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Katee Sackhoff gets booked on "Law & Order"

Last month, we told you that Battlestar Galactica star and Bionic Woman vet Katee Sackhoff would be making her way back to primetime this fall with a leading role in the new Dick Wolf (Law & Order) series, Lost and Found. She'll play Tessa, "an offbeat female LAPD detective who, after butting heads with the higher-ups, is sent (for punishment) to the basement to work on John Doe and Jane Doe cases."

In other words, Starbuck with a badge.

NBC has now announced that Sackhoff will also play a murder suspect in an upcoming episode of Law & Order, but no air date has been announced. After watching her steal the show as the malevolent Sarah Corvus in the otherwise dreadful Bionic Woman, I would strongly advise Alana De La Garza (who plays Assistant D.A. Consuela "Connie" Rubirosa on L&O) to hold onto her briefcase. Sackhoff can obviously outshine a series regular with the simple throw of a left-hook.

NBC also announced that due to some recent lineup changes, L&O will now run back-to-back with the detective series, Life, starring Sarah Shahi.

So what this means to lesbian viewers is that very soon, on one special Wednesday night, you'll see this:

Sarah Shahi

Followed by this:

Katee Sackhoff

Thank the gods!

Canuckgrrl's picture

Thank you, Mr. Wolf

Sa-weet!  I will be clearing my Wednesday night sched and be tuned into the Peacock.

Life certainly deserves a second look.  Sarah gets no respect because she's overshadowed by the lead guy.

Nyssa's picture

wow

I really have to start watching these again.

There are so many good reason these days I just have been so busy, but this a better one. 

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Everywhere I go the cars all follow me, I'm the girl with magnetic tights.

Voulez-vous travailler avec moi ce soir?

Torchwood_Operative's picture

Yay for Katee!

Yay! More parts for Katee where she gets a chance to shine! She's the best frakkin' actor I've ever seen! 

If I were a TV writer, I'd write a really cool and complex character and then offer her the part. It would be worth it just to see her pull it off!

 

Cherry / Torchwood_Operative

Prop 8 = Epic Justice Fail

Nyssa's picture

Why don't you

write a torchwood story where Katee is needed to save everyone, but at a price.

I am sure it will be wonderful.

Just do not have everyone drinking starbuck's coffee all the time.

 

Nyssa

 

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Everywhere I go the cars all follow me, I'm the girl with magnetic tights.

Voulez-vous travailler avec moi ce soir?

tatd1's picture

NICE!!

any night sarah shahi is on my 47 inches in high def is a good night!