Barb Oates, Author at StayTuned Magazine

Recap: Long Island Medium Season 6 premiere finds us emotionally drained

March 8, 2015 Barb Oates

Recap Long Island Medium: 25 and Counting (original air date March 8, 2015): She’s back. Long Island Medium Theresa Caputo begins the Season 6 premiere episode in her traditional narrative style, this time explaining how she and Larry have been together for a long time — 29 years actually (they’ve been married for 25). Theresa recounts several memories on how they met (they worked together at an oil company), while sharing photos from their younger days. It was a great 1990s flashback — bigger hair and all (pay particular attention to Theresa’s hair when she’s pushing Larry Jr. on their […]

Long Island Medium new season begins with one of the most heartbreaking readings ever

March 6, 2015 Barb Oates

TV’s favorite medium Theresa Caputo returns for a sixth season of her TLC series, Long Island Medium, on Sunday, March 8 at 9pmET. The Long Island Medium new season kicks off with an hour-long episode that finds Theresa and Larry taking a trip down memory lane sharing home videos and pictures from their last 29 years, including wedding images and short video clips. The season premiere also features one of the most heartbreaking sessions we’ve seen, which was actually with the winners of the Long Island Medium Tweet To Win contest. A couple from Minnesota won the contest and their […]

Todd Hoffman on Gold Rush season finale and why his guys get more gold

March 5, 2015 Barb Oates

As the Klondike winter closes in exhaustion and frustration fuels many of the mining teams in the Gold Rush season finale. Season 5 could be summarized as the season where “enough was never enough.” For Parker and the Hoffman team, despite meeting their goals, they still fall short in the eyes of their bosses. Both men are asking their teams to make one last push for more ounces, as Parker is looking to get out from Tony Beets and Todd Hoffman wants to secure land for the 2016 season. We talked to Todd Hoffman earlier this week about the season […]

Born in the Wild recap, Episode 1: Mosquitoes and baby’s position prove to be challenging

March 3, 2015 Barb Oates

Born in the Wild recap, Episode 1 (March 3, 21015): Lifetime’s new unscripted series Born in the Wild, which I liken more to extreme birthing, opens by reminding us that years ago women gave birth without doctors or drugs (if only they had the options, right!?!). Clearly, times have changed — thank you modern medicine — and now over 98 percent of babies in the U.S. are born in hospitals. This series, however, is not about those seeking traditional hospital birthing experiences, instead it’s the women who are looking to reverse the trend and give birth in the wild. Viewers […]

Interview with Audrey Bird from Born in the Wild on Lifetime

March 3, 2015 Barb Oates

You may not agree with the birthing option selected by Audrey Bird from Born in the Wild, the first woman profiled on Lifetime’s new series premiering tonight (Tuesday, March 3 at 10pm), but there’s no denying that this birthing story is can’t-turn-away television. When I first read the initial press release on the series I was like “Wait, what?” As a hospital-birthing mother of three, the idea of a woman wanting to give birth in the wild (with no doctor on call) had me completely miffed. Like, who in her right mind would risk this — her health and the […]

Outlander’s Sam Heughan on his offscreen relationship with his costar, new episodes and more

February 27, 2015 Barb Oates

For fans of the captivating Outlander series, which follows the steamy romance and adventures between a 1945 former combat nurse, Claire Randall, and a 1743 Scottish warrior, Jamie Fraser — Saturday, April 4 can’t come fast enough. That’s when Outlander makes its midseason premiere on Starz and begins the last eight episodes of Season 1. This week a new audience was introduced to the titular series with iTunes releasing the first eight episodes for purchase. While the series started with a built-in fan base thanks to the international success of author Diana Gabaldon, whose bestselling novels the series is based […]

What class has the best chance to win Survivor? We break it down for you…

February 25, 2015 Barb Oates

Survivor evolves once again for its 30th season when the reality competition series segregates contestants by their social class for Survivor: Worlds Apart: White Collar vs. Blue Collar vs. No Collar beginning Wednesday, Feb. 25 at 8pmET/PT on CBS. We did some quick on social classes to determine what it takes to win Survivor by looking at historical information on the past winners – focusing on age and social class — where the details are listed below. “We try to find new ways to change the show so we can give you the same thing only different,” says host and […]

Kindness triumphs! Leeza Gibbons wins Celebrity Apprentice

February 16, 2015 Barb Oates

While New York City was in a deep freeze, Donald Trump heated things up going live on Monday, Feb. 16 with the final episode of The Celebrity Apprentice where two iconic newscasters —Geraldo Rivera and Leeza Gibbons — competed head to head. Trump named Leeza Gibbons the winner of Celebrity Apprentice, in the show’s 14th season (the seventh season of just celebs). Trump awarded Leeza Gibbons’ charity Leeza’s Care Connection with $250,000. “Leeza you led with kindness. I don’t see these people in New York,” Trump said. “You really do have tremendous talent and tremendous leadership ability. You also raised […]

Big night for AMC! Few program notes for Walking Dead, Talking Dead, Better Call Saul

February 8, 2015 Barb Oates

Tonight is a HUGE night on AMC. It’s the return of the second half of Season 5 of The Walking Dead and the premiere of the highly anticipated Breaking Bad prequel — Better Call Saul. It also involves a slight change in the network’s long standing Sunday lineup (but just for tonight), as Talking Dead moves to a later slot. Here’s a quick breakdown of how things shake out tonight (Sunday, Feb. 8). When does Talking Dead air tonight? We’ve gotten a lot of questions surrounding this already about people not liking the break between Walking Dead and Talking Dead […]

“Love, Lust or Run” host Stacy London answers our “7 Questions”

January 21, 2015 Barb Oates

Fashion maven Stacy London makes a welcome return to TLC in her new fashion make-under series Love, Lust or Run premiering Friday, Jan. 23 at 9pmET. The former What Not to Wear host is no stranger to giving candid yet constructive critiques to the fashion-challenged; however, in her new series she’s helping women tone down their over-the-top looks. “This is a make-under series in the sense that these women are dressing to an extreme, even more so than we saw on What Not to Wear,” London shares. “They dress this way sometimes aggressively, sometimes defensively, but all are dressing this way […]