Deborah Harter Williams

Oct 2012 20

Getting ready for Halloween? Stop in at the Drake–666 Park Ave.: TV Review

2012 Articles, Deborah Harter Williams, Fantasy & Fangs, Mysteryrat's Maze, TV

by Deborah Harter Williams



This supernatural drama series (ABC, Sunday at 10 p.m.) stars Terry O’Quinn (Lost) and Vanessa Williams (Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty) as the rich and creepy Dorans, owners of the fabulous Drake apartment building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Rachael Taylor (Charlie’s Angels, Transformers) and David Annable (Brothers & Sisters) play Jane and Henry, the young couple who land the plum job of resident managers for this elegant Beaux Arts building.

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Sep 2012 29

Copper: TV Review

2012 Articles, Deborah Harter Williams, Mysteryrat's Maze, TV

by Deborah Harter Williams



In its first scripted series, not created in the UK, BBC/America presents a historical police drama, set in America, that’s as International as it gets. Located in New York City during the Civil War, Copper is a police series set against a backdrop of class, race and ethnic friction in the Five Points neighborhood of lower Manhattan.

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Sep 2012 8

Major Crimes Gets “Closer” to Being Good: TV Review

2012 Articles, Deborah Harter Williams, Mysteryrat's Maze, TV

by Deborah Harter Williams



When The Closer started, it launched with a bang and the arrival of Brenda Leigh Johnson--all sweater sets and southern accent--a fish out of water in LA. She was tough but vulnerable and came in with a background at the CIA and with Will Pope, her new boss. In the first episode, all the detectives submitted their resignations but by the end of the hour, they were in awe of her and settled in to solve crimes. She lured people into underestimating her and then she took them down.

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Aug 2012 11

Perception: TV Review

2012 Articles, Deborah Harter Williams, Mental Health, Mysteryrat's Maze, TV

by Deborah Harter Williams



TNT’s new series Perception (Monday night, 10 p.m.) stars Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) as Dr. Daniel Pierce, a likable neuroscience professor with paranoid schizophrenia who helps FBI agent Kate Moretti (a former student played by Rachael Leigh Cook) solve crimes. Sure he has hallucinations, but they bring messages from his subconscious to help him spot clues that a normal mind would miss. Perception was behind only Dallas and its 6.9 million viewers among summer debuts and tied the Rizzoli & Isles' season opener.

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Jul 2012 14

The Rockford Files: In the beginning

2012 Articles, Deborah Harter Williams, Mysteryrat's Maze, TV

by Deborah Harter Williams



It was 1974 and the television industry was coming off of a three-month writers’ strike. Stephen J. Cannell was working on police drama, Toma (Tony Musante) when he and Executive Producer Roy Huggins (Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The Fugitive) realized that they had a problem. Though they were producing as fast as they could to make up time, the fifth episode was going to be in the lab when it was supposed to be on the air.

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Jun 2012 23

Summertime TV Views, News and Shoes

2012 Articles, Deborah Harter Williams, Mysteryrat's Maze, TV

by Deborah Harter Williams



It’s the dog days of the TV year, even if you don’t count CBS’s new show Dogs in the City. The 2011 season of scripted drama has cliff-hanged and juddered its way to shocking finales, and now June gloom is upon us. Besides looking for some NCIS or Good Wife episodes that I might have missed the first time around, there are a few shows that I am looking forward to.

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