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Around this time every year, pilot season arrives with hundreds of potential projects being filmed; but very few will actually make it on the air at the major and cable networks. And, of those few pilots that make it to series, even fewer will succeed with the viewing audience. To say the least pilot season is a tough time of …

The 2011 Golden Globes ceremony airs Sunday, January 16 on NBC and several Nice Girls favorites will be represented in the TV categories. Here’s a look at who we’re rooting for. Glee What can be said about the over-the-top antics of the cast of Glee, the little musicomedy that could and did, from FOX? It is irreverent, silly, wonderfully moving …

Sarah Shahi was five weeks post-partum when she auditioned for the role of Kate in USA Network’s new series, Fairly Legal, and wardrobe was an issue, she tells NiceGirlsTV.com. “I thought she’d be a fun girl to be for ten minutes in an auditioning room. I was not sure if I wanted to get back into TV because of my …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

During a recent phone call, Anthony Head gave NiceGirlsTV a peek behind the royal curtain into the mind of a king. In Merlin, Anthony portrays King Uther Pendragon, illustrious and notorious father of heir-apparent Prince Arthur. At the end of the second season of Merlin, the sorceress Morgause took Uther’s ward Morgana. As the third season begins, distraught over Morgana’s …

In the January 5, 2011 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, entitled “Possessed,” Taryn Manning guest stars as Larissa Welsh, a child-abuse survivor, along with David Patrick Kelly, who guest stars as the man who wrote the book that may have inspired the abuse Larissa suffered. Based on SVU star Ice-T’s reaction after hearing about a book for …