November 24, 2012 04:00 AM PDT

20 Actresses You Want Back on TV Right Now

by Team TVLine

Last month, TVLine brainstormed a list of 20 TV stars we’re hoping will score big, juicy roles in fall 2013 pilots.

You responded with hundreds of suggestions of your own that were so intriguing, it gave us enough material for not one, but two spinoff galleries.

Today, we present a countdown of the 20 actresses whose return to the small screen is being championed by tastemaking TVLine readers. Tomorrow we’ll reveal their male counterparts.

So click through the photo gallery of underappreciated thespians below, then hit the comments with any names your fellow readers might’ve forgotten.

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Kandyse McClure, Battlestar Galactica

Tags: Casting

Comments (261)

What about Rachel Griffiths ?!?
Comment by Aron – November 24, 2012 04:07 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Can we get Julie Benz back ASAP
  Comment by tht – November 24, 2012 04:29 AM PDT Reply To This Post
  - Julie Benz is comming back with Defiance
    Comment by Lubomir Raykov – November 24, 2012 04:39 AM PDT Reply To This Post
  - Uh.. naw . Her teenage valley accents is annoying.
    Comment by lechatnoir – November 24, 2012 03:14 PM PDT Reply To This Post
  - +1 – now that twilighters was a vampire
    Comment by FreeHaley – November 25, 2012 07:46 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- She was on the original list.
  Comment by Elisabeth – November 24, 2012 08:15 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- Please, Rachel!!!!! Walker girl!!! :”’( Damn, I miss them so badly…
  Comment by Raph – November 25, 2012 06:51 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- Good question. She should definitely be on here.
  Comment by hannah – November 26, 2012 08:05 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- GREAT LIL ACTOR
  A KEEPER
  Comment by JO CIESIELSKI – January 30, 2013 04:10 AM PDT Reply To This Post
From the mentioned I want Evangeline Lilly and Ali Larter. And from the missing I want America Ferrera, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria and Summer Glau…
Comment by Lubomir Raykov – November 24, 2012 04:08 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Summer Glau, definitely!
  Comment by Kristina – November 24, 2012 08:51 AM PDT Reply To This Post
  - Its my opnion that Summer Glau has had too many chances on TV and never resonated. She does not need to be back on.
    Comment by VutTut – November 25, 2012 05:15 AM PDT Reply To This Post
    - she resonated, just talk to anyone who has watched firefly or the sarah connor chronicles and they will agree with me
      Comment by Alan – November 25, 2012 05:21 AM PDT Reply To This Post
      - I liked Summer Glau in Firefly and Sarah Connor and Dollhouse and Alphas… but let’s face it, there’s not a lot of evidence that she can play a character who ISN’T emotionally stunted!
        Comment by Simon Jester – November 25, 2012 07:22 AM PDT
      - so. sam jackson cant play a character who isnt an angry black man and nobody minds, why cant the same situation apply here
        Comment by Alan – November 25, 2012 07:58 AM PDT
      - ‘so. sam jackson cant play a character who isnt an angry black man and nobody minds’
        
        Alan, my man! You hit the nail on the head! Add Keanu Reeves to that as well. But Summer can actually portray a wide range of emotions. The writers just don’t see her as anything more than ‘River Tam’ which is like the best character for them. And she has good taste in tv which makes her take up roles mostly in the sci-fi genre. She’s a goddess imho.
        Comment by The Only Truth – November 25, 2012 08:17 AM PDT
      - I’ve watched and liked those shows but I don’t agree with you.
        Comment by Wrstlgirl – November 25, 2012 01:54 PM PDT
      - I agree, Alan.
        
