how they are inspired by their characters, and more.

Be sure to check out our portion of the video interview below.

The actors talked to SciFi Vision about what they learned from their characters that affected them or changed their lives the most.  Eggold told the site, “It’s a lot of things. I mean, this character is based off of Eric Mannheimer. [He] was a real guy who was a very altruistic, thoughtful guy, very human, very warm. [He] always wanted to be connected to his patients and his fellow doctors and things and, actually, sincerely wanted to create change, positive, forward change, which those people are so few and far between.

“So, to emulate someone like that just inspires you to want to be that way, to want to be more thoughtful, to want to listen and pay attention more, and to ask yourself, ‘How can I be less focused on myself and more focused on other folks and helping and things like that?’

Last season on Van Helsing, after being brought to the Dark Realm, Jack (Nicole Muñoz) and Violet (Keeya King) were told by Dracula/the Dark One (Tricia Helfer) that she gave them the visions that led them there. She also told them that they were created as a means for escape for her and that they are not Vanessa’s biological daughters. Whether that is the truth has yet to be seen.

While Violet returns through the portal, the Dark One shapeshifts into Jack, leaving her somewhere locked in a coffin. The Dark One eventually kills the president and shapeshifts again to look like her, leaving in a helicopter with Violet unable to stop her.

Meanwhile, Axel (Jonathan Scarfe) and Julius (Aleks Paunovic) enter a field with orange powder where they are attacked by some new kind of super daywalker. The two are badly hurt and not healing because of the powder. They reach a locked building but pass out on the doorstep.

Muñoz, Helfer, and Scarfe talked to the press earlier in the week promoting the series, which returns for season five on Syfy on April 16th.

The actresses talked to SciFi Vision about how their characters’ relationship and interactions evolve this season. Muñoz teased, “I think we definitely get to know each other, maybe more than we would have wanted to this season, our characters…I do think that Jack gets some answers. Some she likes; some she definitely doesn't. It's kind of the feeling of the floor coming out under you, or the rug coming out under you.”