Martin Short, Lily Tomlin, Keith Carradine
FX's Damages returns to production for its third season this week with four big names added to its cast: Campbell Scott, Martin Short, Lily Tomlin and Keith Carradine.
Campbell Scott (Royal Pains) and Martin Short (Primetime Glick) have become series regulars, while Lily Tomlin (The West Wing) and Keith Carradine (Dexter) join as special guest stars. Details of their roles...
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Tate Donovan
Tate Donovan always plays the nice guy. Remember The O.C.'s Jimmy Cooper? Friends' Joshua? His character on Damages (Wednesdays at 10 pm/ET, FX) might have gotten his hands dirty a time or two, but he's a regular saint compared to his colleagues. But is that about to change? We chatted with Donovan to get his take on swimming with the sharks, and to see how close his character comes to the dark side before the season wraps.
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Oscar winner William Hurt tells Matt Mitovich about joining his old buddy — and new Emmy nominee — Glenn Close on Damages; his role as Patty Hewes' newest client, a consultant for an energy company, will give him the chance to explore "massive rights and massive wrongs."
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Benjamin Bratt by Danny Feld/A&E
Benjamin Bratt returns to series TV finally with the gritty hopeful drama The Cleaner Tuesdays at 10 pmET AE which follows a recovering addict in charge of a crew of extreme interventionists wholl stop at nothing to help others find treatment We hit him up for a quick fix Damian HolbrookTV Guide Just as you come back to TV Chris Noth leaves another Law Order Did Dick Wolf call and offer you your old badge Benjamin Bratt Not this time [Laughs]TV Guide Why return to series TV nowBratt At the end of the day I simply want to work I feel like Im at my best when Im working and the lines are really blurred between the mediums Any actor worth his salt would be content doing good work be it in film TV or stage Of course the added bonus of this being an AE show is there is a creative freedom in our approach to the drama that allows for a more authentic feelTV Guide Kidnapping Carjacking The character seems a little above the law n
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Isaiah Washington by Jean Baptiste Lacroix/ WireImage.com
Isaiah Washington has been booked for a guest-starring role on A&E's The Cleaner, which premieres this Tuesday at 10 pm/ET. Though details were few at first, I have since uncovered lots more on how the Grey's Anatomy alum will fit into the episode. In "The 11th Hour," Washington will play a traditional, well-schooled interventionist who crosses swords with Benjamin Bratt's title character — a recovered addict who has his own "unconventional" ways of helping others — when they both attempt to treat the same girl.Since parting ways with ABC's Grey's Anatomy, Washington's only TV appearance has come in the form of a mini-run on NBC's short-lived Bionic Woman. (Well, that and as a newspaper clipping on the Seattle Grace bulletin board. But let's not go there.) He also has done the occasional indie. Other guest-stars on The Cleaner will include Tate Donovan (Damages), Annabeth Gish (Brotherhood), Kathy Baker and Eric Roberts. — Matt Mitovich
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Glenn Close, Damages
Has Arthur Frobisher snorted his last line off a hooker's bosom? Was Patty truly behind Ellen's attempted murder? And how does Patty's ill-fated teen pregnancy fit into it all? Shortly after the first-season finale of FX's Damages, TVGuide.com asked the series' creators — Todd A. Kessler, Daniel Zelman and Glenn Kessler — to fill in some blanks. Plus, the latest word on a possible Season 2 pickup.
TVGuide.com: First up, Arthur Frobisher — is he dead?Todd A. Kessler: It all depends on whether he is able to make a phone call there in the field and save himself. But we were so thrilled with Ted Danson
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Tate Donovan, Damages
This week on FX's dark 'n' twisty Damages (Tuesdays at 10 pm/ET), Tom and Ellen (perhaps ill-advisedly) decide to hide something from boss lady Patty Hewes, who they fear is manipulating them. (Patty pulling people's strings not at all unlike a cruel puppeteer? You think?) TVGuide.com spent a few minutes with series star Tate Donovan to speculate on Tom's ultimate fate, as well as try (once again) for some scoop on the Season 2 game plan.
TVGuide.com: I love this show, man. Are you hearing that a lot from people?Tate Donovan: I am, you know, and it's exciting. When I was on The O.C., I heard only from, like, kids — "Oh my god, you're Jimmy Cooper! I love that show!!" — so it's really nice to hear from very intelligent adults who are like, "I find your show fascinating....
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As I previewed in the latest TV Guide Talk podcast, this episode of FX's Damages, though lighter on the jaw-dropping twists, was a welcome second outing in that many of the characters were steered into areas of gray. Almost in a Rashomon (or, for the younger folk, Courage Under Fire) fashion, we are being made privy to conversations and motivations not entirely divulged in the pilot.Take Frobisher. Last week's episode had us believing that he was utterly ruthless, and probably would not hesitate to put out a hit on poor Katie (the lying beyotch). But now we see the crisis of conscience he went through, and more than once, upon learning that his Achilles heel was talking to Patty. A week ago, whodathunk I'd be feeling for the tycoon who, if this case isn't nipped in the bud and soon, will lose his kids and wife. I found myself in Frobisher's head, weighing the pros and cons: sacrifice half my vast fortune and my priceless kids, or pay a huge settlement I probably swindled from my emp...
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FX's Damages, which premiered on Tuesday, is simply too good a show not to have a "watercooler" blog, so I am stepping up to the plate and authoring one. In exchange, you will give me some leeway if each week's recap doesn't get posted until, say, 8 am the morning after. (Recapping 10 o'clockers is tough for a tired father of 4-year-old twins!)As I said in the title, what a pilot episode, right?This is not a courtroom drama.This is not a legal drama.This is not a procedural.What this is — and Michael Nouri (who plays Glenn Close's hubby) first spun it this way when I saw him at a function last month — is a psychological thriller. And a darn good one.I've already screened Episode 2, so I must be careful here not to cover too much ground. But I love the setup, how up-and-coming legal eagle Ellen is seen fleeing the grisly scene of god-knows-what, and then we proceed to flash forward and back and forward and back, piecing together — throughout the entire first season, mi...
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent guest stars Tate Donovan and Charissa Chamorro
Tonight's episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (9 pm/ET, on NBC) got its inspiration from the recent bizarre love triangle involving NASA astronauts. For a preview of this stranger-than-fiction tale, we talked to executive producer Warren Leight, who also wrote the episode.
TV Guide: I guess doing a ripped-from-the-headlines story on the astronaut scandal was a no-brainer, right? Warren Leight: We were 18 episodes into the season and banging our heads against the walls, so it seemed like a gift. I saw the [New York] Post and the Daily News staring me in the face and thought it was divine intervention.
TV Guide: How much research did you do about Lisa Nowak and the real astronaut scandal before writing this epis
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