        Although, I prefer the soft Summer (a la River) to the hard Summer. In Firefly, she may have been damages but she still portrayed an array of emotions very well.
        Comment by ben – November 25, 2012 04:21 PM PDT
    - come on she was amazing on the Sarah Connor Chronicles!
      Comment by FreeHaley – November 25, 2012 07:47 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- America Ferrera
  Comment by omar – November 24, 2012 09:06 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Evangeline Lilly, Summer Glau and Ali Larter definitely.
  Evangeline is in The Hobbit. Can’t wait for that!
  Comment by John – November 24, 2012 10:58 AM PDT Reply To This Post
I want to see Jane Badler me
Comment by soon – November 24, 2012 04:10 AM PDT Reply To This Post
I miss Paget Brewster!
Comment by Amy – November 24, 2012 04:11 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- I’m with you lol I miss her so much!
  Comment by Meg – November 24, 2012 03:29 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- Me too! And Evangeline Lilly!
  Comment by jules – November 25, 2012 05:45 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- I miss her too and alot of my friends who watch Criminal Minds do too. Come back, come back, Nobody is as good as she.
  Comment by Alice Lowrey – January 29, 2013 04:57 PM PDT Reply To This Post
Elaine Cassidy was just on our TV screens (well in the UK anyway!) in The Paradise
Comment by Barbara – November 24, 2012 04:11 AM PDT Reply To This Post
Bridget Regan also!
Comment by Hamza – November 24, 2012 04:14 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- she’ll be recurring on Beauty and the Beast starting ep 9 I think.
  Comment by Shaun – November 24, 2012 09:16 AM PDT Reply To This Post
  - Yep, we broke the news: http://tvline.com/2012/11/05/beauty-and-the-beast-cast-bridget-regan/
    Comment by Matt Webb Mitovich – November 24, 2012 09:50 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Yes, please! She rocks.
  Comment by May – November 26, 2012 01:48 PM PDT Reply To This Post
You missed Summer Glau.
Comment by AJ – November 24, 2012 04:22 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Ummm no
  Comment by Wrstlgirl – November 24, 2012 06:40 AM PDT Reply To This Post
  - err, YES.
    Comment by Matt Hickman (@hemo_jr) – November 24, 2012 07:59 AM PDT Reply To This Post
    - Only if she takes acting lessons.
      Comment by Wrstlgirl – November 24, 2012 10:21 AM PDT Reply To This Post
      - Have you seen her properly!! Search for Firely River Tam sessions on youtube. She’ll blow you away.
        Comment by John – November 24, 2012 11:00 AM PDT
      - Sorry John, I’ve never liked her in anything.
        Comment by Wrstlgirl – November 24, 2012 11:09 AM PDT
      - Clearly someone hasn’t seen Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles…
        Comment by John DeMayo – November 24, 2012 04:36 PM PDT
      - You can’t expect anything more from someone who thinks Chicago Fire is great…
        Comment by TheColdTruth – November 25, 2012 12:12 AM PDT
      - Actually John, I loved TSCC and was very unhappy when it was canceled. And TheColdTruth, personal insults are so immature, go you! Just because I don’t care for her does not make me stupid or a bad person.
        Comment by Wrstlgirl – November 25, 2012 01:52 PM PDT
      - She was awesome in TSCC. Hardly showed a need for acting lessons there, come on.
        That was brilliant.
        Comment by FreeHaley – November 25, 2012 07:49 PM PDT
      - She was good in TSCC but really if she had been brilliant we probably wouldn’t be having this conversation right now.
        Comment by Wrstlgirl – November 25, 2012 07:54 PM PDT
      - @wrstgirl: ‘personal insults are so immature’ says the girl who gagged over someone else wanting their favorite actor to return to tv. We’re having this conversation because some people don’t recognize talent if it slaps them in the face.
        Comment by TheColdTruth – November 26, 2012 12:27 AM PDT
      - What the hell are you talking about? Coldtruth you just can’t except the fact that not everyone thinks you’re always right. This has nothing to do with talent, it’s all about you.
        Comment by Wrstlgirl – November 26, 2012 08:09 AM PDT
      - ‘Nicollette Sheridan!
        Comment by ABC Sunday’
        Wrstlgirl replied – ewwwwww
        
