Maggie Q as an Assassin in “Nikita”

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Natalie in TV, TV News

As you’ve seen in other posts, we’re a big fan of women and guns. And fortunately this year’s TV lineup includes a great new show “Nikita”, featuring Maggie Q as a former spy turned assassin.  We’ll be featuring some articles of our own as well as bringing you the best reviews and highlights from elsewhere, like this one from USA TODAY.

By Donna Freydkin

By Todd Plitt, USA TODAY

NEW YORK.  Her show earned killer reviews, and solid ratings, in its premiere last week.

But one thing is missing from the CW series Nikita, headlined by lithe actress Maggie Q.

“Nikita needs a dog. She needs to be on a mission and find one, a rescue,” says Q, sitting near the East River and stopping to pet a friendly Dachshund being walked past her. “She needs a mutt from the streets, who’s like her and went through a lot and is angry and is trying to be hot.”

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Actually, she’s succeeding. And then some. Q’s Nikita is a deadly operative who escaped from a top-secret agency known as the Division that trained her to be a spy and an assassin. Now, she’s out for revenge. The show (tonight, 9 ET/PT), which averaged 3.6 million viewers last week, is loosely based on Luc Besson‘s acclaimed 1990 French thriller La Femme Nikita but has nothing to do with either its U.S. remake Point of No Return or the subsequent spinoff series starring Peta Wilson, Q says.

“I’ve only seen the original because I really wasn’t interested in the remakes of it,” says Q, 31. “The idea of this incredibly flawed heroine was incredibly interesting, and no one had done it. In the ’90s, it was new and controversial. I really respected the original vision.”

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