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 …

The following list provides all the season finales of cable series that will be airing as well as the specials, mini-series and holiday-themed made-for-TV movies that will air during December: December 1 – The Hallmark Channel movie A Bride for Christmas will debut at 8 PM MOVIE SYNOPSIS: After Jessie (Arielle Kebbel from The Vampire Diaries) calls off her third …

With Christmas fast approaching, it is once again time to provide a new NiceGirls guide to gift-giving for this holiday season. In last year’s guide, I mentioned the uptick in fairytale stories that were, seemingly, taking over not only on the small screen but at the box office; and now it is time to review some great fairytale gifts to …

Actor Lee Thompson Young is our Nice Boy of the Week. Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Lee portrayed Dr. Martin Luther King at the age of ten in a play called “A Night of Stars and Dreams”; it was then that he decided to be an actor. He did community theatre for a while and graduated with honors from the …