Kathy Najimy will play a police officer investigating an attack on Wisteria Lane on an upcoming episode of Desperate Housewives, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
You know Najimy from her breakout turn as Sister Mary Patrick in the nuns-who-sing comedy Sister Act and her co-starring run on the Kirstie Alley sitcom Veronica's Closet. More recently, she's guested on Numbers, Privileged, and Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva. She's also the voice of Peggy Hill on Mike Judge's animated show King of the Hill.
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Executive producer Marc Cherry told EW's Michael Ausiello that Najimy's character and Teri Hatcher's Susan went to the same high school, where Susan stole her boyfriend.
Najimy's episode will air in October.
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Some headlines write themselves, no?That wonderful little CW newcomer I've been telling you about, Privileged, hopefully can secure a place on the pop-culture radar with some quality guest-casting. Case in point: Kathy Najimy (Sister Act, the voice of King of the Hill's Peggy) has been tapped to appear on a pair of episodes, TVGuide.com has learned. Najimy will play a big-time publicist who considers signing twin terrors Sage and Rose as her clients. Her first piece of advice, one would hope: Telling Sage the super-rich snot to pull that pole out of her... assets. Privileged airs Tuesdays at 9 pm/ET, following 90210. Previously, The Hills' Lauren Conrad was announced as a Season 1 guest-star. Matt MitovichRelated: Lauren Conrad's New Small-Screen Privilege Use our Online Video Guide to watch the Privileged pilot
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Hank Hill will be king for at least one more season. Fox has ordered a 13th season of King of the Hill (Sunday at 8:30 pm/ET, Fox), making the animated show one of the longest-running comedies currently in prime time.Mike Judge stars as the voice of Hank, who, along with his wife, Peggy (Kathy Najimy), live in the fictional town of Arlen, Texas, with their son Bobby (Pamela Adlon) and newly married niece Luanne (Brittany Murphy.) J.R. Whalen
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This was a pleasant leisurely episode a definite shift in pacing as well as tone from the frenetic previous installment In fact beyond seeing Navi Rawats Amita and David Krumholtzs Charlie behave more like an actual couple than weve seen before and aside from some nice business between Diane Farrs Meghan and Peter MacNicols Larry as they attempt to grow more intimate again I have relatively little to note about this episode Will Patton is quite good at keeping his occasional recurring character Gary Walker from slipping into an utter caricature of the tough cop with the heart of gold and happily for Dylan Bruno and his stunt doubles or both Granger was required only to do one shallow dive and some running pursuit of a suspect Alimi Ballards Sinclair even got to do the diving tackle of the fleeing manA synopsis The episode begins in an ornate bank lobby only the apparent sophistication of the vault keeps it from being just as likely a chamber in a museum An o
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This Friday, April 27, on Numbers (10 pm/ET, CBS), Peter MacNicol returns as Charlie's chum Larry while Six Feet Under's Jeremy Sisto guests as a federal attorney in a story dealing with a death-row inmate whose motives for revealing the locations of missing bodies are questioned by Don (Rob Morrow). Holding down the fort in MacNicol's absence (he defected to 24 for much of the year) was Kathy Najimy, who tonight makes her last appearance of the season as Charlie's academic superior, Millie French.
TV Guide: Were you good at math? Kathy Najimy: When I was younger I wanted to be a mathematician, but I think that's
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