Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds executive producer Erica Messer knew very early this season that she wanted to do something out of the ordinary for the season finale.
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"I wanted to ground it with our team and I wanted to end with the idea that good things happen to good people," Messer tells TVGuide.com. "Our team puts up with all this crap from horrible people all year long, so let's actually celebrate them. We see so many bad images all season long, can't we just have our heroes be happy and smiling and dancing? We knew early on there would be a wedding at the end, not an SUV explosion [like in the Season 3 finale]."
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Candy Clark
Get ready to meet JJ's mom!
Oscar-nominated American Graffiti star Candy Clark has been cast as Sandy Jareau, the mother of JJ (A.J. Cook), on Criminal Minds, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
Clark will appear ...
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AJ Cook
Check one off the wish list for A.J. Cook. After seven seasons, the Criminal Minds star's dream has come true: She's getting beat up.
"My wish was granted! I was so excited when I got the script," she tells TVGuide.com. "It was like a kid in a candy store moment. I was just super giddy about it."
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Cook will show off her combat chops on Wednesday's episode (9/8c, CBS) when JJ faces off with an unsub who's been leaving dead bodies in lifeguard towers. And frankly, if you ask Cook, it's been a long time coming. After all, half the cast has been tortured and battered by the likes of C. Thomas Howell, James Van Der Beek and Luke Perry already.
"It started out as a joke. I guess there was a fan video put together with all the action and everyone getting beat up and shot, and we're like, 'JJ's done nothing but shoot a dog [in Season 2's "The Big Game"]. That was the most danger she's faced! It's her turn!'" Cook says. "It was that realization it's my ...
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A.J. Cook
Now that A.J. Cook is back on Criminal Minds, she has one goal: to get beat up.
"I have volunteered to get beat up! I want to get into a really bad fight this year," she tells TVGuide.com. "I'm like, 'Everyone else has gotten the crap beaten out of them! It's JJ's turn!'"
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She may get her wish now that JJ is a full-fledged profiler since she returned to the BAU after a year in the State Department. Though JJ said way back in Season 2 that she had no plans to take extra classes to graduate from media liaison to profiler, Cook believes the promotion is "organic" and in line with JJ's story — not to mention her own story off-screen.
"Someone thought that that character wasn't necessary, so in order for me to come ...
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A.J. Cook
JJ and Prentiss are back!
After a year of casting upheaval, A.J. Cook and Paget Brewster returned to Criminal Minds Wednesday, a homecoming that was punctuated by Cook live-tweeting the Season 7 premiere.
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The opener picked up three months after the finale at a Senate hearing, where the BAU was grilled about its rogue operation pursuing Prentiss' IRA nemesis Ian Doyle (Timothy V. Murphy). After Doyle's son, Declan (Conrad Bluth), was kidnapped — but not by Doyle — Prentiss (Brewster) came out of hiding to help the team, which now finds JJ (Cook) as a profiler, solve the case.
"Gang's all here!" Cook tweeted after Brewster's ...
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Rebecca Mader
Consider her Lost and found! As cultural anthropologist Charlotte Lewis on the dearly departed mind-bending ABC drama, Rebecca Mader was done in by a gushing nosebleed following too much time travel. Now, Mader is back from the dead to play the equally mysterious Victoria Morrow on No Ordinary Family in an arc of episodes that kicks off tonight at 8/7c on ABC. We asked the fiery gal for the scoop about her new alter ego.
TV Guide Magazine: How would you describe Victoria?
Mader: She is a British woman who works with Stephanie [Julie Benz] at Global Tech as ...
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A.J. Cook
The Behavioral Analysis Unit on Criminal Minds has always prided itself on being a family, but on Wednesday, the family will lose one member: agent Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (A.J. Cook).
Cook's contract was not renewed by CBS in June, and the actress — who, with the exception of the pilot, has been a regular since the first season — will bid adieu to her BAU crew in...
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A.J. Cook by Monty Brinton/CBS
Criminal Minds Jennifer JJ Jareaus life will soon hit a bump a baby bump AJ Cook returned from the writers strike with more than just an eagerness to get back to work She and husband Nathan Anderson found out she was pregnant with their first child while she was shooting the movie Misconceptions in which she plays a surrogate mother Shes very Method cracks Minds exec producer Ed BerneroBernero and his staff immediately began rewriting scripts to plant a romantic backstory for JJ The way this show works we couldnt really hide it says Bernero All seven of them walk into rooms together all the time so it really was a no-brainer Well we better get her a boyfriend So in the April 30 episode the BAU team once again crosses paths with Det William LaMontagne Jr Dirts Josh Stewart who flirted with JJ during a jaunt to New Orleans in February 2007 There was a connection between the two of them right away Cook says Apparently weve been
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