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  • Katey Sagal, Stephen Moyer Set to Star in New FX Series By Kurt Sutter, ‘The Bastard Executioner’

    Katey Sagal and Stephen Moyer are set to star in a new FX Series.

    Now that Sons of Anarchy and True Blood are over, fans have been a little bummed. However, this new FX series may be just what fans need to cheer up.

    SOA‘s Katey Sagal and True Blood‘s Moyer are set to costar in the period drama The Bastard Executioner, the new series by SOA creator and Sagal’s husband Kurt Sutter.

    The plot follows a warrior knight, played by Australian newcomer Lee Jones, who finds himself discouraged from the savagery of war but is forced to fight once again for King Edward I.

    Moyer will play “a street-smart and noble savvy, and one of Ventris’ former marshals in the army who now, serves as his chamberlain, chancellor and justiciar – and friend and drinking mate,” Variety reported.

    Katey Sagal will play Annora of the Alders, described as “prescient, mystical and beautiful. She offers predictions, cures and potions,” according to Variety.

    The Bastard Executioner also stars Sutter, Flora Spencer-Longhurst, Sam Spruell, Darren Evans, Danny Sapani, Timothy V. Murphy, Sarah White and Sarah Sweeny.

    Another FX regular Matthew Rhys of The Americans will guest star on the series.

    Paris Barclay will direct the pilot and produce alongside Brian Grazer and Francie Calfo.

    Shooting is set to begin March 19 in Wales.

  • Charlie Hunnam Talks ‘Sons’ Series Finale

    Charlie Hunnam Talks ‘Sons’ Series Finale

    Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam sat down with Sons creator Kurt Sutter to discuss the ultimate fate of the lead character Jax, after the series finale was broadcast on December 9.

    During a segment entitled After Anarchy, Hunnam relayed his thoughts on the demise of his character, whose last moments involved a suicidal head-on collision with a big-rig, while he was being chased by a multitude of police officers on his motorcycle.

    Hunnam, 34, remarked, “The thing that I loved about the way you chose to end the show… for me, it felt like the greatest celebration of who Jax was. I got the sense that being away from the family and being away from the club, there was no real happiness for him. And I felt truly in my heart, as the man who was so close to this character in those final moments, that he had found true peace and happiness, and I walk away from this celebrating his life and feeling as though he did exactly what he set out to do.”

    Sons of Anarchy concerned the dealings of a gun-running motorcycle gang called SAMCRO, in the fictional California town of Charming. Hunnam’s character eventually became the president of the club, as the series progressed over seven seasons.

    Sons stars Katey Sagal, Theo Rossi and Kim Coates attempt to explain the show in 30 seconds:

    Hunnam, who made headlines after backing out of the lead role in the upcoming soft-core bondage drama Fifty Shades of Grey added, “He’s (Jax Teller) got himself into a bind. He’s in a corner and decided that the only way to extract himself from this situation and keep everyone in tact was to remove himself completely. And like we discussed, I think there was a great sense of peace and liberation that came with that decision.”

    Hunnam will next appear in director Guillermo del Toro’s gothic romance Crimson Peak in 2015.

  • Katey Sagal Dishes on Tuesday’s Shocking ‘Sons of Anarchy’ Episode

    Katey Sagal, 60, spoke out Wednesday following Tuesday’s shocking Sons of Anarchy episode that still has fans of the show trying to reconcile what exactly happened last night.

    In the pre-final episode of Sons of Anarchy Tuesday night, fans collectively gasped at the death of Katey Sagal’s character, Gemma Teller.

    “I was glad I made it to 12,” Sagal told Vulture, referring to the fact that her character lasted until the second to last episode of the 13-episode final season. “You never know with this show.”

    Sagal‘s character was killed by her son Jax, played by Charlie Hunnam, in retaliation for her killing his wife Tara.

    “I knew I was going to come to my demise about three or four episodes into this season … Kurt told Charlie and me at the same time that Gemma was going to die at the hands of her son,” she said.

    The Married With Children alum admitted that filming the final scene with Hunnam and her husband, Kurt Sutter, was “extremely emotional.”

    “It almost makes me cry talking about it. It was very sweet — those last moments before Charlie and I walked out to the garden, we were just crying and hugging each other, and then we’d roll … It wasn’t only Jax and Gemma’s farewell, it was Katey and Charlie’s farewell after working together for seven years,” she said.

