Variety Article on Drop Dead Diva Ratings
‘Diva’ delivers: Lifetime dramady “Drop Dead Diva” looks sharp in it’s debut: DIVA variety page 1 DDD opened to 2.8 million viewers: DIVA variety page 2
Drop Dead Diva premieres tonight on Lifetime!
Catch Margaret in the season premiere of Drop Dead Diva, a new series on Lifetime starting tonight! Drop Dead Diva tells the story of a shallow model-in-training who dies in a sudden accident only to find her soul resurfacing in the body of a brilliant, plus-size and recently deceased attorney. Television newcomer and stage actress […]
LA Times Review of Drop Dead Diva
‘Drop Dead Diva’ Lifetime’s new comedy offers an interesting twist on the old dippy-meets-dumpy scenario. By MARY McNAMARA, Television Critic The press material for Lifetime’s new comedy “Drop Dead Diva” contains a lot of accolades from “women’s groups” in which terms like “role model” and “grab your girlfriends” appear with alarming frequency — as if […]
NY Times Review of Drop Dead Diva
Chubby Legal Beagle, Meet Your Inner Skinny Siren By ALESSANDRA STANLEY Published: July 9, 2009 Someone heard the old line about a thin woman trapped in a fat woman’s body and took it literally. In “Drop Dead Diva,” a Lifetime series that begins on Sunday, an aspiring model and airhead named Deb (Brooke D’Orsay) dies […]
USA Today Review of Drop Dead Diva
Head diva Brooke Elliott is ‘Drop Dead’ terrific By Robert Bianco, USA TODAY There are shows and stars that catch you by total happy surprise. Even with the participation of acclaimed Hollywood producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, there wasn’t much reason to expect a lot from Lifetime’s new comic drama, Drop Dead Diva. Diva’s […]
Reviews of Drop Dead Diva
“8 out of 10 score” “absolutely… worth adding to the playlist” “Juggling snark, schmaltz and adorable wackiness, Diva has a yummy high concept to die for.” “Elliott is a delight playing two souls trapped in one body that’s uncomfortable in its skin, and it’s a hoot as Jane’s inner Deb learns to love having a […]
Video Interview on KGMB9 in Hawaii
Just start telling people you are white… Watch the Video Interview with Margaret and Brooke Elliott
On Being Invisible and Drop Dead Diva
I have heard some talk about my new show “Drop Dead Diva.” People are concerned that we are making fun of fat people or that it is a show about fat jokes or something ridiculous like that. I want to reach out and assure our potential audience that I would never condone or be involved […]
Cho News: Fall Tour, Beautiful on Showtime & Drop Dead Diva on Lifetime
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David Atlanta Mag: Fag Hag For Life
by Ryan Lee THERE’S A LONG-STANDING DEBATE about whether people choose to be gay or whether attraction to the same sex is genetic. But for Margaret Cho, there’s no doubt about it: She was born to be a fag hag. “I’ve always had gay friends, always — when I was a child, even before we […]
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CNN
Margaret Cho Geared Up For ‘Dead’
By Lisa Respers France ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — Comedienne Margaret Cho knows a great deal about Hollywood’s obsession with body image. The once-zaftig actress is co-starring in a new series for Lifetime titled “Drop Dead Diva” about a brilliant plus-size attorney who finds her body inhabited by the soul of a shallow wannabe model. The […]