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New Mexicans Fall Into TV Lineup

Thanks to an anonymous ;) tip this Pretty New Mexican has recently been brought to our attention!

Striking what is rapidly becoming my favorite pose – NM’s Own Nick Wechsler is the male lead in ABC’s new drama series Revenge.

For his Harlequinesque factor alone this native New Mexican’s return to television is causing a buzz, and a blip on the “radar” of tvline.com where he’s been named a highly anticipated “Fresh Face of Fall”!

The Albuquerque born & raised, Highland H.S. graduate will begin heating-up the primetime lineup when Revenge premieres Wednesday September 21.

Another pretty New Mexican is coming-up quick in the 21st century version of Charlie’s Angels, premiering September 22 on ABC.

Iowa raised, Q born Annabeth Gish can be seen in 5 episodes of the ABC Family drama Pretty Little Liars which spawned the spin-off The Lying Game now filming…

Two more natives can be seen on a couple of little shows you may have heard of:

Neil Patrick Harris stars in his seventh season of How I Met Your Mother on CBS and again on ABC Albuquerque’s Jesse Tyler Ferguson returns in the #1 comedy on TV, Modern Family!

Footnote: ABC’s parent company is Disney – WE LOVE YOU MICKEY!

And here’s lookin’ at you Nicky!

Tags: ABC, Annabeth Gish, Charlie's Angels, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Madeline Stowe, Minka Kelly, Native New Mexican, Neil Patrick Harris, Nick Wechsler, Revenge

New Mexico Upfront

ABC Family has green lighted their original series The Lying Game, a spin-off of their hit show Pretty Little Liars. Both shows are based on novels by Sara Shepard.

As we told you here the pilot filmed right here in NM! You can thank Susana Martinez for the show up and taking production to Los Angeles – Thank you Susana!

The Lying Game is set to premiere Monday, August 15 on ABC Family.

Also just announced the Longmire television series has been picked by A&E for their upcoming season! Longmire is currently in production in northern NM.

Not fairing so well; CBS jinxed pilot starring Donald Faison, The Odds is never slated to see the light of day. Also not ‘coming soon’ is TNT’s Albuquerque production of The Rabbit Factory – that pilot had teamed DL Hughley with Steven Weber and employed many local cast & crew.

NBC says pass on another newsworthy NM shoot, that of Reconstruction (originally titled The Crossing) which marks strike two in recent TV season up-at-bats for for star Rachelle Lefevre who also led the cast of the highly touted, quickly puttered Off the Map.

Big hitters Breaking Bad and In Plain Sight are currently in production in the Q. The acclaimed A&E and USA network shows are in the midst of their fourth seasons respectively.

If there’s not enough NM on TV for you…because there never is, the revamped Charlie’s Angels series, starring New Mexico’s Own Minka Kelly is on the fall TV schedule where you can still find fellow New Mexicans Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Neil Patrick Harris in their own high falutin, hit TV series’.

Tags: A&E, ABC Family, CBS, Donald Faison, Longmire, Minka Kelly, NBC, Rachelle Lefevre, The Lying Game, The Rabbit Factory

Unecessary Redux to the Third Power

In this edition of things that don’t need to happen: NM’s Own Mishka, oh wait – I like Mishka and she has emotional range, I mean Minka Kelly has been cast in the latest installment of Charlie’s (please let me rest in peace) Angels.

The upcoming CA² production returns to its small screen roots on ABC with original series producer Leonard Goldberg. Annie Ilonzeh (General Hospital) and Rachael Taylor (Transformers) round out the trio.

The series pilot will be set in Miami and will reportedly feature the voice of Robert Wagner as Charlie!

Tags: ABC, Annie Ilonzeh, Charlie's Angels, Minka Kelly, Rachael Taylor

ANTM Looking for You in the Q

UPDATE/Escándalo 2/8/11: According to the Daily Lobo, the America’s Next Top Model ~auditions held on the UNM Campus yesterday did not go off without a hitch and a heaping bowl of disappointment for dozens that were turned away.

This year’s cycle has upped the proverbial ante by only accepting beauties 5′ 7″ and over which obviously puts Nuevo Mexico at a height-disadvantage, now I don’t know if it was spelled out in the prerequisite we ourselves linked you to below, but we sure are sorry to hear that anyone was disappointed with their experience (or lack there of) at the auditions.

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it a million times more – New Mexico’s got talent, young, old, short, & tall! Please do keep checking in with us for casting, crew and other local opportunities – Dirt off your shoulders beauties!

ANTM Cycle 17 is casting now!

The hit CW Series will be in New Mexico next month, on its first stop in the whirlwind tour of the country to cast its upcoming season.

From the home of Top Model Fo Porter, Esquire’s reigning Sexiest Woman Alive, High Fashion’s runway darling and so many more beauties may come America’s Next Top Model.

Get on with your fierce self and strut it NM Style!

Albuquerque
Monday, February 7
4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
University of New Mexico’s Student Union
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

Tags: America's Next Top Model, Arizona Muse, Fo Porter, Minka Kelly, The CW, UNM

Sexy Minska

Derek Jeter’s current piece is named this year’s “sexiest woman alive” by Esquire magazine.

Minka Kelly is a New Mexican who currently stars in the TX based TV series Friday Night Lights. I’d wax more poetically over the Q’s own earning this award of objectification if I thought any more of her.

On the contrary it’s a bummer to hear her quotes about her “boring life in Albuquerque” and a shame that she allegedly suffered bullying in her pre-teen years here and seems to be whining instead of empowering with both those reflections.

But, they’re her reflections so to each his own. And if she has any words of praise for her home state I hope she’ll let ‘em out into the public eye because New Mexico’s a Globe-go with buzz of Kelly’s honor playing out all over the world!

Congratulations Minka-nunca!

If you’d like to be further annoyed by her click the pic to go to Esquires featured video with painfully clear audio.

Tags: Derek Jeter, Esquire Magazine, Friday Night Lights, Minka Kelly