        Nuf’ said.
        Comment by TheColdTruth – November 27, 2012 05:22 AM PDT
I started The West Wing from the beginning again last night and I absolutely agree with Janel, but I would also add Allison Janey!
Comment by Kari – November 24, 2012 04:29 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Oh, I need to do that again! Every time I start it over, I stop somewhere around Season 4, but I do miss that show terribly. Yes, Janel and Allison…on the same show, they’d be gold!
  Comment by LC – November 24, 2012 05:58 PM PDT Reply To This Post
  - I have the exact same problem. Love the show, but somewhere in Season 4 the chemistry just goes away and I lose interest, such a shame.
    Comment by Eli – November 25, 2012 02:16 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- Love Janel Moloney. Miss seeing her on tv.
  Comment by Kelly – November 24, 2012 06:32 PM PDT Reply To This Post
Evangaline Lille, the chick from Eureka, and Gillian Anderson. Don’t care about the rest really.
Comment by Chuck Finley (AJ) – November 24, 2012 04:31 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Which chick from Eureka? There were 2 leads and 2 recurring when the series ended. I’d say Felicia Day.
  
  Lucy Lawless is my vote.
  Comment by Snsetblaze – November 25, 2012 10:59 AM PDT Reply To This Post
  - Felicia Day is on an online show or something. She was also on Supernatural.
    Comment by TheColdTruth – November 26, 2012 12:29 AM PDT Reply To This Post
Kandyse McClure is on Arctic Air. Season 2 starts in January on CBC tv in Canada.
Comment by The Kaibosh – November 24, 2012 04:37 AM PDT Reply To This Post
Bridget Regan from Seeker and Erica Durance from Smallville.
Comment by Sara – November 24, 2012 04:38 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Erica Durance is on Saving Hope,unless it was cancelled?Bridget will be on Beauty and the Beast.
  Comment by Shaun – November 24, 2012 09:17 AM PDT Reply To This Post
  - Yep, Saving Hope was renewed for Season 2 (in Canada, at least): http://tvline.com/2012/09/05/nbc-saving-hope-final-episodes-online/
    Comment by Matt Webb Mitovich – November 24, 2012 09:51 AM PDT Reply To This Post
  - Saving Hope was renewed in Canada, cancelled in the States.
    Comment by Heather – November 24, 2012 09:52 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Really like Bridget.
  Comment by Vivienne – November 26, 2012 08:35 PM PDT Reply To This Post
I love this list! Especially Billie, Liza and SMG (I miss Ringer!!) <3
Comment by Princess Adora – November 24, 2012 04:39 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Agree Dairy of a call girl didn’t get the attention it deserved. Love Billie & Lizzy was awesome on New Girl plus she keeps making crappy movies.
  Comment by LizLiz – November 24, 2012 03:49 PM PDT Reply To This Post
Majandra Delfino! Yes!
Comment by Naazneen – November 24, 2012 04:40 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- She was so amazing on Roswell. I was psyched when she was cast on The Office spin-off, so I’m a little annoyed that won’t make it to series.
  Comment by Drewer – November 24, 2012 01:13 PM PDT Reply To This Post
  - She was by far the best actor/ character on Roswell. She was my fave. I also really liked the actress that played her mother.
    Comment by AlanM – November 26, 2012 10:49 PM PDT Reply To This Post
Gillian Anderson stars in BBC’s “The Fall” this January:
http://www.spoilertv.com/2012/09/the-fall-new-promo-feat-gillian-anderson.html
Comment by Aviram – November 24, 2012 04:47 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- I can’t WAIT for this. Anderson and Archie Panjabi? Sounds like perfection to me.
  Comment by Elizabeth – November 24, 2012 06:25 AM PDT Reply To This Post
  - Jamie Dornan is in it too (on the 20 Actors list)
    Comment by Norma Parry – November 25, 2012 03:57 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- Wow! This looks amazing. Hope BBC America airs it.
  Comment by Melanie – November 25, 2012 08:21 AM PDT Reply To This Post
Marcia Cross please!
Comment by Aviram – November 24, 2012 04:49 AM PDT Reply To This Post
Marcia Cross
Comment by sugarcookie – November 24, 2012 04:50 AM PDT Reply To This Post
This list came a few months early for me. I know Fringe’s still on, but I’m so ready to miss Anna Torv (and hope she’ll be back soon). Not sure I’m quite ready to see her in another role, though. But that’s just because I love Olivia Dunham so very much
Comment by Che – November 24, 2012 04:55 AM PDT Reply To This Post
Jennifer Garner!
Comment by wh – November 24, 2012 05:04 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- OH MY GOD THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
  Comment by cjeffery7 – November 24, 2012 09:13 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Yes yes yes !!
  Comment by Melanie – November 25, 2012 08:22 AM PDT Reply To This Post
  - Yes yes yes yes and… yes!
    Comment by CaptainOats – November 26, 2012 10:50 PM PDT Reply To This Post
Nicollette Sheridan!
Comment by ABC Sunday – November 24, 2012 05:12 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Ewwwwww!
  Comment by Wrstlgirl – November 24, 2012 06:46 AM PDT Reply To This Post
  - Well aren’t you mature.
    Comment by tripoli – November 24, 2012 03:13 PM PDT Reply To This Post
    - Why thank you!
      Comment by Wrstlgirl – November 25, 2012 01:57 PM PDT Reply To This Post
Felicity Huffman. I really want her to guest star on Shameless or Aaron Sorkin’s HBO show (since she has guest starred in all of his shows in the past and she really knows how to work the Sorkin dialogue),
