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The Good Wife: Will a Sex Scandal Derail Peter's Campaign?

Chris Noth is pumped for the upcoming election. "I love politics!" he crows a few weeks before the presidential showdown. But today he's talking about a fictional Democratic gubernatorial primary in the great state of Illinois — and it's a juicy one. After all, Noth's candidate on the CBS drama The Good Wife, Cook County State's Attorney Peter Florrick, has been known to get a little dirt on his hands. Not to mention a little lipstick on his collar. "I'm...

Fri, Nov 9, 2012

The Good Wife: Will a Sex Scandal Derail Peter's Campaign?

First Look: Olympian Gabby Douglas Visits The Vampire Diaries

Olympic all-around gymnastics champion Gabby Douglas saw another dream come true: She landed a cameo on The Vampire Diaries, the CW drama she gave a shout-out to after snagging two gold medals last summer. Douglas appears on...

Thu, Nov 1, 2012

First Look: Olympian Gabby Douglas Visits The Vampire Diaries

On the Set: Homeland's Explosive New Season

Carrie Mathison is finally in the driver's seat. In a scene for an upcoming episode of Showtime's Emmy-winning hit Homeland, the bipolar former C.I.A. agent — played by the mesmerizing Claire Danes — is gripping the wheel with such ferocious intensity, you'd think she's doing 120 even though the car is parked. In the passenger seat is...

Wed, Oct 17, 2012

On the Set: Homeland's Explosive New Season

Jesse Spencer and Taylor Kinney Heat Up Chicago Fire

House's Jesse Spencer trades in his scrubs and The Vampire Diaries werewolf Taylor Kinney declaws to play firefighters in exec producer Dick Wolf's new drama Chicago Fire. Here, the calendar-ready stars tell us what makes life in Firehouse 51 so hot. TV Guide Magazine: Jesse, after eight seasons on House, how does it feel to ditch the medical jargon for firefighting derring-do?Spencer: House was a great show, but very...

Wed, Oct 10, 2012

Jesse Spencer and Taylor Kinney Heat Up Chicago Fire

Lifetime Re-Creates the Humor and Heartbreak of Steel Magnolias

No-nonsense mother of three M'Lynn Eatenton (Queen Latifah) is hosting a joyful Christmas bash in her Louisiana home when she gets some hard-to-hear news: Her diabetic, newlywed daughter Shelby (Condola Rashad) is pregnant, a condition that she might not survive. Thankfully, M'Lynn is not alone: Her friends wrap her in a cocoon of love and support. Sound familiar? Yep, the loving, lippy ladies of...

Fri, Oct 5, 2012

Lifetime Re-Creates the Humor and Heartbreak of Steel Magnolias

Departing True Blood Showrunner Alan Ball Tackles Finale Burning Questions

After five deliriously bloody seasons, True Blood's creator and showrunner Alan Ball is departing. (He's currently exec producing the "noir" thriller Banshee for Cinemax). But first, Ball answers some finale burning questions — and offers some thoughts on next season.

Fri, Aug 31, 2012

Departing True Blood Showrunner Alan Ball Tackles Finale Burning Questions

First Look: The Vampire Diaries' Elena Gets Vampy

Is someone trying to keep Mystic Falls safe from bloodsucker-to-be Elena or are her loved ones trying to protect her from danger?Either way, it looks like the locked-up baby vamp isn't feeding anytime soon. "She doesn't want to eat people, so she's hungry — and moody," warns The Vampire Diaries' Nina Dobrev.

Wed, Aug 29, 2012

First Look: The Vampire Diaries' Elena Gets Vampy

Cubicle Confessions: Meet the Men of BBC America's Copper

New York City in 1864 was no place for a wimp. In BBC America's Copper, the latest collaboration from Oz and Homicide vets Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson, the Civil War-era town is a boiling stew of impoverished immigrants, uptown power brokers, vicious gangs, freed slaves and Confederate spies.

Fri, Aug 24, 2012

Cubicle Confessions: Meet the Men of BBC America's Copper

Sneak Peek: Nathan Lane on The Good Wife

The Good Wife's debt-ridden law firm of Lockhart/Gardner has a new financial overseer this season. "He's a court-appointed trustee named Clark Hayden, brought in to clean up the financial mess," says Nathan Lane (with Julianna Margulies and Christine Baranski), who, starting with the September 30 premiere, will make several appearances as the "rather...

Fri, Aug 24, 2012

Sneak Peek: Nathan Lane on The Good Wife

Sneak Peek: Paget Brewster on Law & Order: SVU

Paget Brewster says she was so star-struck when she first guested on NBC's Law & Order: SVU five years ago "that I don't know that I did such a good job. So I'm really glad they asked me to come back!" She debuts in the September 26 season premiere as...

Thu, Aug 23, 2012

Sneak Peek: Paget Brewster on Law & Order: SVU

Paget Brewster's Guest Spot on Law & Order: SVU Goes Head-to-Head With Criminal Minds

Paget Brewster wants her fans to know that she did not know that her Law & Order: SVU gig would play opposite her former show Criminal Minds.The actress tells TV Guide Magazine that she feels terrible that her first post Minds role will air the same time as her old show, on Sept. 26. "I was so crazy flattered when they offered me this part," the actress says, "and I didn't find out until after I took the role that the special two episode premiere of SVU [airing from 9/8c to 11/10c] was going to bump against Criminal Minds, which it never does!"

