I don’t think there’s a true “breakout star” of Lifetime’s DROP DEAD DIVA because the cast as a whole stands out above a lot of the other drivel we see on TV, but if I had to pick a favorite best friend on TV, the award is a toss up between Margaret Cho’s delightfully angry Teri and April Bowlby’s charming and struggling model Stacy. In keeping up with this week’s DROP DEAD DIVA premiere week, I had the great chance
Last summer, a little show called DROP DEAD DIVA, about a beautiful but vapid model who gets killed and is awakened in the body of a beautiful-on-the-inside-and-out lawyer with little to no idea what shoes go with which purse, premiered on Lifetime. When I talked to the star, Brooke Elliott, before the premiere, I don’t think either of us knew what a huge hit it would turn out to be! Season 2 begins on Sunday, June 6, at 9PM on
What the TV world seems to be missing these days is women of real shape and real size. And not just in the sassy best friend role! Which is why Lifetime’s latest original series, DROP DEAD DIVA, is such a refreshing look at the normal. Broadway star Brooke Elliott plays the head role, overworked, underappreciated “normal girl”, Jane. When Jane is caught in the crossfire of an angry gunman, she lands in a coma, brain dead. Brooke D’Orsay is Deb, the