TV Review: Justified 1.13 Season Finale – Bulletville (POTENTIAL SPOILERS)

The first season of the best new show on TV, the FX Channel’s “Justified” wraps up with episode 13, “Bulletville”, secured in the knowledge that U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens and his myriad of gun thug problems, not to mention muddled love life, will keep on keeping on with...

June 7th, 2010 | Read More

FX Renews Justified for a Second Season

Like all new shows, the FX Channel’s “Justified” hit record numbers in its premiere before evening out. In its first year, the show is currently averaging a respectable 3.4 million total viewers, which is enough for the cable net to announce a second year renewal. Season 2 of “Justified”...

May 3rd, 2010 | Read More

TV Reminder: Justified 1.02 Riverbrook Airs Tonight

Just a reminder: Timothy Olyphant’s “Justified” airs its second episode tonight on the FX Channel. The episode is called “Riverbrook”, and although it’s probably the least favorite of the first three episodes I saw, it’s still an amusing one, and continues to...

March 23rd, 2010 | Read More

Timothy Olyphant’s Justified Scores Big Ratings for FX

Well slap me silly and call me a happy little school boy, because it looks like my favorite new show of the year, the Timothy Olyphant-starrer “Justified” did pretty well in its debut last night. According to FX, the show’s premiere drew 4.16 million viewers, giving the basic cable...

March 17th, 2010 | Read More

REMINDER: Justified Premieres on the FX Channel Today

Just a reminder to all you kids out there who have basic cable: Timothy Olyphant returns to TV in “Justified” starting tonight, 9:00 p.m. central time. To get you ready, the FX Channel will be rerunning “Live Free or Die Hard” in front of the show’s premiere. Olyphant plays...

March 16th, 2010 | Read More

TV Review: Justified – First 3 Episodes

Give Timothy Olyphant a cowboy hat and a hip holster and you’ve got gold. Which makes the casting of Olyphant in the FX Channel’s new series “Justified” as close to a sure bet as you’ll get in the sometimes muddy world of TV. Based on the character Raylan Givens by American crime novelist...

February 24th, 2010 | Read More

Three Slick Trailers for Timothy Olyphant’s Justified, Sweepstakes

One of my most highly anticipated TV shows in quite some time is the new Timothy Olyphant lawman series “Justified”. (Yes, they’ve since changed the title from “Lawman” to “Justified”. Personally, I liked the old title better, but what do I know.) Here are three...

February 19th, 2010 | Read More

First Look at the FX Channel’s Lawman with Timothy Olyphant

I always knew Timothy Olyphant of Deadwood fame had a little Clint Eastwood in him. After seeing this three minutes of footage from Lawman, the new “modern Western” from the FX Channel and “Speed” writer Graham Yost, I think I was wrong: Olyphant’s character in Lawman doesn’t...

August 12th, 2009 | Read More

Graham Yost’s Fire in the Hole — er, Lawman is a Go at FX Channel

It’s got a new title, but it’s still the same TV show formerly called Fire in the Hole (now retitled Lawman) from Graham Yost, based on a short story about a loose cannon U.S. Marshal by crime novelist Elmore Leonard that we’ve been covering for a while now. Star Timothy Olyphant is...

July 29th, 2009 | Read More

Olyphant in FX Channel’s Fire in the Hole

Timothy Olyphant must really like the idea of playing a U.S. marshal in the new TV series Fire in the Hole, because he’s putting aside a thriving movie career to take the lead in the new series for the FX Channel and creator/producer Graham Yost (“Speed”). According to THR, the show...

April 27th, 2009 | Read More