Alyssa Milano Talks Sexy New Series & Her Husband's Reaction

Alyssa Milano Talks Sexy New Series Mistresses & Her Husband’s Reaction To It

First Published: May 24, 2013 2:03 PM EDTCredit: Access HollywoodCaptionBURBANK, CALIF. -- Alyssa Milano is set to show off a very sexy side of her acting chops as Savannah, in ABC’s “Mistresses,” premiering next month, but she said her husband, David Bugliari, is fine with it.“My husband is really good with all this stuff and I don’t know how because if the role was reversed I would be totally freaking out,” Alyssa told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover for Friday’s Access Hollywood Live. “That’s why I never really dated actors because I always got jealous of their co-stars, because you spend so much time with them.”In the series, which premieres on June 3 at 10/9c on ABC, Alyssa plays Savannah, a lawyer with a hot husband, Harry Davis (Brett Tucker). But, troubles in her marriage and a very flirty co-worker Dominic (played by Jason George) could send her eye wandering.WATCH IT NOW: Alyssa Milano Dishes On Her New Series, ‘Mistresses’ & Her Love For Her SonAlthough the title of the show is “Mistresses” (it’s based on the UK show of the same name), Alyssa told Billy and Kit the drama may surprise viewers who tune in.“I think that the great thing about the show is [that if] the title is what people are going to tune into, they will be pleasantly surprised by the amount of heart that the show has,” she said.PHOTOS: Hollywood’s Hottest Moms & Their Loveable Little OnesAlyssa and her co-stars completed filming the first 13 episodes of the show, and now it is time to let the viewers check it out.“I’m nervous about this premiere, by the way, and it’s the first time I’ve ever been,” she said.“There’s a lot at stake because we’ve finished shooting the 13 episodes, so I feel like I know this person and I created this character and I just hope people sort of respond to it,” she added.While on screen she plays a busy working woman hoping for a child, Alyssa herself is mom to son Milo, who heads into his toddler phase, when he turns 2 later this summer.PHOTOS: Her ‘Charmed’ Life: Actress Alyssa Milano“I have to tell you… I am so in love. It’s the craziest, most terrifying love I’ve ever felt in my life,” she said of her feelings for her little boy.“Mistresses” premieres June 3 at 10/9c on ABC.Copyright 2013 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

One Million Moms Targets ABC’s “Mistresses”

Posted by: Bridgette P. LaVictoire on May 21, 2013.

 

One Million Moms loves, just loves, to pretend that they can actually get 

 something pulled off the air so that the schmucks who buy their propaganda

 will donate lots of money to them so that they can continue to live a nice cushy

 life away from any kind of actual heavy lifting or actual work. OMM’s latest 

kvetch is ABC’s “Mistresses”. Of course, they’ve already griped about “The 

Fosters”, but that was expected.

They can’t stand the idea of a lesbian drama that is a lot more on real life and a lot

 less on sex. OMM’s latest, though, goes after a show that they liken to a revamped 

“Desperate Housewives.” Apparently the plot revolves around four friends and the 

web of lives they weave around themselves while looking for love.  The show is based 

off of a British TV show of the same name.  I have no doubt that OMM would have

 been furious about “Coupling”. Yep, it’s a classic soap opera. Not something I’m 

interested in, but expect that people will watch it. Still OMM put out this missive:

The tagline for the program is: “Attraction. Passion. Deception. I can’t help it.”

 Advertisements mention “Endless possibilities,” “Thirteen weeks of seduction” and 

“Who have you been doing?” One character even gets involved with another woman. 

A show full of adultery, cheating and lies is the last influence our society needs. Even 

though the program airs a little later in the evening, it is not late enough since the 

bedroom scenes are completely soft p*rn. (An asterisk is used to ensure our emails 

get through to those who have signed up to receive our alerts. Otherwise referencing

 specific words would cause our emails to be blocked by some internet filters.)

