JAG knockout Catherine Bell recently shot a guest-star appearance for CBS' Threshold as a genetic engineer who, sources say, could become a recurring character should the sci-fi thriller receive a (much-deserved) full-season pickup. What's more, executive producer Brannon Braga revealed in a conference call with the press that Red Team member Lucas will get an as-yet-uncast fiancée and Lost creepazoid William Mapother's alien infectee from the series premiere will come back "in a very, very unexpected way."
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Question: Who was the girl who played Ms. Parker on The Pretender? Thanks.
Answer: That's an actress named, appropriately enough, Andrea Parker playing Centre operative Ms. Parker, Pete. And if you believe the show's press materials, the character was named before she was cast. Before you caught her on The Pretender, you might also have seen her both in bit parts and recurring roles on such shows as ER, JAG, Seinfeld, Coach, Married... with Children and Ellen.
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NBC is heading for a fall this fall, and it isn't likely to be pretty. The network didn't even make much effort to pretend otherwise over the last few days of presentations, and that's rare honesty for a summer press tour. Entertainment chief Kevin Reilly, mired in the post-Friends doldrums that his predecessor Jeff Zucker left behind upon ascending the corporate ladder, knows the turnaround will be slow and ugly.
Certainly, the response was tepid to hostile for such middling-to-awful new series as Surface (a "big tent" family/sci-fi/fantasy drama about a new species of sea creature), Inconceivable (a smarmy drama set in a fertility clinic) and E-Ring (a rare misfire from Jerry Bruckheimer's factory, an uninspired JAG-lite set
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