The Paley Center for Media will be holding its annual Paley Preview Parties from September 6 to September 11 this year, once again saluting what each of the major networks have to offer TV viewers this fall. The first panel for this year’s preview parties will be held on September 6, spotlighting CBS. That night’s event will bring the cast …

This week the casting couch features over a dozen actors and actresses who will appear in a number of our returning fall favorites as well as some of the much-anticipated mid-season series: Actress JoAnna Garcia Swisher (Privileged) has landed the role of Ariel (the Little Mermaid) in Once Upon a Time. She will appear in the 6th episode of the …

As reported by the folks at Yahoo TV this morning, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Interactive Media Peer Group “announced the juried winners for (the) Creative Arts Emmys in the field of digital media programming”. Among those winners was none other than the online web series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, which won for Original Interactive Program. The Lizzie …

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on Television writer, producer and playwright Bridget Carpenter. Bridget was born in New York and holds an M.F.A. from Brown University. She has taught playwriting in grammar school, high school and college. She was a playwright-in-residence at the Royal National Theatre in London and has 14 plays under belt (between the years …

My favorite time of the TV season is almost upon us: Fall Programming Every September for nearly as long as I can remember, the fall TV season has been one to anticipate because of all the possibilities, including all of my returning drama favorites for which I have been waiting since last May to continue their stories as well as …

This week the casting couch features the following actors, who will appear in some returning fall favorites and one anticipated mid-season series: Actor Charlie Bewley (The Vampire Diaries) will have a recurring role on Nashville this fall, playing Trey, a confident, charming and self-deprecating businessman and potential love interest for Juliette (series lead Hayden Panettiere). Nashville will be back for …

Last fall, writer Chris Lilly, the staff of 82893 Productions and a collection of volunteers filmed four episodes of “Just Us Guys”, a TV-web series dramedy about a gay father who has a ‘Gilmore Girls’ like relationship with his straight teenage son. The four webisodes are designed to be a prequel for an intended one hour TV show that Lilly …

This week the casting couch features the following guest stars: Fan favorite actor Mark Sheppard will have a “substantial arc” on White Collar when the popular USA Network returns this fall for its fifth season. Sheppard will appear in seven episodes, reprising a role he played in the show’s pilot. He played Curtis Hagen, a shady art forger nicknamed “The …

On August 10, the 10-episode Starz series The White Queen will begin airing weekly at 9 PM. Based on the novel series by Philippa Gregory, the mini is set against the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses, the mini-series is the story of the women caught up in the long-drawn-out conflict for the throne of England. The White Queen …

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is focused on screenwriter, film director and producer and soon-to-be TV executive producer Amy Holden Jones. Amy grew up in Florida and lived in Buffalo, New York during her high school years. She attended Wellesley College, majoring in art history and she also took film studies courses at MIT. In 1975, Amy won first …