MERRY CHRISTMAS! First of all, I hope that all of our readers are having a wonderful Christmas with their families and friends!! And now, back to (TV) business. The 2012-2013 TV season will be back with returning and new shows in a few weeks; and it only seemed right to pay a little extra attention to some of the faces …

Stephen Wilson Bethel grew up in a household on the East Coast that was very encouraging of artistic pursuits. When he graduated from high school, he decided not to go to college; instead he got a one-way ticket to Africa, spending a year travelling all over that country. He eventually ended up in Los Angeles with the goal of “making …

Over the course of the next few months, the major and cable networks will, of course, be bringing back their regular programming but they will also be introducing a number of new series as well. What does that mean for TV viewers? You will have a lot of shows to welcome back to the primetime line-up, but you will also …

In the new Lifetime holiday movie The Real St. Nick, Torrey DeVitto (best known for her roles in The Vampire Diaries and Pretty Little Liars) stars as Kate, a psychiatrist at St. John’s Hospital, who is about to question her own sanity. After an early morning run through a local park, Kate stops to take a phone call from the …

Actor Daniel Lissing is our Nice Boy of the Week. Daniel was born in Sydney, Australia and he got his start on Australian TV in 2006 by guest starring in several episodes of the popular ‘down under’ soap opera Home and Away where he played firefighter Dave Elder. It was two years later that he appeared in three episodes of …

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on producer, writer and showrunner Stacy Rukeyser. A graduate of Princeton, Stacy got her start in the entertainment business with bit acting parts in episodes of the TV shows Murder One and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman in the late 90’s. It was in 2002 that she was a …

As fall has quickly moved into winter, the TV season has also continued to move forward with a few more cancellations announced as well as additional episodes being added to the series orders for new shows airing on the major networks. First, let’s take a look at the shows that have been pulled from the line-up, starting with the FOX …

The latest holiday made-for-TV movie from Lifetime comes in the form of It’s All About Christmas Eve, starring Haylie Duff (7th Heaven) as junior event planner Evelyn “Eve” Wright and Chris Carmack (The O.C.) as Aidan Green, the founder of a Facebook-like company. As the film opens, Eve is overseeing an unusual Bar Mitzvah with a Christmas twist (you can’t …

The 2012-2013 TV season is now four months old (ALREADY!) and there is a lot of programming for TV viewers to enjoy, including more holiday-themed movies and lots of winter and/or mid-season finales as well as a few season finales of several cable series favorites. In an effort to help our readers keep track, I wanted to provide a rundown …

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is focused on series creator, TV writer and executive producer Brenda Hampton. Brenda grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and later studied journalism at the University of Georgia. After graduation she worked as a technical writer for the U.S. Navy, writing speeches, technical manuals and corporate newsletters. But it was in the 80’s that she …