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"   Photo: TV Land  To celebrate ELLE&amp;#039;s inaugural TV Issue, we&amp;#039;ve checked in with some of our favorite stars from TV&amp;#039;s upcoming mid-season schedule about what&amp;#039;s been fun, what&amp;#039;s been hard, and what viewers have to look forward to. We kick off in the midst of network shake-ups and cable game-changers with a dose of old fashioned sitcom gold, courtesy of TV Land&amp;#039;s Hot in Cleveland (premiering its second season tonight at 10 pm). Star and comedy vet Wendie Malick (we&amp;#039;re still quoting her decade-old one-liners as Just Shoot Me&amp;#039;s hard-partying fashion editor Nina Van Horn) talked to us about her love of physical comedy, strong women, and how you can never have too much Betty White. ELLE: When we left off last season, Betty White&amp;#039;s Elka was off to the jailhouse. Where will we find her tonight?WM: The very first image of the season is Mary Tyler Moore and Betty White in jail together. It&amp;#039;s one of those iconic moments\u2014especially for me, looking at two of the heroines from my youth. The show has found a wonderful way to fuse the old and the new that way, so there&amp;#039;s a great continuum that allows every age and gender to join us. It&amp;#039;s kind of extraordinary. ELLE: People really seems to respond well to the show&amp;#039;s old-school sitcom feel.WM: It&amp;#039;s definitely classic in terms of how it&amp;#039;s structured and the doing it in front of a live audience gives it a whole other kind of energy. I frankly thought that the sitcom was dead\u2014in recent years dramadies and single-camera comedies were the big thing. But Hot in Cleveland reminded me that if you have great writing and a cast that really clicks, this can be the optimal way to do comedy. It&amp;#039;s just so much fun. ELLE: What&amp;#039;s your favorite part of playing the aging soap actress Victoria Chase on Cleveland? Do you have a favorite scene?WM: I love physical comedy, so one of my favorite moments was with Huey Lewis, when we did our attempted love scene in his hotel room last season, where our minds made a promise our bodies couldn&amp;#039;t keep. We had played lovers on Just Shoot Me ten years ago\u2014at which point I had actually pulled a muscle in my back, and he had had to quit smoking and drinking. So it was all art imitating life. ELLE: You&amp;#039;ve also bore witness to the phenomenon of Betty White.WM: This woman is eighty-nine years old\u2014we went to her birthday party last night\u2014and she&amp;#039;s got her own calendars and posters. It&amp;#039;s hilarious. Somebody gave me a Betty White calendar for my birthday, and I just had to laughed when I told her. I said, &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t I get enough of you every day?&amp;quot; ELLE: When you&amp;#039;re not working, what do you watch on TV?WM: I love Nurse Jackie and Damages\u2014I watch such dark things! Occasionally I get really involved in shows like the Masterpiece Theater&amp;#039;s brilliant Downton Abbey. I just saw the first episode and I thought, &amp;quot;I just could sit and watch hours of this.&amp;quot; I love the Upstairs, Downstairs feeling of it. ELLE: You watch a lot of shows with strong, ball-busting female characters!WM: Always. There has to be a woman in it for me to relate. For so long network TV has been about women under forty. Thank God cable has embraced the true women. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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