Comment by Kelli – November 24, 2012 05:20 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- I just rewatched Sports Night and I’m reminded how awesome she was as Dana.
  Comment by Jane – November 24, 2012 09:01 PM PDT Reply To This Post
  - She was the best. Her and Allison Janey and Josh Charles and Mathew Perry and Josh Malina should all do a show together. Sorkin can write it, but only if he tries harder than he is w/ Newsroom.
    Comment by LovesGoldfish – November 26, 2012 10:53 PM PDT Reply To This Post
Gillian Anderson
Comment by guss – November 24, 2012 05:21 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- YES!
  Comment by Maria Antonietta – November 24, 2012 11:03 AM PDT Reply To This Post
Sarah Michelle Gellar on cable and I’ll be happy.
Comment by Toby – November 24, 2012 05:23 AM PDT Reply To This Post
Can’t wait for Alyssa Milano’s return with MISTRESSES!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Niki – November 24, 2012 05:23 AM PDT Reply To This Post
BETHANY JOY GALEOTTI (one tree hill). What a terrific actress she is, and her work in the final season was mind-blowing! I WANT YOU BACK!
Comment by Sara – November 24, 2012 05:33 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- YES. She’s often overlooked because of One Tree Hill (or pushed aside for Sophia). She’s truly a talent and deserves to be back on TV regularly. I’m excited for her guest spot on Men At Work opposite Michael Cassidy and Benjamin McKenzie.
  Comment by Ashley – November 25, 2012 01:37 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- Agreed. She is a really great actress.
  Comment by EJ – November 26, 2012 08:07 PM PDT Reply To This Post
I hope Billie Piper is in the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special. I miss Rose.
Comment by Jaime – November 24, 2012 05:34 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Me too! Though I know some would hate it. I miss her!
  Comment by asniech – November 25, 2012 07:47 AM PDT Reply To This Post
Paget Brewster? Really? So that she can ruin another show by repeatedly leaving it and than returning?
Comment by Patrick Maloney – November 24, 2012 05:37 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Fact Check: She didn’t choose to leave the show the first time. CBS fired AJ Cook and Paget Brewster during Season 6. When both a ratings drop and a fan outcry showed the poor nature of the decision, they were forced back because of unfulfilled contracts since CBS wanted to save the show. Therefore, Paget Brewster chose not to renew when renegotiations occurred the following season because of CBS’ unfair treatment – a recurring theme for that network. So no, she did not ruin the show, CBS ruined their own.
  Comment by Meg – November 24, 2012 06:21 AM PDT Reply To This Post
  - +1
    Comment by Elizabeth – November 24, 2012 06:26 AM PDT Reply To This Post
  - Fan outcry for her return and then she bailed. Talk about ungrateful.
    Comment by Wrstlgirl – November 24, 2012 06:45 AM PDT Reply To This Post
    - The only reason she didn’t fight it was BECAUSE of the fans. But fans don’t expect her to stay in a place where they fired her and then forced her back. It’s her life and she deserves free will. The only thing we deserve is to be happy for her. Otherwise, it’s selfish.
      Comment by Meg – November 24, 2012 08:31 AM PDT Reply To This Post
      - And just how do you know this Meg? Did she tell you this or is this just what you’ve told yourself?
        Comment by Wrstlgirl – November 24, 2012 10:20 AM PDT
    - Read and watch her interviews. Those are facts, not dellusions. Would you rather someone be unhappy just so you can enjoy your show?
      Comment by Kate – November 24, 2012 01:52 PM PDT Reply To This Post
  - Bless this “Fact Check” post.
    Comment by Tracy – November 24, 2012 07:17 AM PDT Reply To This Post
  - Fact check: the show is hardly ruined without Prentiss. I hardly remember she was there. It’s just the same as always. It’s not better, but it’s hardly worse.
    Comment by Barbie Furtado – November 24, 2012 07:55 AM PDT Reply To This Post
    - I never said CM was ruined. Just replying to the original comment or ruining the show. Certainly the show can survive without her. CBS just hurt themselves with their poor decisions.
      Comment by Meg – November 24, 2012 08:24 AM PDT Reply To This Post
      - That’s my point: CBS didn’t. When they realized the mess they’d put themselves into, they brought both actresses back. That was a wise and mature decision on their part. That was AMAZING of CBS. And, look at them, the show is one of their highest rated shows (better demo than NCIS:LA) in a time of crisis! Paget leaving hasn’t affected the ratings, like when AJ Cook had left with her. And, ultimately, it was her decision to leave this time, it wasn’t CBS’s. CBS *did* mess up once, but they retracted it. They were awesome. And because of them, we have JJ back. And her void was much, much harder to fill than Prentiss’!
        Comment by Barbie Furtado – November 24, 2012 09:14 AM PDT
      - Barbie, when you say that Paget Brewster leaving CM did not hurt the ratings, you are wrong. Criminal Minds is down ~21% from last fall, a larger drop than all other CBS dramas except for Blue Bloods (-26%), The Mentalist (-31%), and Hawaii Five-0 (-39%).
        Comment by nick1372 – November 24, 2012 08:17 PM PDT
