Series Premiere: ‘Cashmere Mafia’ on ABC Tonight

Tonight at 10:01pm EST, ABC will premiere the Darren Star production Cashmere Mafia, starring Lucy Liu (Kill Bill, Charlie’s Angels, Ally McBeal) as single publishing executive Mia Mason, Frances O’Connor (Windtalkers, Artificial Intelligence: AI) as married investment banker Zoe Burden, Miranda Otto (War of the Worlds, The Lord of the Rings) as married hotel COO Juliet Draper, and Bonnie Somerville (Kitchen Confidential, NYPD Blue, Friends) as single cosmetics marketing executive Caitlin Dowd.

In the pilot episode, we meet the four main characters and the assorted men in their lives, including series regulars Julian Ovenden, who plays Zoe’s architect husband Eric, and Peter Hermann, who portrays Juliet’s cheating husband Davis. The official description clarifies:

In the premiere episode, “Pilot,” Mia and Jack Cutting (Guest Star Tom Everett Scott) make a quintessential New York power couple. Just engaged, the two face off in a cut-throat, “survivor-style” competition in order to determine which of them will be promoted to U.S. Group Publisher at Barnstead Media Group.

A smitten Caitlin must face up to the strange but wonderful feelings she is encountering with a new love interest at the office.

Meanwhile, Juliet decides on a unique method of payback for her husband Davis’ indiscretions and simultaneously, in a bold move, must decide whether to drop her public image to step out in the world.

And Zoe and her husband, Eric, are on another 24/7 whirl of balancing their full-time careers and the challenge of being good parents to two small children — all with good humor. But how long will it be before the wheels come off the cart?

After Cashmere Mafia‘s premieres tonight, the hourlong dramedy will move to its regular time slot of Wednesdays at 10pm on January 9. Comedy Centric has an episode guide for the show with spoilers (so stay away if you don’t want to know anything in advance), and you can watch an earlier three-minute video preview following the jump (Note: The actor playing Liu’s significant other is not Tom Everett Scott).