Nice Girls Posts

Surprising no one, USA announced today that they’ve picked up rookie hit Covert Affairs for a second season. A ratings success for the network, Covert Affairs has been outpacing ABC and CBS this summer, and builds on its lead-in from White Collar (also a solid performer) every week as well. No date for season 2 was provided, but we expect …

Burn Notice – USA 9/8c “Blind Spot” – Michael and team come to the aid of a woman who has her entire life savings wiped out by a sleazy womanizer. Guest starring Robert Patrick Royal Pains – USA 10/9c “Big Whoop” – Tensions grows between Hank and Emily when they care for a patient together but disagree on the course …

The mysterious new drama from NBC – The Event – presented its pilot to a packed panel room at Comic Con last month. I had the great fortune of making it into the panel room along with some friends to see what all the talk has been about. Without revealing much of the plot (I just can’t do that to …

Psych – USA 10/9c “Viagra Falls” – Two former cops (guest stars Carl Weathers and William Devane) come out of retirement to help Shawn and Gus solve the murder of a former police chief.

Here is the next installment of actors and actresses who are under-appreciated, deserving of more attention or perhaps even their own show: Erica Hubbard – Some of Erica’s earliest guest appearances were on ER, Early Edition, Boston Public, Judging Amy, Joan of Arcadia and CSI: Miami. She the starred in the shows The Replacements and Lincoln Heights. She appeared in …

On the first full day of Comic Con 2010, I had the opportunity to sit in on a panel of sci-fi authors who discussed the “power of myth” contained within their writing and within the genre itself. The panelists included Amber Benson, actress and writer of the Calliope Reaper-Jones novels and authors Esther Freisner, Thomas Grenias, Lev Grossman, Les Klinger, …

As Dalton Ross from Entertainment Weekly took the stage to introduce a clip of the upcoming retelling of the seminal classic series Hawaii Five-0 at Comic Con,  one could sense the excitement of the audience within the packed panel room. The clip highlighted the beauty of the island, the action and adventure that will be contained in the series and …

Heading into the 2009-2010 season, Cougar Town was one of those shows I figured would be worth checking out, but probably wouldn’t last beyond November sweeps. Courteney Cox is appealing, but the story of a woman dating younger men? How were they going to keep that fresh? The first few episodes struggled with that same dilemma, until around episode 4 …

White Collar – USA 9/8c “In The Red” – The arrest of a jewel thief leads Peter and Neal toward a much more heinous extortion case against adoptive parents. To catch the heartless mastermind, Peter and Neal dive headfirst into the world of high-stakes gambling to force the criminal’s hand. Guest starring John Larroquette and Hilarie Burton Warehouse 13 – …

During a recent conference call, Christopher Gorham took a few minutes to talk about what it is like to play the visually-challenged CIA agent Auggie Anderson on USA Network’s sizzling hot summer series Covert Affairs. In this week’s episode “Houses of the Holy,” Auggie is assigned to be the handler for the Special Ops unit he used to work with. …