Well, this is it, Cashmere Mafia lovers. ABC has finally reached the end of the road with its Sex and the City wannabe, meaning the last episode of Mafia that was produced before the writers strike started (seven were finished for an original order of thirteen).
I’m no fan of Cashmere, but you don’t have to be to realize that the series’ future looks grim. Of course, if it’s renewed, that wouldn’t be the first time a mediocre show made it through the network cracks. Just look at October Road, also on ABC, if you need a current …read more

Original Air Date: February 13, 2008
As MIA arrives at work, she fields phone calls from all of her fellow mafiettes, who repeatedly ask if she’s okay. Her assistant even gives her a muffin to make her feel better, before her boss CLIVE comes in and tosses the most recent edition of the newspaper on her desk. The huge headline across the front page notes that JACK has just been named publisher at rival company Fairgate Communications.
It looks like the former couple is now back in professional competition. To rub salt in the wound, later that night while …read more

“Can another show Carrie on?”
That’s the question Entertainment Weekly asks in the title of a recent article, referring, of course, to the still ultra popular HBO comedy series Sex and the City.
Judging by the mediocre and mostly uninteresting results of television’s two latest attempts — ABC’s Cashmere Mafia and NBC’s Lipstick Jungle — the answer is an emphatic “Not at the moment.”
If you’re a fan of the chick-TV comedy genre, check out the article The Next “Sex and the City”? to learn more than you ever thought you would about the arrival and rise of Sex and the City, and …read more

On January 23rd’s episode of Cashmere Mafia, Caitlin will step out with her girl Alicia, Juliet will stumble upon yet more trouble concerning her husband Davis, Mia will go on a most interesting blind date, and Zoe will become a savior.
Learn more details about the forthcoming episode at the Cashmere Mafia Episode Guide.
Cashmere Mafia airs Wednesdays on ABC at 10pm EST.

The big guest star for tonight’s episode of Cashmere Mafia is Tony-winning actress Christine Ebersole, who plays Caitlin Dowd’s (Bonnie Somerville) makeup mogul boss Lily Parrish. Now this should be good.

Dangerous Liaisons
Juliet struggles with her feelings about Davis as she contemplates a down-and-dirty tryst with a seductive charmer from her past. Meanwhile, in a power clash, Mia butts heads with the new male editor she hired to re-launch “Modern Man” magazine, Zoe is caught in the middle of a messy office affair between Clayton and Katherine, and a nervous Caitlin must deal with being outed by a gossip blog.
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Original Air Date: January 6, 2008
After the episode opens with publishing executive Mia Mason’s (Lucy Liu) boyfriend Jack Cutting (recurring guest star Tom Everett Scott) proposing to her on a crowded New York street one morning on their way to work, the couple learn that they’ll have to compete one-on-one for a promotion to U.S. Group Publisher for the Barnstead Magazine Group. Their boss Clive (Daniel Geroll), whom Mia snarkily refers to as Lord Voldemort (the main villain of the Harry Potter series), explains that one of them will move up and the other will move out based upon …read more

I know, I know. There’s too many Cashmere Mafia posts here of late. But, I had to throw this one in, too, since it’s important.
If you missed the premiere of the new Darren Star/Lucy Liu dramedy on Sunday, you’re getting a second chance to watch it tonight when ABC rebroadcasts the pilot at 10pm EST. The next episode will then air in its regular time slot tomorrow night at 10pm, as well.
For more advance information about the series, consult the Cashmere Mafia Episode Guide right here at Comedy Centric. Keep in mind that it has spoilers …read more

If you’re a Cashmere Mafia fan, don’t forget that, despite debuting last Sunday, the series’ regular time slot is Wednesday nights at 10pm EST. A description of the January 9 episode follows, and as an added bonus, ABC will rebroadcast it this Friday, January 11, at 9:02pm.

Conference Call
JULIET IS TRANSFORMED FROM AN ICE QUEEN TO A SEDUCTRESS FOR A HOT DATE WITH A MAN FROM HER PAST
No sooner is Mia appointed publisher of Barnstead Media Group than she is ordered to fire her mentor, Grant Normandy.
Meanwhile, a battle of wills ensues between a sexy stay-at-home supermom and working mom …read more

Tonight at 10:01pm EST, ABC will premiere the Darren Star production Cashmere Mafia, starring Lucy Liu (Kill Bill, Charlie’s Angels, Ally McBeal) as single publishing executive Mia Mason, Frances O’Connor (Windtalkers, Artificial Intelligence: AI) as married investment banker Zoe Burden, Miranda Otto (War of the Worlds, The Lord of the Rings) as married hotel COO Juliet Draper, and Bonnie Somerville (Kitchen Confidential, NYPD Blue, Friends) as single cosmetics marketing executive Caitlin Dowd.
In the pilot episode, we meet the four main characters and the assorted men in their lives, including series regulars Julian Ovenden, who plays Zoe’s architect husband Eric, and …read more

The Hollywood Reporter has thrown in its two cents about ABC’s new Darren Star dramedy Cashmere Mafia, and just as with Variety, the picture is not flattering in the least. The first clue? The review’s far less than enthusiastic title “‘Cashmere Mafia’ a show about not much.”
According to the writer, “there’s no confusing [‘Cashmere Mafia’], with its four beautiful women friends, with Star’s ‘Sex and the City’ or even a tamer, network version of that show.” And, after a plot description and additional criticism, the piece closes with the assessment that “[f]or a series like ‘Cashmere Mafia’ …read more