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New York Times
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Art Detectives' Is Good Nerdy Fun
'Art Detectives,' on Acorn TV, is another strong cozy-nerdy procedural, this time oriented around murders connected to arts and culture. Stephen Moyer stars as Detective Inspector Mick Palmer, the sole member of the Heritage Crime Unit and a knowledgeable, passionate, observant dork. In the pilot, he recruits a devoted underling, Detective Constable Shazia Malik (Nina Singh), a young cop whose potential he spots and whose shabby boss he abhors. Each episode opens with a jazzy little murder vignette, and then Palmer and Malik show up to educate us all about Viking gold or Chinese artifacts. Given that Palmer is an art cop, perhaps it is no surprise that his dad (Larry Lamb) is an art criminal — a forger in particular, and also a real absentee dirtbag. Their relationship and Palmer's grief and abandonment issues form the serial story line of the show. But the fun here is in the episodic aspects, and 'Art Detectives' has a good time in the worlds of, for example, wine fraud and Titanic collectibles. Most of the mysteries here include one more minor twist at the end, an additional motive for the murder that the detectives misunderstood or a connection between the suspects that they missed. This helps the show feel more special than just another chug-along 'Murder, She Wrote' descendant, a little richer, a little more adorned. The show is conscious of its own predictability, so it makes the most of its surprises. Many detective shows center on an investigator who is so dang quirky that his or her quirk is the defining feature of the show. But 'Art Detectives' is a little brighter and realer than that. Palmer is not some alienated, frigid genius, nor is Malik his trusty people-whisperer. Palmer is an occasionally awkward smart guy who loves art and history. He flirts with his curator romantic interest (Sarah Alexander) over 1,000-year-old Viking skeletons and impresses collectors with his knowledge of rare books. For a while there, a lot of cop shows were horny for murder; 'Art Detectives' prefers culture. Ooo, talk Dutch masters to me. Four of the season's six episodes are available now, with new installments arriving on Mondays.
Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
What to Watch This Week: 40+ Premieres, Finales and More
To help you anticipate and navigate all that television has to offer across broadcast, cable and streaming, TVLine offers daily, weekly and monthly What to Watch digests, as well as an overview of every new TV show premiering in 2025. This week, you'll find a dozen series debuts (including Wynonna Earp's Melanie Scrofano in Revival, and True Blood's Stephen Moyer in Art Detectives), seven returning shows (including The Real Housewives of Miami and The 1% Club, now hosted by Joel McHale), and a dozen finales (including Pat Sajak's final spin on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune) and more. More from TVLine Every New Scripted Show Confirmed to Premiere in 2025 — Save the Dates! What to Watch in May: Your Guide to 130+ Premieres Across Broadcast, Cable and Streaming New Ironheart Trailer: To Protect People, Wakanda Forever's Riri Williams Must Think 'Outside the Box' Want scoop on any of the following shows? Email us and your question may be answered in Matt's Inside Line. 📺 8 pm Tony Awards (CBS)📺 8 pm Tucci in Italy Season 1 finale (NatGeo)📺 10 pm My Happy Place Season 1 finale (CNN) 📺 (Acorn TV, two-episode premiere)Stephen Moyer plays a detective who solves murders connected to the world of art and antiques — from Old Master paintings, to Banksy street art, to medieval manuscripts and collectible vinyl. 📺 8 pm BET Awards (BET) 📺 9 pm (TLC)The docuseries follows four adults who have yet to experience sexual intercourse, as they navigate love, intimacy and self-discovery in their 30s and 40s. 📺 (Hulu, two-episode binge)The docuseries gives audiences a behind-the-scenes, intimate look at 'Call Me Daddy' host Alex Cooper's journey, and the defining moments that shaped her influential voice. 📺 (BET+)Five close friends navigate life, love and the challenges that come with divorce, marriage and dating. 📺 (Peacock, three-episode binge)The docuseries goes inside the suspected killer's home, where never-before-seen testimony from his own family unravels a chilling portrait of a man accused of living a double life and hiding dark secrets under their own roof. 📺 (Netflix)Each episode in this weekly docuseries focuses on some of the wildest and most bizarre events ever to blow up in mainstream media, starting with the 2021 Astroworld tragedy. 📺 8 pm Celebrity Wheel of Fortune Season 5 finale (ABC, next day on Hulu)📺 8 pm The 1% Club Season 2 (Fox, next day on Hulu) 📺 9 pm The Snake (Fox, next day on Hulu)Jim Jeffries hosts this social strategy game wherein contestants face challenges, form alliances and navigate eliminations controlled by 'The Snake.' Success requires persuasion, connections and outlasting competitors to claim the $100,000 prize. 📺 10 pm (TLC)Larger-than-life roommates Nesha and Jazz tackle life, love and losing weight as they bond over food and their shared love of Jazz's daughter, Nana. 📺 9 pm The Real Housewives of Miami Season 7 (Bravo, next day on Peacock)📺 9 pm Sherlock & Daughter Season 1 finale (The CW)📺 10 pm The Grudge Season 1 finale (Vice)📺 10 pm Life or Death: The Negotiators Season 1 finale (NatGeo) 🎥 Snow White (Disney+) 🎥 (Netflix documentary)The film explores the Titan submersible's doomed 2023 journey to the wreckage of the Titanic and the ambitious OceanGate CEO behind the endeavor. 