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Metro
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Amazon Prime fans rush to binge 'incredible' thriller axed 10 years ago
Amazon Prime Video fans have been rushing to catch up with all five seasons of an intense spy thriller series that was cancelled 10 years ago. Covert Affairs, which started in 2010, follows the story of Annie Walker – a young CIA trainee who gradually becomes a key agent in the organisation. Starring Piper Perabo as Annie, the drama ran for five years and produced more than 70 episodes, winning several awards along the way. Despite being positively received by critics and winning those awards, viewership figures dropped from 6.7 million to 3.3 million over five seasons. This meant that the show was cancelled in 2014 and didn't return for the 2015 TV calendar, but still rounded off its story with a 16-episode final season. Now, in 2025, Covert Affairs has become one of the top trending shows on Amazon Prime Video, with people urging other TV viewers on social media to start watching it if they haven't already. @Ralphydir said: 'Today I was watching Covert Affairs all over again. It's such a fun TV series to watch they had so many episodes in five years and there's always something you wanna see again. The very first episode is incredible.' @LestatxLouis was particularly ecstatic that the show had returned: 'It's been years since Prime Video took off Covert Affairs and now they've brought it back!' In Covert Affairs, actor Cristopher Gorham played Auggie Anderson, Annie's CIA handler who was blinded on a previous mission – and fans became almost too familiar with Auggie. Speaking about Christopher taking on a role in a new TV show, Cindy Cinocco said: 'It's weird seeing [Christopher] not blind. I know he's not – but we got so used to seeing him that way in Covert Affairs.' Before Covert Affairs came to streaming in the UK, Luke Godfrey lamented its lack of availability on these shores: 'Good series. Unfortunately it's not available on any streaming platforms for free here in the UK.' On IMDb, user Brady Peter said the series 'had [him] glued right throughout' and called the ending 'sensational,' while praising the 'compelling' action sequences in the show. Chris Fairhall, also on IMDb, said he stayed patient and was rewarded: 'Almost exactly around the middle of season 3, it suddenly gets better and stays that way. The writing, the action, the subterfuge, it becomes an eminently bingeable spy thriller.' More Trending The series also starred Kari Matchett as senior office Joan Campbell, Anne Dudek as Annie's older sister Danielle, and Sendhil Ramamurthy as CIA office Jai Wilcox. Covert Affairs was produced by Doug Liman, who directed 2000s films such as Mr and Mrs Smith, Jumper, and The Bourne Identity, before overseeing Edge of Tomorrow (Live Die Repeat) starring Tom Cruise. David Bartis, who also produced the series, became known for his backroom work on Suits and The OC, as well as films such as the 2008 remake of Knight Rider. View More » Watch Covert Affairs on Amazon Prime Video. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Jeremy Clarkson confirms Clarkson's Farm 'could end' sooner than fans think MORE: Netflix viewers rush to watch 'exceptional' drama based on Judy Blume novel MORE: 'Biggest free agent on the planet' causes chaos in WWE Backlash debut
Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Christopher Gorham Joins Fire Country Spinoff as Sheriff Mickey Fox's Ex-Husband
CBS has made two key additions to the cast of its Fire Country spinoff Sheriff Country, including Christopher Gorham (Covert Affairs) in a series-regular role. As first reported by our sister site Deadline, Gorham will appear as Travis, a lawyer and the ex-husband of Morena Baccarin's Sheriff Mickey Fox. Travis and Mickey share a daughter named Skye, whom they've helped through struggles with addiction, and the pair might still have feelings for each other… but it's complicated. More from TVLine The Equalizer Spinoff Not Moving Forward at CBS The Neighborhood Spinoff Not Moving Forward at CBS Poppa's House Among 2 Cancellations at CBS Additionally, Michele Weaver (Love Is_, Council of Dads) has been cast in the series-regular role of Cassidy, a deputy in the Edgewater County Sheriff's Department. Cassidy was inspired by Mickey to become a sheriff, which has led her to put Mickey on a pedestal as she tries to carve out her own identity in law enforcement. Previously ordered to series at CBS for its 2025-26 TV season, Sheriff Country stars Baccarin as straight-shooting sheriff Mickey Fox — the stepsister of Fire Country's Sharon Leone — who investigates criminal activity as she patrols the streets of small-town Edgewater while contending with her ex-con father (Deadwood's W. Earl Brown) and a mysterious incident involving her wayward daughter. (Sheriff Country is not to be confused with Fire Country: Surfside, a potential 2026-27 spinoff to be led by Jared Padalecki if his possible CBS medical drama doesn't pan out.) Fire Country has already been renewed for Season 4. In other CBS spinoff news, though, TVLine confirmed today that the Eye Network is not moving forward with potential offshoots for either The Neighborhood or The Equalizer. Which Bubble Shows Do You Want Saved? Vote! View List Best of TVLine Stars Who Almost Played Other TV Roles — on Grey's Anatomy, NCIS, Lost, Gilmore Girls, Friends and Other Shows TV Stars Almost Cast in Other Roles Fall TV Preview: Who's In? Who's Out? Your Guide to Every Casting Move!
