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ABC debuts their stylish drama Pan Am tonight, and it’s both a breath of fresh air and comfortingly familiar. Set in 1962, a period in American history that many view as the final days before the world went pear-shaped, Pan Am follows the lives and loves of men and women working for the airline. Most of the headlines about the …

HBO’s ode to gangsters in the 1920’s returns tonight when Boardwalk Empire‘s second season premieres. The series returns to Atlantic City, circa 1921, where Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) is paying a steep price for wielding ultimate power in “the worldʼs playground.” Following the ʼ20 election, Nucky finds himself the target of an investigation for voter fraud and faces not only jail, …

Nostalgia is a tricky thing. We remember moments from our past through the lens of time and often it’s as flattering as the soft-focus lens and intricate lighting Barbara Walters uses on her specials. Warm and fuzzy, nostalgia conveniently forgets the bad and emphasizes the good. I imagine the pitch meeting for the Charlie’s Angels reboot went something like this: …

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 …

Fringe star Joshua Jackson can add “author” to his list of accomplishments. A new digital comic series, “Beyond the Fringe”, debuted today, just in time for the premiere of the fourth season on Friday. Jackson wrote the first three “A” parts of the series, available at DC Comics’ website. The new series will alternate every two weeks between “A” and …

The rebooted Charlie’s Angels premieres on ABC tomorrow night, but the show is making headlines this afternoon after TMZ broke the news that a male crew member was fired after slapping star Minka Kelly on the butt. Per reports, this isn’t the first time he’s done something like this, but it’s the first time ABC honchos heard about it and …

The Secret Circle is one of our favorite new shows of the fall season and we’ve only seen the pilot episode, so far. However, I think it will be interesting to see how the Circle’s powers develop as the show progresses. Will these powers change from person to person? We haven’t seen whether or not each individual Circle member has …

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 …

ABC’s new show Revenge stars Emily Van Camp, leading her own show after the demise of Brothers and Sisters. VanCamp plays the newest girl in Southamptons, Amanda Clark. However, Amanda isn’t the previous “girl next door” character we meet early in the episode; she’s actually returning to the scene of a childhood trauma—her father was set-up and arrested back when she was …

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 …