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  • Angie Harmon, Sasha Alexander Out of Work as TNT Axes “Rizzoli & Isles”

    Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander will soon find themselves out of work as TNT announced this week they are ending their crime drama, Rizzoli & Isles. The show’s seventh season will air this summer, and that will be its last.

    Angie Harmon plays the role of homicide detective Jane Rizzoli alongside Sasha Alexander’s role as medical examiner Maura Isles.

    TNT has recently undergone some management revamping. New boss Kevin Reilly reportedly prefers both edgier shows, as well as those that develop episode by episode. Rizzoli & Isles features individual stories that begin and ended in each episode.

    “It had a good run,” Reilly said on Thursday. “It felt like it was time.”

    Angie Harmon’s initial claim to fame came during her work as a fashion model. Her first big acting job was in Law & Order.

    Sasha Alexander is a Dawson’s Creek alum, on which she played the role of Gretchen Witter. She starred for the first two seasons of NCIS as Special Agent Kate Todd.

    Are you a Rizzoli & Isles fan? Are you disappointed to learn that Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander have but one summer season left to star in these roles?

  • Sasha Alexander Is Thankful For Her Friends

    Sasha Alexander has a lot to celebrate this holiday season!

    Her show, Rizzoli & Isles, has been renewed for a sixth season, giving Sasha Alexander another 18 episodes’ worth of work on the immensely popular show.

    Now fans of the show can look forward to seeing more of Alexander’s awesome character, Maura Isles, in action!

    The season is also a time to celebrate Sasha Alexander’s close friends, whom she says are, “the ones I call and can talk about anything with.”

    She added of her special group, “We all have such busy and full lives, and especially when you have children and families, and you’re juggling work and kids, you just don’t get to spend that time together to just say, ‘Thank you’ and ‘You’re so awesome.’ “

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    What a great idea. If you have special friends in your life that you’d like to thank, try stealing a few ideas from Sasha Alexander.

    “At the end of every year I always feel very reflective, and so I always do a gratitude dinner or a gratitude lunch to thank [my girlfriends] for being there for me, and for being amazing women,” she said of her fun tradition.

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    Before the celebration even commences, Sasha Alexander ties red yard around each of her friends’ wrists as they arrive.

    “It’s an old Italian tradition,” Alexander explains. “It’s something you’re supposed to keep on as long as it stays on.”

    She then serves her cherished friends a fabulous Italian meal that is rich in tradition, with many of the recipes being passed down from her mother-in-law, the iconic Sophia Loren.

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    What is Sasha Alexander’s favorite dish to serve?

    “The ricotta cake is pretty amazing, I have to say,” she says. “It’s pretty awesome, especially if you serve it with raspberries on top!”

    What a great way to celebrate all the special people in her life during the holiday season! Do you plan on borrowing Sasha Alexander’s idea for the holidays or do you have your own “thank you” tradition already established?

  • Sasha Alexander Has An Annual Tradition — A ‘Gratitude’ Meal with Her Besties

    Sasha Alexander likes to end her year on a high note.

    Each year, the actress gathers her best girlfriends and treats them to a very special meal.

    “At the end of every year I always feel very reflective, and so I always do a gratitude dinner or a gratitude lunch to thank [my girlfriends] for being there for me, and for being amazing women,” Alexander told People.

    Alexander told the magazine that the annual celebration begins with the Dawson’s Creek alum tying a red piece of yarn to guests’ wrists as they arrive for good luck and health.

    “It’s an old Italian tradition,” said the Rizzoli & Isles actress. “It’s something you’re supposed to keep on as long as it stays on.”

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    The menu plays an important part in the tradition and always features dishes with an Italian flair. The 41-year-old actress told People that this year’s meal includes recipes from Sophia Loren, who is the mother of Alexander’s husband, Edoardo Ponti.

    “The ricotta cake is pretty amazing, I have to say,” she said when asked which dish is her favorite. “It’s pretty awesome, especially if you serve it with raspberries on top!”

    The highlight of the celebration is when Alexander takes some time to thank each of her friends individually for their role in her life.

    “I really treasure the friendships with the women in my life because they’re the ones I call and can talk about anything with,” she said. “We all have such busy and full lives, and especially when you have children and families, and you’re juggling work and kids, you just don’t get to spend that time together to just say, ‘Thank you’ and ‘You’re so awesome.’”

