For Better or Werts : TV Worth Watching

SNEAK PEEKS: AMC's 'Rubicon,' plus new HBO shows

Now that Breaking Bad has ended another astonishing season, and with Mad Men not back till July 25, fans of AMC dramas can bide their time by downloading a preview of the cabler's newest series -- Rubicon, a conspiracy thriller starring James Badge Dale (24) as an intelligence analyst who gets too inquisitive for his own safety.

Rubicon doesn't debut until Aug. 1, but AMC aired a pilot preview after Sunday's Breaking Bad finale, and now offers that same episode free via iTunes, Amazon Video on Demand and streaming at AMCtv.com.

More quality drama is on the way at HBO, which has posted video teasers for two avidly awaited projects -- Boardwalk Empire, the Terence Winter-Martin Scorsese series about Prohibition-era Atlantic City (video here), and Game of Thrones, the medieval epic based on George R.R. Martin's fantasy bestseller A Song of Ice and Fire (video here).

HBO says Boardwalk Empire is due this fall, with Game of Thrones scheduled for 2011.

Name

Email Address

URL

Remember personal info?

Comments (You may use HTML tags for style)

Nothing personal, but prove to us that you are a human being, and not an evil automated computer bent on posting spam on this website. Type the characters you see in the picture below.

Archer T-shirts & fan gear at the Fox Shop!

Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

ARCHIVES

August 2010
July 2010
June 2010
May 2010
April 2010
March 2010
February 2010
January 2010
December 2009
November 2009
October 2009
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
March 2009
February 2009
January 2009
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
March 2008
February 2008