
Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Vartan
It's ironic that HawthoRNe's third season opens with a scene of bliss because almost everything that follows is heartache.
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The new season (premiering Tuesday, 10/9c, TNT) begins with a pregnant Christina Hawthorne (Jada Pinkett Smith) preparing to marry boyfriend and baby-daddy Tom Wakefield (Michael Vartan). But the rest of the season-opener is no honeymoon: Christina is brutally attacked in the hospital ...
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Michael Vartan and Lauren Skaar
Former Alias star Michael Vartan married girlfriend Lauren Skaar, People reports.
The couple tied the knot Saturday at a resort in Newport Beach, Calif. Vartan's Alias co-star, Victor Garber, served as a groomsman. Vartan, 42, sported a two-button Giorgio Armani tuxedo and Skaar wore a...
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Marc Anthony
Marc Anthony will reprise his guest-starring Hawthorne role as a series regular, TNT announced Monday.
The Grammy-winning singer played police Detective Nick Renata in two episodes last season. His newly expanded role in the medical drama comes as nurse Christina Hawthorne (Jada Pinkett Smith) struggles with the news she's pregnant by her on-again-off-again flame, Dr. Tom Wakefield (Michael Vartan).
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Hawthorne
TNT has renewed medical drama Hawthorne for a third season, the network announced Wednesday.
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Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Vartan
It was a high-wattage party when TNT and TBS gathered together the stars of their current and upcoming series. Inter-show mingling and laughter ensued as the actors hammed it up for the camera in TV Guide Magazine's photo booth. Memphis Beat's Jason Lee debated the country's best barbecue, Will Smith roamed the room in support of his wife, HawthoRNe's Jada Pinkett Smith, and the stars...
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Fans of TNT's HawthoRNe (Tuesday, 9/8c) should be prepared for some steamy action. Star Michael Vartan accidently spills to TVGuide.com that "two characters get down to the nitty-gritty" in the next episode. Plus: What does the actor think about one last Alias adventure? Find out more in the video below.
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Michael Vartan, HawthoRNe
The med drama HawthoRNe checks back in for Season 2 tonight at 9/8c on TNT with Jada Pinkett Smith's supernurse Christina working at a new hospital. And for Michael Vartan's hotter-than-a-fever Dr. Tom Wakefield, that could mean a prescription for romance....
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Michael Vartan
Former Alias star Michael Vartan is engaged to girlfriend Lauren Skaar, People reports.
Vartan, 41, and Skaar got engaged two weeks ago after...
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Michael Vartan
Another medical drama, you say? Michael Vartan promises that TNT's HawthoRNe (premiering Tuesday at 9 pm/ET) offers something different.
"There are a lot of medical series out there," the Alias alum acknowledges in his TVGuide.com video Q&A. "But never has one told the story from the nurses' perspective."
TNT's new drama stars Jada Pinkett Smith as chief nurse Christina Hawthorne and Vartan as Tom Wakefield, the chief of surgery with whom she will butt heads, again and again. Vartan, though, couldn't ask for a livelier scene partner.
"She's amazing," he raves of Pinkett Smith, who also serves as an executive producer. "I really trust her creative vision."
Also in this on-camera sit-down ...
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Michael Vartan
After his role on ABC's short-lived Big Shots, Alias star Michael Vartan is giving the small screen another go.
Vartan has been cast as Jada Pinkett Smith's costar in TNT's medical drama, Time Heals, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
The series, set to debut later this year, centers on Pinkett Smith's Christina Hawthorne, a strong but caring nursing director at a North Carolina hospital. Vartan will play ...
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