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, …
Read More »The 2011 Paley Fest
The annual fete by the Paley Center for Media – the Paley Festival – will be held at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills from March 4 to 17. The two-week long celebration highlights chart-topping series as well as fan favorites each year, featuring the cast and creative teams for each show. The opening night of the festival will feature …
Read More »THE VAMPIRE DIARIES Sends A Rose to CHUCK
We last saw Lauren Cohan suffering from a painful werewolf bite as vampire Rose, before being mercifully staked by her lover Damon on The Vampire Diaries. She begins a multi-episode arc on NBC’s Chuck tonight that is shrouded in mystery, but certainly won’t involve anything supernatural! (The Intersect is totally different – it’s science-fiction.) Guest starring as Vivian McArthur, Cohan …
Read More »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: …
Read More »Nice Boy of the Week: Mark Harmon
This week’s Nice Boy is by special request from my daughter, who is a huge NCIS fan. Mark Harmon is not only very easy on the eyes, but his talent is unlimited. He currently plays Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS, one of CBS’s longer running series’. Having been around since the mid-70s, Harmon’s is a face you’ve seen …
Read More »The Weekly Round-Up for February 14 to 18
Here are the entertainment news items for this past week: TELEVISION NEWS Ready for the time warp? The CW is going to reair the very first hour of Smallville on April 8 at 8 PM. The first episode of this long-running series originally aired on October 16, 2001. A repeat of Supernatural will be aired that night with new episodes …
Read More »Ksenia Solo Cast in LOCKE & KEY – EXCLUSIVE!
Hot on the heels of her provocative guest turn in the CW’s Nikita, NiceGirlsTV has learned that Ksenia Solo has been cast in the highly anticipated Locke & Key pilot, currently being shot in Pittsburgh for FOX. Based on the comic book series of the same name by writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez, Locke & Key follows the …
Read More »Pretty Little Liars Presidents’ Day Marathon
Have you missed an episode of ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars this season? Now is your chance to catch up. On Monday, February 21, Presidents’ Day, ABC Family is running a marathon of all the episodes beginning with “Moments Later”. George Washington once said that he could never tell a lie, but the Pretty Little Liars just can’t seem to …
Read More »Lara Logan: Is There A Silver Lining?
I’ve been wrestling with whether or not to address the attack on CBS reporter Lara Logan in Egypt last week. NiceGirlsTV.com is quite obviously focused on women in television, but we rarely produce articles about reporters or generally women not working in the scripted TV realm. Most of us dislike “reality” TV and the news isn’t exactly inspiring TV-talk fodder. …
Read More »REVIEW: Merlin – The Crystal Cave
This article may contain spoilers. Being shown the future has been a conundrum since the beginning of time. Once a person knows the future, every move they make seems to take them closer to making that future a reality. In this episode, Merlin was granted a glimpse of the future because the seer Taliesin (Karl Johnson) deemed it necessary. However, …
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