Criminal Minds co-star Kirsten Vangsness will pull double duty this TV season: Vangsness' quirky computer tech Penelope Garcia will also appear on the Minds spin-off as a series regular, CBS announced Monday.See photos of the Criminal Minds castAs we previously reported, Vangsness was in negotiations to appear on both shows though it was unclear how often she would appear on the spin-off, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior...
Paris Hilton says reports that she was detained on the French island of Corsica for possession of marijuana are "completely false." Check out photos of HiltonAgence France-Presse was among news outlets to report that police briefly held the heiress Saturday after she arrived at the airport in Figari on a private jet from Paris. The report, which cited police sources, said police found less than a gram of cannabis in Hilton's handbag and that she was soon released without charge...
The Bachelorette's Ali Fedotowsky is well aware of the reality show's terrible track record at finding love.After having her own heart broken by former Bachelor Jake Pavelka, and then watching Pavelka's subsequent relationship with Vienna Girardi come to an end, Ali knows the risks of looking for a relationship on national TV...
Lindsay Lohan has hired attorney Robert Shapiro, a member of O.J. Simpson's "dream team," to represent her as she prepares for a jail sentence for violating a 2007 drug charge, according to The Associated Press. Lindsay Lohan's lawyer quits Shapiro told the AP that he agreed to represent Lohan on the condition that she serves her jail time and fully complies with the terms of her probation. Lohan is scheduled to begin serving a 90-day sentence on Tuesday.Shapiro also said he would help Lohan find treatment that would aid in long-term recovery and sobriety...
Kirsten Vangsness, who plays quirky computer tech Penelope Garcia on CBS' Criminal Minds, is in talks to also appear on the upcoming Minds spin-off, a source close to the show tells TVGuide.com.Check out photos of the Criminal Minds castIf a deal is struck, Vangsness' character could recur or appear regularly on the spin-off, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior. CBS took a similar approach last season, with Rocky Carroll's Director Leon Vance appearing on both NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles...
Sela Ward has been tapped to replace Melina Kanakaredes on CSI: NY, CBS announced Tuesday.Melina Kanakaredes exits CSI: NY"We are delighted to have Sela joining CSI: NY," executive producer Pam Veasey said in a statement. "With the exciting stories planned for Season 7, she'll be a dynamic addition to the cast and the team."Ward, a two-time Emmy winner and Golden Globe winner for her roles on Sisters and Once and Again, will play an experienced investigator...
Melina Kanakaredes will not return to CSI: NY this fall.Check out photos of Kanakaredes on CSI: NYKanakaredes, who played Detective Stella Bonasera for six seasons on the procedural, chose not to return, CBS says...
An oil rig salesman, a podiatrist and a college professor are among the 13 houseguests moving in for Big Brother 12.CBS revealed the cast of its guilty pleasure Wednesday morning. Others taking part in what CBS dubs the "Summer of Sabotage" include a bartender, a model and a chemistry graduate student who is also a VIP cocktail waitress....
It's no accident that Mad Men's Season 4 promo poster seems to promise a fresh start for Don Draper & Co. What does the new Mad Men Poster tell us about Season 4? "It's almost like this first episode is a new pilot," new series regular Jared Harris says of the Season 4 premiere in the exclusive video below. "[Creator Matthew Weiner] gets to chuck all the cards up in the air and rearrange them in any way he wants again."Some of those cards will no doubt focus on how Don (Jon Hamm) is adjusting to being newly single while launching his own ad agency, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. But what about Betty...
(Unnecessary) spoiler alert: Rescue Me's Tommy Gavin isn't dead. Even a show with a penchant for keeping dead characters around as ghosts couldn't kill off its lead, right? But last season's finale, which ended with Tommy (series star and co-creator Denis Leary) bleeding out after being shot by his Uncle Teddy (Lenny Clarke), wasn't a total cheat: Tommy fades away just long enough to get a frightening vision of his afterlife.Exclusive: Rescue Me's creators dish on the shocking season finale "We wanted to acknowledge ...
Mark-Paul Gosselaar will guest-star in an upcoming episode of the new TNT drama Rizzoli & Isles, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. Summer TV: Get scoop on all the new summer shows Gosselaar will play Garrett Fairfield, an old college boyfriend of medical examiner Maura Isles (Sasha Alexander), in the sixth episode of the show's first season...
The Season 4 premiere of Mad Men is still a month away, but at least the show's brand-new promo poster gives us a bit to obsess over while we wait.The image features Don Draper (Jon Hamm), cigarette in hand, of course, staring out the window of an office that appears to be empty, save for a telephone. Last year's poster, which featured Don's office flooded with water, brilliantly foreshadowed what we later saw in Season 3: Don deep in work drama and the sea of lies he created at home.Check out photos from Mad MenSo what does this year's effort possibly reveal about Don's plight this season?
