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What We Do in the Shadows Cast on the Mark Hamill Effect

It was an extremely pure delight to see Mark Hamill guest star in season 2 of FX’s What We Do in the Shadows. The Star Wars actor’s turn as Jim the Vampire in episode six, ‘On the Run’, made for truly ludicrous viewing, and the cast and crew have been discussing how it all came together as part of a recent Comic-Con@Home panel with host and fellow season 2 guest star, Haley Joel Osment. In ‘On the Run’, Matt Berry’s vampire Laszlo decides he’ll scarper to Pennsylvania instead of paying a debt he owes to former landlord Jim, adopting an…
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Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (HBO)

Using interviews as well as archival and personal footage, directors Jonathan Alter, John Block and Steve McCarthy covers the 40+ year-long careers of Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill, two New York journalists who started in the 1960s, covering such stories as the Vietnam War; the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy; the Son of Sam serial killings; the Central Park Jogger case; and September 11th.Premieres Jan 28, 2019
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