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Last week I attended the Cougar Town panel at the Paley Festival, a two-week long celebration of television. After a clip from The Lucy Show from the Paley Center’s archives and a quick introduction by Bill Lawrence, the lights dimmed for a preview of an upcoming episode of Cougar Town, much to the audience’s delight. Not wanting to spoil the …

Working steadily since landing her first television appearance in the mid-1990’s, Maggie Lawson has been slyly scene-stealing for the past 15 years. After a string of guest appearances in shows like “Unhappily Ever After,” “Step by Step,” Cybill,” “Boy Meets World,” and “Home Improvement,” she began testing the feature film waters with appearances in the films “I’ve Been Waiting for …

Here is the next installment of actors and actresses who are under-appreciated, deserving of more attention or perhaps even their own show: Jamie Murray – Jaime made one of her first TV appearances in the pilot episode of the short-lived series Keen Eddie and has had recurring roles in Hustle and Dexter. She later had a lead role in the …

The entire season has been leading up to this final episode of White Collar on USA. Are you ready for it? In the premiere of “Out of the Box,” Neal teams up with Alex in order to retrieve the ever-elusive music box at an Italian Consulate. Meanwhile, Peter enlists the help of Diana to help take down Fowler. Don’t miss …

The cast and crew of NCIS were honored at the 27th Annual Paley Festival held at the Saban Theatre on Monday March 1. The evening started with the Paley Center’s welcome video, followed by a short clip of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. from 1966, which starred David McCallum, who is, of course, the senior member of NCIS. Immediately following that …

This week’s Nice Boy fell into our laps as a very pleasant surprise. Tom Schanley is scheduled to appear in the next episode of Castle entitled The Mistress Always Spanks Twice. In this epsidoe, William Carraway, played by Schanley, becomes a suspect when one of his known sexual “turn-ons” matches the evidence in the homicide of a New York dominatrix. …

White Collar’s Matt Bomer and Tim DeKay will participate in a Live Chat Q & A with fans tonight. Ustream and USA Network teamed up to bring you the opportunity to ask Matt and Tim your questions about the show and their characters. Join in tonight at 7/6 p.m. central for this one hour long special event. Just go to …

When the latest round of Dancing With the Stars competitors were announced, I went to skim through as usual, expecting to draw a blank on most of them, a chuckle on a couple, then shrug and not think about the show again until the next cast list was announced. I’ve never watched a single episode of DWTS, but ABC got …

An evening with the cast and creative team of ABC’s Modern Family produces plenty of laughs. As one would expect attending an evening with one of the most ridiculously talented bunch of comedians currently on television, the Paley Festival presentation in honor of Modern Family was filled with laughter. Riding high off of their recent wins for Best Episodic Comedy …

Seemingly coming out of nowhere in the early 2000’s, Ana Ortiz was soon outshining her bigger name co-stars, Kristin Chenoweth (“Pushing Daisies”) and Jon Tenny (“The Closer”) in the television series “Kristin.” It was quickly apparent that the theatrically trained starlet was bound and determined to make a name for herself in television, particularly after her initial attempts to make …