Tue, Aug 21, 2012

Paget Brewster's Guest Spot on Law & Order: SVU Goes Head-to-Head With Criminal Minds

Meet the Boss Ladies

Ruthless Chicago mayor Tom Kane (Kelsey Grammer) would've been smart to recall the adage "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." In Season 2 of the dark political drama Boss, Kane will face the ire of the many women in his life whom he's scorned — not to mention betrayed and humiliated. As the season opens...

Fri, Aug 17, 2012

Falling Skies Preview: Will Paradise Be Found in Charleston?

There are showers, plentiful food and unexpected reunions awaiting the 2nd Mass when they finally arrive in Charleston, South Carolina, but in the final two weeks of Falling Skies' second season, they soon learn that the promised land isn't quite paradise. In this Sunday's penultimate episode of the alien-invasion drama (9/8c, TNT) we meet Arthur Manchester (played by Lost vet Terry O'Quinn), the leader of the new United States capital, which has emerging conflicts between civil rights and martial law. More important — as far as the 2nd Mass is concerned — Manchester prefers hiding to fighting. "We always wanted...

Fri, Aug 10, 2012

Falling Skies Preview: Will Paradise Be Found in Charleston?

On the Range With A&E's Hot Summer Hit Longmire

It's been a long time since TV was populated by righteous dudes of few words in cowboy hats. Timothy Olyphant's lawmen on Deadwood and Justified have a vengeful streak, and on Hatfields & McCoys you couldn't hit a hero with a Winchester if you tried. That's the hole Longmire executive producers Hunt Baldwin, John Coveny and Greer Shephard wanted to fill. "After a...

Fri, Jul 20, 2012

On the Range With A&E's Hot Summer Hit Longmire

Eric McCormack Returns to TV in TNT's Perception

Daniel Pierce is that guy. The one you flee as he argues with the air, or conducts an imaginary orchestra while he waits in line. But take a deeper look: You'll find a complicated man who also delivers beguiling lectures on the intricate workings of the brain and helps the FBI solve complex cases with his expansive knowledge of human behavior. M.D., Ph.D. and schizophrenic, Pierce is the brilliant and damaged hero of Perception, TNT's new procedural-with-quirks. He's a mash-up of Monk, House, Patrick Jane and Sherlock Holmes, not to mention cousin to...

Mon, Jul 9, 2012

Eric McCormack Returns to TV in TNT's Perception

Connor Jessup Previews Ben's Growing Alienation on Falling Skies

Like Ben Mason, the human/alien hybrid he plays on TNT's sci-fi hit Falling Skies, Connor Jessup has a dual personality. The Canadian actor, who turns 18 on Saturday, has been on TV since he was a tween, but he's also been an exec producer on the indie teen flick Amy George and a writer and director of several short films.

Fri, Jun 22, 2012

Connor Jessup Previews Ben's Growing Alienation on Falling Skies

On the Set: Falling Skies Amps Up the Sci-Fi Action in Season 2

Under a cold, driving rain, a platoon of resistance fighters moves through piles of dead, charred Skitters — the spidery aliens that invaded Earth and massacred billions — and smashed-up Mechs, their giant deadly robots. Signs of who (or what) killed them are nowhere to be found, but that mystery could provide the truth about the invasion that kicked off TNT's Falling Skies. Right now, however...

Fri, Jun 15, 2012

On the Set: Falling Skies Amps Up the Sci-Fi Action in Season 2

Kerry Washington Previews the Scandal 's First Season DVD

What we love about ABC's Scandal, ABC's sexy thriller about a Washington, D.C., fixer, is that each week the show gets twistier, darker and more deliciously devious. On Tuesday, the first season DVD set arrives so fans can revisit and newbies can dip into the fun.

Tue, Jun 12, 2012

Kerry Washington Previews the Scandal 's First Season DVD

First Look: Syfy Targets Gamers With Defiance

Fanboys and girls are already clamoring for Defiance, Syfy's upcoming postapocalyptic alien drama, which is so big it can't be contained on a TV screen. The series, debuting in April, is breaking new ground by simultaneously launching a multiplayer gaming component available on PCs, Xbox and PlayStation 3. Here's what gamers and viewers need to know:

Tue, Jun 5, 2012

First Look: Syfy Targets Gamers With Defiance

First Look: Bristol Palin's New Reality

When a planned reality show about Bristol Palin and her Dancing With the Stars friend Kyle Massey and his actor brother, Chris, fell apart, Lifetime offered the daughter of former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin her own series instead...

Tue, May 15, 2012

Sneak Peek: Drop Dead Kardashian

Reality star Kim Kardashian goes scripted this summer with a three-episode arc on Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva, beginning with the June 3 season premiere. She plays...

Tue, May 8, 2012

Law & Order's Linus Roache Sets Sail on ABC's Titanic

In the midst of the hoopla surrounding the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's fateful collision with an iceberg, Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes weighs in with Titanic, a four-hour upstairs/downstairs retelling of the ship's maiden — and final — voyage (airing Saturday at 8/7c and Sunday at 9/8c on ABC).

Fri, Apr 13, 2012

Law & Order's Linus Roache Sets Sail on ABC's Titanic