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Ugly Betty star America Ferrera is back on the small screen but this time she’s taking on the world of politics in The Good Wife. CBS announced today that the former Betty Suarez will have a recurring role in at least three episodes this February as a grad student who catches the eye of Eli Gold (Alan Cumming). This is …

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on Executive Producer and Writer Gretchen J. Berg. Gretchen was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and she always knew she wanted to be a writer. She met her long-time writing partner Aaron Harberts while attending Northwestern University in Chicago, as they went through a Creative Writing for the Media program that …

Do you have DirecTV? If so, you already know that the satellite provider started reairing season 1 of the critically acclaimed series Damages as of this past Wednesday night (January 5) at 10 PM. The remainder of season 1 will continue to air each week on Wednesdays at 10/9c on Channel 101, uncut and without commercials. Seasons 2 and 3 …

On January 19, the Paley Center for Media will announce the full line-up for this year’s Paley Fest, the annual fete held by the illustrious center named after its founder William S. Paley, which celebrates television’s rich and diverse programming and the creative process behind the medium. The annual Paley Fest will be held from March 4 to 18 this …

Downton Abbey was a smash when it aired in the UK last autumn (a second series has already been commissioned), and now Americans will have a chance to watch this minseries about a noble family and their staff as they face the end of the Victorian era and possibly the end of their line when tragedy strikes. Listen, I’m a …

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week: NEWS Congrats to all the winners of the People’s Choice Awards that were presented earlier this week. TELEVISION NEWS Hawaii Five-0 has been given the timeslot after the NFL AFC Championship game on Sunday January 23. Mark your calendars. The new A&E series Breakout Kings has been given a premiere …

Merlin star Colin Morgan attended Comic Con for the first time last year, and couldn’t wait to get out on the floor and see what the fuss was all about. But first he met with a table full of reporters to talk about the third season of Merlin, which was filming at the time (it has since aired in the …

In this final preview clip from The Cape, stopping crime in its tracks is an everyday encounter for the new hero. The Cape premieres January 9 at 9/8 central, on NBC. It then moves to its regular time slot following “Chuck” on Monday nights. Keep up with all the buzz on Facebook and Twitter too!

The recent Merlin cast interviews going on around here have me beyond excited about the season 3 premiere tomorrow night. It’s been so long since the season 2 finale that I had to visit the SyFy website for recaps. As if that weren’t enough, this clip of the premiere showed up in my email this afternoon. The sneak peek below …

Australia brings us another talented actor and the focus of this week’s Nice Boy. David Lyons stars in NBC’s newest original series, The Cape, premiering this Sunday, January 9th. Vince Faraday (Lyons) has lost his job, his family, his home and his life, and is wrongly accused of crimes he did not commit. In an attempt to find the person …