  • Angie Harmon Broke Character When Sasha Alexander Wore This

    Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander have worked together for five seasons on Rizzoli &Isles, so it’s no surprise that they’re close. Close enough, in fact, that Harmon isn’t afraid to give unsolicited fashion advice to her co-star.

    The duo have been friends long enough that they finish each other’s sentences, which left Harmon comfortable enough to call out her friend when she wore a questionable pair of shoes on set.

    “We were in rehearsal and I look down in literally the middle of the scene and I’m like, ‘Listen, Maura, you, um, what are those?’ I completely came out of character when I saw her shoes. She’s like, ‘They’re Birkenstocks.’ I’m like, ‘No, those have to go. You can’t wear those ever again. I can’t even rehearse with you right now.’ But Celine just came out with these ‘Birkenstocks’ lined with fur. I went in, bought a pair — not cheap — just to play a joke on her because my favorite thing is to make her laugh. I walked into the set and said, ‘Well, hello. If you’re going to wear Birkenstocks, they need to look like these,’” Harmon said.

    The show–which has just been picked up for another season by TNT–was ranked number one in basic cable shows over the summer and stars the friends as crime-fighting partners on the mean streets of Boston.

  • Sasha Alexander And Angie Harmon’s Show Gets Renewed On TNT

    It’s been announced that Rizzoli and Isles has been picked up by TNT for another season. The police procedural starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander proved to be one of TNT’s more successful shows. According to TNT, the show “finished this past summer as basic cable’s No. 1 series and has ranked as one of basic cable’s Top 5 series for five consecutive years, including 2014 to date”. The sixth season of Rizzoli and Isles is slated to air next summer.

    Rizzoli and Isles is just the latest show to be renewed by TNT. Last week, they announced that they will be picking up the Sean Bean vehicle Legends for a 10-episode second season. Other shows that were picked up by the network are the dramas Major Crimes, Falling Skies, The Last Ship, and Murder in the First.

    Based on the work of crime novelist Tess Gerritsen, Rizzoli and Isles stars Harmon as the tough Boston police detective Jane Rizolli and Sasha Alexander as the smart medical examiner Maura Isles. Despite being polar opposites, the two offbeat friends work together to solve crime in the streets of Boston.

    Rizzoli and Isles premiered in 2010, with the show starting out strong in the ratings. It immediately became one of TNT’s more well-known shows, and consistently generated good numbers for the network.

    Both Harmon and Alexander have TV backgrounds, appearing as regulars in other crime shows before working together in Rizzoli and Isles. Prior to her work in Rizzoli and Isles, Harmon’s last big TV role was as a regular cast member in the long-running police drama Law and Order. Alexander on the other hand, is known for her role as Special Agent Caitlin Todd in NCIS.

    One of Alexander’s earlier roles was in Dawson’s Creek as Gretchen Witter, which she played for a total of 20 episodes.

  • Sasha Alexander, Angie Harmon: Rizzoli & Isles Renewed

    Sasha Alexander and Angie Harmon will be back for a new season of Rizzoli & Isles next summer. The TNT drama may have been the last of the network’s shows to get picked back up, but it scored 18 episodes nonetheless.

    Even though Rizzoli & Isles was the last to get signed to an extension, that was only because of license fee and size negotiations. The show was the most watched basic cable series of summer 2014 with 7.6 million viewers. It is based on characters that were created by best-selling crime novelist Tess Gerritsen and developed for television by creator Janet Tamaro. It stars Angie Harmon as Jane Rizzoli, a street savvy Boston police detective, and Sasha Alexander as Maura Isles, an intelligent medical examiner from a privileged background. Despite the two women being being complete opposites, they share an offbeat chemistry, a true friendship and an unusual working relationship that helps them solve some pretty complex murder mysteries in Boston. Rizzoli & Isles also stars Jordan Bridges, Bruce McGill, Idara Victor, and Lorraine Bracco. Bill Haber and showrunner Jan Nash serve are the show’s executive producers.

    Sasha Alexander and Angie Harmon negotiated their increased salaries for the new season of Rizzoli & Isles together, and some think that may have added to the delay in the signed renewal contract. There is some speculation that a two-year agreement may have been signed rather than just a one-year renewal.

