A television show centered around Molly Kagan, the ex-wife of a Hollywood entertainment mogul who transitions into a fabulous independent life after her divorce.
A television show centered around Molly Kagan, the ex-wife of a Hollywood entertainment mogul who transitions into a fabulous independent life after her divorce.
Thank God Steven Spielberg scored Debra Messing for his musical pilot, Smash, because TV really needs her back.Last night, the woman we fell in love with on Will & Grace and cheered for The Starter Wife put her comedy chops aside and sank her teeth ...
"Live" from the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Los Angeles, senior editors Matt Mitovich, Mickey O'Connor and Tim Molloy answer your questions. Drop us a line at megascoop@tvguide.com. All I want for Christmas is a spoiler about Juliet from Lost. — SamyMATT: Hmmm. Since we have missed that Yuletide deadline, how about I promise you a present in time for, I dunno, St. Patrick's Day? Because sadly, the lady doc's Season 5 storyline won't really heat up until then. (But once it does, it'll be in a way that makes some fans very happy.) Give me some Battlestar scoop. I can't wait until Friday! — TonyMICKEY: I've been sworn to secrecy by my Sci Fi moles, but let's say this: Just because ...
Starter Wife10 pm/ET USAThere's nothing like a wedding to make the guests ponder their future. So when Lou's wedding finally rolls around in tonight's season finale, Molly and the gang begin preparing for big changes ahead. Read on for previews of Greatest Holiday Moments: Songs of the Season Countdown, Family Entertainment Awards, South of Nowhere and 12 Days of Redneck Christmas.
Don't Forget the Lyrics! 9 pm/ET Fox Fans of American Idol will want to make sure they tune in to tonight's competition, as it features Constantine Maroulis, the rock vocalist who finished sixth on the talent show's fourth season. Read on for previews of Stargate Atlantis, South of Nowhere, NUMB3RS and Starter Wife.
Hart Bochner plays a creatively-blocked writer and Debra Messing's new love interest (or one of a few, wink, wink) this season on The Starter Wife. Erin Fox had a chance to chat with Hart about his Bohemian character who starts a writing workshop to get his own creative juices flowing, and ends up meeting Molly (Messing) – and sparks fly. Find out about Hart's character and more after the jump!
The Starter Wife, which returns as a USA Network series this October, has added a slew of new faces. Per Variety, Hart Bochner has been cast as Zach, a writing teacher who becomes a new love interest for Debra Messing's Molly. As previously reported, David Alan Basche (Lipstick Jungle) is replacing Peter Jacobson (House) as Molly's ex-husband, Kenny, while Danielle Nicolet (3rd Rock from the Sun) is Mol's new gal pal and Brielle Barbusca takes over as daughter Jaden.Judy Davis, Chris Diamantopoulos and Criminal Minds' Joe Mantegna (in a special guest appearance) will reprise their roles from the miniseries. — Matt MitovichRelated:• Starter Wife Gets a New Ex-Husband • Starter Wife Is Restarted as a Series
USA has renewed The Starter Wife, thus enlightening me to the fact that miniseries even could be renewed. Debra Messing will return in the title role.... Per Reuters, on Nov. 14, the last in Garth Brooks' string of nine sold-out pre-retirement concerts will be simulcast from the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri, to over 300 movie theaters.... Jenna Elfman and, like, half the creative team behind Dharma & Greg are suing 20th Century Fox for $15 million they claim they are owed in profit-participation payments.Wednesday's Today's News was written by Ben Katner.
Debra Messing took a break from her prepping for Sunday night's Emmy Awards to toast the opening of Frederic Fekkai's new salon and celebrate The Starter Wife's 10 nominations. She came straight to the Gersh Agency party from Kate Somerville's Emmy Gifting Suite where she had received an "Ultimate Kate facial." In honor of her nomination she wore a dress from The Starter Wife. For the Will & Grace alumna, Emmy prepping is almost like a second job. "Oh my goodness, it's head-to-toe prepping. It's facials, hair cut, hair color, eyebrow plucking, manicure, pedicure and of course the dress fittings and picking out jewelry shoes and bag. This is all today, tomorrow and Sunday."Also at the Gersh bash, Grey's Anatomy's T.R. Knight said he'll probably spend Emmy morning picking up his dogs feces, as that's all he's been doing lately. When asked if the other cast members are happy for each other he joked, "We all hate each other by now." Grey's McSteamy Eric Dane and wife Rebecca Gayhear...
• Sources tell Variety that for his next trick, David Milch (Deadwood, the deader wood John from Cincinnati) is working with former NYPD Blue exec producer Bill Clark to develop a drama about a Vietnam vet who joins the New York City police force circa 1970s. • Hot off the success of The Starter Wife, Lifetime is teaming with author Gigi Levangie Grazer on a four-hour miniseries adaptation of Maneater, Grazer's novel about a woman who bleeps her way to the top in Beverly Hills.• Fox has ordered seven episodes of Nothing But the Truth, a "game show" (my quotation marks) in which contestants are strapped to a lie detector in front of friends and family and asked 21 intensely personal questions. You may know the show as "Thanksgiving."
• Thursday's commercial-free premiere of Burn Notice dealt USA Network four million viewers, and was basic cable's top-rated show of the night in key demos. That said, it fell shy of such USA series debuts as The 4400 (6.2 mil) and Dead Zone (4.2 mil).• Burn Notice's lead-in, the final installment of The Starter Wife, drew 3.1 mil, a 25 percent drop from the mini's average.• Not too many folks cared to say Hey Paula. The reality series' back-to-back episodes premiered to 607,000 viewers, well shy of, say, Bravo's Top Design (1.76 mil) or even Being Bobby Brown (1.1 mil).• Last Tuesday's BET Awards (6.4 mil) gave the 7-year-old kudoscast its third-largest audience to date.
Now that the ratings for USA's The Starter Wife have reaffirmed Debra Messing's enduring appeal, you may be wondering why the actress didn’t land on a pilot for the upcoming TV season. "You know, I got several phone calls from people with offers," Messing told TVGuide.com recently. "But there really wasn’t any conflict for me because after eight years of having such a structured life [as a star of Will & Grace], I knew that I needed some time to be a gypsy. I am enjoying being able to wake up in the morning and not having to be anywhere and not having to do anything. That freedom is revitalizing for me right now."But should the time come for Messing to again embrace the weekly grind, she says not to confine her to the sitcom format or expect her to do a 180 and go all serious on us. "For me, it’s just about a good story, especially in the landscape of television, where it’s constantly changing," she explains. "So who knows what will be in vogue if and when t...
The Starter Wife drew 5.4 million total viewers in its debut last Thursday, ranking as cable's best-performing original scripted-series telecast of the year to date, and USA Network's best launch in the 18-to-49 demo since The 4400. CBS' Pirate Master, meanwhile, placed second (behind 5th Grader) during the 8 o'clock hour, debuting to about seven million viewers — half of Survivor's typical tally, but on par with the Eye's year-ago premiere of Game Show Marathon.
Call it a quest for Gracelessness. After eight years as the female half of the popular NBC sitcom Will & Grace, Debra Messing, 38, worried about involuntarily holding onto the traits that made her New York City-based interior decorator so ineffably lovable: the rapid-fire line delivery, the defiant tossing of her red mane and the aura of perpetual frazzle. So before production began on USA Network's The Starter Wife — a six-hour miniseries based on the best-selling novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer, in which Messing stars as jettisoned Hollywood spouse Molly Kagan — she went to executive producer and director Jon Avnet (Fried G
