", STORY: 'Drop Dead Diva' Casts Heartthrob as New Angel, Of Aylesworth, he said: "I've been a huge fan of Reiko since her days on 24, and we developed this part with Reiko in mind. I have watched the show since the beginning and I found this season to be well written and funny but lacking. I keep watching it, hoping it will improve but alas, I'm disappointed. I love it. She causes trouble for her naive small town roommate, June, and Chloe's best friend, James Van Der Beek. Unable to add item to List. "I first worked with Brigid over 10 years ago when she guest starred on a first-season episode of CSI [when he was an executive producer] as an unruly teenager who killed her father with a radioactive garden gnome," he said. It's like in many TV shows and movies we only get these 'super white big smile nice body' actors and actresses which all look great and at the same time almost the same and just as unreal as Santa to any grown-up, but this time we are getting this new character which is awesome, beautiful, and at the same time just like me, you or someone next to you. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Brigid Brannagh and Reiko Aylesworth have signed on for roles in season five, while Josh Stamberg, who played Jay Parker, has departed the Lifetime series. All this 'star crossed lover' business is starting to get a little tedious, though. Please try again. As she looks for Owen (Lex Medlin) following his wedding day heart attack, Jane (Brooke Elliott) fights to stop a drug company from discontinuing the drug trial that is keeping an eight-year-old ... After convincing the gravely ill sister of a death row inmate to accept his heart for a transplant, Jane (Brooke Elliott) must get a judge to bend the rules for execution in order to make it possible... As she worries about her mother's health, Jane takes on an Amish farmer's fight against fracking. Amazon.com: Drop Dead Diva - The Complete Fifth Season: Brooke Elliott, Margaret Cho, Jackson Hurst, Kate Levering, April Bowlby, Josh Stamberg, Ben Feldman, Brooke D’Orsay: Movies & TV Brigid Brannagh and Reiko Aylesworth have signed on for roles on season five of the Lifetime series, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. PHOTOS: Life After the Finale: 17 TV Shows Brought Back From the Dead. It can be done! How about some of the cast actually getting together with the person they're supposed to and enjoying their lives together for a change? Long live the show as there is one fan for you here already. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Four Latina maids with ambition and dreams of their own work for the rich and famous in Beverly Hills. Even the legal story lines aren't what they used to be. As Deb sees life through Jane's eyes, she realizes it doesn't matter how big you are, but how you accept it and know you're beautiful no matter what people say. The guardian angel is a bimbo who doesn't seem to have a reason to be on the show. | Cookie Settings. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Drop Dead Diva returns at 9 p.m. Sunday, June 23, on Lifetime. Drop Dead Diva - The Complete Fifth Season. Secrets and truths unfold through the lives of female friends in one suburban neighborhood, after the mysterious suicide of a neighbor. But I was sick in bed one day, bored, so I tuned in. Jane and Owen, Owen and Jane, Jane and Graysen, Graysen and whoever his current fling is, and where did Kim go? There's no chemistry between Grayson and his paramour. The episodes in the middle of the season are missing. Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2013. Not a nonsense. The casting news comes as the show is in the midst of shooting its fifth season, which underwent some budget cuts to get a greenlight from the network. John Ratzenberger also is set to guest star in season five, which premieres June 23. Good show on the whole. Note to the show's administration: someone getting jilted at the altar every season is not necessarily good television. Terry was my favorite - she could shoot zingers like poison darts and now it seems she's hardly written in. Let the fun begin! It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Quite on the contrary. Looking for something to watch? Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Think it'll kill the show? Deb is a shallow model whose sudden demise results in her being reincarnated as Jane, a plus-size lawyer with astonishing intelligence. Aylesworth, who played Michelle Dessler on Fox's 24, appears in episode six as June Frazier, a brilliant graphic designer who enlists Kim Kaswell's (Kate Levering) legal help as she battles to protect her dead boyfriend's legacy from his estranged parents. Jane suddenly has a new guardian angel (Justin Deeley, Couples Retreat) and several new cases, including a student accused of cheating on the SATs, a baseball player tagged for murder, and a beauty pageant contestant who believes the contest she is in is fixed. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The series was canceled in January after talks with studio Sony Pictures Television about cost-cutting options stalled, but a new agreement between the two sides led to its revival a couple months later. Drop Dead Diva continues to expand its guest-star lineup. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. One can not only get a nice law story per episode, but also gets a share of really great performance here as well as really lovable characters. by Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Josh Stamberg Actor Trailer. A vapid aspiring model killed in a car crash gets brought back to life as an intelligent, overweight lawyer, hoping to find the meaning of inner beauty. They sort of toss her in to state the obvious and when she isn't doing that, she is being obnoxious. I loved and love a lot of TV shows (most of them already ended), but since my late teens I for the first time am really thrilled with the main character of the TV show, as well as I can well put myself in almost every position she's in (except, huh, for having your soul trapped in a wrong body).