Remember when Lori Loughlin made Uncle Jesse utter "Have mercy!" on the long-running Full House? Well, 12 years later, in the new ABC comedy In Case of Emergency (Wednesdays at 9:30 pm/ET, premiering tonight), she's still making men weak in the knees. Playing sweet-but-serious Dr. Joanna Lupone, Loughlin finds herself with a stethoscope around her neck — much like former TV flame John Stamos, who's tending to patients on ER these days — and David Arquette's disheveled and persistent character on her heels
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Mena Suvari will play a girl sucked into a modern-day cult in CBS' Orpheus, while Blair Underwood has been tapped to star in another CBS drama, Company Town.... Mitch Rouse has landed the lead in the CBS comedy The Angriest Man in Suburbia.... Josh Meyers is That Guy in a Fox comedy.... Lori Loughlin has joined ABC's In Case of Emergency.... E-Ring's Kerr Smith is onboard for Fox's American Crime.... Rebecca Gayheart now is part of Fox's Vanished.... Patricia Wettig has been added to ABC's Brothers & Sisters family sudser.
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A popular As the World Turns alumnus, Shawn Christian has left daytime behind, yet he still attracts very soap-studly roles. At 37, he remains the casting director's go-to guy when scripts call for a charmingly naughty piece of eye candy. Let's review his sinfully tasty résumé, shall we?
Since ATWT, he's played Jennifer Aniston's gynecologist on Friends — "Rachel was randy and wanted to maul me" — and Bo Derek's boy-toy on NBC's short-lived Hawaiian sudser, Wind on Water. "I also did CSI, where I was a serial killer sleeping with my sister," he reminds TV Guide Online. "I'm always sleeping with someone!"
Now, Christian's flexing his pecs on Summerland, the WB family drama created by Full House star Lori Loughlin. "I feel like I was stalking Lori," he chuckles, "because we'd worked as guest stars on the same shows, like Drew Carey, Spin City
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On the Los Angeles set of WB's Summerland, Lori Loughlin steps out of the makeup trailer in hair rollers, green flip-flops and her fave green "Everybody Loves an Irish Girl" T-shirt. She's also wearing a wide grin. This lucky 39-year-old actress — best known as Uncle Jesse's girl from Full House — has reason to smile. She's the creator and leading lady of Summerland, which debuted to great ratings last week. Here, Loughlin tells TV Guide Online about escaping sitcom limbo with her very own Aaron Spelling beach fantasy.
TV Guide Online: Full House ended in 1995. Do you mind that everyone still thinks of you as Jesse's girlfriend?Lori Loughlin: [Laughs] I was his wife and we had twin boys! Full House has absolutely afforded me this moment in time. Without the success of that show, I wouldn't be here right now. I couldn't come up with the idea for Summerland and have people be interested. I'm prou
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