The 100 Videos - 3/11/15
2.16 - "Blood Must Have Blood, Part 2"

Part two of the season two finale of The 100 airs Wednesday on The CW. There is both a sneak peek as well as an inside look to check out below. Don't miss The 100 season finale Wednesday at 9/8c!

Tonight Bates Motel returns to A&E for an all-new third season. In preparation, earlier in the week, star Vera Farmiga, who plays Norma Bates, and executive producer and co-creator, Kerry Ehrin, as well as writer and executive producer, Carlton Cuse, talked to the media about what’s to come this season, as well as plans for the future.

Ehrin talked to SciFi Vision about how Norma and Norman (Freddie Highmore)’s relationship is going to change this season as Norma starts to rely on his half-brother, Dylan (Max Thieriot), which causes jealousy in her son.

“Well, the relationship with Norma and Norman is so peculiarly close. And because it is so co-dependent, and because they have this sense that they sort of emotionally need each other to survive, the presence of someone else in that universe is threatening. And Norma is in a stronger place, and she's in a more desperate place at the same time.

“So she is a little more open to Dylan. And she's kind of reaching out more to him. But Norman, who has basically stayed in the world for his mom, at this point, feels incredibly threatened by it.”

AMC ANNOUNCES TWO-SEASON ORDER FOR A COMPANION SERIES TO “THE WALKING DEAD” (TITLE TBD)
 
New Series Will Air Day-and-Date on AMC Global
 
NEW YORK, NY – March 9, 2015 – AMC today announced that it has placed an initial two-season order for a companion series to “The Walking Dead,” the #1 show on television among adults 18-49 for going on three seasons.
 
The new series (title to be announced) will be set in Los Angeles and focused on new characters and storylines. The show’s first season will consist of six one-hour episodes and premiere on AMC in late summer. The show’s second season will air in 2016.

Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, Greg Nicotero and David Alpert from “The Walking Dead” are executive producers of the new series, which, like the original, is being produced by AMC Studios. Dave Erickson (“Marco Polo,” “Sons of Anarchy”), who co-created and co-wrote the pilot with Kirkman, is an executive producer and showrunner. The series will star Cliff Curtis (“Missing,” “Gang Related”), Kim Dickens (Gone Girl, “Sons of Anarchy”), Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) and Alycia Debnam Carey (Into the Storm).

HBO TO LAUNCH STANDALONE PREMIUM STREAMING SERVICE IN APRIL


 
APPLE TO OFFER HBO SUBSCRIPTION FOR FIRST TIME THROUGH HBO NOW
 
SAN FRANCISCO, March 9, 2015 – Home Box Office announced today the name of its standalone premium streaming service – HBO NOW – and that the service will launch this April, bringing the highly anticipated new product to audiences in time for the fifth season of Game of Thrones. HBO and Apple also announced that for the first time an HBO subscription will be made available directly to Apple customers through HBO NOW.
 
HBO NOW provides instant access to HBO’s acclaimed programming. Watch every episode of every season of the best series programming, more of the biggest and latest Hollywood hit movies, original HBO Films, groundbreaking documentaries, sports and comedy and music specials. To subscribe to the streaming service HBO NOW, consumers only need the internet.

Wednesday, star of ABC Family's Switched at Birth, Katie Leclerc, talked to the media about her work on the show, currently in its fourth season. Leclerc plays the character of Daphne vasquez, who is hearing-impaired, and comes to discover she was switched at birth. Leclerc has also appeared on television in series such as The Big Bang Theory and Community and will be starring in the upcoming film, Mesmerized.

To get the review up right away this week, I decided to post the review part of the post mortem quickly. The recap, as well as my roundup of the questions and answers, will come later.

Please be aware that if you haven't seen tonight's new episode yet, there will be spoilers. It has only aired on the east coast.