Nikita Fan Blog - Maggie Q, Lyndsy Fonseca, Shane West, Melinda Clarke

Shane West discussing "One Way"

2010-11-17T22:29:00.003+08:00

Got the link from Devon Sawa's tweet. So I checked it out. We saw in this episode about Michael's past and how Nikita "lost" Michael. *heartbreak*

Snippets from the article:

This felt like a good time to get into why Michael is as dark and violent as he can be
Yet he still seems to have a heart and have feelings for Nikita and his job caring for the recruits
In this episode we get to see flashbacks of when he was younger and happier with his family before he was ever at Division
In the flashbacks I'm clean-shaven
It brings them together but it doesn't end well. I hope the audience will be upset in a good way about it.
It's hard to keep them apart. This is going to make it a little easier to keep them apart for a while because that is, in truth, where the love story is

Read the rest of what Shane West had to say about the episode "One Way" here.

Credits:
'Nikita': Shane West on Michael's past, potential romances
By Hanh Nguyen

Nikita returns on Dec 2

2010-11-17T22:09:00.004+08:00

There will be no new Nikita episodes this week. Awww, too bad. CW will be airing "Kill Jill" (Episode 3) this Thurs and "Rough Trade" (Episode 4) next week. But a new episode will be aired on Dec 2. Episode title is "Dark Matter" and we may see the return of Owen. Woooohooo! And that's confeeeeermed by Devon himself.

What?!!! Whos on #nikita December 2nd? I forgot about that episode. Must of slipped my mind..... can't get nothing by you guys. WOOT WOOT!!

A Facebook event has been created to remind everyone that a new episode will be aired on December 2.

Nikita stars' obsession with Call of Duty

2010-11-17T21:29:00.004+08:00

Our Nikita stars Tiffany Hines and Devon Sawa have been raving about Call of Duty: Black Ops. In case you haven't heard of it, it's a video game.

Even before it was released last November 9, Devon Sawa and Tiffany Hines were anticipating its release.

Devon Sawa
On the 9th i will be nerding it out with the new Call of Duty and by the sounds of things @tiffanyhines1 may be too. #videogamejunkies

Tiffany Hines
Awwww yeeeaahhh! Call of Duty Black Ops u r sooooo miiinneeeee!

And they have even called for a match!

Devon Sawa
#NIKITA Call of Duty? @tiffanyhines1 haha..practice young lady. Cause if I come back, we're going head to head till the death. OWEN VS JADEN

Tiffany Hines
@DevonESawa omg u r soooo on! Brang itttttt!

Like all addicting video games, it will suck time out of your life.

Devon Sawa
eyes are sore, neck has a kink in it, hands are stuck in the shape of the claw and I've had to use the bathroom real bad for 7/hs #BlackOps

Tiffany Hines
Please don't contact me for the next week. I will be playing Call of Duty Black Ops

Not only that, you will have a hard time defining what's real and what's not. Haha.

Devon Sawa
someone keeps pounding on the door yelling fire. I think. Cant tell. Could be real. *bang bang bang* "fire!!!".. Cant stop though. #BLACKOPS

The best good guys are GIRLS!

2010-11-17T21:13:00.002+08:00

Been very busy with work so I couldn't post updates. Boo. Anyway, I just loved the way they described the Nikita girls, well, Nikita and Alex as "the best good guys are girls!" Yeah baby! Gotta love that! :)

They have wit, charm, style and they're here to prove that sometimes the best good guys are girls!

Thursday Tweets of the Nikita Stars

2010-11-12T22:16:00.003+08:00

Our Nikita stars are not remiss on their part in promoting their show.

Tiffany Hines
* I realize evry1's playin Black Ops Online, but if u don't take a brk@ 9pm &watch #Nikita, I will hunt u dwn wher u live &physically fight u

* Hey East Coast! A new episode of #Nikita starts now! Put down the xbox console and watch!!! #Nikita #Nikita #Nikita #Nikita #Nikita #Nikita

Devon Sawa
* Shane West talking about tonight's #NIKITA ... http://bit.ly/aDDynS gonna get deep.... Can't wait. 9 CW ...... what a great cast.

