CashMere Mafia

It’s an embarrassment of riches – ABC is giving us a new episode of Cashmere Mafia just a few days after the premiere! Debuting in its regular timeslot tonight, 10/9c, here’s the official synopsis for the second episode of Cashmere Mafia:

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 Zoe, who finds her rival has propositioned Eric with a no-strings-attached offer that he might find hard to refuse; Caitlin and her new girlfriend, Alicia, surprise their friends when they announce that they’ve taken their relationship to a new level; couples counseling for Juliet and Davis takes a turn for the worse; and Juliet decides to make some changes herself.

Fast overnight ratings are in! Approximately 10.72 million people watched the premiere of Cashmere Mafia last night.

If you missed the premiere, ABC is giving viewers another chance to catch it on Tuesday, January 8, at 10/9c. And don’t forget to tune in on Wednesday when the show debuts in its “real” timeslot at 10/9c with a new episode!

Finally, the premiere day for Cashmere Mafia has arrived! Don’t miss tonight’s premiere on a special day/time following Desperate Housewives. Then come back for the next episode in Cashmere’s regular timeslot Wednesday at 10/9c. Here’s the official synopsis for tonight’s premiere:

In the premiere episode, “Pilot,” Mia and Jack Cutting make a quintessential New York power couple. Just engaged, the two face off in a cut-throat, “survivor-style” competition in order to determine which of them will be promoted to U.S. Group Publisher at Barnstead Media Group. A smitten Caitlin must face up to the strange but wonderful feelings she is encountering with a new love interest at the office. Meanwhile, Juliet decides on a unique method of payback for her husband Davis’ indiscretions and simultaneously, in a bold move, must decide whether to drop her public image to step out in the world. And Zoe and her husband, Eric, are on another 24/7 whirl of balancing their full-time careers and the challenge of being good parents to two small children — all with good humor. But how long will it be before the wheels come off the cart?

Want more? Check out our Spoilers Section and the Gallery!

ABC announced today that Cashmere Mafia will have a special premiere on Thursday, January 3 at 10/9c, then move to its regular timeslot at Wednesdays at 10/9c on January 9. New episodes are slated to run through February 27, at which point Men In Trees will take over the timeslot until the writers strike is resolved and more episodes of Cashmere Mafia can be produced.

ABC made the nets’ first major strike-related scheduling change Monday morning, yanking “Cashmere Mafia” off the docket for now.

“Cashmere Mafia” was set to launch Nov. 27 at 10 p.m., behind the final episode of “Dancing with the Stars,” before moving to its normal Tuesday at 9 p.m. slot the following week. Instead, the show will now remain on the bench and serve as a utility player in case ABC needs more scripted originals later in the season.

To replace the “Mafia” hole, ABC will now bump the two-hour “Dancing With the Stars” finale to 9 p.m. At 8, Alphabet will run the holiday perennial “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”

Specials are on tap to fill the Tuesday 9 p.m. slot in future weeks for the time being.

From Sony Pictures TV, “Cashmere Mafia” stars Lucy Liu, Frances O’Connor, Miranda Otto and Bonnie Somerville as successful, driven women in New York City. Darren Star, Kevin Wade, Jeff Rake, Gail Katz and Michael Pressman are exec producers.

NBC still has the similarly themed “Lipstick Jungle” on tap; “Mafia’s” scheduling change now means the battle resumes to see which network gets their project on air first.

The ‘Sex and the City’ costume designer brings her eclectic sensibility to ‘Cashmere Mafia.’ But don’t expect any giant flower brooches.
By Melissa Magsaysay, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
November 4, 2007
NEW YORK — PATRICIA FIELD’S deep and smoky voice echoes through a cavernous photo studio where she has been readying the cast of “Cashmere Mafia” for their publicity stills. Field whirls onto the set with magenta hair, turquoise frame spectacles and her fists full of vintage leather belts. She is debating which belts the show’s four leads should wear. In the end she decides to mix it up. She is very good at mixing it up.

To call Field a costume designer is an understatement. She is, after all, the woman whose work on “Sex and the City” turned the groundbreaking cable show into a weekly catwalk. Tutu skirts, flower brooches and nameplate necklaces have never been the same since. And the Manolo Blahniks? Without Field, they wouldn’t be a household word.

The premiere of Cashmere Mafia is just around the corner, and ABC is preparing to woo viewers with some gorgeous new shots of the cast. Check out these stunning group photos, then take a look at individual character promos in the Gallery.

Bonnie Somerville, Miranda Otto, Frances O’Connor and Lucy Liu of ‘Cashmere Mafia’

Bonnie Somerville, Miranda Otto, Frances O’Connor, Julian Ovenden, Peter Hermann, and Lucy Liu of ‘Cashmere Mafia’

USA Weekend has a bit of an interview with Frances O’Connor (Zoe):

It’s a busy day here on the celebrity beat. Kathy told you about yakking with the adorable Queer Eye guys. I want them to come and make me over. But I just got off the phone with Frances O’Connor, who is filming Cashmere Mafia, the ABC show that will premiere on Nov. 27. It’s from the creator of Sex and the City and it’s styled by Patricia Field, who did all the costumes on SATC, so it will be compared to SATC no matter that it is different in some fundamental ways. O’Connor, who plays an investment banker, moved from London to NYC to be in the show that she hopes will go for at least a full season. She’s having fun living in New York, with her boyfriend, a Scot actor, and their son. “It’s great to have the opportunity to come and live in New York. Who wouldn’t jump at it?” she says in her Nicole Kidman-like Australian accent. You won’t hear that in the show, though. She’s learning to speak American.

Scouting for wardrobe ideas? Lucy Liu hit designer Zac Posen’s show at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City yesterday, sitting alongside buddy Demi Moore and Broadway legend Bernadette Peters. Lots of photos in the Gallery; here are a few to whet your appetite:

Demi Moore, Lucy Liu, Bernadette Peters and Martha Stewart at Zac Posen’s fashion show Demi Moore and Lucy Liu giggle at Zac Posen’s show during Fashion Week

We’ve added a bunch of new photos from the set of Cashmere Mafia, featuring Lucy Liu “jogging”, plus Lucy and Tom Everett Scott filming one of their first scenes together. Previews below, more in the Gallery. (Thanks to Just Jared for the Lucy and Tom pics.)

Lucy Liu jogs on set.

Lucy Liu and Tom Everett Scott kiss on set.

Lucy Liu and Tom Everett Scott on set.