Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who’s ready for AMC’s return to Netflix. The basic cable network helped shape the most recent golden age of television with the likes of “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad,” in part thanks to streaming subscribers being able to discover and catch up on its shows in the off-season. Now, a new generation of acclaimed AMC series is newly available on the platform, including this week’s recommendations, “Preacher” and “Gangs of London,” as well as “Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire,” “Dark Winds,” several “Walking Dead” spin-offs and more.
Plus, our TV critic celebrates the arrival on streaming of the classic cop drama “Homicide: Life on the Street,” and Minnie Driver stops by to discuss playing Elizabeth I in Starz’s “The Serpent Queen.” ICYMI Must-read stories you might have missed ‘Traitors,’ ‘MasterChef,’ ‘The Mole’: As more reality shows move abroad, the jobs leave too : As reality TV takes a hit amid a slowdown in Hollywood production, crew members lament the loss of jobs to “runaway production,” cutbacks and consolidation. In a new documentary, Scott Peterson presents alternate theory of his wife’s murder : In his first on-camera interview in nearly 20 years, Scott Peterson maintains his innocence in the 2002 murder of his wife, Laci, and their unborn child.
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