TV Talk: ‘American Rust’ needs extras; ‘Good Fight’ goes out swinging

Season two of Western Pennsylvania-set “American Rust,” which begins filming locally after Thanksgiving and will continue in production through early May, seeks “core background” extras, people with “availability to be on set when needed throughout the span of filming,” approximately 1 to 10 days per month. Extras are paid $175 for 12 hours.

The production seeks people ages 18-plus to play police, detective and administrators for a different precinct than in season one (extras who worked in Buell precinct in season one should not apply for these roles). The show also needs skilled labor types, lawyers, clerks and paralegals.

Covid vaccination is required. Apply at mossercasting.com/american-rust-season-2-core-bg/.

Amazon Freevee picked up “American Rust” in June after Showtime canceled the show in January.

‘The Good Fight’ ends

Paramount+’s “The Good Fight” ends on a strong, seemingly prescient episode, now streaming, as writers Michelle and Robert King bid farewell to this six-season series populated by some characters who date back to the debut of progenitor series “The Good Wife” in 2009. (Regarding the prescience, the show posits former President Trump will announce he’s running for president again today, Nov. 10; in reality it appears that may happen Tuesday, on Nov. 15.)

Rooted as it was in real-world, contemporary politics and culture, “The Good Fight” lost some of its punch with the end of the Trump administration. (Who do they fight against now?) The fifth season, in particular, proved a disappointment.

But in season six, the Kings managed the high-wire act of wrapping up the series with Easter eggs to longtime fans, whether it was the revelation of Peter Florrick’s incarceration status or last hurrahs from recurring characters Elsbeth Tascione (Carrie Preston), David Lee (Zach Greiner), Neil Gross (John Benjamin Hicket) and Felix Staples (John Cameron Mitchell), while still pushing the story toward a satisfactory conclusion.

The Kings, who co-wrote the finale with Robert directing, do as good a job as one possibly can, resolving Diane’s romantic strife in an episode that also dabbles in intra-Republican opposition research and a showstopper scene where the show’s opening credits of exploding phones, TVs and office knickknacks comes to life inside the show itself.

I love how the Kings chose to make Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) and Liz Reddick (Audra McDonald) friends in the end instead of rivals. They Kings also defied expectations with the Andre Braugher character, who proved more thoughtful and less of a showboat than his early appearances suggested.

In the end they give Diane a new adventure as her good fight continues.

Peacock adds affiliate livestreams

Streaming service Peacock will add livestreams of all NBC affiliate stations for premium plus subscribers beginning Nov. 30.

The livestream will include NBC’s “Today,” “The Tonight Show,” NBC prime-time and local newscasts all streaming in real time.

But the service will be geotargeted, so if you’re a snowbird in Miami hoping to see WPXI-TV, you won’t; you’ll see the Miami NBC affiliate instead.

Channel surfing

Travel Channel’s “Destination Fear” visits Cresson Sanatorium, 20 minutes by car southeast of Altoona, at 9 p.m. Nov. 25. … Pittsburgh native Summer Chastant’s web series that she created and stars in, “Namaste, [Witches],” returns for its second season Nov. 17 on YouTube. … The late Leslie Jordan is featured gifting a renovation to friends on HGTV’s “Celebrity IOU” (9 p.m. Nov. 14).