Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on TV writer, producer and director Greer Shephard. Greer grew up in the entertainment industry as the daughter of Harvey Shephard, who was the head of programming at CBS during her childhood then became the President of Warner Bros. Her dad helped provide Greer with great role models by developing shows like …

Back on June 2, 2009 I posted my very first weekly column here at NiceGirlsTV entitled “What Does Television Mean to You?” – which you can find here. Five years later and I still feel the same now as I did then: I love television! Whether it is watching a new made-for-TV movie on Hallmark, a mini-series on PBS or …

Here are the casting couch features for this past week: Actor Thom Barry (Cold Case) has landed a recurring role on the TNT series Perception, playing Special Agent In Charge William Parsons, the skeptical and no-nonsense special agent in command of the Chicago FBI office and Kate Moretti’s (series lead Rachel Leigh Cook) boss. Perception will be back for a …

Back on March 19, the new sci-fi series The 100 debuted on The CW, telling the story of the small band of survivors of a nuclear Armageddon that decimated planet Earth 97 years earlier, who live on the “Ark” – the 12 combined international space stations where all of the inhabitants have orbited the Earth for three generations. But, with …

The story of Jane Eyre, the once-abused child raised by a hateful aunt and ruthless cousins who eventually becomes a nanny and falls in love with her much older and rather creepy employer, has been adapted countless times on the stage, on TV and in film. Each adaptation, of course, has based adapted from the classic 1847 novel by English …

For the past three seasons on the ABC soap opera Revenge, actor James Tupper has appeared in flashbacks as David Clarke, the dead father of Emily Thorne aka Amanda Clarke (series lead Emily VanCamp), but as anyone who watched the season finale of the series this past May knows all too well [SPOILER ALERT!], it would appear that Daddy David …

Here are the casting couch features for this past week: Actress Sonja Sohn (The Wire and Body of Proof) has landed a recurring role on The Originals, play Lenore, a powerful salt-of-the-Earth in New Orleans, who will prove to be quite a foe for Klaus (series lead Joseph Morgan). The Originals will be back for its second season on The …

The new ABC Family drama Chasing Life will debut on June 10 at 9 PM. The series follows April Carver (Italia Ricci from Unnatural History), a smart, twenty-something, aspiring journalist who lands a job at a major Boston newspaper. She’s a supportive daughter, granddaughter and sister to her family, who have recently lost April’s father to a tragic accident. But …

Just as June is the start of summer there will be plenty of new and returning dramas as well as made-for-TV movies or mini-series airing on the major and cable networks throughout this month but there is even more coming next month. In order to prepare for even more shows to add to your already busy viewing schedule, here are …

Starting tonight at 9 PM, the remaining episodes of The CW series Beauty And the Beast will start rolling out, bringing the show’s second season to a close. The show’s second season came to an end back on March 10 after a less than stellar sophomore year both in terms of ratings and storytelling and until the May upfronts in …