📺 FUBAR Season 2 (Netflix, eight-episode binge)📺 Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 finale (Peacock)📺 6 pm NHL Awards (TNT)📺 8 pm The First 48 Season 28 (A&E)📺 9 pm Alone Season 12 (History)📺 9 pm Flipping 101 With Tarek El Moussa Season 4 finale (HGTV) 📺 9 pm (A&E, two-episode premiere)The docuseries chronicles the rise of the Bunny Ranch brothel, including its charismatic owner, Dennis Hof, and its complex legacy. 📺 9 pm Top Chef Season 22 finale (Bravo, next day on Peacock) 📺 10 pm (Syfy)Melanie Scrofano plays the local officer in a rural Wisconsin town where, on one miraculous day, the recently deceased suddenly rise from their graves. 📺 10:30 pm Alone Australia Season 3 (History)📺 12:35 am After Midnight series finale (CBS, next day on Paramount+) 🎥 (Prime Video documentary)The film chronicles NASCAR's special entry at the 100th anniversary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2023. 🎥 (Prime Video movie)When an undercover cop (Sean Bean) offers an improv teacher (Bryce Dallas Howard) the role of a lifetime, she recruits two of her students (Orlando Bloom and Nick Mohammed) to infiltrate London's gangland. 📺 (Apple TV+, eight-episode binge)The animated preschool series is inspired by the children's picture book of the same name by author/illustrator Antoinette Portis. 📺 (Prime Video, two-episode binge)The docuseries follows Toronto real estate broker Heather Rovet as she discovers her perfect three-year romance with 'Jace' was nothing but a scam. 📺 9:30 pm Couples Therapy Season 4 finale (Showtime)📺 10 pm The Proof Is Out There Season 5 (History) 🤣 Atsuko Okatsuka: Father (Hulu comedy special) 🎥 Cleaner (Max) 🎥 (Apple TV+ movie)Julianne Moore plays a mother whose secluded life is interrupted when her troubled daughter (Sydney Sweeney) shows up frightened and covered in someone's blood. 📺 8 pm UFL Championship Game (ABC)📺 8 pm Vacation House Rules Season 6 finale (HGTV) What are you watching this week? Take stock of everything above, then drop a comment with your lists below. Best Streaming Deals This Month View List Best of TVLine Young Sheldon Easter Eggs: Every Nod to The Big Bang Theory (and Every Future Reveal) Across 7 Seasons Weirdest TV Crossovers: Always Sunny Meets Abbott, Family Guy vs. Simpsons, Nine-Nine Recruits New Girl and More ER Turns 30: See the Original County General Crew, Then and Now
Forbes
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Stephen Moyer Talks Career, Family And His New ‘Art Detectives' Series
Perhaps still best known for playing vampire Bill Compton on the HBO hit series True Blood, actor, executive producer and director Stephen Moyer has come a long way since his blood-sucking television days. Most recently seen on the Elsbeth CBS comedy series and soon on the Netflix action series The Night Agent, Moyer, 55, has continued to take on a wide array of roles, both in front of the camera and behind-the-scenes. With his latest project, Art Detectives on Acorn TV, Moyer plays Mick Palmer, a detective inspector in charge of uncovering mysterious thefts, murders and other crimes that occur around the art world. Sitting down with Moyer in early May while he appeared at SeriesFest in Denver, Colorado, I wondered what it was about his Art Detectives character Mick and this fictional world that intrigued him to want to take this on next. 'Well, I was approached by the boys, [creators] Paul [Powell] and Dan [Gaster] and Will [Ing], quite early when they had got the idea for the story. At that point, all I knew was the smallest department in the entire police force is the art forgery department, Heritage Crime Unit. I was really interested in that. I knew I'd never seen that before. And so, I was interested in what they were going to try and do with it.' Not only does Moyer co-star alongside Nina Singh on Art Detectives, but he is also an executive producer on the project. So, what does it mean to Moyer at this point in his career, to have such an active hand on the production side? Stephen Moyer and Nina Singh on "Art Detectives" Acorn TV Moyer said, 'It's not my first time I've done that. The thing that is interesting about creating your own stuff is you might like the kernel of an idea, you might like sort of what it is, but you can keep pushing to try and make it richer and richer and richer. As an actor, you can suggest stuff, but you can't necessarily change things. As we go through the show, we learn more about [Mick's] Also speaking briefly with fellow Art Detectives executive producer Paul Powell at SeriesFest, he had nothing but praise to say about Moyer as a collaborator. Powell said, 'We were so pleased to get Stephen. That really unlocked a lot of things for us, in terms of the writing, the performance - and of course, he is so experienced. He has got so many great opinions. We would talk quite frankly about the show, the character - so, he was really good to have onboard. He's generous, as well. He would fight in his corner, but if he felt like, 'You know what? Okay, I'm going to step back now' - he would. There was never an ego with Stephen. He was always like for the good of the show.' When Moyer is not working, his life is at home, which includes his wife of nearly 15 years, Anna Paquin, whom he met on the set of True Blood. I was curious what it means to Moyer to have a partner like Paquin, who understands the entertainment business and the schedules and the weird travel that can come with this type of chosen artist lifestyle. Moyer said of Paquin, 'I mean, she's sort of like my manager. She's sort of like my coach. She's the person who pours the water on me during the ring breaks. She's the person who puts my gum shield back in. She's the person who clears the blood up. She's the person who sort of is the cheerleader. She goes through lines with me when I've got big stuff to do. I just had ten pages in two days on The Night Agent. She's a genius, so she doesn't need much help. She likes ideas, work wise - I've directed her quite a few times and she takes that stuff seriously, but she's very, very, very good at learning lines - and I'm not.' Being also a dad alongside Paquin, how does Moyer find balance within his work commitments, while still prioritizing his loved ones at home? 