Yahoo
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Georgie & Mandy Adds Christopher Gorham as Someone From Mandy's Romantic Past… and Future?
Christopher Gorham is poised to cause a major rift in Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage. The Covert Affairs alum has been cast on the Young Sheldon spinoff and will appear in the final two episodes of Season 1, airing back-to-back on Thursday, May 15 (CBS, 8/7c). He'll play Scott, Mandy's new boss whose romantic history with her starts to complicate her life. Hmm…. More from TVLine CBS Reveals Finale Spoilers for 19 Shows, Including the Very Last Episodes of S.W.A.T. and Two FBIs — See Schedule Georgie & Mandy EP Reflects on Lance Barber's Return as George Sr. — Will the Young Sheldon Patriarch Recur? Alert: MPU Boss Explains This Week's Shocking Twist ('It Was a Big Swing'), Teases 'Emotional Fallout' Ahead Gorham shared a photo from the set on April 2, the day after Georgie & Mandy wrapped production on its 22-episode freshman run. At the time, he said, 'I can't say much, yet, but I can say that the Georgie & Mandy family they've created on Stage 25 is as welcoming, warm-hearted and hilarious as any I've had a chance to visit.' View this post on Instagram A post shared by Christopher Gorham (@chrisgorham) He is best known to TV audiences for his role as Auggie Anderson on the USA Network procedural Covert Affairs, which wrapped its five-season run in 2014. Additional credits include Insatiable, The Lincoln Lawyer and Ugly Betty, as well as another CBS sitcom, 2 Broke Girls, on which he recurred throughout the sixth and final season as Caroline's boyfriend Bobby. Georgie & Mandy was previously renewed for a 22-episode Season 2. In the one-hour May 15 finale, 'Georgie panics when he learns that Jim is considering selling the tire store to his rival… and Mandy's forced to confront a long-running lie.' New episodes continue to air Thursdays at 8/7c on CBS, and stream next day on Paramount+. Are you looking forward to Gorham's arrival? Worried he'll be the reason that Marriage No. 1 ends? Sound off in Comments. CBS Finale Spoilers for 19 Shows View List Best of TVLine Stars Who Almost Played Other TV Roles — on Grey's Anatomy, NCIS, Lost, Gilmore Girls, Friends and Other Shows TV Stars Almost Cast in Other Roles Fall TV Preview: Who's In? Who's Out? Your Guide to Every Casting Move!
Yahoo
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
TV Writer Matt Corman Remembers Funny Side Of Former Boss Val Kilmer During ‘Heat' & ‘The Island Of Dr. Moreau' Shoots
Since news broke last night that actor Val Kilmer had died at the age of 65, there has been an outpouring of tributes from fellow actors and filmmakers praising Kilmer's talent on-screen. Matt Corman, co-creator/executive producer of USA's Covert Affairs and Disney+'s Daredevil: Born Again, has an insight into how Kilmer was off-screen. When he was a very young writer in the 1990s, Corman worked for a couple of years as Kilmer's personal assistant/researcher. He has shared with Deadline anecdotes from his time with the Top Gun star during the shooting of Heat and the infamous The Island of Dr. Moreau that reveal how funny Kilmer was in person. More from Deadline Val Kilmer Was Scheduled To Attend Last Night's Beverly Hills Film Festival Screening Of Documentary On Friend Michael Madsen Nicolas Cage Pays Tribute To "Genius Actor" Val Kilmer: "He Should Have Won The Oscar For 'The Doors'" 'Heat' Director Michael Mann Leads Tributes To Val Kilmer: "I Always Marvelled At The Range, The Brilliant Variability" 'His wit and impersonations were astounding; it was a part of his persona that he didn't really showcase as much as he should have,' Corman said. Here are Corman's stories that include a Charlie Chaplin-esque skit by Kilmer and a running gag in each of the actor's voicemails. I'll leave it to others to unpack Val's impressive and diverse body of work, and the awful illness that robbed him of his distinctive voice and came to define his later years. What I want to discuss is an often-overlooked aspect of Val— just how hilarious the man could be.I came to know Val at the height of his fame. Batman Forever was 'in the can' but had not yet been released. I was an extremely young writer, and Val hired me to help him organize some ideas he had for movies, and to type them into treatments. This was on the set of the iconic Michael Mann film Heat. I worked in Val's trailer in downtown Los Angeles, with the sound of machine gun blanks echoing from the epic bank heist shootout being filmed just outside. I sifted through Val's typed up pages and floppy disks (yup, this was a while ago) and I peered at scribbled notes on legal pads; I did my best to create a synthesis, a coherence. It was a daunting task, and, truth be told, the notes were all over the place. I sometimes felt like one of those forensic historians who try to recreate East German Stasi memos by cobbling together bits of shredded documents.I did a decent enough job in organizing Val's creative output that he invited me to co-write one of those scripts with him in