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Good (Bad) Luck from Pretty Little Liars’ ‘A’

I swear, I was just sitting in my living room, minding my own business, causing trouble on Facebook, when suddenly my 11-year old bursts through my front door with a big box in his hands. “Mom, ‘A’ is at it again,” he giggles. Sure enough, I rip open the box and found this: Sticking up from the dirt among the …

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Sara Rue Meets My Future Boyfriend on ABC Family

In “My Future Boyfriend” (former working title “Always & Forever”), P-A-X-497/341, aka “Pax” (Barry Watson), a curious young man from the well-ordered but loveless future, travels to present day New Orleans in search of romance novelist Elizabeth Barrett (Sara Rue) – whose book he has come upon during an archeological dig in the year 3127. Hoping Elizabeth can explain the …

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The Round-Up for the Week of March 7 to 11

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week: TELEVISION NEWS A newly revamped Law & Order: Los Angeles will be re-launched in April by NBC. It will return with a two-hour episode on April 11 at 9 PM before moving to its regular timeslot on Mondays at 10 PM the following week. Part-time cast members Alfred Molina and …

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Women Behind the Scenes Spotlight: Roxann Dawson

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is focused on multi-talented actress, producer and director Roxann Dawson. Born Roxann Caballero in Los Angeles, California she attended the same high school as Angelina Jolie, Nicolas Cage, Lenny Kravitz and David Schwimmer. She went on to graduate from the University at Berkeley with a degree in Theater Arts, landing her first acting role …

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Paging Elizabeth Bennet! Jennifer Ehle Eyes Returns to Primetime

I was reading through TV Guide’s excellent updated round-up of pilot projects just now, and in the midst of all the casting additions, one named jumped out at me: Jennifer Ehle. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?, I thought calmly. ELIZABETH BENNET?!?! A quick check at IMDb shows that yes indeed, that Jennifer Ehle is heading for prime time! The project, currently …

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The Weekly Round-Up for Feb. 28 to March 4

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week: TELEVISION NEWS The season finale of the ABC drama Detroit 1-8-7 has been moved to Sunday, March 20 at 10 PM. The next new episode will air March 8 at 10 PM followed by another new episode on March 15 and then the finale on March 20. Mark your calendars! …

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March TV Calendar

Here is what you can look forward to seeing on the major and cable channels throughout March, including new and returning shows as well as made-for-TV movies: March – Breaking Bad will continue its marathon of back-to-back episodes every Wednesday night March 4 – Lifetime will reair episodes from Season 1 of Drop Dead Diva starting tonight at 9 and …

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Women Behind the Scenes Spotlight: Maurissa Tancharoen

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on Writer, Singer, Dancer, Producer and Actress Maurissa Tancharoen Whedon. Maurissa was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, coming from a family deeply-rooted in the world of entertainment. Her father Tommy has been a transportation coordinator for Hollywood movies for nearly three decades while her brother Kevin is a director whose …

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Sookie Stackhouse and the Three Vamps

Continuing with our fairy tales in modern television series, I couldn’t help but see a similarity between True Blood‘s Sookie Stackhouse and “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”. Sookie, of course, represents Goldilocks, but let’s take a look at the ‘three bears’. There are a couple variations of the story, with the three bears representing a family made up of Father, …

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Nice Girls Get Pilots: A Look At Women in 2011 Pilots

It’s pilot season in TV land, which means every day we hear news of some new project that could be the next breakout series. In the midst of all the noise and press releases and people sneaking on set to take photos of shows that may or may not end up on the schedule next season, a trend is appearing: …

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