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Yunjin Kim as Karen Rhodes in Mistresses

Yunjin Kim as Karen Rhodes in Mistresses

Based on the hit UK television series of the same name, Mistresses is a provocative and thrilling drama about the scandalous lives of a sexy and sassy group of four girlfriends, each on her own path to self-discovery. Savannah (“Savi”) is a successful career woman working toward the next phase in her life — both professionally and personally — bucking for partner at the law firm where she works while also trying to start a family with her husband, Harry. They’ve been trying to get pregnant for some time, but when their fertility issues begin to take center stage, Savi finds herself attracted to her flirtatious colleague, Dominic.

Savi’s free-spirited and capricious baby sister, Josslyn, couldn’t be more different, living single, serial dating and partying, and regularly leaning on her big sister. A real estate agent, Josslyn has no interest in a committed, long-term relationship. Their common best friend, April, is a recent widow and mother of a ten-year-old daughter. In the effort to rebuild her life and move forward, April opens a shop for home decorating. After she receives her late husband’s lucrative life insurance check, she begins getting prank phone calls and tells her closest girlfriends that she’s convinced her husband is still alive.

Karen is a therapist with her own thriving practice, reconnecting with the girls after her involvement in a complicated relationship with a wealthy, married patient goes too far; she was having an affair with a terminally ill client to whom she had prescribed morphine. After his death, the man’s distraught son, Sam, confides in a guilt-ridden Karen, unaware of her role in his father’s life. The grieving widow, Elizabeth Grey (recurring guest star Penelope Ann Miller [The Artist]), has no idea her late husband had a romance with another woman.

These four friends find support and guidance with each other as they brave their turbulent journeys and life’s storms of excitement, secrecy and betrayal, all the while bound by the complex relationships they’ve created. Mistresses stars Alyssa Milano as Savannah (“Savi”) Davis, Yunjin Kim as Karen Rhodes, Rochelle Aytes as April Malloy, Jes Macallan as Josslyn Carver, Brett Tucker as Harry Davis, Jason George as Dominic Taylor and Erik Stocklin as Sam Grey.

Here’s more about the character Karen Rhodes

An immigrant from Korea, Karen met Savi at UCLA during undergrad, and they’ve been friends ever since. Karen’s pioneering work with Los Angeles’ immigrant communities has made her one of the most respected psychiatrists in her field, but a secret from her professional past still haunts her — a patient with whom she had an affair, whose untimely death throws Karen’s life into chaos.

Yunjin Kim as Karen Rhodes in Mistresses

More about Yunjin Kim
An accomplished actress, Yunjin Kim’s portrayal of Sun in the ABC landmark television series Lost has earned her worldwide recognition. She originally made a name for herself in Korea and all over Asia with the film Shiri.

Kim was bashful as a child, so she decided to get over her shyness by taking drama classes in the seventh grade. She was immediately cast in a musical and fell in love with the theatre.

Her Korean feature film credits include starring roles in Ardor, Yesterday, Iron Palm, Ginko Bed 2, Diary of June, Seven Days, Harmony, Heartbeat The Neighbors and the Japanese film Rush, as well as roles in the television weekend dramas With Love and Wedding Dress, and the miniseries Hunch and Beautiful Vacation. For her role in Seven Days she was nominated for a 2008 Blue Dragon, Korean Film Award and won Grand Bell Award for Best Actress. She has also guest hosted on ABC’s The View.

Kim was the Goodwill Ambassador for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and Korea, representing Korea. She is currently the Korean face of L’Oreal. While born in Seoul, Korea, she grew up in Staten Island, New York. She attended the prestigious High School of Performing Arts in New York and received her BFA in acting from Boston University.

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Spectacular with Kevin Kataoka on Totally Biased

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Spectacular with Kevin Kataoka on Totally Biased

Did you know May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month? You do now! Join Kevin Kataoka as he celebrates a modern Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Hero and the contributions of the Asian American and Pacific Islander people. He breaks down Asian stereotype, especially ones related to Asian drivers. Listen to Kevin’s witty commentary on Asians and who we really have to look up to as role models.