Australia, while he was on the set of The Island of Dr. Moreau. A lot has been written about that film, about the wild experiment of casting Marlon Brando and Val and Nelson De La Rosa. New Line conscripted the aging, legendary director John Frankenheimer to wrangle all of it in the dense jungle of Far North Queensland when the original director Richard Stanley was fired after just a few days of filming. Hundreds of drugged-out Australian hippies called 'ferals' were hired as extras. They camped near the remote set and descended out of the hills like fog when craft services got breakfast going each day— it was quite a sight. Brando confided in me that he hadn't read the script. He said this allowed him to make more spontaneous acting choices. Mind you, we were three months into production at that point. Beyond that, I have nothing to add here except to say that everything else you've heard about that production is true, and it was bonkers. But most of that experience was not too funny, and I'm here to tell you about how funny Val One evening Val got really mad at me; he was yelling, in fact. I was crashing at his house in Cairns Australia, and I had gone out for a six-pack of VB beer without locking the front door. It was an oversight, as Val was paparazzi bait at the time, and it wasn't inconceivable that someone could have tried to get in, take photos, steal stuff, whatever. I said I was sorry. Val started to cool down. As he went to grab his American Spirits, I realized with horror that earlier in the night while watching a Rugby League game on TV, I had sat on the pack of cigarettes on the couch and crushed them. But then, instead of getting madder, Val switched gears. He took out a severely bent cigarette and performed a ridiculous theatrical display. He started acting like a drunk trying to light his bent cigarette. His schtick was broad, but in the way Charlie Chaplin was broad, which is to say it was brilliant. I started laughing hysterically, and when Val saw that, he really committed to the bit, taking out his zippo and 'failing' to light the bent cigarette despite several attempts. He crossed his eyes in mock drunken concentration. He burped, stumbled around, pretended to take a piss into a potted plant, leaning his head on the wall while moaning. He whispered in a weird Midwestern accent about wanting a 'pork chop.' Val's physicality and matinee idol looks only made the whole thing much funnier. Was Val performing this display because he felt bad about yelling at me, or because the bent cigarette was just too great a prop to pass up? I don't know, but it was a comedic miracle in miniature, an entire production put on for my amusement alone, and although Val milked it, it was over much faster than I would have liked. Val had a funny relationship to his funniness. I witnessed a couple of occasions when fans approached him and complimented him on his (hilarious) turns in Real Genius or Top Secret! Val would wince and say he only did those gigs for the dough, to use his term. Val idolized Brando and told anyone who'd listen that he only agreed to be in The Island of Dr. Moreau in order to act alongside his idol. Val considered Brando's acting to be the aspirational pinnacle, the distillation of the 'seriousness' he aspired to. But the Brando I got to see in Australia was hamming it up more than anyone. Brando acted with an ice-bucket on his head, imitated the Queen of England in his line readings and performed bongos at the wrap party while wearing a often took guff for the way he appeared on talk shows and other public appearances. He had this looping nonequatorial speaking style. He sometimes seemed spaced out or stoned or drunk. That's basically the way he talked conversationally, too. Ideas trailed off or were finished slowly. It was a kind of cowboy's cadence, and after a while you got used to it. He wasn't on anything; he just came at ideas from odd angles. That's what made Val's comic genius even more impressive. Comedy is all timing, and when he needed to, when he wanted to, Val could turn that gear on, speaking more quickly with perfect punchy delivery. He was like a Formula 1 driver who refused to go above 30 MPH unless he was in a could do amazing impressions of people both famous and not. He told me that he had an impression of me 'ready to go' but it would be so accurate and cutting that it was best that he not reveal it. I didn't press him on this point and my ego is the better for a year or so, it became clear that the script we were working on was going nowhere, and I stopped working with Val. I told him I wanted to pursue my own writing, and he was gracious about can pull people apart. But whenever Val would leave me a voice mail, he'd begin in the same way, 'Hey, it's your old pal Val calling¬—' And then, after a perfect pause, as if there were any doubt, he'd add, 'Val Kilmer, the actor.'I'm going to miss you, old pal. Best of Deadline The Best 7 New Movies To Watch On Netflix In April 2025 Everything We Know About 'Hacks' Season 4 So Far '1923' Season 2 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out?
