Sunday, March 18, 2012

PREVIEW: ABC Sunday Night Soaps ONCE UPON A TIME, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES & GCB

GCB airs its third episode as part of ABC's Sunday night block of all-new soaps on Sunday, March 18.

ONCE UPON A TIME kicks off the night at 8 p.m. ET/PT with "Heart of Darkness."

Mary Margaret hires Mr. Gold as her attorney when Emma is forced to arrest her for the suspected murder of David's wife, Kathryn. Meanwhile, back in the fairytale land that was, Prince Charming sets out to stop a determined and unhinged Snow White, whose memory is still clouded by Rumplestiltskin's potion, from assassinating the Evil Queen.

Watch a sneak peak video from the episode below:



Guest starring are Eion Bailey as August, Lee Arenberg as Leroy/Grumpy, Meghan Ory as Ruby/Red Riding Hood, Jim Shield as Royal Guard, Edward Foy as Black Knight, David-Paul Grove as Doc, Gabe Khouth as Mr. Clark/Sneezy, Faustino Di Bauda as Walter/Sleepy, Jeffrey Kaiser as Dopey, Michael Coleman as Happy and Mig Macario as Bashful.

"Heart of Darkness" was written by Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg and directed by Dean White.

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES follows at 9 p.m. ET with "Women and Death."

On the day of the funeral of a beloved Wisteria Lane resident, each of the ladies thinks back on how this person had affected their lives.

Meanwhile, believing that the investigation died with Chuck Vance, Bree is stunned when she is called in for questioning about the murder of Gaby's stepfather, Alejandro.



DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES stars Teri Hatcher as Susan Mayer, Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo, Marcia Cross as Bree Hodge, Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis, Vanessa Williams as Renee Perry, Ricardo Antonio Chavira as Carlos Solis, Doug Savant as Tom Scavo, Jonathan Cake as Det. Chuck Vance, Charles Mesure as Ben Faulkner and Madison de la Garza as Juanita Solis, with Brenda Strong as Mary Alice Young and James Denton as Mike Delfino.

Guest starring are Kathryn Joosten as Mrs. McCluskey, Mason Vale Cotton as MJ Delfino, Lupe Ontiveros as Mama Solis, Andrea Bowen as Julie Mayer, Andrea Parker as Jane, Rebecca Wisocky as Bree's mother, Mackenzie Brooke Smith as young Bree, Ned Schmidtke as Reverend Lawson, Jose Zuniga as Det. Heredia, Tuc Watkins as Bob Hunter, Kevin Ashworth as funeral director, Steven Culp as Rex Van de Kamp, Michael Dempsey as Det. Murphy and Brandon Ford Green as uniformed cop.

"Women and Death" was written by Annie Weisman and directed by David Grossman.

ABC's newest soap, GCB, finishes the night with "Love is Patient."

Things heat up when a church relationship seminar forces Amanda to confront her past while Heather sets her eyes on her new client and former high school nerd, Andrew (Tom Everett Scott).

Meanwhile Carlene meddles in both Sharon's and Cricket's marriages to deflect from her own marital dissatisfaction.



GCB stars Leslie Bibb (Iron Man) as Amanda Vaughn, Kristin Chenoweth (PUSHING DAISIES) as Carlene Cockburn, Annie Potts (DESIGNING WOMEN) as Gigi Stopper, Jennifer Aspen (RODNEY) as Sharon Peacham, Miriam Shor (SWINGTOWN) as Cricket Caruth-Reilly, Marisol Nichols ("24") as Heather Cruz, Mark Deklin (LONE STAR) as Blake Reilly, David James Elliott ("JAG") as Ripp Cockburn and Brad Beyer (JERICHO) as Zack Peacham.

"Love is Patient" guest stars Tom Everett Scott as Andrew Remington, Tyler Jacob Moore as Rev. John Tudor, Sharon Wilkins as Bethany May.

"Love is Patient" was written by Gretchen J. Berg & Aaron Harberts and directed by Larry Shaw and Victor Nelli, Jr.

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