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Tonight (July 12) at 9pm ET, Lifetime premieres the network’s latest original series, an hourlong dramedy called Drop Dead Diva.
The show stars stage actress Brooke Elliott in her first television role. She plays Jane Bingum, a brilliant attorney whose body is taken over by a vapid model after the latter dies and gets another chance at life. Veteran standup comic and actress Margaret Cho co-stars as Jane’s faithful assistant Teri.
Meet both cast members in the videos after the jump before checking out the newcomer on TV later tonight.

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First Tuesdays, then Thursdays, and now this.
Don’t bother tuning in to TNT on Thursday nights at 8pm ET anymore to catch the latest fresh episode of the new original reality series Wedding Day. The network has once again moved the show to a different time slot, quietly and with no effort wasted on notifying viewers who happen to like the series.
As of now and until it’s moved yet again — although where it would go besides entirely off the air, I have no idea — Wedding Day will debut new episodes on Saturday mornings (yes, mornings!) at 9am ET (yes, …read more

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Basic cable network TV Land plans to air a variety of special programming this weekend in tribute to actress Farrah Fawcett, who passed away at age 62 after a long battle with cancer, and recording artist Michael Jackson, who passed away at age 50 after a heart attack. Both entertainment icons died on Thursday, June 25.
Says TV Land president Larry W. Jones: “Airing these tributes allows our viewers to remember and understand the legacies that will continue into the future. We invite our audience to remember where they were the first time they heard The Jackson 5 singing …read more

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One thing I’ve always said about TNT’s Saving Grace is that the show is very much an acquired taste. That’s the trait that kept me from liking the cop drama for more than a season, and once I forced myself to give it a second chance and sit through an entire episode, that’s the trait that also made it grow on me. Fortunately, Holly Hunter’s Grace Hanadarko and her familiar Oklahoma City Police Department colleagues are still chugging along on the fine line between irritating and gripping during tonight’s (June 16) Season Three premiere “We’re Already Here.”

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Film actress Jada Pinkett Smith both stars in and executive produces the medical drama HawthoRNe, TNT’s latest original series aimed at expanding the network’s reputation as an outlet for TV shows featuring strong and complicated female leads.
Smith plays the title character, Christina Hawthorne, the Chief Nursing Officer at Virginia’s Richmond Trinity Hospital. She’s also a recently widowed single mother of a difficult teenage daughter named Camille (Hannah Hodson) following her late husband’s death from cancer one year ago.

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TNT has a dramatic night of premieres in store for viewers today (June 16), and kicking it all off at 8pm ET is the basic-cable network’s first-ever unscripted series Wedding Day. The newcomer has prestigious backers — Mark Burnett Productions and DreamWorks Television — and a prominent pair of hosts, upscale event planner Alan Dunn and high-end wedding designer Diann Valentine, both of whom do much of their work in the extravagant and demanding celebrity world.
Since I’m not a fan of most reality shows, especially those that deal with romantic relationships, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Wedding Day …read more

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If my many recent blog posts on The Closer haven’t made it clear that the TNT show’s fifth season opens tonight at 9pm ET, let me publish one final reminder. After watching the premiere episode called “Products of Discovery” in advance, I have no trouble assuring viewers that the series is still in top form, despite the changes that TNT has advised are coming up this summer.
Tonight’s premiere features a particularly disturbing case involving the early-morning mass murder of four family members: mother Cynthia Rivera, her young children Lucia and Miguel Rivera, and her mother Diana Alvarez. As is standard …read more

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Lifetime has a brand-new show coming up this summer called Drop Dead Diva, which is currently scheduled to premiere on Sunday, July 12, at 9pm ET, immediately before the network’s smash hit Army Wives.
An hourlong dramedy, the series focuses on beautiful, vapid wannabe model Deb (Brooke D’Orsay). After she dies in a car accident, Deb suddenly finds herself in front of Heaven’s gatekeeper Fred, who’s convinced she’s nothing more than a self-centered “zero.”
Deb protests, of course, and then tries to persuade Fred to return her to her shallow existence. Something goes wrong, however, and Deb winds up in the body …read more

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The day has finally arrived for the Season Three premiere of Lifetime’s Army Wives called “Best Laid Plans.”
During the episode, the tribe supports Claudia Joy and Michael as they search for Emmalin, who has disappeared before the Holdens’ scheduled move to Brussels. Roxy also struggles to take back control of Betty’s Bar and Grill from Betty’s nephew Collin (Ivan Sergei), and Denise must cope as news of her affair gets around at the hospital.
Follow the jump for a third-season promo that gives a hint of some of the action coming up as the drama unfolds this summer. Check …read more

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We are just days away from the Monday, June 8, fifth-season premiere of The Closer called “Products of Discovery.”
During the episode, which features guest star Lee Tergesen (OZ, TNT’s Wanted), Team Brenda investigates the quadruple murder of a family and soon learn the case is related to an ongoing FBI investigation.
Follow the jump for a revealing Murder Room sneak peek that features the return of one of Brenda’s favorite people (Not!) and an extra sour Provenza. Can you spot which longtime team member isn’t present?

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