Brigid Brannagh, ARMY WIVES Lifetime TV star: Mr. Media Radio Interview

Has it really been a whole year? Wow. This time last year, “Army Wives” was on the eve of its second season and I had the great pleasure of welcoming the show’s creator, Katherine Fugate, as a guest.

Today’s pretty cool, too: Brigid Brannagh, who plays Pamela Moran on the hit Lifetime show, is about to join us to talk about the series’ third season.

Brigid has been acting for over 18 years. She’s had recurring roles on “CSI,” “Kindred: The Embraced,” “Legacy,” “Brooklyn South” and “Angel,” among others. Before joining “Army Wives, she was a series regular on the Steven Bochco series “Over There.”

She has also guest-starred on many television shows, including “Cold Case,” “Without a Trace,” “24,” “ER,” “Star Trek Enterprise,” “Charmed,” “Dharma and Greg,” “Roar,” “Sliders” and “NYPD Blue.”

Oh, man. There is nothing like a talented and beautiful redhead to start the day.

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Paul Levine, ILLEGAL, SOLOMON VS. LORD novelist: Mr. Media Radio Interview

I’m Mr. Media—not Mr. Know-It-All.

So I hope I can be excused for not realizing what a clever, entertaining writer Paul Levine is, at least not before I read his latest novel, Illegal.

It’s a fast-paced, often funny, often frightening story that personalizes the case of illegal immigration, reducing it from faceless masses crossing the U.S.-Mexico border to just two frightened human beings, a mother and her teenage son. And, of course, the down on his luck American attorney, Jimmy Payne, who comes to their rescue in ways the legal system cannot.

I don’t hesitate to recommend that you read this book.

Not surprisingly, Levine is a former trial attorney. He seems to have found his calling in writing nonfiction: he is also the author of Solomon vs. Lord, The Deep Blue Alibi and Kill All the Lawyers. He also wrote for the CBS drama “Jag.” You can learn more about Levine at his personal website, paul-levine.com.

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Katherine Fugate, ARMY WIVES, Lifetime TV show creator: Mr. Media Audio Interview

The last thing we need in our house is another serial TV commitment. But then someone turned me on to – late, I know – Lifetime’s “Army Wives.”

I am soooo screwed.

If you’re already a fan of the first year drama, you already know it’s sort of like “Desperate Housewives” on an Army base. It’s also the most successful series in the Lifetime cable channel’s history.

If you’re not familiar with the show, check it out. The series is based on Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Army Wives, a book by Tanya Blank. It’s full of sex, lies, booze, and bitches.

And I mean that in a purely professional sense.

Hell, it’s even got a wife who isn’t a wife at all, but a dude married to a woman who is a lieutenant colonel.

All of which is a brief introduction to my guest, Katherine Fugate, the creator of “Army Wives,” which launches its second season on Lifetime on June 8. Katherine is also the niece of TV legend Barbara Eden, star of “I Dream of Jeannie” and a few million grown-up men’s fantasies.

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