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PAGE 26 • TV THE BULLETIN • FEBRUARY 18 - 24, 2021 What’s Available NOW On “Harrow” Ioan Gruffudd (“Liar,” the “Horatio Hornblower” series of TV movies) returns for the third season of this Australian drama in which he stars as a forensic pathologist with an unfailing empathy for the dead and a total disregard for authority. Jolene Anderson, Mirrah Foulkes, Remy Hii and Anna Lise Phillips also star. “Movie: 12 Hour Shift” It’s Elvis! Elvis! Elvis! all the time in this lightweight 1962 musical comedy in which he stars as a penniless Hawaiian fishing guide caught between two women (Stella Stevens, Laurel Goodwin) while trying to figure out a way to buy the sailboat he built with his father after his boss decides to retire. Jeremy Slate and Benson Fong also star. From writer/director Brea Grant (“Best Friends Forever”) comes this 2020 gorefest about the bloody havoc that results when a junkie nurse and her deranged cousin try to find a replacement kidney for an organ trafficker. Angela Bettis (“May”), David Arquette (the “Scream” movies) and Chloe Farnworth (“Other Monsters”) head the cast. Checking in with DAMSON IDRIS BY GEORGE DICKIE “Movie: The United States vs. Billie Holiday” “Movie: Girls! Girls! Girls!” When Damson Idris first landed the role of drug dealer Franklin Saint in the FX crime drama “Snowfall,” he spent some time in South Central Los Angeles to research how such a character would walk, talk and interact with others. Now, with three seasons gone by and a fourth premiering Wednesday, Feb. 24, the 29-year-old British actor has gotten plenty of validation from the people from that neighborhood. “You talk about people like YG, Nipsey Hussle, the Game, Dub C, Snoop Dogg,” he says, “these are all people I knew personally, who sat me down, looked me in the face and said, ‘Job well done. You look like, sound like, walk, talk, act like the guys I grew up with.’ ... And I was just really blessed and honored to receive their blessing and to receive their salute because they were the true people who I wanted to impress.” As the new season opens, it’s now 1985 and the crack epidemic is raging, which is good for Franklin’s business but bad for the neighborhood where he lives. He’s also in a weakened state and walking with a limp, having been shot by on-and-off girlfriend Melody (Reign Edwards) in the Season 3 finale. Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Andra Day has the title role in director Lee Daniels’ (“Precious,” “The Butler”) drama movie set in the 1940s and follows the jazz legend as she’s targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics in a sting operation led by an agent (Trevante Rhodes) with whom she had a tumultuous affair. Natasha Lyonne, Garrett Hedlund and Rob Morgan also star. (ORIGINAL) “This season, we find Franklin with a broken spirit,” Idris explains. “He’s less sure of himself, less sure of whether he can actually be the boss and take control of this empire and take control of this inner and outer conflict that’s happening around him. So he’s obviously been shot three times and he’s very weak physically but he’s also weak mentally. And as the season progresses, we’re witnessing Franklin come back into his own.” Full name: Damson Idris Birth date: Sept. 2, 1991 Birthplace: London Education: Has a bachelor of arts degree in theater, film and television studies from Brunei University in London Family ties: Was raised by a single mother with three brothers and two sisters TV credits: “Miranda,” “The Missing,” “Babylon,” “Doctors,” “Casualty,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Black Mirror” Movie credits: “My Brother the Devil” (2012), “City of Tiny Lights” (2016), “Megan Leavey” (2017), “The Commuter” (2018), “Astral” (2018), “Farming” (2018), “Outside the Wire” (2021)