Did you miss the sneak peek for AMC's new conspiracy thriller Rubicon? Now's your chance to catch it again.Check out photos of the Rubicon castThe new 13-episode series stars James Badge Dale (The Pacific) as Will Travers, an analyst at a New York City think tank who spends his days cracking codes. When he sees a pattern among the crossword puzzles of several major newspapers and begins digging for clues, tragedy strikes, forcing Will to question his employers...
From the beginning, Treme co-creator and executive producer Eric Overmyer has insisted that HBO's post-Katrina New Orleans drama is a different animal from The Wire.And Overmyer says Sunday's 80-minute finale (10/9c on HBO) proves the point again. While Overmyer's co-creator David Simon often ended seasons of The Wire with big thematic statements, Overmyer says their approach with Treme was to remain solely focused on the characters...
Take it from Virginia Madsen: Sometimes being bad can feel oh-so-good."Sometimes it's really fun to root for the bad guy," Madsen tells TVGuide.com of her new ABC dramedy, Scoundrels (premiering Sunday at 9/8c). Summer TV: Check out 23 other must-watch new shows Madsen plays Cheryl West, the matriarch of a family of criminals. When her husband Wolf (David James Elliott) is sent to prison, Cheryl decides she and her four children — ditzy aspiring model Heather (Levin Rambin), young and smart Hope (Vanessa Marano), and twin boys (both played by Patrick Fleuger), one of which is a dim slacker while the other's a sharp lawyer — are going to go straight. Of course, things don't exactly work out that way...
For Oscar-winning actor Timothy Hutton, agreeing to star in TNT's Leverage wasn't a tough decision — at least not after he read the script. "It was a real opportunity to play a person who had these awful things happen involving his son and the destruction of his marriage — someone who needed a real breakthrough in their life," Hutton says. "I wondered how this tragedy would manifest itself in him and the choices he would make."Look back at Hutton's most memorable rolesHutton plays Nate Ford, the leader of a crack team of cons who use their skills to take from the rich and powerful and give back to those they've wronged. But despite Nate's noble intentions, he hasn't always made the best choices. Case in point: When Season 3 begins (Sunday at 9/8c), Nate is in jail...
ABC's high-tension new reality series Downfall doesn't premiere until next week, but we've got your first look.Chris Jericho to host ABC's DownfallHosted by WWE superstar Chris Jericho, the game show takes place atop a 10-story building in Los Angeles. Contestants must answer questions against a clock to win prizes and a shot at $1 million.In each round, if contestants fail to answer fast enough, they'll see a conveyor belt moving facsimiles of their prizes to the edge of the roof, so they'll plummet and be destroyed. The contestants can back up the conveyor belt, however, by putting either their own personal possessions or family members at risk of going off the roof.Downfall premieres Tuesday, June 22 at 9/8c on ABC. Watch the video after the jump...
True Blood's new season is off to a strong start.The HBO vampire drama's Season 3 premiere on Sunday drew 5.1 million viewers, a 38 percent increase over the Season 2 debut and a 19 percent improvement over the Season 2 average. Including numbers for the Sunday night encore broadcast, the show drew a total of 6.4 million viewers...
NCIS star Michael Weatherly has signed a new contract to continue his role on the show, a CBS rep says. Check out photos of the NCIS castCBS said Weatherly, who plays Special Agent Tony DiNozzo on the hit CBS procedural, signed a multi-year deal, though other specifics were ...
[WARNING: The following story contains plot details from the Season 3 finale of Breaking Bad. Read at your own risk.]For much of Breaking Bad's superb third season, Jesse (Aaron Paul) considered himself "the bad guy." Check out photos of the Breaking Bad castHe blamed himself for the death of girlfriend Jane (Krysten Ritter), who gave up her sober lifestyle to begin using again with Jesse. But despite that — and Jesse's meth-making efforts with Walt (Bryan Cranston) — Jesse was never a murderer, which Walt realized in this season's penultimate episode, when he killed two rival drug dealers instead of letting Jesse go through with it.In Sunday's heartbreaking and shocking season finale...
Run. That's what Breaking Bad's Walter White (Bryan Cranston) told his meth-making cohort Jesse (Aaron Paul) to do moments after Walt hit two murderous rival drug dealers with his car in Season 3's penultimate episode. In doing so, Walt protected Jesse from the wrath of their boss, Gus (Giancarlo Esposito), who also employed the now-dead thugs. Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul: Jesse is going to a very dark place "I think Walt saved Jesse's life by doing that, and Jesse...
[WARNING: The following story contains spoilers from the Season 1 finale of Justified.] Few were left standing at the end of Justified's bloody first-season finale, but among the survivors was Walton Goggins' Boyd Crowder, a character who has escaped death twice this season.Check out photos of the Justified castIn the finale, Boyd, who was originally intended to die in the pilot, survived a shootout between his friend/nemesis Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) and two Miami drug-cartel assassins. Even though Raylan spent much of the second half of the season trying to put Boyd back in jail after he blew up a meth lab, he still lets Boyd give chase to an assassin instead of bringing him in...
