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 …

There used to be a time in TV history where there was nothing to watch on TV during the summer. Thankfully those years have been gone for quite some time, making avid TV viewers, like myself (and those of us here at NiceGirlsTV), very very happy. And, since the summer will be over in a few weeks (where has the …

This week the casting couch features the following guest stars in some of our returning fall favorites, a must-see new drama and a much-anticipated (but long in coming) summer return: Actress Jurnee Smollett (Friday Night Lights and True Blood) will have a recurring role on Parenthood this fall, playing a smart and feisty woman named Heather whom Kristina (series regular …

The Canadian series Continuum that is currently airing its second season on Syfy has been picked up by the cabler for a third season. The popular sci-fi series that stars actress Rachel Nichols (Alias) as a time-traveling cop had already been renewed earlier this summer by its home network – Showcase – in Canada. The season 2 finale of Continuum …