Nice Girls Posts

Here is the next installment of actors and actresses who are under-appreciated, deserving of more attention or perhaps even their own show: Elise Gatien – Elise is a newcomer to the industry, but caught attention of viewers in two recent episodes of Smallville. Previously, she has appeared in episodes of Eureka, Bionic Woman and The Guard and she appeared in …

The Good Wife remains on hiatus, but we do have aliens and Sue Sylvester voguing to entertain us! Glee – Fox 9/8c “The Power of Madonna” – Mr. Schuester is concerned that the girls in the glee club are being disrespected and bullied by the guys. Looking to Madonna and her musical message of equality as inspiration, he challenges the …

Watching the BBC America special The Ultimate Guide to Doctor Who in preparation for the season premiere of the new season of the longest-running sci-fi series, featuring the 11th Doctor – as portrayed by Matt Smith, the youngest actor to ever play the role by the way – had a profound effect on me this past weekend. The one-hour special …

Alyssa Milano has a new show premiering tonight, Romantically Challenged. Are you planning to watch? She’s always engaging, so it’s worth giving it at least one viewing. Chuck – NBC 8/7c (encore) “Chuck vs. the Beard” – Chuck (Zachary Levi) feels like his life is falling apart when he can’t flash and gets left behind for a mission. While Shaw …

I have some thoughts, about TV, and fortunately I have a column where I can post them. Last week served up some thought-provoking episodes of some of my favorite shows; not, like, really deep thoughts, but thoughts nonetheless. Castle – Was anyone else a little squicked that Castle slept with the actress who looked and acted enough like Nikki Heat …

Are you watching the new season of Army Wives? Season 4 premiered on Lifetime last Sunday (watch the episode online if you missed it), with a whole new batch of drama. The second episode of the season airs this Sunday at 10/9c and sees Joan’s healing taking longer than anticipated, leaving Roland feeling emotional about not being with her. Meanwhile, …

ABC Family premieres a new original movie this Sunday, Beauty & the Briefcase, starring Hilary Duff who also executive produced. I’m not going to lie, it looks like total fluff with a pseudo-female empowering message that ends up being about how what we really want is to get the guy, not the job. Am I still going to watch it? …

This summer ABC Family will premiere its new scripted series, Pretty Little Liars, on Tuesday nights beginning June 8. Pretty Little Liars is a one-hour scripted drama based on a popular book series of the same name, and stars Lucy Hale (Privileged), Holly Marie Combs (Charmed), Chad Lowe (24), Laura Leighton (Melrose Place), Ian Harding, Bianca Lawson, Shay Mitchell, Troian …

USA has a first look at the new original series, Covert Affairs.  Piper Perabo plays Annie Walker, a CIA trainee who is fluent in six languages, has traveled all over the world and is besting her fellow CIA trainees in every test The CIA is called into active duty before she finishes her training, oddly enough. What she doesn’t know …

Congratulations to our new Nice Boy of the Week, Michael Urie! We’ve chosen Michael in honor of the Ugly Betty series finale, which aired last night. Michael played Marc St. James on the show, which ran for four seasons. Marc was Wilhelmina Slater’s (Venessa Williams) assistant  at Mode and although Michael was only scheduled to appear as a guest star, …