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On the big screen, actor Ciaran Hinds is best known for his work in period dramas.

As if we weren't excited enough about Kevin Williamson's still untitled new project for Fox TV, which stars Kevin Bacon, now comes word as to whom Bacon will be facing off against.

What is good television? Is it pure, harmless entertainment? Is it a way to control the mindless, media-addicted masses? Is it slowly taking over our lives? It is all of these and more.

Often times the status of an actor reasonably corresponds to the relative obscurity and/or commercial shortcomings of their chosen projects.

Prisoners' Wives Episode:No. 1 Channels:BBC One Oliver Hannam , Natalie Gavin , Emma Rigby , Polly Walker , Pippa Haywood SCENES inside a jail in a new television drama series starting on BBC1 next week will seem very familiar to hundreds of Sheffield youngsters.

"Revenge" is on hiatus right now, which means we've basically let ourselves go. We mostly spend long hours sitting in front of the mirror practicing our very best Emily Thorne death glare, and we've run dozens of red sharpies dry as we draw angry X's over the faces of the ABC schedulers who dared deprive us of Victoria Grayson until February 8.

Elizabeth Smart, the poised, resilient, now-24-year-old who was kidnapped from her Utah home at age 14, is engaged to be married this summer, the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper reported.

"Ralph Fiennes is directing his first film and wonders if you would have a small part in it," said the voice.

"Strangers will stop and stare and whisper to each other, but they're very guarded and very careful," Stowe recently told the Herald.

Modern-dress Shakespeare has been with us for nearly a century, long enough to cease being a novelty or in need of justification.

As the body count rises on Revenge -- thanks to both deaths and destructions-by-Emily -- the show has an obvious need for new characters.

It looks as if the ABC drama is making it very easy for Victoria to move on with her divorce.

It takes a real man to romance Victoria Grayson - that's why Revenge had to go all the way back to ancient Rome to find someone strong enough to match her moxie.

It is remarkable that two lengthy books on Rome by former Sydneysiders have appeared within months of each other.