Nikita Cancelled or Renewed?

2010-11-11T01:10:00.005+08:00

We know that CW has picked up Nikita for a full season but TV By The Numbers is predicting potential renewal or cancellation based on the ratings. Nikita's report card reads: more likely to be renewed than cancelled by May, 2011.

The recent adults 18-49 ratings for 90210, One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, Hellcats and Nikita are so close that they all look more likely to be renewed than cancelled. I don’t expect much clarity on their ratings until after the New Year, since the CW is close to entering its 2 month repeat hiatus.

Yeah baby! We will be seeing more of Maggie, Lyndsy, Shane, Tiffany, Xander, Melinda, and Aaron. And hopefully more of Devon and Bug.

The complete prediction can be read here.

Credits:
CW: Game Over For Life Unexpected
By Bill Gorman

Casting for a Love Interest for Alex

2010-11-11T01:03:00.003+08:00

TV Fanatic reports that there is the Nikita people are casting for a love interest for Alex.

The show is casting for an attractive actor to come on board The CW drama in the role of a new neighbor for Alex.

Look for this recurring character to offer Alex a glimpse outside the world of Division and give her hope that life doesn't have to be so scary and depressing all the time.

Since Thom is now an agent, then someone else will take his room. Hence the casting. But will we still Thom? What about the Michael angle?

I'm sure we are all dying to know who will be this new guy. And I do hope that they Alex and the new guy will have good chemistry on-screen. Something to look forward to, Nikita fans!

Credits:
Nikita: Casting for a Love Interest
By Matt Richenthal

'Nikita' review by The Fish

2010-11-11T00:57:00.002+08:00

Below are snippets from the review of The Fish on our fave show Nikita.

Episodes usually cover a single mission, and it tends to work pretty well. There is enough suspense to keep people interested, plenty of action delivered in the form of gun fights and martial arts, a little subtlety, a dash of style, and a series of twists that are being revealed at a slow but satisfying pace. It's the perfect recipe for a spy series, and Nikita makes good use of the ingredients.
Another of the shows best qualities are its characters. The beautiful Maggie Q (Live free or Die Hard) does a stellar job playing the sexy, redemption-hungry Nikita, though there are moments she risks being upstaged by Lyndsy Fonseca (Desperate Housewives), whose portrayal of spy-in-training, Alex, is nothing short of amazing. Further rounding out the cast are Aaron Stanford (X-Men 2) as computer hacker Birkhoff, and Melinda Clarke (The O.C.) who absolutely oozes evil in her portrayal of Division psychologist, Amanda.
Despite his attempts, West comes across more as a moody teenager with combat training rather than a good man caught on the wrong side of a fight. He also doesn't seem to command the power his character requires, and his confrontations with Nikita may leave viewers wondering why she doesn't just shoot him and be done with it.
For all his reputation of being a ruthless killer, Berkeley's character is about as diabolical as the old man in Pixar's Up. He's just not the villain audiences love to hate, and there's never any doubt that Nikita will thwart his plans and vanish into the shadows unscathed. If the CW hopes to see Nikita move forward, it needs to seriously consider ironing the kinks out of these two characters.
t's a good series that will appeal to viewers of all backgrounds, and considering how long it's been since a decent spy thriller came along the timing couldn't be better. Regardless of what else may be said, Nikita has shown to be one of the more promising new series in a season of many disappointments. We're all hoping this agent survives their mission and returns home for a second assignment.

You can read the complete review here.

Credits:
Nikita Proves It Has A License To Kill
By Ryan Duncan

Nikita is nominated in the People's Choice Awards 2011

2010-11-11T00:25:00.006+08:00

Yay! Our fave show Nikita is nominated in the People's Choice Awards 2011 in the Favorite New TV Drama category. The other nominees are:

* Blue Bloods
* Chase
* The Defenders
* Detroit 1-8-7
* The Event
* Hawaii Five-O
* Hellcats
* Law and Order: Los Angeles
* Nikita

Check out the complete list of nominees here. Please don't forget to vote here.

