Mistresses

The characters are very interesting....And it's actually good for a few laughs, whereas the show is too dramatic for much humor.....It's witty writing kept audiences from drowning in soapy water.....it's just that you recognize a certain badness and lack of insight and any genuine storytelling..... ... Full Review

the acting across the board is terrific, adding a certain sheen to the well-thumbed plots.....the most admirable part of the project.... ... Full Review

But the writing and the characters suggest "Mistresses" may be smart enough to chart its own course and stay somewhere around life-size. If it does, it just might make ensemble chick drama feel fresh all over again. ... Full Review

There's not really a new idea anywhere in the first flight of thissix-part series (with a second batch of six more episodes soon to follow), beginning with the quartet of disparate female friends at its core: Katie (Sarah Parish), a doctor who had a longstanding affair with a deceased patient and now must deal with his emotionally vulnerable son (Max Brown); Siobhan (Orla Brady), whose efforts to conceive threaten to ruin her marriage -- and lead her to stray; Trudi (Sharon Small), gingerly seeking to date ... Full Review

What I love about Mistresses is that all the female leads are so well cast. Last year Mistresses exploded onto our screens - a fresh and saucy drama about four female friends and their tangled love lives, complete with moral dilemmas, saucy sexy-time scenes with much frill-some knicker-flashing, a dash of humour and a sprinkling of hot men. ... Full Review

BBC One has announced plans to screen a re-work of Henry James's The Turn Of The Screw . The one-off 90-minute drama, scheduled to air this winter, features a cast including Cranford 's Michelle Dockery, The Royal Family 's Sue... ... Full Article

Mistresses is returning to BBC One for a third and final series, it has been announced. The final instalment of the show - starring Sarah Parish, Sharon Small, Orla Brady and Shelley Conn - will consist of four hour-long episodes... ... Full Article

You don't wake up wanting to be someone's mistress - somehow it just happens. Warner Brothers and the BBC today release the 4-disc set of MISTRESSES Volume 1 , the provocative and sexy UK series created by Rachel Anthony, S.J. ... Full Article

The sexy and sophisticated drama focuse on four core female characters and their relationships, and by the conclusion of the finale, their lives will have been changed forever. ... Full Article

Every woman has her peak years. But during actress Sharon Small's she was cast as a fat, ugly woman on a now-famous British TV series. ... Full Article

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 2/21/2009 - "A sex scene is always embarrassing and nerve-racking," says BBC America Mistresses star Shelley Conn. "You always think, is this really necessary? ... Full Article