      - And lets be real here. The Mentalist’s drop is due to the shift to Sundays and H50 is down because people are slowly starting to realize that the show is awful. CM, for all intents and purposes, is down due to the firing of Paget.
        Comment by TheColdTruth – November 25, 2012 12:18 AM PDT
      - Meg. You. Are. Awesome.
        Comment by Steve – November 25, 2012 11:22 AM PDT
    - Criminal Minds has done just fine with multiple cast changes. All I can say for certain is that *I* am not quite as excited to watch the show when Prentiss isn’t there. I still watch for the most part, however.
      Comment by Calanthe – November 25, 2012 10:54 AM PDT Reply To This Post
Andrea Parker, Gillian Anderson, Eva Longoria, Marcia Cross and starting from February Anna Torv
Comment by Julie – November 24, 2012 05:40 AM PDT Reply To This Post
Eliza Dushku, Kristin Chenowith, Maura Tierney, Heather Locklear, Laura Innes,
Comment by J – November 24, 2012 05:41 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Maura is on the good wife
  Comment by leah – November 24, 2012 11:58 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- One person had the sense to mention Maura Tierney.Fantastic actress.
  Comment by Dee – November 26, 2012 08:41 PM PDT Reply To This Post
What about Allison Janney? I love Janel Moloney but Allison was in a class of her own.
Comment by zxc123 – November 24, 2012 05:43 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Truth
  Comment by LovesGoldfish – November 26, 2012 10:56 PM PDT Reply To This Post
SHANNEN DOHERTY She may have a terrible attitude but she can act she was the best actress on Charmed and the series suffered after departure
Comment by b – November 24, 2012 05:47 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- I agree with you that she can act, but she will bail on any show as soon as her contract is up and make everyone on set miserable until she is gone. Any show considering her is better off casting someone else than having to deal with her drama.
  Comment by Nichole – November 24, 2012 07:28 AM PDT Reply To This Post
  - Shannen may have had an attitude 15 years ago but unemployment humbles people. She apologized to Jennie Garth and has turned her life around.
    Comment by Mick – November 24, 2012 09:12 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- I disagree. CHARMED and BEVERLY HILLS 90210 are literally my two favorite shows EVER, and I think both shows got waaaay better after she left. I mean, both Brenda and Prue were cool, but Valerie was a way richer character, and when she came to 90210 the show got much more exciting, and Paige? Paige was ALL love! She was funny and kind and a breath of fresh air! Prue was bitchy, mostly arrogant! When Paige arrived, the CHARMED got this new twist that it needed at that time. At some point, Paige was actually my favorite character (they all were except for Prue at some point!).
  Comment by Barbie Furtado – November 24, 2012 07:46 AM PDT Reply To This Post
  - dittooo!! charmed became way better when shannen left!
    Comment by Luli – November 24, 2012 02:45 PM PDT Reply To This Post
  - I’m currently re watching charmed and suffering through prue at the moment… Charmed is better when she dies and they bring in Paige!!
    Comment by Megan S – November 24, 2012 04:45 PM PDT Reply To This Post
    - is Shannen Doherty in new normal? She posted a photo from the set . how big her role is?
      Comment by Boris – November 25, 2012 10:36 AM PDT Reply To This Post
    - noo loved the seasons with shannen!!! each to their own, more importantly, leo + piper forever!! hehe.
      Comment by emmilly – November 28, 2012 03:11 AM PDT Reply To This Post
I need to see Emily Procter back on my TV screen ASAP!
Comment by Cherie – November 24, 2012 05:48 AM PDT Reply To This Post
Bless this post. Seeing Paget Brewster there makes me very happy! The only person I feel that’s missing is Kristen Bell. I know she’s doing “House of Lies”, but I need her on network television – something I can afford! Maybe I’m just still missing “Veronica Mars”…
Comment by Tracy – November 24, 2012 05:53 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- You can hear her in Gossip Girl.. uhm, wait, no, that isn’t worth it… she will though be in the series finale as a visible person!
  Comment by Sara – November 24, 2012 10:49 AM PDT Reply To This Post
I want Lisa Edelstein back on TV in a regular fasion!
Comment by Dave – November 24, 2012 05:53 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Yeah! She is a good actress and adds a sexyness to any show
  Comment by ingrid – November 24, 2012 07:31 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Yes please. Bring Lisa back
  Comment by Mamen – November 24, 2012 11:12 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- She needs to return to The Good Wife ASAP!
  Comment by A – November 24, 2012 11:13 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Yeah! Lisa Edelstein FTW!
  Comment by Natalia – November 24, 2012 03:35 PM PDT Reply To This Post
  - Yes,I agree!
    Comment by Cuddy's lawyer – November 25, 2012 01:28 AM PDT Reply To This Post
Glad to Paget Brewster there. Miss Mary McCormack and Allison Janney.
Comment by Lilly – November 24, 2012 06:05 AM PDT Reply To This Post
yes, Paget back, please and thank you, I miss her waay too much,
Comment by Elle – November 24, 2012 06:05 AM PDT Reply To This Post
So glad to see Robin Weigert on the list. It’s great to see glimpses of her on Sons again this season, but it’s reminded me how thoroughly enjoyable she was on Deadwood and should be doing something in that capacity again.