And of course, our Nikita stars are all out in support and campaigning for the PCA.

Devon Sawa:

PLEASE RETWEET go to best new tv drama http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/vote/votenow.jsp?category=&pollId=&optionId= click #NIKITA

Tiffany Hines:

Nice!!! RT @HannahTysonn @tiffanyhines1 http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/vote/votenow.jsp Nikita is nominated for Favorite New Tv Drama

Women of Fall TV: Maggie Q

2010-11-09T22:07:00.001+08:00

UGO.com has dedicated a photo gallery of Nikita's Maggie Q. Wooohoo! Lyndsy was in one of the pictures with Maggie.

Credits:
Women of Fall TV: Maggie Q
By Kevin Fitzpatrick

Nikita Report Card: How Is the New Class Doing?

2010-11-09T21:07:00.002+08:00

Are you ready to know your show's grade?

The Good: As played by the super-intense Maggie Q, the assassin Nikita returns with a fresh, modern vengeance. The action is top-notch and the intrigues are an improvement over the original series. The addition of a mole within the nefarious Division adds complexity, and has us really impressed by former teen star Lyndsy Fonseca.
The Bad: Not much so far. The twists are still revealing themselves.

Grade: A-

Oh yeah! A minus! Woooooooooooot!

Credits:
TV Report Card: How Is the New Class Doing?

Maggie Q in The Women of Video Game Movies: Resident Evil to Super Mario

2010-11-09T20:37:00.005+08:00

Our dear Nikita star has been listed as one of the women who has appeared in video game movies. Maggie is part of the video movie game The King of Fighters. The list includes Kristin Kreuk, Mila Kunis, Ashanti, Ali Larter, Leelee Sobieski, Jamie Pressly, Michelle Rodriguez, Mila Jovovich and Angelina Jolie. Do check out the gallery here.

Meanwhile, you can watch the trailer of The King of Fighters below:

The King of Fighters Blu-ray:

You can buy the Blu-ray here.

Credits:
The Women of Video Game Movies: Resident Evil to Super Mario
By Man Handsome

Living TV's Nikita show page

2010-11-09T01:12:00.004+08:00

Nikita has premiered in the UK. It is being aired by Living TV. Check out the show page they created for Nikita. The site also has interviews of Maggie and Lyndsy.

Excerpts from the (short) interview:

On Maggie:

He didn’t duck. Do you like how I don’t directly say it was his fault? But I am like, if you don’t want to get hit, you gotta duck!

(She's a real kick-ass!)

On Lyndsy:

Alex is just really complex, and so is Nikita. These women are complex, like in real life, you are not always just one thing, and the writing really holds up to that.

If you are curious about Nikita's ratings in the UK, you can check out this TV Ratings UK page. Pretty decent numbers for Nikita. YAY!

No work for Nikita stars Lyndsy, Melinda, Tiffany, Shane and Aaron

2010-11-09T00:19:00.008+08:00

Thanks to the tweets of Lyndsy and we knew that she and other Nikita stars Melinda Clarke, Tiffany Hines, Shane West and Aaron Stanford watched a football game yesterday. They watched a game between Buffalo Bills and Chicago Bears, who won the game.

* Off to the bills game!! With #Nikita

* Get ready!

(Lyndsy looks like a super sweet girl in this pic.)

* Too fun!

(Shane West is so hot in that pose!)

* Thank goodness for days off!

(She sure does look like she's having fun. Good for her!)

Melinda Clarke may not be in any of the pictures but she was with the Nikita gang. And rooting for the American team.

* Bills- Bears! My first football game!!!!! Go Bears!!!!

Update:
Tiffany Hines posted a few days later a pic of Lyndsy and her wearing pigtails.

Apparently every female cast member of #Nikita decided pigtails were the perfect football game accessories

Aww, its nice to know that our Nikita stars do hang out outside of work.

The Pacific Blu-Ray DVD

2010-11-08T00:35:00.003+08:00

The Pacific Blu-ray DVD was released last November 2. Relevance to Nikita? Ashton Holmes starred in this mini-series as Pfc. Sidney Phillips.