    Sagal explained why her character turned her back so her son could shoot her.

    “It’s part of her mothering and loving him that she feels he needs to kill whoever killed Tara. She feels like she’s doing him that favor. It’s that, combined with the fact that she’s too afraid to do it herself. She needs him to help her do that, and to do it for himself,” she said.

    The series finale of Sons of Anarchy airs next Tuesday on FX.

  • Katey Sagal Talks ‘Sons of Anarchy’ Tuesday Shocker

    Katey Sagal, in her role as Jax Teller’s mom Gemma Teller Morrow, committed an unthinkable crime on Sons of Anarchy. And on Tuesday evening a plot twist likely shocked fans. If you didn’t see the December 2nd episode yet, then read no further, as there are spoilers in the following text.

    Katey Sagal dished about the episode shocker with People magazine, and shared her points of view as both an actress as well as the character she is no doubt best known for portraying.

    Tuesday’s episode was titled ‘The Rose,’ and in it Jax Teller, played by Charlie Hunnam, gunned down his mother, Gemma, after he learned that it was she who murdered his wife, Tara. Take a deep breath, digest that notion, and proceed.

    Kate Sagal was asked if the plan had always been to take out Gemma execution style.

    “There were lots of conversations about what happens to her before it was finally decided how she would die. For a character like Gemma, even to live is like, what’s worse? At the point you see her in the episode, death is a relief. It all caught up to her. By forming that, then there were conversations about what would be the most fitting, most horrible way for her to die,” Sagal explained.

    Katey admits that the day they shot the scene was very emotional.

    “Charlie [Hunnam] and I cried a lot,” she said. “It’s how Sons of Anarchy has always been. Everybody goes there. I remember right before I walk out of that living room and toward the rose garden, Charlie and I just hugged each other, really hugged each other, because it was also goodbye for Katey and Charlie after seven years. It was very emotional in a beautiful way. It wasn’t torturous. It was kind of a relief. We’ll all been building to this moment for this last season, and have all been in our own forms of denial by not really dealing with it ending. But on that day, there was no turning back. It was extremely emotional.”

    Life will now be very different for Katey Sagal. Her husband, Kurt Sutter, is the show’s creator. Since Sons of Anarchy is nearing its series finale, what’s on the horizon for these two?

    “Kurt has already jumped into The Bastard Executioner because that’s what he does. In his way, that’s his way of dealing with that door closing. I think he feels very satisfied with this coming to an end. And I do, as well. I’ve jumped right into a movie,” she explains. “We keep doing what we do. Luckily we have family and children and all the things that balance your life. Nobody is like, sad. It’s been such a great ride and we have no regret. I wouldn’t say it ended too soon and I didn’t feel like it went too long. It ended at the right time. There’s something really great about that.”

    So what’s next for Katey Sagal?

    “I’m doing the movie called Bleed for This that’s based on the true life story of a boxer named Vinny Pazienza. I play his mom. It’s completely different. I’m blonde! It’s period thing, a really good thing,” she says.

    If you didn’t see Tuesday night’s episode of Sons of Anarchy, and decided to read this article anyway, you still have lots in store when you turn on your DVR or head to ‘On Demand.’

    Next Tuesday is the series finale for Sons of Anarchy. You can be sure that Katey Sagal will be watching. Be sure to check out ‘The Rose’ before you watch the finale.

  • Katey Sagal of ‘Sons of Anarchy’ Reveals Her Beauty Regimen

    Sons of Anarchy star Katey Sagal recently spoke about her beauty regimen at the New York City premiere of Fargo.

    “I take really good care of myself … I don’t smoke and I don’t drink. I sleep a lot, I just think it’s an inside job too. I think it’s attitude, a lot of it’s attitude. I try to have a good one.”

    The 60-year-old actress, who has been described as “basically ageless,” currently stars as amoral matriarch Gemma Teller Morrow on the FX drama series Sons of Anarchy. Sagal’s husband Kurt Sutter is the show’s creator and executive producer.

    The series’ seventh and final season is set to premiere in September.

    “I haven’t gotten sad, I’m sort of not in that yet,” Sagal said. “I’m just not thinking about that. I suppose it will get sad. This one I’m sure there will be sad moments, but it has been an amazing ride.”

    In 2011 Sagal won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Television Series Drama for her Sons of Anarchy role.

