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Spoiler alert! If you haven’t seen Justified’s season 5 premiere, “A Murder of Crowes,” stop reading now. As he’ll do throughout the season, executive producer Graham Yost — who cowrote the episode, directed by Michael Dinner, with Ep Fred Golan — takes us inside the writers room.

Entertainment Weekly: As the writers convened for season 5, you began to talk about the things you wanted to do before the series ends its run (currently planned for six seasons). In addition to spending more time with Dewey Crowe (Damon Herriman), you wanted to pay tribute to the Crowe clan.

Graham Yost:...

Justified fans have plenty of reasons to look forward to season 5 (which begins Jan. 7 at 10 p.m. Et on FX). Top on the list: Fan favorite Dewey Crowe (Damon Herriman) is back and we’ll be meeting his Florida swamp cousins — led by Darryl Crowe Jr. (Michael Rapaport), this year’s Big Bad. “It’s that sense that they’re carrion birds,” executive producer Graham Yost says. “They come in, they’re invasive, they’re hard to get rid of. We meet essentially all of them in the first episode, then they start coming up to Kentucky and settle on...

Fox 2000's My Friend Flicka update is heating up as Tim McGraw, Alison Lohman and Summerland star Ryan Kwanten have signed on to the picture. Based on the novel by Mary O'Hara, Flicka is set against the backdrop of a modern-day ranch in Wyoming. It tells the story of Katie (Lohman), a teenager who dreams of running her family's ranch, much to the dismay of her father (McGraw); his hopes are pinned on her older brother. In the tale, Katie finds a wild horse she names Flicka and claims it for her own. An Australian native, Kwanten starred as Ricky "America" Brown in America Brown, which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the audience award for best film last year at the Montreal Film Festival. He will play Katie's brother, Howard.

Hill Harper and Natasha Lyonne are set for lead roles alongside Ryan Kwanten and Elodie Bouchez in the indie feature America Brown. Paul Black is directing from his own script. Currently lensing in New York, the project is described as a coming-of-age drama centering on a young West Texas quarterback and his relationship with a priest in New York. Harper stars as the priest, with Kwanten playing the quarterback and Lyonne and Bouchez starring as women who play important relationships in the lives of the two men.