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New 'Hollow': Fox shakes things up for season 4 of 'Sleepy Hollow'

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Janina Gavankar joins the cast of "Sleepy Hollow"

Janina Gavankar joins the cast of "Sleepy Hollow"

New 'Hollow': "Sleepy Hollow" is leaving town, and not everyone is coming along. Fox's supernatural drama kicks off its fourth season Friday, Jan. 6, with a new setting, a host of new characters and a bunch of spooky new storylines.

In an interesting move, "Sleepy Hollow" no longer takes place in its namesake city in New York. Instead, the story moves to Washington, D.C., where Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison, "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen," 2011) picks up his supernatural investigations with a new cast of characters, following the untimely demise of his longtime companion, Abbie (Nicole Beharie, "Shame," 2011).

Filling Abbie's shoes is a big job, but the actor playing Ichabod's new partner is no stranger to the supernatural, even if her character is.

Janina Gavankar ("True Blood") joins the cast as Diana, a skeptical government agent and single mother who is forced into working with Crane, despite her lack of belief in anything supernatural -- a belief that puts her decidedly at odds with the man who's been ripped out of the 18th century.

For the role of Diana's daughter, former "MasterChef Junior" contestant Oona Yaffe has been tapped, while Rachel Melvin ("Dumb and Dumber To," 2014), Jeremy Davies ("Saving Private Ryan," 1998) and James Kyson ("NCIS: Los Angeles") also join the cast.

The new setting and characters are part of an overall shakeup for "Sleepy Hollow," following the departure of several of its regulars. Along with Beharie, both Lance Gross ("House of Payne") and Jessica Camacho ("Nikita"), who played FBI agents Daniel and Sophie, respectively, have also left the series. 

With all the changes afoot, "Sleepy Hollow's" fourth season promises to be a breath of fresh air. The supernatural drama returns Friday, Jan. 6, on Fox.

 

Sunny side up: The Paddy's Pub gang is back, and they're not going anywhere for a while. "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" returns for a jaw-dropping 12th season Wednesday, Jan. 4, on FXX, but even with a full dozen seasons to boast of, the end is nowhere in sight for this crude, raunchy and very, very adult comedy: two more seasons have already been approved by the network.

Veteran actor Danny DeVito ("Batman Returns," 1992) headlines the cast as Frank Reynolds, an intelligent but deluded underachiever who seemingly delights in seeing his adult children suffer.

Those two kids, twins Dennis (Glenn Howerton, "Crank," 2006) and Dee (Kaitlin Olson, "The Heat," 2013), run an Irish pub with their friends Charlie (Charlie Day, "Pacific Rim," 2013) and Mac (Rob McElhenney, "Unsupervised"). 

Unfortunately for the sanity of the other people in their lives, the four friends are cut from the same cloth as Frank. All five members of the gang are varying degrees of dishonest, greedy, lazy, egotistical, petty ... really, they're just terrible people, and each episode typically begins with one of them coming up with some sort of reprehensible, harebrained scheme.

The humor in "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" definitely isn't everyone's cup of tea. The show relishes pushing against boundaries and then breaking right through them, throwing itself with glee at subject matter from which other comedies would pull back.

The results are refreshing for some people, and an abhorrent, rude and crass show for others. Either way, its fandom is very real, and the show's popularity is keeping it around for at least three more seasons. 

"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" returns Wednesday, Jan. 4, on FXX.

 

Mind game: Things at TNT are about to get a little more alien -- not in the little grey men sense, but in a rather out-of-date way. TNT is ramping up to begin production on "The Alienist," a psychological thriller based on the 1994 novel of the same name by Caleb Carr. In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, doctors studying the emerging fields of psychiatry and psychology were often called alienists, and it's in this era that the psychological thriller is set. 

In the works since 2015, the adaptation stars Daniel Brühl ("Inglourious Basterds," 2009) as Dr. Kreizler, an alienist who's appointed by New York's police commissioner to conduct a secret investigation into the murders of several male prostitutes. Using the emerging fields of psychiatry and psychology (the practice of which has made him an outcast among the city's medical elite), the alienist tries to understand what makes the killer tick.

Luke Evans ("Fast & Furious 6," 2013) also stars as John, Kreizler's longtime friend who's asked to help with the investigation into what may be one of New York City's first serial killers.

With casting still ongoing, "The Alienist" is still in its early stages with no release date set.