    Prior to Sons of Anarchy, Sagal was best known as Peggy Bundy on the long-running sitcom Married … with Children. The series ran for an impressive eleven seasons from 1987 to 1997.

    Soon after the launch of Sons of Anarchy in 2008, Sagal said “I wanted to do something different, to stretch, and this has provided that … I don’t want to kill Peggy Bundy. I would just like her to step aside.”

    Apparently it wasn’t easy getting Peggy to step aside:

    “I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn’t have big red hair and wear high heels constantly … It was just really ingrained in people.”

    Between the two series, Sagal appeared in several film and television productions, most notably 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter and Futurama. She recently starred with Brittany Snow and Rumer Willis in There’s Always Woodstock, which premiered in March at the Gasparilla International Film Festival in Tampa, FL.

    “I don’t know yet [what’s next],” Sagal said of her future. “I’m about to go back out there and see, see what happens next, so. I have been so blessed and so grateful to have had this job and the previous ones I’ve had. I feel very fortunate to have been here to have found this and to have [Kurt] write it for me.”

    Image via Wikimedia Commons

  • Kurt Sutter In Twitter Feud With Reality Show Bikers

    Kurt Sutter, the creator of “Sons Of Anarchy”, knows a thing or two about motorcycle gangs; he’s made them his life since 2008, when he brought the Sons to our television screens (and our hearts), and he reportedly spent time with an outlaw biker gang as research for the show. But when he gave an opinion on the reality show “The Devils Ride” via Twitter recently, the members of the group featured on the show took offense, and a bit of a feud has been sparked.

    Sutter began the back-and-forth with the question of whether or not the show was still on, slamming the bikers by saying they weren’t as hard as the actors on his show.

    Soon after, a member of the gang the Laffing Devils–Mad Max–replied, prompting Sutter to respond with a cheeky observation.

    The “fat one from “The Wonder Years” Sutter is referring to is Jason Hervey, who played Wayne on the classic ’80s show and is the creator of “The Devils Ride”. Hervey had a few things of his own to say to Sutter:

    So far, that’s been the last word, but it probably won’t stay that way.

    Image via Wikimedia Commons

  • Sons of Anarchy Kills Major Character

    Sons of Anarchy Kills Major Character

    Before you read on, be wary that this article contains major spoilers and plot point discussion for the FX series Sons of Anarchy. If you haven’t seen the show, or the most recent episode, I recommend you stop reading… now.

    Leading into this week, the boys of SAMCRO were prepared to end their gun-dealing relationship with the real IRA by liberating ex-president Clay Morrow (Ron Perlman) from an in-transit prison truck. Morrow was going to take over position of “supervisor of Irish gun distribution” on the West Coast.

    Well, that didn’t really go as planned. When the Sons liberated Clay, they executed IRA gun-dealer Galen O’Shea, and staged a firefight in an airport office, where a slow-paced scene showcased the emotional execution of Morrow’s character.

    EntertainmentWeekly caught up with both showrunner Kurt Sutter and Ron Perlman.

    When asked about the decision to kill Clay now, Sutter said, “Ultimately he made choices that hurt a lot of other people, that came back to hurt him. And for me, the betrayal of Gemma at the end of last season was the thing that broke him. Once she broke that connection, once she said okay, you’re too despicable for me and to the point where she betrayed him, then it really became the beginning of the end for him.”

    Sutter added, “I didn’t suddenly expect people to turn around and have compassion for this guy, though I think a lot of people were wondering, oh, yes, it’s all a plan. It’s all a play. He’s got something else up his sleeve because that’s who Clay is… He really does want to do the right thing by Gemma. And so, that by [the 10th episode] when you think okay, they’ve done everything they could to keep this guy alive and they’re going to keep him alive … when you have some sense that maybe you don’t hate Clay as much as you used to … that’s when we kill Clay.”

    Perlman likened the role to that of Claudius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a story Sutter has admitted he borrowed from. “Claudius doesn’t make it to Act 5,” Perlman said, “so I was ready for this.”

    When the interviewer asked Perlman about the Hamlet connection, he said “Anything you’re going to assume about Sons of Anarchy is pure speculation. We’ve already seen that Hamlet is the superstructure … the guy who kills the king and marries the queen and takes over the crown. The stepson who’s trying to put all this together with the help of these voices that are visiting him in the form of the manuscript.”

