Hot Gallery: Familiar Faces Return to Mid-Season Shows
These days some of the best stories, scripts, and characters seem to be found on television, which is luring the biggest names to the smaller screen. But it’s also serving to entice a number of TV stars back. In fact, mid-season 2012 is chock full of them! Snakkle caught up with James Van Der Beek, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kristen Bell, and more to discuss returning to medium that made them household names. By Danielle TurchianoNow: How careers can come full circle! Potts will be portraying the matriarch of a very typical Southern Christian family in ABC drama GCB, in which her newly divorced adult daughter returns to town with two of her own kids in tow. Potts’ character takes them all in but enforces her own outspoken, “call it like she’s sees it,” church-going ways upon them. It appears this time around the lessons will be hers to teach, not learn.
“When I was on my feet with her, I actually found that there was a lot of my beloved Dixie Carter in her,” Potts admitted, though she really considers this new character an “amalgam” of a few strong women she has known, including her own mother. “If you liked Designing Women, you’re going to love GCB!”