Janina Gavankar

'Chicago Fire' creator talks about renewal, spinoff possibilities

Last week NBC announced it is renewing its Wednesday night drama "Chicago Fire" for a second season. The cast and crew are still in town but not for long; they're scheduled to wrap the Season 1 finale on Saturday. They'll be back in mid-July to begin work...

Tags: David Eigenberg, Snow Storms, Chicago Fire (tv program), Nashville (tv program), Television Industry

Women can kick comic butt too

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Every April since 2010, something awesome has happened in Chicago: McCormick Place has transformed into a realm of fantasy, superheroes and hella cool costumes known as C2E2 (that's Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, for the unaware). C2E2 2013,...

Tags: Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, Game of Thrones (tv program), McCormick Place, Music, MTV (tv network)

Wednesday TV Highlights: 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' on CBS

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Feb. 17 - 23, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies     -------------------- SERIES Whitney: Whitney's (Whitney Cummings) father gives her a gift of $5,000 in this new episode (8 p.m. NBC)....

Tags: Whitney Cummings, Television Industry, Katie Couric, Calgary Flames, Stephen Amell

‘Arrow’ will receive guest visit from Steve Aoki

Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'Nature' on KOCE

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Jan. 27 - Feb. 2, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies     -------------------- SERIES Whitney: Alex (Chris D'Elia) defends Whitney's (Whitney Cummings) honor in this new episode when she agrees...

Tags: Boomer Esiason, Whitney Cummings, Television Industry, ESPN2 (tv network), Stephen Amell

‘Arrow’: More Dark Archer, Deathstroke, epic fights ahead, producer says

Janina Gavankar: 'True Blood' shifters fighting for their lives

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It's not difficult to understand how Janina Gavankar, as Luna Garza in "True Blood," managed to steal Sam Merlotte's heart. When the Joliet native talks about the romance between the shapeshifters—shifters because they can switch from human to any...

Tags: Kanye West, HBO (tv network), Randy Jackson, Music, Sheila E.

Marshall Allman furious over leaked 'True Blood' footage

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"True Blood" star Marshall Allman is fuming over the Funny Or Die video that exposes the "method shapeshifting" process he uses to play Tommy Mickens on the hit HBO series. "Yeah, your laughter is my shame," he told me Thursday over the phone from...

Tags: HBO (tv network), Minority Groups, Kevin Bacon, Frances O'Connor, Gays and Lesbians

Janina Gavankar vs. Marshall Allman, Round 2 of 'True Blood' 'feud'

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The war of words between "True Blood" stars Janina Gavankar and Marshall Allman over a video leaked on Funny Or Die hasn't calmed in the week since the footage surfaced. During an interview late last week, Allman suggested that Gavankar exposed the...

Tags: HBO (tv network), Marshall Allman, True Blood (tv program)

Review: 'True Blood' adds witches to its heady brew

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As if there weren't enough monsters in the "True Blood" menagerie: "Witches? Oh great, now I have to deal with witches!" grumbles Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) when she learns about the latest threat to her peaceful (ha!) hometown of Bon Temps, La. In...

Tags: Anna Paquin, Kevin Alejandro, Joe Manganiello, Rutina Wesley, Alexander Skarsgard

Scene & Heard: Steven Spielberg presents Jeffrey Katzenberg with Ambassadors of Humanity award

Special to the Los Angeles Times

There's no better proving ground for testing a friendship than by starting a restaurant and movie studio together from scratch. At least, that's what Steven Spielberg said before he presented the Ambassadors of Humanity award to his friend and business...

Tags: Kunal Nayyar, Diedrich Bader, Craig Ferguson, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg