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Happy Fourth of July, fellow Americans! Before you dash off to BBQs and fireworks and parades, enjoy the freedom of getting some scoop on your favorite summer shows. This week we’re taking a look ahead at the action on Covert Affairs, Major Crimes, and The Newsroom. Covert Affairs When the show returns for its fourth season on July 16, Annie …

When I decided to feature the women of Rizzoli & Isles, back for season 4 on TNT, for a style story, I’ll confess that it was mostly Maura who appeared in my mental images. Dr. Isles’ love of high fashion and extraordinary shoes is a topic of frequent comment on the show, and a quirk for which she is delightfully …

ION Television has just announced its recent acquisition of the seventh season of Psych. The cable station,  which boasts “positively entertaining”, already owns seasons 1 – 6 and the new option promises future seasons of the show. “As we expand our long-standing relationship with NBCUniversal, we are very pleased to make the latest season of ‘Psych’ available to our audience,” …

Actor Tom Weston-Jones is our Nice Boy of the Week. Tom was born in Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire in England in 1987 but he and his two siblings (sister Bethan and brother Ben) were raised in Dubai where his parents were drama teachers. He later moved back to the UK, earning a degree in drama and theatre from the …

Summertime no longer means endless reruns on the tube, which means spoilers for us TV-obsessed Nice Girls! We’ve got scoop on your favorite summer shows, including danger on True Blood, fresh challenges on Necessary Roughness,  family ties on Rizzoli & Isles, and revelations on Devious Maids. True Blood If you’re getting a kick out of Andy Bellefleur as a daddy …

This week’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is put on screenwriter, producer and writer Doris Egan (who also goes by the pen name of Jane Emerson). Doris grew up in New Jersey and attended Barnard College in New York City. She sold her first short story, “Timerider,” to Amazing Stories magazine while working in computer support on Wall Street. Over …

Perception is one of those shows that sounds interesting on paper, and has an appealing cast, but doesn’t quite work in execution. After a premiere season establishing the core cast and the show’s conceit, Perception returns to TNT for its sophomore season tonight still searching for its raison d’etre. Eric McCormick’s Dr. Pierce encounters some fascinating cases in the first couple …

Lifetime launches Devious Maids tonight, and it just might become my favorite summer series. It promises viewers plenty of glamour, drama, intrigue, romance, and even a dash of schadenfreude. The series begins at a ritzy party in Beverly Hills where Flora, the maid, winds up dead in the pool. Police quickly arrest a young man who was also in the house …

This week the casting couch focuses on an interesting blend of guest stars who will be appearing on some of our favorite shows coming this summer and in the fall: Actor Scott Foley has been promoted to series regular for the third season of Scandal. He played the recurring role of Captain Jake Ballard, who was not only a love …

With the first season of REVOLUTION behind us, we muse on what we found out and still don't know and what might happen in season 2