Better With You

Joanna Garcia has long been a sentimental favourite with us at Stars Hollow.  She headed up the cast of  'Privileged' and now is starring in a new sit-com called 'Better With You'.

What it's about: Three couples within one family are at different relationship stages. Younger daughter Mia (JoAnna Garcia) is newly engaged to a guy she only recently started dating; her older sister Maddie (Jennifer Finnegan) is unmarried and has been dating her boyfriend for nine years. Their parents (Debra Jo Rupp and Kurt Fuller) have been married for over 30 years and have settled into an established, staid marriage.
 Joanna is delightfully watchable so I will be giving this a go purely on the strength of her presence.  I'm off to download it so stay tuned for the verdict.  Could it possibly be as good as 'Melissa and Joey'?  I think not but maybe it will go close.

Gossip Girl is Privileged

After the demise of our very, very favourite show - Gilmore Girls (all hail the Gilmore's) we consoled ourselves with the goings on in Alaska on 'Men In Trees'. The bastards at Australian television land saw fit to mess with the show and our joy was short lived.
We then discovered that Rina Mimoun, who worked on the last season of Gilmore Girls was the executive producer on a new show -PRIVILEGED
"It's very much 'What if the Gilmore Girls were teaching the Gossip Girls?'" said Rina.
Sounded good to us so we tried it on for size. Very enjoyable, of course not a patch on the Gilmore's but it filled part of the gap.

Where am I going with this you may be asking? Well....

It has been confirmed that Joanna Garcia, star of Privileged (which has been cancelled by the way) is appearing in a four-episode storyline on Gossip Girl as a love interest for Chace Crawford's alter ego, Nate Archibald.

Joanna Garcia will be playing the character of Bree Buckley, an irreverent, slightly evil Miss America-type who hails from a conservative Southern family. She will join the cast when it airs again next season.

How fun is that? From Gilmore Girls to Gossip Girl with one degree of separation, plus we will get to see more of Joanna and hopefully Nate will get a worthy storyline. It's all win-win.