One Million Moms will be as persistent as we were with ABC’s “Good Christian 

Belles” in asking sponsors to pull their financial support. We had proof this works when

 “GCB” was canceled after only one season. Hollywood is continuing to push casual

 s*x as acceptable when Scripture states clearly it is a sin. As Christians, the Bible also 

says that we must speak up against sin. If we remain silent, we are accepting it and are 

guilty of sin also. One Million Moms is determined to clean up broadcast airwaves.

Oy vey, they can’t even say the word ‘sex’. As for their “proof” regarding “GCB”, the 

ratings were pretty abysmal on that show, and that is why it got the kibosh. “The New 

Normal” had the same problem. The fact that they have continuously claimed victory 

over specific shows despite the show not doing well in the ratings just shows how desperate

 they are for money…sorry…attention…sorry again…moral viewing options.  Of course,

 they could just not watch the show, and maybe just stop trying to immorally force every

one to fall lock step behind them.  Then again, “Mistresses” is just the kind of show

 that they probably watch religiously while jotting down notes about how they hate

 the show vehemently.

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On ABC's 'Mistresses,' those who stray might well pay

A prime-time soap starring Alyssa Milano, Yunjin Kim, Rochelle Aytes and Jes Macallan brings the steam but also sisterhood.

Jes MacAllan, left, Alyssa Milano, Yunjin Kim and Rochelle Aytes  in "Mistresses." (Danny Field / ABC)

• By T.L. Stanley

May 24, 2013, 5:00 a.m.

Alyssa Milano has been in fairly racy series in her television career, such as the bed-hopping-crazy "Melrose Place," but she needed persuading to star in a drama called "Mistresses." By its very title, not to mention its ongoing focus on infidelity, the ABC primetime soap seemed to the veteran actress to be a potential lightning rod.
Milano, who eventually signed on as one of the four leading ladies, said she could just imagine the angry tweets when word leaked about a U.S. version of the hit BBC series.
"I thought people would say, 'How can you be involved in a show that glamorizes cheating?'" Milano said recently from her L.A.-area home. "So one of the first things I needed to know was that the show had more depth than that."
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Instead of being a series about stereotypical home wreckers and stalkers, "Mistresses" deals with the fallout of adulterous spouses, said Milano, whose married character isn't technically a mistress but does stray with a handsome colleague. "She messes up, she crosses the line, and it doesn't just affect her marriage, it affects her whole family, her workplace, her friendships," Milano said. "She's a genuinely good person who does a bad thing. I think people will be able to relate to that."
Of the series' other stars — Yunjin Kim, Rochelle Aytes and Jes Macallan — only Kim's character, a therapist, slept with a married man. The aftermath of that relationship, as viewers learn in the first episode, is messy, complicated and possibly career-ending for her.
The British show on which "Mistresses" — which premieres June 3 — is based ran for three successful seasons. Some critics called the original "popcorn television" for its lightweight, addictive quality, though it veered into darker territory as it unfolded.
The Americanized version borrows freely from the source material but adds its own tweaks and twists aimed at hooking in devotees as well as the uninitiated, its producers said. But even those producers, who were ardent fans of the original, said they weren't on board initially to remake the show with the same name.
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"I said, 'Absolutely not,'" said K.J. Steinberg, executive producer. "I know there's something extraordinarily provocative about the title, but it's a big hurdle to get over."
Rina Mimoun, an executive producer who noted that she was a women's studies major in college, said she understood that there was equity, and sex appeal, in the brand.
But she and Steinberg wanted to make sure they could center the story on the four characters' strong bonds rather than their indiscretions and romances. "It would be easy to go for the salacious and the shock value," Mimoun said. "But we looked for a very grounded way to tell stories about female friendships."
In one example early in the series, Aytes' character, a widowed mom, is shocked and angry when she finds out Milano's character had sex with a co-worker. The affair is unforgivable to her because she just learned that her late husband had a secret life, a mistress and an out-of-wedlock child.
"These women are each others' moral compasses," Milano said. "The characters are very honest with each other. They're judgmental like the audience at home will be."
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The show, for all its steaminess and skin, does include some laughs, though it won't veer into wacky "Desperate Housewives" territory, Steinberg said. It was important to hire writers with comedy experience, she said, so the mood and tone of the show match its sunny L.A. setting.
Still, it's firmly rooted in melodrama, even though its four beautiful protagonists might draw comparisons to HBO's seminal comedy "Sex and the City." (Their clothes are fabulous too, if slightly more modest).
The show's producers agree that broadcast TV pushes boundaries these days, starting with a name like "Mistresses" that likely wouldn't have flown even a decade ago. But times have changed, they said, pointing to high divorce rates in this country, and audiences are used to adult content on cable.
"We hope the title will be intriguing enough to lure people in," Steinberg said, "but that the show is dimensional enough to surprise them, in a good way."
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 'Mistresses' on BBC America (2009)