    “When you put on that crown, some sh– happens and it ain’t pretty and it ain’t ordered and it almost controls you,” Perlman said of Jax’s ascension. “I wouldn’t be surprised if the seventh season is going to really shine a light on the price that Jax Teller plays, simply because he’s risen to this level of power.”

    [Image via YouTube]

  • “Sons of Anarchy” Season 6 Premiere Has ‘Controversial’ Scene

    Fans have been patiently awaiting the sixth season of Sons of Anarchy since the final moment of the December 4 episode, and they need only wait a little over a month now.

    The show is known for being grisly and shocking, but one scene in this season’s first episode may be a bit much for some viewers.

    On Friday, at the Television Critics Association 2013 Summer press tour, the show’s creator, Kurt Sutter, spoke about the scene that has so many people talking.

    Sutter told reporters, “I’ve wanted to do that story for about three years. I knew it would be somewhat controversial, but I feel like as much as I wouldn’t do something [just] because it was controversial, I’m also not going to do something because it is controversial. …There’s a lot of blood and guts in my show – it’s a signature of the show. But I feel like nothing is done gratuitously. …I am not trying to make a statement. This is a story that’s not being done to be sensational.”

    For those who want a spoiler, the scene is of a school shooting that a young boy is responsible for.

    “It is truly the catalyst for the third act of our morality play. It sets everything in motion for this season that will ultimately lead to the end that then will bring us into the final season and what I see as the ultimate comeuppance of everything in terms of the series,” Sutter explains.

    The new promo for the show is circulating, and Sutter posted it to his Twitter account.

    Viewers can expect longer episodes this season, with at least 15-30 minutes more on each hour-long episode. Sutter also said that if the seventh season will indeed be the last, FX will oblige more episodes to give the show the ending it deserves.

    The sixth season of Sons of Anarchy premieres Tuesday, September 10 at 10/9c on FX.

  • Sons of Anarchy’s Kurt Sutter Quits Twitter, Says We Are Nation of Soundbites

    It fills me with great sorrow to report that Sons of Anarchy creator and controversial tweeter Kurt Sutter has decided to throw in the towel. Sutter has deactivated his twitter account, leaving behind only fond memories of an honest micro-blogger who didn’t mince words.

    With his departure, he has left a question hanging in the air: What are the merits of 140 character communication?

    Sutter gained a reputation online as a guy with a lot of opinions, and as a guy that wasn’t afraid to share his opinions with the world. In July, Sutter went on a now legendary Twitter rant over the Emmy Academy’s complete snub of his show Sons of Anarchy. Not only do I agree with him that the show got the shaft, but I thought his ranting was awesome, rage poetry if you will. Others failed to see the humor in it and that led to Sutter railing against those people when it was all said and done.

    The most recent incident to cause a stir involved comments he made about the messy situation over at the AMC network. Various contract disputes have plagued the network’s top three shows Mad Men, Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead. Most recently, Walking Dead‘s Frank Darabont made an unexpected exit from the show. Sutter tweeted his opinions on the situation, blaming Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner for the problems –


    Why Darabont got fired – Weiner. He held AMC hostage, broke their bank, budgets were slashed, shit rolled down hill onto [Breaking Bad creator Vince] Gilligan and Frank. No one else wants to fucking say it, but the greed of Mad Men is killing the other two best shows on TV — Breaking Bad and Walking Dead.

    I don’t know [Weiner], got no beef with him. Just hate that Darabont is being demonized. No one has the balls to tell the truth. [Mad Men] gutted AMC.

    Apparently, after that last series of tweets, Sutter made a decision about Twitter and his personality. He came to the conclusion that Twitter is for people with filters, and he has none. Here is his final tweet, from yesterday –

    twitter was a fun ride. all my comments were done in the service of free speech, humor and fan interaction. but ultimately, me having an instantaneous outlet for my darker impulses is not a good thing. i’m a guy who needs filters. lots of them. it seems that my opinions turn into headlines and my black humor turns into tabloid fodder. clearly my 140 characters are causing more harm than good

    Sutter promised to still run his blog, where he posted about quitting Twitter –

    The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what’s happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else — we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge. Headlines, spin, soundbites. We want other people to tell us what we should think. It’s just cleaner and easier that way.

    Sutter paints a pretty bleak picture of Twitter and really the internet culture in general. Nobody can argue that social media has given us both an incredible access to more information than we’ve ever had before and faster, at that – but is it too limiting?