'Well, I've been working away a lot and Anna has been at home a lot. So this job, The Night Agent that I'm doing right now, it's the first time I've worked from home in 12 years. It's so great. So when I get home, I see the kids, I cook dinner, I take them out on the weekends. We go and do stuff, and that has been great.' Being someone that has now been around the entertainment business for more than half of his life, I wondered what Moyer is liking about the industry ways of today and what things does he perhaps miss from yesteryear that he wishes were still in place. Moyer said, 'Oh, that's a really good question. The thing about streaming when it first started and when we first began this sort of new world, there was a just a plethora of stuff. There was so much material, so much being made. I'm not saying anything wrong here or out of the ordinary - during that period of time, the quality control - things that were good, stuck. Back in the days when I was first auditioning to do pilot season, the pilot season is very different from the UK system. They make a show - they make six episodes of something. There are not pilots - you just go, they get commissioned and you do a six-episode arc. When I was starting, I'd go to LA and there 80 to 100 pilots happening. It's not like that anymore. Pilot season sort of doesn't exist. I miss auditioning in-person. Back in the old days, we used to audition in-person. I've got 30 years worth of work that they can watch, and you still have to audition and prove that you can do it. You do get occasional offers - like Art Detectives came to me as a 'Would you be interested in doing this?' - which is lovely.' This year marks 11 years since True Blood aired its series finale episode on HBO. Looking back now on his time with beloved characters like Bill, Sookie and Eric, how does Moyer feel about his experiences and overall thoughts about the show, and what gave it the winning recipe with audiences for so many years? 'I mean, it all stems from [writer] Alan [Ball]. It stems from Charlaine Harris's books. I've read hundreds of pilots in my life - it's one of the top five I've ever read. In that pilot, [Ball] set up all of the characters brilliantly, but he also set up a world where [the Louisiana town] Bon Temps had a texture to it - it had a feeling. Merlotte's Bar had a feeling about it. This idea that they [vampires] walk amongst us, but they don't need to feed on us because there's this other [synthetic] blood. All of that world - so smart, brilliantly cast, amazing people. The other thing that I think that's really important about True Blood, apart from it being super sexy and scary and fun, is it was really funny and I think that people forget how funny it was.' After all that Moyer experienced on True Blood over those seven seasons, I was curious if there is anything that he would have changed, whether that be a certain performance of his, or speaking up when he was given a storyline for Bill that he was not crazy about. Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer on "True Blood" HBO Moyer said, 'That's a really interesting question. I mean, with the benefit of hindsight, maybe - with perspective. I've never worked on a job where, ever - probably the closest to it would be The Night Agent - where when the scripts come out and back in those days, they used to come out in a brown envelope on a Thursday on True Blood. Everybody on-set when we weren't turning over, when we weren't rolling, would be sitting - the crew would be sitting, reading it. I've never seen a grip sitting on the back of their dolly grip, because they absolutely loved [the script] and they wanted to know what happened next." He added: 'The show had its 'Scooby Doo' elements towards the end. There was some wild stuff, but it's never not fun. So, would I change it? I don't know. I would probably have made some more sound investments. It's really nice spending money.' As I concluded the conversation with Moyer about his ever-expanding career, I wondered if he has noticed that his interests in the stories that he is choosing to tell, evolving as time has gone on. Moyer said, 'Good question. I used to be very, very picky. I've turned down - I'm not going to tell you, but I've made some stupid decisions across the way. I've got to the point now where, I mean, I love working. So, I love doing what I do. I'm so lucky to do it. When I produce and I direct, and acting really sort of is the predominant payer of the bills - but having a hand in crafting where you want things to go and where you want it to be, I'm interested in all of that. I think that as I've got older, I've just gotten used to sort of going - Oh, I think this could be interesting - or I might say yes to something because I think I can do something interesting with that character, whereas before, I might have gone - Oh, the sum of the parts might not be quite what I would have wanted. I think now, I'm much more willing to just go - I want to do what I do.'