    Are you a Rizzoli & Isles fan? Are you among those who wish next summer would get here quicker so Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander could resume their roles as Jane and Maura, and entertain fans with their sleuthing once more?

  • Amanda Seyfried Joins Nina Dobrev in Marathon Stage Play, ‘The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway’

    Amanda Seyfried and Nina Dobrev are among the actors who have signed up for a marathon stage play that takes place in 24 hours and raises money for Urban Arts Partnership, which supports arts education in New York City’s public schools.

    Seyfried will take part in the 14th annual performance of The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway benefit Nov. 17. The event, touted as an “extreme rite of theater,” has actors, writers and directors writing, directing and performing six original short plays in a 24-hour period.

    Quite the undertaking, the marathon begins at 10 p.m. Nov. 16 when six writers, six directors, 24 actors, two musical guests and a production staff gather at New York City’s American Airlines Theatre. After each of the actors share a costume, prop and special skill, their assigned writer must create a ten-minute play by 7 a.m. the following morning. Directors return to read and select their piece and meet with their cast for the first time by 9 a.m. The final pieces will be performed at 8 p.m., interspersed with six musical acts.

    Actors joining Seyfried and Dobrev are Sasha Alexander, Uzo Aduba, Jamie Chung, Billy Crudup, Peter Dinklage, Rachel Dratch, Michael Ealy, Seth Green, Bryan Greenberg, Melanie Griffith, Taran Killam, Zoe Kravitz, Justin Long, Aasif Mandvi, Stephen Merchant, Diane Neal, Rosie Perez, Jay Pharoah, Pablo Schreiber, Sebastian Stan, Julia Stiles, Tracie Thoms and Michael Kenneth Williams.

    Directors include America Ferrera, Andy Fickman, and Kathy Najimy. Writers include Christina Anderson, Bekah Brunstetter, David Cross, David Lindsay Abaire and Jonathan Marc Sherman. Musical Guests include Andra Day and Bryan Terrell Clark, and the DJ will be Samantha Ronson. Also writing one of the plays is Sarwat Siddiqui, the winner of the Young Writers Program, who will be mentored by playwright Christina Anderson.

    Seyfried is currently filming Seth MacFarlane’s Ted 2, the follow-up to MacFarlane’s 2012 raunchy comedy about a foul-mouthed Teddy bear.

    Her first big break came in 2004, with the movie Mean Girls. The multi-talented actress and singer went on to star in HBO’s acclaimed polygamy series Big Love and then starred in the blockbuster movie musical Mamma Mia!

    Other movie credits include Dear John, Letters to Juliet, Gone, Red Riding Hood, and Les Miserables.

    She is also slated to play Mary, the mother to Wendy Darling and her brothers, in the new Peter Pan film adaptation, Pan.

  • ‘Rizzoli & Isles’ to Mourn Death of Lee Thompson Young

    Next Tuesday’s episode of Rizzoli & Isles will feature a memorial service for police Detective Barry Frost. Frost was played by actor Lee Thompson Young who died of an apparent suicide last summer. Frost’s co-workers learned he was killed in a car accident during this season’s first episode.

    Sasha Alexander, who plays medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles in the show, says the memorial service was difficult for the entire cast and crew to shoot, however she hopes it will provide everyone–fans included–a means by which to both grieve and heal.

    “I hope that people who knew him and adored him and loved him on the show will enjoy it and be able to move through it with us,” the actress said.

    Angie Harmon also stars in Rizzoli & Isles as Detective Jane Rizzoli. Jan Nash came onboard as the new show runner in the months following Lee Thompson Young’s passing. He had the task of deciding how to proceed with this new season.

    “I really do think it was very brave of TNT and Warner Bros. and Jan Nash to embark on handling it head-on,” Alexander said. “They might have been like ‘I can’t deal with this. I don’t know how to handle this,’ but they didn’t. They went for it and everyone just embraced it and I think that was really just to show our love for him.”

    Alexander said Young’s absence is felt on the set.

    “They have not replaced him and don’t intend to do so anytime soon,” she said. “So his seat remains empty and it’s something that we have had to look at and struggle with from day one of shooting.”

    Young, who was just 29 years old, was found dead in his North Hollywood home last August.

    Will you be tuning in to Rizzoli & Isles next week to say goodbye to both Detective Barry Frost as well as to Lee Thompson Young? Fans will no doubt miss them both.

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