Lipstick Jungle by Andrew Eccles/NBC
Looks like NBC is taking a stab at this trendy idea of launching a new series that revolves around a group of powerful women living glitzy Big Apple lives. From the writer of Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell, comes Lipstick Jungle. And you can expect a lot of familiar faces such as Brooke Shields, Lindsay Price and Kim Raver amongst the many pretty, Jimmy-Choo-wearing people. Watch it now! | More online videos
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Brooke Shields, Lindsay Price and Kim Raver, Lipstick Jungle
Meet the sassy triple threats who put the sex back into the city in Candace Bushnell's new Lipstick Jungle (premieres tonight at 10 pm/ET on NBC). LINDSAY PRICEPlays: Designer Victory Ford, a onetime 7th Avenue golden girl, who's now out of fashion.Strength: "Victory doesn't do anything halfway," Price says.Weakness: "She's starting to wonder if her success was a fluke."Signature Line: "All I own is a busted career and 200 pairs of shoes."Romance: Andrew McCarthy plays a blue-eyed billionaire who could rescue Victory and her company.Nemesis: She has several, including an ex-assistant who steals her work.Fashion Sense: Romantic and whimsical (think Peter Som).
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Kim Raver, Brooke Shields and Lindsay Price by Ali Goldstein/NBC Photo
It was a jungle outside of Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City Thursday night — a Lipstick Jungle, that is. The stars of NBC's new drama braved below-freezing temperatures as they walked the red carpet in gorgeous sleeveless dresses. But even the frigid temps weren't enough for Kim Raver to stop gushing about the city the show calls home. "Being born and raised in New York City, I love [shooting here]," she says. "It's such an energized city. When you're shooting on the street you have it all there and it's really exciting." Once Raver and costars Brooke Shields and Lindsay Price made it inside Saks, they headed up to the shoe department to mingle with other celebs like Matthew Perry, who snuck in without doing any press, and The Office's Angela Kinsey. Partygoers grooved to tunes by Paul Sevigny (yes, Chloe's brother) and sipped on some cocktails — but only clear ones. The white carpet of Saks prevented anything with color from being served. But luckily the party didn't pr...
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Lorraine Bracco by Craig Blankenhorn/HBO
Being a mobster's shrink seems to have been quite the panacea for Lorraine Bracco, who memorably played Tony Soprano's put-upon psychotherapist on the HBO hit. Not only has she just finished shooting a Lifetime pilot called Long Island Confidential (in which she plays the mom of a homicide detective), but TV Guide is told she'll show up in a recurring role in Lipstick Jungle, NBC midseason series based on Candace Bushnell's follow-up to Sex and the City. Bracco will portray the duplicitous nemesis of the movie studio chief played by series star Brooke Shields. Looks like she might have learned a lesson or two from her former patient. — Ileane Rudolph
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Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O'Connell by Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage.com
After months of dodging questions about when they're getting married, Ugly Betty's Rebecca Romijn and Carpoolers' Jerry O'Connell faced a whole other set of inquiries at the ABC All-Star Party about how they finally decided what kind of a wedding they wanted."We almost went to City Hall a number of times, we almost eloped a number of times. Eventually we just decided we really wanted to have a party with our friends at home," says Romijn about their intimate wedding at their house in Calabasas on July 14.When asked if guests knew that they were attending a wedding, Romijn laughs, "First I said it was a retirement party for my parents; then we told people it was a special barbecue, and I think most people understood."Although O'Connell says life as a married man is much the same as before, he admitted to suffering a little bit from post-wedding depression. "I was a little sad after the wedding just because it was over. I wasn't like Brooke Shields sad, but I cleaned up the mess on Mo...
