Oklahoma’s Christian Kane returns for Season Two of “Almost Paradise”

Midweek update: Comic-Con hits San Diego this week despite Hollywood strikes

Norman, Oklahoma native Christian Kane is back for the second series of his adventure series “Almost Paradise,” hitting the Freevee app on July 21.  

Here’s the description of the series from Amazon Freevee: 

Alex Walker (Christian Kane), a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent forced into early retirement has moved to a small tropical island in the Philippine archipelago. The combination of his partner’s betrayal and a life-threatening battle with hypertension has sent him to run the gift shop in the island’s luxury resort hotel, which attracts the rich, powerful, and sometimes criminal elite from around the world. Despite his best efforts to transition from Jason Bourne to Jimmy Buffett, Alex is pulled back into a world of dangerous people and deadly situations—either through his friends in the local police, Kai Mendoza (Samantha Richelle) and Ernesto Alamares (Art Acuña), or encounters with people from his old life. And the problem is…he likes it.

“Almost Paradise” was shot in the Philippines; all 10 episodes will be available to stream on Freevee on July 21 in the U.S. and U.K. Season 1 is currently available to stream for viewers aiming to catch up on the series. 

Kane, who attended Norman High and Norman’s Longfellow Middle School, has starred on series including “Angel,” “Leverage,” and “The Librarians.”  

Comic-Con continues on despite Hollywood strikes 

Comic-Con: International in San Diego is set for July 20-23, and while the ongoing Hollywood strikes have dampened a lot of the regular excitement, announcements concerning the comic-book source material are still expected to come from the event at a fairly regular clip over the next few days.  

Neither Disney nor Warner Bros. has large presentations set; with the actor’s strike, the wow factor of having stars on hand to promote the upcoming films is a no-go. It may be hard for the various large entertainment conglomerates to get positive coverage on film projects with the strikes underway; as it is, most of them are passing on significant Comic-Con exposure. 

The Hollywood Reporter has a big writeup on what’s at stake in the writer’s and actor’s strikes (short answer: a lot), indicating this could be the most significant work stoppage in memory for the Hollywood machine.

With movie news likely to be scant at best coming from Comic-Con, keep your eyes out for interesting comics news coming out of the con, like the just-announced Dracula series from Image (see Friday’s column), Zoe Thorogood’s upcoming “Hack/Slash” miniseries, or Stuart Moore and June Brigman’s return to the cats-in-space sci-fi epic “Captain Ginger.” 

Matthew Price, matthew@matthewlprice.com, has written about the comics industry for more than two decades. He is the co-owner of Speeding Bullet Comics in Norman, Oklahoma.