    Sure, some thoughts need more than 140 characters to complete. But sometimes limiting yourself to 140 characters is a great way to streamline concepts and ideas. No fluff – just the most basic form of any statement. Conciseness is clarity, right?

    With social media, there are virtually no barriers between a thought and publication. When it hits your brain, it’s on the internet within minutes (or seconds if you’re fast on the qwerty). Personally, I loved Sutter’s filter-less presence on Twitter, but his tweet-saga does prove a valuable lesson: For those of us with quick brains and a lack of self-regulation, social media can be dangerous at times.

  • Sons of Anarchy’s Kurt Sutter Goes On Awesome Twitter Rampage Following Emmy Snub

    As you all probably know, the Emmy nominations were unveiled yesterday. The Emmys, even more than the Oscars in some regards, are notorious for astonishing snubs that make you question yourself, gravity and even humanity. See: The Wire. But that’s a whole other article.

    This year, in the Best Drama category we have the HBO series’ Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones. We also have Showtime’s Dexter and AMC’s Mad Men. Rounding out the group is the NBC turned DirecTV hit Friday Night Lights.

    Absent from that list is FX’s Sons of Anarchy. And in my opinion it is definitely an injustice that Sons‘ unbelievably great season wasn’t valued higher than the meh season that Mad Men threw our way.

    Another snub of Sons of Anarchy, according to many, is the lack of Katey Sagal’s name in the Lead Actress category. Even more than the show getting left out of the Best Drama category, this is truly an injustice. Sagal’s Gemma Teller doesn’t just hold the show together, she’s brilliant.

    The show’s creator Kurt Sutter was a little miffed by the Emmy noms yesterday, and took to Twitter to express his feelings. What followed was a hilarious, quite NSFW rant that spanned almost 20 tweets. Seriously, it’s great. Here’s how he started it –

    @sutterink
    kurt sutter    my very classy, ever grateful and humble wife forbade me from using the word CUNT today. so i’ll wait till midnight to address the emmy noms 20 hours ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    He then discusses his feeling about Glee – first hostile, and later laudatory (kind of) –

    @sutterink
    kurt sutter    fuck glee. hate those annoying, “please accept me for who i am”, singing brats. there, i said it. are you happy? 20 hours ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    @sutterink
    kurt sutter    @PJASchultz i love ryan murphy. he’s always very cool with me. love glee too. just tired of all the jizz piling up at its feet. 16 hours ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    Sutter also discussed other snubs, including David Simon’s Treme and Frank Darabont –

    @sutterink
    kurt sutter    me, david simon and frank darabont are meeting at home depot to rent chainsaws and woodchippers. 20 hours ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    Sutter then discusses sucking up to the academy, and his opinion of that practice –

    @sutterink
    kurt sutter    the worse part of not getting any emmy nods is all the wasted blowjobs i gave at the academy picnic. my breath still smells like sour amonia 16 hours ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    @sutterink
    kurt sutter    best part of not getting an emmy nod. now i don’t have to pretend i give a shit about the profiteering douchebag academy. 16 hours ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    @sutterink
    kurt sutter    because you know if we were nominated i’d be all humble and blowing smoke up their asses. now i can stay true to myself and just be a dick. 16 hours ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    The funniest tweets come from Sutter talking about the age of the academy –

    @sutterink
    kurt sutter    if my mom and dad were alive this emmy snub would kill them. that’s not true, they were too old to understand my show. just like the academy 15 hours ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    @sutterink
    kurt sutter    these two academy member walk into a bar. one orders a beer. then they both die because they’re so fucking old. 15 hours ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    @sutterink
    kurt sutter    saw two academy members on the gold course. one asked the other what club to use. then they both died because they were so fucking old. 15 hours ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    At the end of the show, Sutter tweeted this –

    @sutterink
    kurt sutter    you do know that i’m really okay with no noms right? if i was really upset, i wouldn’t be ranting. i’d be plotting. i’m all about the love. 15 hours ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    @sutterink
    kurt sutter    those who got the joke, laughed. those who didn’t, published a story. so sad that greedy media whores must turn good fun into nasty business 5 hours ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    Well, I published a story and I laughed. Honestly and having no filter are two qualities I truly love, and this rant exhibited both.

    What do you think about the Emmy noms? Did your favorite shows get snubbed? And what to you think about Kurt Sutter’s Twitter activity? Let us know in the comments.