America Ferrera began a multi-episode arc on The Good Wife last night, playing a college student who piques Eli Gold’s (Alan Cumming) attention. Going into the episode, I didn’t know much more than that about her character, and wasn’t sure how a relationship between those two actors would play. As Ferrera’s character, Natalie, tells Eli’s daughter at one point, she’s …

We last saw Lauren Cohan suffering from a painful werewolf bite as vampire Rose, before being mercifully staked by her lover Damon on The Vampire Diaries. She begins a multi-episode arc on NBC’s Chuck tonight that is shrouded in mystery, but certainly won’t involve anything supernatural! (The Intersect is totally different – it’s science-fiction.) Guest starring as Vivian McArthur, Cohan …

It’s pilot season in TV land, which means every day we hear news of some new project that could be the next breakout series. In the midst of all the noise and press releases and people sneaking on set to take photos of shows that may or may not end up on the schedule next season, a trend is appearing: …

Hot on the heels of her provocative guest turn in the CW’s Nikita, NiceGirlsTV has learned that Ksenia Solo has been cast in the highly anticipated Locke & Key pilot, currently being shot in Pittsburgh for FOX. Based on the comic book series of the same name by writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez, Locke & Key follows the …

I’ve been wrestling with whether or not to address the attack on CBS reporter Lara Logan in Egypt last week. NiceGirlsTV.com is quite obviously focused on women in television, but we rarely produce articles about reporters or generally women not working in the scripted TV realm. Most of us dislike “reality” TV and the news isn’t exactly inspiring TV-talk fodder. …

As a fan of fairy tales and an avid TV watcher, now and then I find myself watching a show and suddenly realizing that it’s a reimagination of a classic tale beginning with “once upon a time…” and (we hope) ending with “…happily ever after.” Jen Grisanti explored how Showtime’s Shameless is a modern retelling of Cinderella, and now it’s …

Listen, I know that I’m not the target demographic for ads running during the Super Bowl. I’m not male, I don’t drink beer or soda, I don’t memorize car specs, and scantily clad women only serve to remind me that I need to spend more time on the treadmill. And yet, the commercials are pretty much the only reason I …

Jane Lynch has become a force to be reckoned with as her Sue Sylvester alternately torments and supports the kids on Glee. In support of Sunday’s post-Super Bowl episode, “The Sue Sylvester Shuffle”, Jane took a few minutes to talk with reporters via conference call and answer a lightning round of questions. With just 25 minutes and jammed phone lines, …

There will be no cheerleaders at the Super Bowl on Sunday, the first time since Super Bowl II, because neither the Steelers or the Packers actually have official cheerleaders. Hellcats‘ Aly Michalka and Ashley Tisdale feel the pain of men everywhere who will miss the scantily-clad ladies, and they have a message to share: OK, so Hellcats isn’t Must See …

When I was in junior high, I was enamored of a series on The Family Channel (which later morphed into ABC Family) that featured a handsome hero, a lovely lady, danger, justice, swashbuckling, humor, and romance. The hero was Zorro, and my brothers and I watched every episode without fail. Twenty-one years after it premiered, Zorro is finally arriving on …