Allison Janney for sure. I tried to tolerate Mr Sunshine for a while just to watch her. Hope she finds something good soon!
Comment by Tee – November 24, 2012 06:11 AM PDT Reply To This Post
Anna Friel from Pushimg Daisies!
Comment by Eric – November 24, 2012 06:31 AM PDT Reply To This Post
Josie Davis. I want more Josie
Comment by Praeger – November 24, 2012 06:43 AM PDT Reply To This Post
SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR! Oh yeah!!!
Comment by Deb – November 24, 2012 06:44 AM PDT Reply To This Post
Evangeline Lilly and Ali Larter
Comment by omabin – November 24, 2012 06:50 AM PDT Reply To This Post
I would live to see Gillian Anderson,Amber Tamblyn, and Kristen Bell!
Comment by Teresa Bileck – November 24, 2012 06:55 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Kristin Bell will be continuing in House of Lies, when the second season starts. I’m assuming in January when Shameless comes back since I think they’re paired on Sunday nights, no?
  Comment by Jen – November 24, 2012 10:16 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- KB is still on TV. But what we NEED from her (or really from WB) is the Veronica Mars movie! WB needs to just step up and either make it themselves or release the rights to her already and to stop acting like babies, they are afraid to make it because they don’t know if it well sell and they are afraid to release the rights just in case it sells and then they look foolish. Just pick a risk already and stand up and make a decision before it too late and you REALLY look foolish!
  Comment by FreeHaley – November 25, 2012 07:52 PM PDT Reply To This Post
Missing Paget Brewster, terribly; hope she makes a return to Criminal Minds where she belongs. I will accept her as a recurring character-something better than nothing.
Comment by Colleen – November 24, 2012 06:57 AM PDT Reply To This Post
carla gugino would be a great addition on the good wife imo, also someone needs to give something to andrea parker.
Comment by oli – November 24, 2012 07:13 AM PDT Reply To This Post
I definitely want Janel Moloney, Lizzy Caplan, and Leslie Grossman back on TV! All were great on their respective series.
Comment by Avril – November 24, 2012 07:25 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- lizze caplan should be in shield, her character was perfectly set up for the show at the end of item 47
  Comment by Alan – November 24, 2012 05:17 PM PDT Reply To This Post
- Just so you know, Leslie Grossman had a scene in episode 3 of the Neighbors and it’s pretty hilarious (you need to see the entire episode to understand it though). It’s my favourite episode of the show.
  Comment by kavyn – November 24, 2012 11:53 PM PDT Reply To This Post
Lizzy Caplan, Tania Raymonde, Traylor Howard, Alona Tal, Kristin Chenoweth, Rebecca Mader, Courtney Ford
Comment by Joe – November 24, 2012 07:33 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Alona Tal is on CW’s midseason show – Cult. Can’t wait to see her again.
  Comment by John – November 25, 2012 12:21 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Yes to Traylor Howard!
  Comment by Melanie – November 25, 2012 08:26 AM PDT Reply To This Post
I love Gillian Anderson but its been so long she stars on a US primetime show…..
Comment by ingrid – November 24, 2012 07:37 AM PDT Reply To This Post
Anna Friel is awesome. She was great on “Pushing Daisies”.

