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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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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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CBS debuts a very intriguing series tonight at 10pm ET, the murder mystery Harper’s Island. While I was previewing the premiere episode “Whap,” it struck me that some of the faces we know well from shows like Desperate Housewives and Ugly Betty do a fine job in it.
Harper’s Island is a 13-episode experience, if you will, set on a beautiful island off the coast of Seattle called — surprise! — Harper’s Island. The occasion is the wedding of in-love couple Henry Dunn (Christopher Gorham of Ugly Betty) and Trish Wellington (Supernatural’s Katie Cassidy), and they’ve invited about two …read more

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Tonight is the night that ABC will finally debut The Unusuals, the new cop dramedy starring Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Joan of Arcadia’s Amber Tamblyn and created by Bones producer and writer Noah Hawley. The time to tune in is 10:02pm ET, immediately following the great lead-in Lost.
Tamblyn plays NYPD Detective Casey Shraeger, recently assigned to the Homicide unit after an earlier stint in Vice. Her first case is the investigation of her new partner Jason Walsh’s (Jeremy Renner, 28 Weeks Later) former partner’s death, which sounds uncomfortable, to say the least. Lucky for Shraeger …read more

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Episode: GhostOriginal Air Date: February 13, 2009
“Nothing is what it appears to be.”
That’s what Adelle DeWitt (Olivia Williams) tells Eliza Dushku’s character Caroline — not Echo — in the first scene of the first episode of Dollhouse. DeWitt seems to think Caroline is volunteering for whatever she has in mind for the next five years to help the young woman start anew afterwards with a “clean slate,” but reluctant Caroline feels she has no choice in the matter. Apparently, Caroline got into some kind of mess while trying to take her place in the world and make a …read more

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Joss Whedon’s latest television project, Dollhouse, premieres on Friday, February 13, at 9:01pm EST, right after Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles in its new time slot.
First up is the revamped pilot “Ghost,” during which we’ll meet and learn all about undercover operative Echo (Eliza Dushku), one of a group of so-called Actives who live in the secret facility referred to as the Dollhouse.
Actives are “a member of a highly illegal and underground group of individuals who have had their personalities wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas. Hired by the wealthy, powerful and connected, …read more

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The big night is slowly but surely approaching for the series premiere of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse. With just under two months to go, Entertainment Weekly has posted an exclusive sneak peek at the show’s reworked pilot.
The footage features star Eliza Dushku as Echo after she gets her memory wiped in the special chair. However, costars Fran Kranz and Harry Lennix, who play Dollhouse techie genius Topher Brink and Echo’s handler Boyd Langton, respectively, figure most prominently in the two-minute video.
A couple more Dollhouse clips follow that will also definitely get fans revved up for the series. The …read more

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Yay! Just this week, ABC released the premiere date for one of the new shows I’m most looking forward to next year: Joan of Arcadia and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants alum Amber Tamblyn’s twisted cop dramedy The Unusuals.
Look out for Amber and her fabulous co-stars Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Josh Close, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Kai Lennox, Terry Kinney, and Adam Goldberg to make their series debut on Wednesday, April 8, at 10pm EST.
Yes, that’s quite a bit of time from now, but it still helps to have the date set (almost) in stone. I’ve got high expectations for …read more

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Original Air Date: October 3, 2008
Let’s just get it over with — the premiere episode of The Ex List is good and funny, and that’s coming from someone who’s not into relationship TV shows at all. My primary gripe is that I grew bored about halfway in, but at least there was enough humor to keep me from falling asleep (which has been known to happen when I’m watching TV, I might add).
After learning from what seems to be a genuine psychic that she has only one year to find the man she’s already dated who’s destined to be …read more

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