Madchen Amick, Rebecca Romijn
Ugly Betty alum Rebecca Romijn has lined up a pretty cool new role, playing the lead sorceress in ABC's Eastwick pilot.
Based on the John Updike novel/1987 film The Witches of Eastwick, ABC's take will star Romijn as ...
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Alfre Woodard, Madchen Amick, Saffron Burrows
Jeers to My Own Worst Enemy for wasting a trio of talented actors in its pilot.
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Madchen Amick by Michael Caulfield/WireImage.com
Christian Slater has a new wife for his double-duty character on My Own Worst Enemy.The star of the new NBC series will now be betrothed to Madchen Amick, who will play wife to Slater's Henry, a suburban dad whose alter ego is a spy, the Hollywood Reporter says. Amick's character is in the dark about her husband's secret life.Amick, who will also be heating things up on Gossip Girl this season, is replacing Yara Martinez, in the second shake-up for the show in 10 days. As previously reported, she show's creator, Jason Smilovic, stepped away from daily operations and John Eisendrath was upped to executive producer.For some of us, it's tough to picture Slater with anyone but Samantha Mathis or Winona Ryder (take your '80s movie pick), but for the rest: Will Slater and Amick make a good couple — at least, until Henry's secret side unfolds? — Anna DimondMore Enemy News:• VIDEO: Sneak Peek of Christian Slater's New Drama!• Zachary Levi to Host NBC Sneak Peek Showcase&...
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Madchen Amick by Tony Barson/WireImage.com
Get those claws out Gossip Girl Upper East Siders, because there's a new cougar in town! OK, she's not quite a full-fledged cougar age wise, but Madchen Amick has just been cast as a May-December love interest for Nate — aka Blair's high school-aged ex. EW reports that Amick, who played a casino wife on the "blink-and-you-missed-it" Viva Laughlin, will play Catherine Mason when Gossip Girl returns to the CW on Sept. 1.What do you think of a cougar crashing the Gossip gang? — Erin FoxRelated• Gossip Invades the Hamptons• Use Our Online Video Guide to Watch More Gossip Girl
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Janice Dickinson courtesy Oxygen
Oxygen is bringing back The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency for a third season starting Dec. 4. A third season? Sheesh. By the time they stick a fork in this baby, Janice is gonna need oxygen.... Ty Pennington: The E! True Hollywood Story premieres Nov. 17, at which point the hyper designer can at last say definitely that he has arrived.... Recovering as best she can from Viva Laughlin, Madchen Amick (along with Robin Givens) has landed a lead in Lifetime's The Verdict, a legal drama pilot about the trial of a pop star accused of ordering a hit on her lover. Or, for short: "Britney Spears: The E! True Hollywood Story." — Ben Katner
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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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CBS announced today its 2007-2008 Fall Prime-time lineup, featuring five new series: one comedy, three dramas and one reality program. These freshman series will join the 17 returning programs on the current CBS lineup, which helped the network win the 2006-2007 season in viewers and adults 25-54, continuing its multi-year winning streak. The five new series feature bold and creative concepts, including Viva Laughlin, where drama is accented by iconic music; Cane, starring Jimmy Smits as the head of a powerful South Florida Cuban-American family; Moonlight, a romantic thriller with a new twist on the vampire legend; The Big Bang Theory, a comedy about genius geeks from Two and A Half Men cocreator Chuck Lorre; and Kid Nation, a reality series where 40 kids attempt to build a new society in an abandoned ghost town.CBS will return television's No. 1 drama and scripted program, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; the No. 1 comedy, Two and a Half Men; the No. 1 new comedy, Rules of Engagem...
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The doctor is making his final rounds.
Even though NBC recently renewed ER for three more seasons, the long-running medical drama will go on without one of County General's last original MDs, Dr. John Carter. Noah Wyle, who has played Carter since the show debuted 11 years ago, told TVGuide.com last year that he was "not going to be a series regular [this] year" so he could spend more time with his wife, Tracy, and their 2-year-old son, Owen.
He's kept mum since then. But now it seems Wyle will follow in the footsteps of George Clooney, Anthony Edwards, Julianna Margulies and Eriq LaSalle and leave the show for good following the May 19 season finale. He is, however, expected to make return appearances four times a year for the next two seasons."I know this was a hard decision for him to make. He really
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Best known for playing vixens in TV treats like Twin Peaks and Central Park West, Madchen Amick is really going against type on ER these days.She's currently halfway through a 10-episode stint as Noah Wyle's newest love interest, social worker Wendell Meade. "[That name] is clearly why she went into psychiatry," the actress jokes, adding that Wendell's lack of steamy hookup scenes is unusual for her. "I've been wondering, 'Damn, how long is this going to take?' [My CPW character] would've already conquered him and moved on by now. I've kept the handcuffs and the candle wax in my back pocket for later."
Of course, there's a good reason Carter hasn't been swinging from the chandeliers with his new GF. "They've been intimate, but you haven't been seeing it," Amick says. "[The producers] are playing it very tastefully. Carter's coming off a very intense relationship with Thandie
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