Taryn Manning, Banshee
With her modest but pivotal role as Nola, pimp Terrence Howard's cornrowed pro in Hustle & Flow, Taryn Manning made folks sit up and notice. Now she's front and center in Oxygen's Banshee (premiering Saturday at 9:45 pm/ET), playing a tough-talkin' babe who steals cars with the greatest of ease. Alas, on one fateful night, she boosts the wrong ride, shifting into gear a deadly tale of revenge. TVGuide.com gave Manning a call — and caught this "tough gal" just as she was hollering down the hall to Mom.
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Charlize Theron, Arrested Development
Arrested DevelopmentAnyone else get the sense that the writers were already getting nostalgic tonight? Not that I wasn't, too. If we're crying on the inside while watching the show's dying breath, we might as well get to laugh on the outside at some of its great recurring jokes. When Michael announced his wedding plans, George Sr. and Lucille reacted the same way they all did to George Michael's ex, Ann: "Who?" Then there was Lindsey imitating Lucille's scary wink. And my personal favorite was Gob's good-natured, "Look at Banner, Michael!" and the banner that said, "Michael Love Marry." As for new jokes, I loved the references to the actors'/characters' past: Lucille was apparently once a waitress at Stuckey's; Buster got his hook stuck when dancing to "Mr. Roboto" in the stair car,
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Grant Show
Not many trips down memory lane trigger visions of an exploding apartment complex and a redhead ripping off her wig, but that's the kind of stuff you get when you reflect on Melrose Place, the steamy prime-time sudser that made Heather Locklear a household bitch and first showed us how desperate Marcia Cross could be. ABC Family's Beautiful People capitalizes on such nostalgia by having Grant Show reunite with Daphne Zuniga on the season finale (airing tonight at 9 pm/ET). How was it when Jake got back together with Jo? TVGuide.com chatted with Show about that and more.
TVGuide.com: What was it like living in the midst of the '90s Melrose Place zeitgeist?Grant Show: It was great, it was
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