Can Patrick Stewart be unlikable? Or can the urbane, gentlemanly British actor make you warm up to a pompous, hard-drinking, pill-popping cable TV news personality who does something so disreputable that The New York Times, Bill O'Reilly, and Anderson Cooper (fictionally) trash him for it. That seems to be the question Stewart and the Blunt Talk team at Starz — Jonathan Ames is the creator and head writer as well as executive producer with Seth McFarlane — seem sto be asking. Blunt Talk doesn't start its run on Starz until Aug. 22, but Stewart posted the first episode on his Facebook page over the weekend.
"My character Walter Blunt's behavior is a little embarrassing in this episode," Stewart wrote as way of introduction, "but I am proud of the show."
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