Barb Oates, Author at StayTuned Magazine

Is this the most grueling Survivor season ever?

February 17, 2016 Barb Oates

Survivor returns for what they are claiming the “most grueling 39 days in Survivor history.” Bring it on! Tonight marks the season premiere of Survivor‘s 32nd season. The season premiere, Survivor: Kaoh Rong, begins tonight on CBS at 8pm ET/PT with a 90-minute episode. The franchise will return to one of its more popular themes — “Brains vs. Brawn vs. Beauty” — as 18 new castaways will be introduced including an ER doctor, a pro poker player, a former FBI agent, a former NBA champion, a former Big Brother contestant, as well as a 19-year-old college student. All sharing the […]

Preview: Who are these Venom Hunters?

February 17, 2016 Barb Oates

I haven’t been this twitchy watching TV in a long time. Props to Discovery Channel as they suck you in to their new docuseries Venom Hunters — premiering Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 10pmET — with just the show’s precautionary warning (“Do not attempt anything you are about to see”). In the new series you’ll learn plenty about snakes, but mostly about the deadly occupation of venom hunting and the eclectic types of people who do it. So who are these venom hunters? How do they collect venom? And what is venom worth? Let’s get you started first by knowing that […]

TV’s Best Grandpa turns 96! Send some love to Gold Rush’s Grandpa John

February 11, 2016 Barb Oates

Now that’s some pay dirt – turning 96! Gold Rush’s Grandpa John Schnabel is the grandpa everyone would love to have. He’s a simple man with a heart of gold and a mountain of wisdom. Grandpa John has been sharing his unconditional love and gold mining expertise (he’s really a life coach) with his grandson Parker Schnabel on Discovery Channel’s hit series Gold Rush, now in its sixth season. On Thursday, Feb. 11 Grandpa John turns 96. Born and raised in Kansas, John Schnabel packed his bags and headed north to Haines, Alaska, at just 19 years of age to […]

How to contact Tyler Henry the Hollywood Medium

February 6, 2016 Barb Oates

Since the premiere of E!’s new series Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry (Sundays at 10pmET on E!), a lot of fans have been asking how to contact Tyler Henry. The star of the series had quite a following prior to the start of his show, so he already has a waiting list. “As far as getting or booking a reading, I do have a manager who takes appointments, and so I have a website —[updated: www.tylerhenryhollywoodmedium.com] — where people can reach me and book a reading,” he tells us. “But I currently have a waiting list, about six months, that […]

truTV takes on #CasualTeachers in “Those Who Can’t”

February 5, 2016 Barb Oates

A trio of Denver-based, whip-smart standup comedians banded together about five years ago to form the comedy troupe The Grawlix. Finding success with their combined mojo, Adam Cayton-Holland, Ben Roy and Andrew Orvedahl took their talents offstage in the form of web shorts, which eventually led to the creation of their first TV pilot, Those Who Can’t. The series premieres on truTV Thursday, Feb. 11 at 10:30pmET/PT and is the first scripted comedy to be added to the network’s lineup. truTV has made the first two episodes of the series available to stream now. Those Who Can’t is ridiculously LOL […]

TV’s never seen a family like the Farrell clan in “Outsiders”

January 22, 2016 Barb Oates

Get ready, as television has never seen the likes of a family like this. WGN America introduces us to the fictional Farrell family in Outsiders, premiering Tuesday, Jan. 26. The Farrell family has lived off the grid for six generations in the hills of Appalachia. They abide by their own long-held values, secretive beliefs and renegade rules. People don’t go up there, and they don’t come down. When a coal company tries to push the clan off their mountain, things change. Outsiders is an intoxicating look at the clash of two cultures fueled with plenty of action. The clan’s future […]

Hollywood Medium Tyler Henry explains how he sees dead people

January 18, 2016 Barb Oates

Imagine being a 10-year-old kid and waking up in the middle of the night with a sudden feeling that your sick grandmother is going to die (like, now). For Tyler Henry, who turned 20 just days ago (Jan. 13th to be exact), that was his first introduction to his gift. Henry is the subject of E!’s new entertaining series Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry, premiering Sunday, Jan. 24 at 10pmET/PT. Cameras follow him on some very personal readings with celebrities like Jaime Pressly, Monica Potter, Boy George, WWE Diva Natalya, Margaret Cho and Tom Arnold. Here we question him a […]

Emily Kinney’s new single part of Hallmark original “Love on the Sidelines”

January 15, 2016 Barb Oates

It’s surprising to hear an actress be thankful for getting a chance to wear makeup and get her hair done, but for Emily Kinney, who spent four seasons running for her life on The Walking Dead (R.I.P. Beth Greene) you understand. The dainty, adorably sweet Kinney stars in the Hallmark Channel original Love on the Sidelines this Saturday (Jan. 16 at 9pmET). In the film Kinney plays an out of work fashion designer, Laurel Welk, who lands a job as the personal assistant to superstar quarterback Danny Holland (John Reardon), who has been sidelined with an injury. Laurel knows nothing […]

Long Island Medium makes surprise visit, comforts grieving parents

January 10, 2016 Barb Oates

Theresa Caputo shares some genuine tears with an Orlando couple in tonight’s new episode of Long Island Medium on TLC at 9pmET. Last week’s star–studded premiere of Long Island Medium was the highest rated and most-watched season premiere in four seasons (Jan. 3 marked the midseason premiere of the second half of Season 6). In tonight’s episode (Jan. 10), Theresa surprises a couple from Orlando who share their heartbreaking story. A British woman named Adele tells how her son Warren was in Orlando on a business trip when she got a call from one of his colleagues who expressed concern […]

Fans react as TNT cancels Rizzoli & Isles

January 10, 2016 Barb Oates

Rizzoli & Isles canceled??? Last week at the Television Critics Association winter press tour Kevin Reilly, president of TBS and TNT and the chief creative officer for Turner Entertainment, mentioned that this summer will be the last for Rizzoli & Isles. “No network is the same thing all the time,” Reilly said, while discussing the networks’ overall reinvention. “I am very grateful to have that audience of Major Crimes. I love what’s gone on in Librarians. That’s a fun show that’s nowhere else on television. We can move these different audiences through, and I’m happy to have those shows on […]