ABC’s ‘Mistresses’: ‘Not a Bunch of Ladies Whoring Around’

April 4, 2013 by EURpublisher02 1 Comment

by Cherie Saunders   

MISTRESSES – ABC’s “Mistresses” stars Rochelle Aytes as April Malloy. (ABC/BOB D’AMICO)

*ABC is bringing Rochelle Aytes and Jason George to living rooms this summer via “Mistresses,” a drama based on the British series about four girlfriends caught up in webs of secrecy and betrayal – just as the title would suggest…right?
“It’s not a bunch of ladies whoring around,” declares executive producer Rina Mimoun. “It’s not the way the show is, sort of, set up. It really is all of these women have especially just in the course of the one season, it’s one mistake almost for each of them that has, sort of, snowballed into a bigger a bigger mess, but it’s the way that it’s treated.”
Aytes plays April, a recent widow and mother of two who is rebuilding her life after tragedy and learning to move forward. She’s BFFs with both Savi (Alyssa Milano), a successful career woman working toward the next phase in her life; and Savi’s little sister Josselyn (Jes Macallan), a single real estate broker who is off the hook with her partying and serial dating.

Alyssa Milano and Rochelle Aytes in ABC’s “Mistresses”

Aytes, 36, from New York, says of her character April, “I’ve known Savi and Joss since I was about 10, so we’ve all been friends for a long time.”

The fourth friend is Karen (Yunjin Kim), a therapist who reconnects with the girls after her involvement in a relationship with a patient goes far too deep.
“I think the core and the foundation of the show is that friendship between the women,” says Milano. “No matter what situation that we get ourselves into, by maybe some poor choices that we make, not only do we have the support of our friends, but if they can’t be the most honest with you, then who can?”

One of Savi’s “poor choices” is cheating on her husband with Dominic Taylor, a co-worker at her law firm played by Jason George.

Cast of ABC’s “Mistresses”

Below, the veteran of ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Off the Map” talks about booking yet another show on the network.
ABC will air 13 episodes of “Mistresses” beginning June 3. Watch the trailer below.

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  Savannah Davis

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  Karen Rhodes

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  Josslyn Carver

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  April Malloy

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  Dominic Taylor

  Played by Jason George
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  Harry Davis

  Played by Brett Tucker
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  Sam Grey

  Played by Erik Stocklin

Lost' star Yunjin Kim to topline ABC's 'Mistresses'

Drama will also star Rochelle Aytes, Jes Macallan and Erik Stocklin

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"Lost" star Yunjin Kim is returning to ABC as one of the stars of the upcoming series "Mistresses,"  created by K.J. Steinberg ("Gossip Girl").
The series, which may fill in the primetime soap gap left after the imminent departure of "Desperate Housewives," is adapted from the British series, which ran from 2008 to 2010.

"Mistresses" centers on four women whose complex and scandalous romantic lives get them into a series of thrilling conundrums. Kim will play Karen, a psychiatrist whose affair with a patient may have led to his death.

The cast also includes Rochelle Aytes ("The Forgotten"), Jes Macallan and Erik Stocklin.

The drama is aiming for summer 2013.

Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/articles/lost-star-yunjin-kim-to-topline-abcs-mistresses#Q1DoKxmIlgDVIWBY.99 

'Mistresses': Alyssa Milano returns to TV in ABC's sexy new soap

By Geoff Berkshire

    

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ABC's upcoming midseason series"Mistresses" had two messages to deliver to the press at the TCA 2013 Winter Press Tour: The show will be different from its BBC inspiration and it will be sexy. Very sexy.

"Tonally the show is different from the BBC version," star Alyssa Milanosays. "There's a lightness and a fun to what we try to do that's different."

"The BBC format happened at a much slower pace," executive producer Rina Mimoun ("Everwood") adds. "We took a lot of what they had and front-loaded our show with that. We had to run in a whole other direction because we had to make a lot more episodes."

Executive producer Bob Sertner("Revenge") explains the decision to deviate from the original series was only logical: "We always said from the very beginning a show like this wouldn't be very fun to watch if you could go online and find out where it was heading."

Just like the British original, the American "Mistresses" will follow four longtime female friends each facing their own romantic crisis. And, as usual on soap operas, that means a lot of network-TV-friendly sex.

"For my scenes mostly the guys are naked," Milano deadpans. "I had just given birth when we shot the pilot. I was still breastfeeding, in between takes every two hours I would go into my dressing room and pump."

Co-star Jason George ("Grey's Anatomy"), who plays the man Milano's married character has a fling and starts to fall in love with, adds: "There are [good] things that come from pregnancy..."

As for any concerns that American audiences may be a little more uptight than Brits about the title and concept, the producers urge not to just a book by its cover. "The title is provocative," Mimoun allows. "As soon as people starting watching it, the way the mateiral is treated it's not glib. It's not a bunch of ladies whoring around. It's one mistake for each of them that has snowballed into a bigger mess."

"I also think the title encapsulates what we're trying to say," executive producer K.J. Steinberg ("Gossip Girl") adds. "At first blush it sounds salacious, but if you scratch the surface it's about so much more than an affair or the word."

"Mistresses," which co-stars Yunjin Kim ("Lost"), Rochelle Aytes ("Madea's Family Reunion") and Jes Macallan ("Shameless"), is expected to debut this summer on ABC.

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ABC’s Mistresses Flaunts Its 

Stuff

Actress Alyssa Milano is leading the cast of Mistresses for ABC. Today we 

can reveal a first look at the upcoming series. Is this one about to become your 

new guilty pleasure?

The summer flirtation will begin at ABC on June 3rd. The soapy drama series stars

 Milano, Jes Macallan, Rochelle Aytes and Yunjin Kim as four friends who are involved

 in “illicit and complex relationships”.

I see why ABC would order up 12 episodes and a pilot of Mistresses. It’s no secret

 that we love our prime time soaps. From Dallas to Desperate Housewives, tangled affairs 

are always worth a thrill. Right now one soapy drama in particular has my full attention,

 and that one is another ABC offering, the Kerry Washington starrer, Scandal. Of course,

 what makes Scandal unique is the divine political angle and a set up that makes it 

almost procedural in nature. The high priced “fixers” will always have a new client to 

keep things interesting. Can Mistresses promise the same level of continued interest?

When a soap goes bad, the way one can argue ABC’s Revenge has done, it runs out 

of other interesting elements and begins to devour itself. Twists get twistier. Everyone 

either turns on or sleeps with everyone else. The plot gets more and more convoluted. 

You can’t deny it had a terrific first season, though!

As for Mistresses, it has one ace in the hole. The American series is based upon the UK 

show of the same name. This tends to be a recipe for success because showmakers 

already have ideas from what worked on the previous incarnation of the series. Just look

 at The Killing or House of Cards, which also drew inspiration from forerunners from other

 countries.

So, what do you think? Can Mistresses become like the new Sex & The City or is the premise 

too weak? Aytes will play April, a widow and mother of two. Macallan is Josslyn, the youngest 

of the four friends. Yunjin Kim is Karen, a shrink who carried on an affair with a patient who 

has died. And Alyssa Milano is Savannah, a married, cheating lawyer, who is also the older 

sister of Josslyn.