Barb Oates, Author at StayTuned Magazine

Introducing Medium Martini, Long Island Medium recap “Girls Night In”

June 10, 2013 Barb Oates

Cheers to Long Island Medium Theresa Caputo and her new signature drink the Medium Martini. In the Long Island Medium Season 4 episode “Girls Night In,” Theresa decides to host a girl party — free of the Larrys — where good eats and good conversation with friends would be the focus of the evening. Her harshest critics — Larry Sr. and Larry Jr. — scoffed at the idea, mocking Theresa on not having the hosting abilities to pull it off. “My mom is completely out of touch on how people have a good time,” Larry Jr. tells. Now in my […]

Contestants on 72 Hours race to find suitcase of cash

June 6, 2013 Barb Oates

The clock is ticking for contestants on 72 Hours, TNT’s new heart-pounding competition series debuting Thursday, June 6 at 9pm ET. When it comes to the new reality competition series 72 Hours, it has the intensity of a Jason Bourne action-thriller and the drama expected from any mismatched team of unknowns thrown together and dropped in unknown terrain in a high-stakes race to find a treasure. The treasure is a briefcase filled with $100,000 cash awarded to the first team to find it. The teams consist of three random strangers from diverse backgrounds, each possessing their own unique survival skills, […]

Pretty Wicked Moms cast features 6 feisty Atlanta women

June 3, 2013 Barb Oates

Meet the Pretty Wicked Moms cast — a group of six feisty Atlanta women who star in Lifetime’s new reality/comedy debuting Tuesday, June 4 at 10pm ET. Get a group of moms together and ask their thoughts on raising kids and you’ll get a wide range of advice, opinions and maybe even a bit of one-upmanship on who knows what best. Lifetime puts the spotlight on a group of six feisty Atlanta moms in its unscripted reality series Pretty Wicked Moms (premiering Tuesday, June 4 at 10pm ET). Whether it’s an over-the-top birthday party for a toddler or charting their […]

The Queen Has Spoken: Interview with Pretty Wicked Moms Emily Dees Boulden

May 31, 2013 Barb Oates

Interview with Lifetime’s Pretty Wicked Moms Emily Dees Boulden Lifetime’s latest “Mom” series offers a bit more humor than the traditional drama associated with a reality series fueled by a group of beautiful, semi-rich and supercompetitive women. The star of Lifetime’s new Pretty Wicked Moms (premiering Tuesday, June 4 at 10pm ET) is the self-described “queen bee” Emily Dees Boulden, a sexy, savvy businesswoman who is owner of Atlanta’s high-end boutique Swank. Emily is mother to Amzie, wife to the ever-patient Pete and BFF to Nicole N. (the doggy mom), who is also a featured cast member on the series. […]

Meet the super-rich, super-spoiled “Princesses: Long Island”

May 31, 2013 Barb Oates

Meet the future “Housewives” of tomorrow as Bravo documents the lives of six college-educated young women from affluent areas of Long Island who live pampered lifestyles in the comfort of their parents’ homes and at the expense of their bank accounts. Princesses: Long Island premieres June 2 at 10pm ET. Long Island is certainly fertile ground for reality TV. More cameras descend in the area, this time to document a handful of pampered princesses who are living the life of luxury still under the comforts of their parents’ homes and bank accounts. Princesses: Long Island follows six colorful, college-educated women […]

Long Island Medium Season 4 recap “The Gambler”

May 27, 2013 Barb Oates

Long Island Medium Season 4 recap of “The Gambler” Original airdate May 26, 2013 Let’s get a slight distraction out of the way … anyone else thinking that Theresa’s nails are getting just a little obnoxious? Seeing Theresa with candles, those nails and the spiritual aura she creates before a reading is starting to remind me of the old fortuneteller from the local carny. Yikes, clip those things already! In Long Island Medium “The Gambler,” the episode starts with Larry Jr. taking Theresa out for breakfast to butter her up before asking if he could have his pals over to […]

Win a reading with Long Island Medium Theresa Caputo, “Meet the Medium” Sweepstakes details

May 24, 2013 Barb Oates

Win a reading with Long Island Medium Theresa Caputo in TLC’s Season 4 “Meet the Medium” Sweepstakes. We get so many requests and questions on how to get a reading with Theresa, so when I saw TLC was doing another sweepstakes titled “Meet the Medium” where you could win a reading with Long Island Medium Theresa Caputo, I wanted to make sure you had your chance. The sweepstakes is pretty straightforward but it does require you to enter rather quickly. The sweepstakes is running over an eight-week period. Every week you have an opportunity to enter, however, you are limited […]

Theresa Caputo connects with negative energy: Long Island Medium Season 4 recap “The Royal Flush”

May 20, 2013 Barb Oates

Long Island Medium Season 4 recap of “The Royal Flush,” original air date Sunday, May 19. Theresa Caputo continues to amaze in Long Island Medium Season 4. In “The Royal Flush,” Theresa experiences a spiritual first when she connects with a negative energy that calls her a whore. The reading started out as any normal reading where Theresa greeted Fran and Jamie, a mother and daughter who came for a private reading. While Theresa ran through her normal shtick on how she works and how she only channel souls that walk in God’s white light, she wasn’t really prepared for […]

Katie Leclerc stars in Beverly Lewis “The Confession”

May 9, 2013 Barb Oates

Katie Leclerc stars in Beverly Lewis The Confession: The Amish return to the spotlight in the Hallmark Channel original film The Confession (premiering Saturday, May 11 at 9pm ET). The film is an adaptation of best-selling author Beverly Lewis’ second novel in her Heritage of Lancaster County book series. Katie Leclerc (Switched at Birth) stars as Katie Lapp, a naive, young Amish woman shunned by her township, who goes looking for her birth mother, who is dying of cancer. Sherry Stringfield (ER), who starred in the first film of the book series — The Shunning — reprises her role as […]

Roundup: TV shows renewed or canceled for 2013

May 8, 2013 Barb Oates

TV shows renewed or canceled 2013: It’s that time of year when the broadcast nets are making the call. Will Revenge be renewed for 2013? We think so. Is Nashville canceled? No chance, right!?! Of the new series that debuted over the 2012-2013 season, only a handful, to date, have gotten renewed for a sophomore season. Those series officially seeing a sophomore season include NBC’s Revolution and Chicago Fire, FOX’s The Following and The Mindy Project, CBS’ Elementary and The CW’s Arrow. As for the rest, we will be updating when the networks officially announce the show’s fate. Here’s a […]