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Spectacular with Kevin Kataoka on Totally Biased

Showville with Alec Mapa

Showville with Alec Mapa

Fame meets Main on AMC’s new unscripted competition series, “Showville.” The series centers around a small town talent show featuring local acts, who get the chance of a lifetime to be in the spotlight. “Showville” is a celebration of performing, and a fond, funny look at the lives, workplaces and families of these acts and what happens to them when Hollywood comes to town. Each week, a one-hour episode of “Showville” touches down in a quintessentially American small town and puts together a talent show in a mere four days. Actor Alec Mapa and choreographer Lisette Bustamante are the series’ performance coaches, working with the show’s finalists each week to prep them for their performance in front of a live, local audience.

“Showville” hosted open call auditions in the following towns, offering locals of all ages – from singers and dancers to comedy acts and jugglers – an opportunity to win $10,000 in prize money:

· Holland, Michigan;
· Kingston, Rhode Island;
· Walla Walla, Washington;
· San Marcos, Texas;
· Hugo, Oklahoma;
· Mount Airy, North Carolina;
· Athens, Ohio; and
· Fairfield, Iowa,

As the series’ performance coaches, Mapa and Bustamante will be given 48 hours to mentor each town’s four finalists in preparation for the “big show.” The audience gets to know the finalists and their back-stories as they are coached over two days with the goal of bringing out the best of their abilities. The final competition will take place at a well-known town venue where an audience comprised of locals, including families, friends and neighbors, will join together and ultimately be responsible for selecting the victor.

Showville with Alec Mapa

More about Alec Mapa
Alec Mapa got his big show business break when he was cast as the opera diva, Song Liling, in Broadway’s M. Butterfly. He went on to direct the critically acclaimed one-man shows, “Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy” and “I Remember Mapa” and is also a renowned director in the comedy circuit. In addition, Mapa has appeared in numerous films and television shows, including “Marley & Me,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Ugly Betty,” “Seinfeld,” and “You Don’t Mess With The Zohan.”

Alison Wong on The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius

Alison Wong on The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius

Look for Product Design Consultant Alison Wong on the upcoming show The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius with Kal Penn. She’ll be one of the 10 contestants on the show. Her background in engineering from MIT & Stanford will be an asset to her when the games begin.

“All my life, I’ve been a bit of an outlier,” says Alison. “An engineer who loves art, an Asian in the Midwest, a woman in technology. I want to break down stereotypes.” Alison is a design consultant for companies like HP, Barnes and Noble, Motorola,and IDEO, and manufactures her own product designs. She worked at Ford in Dearborn, where she helped design parts on an aluminum Explorer and at Apple, where she made an efficient heat pipe for the iMac.

Even though she runs her own company called Integral Design and teaches product design at Stanford, Alison still has time to draw cartoons, moonlighting as a storyboard artist and illustrator. On the weekend, she loves hiking and riding her motorcycle.

Winning this competition would mean the world to her. “I’ve got the academic credentials,” she says. “But this title you can’t buy.”

Alison Wong on The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius

More about The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius
The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius will feature a seemingly impossible engineering challenge to be solved by the contestants each week. Competitors will have just 30 minutes to come up with a solution using their own intellect to complete the challenge. Based on logic and design, the expert panel of judges will determine the best engineering concept and select two captains to lead their team to execute the project. The team with the best design will remain safe, but the losers will face the judges who will determine which member will be eliminated.

