Watching Studio60

Kim is back, and instead of playing the viola, she’s fixing computers at a big-box electronics store. Boy, is her dad going to be steamed about that.

I don’t watch NBC’s Chuck as a rule, but my husband does and I happened to be in the room recently when he had it on. And, why, there was Kim! Or, rather, Julia Ling, the actress who played Kim Tao, viola prodigy and Tom Jeter admirer on Studio 60, and now plays Anna Wu, sardonic computer tech on the accidental spy series. It’s always nice to see S60 vets finding continuing work in showbiz. According to IMDb, she’s also on the episode of Grey’s Anatomy that aired November 15 and is still hanging out unwatched on my DVR. (I refuse to watch anything that may involve George + Izzie romance without the power of fast-forward.)

IMDb also informs that Ling has three movies coming out in the next year or so: Silvergun Samurai, Dead Reckoning and Love Sick Diaries. If you’re a fan of the actress and want to find out more about her, or just want to see a cute clip of her being questioned by Ed Asner in a Studio 60 walk-and-talk, check out her fan site, JuliaLing.com.

Speaking of Kim, I’m wondering if somebody on the creative team of Disney Channel’s The Suite Life of Zach and Cody was a Studio 60 fan. There’s a new recurring character on there this season, Barbara, a string player who’s hot for the somewhat nerdish Cody, and the voice and body language give off a seriously Kim-ish vibe, it seems to me. Then again, maybe I’m just missing that show.