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Sleepy Hollow Revisted

How do you tell the Sleepy Hollow story to an audience who has seen and heard the story countless times? By creating a little humor in all the drama of course.  Fox’s Sleepy Hollow premiered in September 2013 to a raving 10.1 million viewers – one of the highest rated season premiers this year on Fox.   New to the American silver screen Tom Mison plays Icabod Crane who is killed in 1781 by the Headless Horseman (who he kills as well) and is reawakened in 2013 along with the Headless Horseman.  Nicole Beharie plays Lt. Abbie Mills crosses paths with Crane after her partner is decapitated by the Headless Horseman. She is the only one who slightly believes him and they are paired together – reluctantly – by the chief of police Frank Irving (Orlando Jones) when events start occurring in Sleepy Hollow that cannot be explained.  Trying to find the truth as to why Crane awoke at all let alone in 2013 and dealing with life creates a bond between Abbie and Crane and w...

Whodunnit - A Summer Sensation

Whodunnit.   You hear the words and think of mystery, intrigue, suspense and murder.   In the summer of 2013 you think of a new summer series on ABC about a group of 13 people from all walks of life who come together to Rue Manor to solve a murder. Every day. The twist – the Killer is among them. Their goal which has $250,000 at the end of it, is to be the last one alive in the house with the Killer.   Theories abound, mysteries are unmasked making way for more mysteries and everyone is suspected, even the butler Giles.   But in the end 1 person would walk away with a quarter of a million dollars and the other would walk out of Rue Manor in handcuffs.   Let the murders begin. The 13 cast members were from all walks of life – a former Miss Nevada and a bar trivia host to a Homeland Security lawyer and a bounty hunter.   Alliances are made, plots were twisted and the game changed every second.     If you stepped away from the TV you would h...