As I mentioned in my column last week, the official start of the 2011-2012 fall TV season got underway. And, this week just adds on even more programming to an extremely busy landscape for the TV viewer (avid or otherwise). In addition to the already jam-packed Monday night which includes stiff competition at 10 PM with Castle and Hawaii Five-0, …

A dark-haired woman wearing a trench coat saunters into a seemingly non-descript neighborhood store called Harbor Meats. The woman, of course, is Nikita (Maggie Q). She asks the man behind the counter for 3 pounds of Haggis, cheap and bloody. Without saying a word he escorts her to a backroom that is revealed to actually be a secret, obviously, illegal …

Kenzi and household chores: two subjects that should never be mixed especially when a simple broom gets the better of our favorite succubus sidekick. It seems that Bo, in an effort to clean out the “wolf who shall not be named” from her life, has made Kenzi an unwillingly assistant in cleaning the apartment, which looks like a complete disaster. …

The last Fall TV Preview Party recently held by the Paley Center for Media was for FOX. These annual events honor a different network each night where the Paley hosts a screening of some of the network’s new shows and holds a panel discussion with some of the talent and creative minds behind those new shows. Representing FOX were Terra …

According to the folks at TV Line, actress Deidre Lovejoy, who played serial killer Heather Taffet – aka The Gravedigger – on Bones will appear as “exhausted and a bit grouchy wife” of Detective Bud Morris (John Carroll Lynch) on Body of Proof. This could potentially become a recurring role. Body of Proof aired its season premiere on September 20 …

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on Director Tawnia McKiernan, who is the daughter of the late (great) Stephen J. Cannell, the creator of TV shows like Hardcastle and McCormick, The A-Team and The Greatest American Hero [among many others]. Tawnia has amassed an impressive list of directorial credits since the mid-1990s, but she got her start in …

This week is the official start of the 2011-2012 Fall TV season and what a crazy week of programming it will be for every TV viewer no matter how little or how much TV you actually watch each week. Last night we saw the returns of the dramas Castle and Hawaii Five-0, the debut of The Playboy Club and the …

Recently the Paley Center for Media held their annual Paley Preview Parties, which are a precursor for the upcoming fall TV season, showcasing just some of the new shows debuting on the major networks. Two of those parties were for ABC and CBS. First, the Preview Party for CBS featured the entire (reunited) cast of Criminal Minds including (in alphabetical …

Vodka, a pint of triple fudge swirl ice cream and a large animal tranq dart: that is the way Kenzi rolls when preparing to deal with Bo as she comes down off her break up with Dyson; and Hale is her somewhat unwilling accomplice in this effort – what Kenzi calls “sidekick solidarity”. Surprisingly, Bo is found in red lingerie …

Viewers of the ABC drama Body of Proof already know Mary Mouser as Lacey, daughter of Dr. Megan Hunt (Dana Delany); but they will start seeing a lot more of the young actress and her character as Mouser has been brought on board as a series regular. Lacey will now be living with her mom instead of her dad, making …