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When you return as many franchise series as CBS did this year, you don't change the schedule so much as shift the tiles around like a giant Rubik's Cube.

Many TV fans have become accustomed to seeing Timothy Olyphant as a man of the law on the FX series "Justified," and he'll wear a badge again in The Man on Carrion Road , a new indie from Atlas Independent, the indie arm of Atlas Entertainment, the company founded by The Dark Knight trilogy producer Charles Roven .

Jason Lynch profiles one of television's most talented character actors, Jere Burns, whose menacing performances stole our attention on Justified and Bates Motel this year.

Los Angeles News Group entertainment writer Rob Lowman's Emmy picks include Fox's "New Girl," HBO's "Phil Spector," "Veep" and "Behind the Candelabra," FX's "Justified," Netflix's "House of Cards," AMC's "Mad Men" and Netflix's "Arrested Development." The Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony isn't until Sept.

Hello. How are you? My name is Chris. I've been writing stuff about television shows for a little while.

Question: Looking at the Best Drama shortlist from last year as an example, do you think many of the usual suspects like Mad Men and Breaking Bad may have their best days behind them , along with Homeland seeming to have edged ever-so-slightly into ludicrousness , Downton Abbey now having a "perennial obligatory nominee" vibe, and Boardwalk Empire ... (more)

Timothy Olyphant says showbiz success is like a drug - 'the highs are tremendously high and hard to sustain' Timothy Olyphant, 44, burst on to the scene in Scream 2 and played the main baddie in Die Hard 4.0. He is currently in TV redneck cop drama Justified What's Justified about? It's set in Kentucky.

TV picks for Wednesday, May 1, 2013, include the season finale of "The Americans" on FX, "Family Tools" on ABC and "Chicago Fire" on NBC.

The most disturbing show on network television ends tonight, with Ryan Hardy in hot pursuit of bloodthirsty freak Joe Carroll , who's fleeing in a boat with their shared ex-lover . What's scarier: Carroll's torture techniques, or the fact that a show starring Kevin Bacon will probably be renewed for a second season? Because network executives are ... (more)

Leave it to the newcomer to the television production business to turn out the most interesting new drama of the spring season.

Ted Conover's article "The Way of All Flesh, " on what it's like to work as a meat inspector in a slaughterhouse is another brilliant example of immersion journalism from one of the best writers in America.