Wall Street Journal
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘Art Detectives' Review: Flirtation and Forgery on Acorn TV
There's nothing genuinely counterfeit about 'Art Detectives,' although the series is far less about art than about detectives, of the type that usually populate Sunday-night Brit mysteries on PBS. Is it a case of bait-and-switch? Or just the palette at hand? 'Any Day Now,' a rentable new feature about the 1990 robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (during which a Vermeer, three Rembrandts and a Manet were heisted) is also far more about the characters on screen than the ones on canvas. The still life does not comfortably conform to the motion picture. Thus 'Art Detectives' ranges far and wide. Investigator Mick Palmer (Stephen Moyer, 'True Blood') is the U.K.'s virtual one-man Heritage Crime Unit, whose assignments can range from Belfast to Cornwall to London and involve vintage wines, Titanic memorabilia or a crime that happened to be committed in a National Trust house. His jurisdiction is fluid, his knowledge extensive; his cases involve forgery, fraud, trafficking and murder. During the investigation into an art historian's fatal bludgeoning in episode 1, he is assisted by a local constable, Shazia Malik (Nina Singh), who takes stock of her tiny force, small-minded supervisor and the rolling landscape of art investigation and promptly doubles the size of Mick's department.
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Elsbeth Lands in Prison! Watch Her Go Head-to-Head with Criminals She Put Behind Bars in Season 2 Finale (Exclusive)
Elsbeth has found herself in a sticky situation — and she has more than one enemy on her cell block. In PEOPLE's exclusive first look at the season 2 finale of Elsbeth, the quirky but talented attorney reports to prison, where she runs into several high-class (and A-list!) criminals — all of whom she's put behind bars for murder. As a security guard leads her to her quarters, she spots many familiar faces, including Joe Dillion (Arian Moayed), a cocktail bar owner she helped arrest in season 1 and theater director, Alex Modarian (Stephen Moyer). Related: Michael Emerson Says It Was 'Weird and Complicated' Being Wife Carrie Preston's Adversary on Elsbeth (Exclusive) While crossing her fingers for a "speedy trial," Elsbeth's jaw drops as she comes face to face with Alex. When he admits he's "flattered" she remembers him, Elsbeth confesses that she would "never forget her first." She and the guard move on and go into the women's division of the prison. Elsbeth turns the corner to see former tech CEO Quinn Powell (Elizabeth Lail) trying to meditate in her cell. "I was just trying to banish you from my thoughts and here you are," Quinn says, surrounded by photos of herself plastered on the wall. Related: Matthew Broderick Is 'So Proud' to Act Alongside Son James Wilkie for the First Time on Elsbeth (Exclusive) After awkwardly saying hello, Elsbeth comments on the surprising amount of personal belongings Quinn possesses before running into decluttering guru Freya Frostad (Mary-Louise Parker). "Even here, the tyranny of materialism reigns," Freya mumbles as the camera pans to reveal she's sharing a room with Dr. Vanessa Holmes (Gina Gershon). "Well, if it isn't the woman who ruined my life," Vanessa quips, to which Elsbeth replies, "I'd argue committing murder did that." Related: Watch Wendell Pierce Joke About Suits Daughter Meghan Markle Getting 'Framed' by Global Press in Elsbeth Preview (Exclusive) When Vanessa hurriedly asks if Quinn mentioned her during her walk past, Elsbeth quickly realizes how much drama there is in prison. "Seems like there's a lot of drama in here, like high school," she remarks, to which Margo Clarke (Retta) states, "What would you expect? Human beings have their needs, Elsbeth." Finally, she walks past former mafia princess Pupetta Del Ponte (Alyssa Milano), who gives her a version of the finger, before she finally makes it to her cell. "Home sweet home," the security guard says as the door shuts behind him. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Elsbeth season 2 finale airs Thursday, May 8 at 9 p.m. ET on CBS. Read the original article on People
