Eric Winter and Roselyn Sanchez
Roselyn Sanchez (Without a Trace) and Eric Winter (Brothers & Sisters, Days of Our Lives) married on Saturday at the historic San Cristobal fort in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The guest list totaled 250, including Desperate Housewife ...
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Eric Winter by Jeffrey Mayer/ WireImage.com, Sophia Myles and Alex O'Loughlin in Moonlighting by Monty Brinton/CBS
Doesn't look like that Kevin-Jason reunion is happening anytime soon on Brothers & Sisters. CBS' Moonlight has tapped the so-pretty-it-should-be-illegal Eric Winter for a major recurring role, sources confirm to me exclusively.Winter, who's onboard for a minimum of three episodes beginning with the show's post-strike premiere on April 25, will play ADA Benjamin Talbot, a handsome, self-assured gent who plays by his own rules. I'm hearing Ben sets his sights on Beth (Sophia Myles), which, as you can imagine, makes Mick a very angry vampire. This is definitely good news for Moonlight. Not so much for Brothers & Sisters. You with me?
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Roselyn Sanchez and Eric Winter by Mathew Imaging/ WireImage.com
Eric Winter may have wowed Roselyn Sanchez with his midnight proposal by the edge of Vieques' bioluminescent bay in Puerto Rico — where he presented her with a diamond ring that he designed — but when it comes to planning their November wedding, Sanchez is definitely stepping up to the plate. As the ceremony will take place in Sanchez's native Puerto Rico, the Without a Trace star has put her entire family to work. In fact, even the governor of San Juan is offering a helping hand. "[The location] where I’m going to [wed] is not open for private events, but [the governor] is a dear friend, so I went and said, 'I need your help' and he did it," she told TV Guide at the opening of the first Body Language Sportswear store. "It’s the first wedding at a big fort in old San Juan. It’s amazing." Winter himself is realizing that proposing is the easy part and planning a wedding around tropical rainstorms is a whole different undertaking. "It's like starting your own ...
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Eric Winter and Roselyn Sanchez by Eric Charbonneau/WireImage.com
Having apparently forgiven her boyfriend of two years for Viva Laughlin, Without a Trace's Roselyn Sanchez got engaged to Eric Winter during a holiday vacation on Vieques, an island east of mainland Puerto Rico. In a statement to the AP, a spokesperson for Sanchez (one of TV Guide's Sexiest Stars of 2007) says she and Winter (who is on his way back to Brothers & Sisters... someday) will discuss a wedding date and location upon their return to Los Angeles.
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Eric Winter by Mark Davis/ABC
Well that didn't take long. As covered in the new Ausiello Report vodcast, Viva Laughlin's Eric Winter is returning to ABC's Brothers & Sisters. "He's coming back for a few episodes — for now," series boss Greg Berlanti told TVGuide.com on the picket line Tuesday, aka "Take Your Stars to Strike Day."Though the writers are striking, B&S still has two episodes left to shoot, and Winter first returns to the set a week from Thursday (albeit not in time for Kitty and Robert's wedding, airing Nov. 25). Jason's resurfacing after an extended and incommunicado stint in Malaysia, Matthew Rhys previews, "will open up Kevin's love life, and Kevin can start having some fun again."
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Eric Winter and Matthew Rhys by Scott Garfield/ABC
How do I love thee, cancellation of Viva Laughlin? Let me count the ways….1) It means there's one less mind-numbingly awful TV show clogging up the airwaves.2) It hastens the return of TV's best reality series, The Amazing Race.3) It frees up Eric Winter to return to Brothers & Sisters as Kevin's minister boyfriend.Regarding that last one, although there's no official deal in place for Winter to reprise his role as Rev. Jason McCallister, his speedy return is a foregone conclusion. And if you don't believe me, believe B&S bossman Greg Berlanti: "Obviously, we wanted Eric's show to succeed, but we would be psyched to have him back," says Berlanti. "While I can't say what will happen to [Kevin and Jason] romantically, we would love to have Eric back as soon as possible. He's a great actor, and he and Matthew are wonderful together. And there's also the fact that he's McCallister's brother, which we always wanted to explore further."Barring a writers' strike, I predict Kev...
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Jon Hamm in Mad Men courtesy AMC
You could get vertigo tonight, scaling the heights of the finale of Mad Men on AMC, and then plumbing the depths of the tone-deaf misfire that is Viva Laughlin, premiering on CBS in the plum slot after CSI before moving to Sundays. There, only those with the most morbid curiosity to watch a show’s slow yet hopefully quick death are likely to follow (unless every critic I know is totally off the mark).First, a salute to the best and most fascinating new show to arrive on TV this year (and I’m even including my quirky new treasure Pushing Daisies in that equation). Mad Men, so hypnotic in its look and style as it recreates a classic movie-worthy image of 1960 Manhattan, is a period piece that says volumes about today, or about any era in which salary and status is tied to self-worth and where people construct a false reality to sell themselves on the American dream.Don Draper (instant star Jon Hamm) would seem to have it all. Besides the movie-star looks, he enjoys upward mo...
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Emily Van Camp, Matthew Rhys and Dave Annable, Brothers and Sisters
The Brothers & Sisters ensemble (sans the actors who play Nora, Robert, Kitty and Sarah) recently walked a red carpet outside the San Antonio Winery (where the show has filmed on occasion) in downtown Los Angeles to celebrate the release of the prime-time serial drama's Season 1 DVD release. TVGuide.com was on the scene to get the scoop on that as well as Season 2, which debuts on Sunday, Sept. 30, at 10 pm/ET, on ABC.
Arguably, the biggest shock twist at the end of the show's freshman year was Uncle Saul possibly being gay. (Those longing looks with guest star Michael Nouri sure implied it, didn't they?) Does Ron Rifkin (Saul) know anyone who dealt with their sexual preferences later in life? "Are you kidding?" he responds rhetorically to TVGuide.com. "All of us [know someone like Saul]." That is, if Nora's brother
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Finally, we can put a face with the name. Former Days of Our Lives stud Eric Winter has been cast as the oft-referred-to-but-never-seen gay brother to Rob Lowe's Sen. McCallister on Brothers & Sisters. According to my Walker family mole, the 30-year-old actor -- whose other credits include the blink-and-you-missed-it WB drama Just Legal and, most recently, ABC Family's Wildfire -- starts work this week for an April debut. As I teased in Ask Ausiello, Kitty initially mistakes him for being one of the senator's frat brothers. When the truth comes out, she immediately fixes him up with Kevin -- to disastrous results. What do we think? Notice any family resemblance?
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Who's doing what this pilot season? From the Reporter:• Huff's two-time Emmy nominee, Oliver Platt, has joined ABC's D.C.-set British import, The Thick of It.• As first scooped by Ausiello, Chris Lowell (aka Veronica Mars' Piz) is set to guest-star on the Grey's Anatomy episode setting up the possible spin-off. Deets on Lowell's character, even his name, are being kept hush-hush. Hmmm....• Lacey Chabert (Mean Girls) joins Molly Stanton (Twins) and Dorian Brown as sorority sisters trying to clean up their act after college in an untiled Fox laffer.• Eric Winter (Wildfire) is a police detective in CBS' Viva Laughlin.• Reba's Steve Howey is The Beast in Fox's comedy about a womanizing veterinarian.• James D'Arcy is a lead agent on the hunt for E.T. sleeper cells in Fox's Them.• Thad Luckinbill (The Young and the Restless) has joined CBS' police serial Protect and Serve.
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