Jeri Ryan
Jeri Ryan has played her share of lawyers on TV (Shark, Boston Legal, Law & Order: SVU), but none of them was like the one she played in Leverage's summer-season finale.
"I've always played the sort of tough-talking, ball-buster kind of lawyers, but Tara is very much a do-gooder and by the book," Ryan tells TVGuide.com.
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Of course, anyone who watched the finale knows that there is more to the buttoned-up Tara Carlisle than meets the eye. "Part of the fun of Leverage in general is in the twists and turns and surprises, and this one definitely had that payoff," Ryan said.
In the closing moments of Wednesday's episode, Ryan's character reveals herself to be ...
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Julie Chen
Good news, Big Brother lovers: CBS has ordered a 12th season of the voyeuristic reality show to air next summer.
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The current season, which wraps up with a live two-hour finale on Sept. 15, is up 11 percent in viewers from last summer. The show also continues to be a powerhouse online, as video streams of the show were up 94 percent from a year ago, and a record 11.6 million users logged on to vote for this season's coup d'etat power.
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Leverage
TNT has ordered a third season of the con-artist drama Leverage, the cable network announced. The 15-episode new season will air next summer.
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Leverage, which wraps up its summer run Sept. 9 and returns to conclude its second season this winter, averages 4.1 million viewers a week.
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Jada Pinkett Smith
TNT has ordered a second season of nursing drama HawthoRNe.
The cable network has asked for 10 more episodes of the series, which stars Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Vartan. The new episodes are set to air in 2010.
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The show's first season has strengthened TNT's prime-time lineup, averaging 3.8 million viewers each week ...
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Dylan McDermott, Dark Blue
Dylan McDermott is done practicing the law and ready to keep the order, as an elite undercover cop on the new TNT drama Dark Blue (premiering Wednesday at 10 pm/ET).
Also on TNT: Timothy Hutton previews Leverage's Season 2
Tackling the gritty and at times morally gray fare is part of a calculated plan by the actor to leave his righteous and sharp-dressed alter ego from The Practice behind him.
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Bryan Batt, Mad Men
It's been a long eight months since we last glimpsed the goings-on inside Mad Men's Sterling Cooper, but Bryan Batt promises that rabid "Maddicts" will be rewarded for their patience.
"I haven't seen [the finished product] yet, but just based on the script, it's really an exciting first episode," Batt tells TVGuide.com. "It doesn't lull you back into the period. Really, a lot happens, and I just can't wait to see what people think because it's one of the best. It's interesting, it's smart... It's just more great Mad Men coming your way."
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Batt says his character, closeted art director Salvatore Romano, is pretty much in the same place he was last season. Of course, those 13 episodes were a roller coaster for Sal, who...
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Jordan and Ronnie, Big Brother 11
CBS has announced (most) of the 13 houseguests who will be competing for the $500,000 grand prize on Big Brother 11 this summer.
Host Julie Chen made the reveal on CBS' Early Show, but only introduced 12 players. The remaining mystery guest — which the blogosphere suggests will be a player from a past season — will be announced July 7, two days before the show's premiere.
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The cast is relatively young (the oldest contestant is a 41-year-old school teacher/DJ) and features the usual suspects: a buxom blonde, a beefy jock, an edgy type (tattoos!) and a bikini model. But this might also be ...
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Luke Conley
Meet Luke Conley, the "husky hunk" who will choose from 20 full-figured females and (hopefully) find the woman of his dreams on More to Love, a new dating competition airing on Fox this summer.
A 26-year-old former college football player turned successful real estate investor, Conley stands 6-foot-3 and weighs "over 300 pounds," says Fox's press release. He says is looking for a woman who is "intelligent, passionate, down-to-earth, full-figured and comfortable in her own skin."
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As for the ladies who will lobby to claim this loveable lunk's big heart, the only quality they seem to share is a desire to find love. With careers ranging from a plus-sized model to lawyer to ...
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Piers Morgan, America's Got Talent
Season 4 of America's Got Talent (premiering Tuesday at 9pm/ET on NBC) has a lot to live up to after the British version's Susan Boyle-enhanced record ratings. But judge Piers Morgan has no doubt the American version will thrive as well — perhaps even with Boyle's help.
Morgan says Boyle, who finished second in the British version of the show, might perform for American viewers as well.
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Paige Hemmis with Bode Miller
In this new series of TVGuide.com celebrity blog entries, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition's Paige Hemmis shares an inside look at her run on ABC's The Superstars, premiering Tuesday, June 23, at 8 pm/ET.
Usually, I write to you while I'm building a house for a family on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. This time, my location is a bit more glamorous — the Bahamas! But my television experience is not glamorous in the least. It consists of hard work, both mentally and physically, and many of us are ...
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