Julianna Margulies News

“I was hired as a guest star in the pilot [only]”

Casting; it's as important an ingredient for success on the small screen as it is on the big one. via FilmStew

TONIGHT'S MIGHT-SEE: 'Canterbury's Law,' 9 p.m., Fox. For Fox, this has been the season of the instant exit. via Daily Journal

“You can't make 22 home runs ... If I had known in the first place that 'Canterbury's Law' was a series for Fox, I probably wouldn't have even read the pilot.”

By FRAZIER MOORE, Associated Press Thursday, March 27, 2008 NEW YORK - If not for the absence of an all-important "o," Julianna Margulies might never have considered doing "Canterbury's Law." On this new Fox ... via The Knoxville News Sentinel

“When the cover letter stated that it was to be filmed in New York and produced for cable network FX, I couldn't believe my luck.”

In the TV drama 'Canterbury's Law,' Julianne Marguiles plays Elizabeth Canterbury, a brilliant attorney dedicated to taking on impossible cases. via Bend Weekly News

Flat-lining medical drama "ER" is showing signs of life with rumours that the show is coming back for one more season. via CTV.ca

Julianna Margulies plays the new breed of female TV character - the tough, messed-up professional - in "Canterbury's Law." Aidan Quinn stars as her husband in the Fox drama. via Buffalo News

Dancing With the Stars is probably the big thing tonight, but you never know, considering that Britney Spears is guest-starring on a rival sitcom.

Stuff to watch or record

House: If you're looking for Canterbury's Law -- and judging from its ratings, you're not -- Fox announced last week that it was moving the Julianna Margulies legal drama to Fridays, which on Fox is practically the next thing to canceling a series. In its place is this House repeat, in which House (Hugh Laurie) cares for, and relates to, an autistic 10-year-old boy. 7 p.m., KDFW/Channel 4 Read more

With the early verdict disappointing for "Canterbury's Law," Fox has moved the legal drama to Friday nights. via Variety

“I think that wedding one is a bit ahead of its time”

It's a fan-fiction site -- a place for Clooney admirers to write steamy short stories. via Jrocknyc

Big night, with the season premieres of Dancing With the Stars and The Bachelor, and the returns of new episodes of three worthwhile CBS sitcoms that were so rudely interrupted by the writers strike. via Fort Worth Star-Telegram

“We'd love to get them all back in some way, but that doesn't mean we're going to. But we're gonna try.”

Entertainment Weekly reports NBC is in the final stages of renewing the medical drama for its fifteenth and final - yes, final - season. via Dose

“We'd love to get them all back in some way, but that doesn't mean we're going to. But we're gonna try.”

Former "ER" stars George Clooney and Julianna Margulies may be heading back for the show's 15th and final season. via NY Daily News

“We want to revisit characters that have existed on the show over the years and say where they are now”

When time finally expires on the medical drama "ER," the long-running NBC show wants to go out with a bang. via MiddletownJournal

The country's most popular series returns to two times a week, down from three times. via The TV Guy

Julianna Margulies, known to many for her role on the long-running series 'ER,' talks to The AP's Lauri Neff about her new show, 'Canterbury's Law,' that premiere's Monday on Fox. via ClipSyndicate

“I was seven-months pregnant at the time and happy to get off my feet”

Julianna Margulies has been inhabiting opposite lives lately. There's Elizabeth Canterbury, the defense lawyer she plays in a new Fox series. via Home News Tribune

“ER"? She returns to series television in the new legal drama "Canterbury's Law.”

TONIGHT: The captivating "" and way too short "" first season of "Breaking Bad" comes to a close with an episode that has Walt getting more comfortable with his new criminal identity. via Inside Bay Area

“I called my agent and said, 'I'll do it”

'O' is the letter of the 'Law' If not for the absence of an all-important 'o,' Julianna Margulies might never have considered doing 'Canterbury's Law,' a new Fox legal drama. via Los Angeles Times

“Canterbury's Law. I read it on a Saturday night.'”

If not for the absence of an all-important ''o,'' Julianna Margulies might never have considered doing ''Canterbury's Law.'' On this new Fox legal drama, she plays Elizabeth Canterbury, a fiery defense attorney ... via Starpulse News Blog

“It's the real gift of television, that it celebrates women”

Julianna Margulies admits there's a small part of herself in rebellious defence lawyer Elizabeth Canterbury, the character she plays in Canterbury's Law. via Montreal Gazette