'HEALING HANDS' Eddie Cibrian & Lisa Sheridan star March 20
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EDDIE CIBRIAN: ADDING ‘HEALER’ TO HIS ACTING RESUME’
EDDIE CIBRIAN can still surprise us. A hunk who cracked People magazine’s 2006 list of the 100 Most Beautiful People Alive, the guy has been a TV series regular or recurring player on eight different shows -- with his newest role on a little drama called “CSI: Miami.” He’s played a macho firefighter (“Third Watch”) and a slick card shark (“Tilt”). So what are the odds that Cibrian would turn up in the new Hallmark Channel in HD Original Movie “Healing Hands,” which premieres Saturday, March 20 (9p.m. ET/PT, 8c) as…a janitor? Well, it’s true. Of course, he isn’t just any janitor. The following profile is available for all press uses, with photos, from Crown Features Syndicate™.
EDDIE CIBRIAN: ADDING ‘HEALER’ TO HIS ACTING RESUME’
Crown Features Syndicate™
Chances are you would never mistake Eddie Cibrian for a janitor. Guys who look like him simply don’t do custodial work in the real world. But that’s what proves to be intriguing about Cibrian’s latest role as a modest high school janitor who finds he has the power to heal in the Hallmark Channel in HD Original Movie “Healing Hands,” which premieres Saturday, March 20 (9p.m. ET/PT, 8c).
Here’s an actor who has built a reputation for playing the hunk and playing him well. At 36, Cibrian can boast having been a TV series regular or recurring performer on eight different shows, including this season on “CSI: Miami.” He’s played a macho firefighter, a card shark, a coach, an agent and a park ranger. And now, he’s a simple dude named Buddy Hoyt, who is given the gift of life in his hands.
“Here is this humble guy suddenly saddled with this great ability and responsibility,” Cibrian says. “The sad part is, every time he helps somebody, it takes a little piece of him away and drains his energy.”
Yet the film’s heavy, poignant overtones didn’t stop those on the “Healing Hands” set from clowning around a little. There was the morning when Cibrian celebrated his 36th birthday during the movie shoot.
“I walk into my trailer that morning and I see this big blowup doll with a picture of our director, Bradford May, pasted over the face,” he recalls. “There’s a sign plastered to it that reads, ‘Oh, Mr. Hoyt, please work your miracle on me!’ So much for respect.”
CONTACT: Pam Slay, 818-755-2480
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UNCORKED: A Hallmark Channel Original Movie Premiering March 6
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JULIE BENZ: VERY MUCH ALIVE AND POPPING THE CORK ON A NEW ROLE
Say this for JULIE BENZ: The woman’s got range. First, her character Rita Morgan – wife of star Dexter (Michael C. Hall) -- was murdered in a gruesome season four finale of the drama series “Dexter.” She immediately thereafter landed a recurring role on “Desperate Housewives” as a stripper with a master’s degree in education. But that’s not the most intriguing part. This is: At the same time Benz plays a lady who removes her clothes, she’s also starring in the Hallmark Channel Original Movie “Uncorked” that premieres Saturday, March 6 (9 p.m. ET/PT, 8C), playing a driven corporate suit hanging out in wine country. Talk about range. The following profile is available for all press uses, with photos, from Crown Features Syndicate™.
JULIE BENZ: VERY MUCH ALIVE AND POPPING THE CORK ON A NEW ROLE
Crown Features Syndicate™
Julie Benz knows how the public can occasionally confuse showbiz fantasy with real life, experiencing it first-hand this year after her character Rita on the series “Dexter” was brutally murdered in a grisly scene that set the Internet afire.
“People were just shocked at the way it went down and were devastated,” Benz recalls, “which I guess is a testament to how much they loved the character. But you know, at the end of the day I’m an actor. I had to move on, so I guess everyone else did, too.”
Move on she has – and then some. Benz immediately landed a recurring role as a brainy stripper on “Desperate Housewives” that’s currently playing out. And on March 6, she pops up in a new Hallmark Channel Original Movie (her second) entitled “Uncorked” (premiering March 6 at 9/8c) that casts her as a workaholic corporate exec who falls in love while hanging out in California wine country.
For an actress who has been kept hopping of late in decidedly racier fare, the opportunity to work in “something that my parents can watch” proved a refreshing change of pace. Benz also admits there might be a little bit of the real her in the “Uncorked” alter ego.
“I understand my character’s workaholic mindset really well,” she admits. “I’m not someone who likes to be unemployed. I love being on a set more than just about anyplace else, certainly more than sitting on my couch at home waiting for the phone to ring.”
CONTACT: Pam Slay, 818-755-2480
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LACEY CHABERT: Still Riding An Elevator to the Top
Having turned 27 on Sept. 30, LACEY CHABERT knows all about the perils of peaking too early. A working actress since the tender age of eight and going through puberty before the entire nation as one of the regulars on the hit series “Party of Five,” Chabert (pronounced “shah-BEHR”) understood all too well that she was expected to become another casualty of Hollywood’s child stardom machine. But that isn’t how things have turned out. She has instead transitioned to adulthood with roles in everything from the 2004 feature “Mean Girls” to voicing the cartoon series “The Wild Thornberrys.” And she continues along that same versatile path in the Hallmark Channel HD Original Movie “Elevator Girl,” which premieres on Saturday, February 13 (9p.m. ET/PT, 8C). The following profile is available for all press uses, with photos, from Crown Features Syndicate™.
LACEY CHABERT: STILL RIDING AN ELEVATOR TO THE TOP
Crown Features Syndicate™
Lacey Chabert knows all about what it’s like to take the career elevator to the upper floors at a very young age, having landed roles on Broadway (Les Miserables) and network television (“Party of Five”) before hitting adolescence.
But Chabert, who turned 27 on September 30, finally has a more literal encounter with the pulley-driven box when she stars opposite Ryan Merriman in the Hallmark Channel HD Original Movie “Elevator Girl,” a romantic comedy that premieres on Saturday, February 13 (9p.m. ET/PT, 8C).
“Oh my God, I had so much fun making this movie!” Chabert gushes. “They even let me bring along my three Chihuahuas during the shoot. They’re my kids. But I swear I’m not one of those actresses who has to take her dogs everywhere!”
The Mississippi-born actress did suffer one very anxious moment during her very first day on the “Elevator Girl” shoot. It happened during a scene that had her walking by a pool -- and consumed by the fear that she had better not trip.
“So of course, during the last take, I’m walking along and the next thing I know my face is planted on the ground,” she remembers. “Not only did I slip, but I flew through the air and then slid like 20 feet. Everyone was just like deadly silent. I stayed down for a full minute because I was so mortified. I bruised my knee up pretty bad. But I have to say, it really broke the ice on the set.”
Fortunately, that’s all it broke.
CONTACT: Pam Slay, 818-755-2480
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"Movie Night with hoops&yoyo," February 5 & 12
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MOVIE NIGHT WITH HOOPS&YOYO
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FAMILY PLAN
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Hallmark Channel - US Cable TV Premieres of Dazzling Ice Skating Spectaculars
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ICE DREAMS
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IMPROV-ICE
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BRIAN BOITANO SKATING SPECTACULAR
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SKATING & GYMNASTICS SPECTACULAR
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SKATE FOR THE HEART
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