Nikita

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Oct 12 2010 01:43 PM ET
Exclusive: 'Nikita' getting a 'slight tweak'
by Michael Ausiello



The CW is giving Nikita a chill pill.

Five episodes into its rookie season, the Maggie Q-fronted action drama is undergoing some routine maintenance. Specifically, The CW is looking to lighten the show’s somber mood and jack up its title character’s love life.

The goal? To boost viewership in the network’s sweet spot: young females. While Nikita is off to a solid start among total viewers, it’s losing a huge chunk of the core women 18-34 demo from its Vampire Diaries lead-in. Season-to-date, Nikita is maintaining 94 percent of Diaries‘ overall audience but is squandering an alarming 54 percent of the 18-34 crowd. This could be one reason why the net has yet to give the show a back-nine order. (Ironically, where Nikita is performing particularly well is among ***** straight males over 40.)

“We’re really only talking about some slight tweaks,” maintains a source. “The core of Nikita will not change.”

Among said tweaks is the introduction of several new characters, including a confidant and potential love interest for Nikita who’s described as a clean-cut, all-American CIA case officer. “Moms want to marry off their daughters to this kid,” reads the casting notice. “But he’s too busy saving the world.”

Reps for The CW and Warner Bros. Television declined to comment for this story.

I've caught a few episodes and was entertained. Some amusing fights for TV and Maggie looks stunning. It still feels very derivative of Alias. Unfortunately, it's on at a time when I don't usually have the luxury to watch TV.

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Sorry to hear this. I haven't been following this show lately but I was enjoying it. I was just thinking about Maggie because she's very active with WildAid.

Maggie Q says farewell to Nikita
April 23 2014 at 10:25am
By Debashine Thangevelo


Warner Bros
ON THE RUN: Maggie Q kicks ass in her renegade spy role in the action drama, Nikita.

LOOKING at her credits, one thing is certain – Maggie Q is celebrated for her action roles.

Having left notable footprints in the movie sector with Around the World in 80 Days, Mission Impossible III, Live Free or Die Hard, Balls of Fury, Need for Speed and Divergent, her role as renegade agent Nikita Mears has left an indelible impression.

Sadly, her journey in Nikita, which is a remake of the French film of the same title, and La Femme Nikita, ends in the current fourth and final instalment.

In a chat with TVLine, the actress admitted to the opening sequence of this season being “totally traumatising”.

As for her return to the fold, Q notes, “She’s unable to stay away. She has once again got herself into a situation where she finds herself not realising that the team is upset that she left.

They’ve been tracking her and supporting her and waiting for this moment to reconnect with her. In that moment she really doesn’t have any other choice; she’s got herself in a bind yet again.”

Although her relationship with Seymour Birkhoff (Aaron Stanford) is initially strained, his anger dissipates after her return.

Q says, “Her relationship with Birkhoff is like brother and sister. At the end of the day, there is so much love there. Birkhoff makes some comments about her leaving. But when he sees her, he’s thrilled”.

With this marking the end of an exhilarating run for the action drama, the writers are throwing a few curve balls, especially into Nikita’s love life. Someone from Nikita’s past – someone she loved – helps Michael (Shane West) better understand Nikita.

Hinting at some of the big moments this season, she offers, “You would think that the whole season is of her (Nikita) being hunted until the end, and then they find out she didn’t assassinate the president.

“Originally, we were trying to figure out the logic of it all, and that (seemed like) a clean plan — where it’s revealed that she didn’t do it and we wrap it up and Nikita walks into the light and we all feel yummy and good inside. And then we realised who we were.

“It ended up not working out that way because, first of all, it wasn’t that interesting, and second of all we needed that dominant relationship in both (Amanda and Nikita’s) lives to play out – not in a big-battle, physical way.”

And this search for closure leads to a nail-biting finish as Amanda intensifies her hunt and plants a few red herrings along the way.

The web of intrigue continues to spiral out of control as the cat-and-mouse chases escalate along with the frame-ups and pervading blind fury. Scores will be settled – but it will be done Nikita’s way.

By the way, Q will be returning to kick ass – but it will be as Detective Beth Davis in an as yet untitled police drama.

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Mar 23, 2015 1:56pm PT
Alberta Watson, Star of ‘La Femme Nikita,’ ’24,’ Dies at 60

By Carmel Dagan


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Alberta Watson, the Canadian actress who starred in USA Network’s “La Femme Nikita” as Madeline, the ruthless, Machiavellian second-in-command of secret agency Section One, recurred on the CW’s reboot series “Nikita” as Senator Madeline Pierce and memorably appeared as the mother in David O. Russell’s first film, “Spanking the Monkey,” died Saturday at a Toronto hospice. She was 60 and had fought a long battle with cancer.

“La Femme Nikita” ran on USA from 1997-2001. Watson was also a series regular as director of CTU Los Angeles Erin Driscoll during season four of Fox’s “24.” Earlier she was a season regular on the brief 1987 ABC drama “Buck James.”

The actress also had a long career in films, especially in her native Canada. In Russell’s “Spanking the Monkey,” she played the bedridden mother to Jeremy Davies’ sullen, priapic teen; the two eventually have a sexual encounter. She won critical praise for this performance and for her work in Atom Egoyan’s 1997 film “The Sweet Hereafter.” She also played the mother to Jonny Lee Miller’s computer **** in 1995’s “Hackers,” also starring Angelina Jolie, and to Hansel in the 2001 film version of John Cameron Mitchell’s “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”

Watson is survived by her husband Ken.

This is from 2015 but I didn't realize she was in both USA Network's La Femme Nikita & Nikita