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Kim Raver by Mitchell Haaseth /NBC Photo
Kim Raver is four months pregnant, the actress reveals exclusively to TV Guide. “I’m so thrilled to be having a second child, I couldn’t keep it secret,” says the 24 star, who is due this fall, not long before the winter debut of her new NBC series Lipstick Jungle.Raver and her husband, French filmmaker Manuel Boyer, recently relocated to New York with their four-year-old son, Luke, for Lipstick Jungle, which costars Brooke Shields and Lindsay Price as powerful women on the prowl in a Sex and the City-like drama. Raver, a Manhattan native who still has family there, says she's looking forward to the “built-in babysitting.” With a new series and baby on the way, it looks like she’ll need it. —Reporting by David HochmanFor more on how Raver’s pregnancy will affect NBC’s new series Lipstick Jungle, pick up the May 28 issue of TV Guide on newsstands now.
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Kyle Chandler in Friday Night Lights by Paul Drinkwater/NBC Photo
First, the good news (that we've been cheering since late last week): NBC's Hail Mary reprieve to the low-rated but critically worshipped Friday Night Lights is something to celebrate. True, the move to Fridays is a bit worrisome. Those with long memories will recall the fast fade of a similarly themed high-school football drama, Against the Grain (starring a then-unknown Ben Affleck), which aired on Fridays in 1993. Its failure was largely attributed to being scheduled on a night when much of the target audience was actually attending high-school football games. (But that was before the age of DVRs, downloads, online streaming, etc.) One upside: expectations on Fridays are significantly lower. And with a summer in which (let's hope) Emmy nominations and a presumed DVD release can help promote the show and stimulate more buzz, maybe this underdog will do OK in the long run.Next, the strangest news in all of NBC's fall announcements, the first in a week-long wave of network upfront p...
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NBC's 2007-08 lineup features the new dramas Journeyman (Mondays, 10 pm/ET), a romantic-mystery from the Emmy Award-winning producers of The West Wing, concerning a San Francisco newspaper reporter (Kevin McKidd, Rome) who inexplicably begins to travel through time and alter people's lives; and Chuck(Tuesdays, 9 pm/ET), a comedic spy thriller about an unassuming computer geek who is unexpectedly catapulted into a new career as a government agent after spy secrets are mysteriously embedded into his brain. Also new this fall is the drama Bionic Woman (Wednesdays, 9 pm/ET), a re-imagination of the classic from David Eick (Battlestar Galactica) and Jason Smilovic (Kidnapped). Bionic Woman stars Michelle Ryan (EastEnders) as a young woman who is radically altered and empowered after a car crash. Additionally, Life (Wednesdays, 10 pm/ET) features a complex police detective (Damian Lewis, Band of Brothers) who's given a second chance on the Force after serving years in prison for a crime h...
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Brooke Shields
A couple of days before Brooke Shields learned her new sexy series, Lipstick Jungle, would be picked up by NBC, we caught up with the actress — and her lively red-haired baby daughter Grier — at a party where she was introduced as the spokeswoman for a new online campaign, Chain of Confidence, started by the international kitchenware giant Tupperware and aimed at fostering female friendships, which led us to ask her about her new all-about-girl-bonding show as well as her own experiences with girlfriends.
TVGuide.com: So it's pretty cool that while you're promoting female friendships in real life, you're doing a TV show about girlfriends, from Candace Bushnell, the creator of Sex and the City, the acme of sisterhood shows, right?
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Brooke Shields by John Sciulli/WireImage.com
The upfronts are coming, the upfronts are coming...! NBC has ordered Lipstick Jungle, an hour-long drama based on the novel by Candace Bushnell (Sex and the City), sources tell TVGuide.com. At one time considered for the fall 2006 schedule and then featuring Gina Gershon among its ensemble, the serial now stars Brooke Shields (as a movie-studio exec), 24's Kim Raver (as the editor-in-chief of a pop culture mag) and Lindsay Price (as a fashion mogul). Love Monkey's Chris Wiehl (playing Brooke's hubby), Julian Sands, David Alan Basche and David Norona round out the cast.UPDATE: The Ausiello Report just grabbed hold of ABC's entire (rumored) fall schedule. Check it out.UPDATE: Scrubs news!UPDATE: Office finale/Jim-Pam preview!Also, a new TVGuide.com blog for you to bookmark: "First Look: The Hottest Fall TV," which starting Monday will serve as a veritable clearinghouse for all official upfront announcements/schedules.
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