Hillary Atkin

	About Hillary Atkin Hillary Atkin has written extensively on media and entertainment for USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Television Week, Entertainment Weekly, Daily Variety, The New York Observer and LA Confidential. She is an award-winning journalist who began her career as a television news writer, reporter and... more
“Game of Thrones” and “Breaking Bad” Share Critics’ Choice Love as a New Drama Queen is Crowned By Hillary Atkin If you’ve not yet heard the name Tatiana Maslany, much less seen her work, you are certainly not alone. The Canadian actress stars in the as yet little-seen BBC America drama series “Orphan Black,” a sci-fi thriller in which she portrays a number of characters with completely different personas. Those clones were... more
Hillary Atkin's Fall Season 2013 Preview - Television Upfronts - Just Seen It By Hillary Atkin With 18 presentations scheduled during television upfronts May 12-19, countless new shows were presented by English and Spanish-language broadcast and cable networks. Amid the fray, some of them are already creating excitement generated by their creators, content and talent, even if only brief clips were seen. Take a ... more
Hillary Atkin Rates the Networks’ Upfront Events and Parties By Hillary Atkin It is the rare person who isn't afflicted with a hangover after attending the annual series of presentations and parties that comprise the main week of television Upfronts. If the hangover isn't from adult beverages, then it is due to all the hype the networks dispense about their upcoming programming, around which they sell ... more
Crowd Sourcing Stardom -- MTV Rolls out New Opps for Artists to be Seen and Heard - Hillary Atkin By Hillary Atkin More than three decades after its debut created a seismic shift in the pop culture landscape, it can be very easy to forget that MTV still stands for music television. That also makes it surprising to learn that 1,200 hours of music videos are aired each week across the Viacom family of networks, including MTV, CMT, and VH1 that... more
Lorne Michaels Opens the Comedy Curtain, Revealing the Funny and Serious Sides of an Epic Career - Hillary Atkin By Hillary Atkin With the exception of his brief but fairly regular cameos on "Saturday Night Live," its executive producer Lorne Michaels is a man who prefers to work behind the scenes, someone who doesn't normally seek the spotlight. But as one of the most powerful producers in the business, he was the laser focus of attention last week... more

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