October 29th, 2008
It was only a matter of time. The relative success this season of 90210, The CW’s contemporary Beverly Hills, 90210 spinoff, has put big ideas into network executives’ heads. Now, they want to breathe new life into the latter show’s earlier spinoff Melrose Place, as soon as they can find a writer, that […]
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October 19th, 2008
It’s finally almost time for the premiere of Lifetime’s new original sitcom Rita Rocks.
The big launch day is tomorrow, October 20, at 8:30pm EST, after which the Nicole Sullivan sitcom will air fresh episodes every weeknight at the same time. Then, the following week, the series will settle into its regular 8:30pm, Tuesday-night time […]
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October 17th, 2008
I hope I’m not the only Grrl TV fan who still fondly remembers the J.J. Abrams and Jennifer Garner spy drama Alias. Yeah, it rocked in its heyday.
Mia Maestro, the Argentinean actress who played Nadia Santos, the equally capable half-sister of spygirl Sydney Bristow, returns to the tube tonight in a new series, NBC’s […]
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October 15th, 2008
Lifetime has posted a slew of previews for its forthcoming original comedy Rita Rocks.
The series premieres next Monday, October 20, and stars The King of Queens alumna Nicole Sullivan as the title Rita Clements. Rita appears to have a great life, complete with a husband, a job, and two daughters. But, underneath the […]
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October 5th, 2008
A three-time Emmy winner for her work on the long-running sitcom Roseanne, Laurie Metcalf is returning to the tube tonight with the new CW dramedy Easy Money.
The series is from the producers of The Sopranos and Northern Exposure, and it concerns a group of loan sharks whose matriarch is Metcalf’s Bobette Buffkin, a businesswoman in […]
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October 5th, 2008
Tonight is a big night for The CW because the network is rolling out two new series for viewers, neither of which — shocker! — stars a gaggle of teenagers. And here I was starting to think that wasn’t possible.
First up at 8pm EST is the series with a love twist called Valentine. […]
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September 26th, 2008
And, why would it be? Sarah Michelle Gellar, better known to legions of TV viewers as Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Buffy Summers, has already been there and done that.
Variety reports the much-adored actress has a new half-hour TV gig underway in the form of an HBO series called The Wonderful Maladys. With a […]
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September 19th, 2008
Good news here for fans of science-fiction television shows starring superbad women. Back in May, I wrote about The Shield star CCH Pounder getting a plum bosswoman role in the two-hour pilot for the paranormal dramedy Warehouse 13, a prospective original series from the Sci Fi Channel.
Well, “prospective” just became “forthcoming” because the basic […]
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September 19th, 2008
It may not be true just yet, but I’ve got my fingers and my toes crossed that this happens. According to an official statement released by TNT today, the network has given the thumbs up to Jada Pinkett Smith (The Women, The Matrix Reloaded, Menace II Society), who will executive produce and star in […]
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September 4th, 2008
Am I ever!
Now that all of the (unnecessary and undeserved) hype over The CW’s tepid 90210 has (finally) subsided (I hope and pray), here’s some news that’s actually worth going ga-ga over: TNT is in the beginning stages of producing a spinoff of its hit Kyra Sedgwick crime drama The Closer. Can you hear […]
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