Cashmere Mafia

At its best, The Ex List is a better Sex and the City clone than Lipstick Jungle and Cashmere Mafia, which are (or were) direct descendants of SATC. But the new show is so light and breezy it threatens to blow off your screen, and it’s an odd fit between the sentimental gloom of Ghost Whisperer a...

Lipstick Jungle: Of last season’s new Sex and the City descendants, this is the one that stuck around, while Cashmere Mafia got whacked. And this season, it’s welcoming many people to the Jungle. "We’re extending our family," executive producer Oliver Goldstick told TV critics in July. "M...

Men in Trees: What makes this series better than others with Sex and the City DNA -- Cashmere Mafia and Lipstick Jungle, that is -- is that creator Jenny Bicks and her writers have a better understanding of how men (as well as women) think than do the creators of the other series. Tonight bring...

Lipstick Jungle: With Cashmere Mafia having completed its brief season, NBC now has the lone series that always gets compared to Sex and the City on the air. And the network is apparently happy with it, as Variety reported last week that NBC has ordered six more episodes on top of its origina...

Actor Edward James Olmos is 61. Musician George Thorogood is 58. News correspondent Paula Zahn is 52. Country singer Sammy Kershaw is 50. Actor Billy Zane is 42. Actress Bonnie Somerville (Cashmere Mafia) is 34. NOTABLE DEATH ...

Cashmere Mafia: In the battle between Cashmere Mafia and Lipstick Jungle for best Sex and the City imitator, Cashmere Mafia has the edge after last week's episode, which revealed more of the characters' personalities. That should continue tonight, with plotlines about the breakup of J...

Game shows rule the night, in traditional forms, nontraditional "reality" forms and even in a PBS documentary. If you're after scripted programming, the networks offer new episodes of Criminal Minds and CSI:NY (8-10 p.m., KTVT/Channel 11), Law & Order (9 p.m., KXAS/Channel 5) and Cash...

The latest example is "Cashmere Mafia," a drama that follows four alpha female executives (Lucy Liu, Miranda Otto, Bonnie Somerville and Frances O'Connor) as they deal with life and love in New York City. The opener airs right after a ...

Cashmere Mafia" can be most easily identified as the one that premieres this week on ABC and stars Lucy Liu. She plays Mia, who, with Zoe (Frances O'Connor), Juliet (Mirando Otto) and Caitlin (Bonnie Somerville), are four ambitious, ...