This time the focus is on the anthrax attacks that killed five Americans in the weeks after 9/11. Sunday-Tuesday and streaming the next day on Hulu). Two-and-a-half years after “The Hot Zone” became National Geographic Channel’s most-watched scripted series, the network turned to the writers of the original, Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson, for a sequel: “The Hot Zone: Anthrax” (9 p.m.
“Hawkeye” features plenty of Marvel-standard action, but it’s the comedy and Christmas setting that make this entry stand out. More humor follows as Clint has to retrieve an item at a LARP (Live Action Role Players) festival where those guarding the gate insist he must participate to gain entry. “It gave us context for why Clint is in New York, context for Clint seeing himself in the way the world sees Hawkeye,” Feige said. In a recent virtual press conference for “Hawkeye,” director/executive producer Rhys Thomas said the scene started as an “innocent suggestion” that he tried to backtrack on but executive producer Kevin Feige loved the idea and enlisted Broadway composer/lyricist Marc Shaiman. Eventually, Hawkeye and Kate collide and he, somewhat reluctantly, becomes her mentor.īut first, he must survive a Christmastime trip to New York with his children, grimacing through an Avengers show on Broadway, “Rogers: The Musical,” featuring singing and dancing Avengers in what seems like a more rousing, less synth-heavy version of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.” If an extended cut of this musical number exists somewhere, please, Disney+, release it, pronto. She’s particularly taken with the work of Hawkeye.įast-forward almost a decade and 22-year-old Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) has become a skilled archer and Hawkeye’s biggest fan.
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The six-episode series opens in 2012 offering the perspective of a young girl in her family’s Manhattan apartment as the climactic events of “The Avengers” unfolds outside her window. What’s the best way to handle a humorless Avenger? Put him in as many scenes as possible where he’s made to feel uncomfortable and watch the comedy flow.īased on the first two episodes, now streaming, that’s the approach Disney+ takes with “Hawkeye,” which uses Clint “Hawkeye” Barton’s frequently dour mood to pretty good comedic effect. His mother doesn’t like to see him talking about being in prison anymore so he doesn’t want his mother to see him on camera, which is actually very charming.” “He has a new life and lives in Portugal now.
“He’s never wanted to discuss this on camera before,” Younger said. The Pittsburgh “Great Escapes” episode does include new on-camera interviews with corrections officials, Pontes and his former cellmate, Greg Quiring, but Pontes insisted on having his face pixelated. Younger said “Great Escapes” did not film in Pittsburgh, relying on stock footage, computer-generated renderings of the prison and live-action recreations filmed in Mississippi for all its first-season episodes. Pontes and his fellow escapees were recaptured and then spent time in solitary confinement. That was just so he could start digging the tunnel, not so he could get out of the prison.” And he used that Styrofoam cup impression to make a new key. “, Nuno Pontes, made a copy of a key by walking up behind the guard and using a Styrofoam cup and squeezing it against the key while it was on the guard’s belt. “Where the guys escaped Pittsburgh, they developed an entire winemaking operation as a cover for the truly illegal operation which was tunneling out of the prison,” Younger said. Executive producer James Younger said in choosing stories he tries to avoid tales of “genuinely bad guys” in favor of a focus on the resourcefulness and ingenuity of escapees.
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Tuesday, History Channel) devotes its full hour to a 1997 prison break from the former Western Pen (AKA the now-shuttered SCI Pittsburgh).įreeman, known for prison-set movie “The Shawshank Redemption,” hosts the series with each episode devoted to a different prison break. Next week’s episode of “Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman” (10 p.m.
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