Bill Engvall stars in Hallmark Channel’s “Kiss at Pine Lake”

May 14, 2012 | By Karl Paloucek
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Hallmark Channel pulls off a bit of a “first” this month with one of its original films. Comedian Bill Engvall, who’s been doing standup routines about parenting for decades, steps into his first dramatic role in Kiss at Pine Lake. The film is about Luke (Barry Watson), a young philanthropist trying to save the summer camp of his youth, and Zoe (Mia Kirshner), the girl who haunts his camp memories, representing the development firm that’s trying to wheedle it away from him. Engvall’s role is of Zoe’s father, though they’re largely estranged since her parents’ divorce. It’s a small part [...]

Leonard Nimoy talks about his return to “Fringe” in tonight’s season finale

May 11, 2012 | By Stacey Harrison
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We all know better at this point than to fully believe actors when they say they are retiring from acting. Much like a boxer, it usually means the person reached a point of exhaustion and just needs a break to recharge their batteries. But when Leonard Nimoy in 2010, at nearly 80 years old, said he was hanging it up, it seemed like a good possibility. After all, he had just completed a role in director J.J. Abrams’ reboot of Star Trek, effectively handing the reins of his signature character Spock to Zachary Quinto, and also finished up a juicy [...]

Kim Kardashian on “Drop Dead Diva”: first pics!

May 10, 2012 | By Lori Acken
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We’ve got a first peek at Kim Kardashian’s guest-starring role on the fourth season of Lifetime’s hit dramedy, Drop Dead Diva. Kardashian will play famed relationship guru Nikki LePree whom Stacy (April Bowlby) visits for love advice after Fred (Ben Feldman, Mad Men) finds out she kissed Grayson (Jackson Hurst) and dumps her. Eventually, the two beauties decide to go into business together. According to Lifetime sources, the scripts for the multi-episode arc allow Kardashian to have some fun with her “famous for being famous” rep and her short-lived marriage to NBA star Kris Humphries. The Season 4 premiere of Drop [...]

Cast of “Desperate Housewives” share how they want series finale to end

May 10, 2012 | By Channel Guide Contributor
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The cast members of Desperate Housewives took time to share some of their favorite episodes, as well as how they want the series to end for their character in a recent interview conducted by Channel Guide Magazine contributor Jacqueline Cutler. After eight seasons, the series comes to its end in a two-hour finale on Sunday, May 13 at 9pm ET on ABC. Here’s what the ladies had to share. How would you like to see your character go out? Felicity Huffman: I would love internally for Lynette to go out having a sea change in how she holds relationships, starting [...]

Genie Francis is back for Hallmark’s “Notes From the Heart Healer”

May 10, 2012 | By Karl Paloucek
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One of Hallmark Channel’s more successful original movie franchises gets a third installment this month in Notes From the Heart Healer. Genie Francis returns as advice columnist Peyton MacGruder, who, while on a visit to a harbor town as part of a tour for her just-published book, has a baby left on her doorstep by a teen, Violet (Laci Mailey), who can no longer afford to take care of him. Obviously concerned for this abandoned young life, Peyton is forced to confront her own emotions, having been pressured to give up her own child under similar circumstances. Thrilled on one [...]

Eva Longoria wants Andy Warhol prints from “Desperate Housewives” set

May 10, 2012 | By Channel Guide Contributor
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Last month, veteran entertainment reporter Jacqueline Cutler tracked down the cast members of “Desperate Housewives” — well, all the gals but the difficult Teri Hatcher — to answer a few of our questions. Here’s what they shared on items from the set they would love to have. If you could take one item from the set, what would it be? Eva Longoria: I am trying to steal my Andy Warhol pictures of Gaby on the wall. Trying to figure out how to steal. I want the paintings on the wall. [pictured] Felicity Huffman: Eva’s Bentley. Marcia Cross: I just want [...]

“Dance Moms” diva Abby Lee Miller to guest on “Drop Dead Diva”

May 9, 2012 | By Lori Acken
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Wonder what Abby Lee Miller does with her downtime when she’s not filming Dance Moms or terrorizing kiddies at her Pittsburgh dance studio? She’s prepping to get her thespian on in another Lifetime show! The network is reporting that Miller will make her official acting debut in an officially scripted series — well sort of — when she plays herself in an episode of its popular dramedy Drop Dead Diva. Miller has been tapped to serve as an expert witness in a case in which attorney Jane Bingum (Brooke Elliott) — who is really physically expired model Deb Dobkins on the [...]

7 Questions With … “Common Law’s” Warren Kole

May 8, 2012 | By Stacey Harrison
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These are heady times for the stars of USA Network’s Common Law, and the show hasn’t even premiered yet. Warren Kole and Michael Ealy are currently starring in the top two movies in the nation, with The Avengers and Think Like a Man. OK, so Kole’s part in The Avengers isn’t exactly superhero-sized — he has a walk-on (or, more appropriately, a sit-down) role as a nameless S.H.I.E.L.D. agent — but still, it points to the big things this duo is capable of. Kole answered our “7 Questions,” telling us about his embarrassing first meeting with John Turturro, what TV [...]

VOD Spotlight: Forgotten promises at the heart of “The Vow”

May 8, 2012 | By Karl Paloucek
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“Till death do us part.” Just about everyone knows these words and their significance. They’re a public sign of commitment to a life together. Many couples who say them don’t make it to the “till death” part. Sometimes life has a way of forcing people to grow apart. And sometimes it intervenes in other ways. The Vow, starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, tells the story of a couple separated, in a sense, by an accident — and how they managed to find their way back to each other. Based on the true story about — and subsequent book written [...]

BBC America’s “White Heat” is a sobering trip to the past

May 4, 2012 | By Karl Paloucek
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The name of the miniseries may riff on the Velvet Underground, but Dramaville: White Heat itself seems to arrive at the mid-’60s via an ’80s vehicle, The Big Chill. Starting in the present day, this six-part story, premiering May 9 at 10pm ET/PT, centers on a group of friends reuniting after one of them commits suicide. You don’t know who the deceased is. Told in flashback, White Heat traces the original diverse group of seven as they meet as flatmates in London’s Tufnell Park in 1965. They establish themselves as a sort of commune under the idiosyncratic direction of Jack [...]