FlashForward is taking a step back. Sources confirm to me exclusively that ABC has temporarily shut down production on the rookie drama. The move comes a month after the departure of co-showrunner, Marc Guggenheim, and less than a week after FlashForward hit a new ratings low. An Alphabet spokesperson confirms the shutdown, but is quick [...]
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Sonya attended the Hollywood Film Festival’s Ending Violence Against Women in Congo Symposium on October 24. Here are some photos and the full set can view viewed here in the gallery.
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Going through “Lost” withdrawal during this eight-month hiatus? Devastated that your favorite desert-island mystery won’t be returning to the airwaves after its series finale this May? Fear not, because ABC is confident that it has a solution for you. Since first airing five promo spots of its newest sci-fi mindbender “FlashForward” during an April 2009 [...]
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Olivia Benford is a complex woman who’s deeply in love, but struggling with the recent events of the future flash her, and everyone else on the face of this planet, saw in the new ABC series FlashForward. Olivia is played by actress Sonya Walger, who has guest starred on LOST since 2006 as Penelope Widmore, [...]
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If you thought Lost was a tricky show filled with twists and turns, FlashForward has a few mind games of its own to play. TVGuide.com sat down with a star from both ABC shows. One of the many issues FlashForward raises is whether or not you can change the future. Sonya Walger’s character, Olivia, finds [...]
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Welcome/About
Actress Sonya Walger currently stars as surgeon Olivia Benford on the television series FlashForward which airs on Thursday nights on ABC. She also plays Desmond Hume's "constant" Penny Widmore on the popular
television series Lost which concludes it's 6 year run starting in early 2010.