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Kelsey Grammer's New Drama Renewed For Second Season Before Premiere

Ever since Frasier ended its run in 2004, Kelsey Grammer hasn’t had much luck with television series. Both Back To You and Hank failed to make it out of their inaugural seasons. Now that he has ventured off of a major network and away from sitcoms with Starz’s Boss hopefully things will turn around for him.  read more

Andy Whitfield: 1972-2011

After an 18 month battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, _Spartacus: Blood and Sand_ star, Andy Whitfield has passed away.   read more

Starz To End Existing Deal With Netflix

For the last three years, Netflix and Starz have teamed up to bring new films airing on Starz to the Netflix Watch Instantly platform. But at the end of February, the partnership between the two movie companies will no longer exist.  read more

Party Down to Stream on Netflix Again

They said it would be back and they’re keeping their word. Starz has announced that episodes of the short-lived comedy Party Down will once again be airing on Netflix’s Instant Watch online streaming service towards the end of this year....  read more

High Definition: The Pillars of the Earth Miniseries Review

Ken Follet’s sprawling historical novel, The Pillars of the Earth, gave a wonderful glimpse at life across social strata in 12th-century England. Spanning the multi-decade construction of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, the book is as much a poem to architecture as it is a tale of intrigue. Minor innovations in stone work are treated as miracles of God. And while some of that passion is lost in the eight-part miniseries airing now on Starz, the intrigue is enough to entertain....  read more

Adding Insult to Injury, Starz Removes Party Down from Netflix

Kick us while we’re down, why don’t you?...  read more

Starz Cancels Party Down

Despite our last-ditch efforts to save Party Down, including six reasons you should watch Party Down and an extra few reasons with the airing of the finale last week, the show has been axed by Starz....  read more

Party Down Review: "Constance Carmell Wedding" (Episode 2.10)

Well if this was indeed Party Down’s swan song, they certainly went out with a bang. While it probably wasn’t the creator’s intention, this episode served as a virtual resumé for what the show as a whole does best. Party Down’s strength lies within its wide range of characters. They each represent a different subset of the Hollywood dream (and in most cases a very different brand of humor they provide the show), but they also each manage to go behind their face-value archetypes and form an utterly impressive whole. On most episodes, however, there is barely enough show to...  read more

Six Reasons To Watch Party Down Right Now

A bunch of wannabe Hollywood-types working at a floundering catering company...  read more

Camelot Coming to Starz

Picking up its first series since Chris Albrecht became the new CEO and president of the network, Starz has given the go-ahead for Camelot, a contemporary retelling of the legend of King Arthur based on perhaps the definitive collection of Arthurian myth, Le Morte d’Arthur (via the Hollywood Reporter)....  read more