Amy Acker and David Morse
I have said it before, I say it again: The Buffyverse is en fuego these days.
Angel's Amy Acker, who currently is sporting some nassssty scars on Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, has joined ABC's murder-mystery pilot Happy Town, playing the wife of Geoff Stults' top cop.
Elsewhere on the Alphabet network, both Michael Nouri and David Morse have taken residence in Empire State, playing ...
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Amy Acker by Gregg DeGuire/WireImage.com
The mystery as to which Buffyverse grad Joss Whedon was considering for Dollhouse has been solved! Early this morning, Whedon announced on his blog that Angel vet Amy Acker is joining the show's cast in the recurring role of Dr. Claire Saunders, the smart yet sad looker-after of the dolls who may or may not have a crush on nerdy programmer Topher (Fran Kranz). Love. It.Whedon also confirmed that Miracle Laurie has been tapped to play plus-sized doll November, whose comforting and radiant presence tends to get her fewer of the criminal gigs and more of the personal ones.No. Clue. Who. She. Is. Related:• Harry Lennix Enters Joss Whedon's Dollhouse• Dollhouse Finds Its Boss Lady • Battlestar Stud Playing Dollhouse with Dushku • Exclusive: Who's Who in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse • Eliza Dushku Lures Joss Whedon Back to TV!
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Vincent Kartheiser (left) on Mad Men
He's a go-getter, a whippersnapper, an up-and-coming advertising exec whose greatest liability may be his ambition. That, or his penchant for illicitly dipping more than his toe into the steno pool. He's Pete Campbell, and he's played winningly on AMC's super-sexy Mad Men (Thursdays at 10 pm/ET) by Vincent Kartheiser. TVGuide.com invited the Angel alum to emerge from the series' smoke-filled set and share his take on his Mad Ave. alter ego.
TVGuide.com: I'm a huge fan of Mad Men, so I've got to hit you with a burning question, since you're the first cast member I have Q&A'd. The omnipresent cigarettes — what percentage of the cast are smokers who had to pick up the habit again, and how many of you hate having to light up for the scenes?
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A repeat from early in the season, but since I hadn't seen it, it was new to me — and that's almost as good as it not being a rerun. Plus, Amy Acker was on, playing a sweet mother to a son who's suffering from posttraumatic stress. Her cute little accent reminded me of when she first showed up on Angel as a goodie-goodie before transforming into the evildoer she later became and the troublemaker she is now portraying on Alias. It was nice to see her flip back to good Amy. Really shows off her range! Plus, she totally charmed me when she told Sam to tell his friend "this whole Jerry Maguire thing isn't going to work on me." Cute pop-culture reference. But the kid that was causing everyone to drown, not so cute... in fact he was downright creepy. That scene where his head popped out of the water was just icky. Plus, now I'm afraid to turn on the water in my sink because god only knows what is going to come out. This is why I really shouldn't w
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Question: What's this talk I hear about an Alias spin-off starring the current bad guys? Do you have any intel. on this? Would Amy Acker be involved? My greatest wish would be a spin-off starring Amy Acker and David Anders, because I don't think you can get any better than Peyton and Sark working closely together to do evil. That would be hot.
Answer: Spacegirl? Really? Anyway, this possibility of a bad-guy spin-off (also featuring Sloane, naturally) was discussed in the Dec. 12 issue of TV Guide (on stands now), but it's awfully preliminary and, I agree, awfully tempting — though I would be honestly surprised if it gets much beyond the talking stage. ABC is flying high these days, and spinning off a show past its prime seems counterintuitive. But yes, it would be hot. And I would watch ...
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AliasAlias is bringing the fun in again: Sydney being all pushy at the racetrack, Rachel taking out Gordon Dean with a shovel, the cute father-daughter crib-assembling scene and best of all, the Marshall moments. Like his skepticism about trusting Sloane after he admitted that he was working with Dean to save comatose Nadia. "Is anybody else having déjà vu here? First Sloane was good, then he's bad, now he's good again? Though I guess he was bad at first but I thought he was good." He would have kept going if Jack hadn't cut him off. And he invented a new verb: Flinkmanize. Perfect word to describe how he took LSD and created a new concoction to take Dean on a torture trip: "I Flinkmanized it!". Love it, and love that he also used Twisted Sister to amp up the hallucinati
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Question: I have a question regarding Alias. Whatever happened to viewer goodwill? It seems that more and more these days, people are looking for reasons to say a show "jumped the shark." I don't know how many times shows like Alias and 24 got off to a slow start but then really got rolling later. After the Oct. 13 episode, I think Alias is getting back on track. I thought it was great. I also think killing Vaughn (if he really is dead) was a good step for the show. Sydney's revenge was what fueled the first two seasons, and giving her a personal mission makes it more exciting. I know the ratings are down, but I'd be curious to know how the Alias Thursday-at-8pm/ET ratings compare to what ABC had in that slot last year. So, unlike some viewers, I'm not ready to drop it yet; I still have faith in it. I'd just like to know your thoughts.
Answer: I am a charter member of the ban-the-"jump-the-shark" crusade, so I'm with you on that. I also thought the episode in which the writers
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How many fake CIA black-ops groups are out there? And what are the chances that Syd and Co. — who had already been burned by one — find a girl who is a victim of another manipulative control freak like Sloane? But I do like that this whole implausible situation gives my boy Marshall a new friend. He and Rachel did that whole geek-speak thing, and I didn't have a clue what they were saying, but it was fun to listen to them anyway. I just wonder if, in their downtime, one of them could whip up some of those tracking-device mints for my purse so the next time I misplace my wallet or keys I could trace them? I also thought it was cool to see Amy Acker as a bad girl who isn't blue. She needs to get more fight scenes, because although there was a big explosion and a car chase, I still found myself missing the heart-racing action that this show used to dole out so easily. Also, when they showed Syd and Vaughn's address, there was part of me that was hoping
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Question: Is it true that Amy Acker has been dropped from CBS' The Unit?
Answer: Yeah, and I'm not happy about it.
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