Nice Girls Posts

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 …

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 …

Have you ever read a book and thought the story would be great if it were made into a TV show? It is nothing new for film adaptations to be made out of novels great and small – that is virtually common place. But now book adaptations to the small screen are nearly as common place too. Over the next …

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! …

When The Event returns to conclude its first season with an 11 episode run on March 7th, the show promises to be even more octane-filled than ever before. Abandoning the confusing timeline jumps that disrupted the linear storytelling last Fall, The Event will be stripped down to just the essentials – it is a show about aliens here on Earth …

As fans of USA Network’s latest sensation, Fairly Legal, already know, Baron Vaughn portrays Leonardo Price, the uber-competent assistant with a sweet, geeky side to mediator extraordinaire Kate Reed (Sarah Shahi), and Virginia Williams portrays razor-sharp attorney Lauren Reed, Kate’s step-mother and widow of renowned attorney Teddy Reed. The show focuses on a large variety of legal cases, some of …

Tonight’s episode of ABC’s superhero series No Ordinary Family adds two big names when Tricia Helfer and Lucy Lawless stop by to stir up trouble. Lawless plays the mysterious Mrs. X who tasks the sexy – and dangerous – Sophie (Helfer) to cause Jim and George to fall under her spell and make them do whatever she wants them to …

During every TV season there are months where repeats are more the norm than new episodes. March is typically one of those months where repeats far outweigh new programming; but thankfully, that scenario is slowly starting to change not only on the cable channels but also on the major networks. The following are just a few of the TV events …

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 …

As creator/executive producer of Fox’s new hot drama The Chicago Code, Shawn Ryan is more than a little proud and excited that the long-awaited series is finally getting its chance to shine. Coming from a background working on a number of successful television series, including The Shield, The Unit, Lie To Me, and the short-lived Terriers, Ryan is putting his …