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03 Jun 2014

NBC Announces Premiere Date for Grimm

NBC’s Constantine TV series, based on the DC Comics character, now has a premiere date. The Blacklist and Grimm will be back, too.

Constantine made a splash when the pilot was picked up to series by NBC, and now we know when we can first watch John Constantine in action. Constantine will premiere on NBC on Friday, October 24th at 10 p.m. EST, right after the season premiere of Grimm at 9. That’s a nice block of supernatural programming for those of us who prefer to stay home on Friday nights. Dropping ol’ Hellblazer the week before Halloween seems about right to us, too.

Fans waiting for more Red Reddington and friends don’t have to wait quite as long. The Blacklist season 2 will premiere on September 22nd in its usual 10 p.m. timeslot. You can read the rest of NBC’s premiere date schedule over at Entertainment Weekly.

07 Apr 2014

What questions would you ask the cast?

If everything goes according to plan, I’ll be at an undisclosed location somewhere in the Portland metro area early Monday morning, watching the cast and crew of “Grimm” working on the Season 3 finale.

Details are hush-hush, but there should be an opportunity to talk with the cast members.

What do you want to know about the show? The actors? The characters?

Share what questions you’d want to ask, and I’ll do my best to bring them up during the set visit and interview breaks.

21 Mar 2014

Silas Weir Mitchell went from bit player to scene stealer

Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.

The actor: Silas Weir Mitchell first stepped in front of the camera in the late 1990s, popping up in small film roles and one-off TV series appearances for several years before finally earning the plum role of Charles “Haywire” Patoshik on FOX’s Prison Break. Although he appeared in a recurring role rather than a series regular, Mitchell’s work on the series made enough of an impression that he began pulling higher-profile roles, ultimately leading him to his current gig: playing a Wieder Blutbad—a wolf creature, basically—named Monroe on NBC’s Grimm.

Grimm (2011-present)—“Monroe”
Silas Weir Mitchell: It is definitely the most creatively invested I’ve ever been in a role, because I’ve been in from the beginning. I’ve now done 60-something episodes, so it’s by far the deepest I’ve gone into one character, and it’s the character I know the best and therefore have the most sway as far as the language. I know him better than anybody else, and it’s a nice feeling.

The A.V. Club: So you’re in a position where you’re able to say, “Oh, Monroe wouldn’t do that.”

SWM: Sort of. It’s gotten to the point where I’m able to say, “This doesn’t feel right,” or, “Maybe this would work.” It’s a very collaborative environment, so it’s not like it’s that big a deal that I’m able to do that. We’re all able to do that. I’ve just never done 60 or 70 episodes of the same character where, if something doesn’t feel right, you know it. If you’re only on a show for two episodes, there’s a lot of reasons why it wouldn’t make sense to say, “I don’t think he would do this.”

Read the rest of the interview/article here!

19 Mar 2014

GRIMM Renewed for a 4th Season

NBC has given early renewals for next season to three chicago firemore dramas: Chicago Fire, its spinoff Chicago P.D., and Grimm. They join hot freshman The Blacklist, which already was picked up for a second season. Also set to return next season are veteran comedy Parks And Recreation (Season 7), flagship reality series The Voice (Cycle 7), and Celebrity Apprentice (Cycle 14), which skipped a season.

The renewal of Dick Wolf’s Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. opens the door to further expanding the franchise with a long-rumored Chicago-set medical drama. Last year, NBC picked up all of Wolf’s series at the same time. This time, Law & Order: SVU is not part of the package as the veteran usually gets a renewal close to the upfronts. But with the Chicago franchise blossoming, would the last representative of Wolf’s previous power NBC procedural brand, Law & Order, call it a day?

Meanwhile, Grimm was the first new series launched by NBC’s new regime to get traction, adding additional significance to its renewal for a fourth season. Of the other NBC series, midseason comedy About A Boy has shown enough promise for a renewal so far, with the jury still out on Growing Up Fisher.

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18 Mar 2014

GRIMM is No. 1 Scripted Show

“Grimm” (1.6/5 in 18-49, 5.4 million viewers overall from 9-10:01 p.m. ET) captured its top rating since Dec. 6 (1.6) and equaled its highest rating since opening its season Oct. 25 with a 1.8. Week to week, “Grimm” is up 7% in 18-49 rating (to a 1.6 from a 1.5) and versus two weeks ago, “Grimm” is up 14% (1.6 vs. 1.4). L+3 Time-Shifting: The prior week’s “Grimm” increased by 62% going from these next-day L+SD ratings to L+3 (to a 2.37 from a 1.46) and by more than 2.3 million persons in total viewers (to 8.0 million from 5.7 million).

“Grimm” is the #1 scripted series of the night on ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX in adults 18-49.

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10 Dec 2013

David Talks Season 3 Midseason Finale

Three years in, “Grimm” is finally playing around with the Christmas legend of Krampus. Star David Giuntoli admits German fans have been begging the NBC show for years to craft an episode around the beast-like anti-Santa ever since their first season, and he’s excited they can now deliver.

“Who knew Santa had horns?” Giuntoli laughs of the upcoming two-part midseason finale “Cold-Blooded”/”Twelve Days of Krampus” during a recent conference call. “We ruin Christmas for everybody and it’s gory and it’s wonderful.”

As “Grimm” has grown, so to has Nick’s confidence in his position as a Grimm. That has been highlighted in Season 3 as Nick continued to expand the book of fairy tales in episodes like in Dec. 6th’s “Stories We Tell Our Young.” Moving beyond the traditional Grimm folklores has been fun for Giuntoli, but he says his favorite episodes are still the ones that are based on stories viewers have been hearing about since they were children.

But he’s also game to play around with the tried-and-true “Grimm” formula. That’s a tendency has been seen thus far in Season 3 and will continue to be showcased in the upcoming two-hour midseason finale.

“I think that anything that kind of throws a curve ball into what the audience is expecting on this show [is good],” Giuntoli says.

In Giuntoli’s perspective, there are three major villains on the show right now: Adalind, Renard and Alexis Denisof’s Viktor Albert Wilhelm George Beckendorf. By the end of the midseason, he teases that there will only be two central villains to be worried about — though The Villain has yet to be defined.

But that trio won’t be the only ones causing problems for Nick. He also has to monitor how many more people find out about his “Grimm” life and has to maintain those currently in it.

“Whenever someone finds out who’s not ready to find out about the world of Grimm, you have to be very delicate,” he says. “We’re filming an episode right now where somebody else sees something for the first time.”

There also will be some trouble between Monroe and Nick as Monroe begins to question whether Nick is just using him. “It’s great because am I using Monroe?” Giuntoli says. “I think it’s kind of cool that this stuff is coming to the surface in Season 3.”

At least this new formula for “Grimm” is working. “Stories We Tell Our Young” matched the show’s series premiere ratings, and the viewers are continuing to grow. That gives Giuntoli and the rest of the team at “Grimm” more room to play around with their mythology.

“We love being a Friday night stay in and kind of freak out the kids kind of show,” Giuntoli says. “It’s what we love.”

“Grimm” airs Fridays at 9 p.m. on NBC.

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