Young & Hungry is back on ABC Family tonight at 8p. When we last left Gabi (Emily Osment) she was beginning an internship in Switzerland with a top chef. During tonight’s summer premiere, we find out how Gabi is doing at her new job overseas. Since it is Gabi, she has burned down the restaurant she was working at and she was fired. Now that she is back in the US, she is jobless.
Josh (Jonathan Sadowski) needs to eat, so he hired a new chef. That means she can’t go back to him. Thankfully, she gets a job with Josh’s neighbor. How awkward will that be for Gabi and Josh? You will just have to tune into this scrumptious comedy to find out. It gets better and better with each episode, so you will want to tune in.
And can someone please tell me why ABC Family hasn’t paired this show up with Baby Daddy yet? They are the network’s best comedies and deserve to air together. Who is with me?
Kevin From Work debuts tonight at 8p on ABC Family with back to back episodes and you will find yourself laughing for the full hour.
Kevin (Noah Reid) just got a job Italy, and he is getting ready for the big move. That means, cleaning out his cubicle and saying goodbye to Audrey (Paige Spara), his work neighbor, the woman he secretly loves. Before he goes, the office is throwing him a huge party. So huge, he gets wasted and sends Audrey a letter declaring his love for her. When he wakes up in the morning, he realizes what he did and tries to get the letter back. To make matters worse, the job in Italy fell through and now he is stuck working next to her knowing that she knows how he feels about her. Will she dump her longtime boyfriend to be with him? How will things change between them?
We will just have to tune in every week to find out in this endearing comedy that feels more like movie than a TV series.
Many women dream of putting on that perfect wedding gown, but there aren’t that many men who feel that way. Tonight at 8:30p on ABC Family’s, Derek Theler is one of the few men who actually gets to become a vision in white. Boy, he is vision. He truly is a glowing bride!
Now why he is dressed like that? We will just have to tune in to find out. That and for a show that is guaranteed to make you laugh. Theler’s TV mother, Melissa Peterman, is always up to causing trouble and finding new ways to crack us up; and that is just another reason to watch.
Believe it or not, it has been 30 years since Back to the Future came out. To honor the milestone, Marty McFly (Michael J Fox), his mom Lorraine (Lea Thompson) and Doc (Christopher Lloyd) reunited for the London Film Festival and Comic Con. Even though the movie came out in 1985, they haven’t aged a day since. Maybe it is time they do Back to the Future 4?
2015 is a big year for the trilogy for another reason because that’s the year that Back to the Future 2 took place. Recently, I spoke with Lea Thompson about that and I asked her what it is like living in this version of 2015 after living in the other one. She told me, “I think when we were doing Back to the Future 2, I think we all knew it was a kitchy version of the future. It was very dark and kitchy.” Then she added, “I don’t think any of us actually thought that 2015 would look like that. When you’re doing a movie about the future, you kind of have to put flying cars in even though it will never happen.” She explained, “Nobody wants to get in a flying car, I just don’t want to. It’s too dangerous.” She concluded the question with, “It’s interesting because in the 2015 version of Back to the Future, I was like 85 or something. Getting old is weird anyway, but to have it be marked by that is kind of an interesting experience for me.”
Her character didn’t look 85 in the movie and she doesn’t look 54 today. She still looks like the teen she played in the film that changed her life and many fans’ lives all over the world.
Thompson has been working nonstop since the Back to the Future franchise and on August 24th you will be able to see her in Switched at Birth‘s midseason premiere on ABC Family.
Allison Scagliotti has gone from playing a computer genius on Warehouse 13 to a computer hacker on ABC Family’s Stitchers and she likes playing these type of roles. A few weeks ago, I spoke to her about her new role as Camille on the hit ABC Family show and she told me how empowering it is to her to play characters like this.
The show that airs tonight at 9p is different from anything else that is on ABC Family because it is procedural, but that is not the only thing that makes it different. Most of the leads are played by women and all of them are intelligent. There’s Camille the hacker, her roommate Kristen (Emma Ishta), who has a keen sense of observation, and finally Maggie (Salli Richardson-Whitfield), who is the boss of the top secret project at the mysterious government agency that recruited the two college students.
Stitchers is also a Sci-fi show and even though some of Allison’s most famous roles are in that genre, she told me it wasn’t necessarily her favorite one at first. She explained it is something that she fell into and now she loves it. What made her change her mind? She shared with me. “What I learned to love about so much, is what a large female audience there is. I go to conventions sometime and little girls and their moms come up to me, and they say, ‘Thank you for proving to me (or thank you to proving to my daughter) that it is sexy to be intelligent or that it is cool to be smart. And I don’t have to apologize for studying hard and making straight A’s because you should want that.'” Then she added, “As one of those girls who grew up never seeing characters like that representing me on television, it has always been my agenda to do that.”
That is exactly what she does on this show about her roommate, who is able to transport her conscientiousness into the brains of the recently dead to solve their murders. So what Scagliotti’s part in it all. She describe her character as, “Camille is neither stereotypical computer nerd, nor stereotypical college girl, she’s somewhere in the middle. She’s fun and socially adept, while also possessing the wealth of knowledge that in integral to the team.” Concluding her thought with “It was interesting to sort of fall between the stereotypes and make something all its own.”
Something she has been able to do with both Warehouse 13’s Claudia and Stitcher’s Camille. How do the two roles that seem so similar, differ. She said, “Claudia would smoke Camille in the hack attack, such a superior hacker.” What about her new role? She said, “Claudia is from the streets, but Camille is not from the streets. Yes, she had a hard life and she had to struggle with her parents. She has come at it from more of a text book experience, then my old character. It takes her a little longer, she learned the hard way, instead of the guerilla warfare way.”
What won’t take you long is to fall in love with her character and Stitchers as soon as you watch the ABC Family Show tonight and every Tuesday at 10p.