Phylicia Rashad is on a show. She is part of the cast of the upcoming “Do No Harm” on NBC
Comment by Ryan – November 24, 2012 07:41 AM PDT Reply To This Post
Billie Piper was so amazing in The Secret Diary of a call girl! I just adored her in every way as Belle! <3

Jessalyn Gilsig, I knew her from my former beloved Boston Public!

Now, I was thinking about this yesterday! Who I'd like to see back on tv!

Eliza Dushku, people!!! Been too long!

Now, anyone ever watched She Spies? No, right! Pretty sure my mom and I were the only people in the planet. But the other day Kristen Miller was guest starring in a show, and I remembered how much I loved her.

Sherry Stringfield. Dr. Susan Chandler from ER! Saw her just the other day somewhere, too. She looked totally different.
Comment by Barbie Furtado – November 24, 2012 07:51 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Susan Lewis.
  Comment by Lucy – November 24, 2012 02:27 PM PDT Reply To This Post
There are people I’d like to see back, but then I imagine I don’t think they could ever be another character in my mind. Like… Patricia Arquette will be forever Allison Dubois…
Comment by Barbie Furtado – November 24, 2012 07:52 AM PDT Reply To This Post
- Totally agree. Can we just get Medium back then?
  Comment by tripoli – November 24, 2012 03:16 PM PDT Reply To This Post
Yeah, Paget Brewster! I miss Alisson Janney on the list.
Comment by Amaia – November 24, 2012 07:56 AM PDT Reply To This Post

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20 Actresses You Want Back on TV Right Now

Kandyse McClure, Battlestar Galactica

Lizzy Caplan, Party Down

Billie Piper, Doctor Who

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Leslie Grossman, Popular

Elaine Cassidy, Harper's Island

Liza Weil, Gilmore Girls

Phylicia Rashad, The Cosby Show

Robin Weigert, Deadwood

Paget Brewster, Criminal Minds

Majandra Delfino, Roswell

Jennifer Beals, The L Word

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