The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius with Kal Penn

The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius with Kal Penn

Who will become America’s next great innovator? Discovery’s THE BIG BRAIN THEORY: PURE GENIUS is looking for the next great technological mind that could change the future. While there are countless shows searching for the next great singer, dancer and chef, there is nothing quite like this on television. Each week, THE BIG BRAIN THEORY: PURE GENIUS presents a seemingly impossible engineering challenge to the 10 contestants. will feature a seemingly impossible engineering challenge to be solved by the contestants each week. Competitors will have just 30 minutes to come up with a solution using their own intellect to complete the challenge. Based on logic and design, the expert panel of judges will determine the best engineering concept and select two captains to lead their team to execute the project. The team with the best design will remain safe, but the losers will face the judges who will determine which member will be eliminated.

“The series features some of the greatest young minds in America. There is a lot at stake within the show itself, and in terms of what it signifies,” said Host Kal Penn, who starred in the hit film franchise “Harold & Kumar” and worked on outreach to young Americans in the White House. “I love education and science. It’s awesome to be part of such an exciting new series for Discovery Channel that celebrates all the amazing things our generation can do through creative thinking, the arts and STEM – science, technology, engineering and math.”

In the first episode, contestants must develop a solution to stop a set of explosives from detonating. But here is the catch: the explosives are strapped to the back of two pick-up trucks heading in a high-speed, head-on collision. With just 30 minutes on the clock, competitors must come up with a proposed solution to complete the challenge. The expert panel of judges will then determine the two strongest engineering concepts based on logic and design. The two competitors with the best plans will become captains and select a team to execute their visions in only three days. Can the captains convince the others to pull it off? Will the concept actually work – or does it just look good on paper?

The team that successfully completes the challenge remains safe, but the losers will face the judges, who determine which contestant will be eliminated.

Other challenges this season include: Creating a machine that can cook and arrange a meal for a group of famished tourists near the Santa Monica Pier; building a portable bunker that can be deployed in five minutes and that is able to withstand fire, pressurized water and high-speed winds from a jet engine; and constructing a robot capable of competing in three different athletic events.

The contestants have varied backgrounds and levels of experience, but they all have one thing in common — the desire to win. The cameras capture the tension and pressure in the design workshop, as well as in the living quarters where all the competitors must deal with each other’s egos and eccentricities.

The winner of the competition will earn $50,000 and a one-year contract to work at WET, the industry leader behind some of the world’s most innovative water-based designed environments and experiences including the nine-acre choreographed lake of the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.

The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius with Kal Penn

More about Kal Penn
Kal Penn is an accomplished actor and producer. His notable feature credits include “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle” and its follow-up “Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay”, “The Namesake”, based on the novel by Pulitzer-winner Jhumpa Lahiri, “Van Wilder” and its sequel “The Rise of Taj”, “A Lot Like Love” and “Superman Returns.” Known for his role as young Dr. Lawrence Kutner on the critically acclaimed television series “House,” Penn also had a recurring role on season six of “24” and guest starred on the hit series “Law & Order: SVU.”

Born and raised in New Jersey, Penn graduated from the Freehold Regional High School District’s Performing Arts High School, attended the Governor’s School for the Arts, and received a degree from the prestigious School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA.

Penn recently returned to acting from a 2-year sabbatical during which he served as an Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. During his time there, he served a variety of roles, including that of President Obama’s Liaison to the Arts communities, Young Americans, and Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders. He also served as an Adjunct Professor of Cinema, Sociology and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently pursuing a Graduate Certificate in International Security at Stanford University.

Ken Jeong on Jimmy Kimmel Live : April 2013

Ken Jeong on Jimmy Kimmel Live : April 2013

Comedian Ken Jeong appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote the film “Pain & Gain,” in which he play Johnny Wu, a motivational speaker and promoter of a get rich quick seminar. On the show, he talks about being maintaining his role as a real life doctor and “requests” from his fellow actors. Additionally, he talks about his upcoming film Hangover Part 3 and what his dad thinks of his acting roles.

Ken Jeong on Jimmy Kimmel Live Part 1

Ken Jeong on Jimmy Kimmel Live Part 2