Show your support for our Nikita star by buying the DVD.

Funny Joke from...Maggie Q

2010-11-07T23:58:00.003+08:00

This joke was posted in Esquire way back 2007. September 10, 2007 to be exact. Here goes:

Two men are adrift in a lifeboat for days. While rummaging through the boat's provisions, one of the men stumbles across an old lamp. When he touches it, a genie comes forth. This particular genie, however, states that she can deliver only one wish, not the standard three. Without giving much thought, one man blurts out, "Make the entire ocean into beer!" The genie claps her hands and the entire sea turns into brew. The other man looks disgustedly at the one who made the wish. After a long, tension-filled moment, he says, "Nice going! Now we're going to have to pee in the boat.

Credits:
Funny Joke from...Maggie Q
By David Walters

Maggie is one of fall TV's hot new stars

2010-11-07T23:45:00.003+08:00

NYDailyNews.com lists Maggie Q as one of fall TV's hot new stars.

Its not so surprising though. She's been in most lists for Fall TV 2010 :) The list is a mix of men and women. Do check it out.

Credits:
Fall TV's hot new stars

Maggie Q on female action stars that she admires

2010-11-06T16:30:00.003+08:00

In an interview with Collider, Maggie Q revealed that she admires Angelina Jolie and Michelle Yeoh. Collier, though, misspelled Michelle Yeoh's name. Hehe :)

I think Angelina Jolie in Salt is a perfect example because it’s a recent example. I remember seeing promotions for Salt and getting really excited and hoping that it did really well. It’s just good for females right now, in the industry, to be able to headline and carry something that traditionally men carry. What I like that’s happening right now in the action genre, which didn’t happen before, is that they’re using incredibly credible actors now in these big action roles. You see Angelina Jolie in a movie like Salt, and she’s very believable, but not because she’s super tough or has more muscles than the next girl. She’s an incredible actress, and that toughness comes from a place that’s very internal, which is the reason why she’s so good at what she does. That’s a great example of a really quality actress in a role where she’s doing both, and you have to be. I look at people like Angelina and Michelle Yo, early on, when I was living in Asia, and people like that, and I admired them because it was the combination of things that they brought to the screen that really worked. Now that I’m in that position, I know how hard it is, and my admiration has just been heightened.

More of the interview over here.

Credits:
Maggie Q Interview NIKITA
by Christina Radish

That pool party scene with Nikita wearing a red bikini

2010-11-06T15:46:00.004+08:00

Maggie Q mentioned at the San Diego Comic Con panel that she was told but she was going to wear a classic one-piece bathing suit. But when the bathing suit was handed to her, it turned out to be a two-piece bathing suit with a string. Maggie talked more about that scene in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.

It was absolutely terrifying. Also, it was supposed to be a small scene. It’s like a private party of seven or eight people. I get to set and there’s like 100 hot extras with like massive t**s and they’re gorgeous. And I was like, “Really you guys?!” Now I’m walking around set looking like a 12-year old boy next to all these hot girls with huge boobs. I was so horrified. I was dying.

What makes me like this show more is Maggie's dedication to the show. She's doing it with so much passion.

People ask me whether I’m nervous, but I weirdly don’t feel nervous, and not because I don’t think I’ll fail. I’ve certainly failed in my life at different times and I’m sure I’ll fail again. It’s because I feel like the energy I put into pressure or feeling nervous, I could just put into something really great. That’s really my goal. My mind is all about work. I see those posters and I got, “S**t I better live up to that hype!” Not by taking more clothes off but by making something that people won’t forget. That’s what it is for me.

The interview can be read over here.

Credits:
'Nikita' star Maggie Q talks her new hit series, kicking butt, and being a Jackie Chan protege
by Tim Stack

Craig Silverstein Interview

2010-11-06T15:33:00.003+08:00

Craig Silverstein is the executive producer of our beloved show Nikita. Snippets from The Collider interview:

On doing another version of Nikita:

I had to take it upon myself to find a way that it could be done fresh, where you didn’t know how this story was going to end. That’s when I came upon the idea of following Nikita after she had left the agency, which is a chapter that’s never been told.

