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Tisha Campbell-Martin knows that casual TV watchers remember her from her many roles on half-hour comedies — perhaps, most notably, her role as the wife of Damon Wayans on My Wife and Kids, a character she played for five years.
But tonight, Campbell-Martin joins Ally Walker (Sons of Anarchy) in The Protector, a new Lifetime series that follows a detective team.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What can you tell me about the The Protector?
TISHA CAMPBELL-MARTIN: For one, Ally Walker is amazing to work with. She’s been doing Sons of Anarchy and Profiler but now she’s back with this. For me, it’s been a while. I started out doing drama, and it’s been a while since I’ve done this medium. As a matter of fact, my husband and I had agreed for many, many years to not do any dramas because of the long hours. It can be 14- to 16-hour days, so now that I’m doing a drama again, the kids are older. It’s amazing to go back to. It’s a dramedy, but it’s great to go back to that, especially being that I was considered a sitcom girl for so long. The Protector is about a detective, Ally Walker’s character, who not only has to protect people at her job as a homicide detective, but she also has children. She’s balancing the two lives and keeping them completely separate at the same time. I play her partner in the homicide division so we get to be badasses, and we get to show the other side of our lives. I think people are gonna relate to it because it’s so much fun. Our chemistry is so wicked. READ FULL STORY »
