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Undercovers – NBC 8/7c “Assassin” – Steven (Boris Kodjoe), Samantha (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and Leo (Carter MacIntyre) get orders from Shaw (Gerald McRaney) to take on a mission in Lima, Peru where an assassination plot has been orchestrated against president-elect Alberto Loya (guest star Alex Fernandez, “Commander in Chief”). When Samantha gets too emotionally invested, she puts the whole mission at …

From unknown spectator in David E. Kelley’s Girl’s Club to President Nixon’s daughter in Frost/Nixon, Jenn Gotzon‘s career has built steadily into one most actresses would kill for. Having put in the requisite time pounding the pavement from television show to television show without even a proper name, Gotzon has since become an indie film favorite. During her tenure in …

Election Coverage – ABC/CBS/NBC 8/7c Life Unexpected – the CW 9/8c “Camp Grounded” – Cate (Shiri Appleby), Baze (Kristoffer Polaha), Ryan (Kerr Smith) and Math (Austin Basis) volunteer to be chaperones on Lux’s (Britt Robertson) school camping trip.

For about eight years now, I have been a member of the Paley Center for Media (formerly known as the Museum of Television and Radio). Back in 1975, one of the most powerful men in the television industry, William S. Paley, founded an organization to collect, preserve and interpret television and radio programming and to make these programs available to …

“When will I ever use geometry after I graduate?” It’s a familiar refrain, coming from students who would rather play video games than find the hypotenuse of a triangle. Beyond knowing how to balance a checkbook and calculate a tip, when do we need math in every day life? Who cares about velocity and radius? No Ordinary Family, the new …

Chuck – NBC 8/7c “Chuck vs. the First Fight” – After their first real fight, Chuck (Zachary Levi) avoids confronting Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) by going on a rogue mission that leads him to his mom’s MI-6 handler, Gregory Tuttle (guest star Timothy Dalton), and a mysterious Russian agent (guest star Ana Gasteyer). Meanwhile, Ellie (Sarah Lancaster) is on her own …

Just a few months after the cancellation of The New Adventures of Old Christine, Julia Louis-Dreyfus is lining up her next project, Veep on HBO. From British comedian, writer and director Armando Iannucci, Veep is the story of a female Vice President of the United States who discovers that the job isn’t quite what she expected. The project has an …

ABC is developing a remake of the 1998 movie Practical Magic, based on Alice Hoffman’s novel, for the small screen. Now I enjoyed the movie. Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest – what a cast! And it has an interesting premise – these women are from a line of witches, but their curse is that if they find …

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week: TELEVISION NEWS The CW has given full-season orders to rookie dramas Nikita and Hellcats, as well as long-running soap One Tree Hill. Unfortunately, missing from the pickup list is Life Unexpected. The sophomore drama did, however, receive an additional script order. Jane Badler has extended her visit to the ABC …

FOX has confirmed that Arnold Vosloo, best known as The Mummy in the first two films of the franchise (which I adore, by the way), has signed on for a multiple-episode arc on Bones. Warning: spoilers ahead! Vosloo will play Jake Broadsky, who we told you about in last week’s Friday Spoilers column. He’s a sniper who’s been off the …