About the Nikita character:

I think it’s a mini-mythology now, like Batman or James Bond. Obviously, it’s not to that level, but people know it. It’s been done enough now that it’s got its own myth attached to it, and the powerful thing about it is that there’s a very fairytale aspect to the whole story. It’s a dark fairytale.

Casting Maggie Q:

It had to be someone who was beautiful, who could fight, who you could believe holding a gun and who you believed was smart, in order to plan everything that she was doing. You’d think those things would be easy to find in an actor, and they’re not. We had actors come in and these girls would be gorgeous and smart, but you’d put a gun in their hands and it didn’t work. The second we heard Maggie’s name, Danny Cannon, our director, and I looked at each other and were like, “Yes!” It was really early on in the process.

Casting Lyndsy Fonseca:

She was intense when she came in to audition. We were like, “Woah!” I don’t think you’ll be thinking of her as the girl next door for much longer.

Nikita vs Alex? Uh oh.

And then, Alex and Nikita’s relationship is also going to start to fray. There will be conflict all around.

Interested to read the full article? Read here.

Credits:
Executive Producer Craig Silverstein Interview NIKITA
by Christina Radish

'Nikita' review by TeenToday.Co.UK

2010-11-06T15:24:00.002+08:00

An all-around good review for Nikita. Praises abound!

We don’t want to give too much away, especially if you haven’t seen the pilot, which runs along at a fairly rudimentary speed until throwing in a total game-changer in the final five minutes, but it’s basically Alias for the noughties… except Alias was in the noughties but you get my drift… Spooks on a bigger budget, 24 but with a hot female lead. In short, it’s awesome.
In addition to all the action, there’s a few romantic subplots scattered here and there, plus just enough tantalising hints of backstory thrown at us each episode to make us hungry for more.
But if it’s a high-kicking, hard-punching forty minutes of fast-paced intrigue and action you’re up for, Nikita might be just your bag. With a bomb in it. But your bag nonetheless.

Read the complete review here.
Credits:
Why Nikita kicks ass – literally!
By Rach Read

Nikita Check-In

2010-11-06T15:10:00.002+08:00

When watching Nikita every Thursday, check in with Miso.

Watch Nikita. Check in with Miso. Watch Nikita again :)

Season 1 Episode 8, Phoenix Ratings

2010-11-06T14:57:00.003+08:00

And Nikita did not do well again! Final ratings for Thurs:

- 2.411 million viewers
- 1.5/2 HH
- 0.9/2 A18-49
- 0.9/3 A18-34
- 1.1/3 W18-34

How can that be?!? Lets keep on supporting the show and that'll bring back the numbers!

Thursday Tweets of the Nikita Stars

2010-11-05T21:47:00.002+08:00

Thursday night is Nikita night so expect loads of tweets from our Nikita stars.

Devon Sawa

* #nikita tonight at 9.

* Everybody NOT in the UK, fly there and watch me on NIKITA.... Everybody IN the UK turn to Living(?) tonight at some point. THANKS MATES!

* watched and loved this weeks #nikita.... glad I was a part of such great TV!

Tiffany Hines

* It's Thurs y'all! U kno wat dat means! Another new epi of #Nikita! on CW @ 9pm! & Get ready cause Jaden returns Nov 11 & causes trbl 4 alex!

Lyndsy Fonseca

* Tonight! #Nikita. http://t.co/pRIMiM3 via @youtube

Melinda Clarke
(unrelated tweet but nonetheless a 'Nikita' tweet)

* Just finished an 15 hour day on set of #nikita with Maggie Q. All I can say..She's a rock star! I'm in awe!!!

Maggie is deaf in one ear?

2010-11-05T21:43:00.002+08:00

As read on Ask Men's profile of Maggie Q, she is deaf on one ear! OMG. Is this for real?

"I got smashed in the face with a piece of two-by-four, which left one side of my face completely black for two weeks. I'm also deaf in one ear where my eardrum was blown out in an explosive stunt."