Barb Oates, Author at StayTuned Magazine

Walking Dead New Year’s Eve marathon

December 31, 2012 Barb Oates

Now’s your chance to catch up on cable TV’s hottest series with The Walking Dead New Year’s Eve marathon. AMC is hosting a marathon of the first eight riveting episodes of Season 3 beginning tonight at 9pm ET/8pm CT. AMC will resume the final eight episodes of Season 3 beginning Sunday, February 10. Here’s the lineup for tonight’s Walking Dead New Year’s Eve Marathon – Monday, Dec. 31 Episode 301 – “Seed” at 9pm ET With the world growing increasingly more dangerous and Lori’s pregnancy advancing, Rick discovers a potentially safe haven. But first he must secure the premises, pushing […]

Cougar Town returns January 2013! Busy Philipps talks Season 4

December 31, 2012 Barb Oates

Raise your wineglass in celebration and pound some grape as Cougar Town returns for Season 4 on its new home, TBS, beginning Jan. 8 (Tuesdays at 10pm ET/9pm CT). Early last year when ABC was waffling with the series’ future, TBS made an enthusiastic bid for the quirky comedy, winning over the show’s executive producers and landing them a permanent prime-time slot on the network that’s all about “very funny.” The series follows once-divorced-now-newly-remarried (as of the Season 3 finale) fortysomething Jules Cobb (Courteney Cox), her extended family of dysfunctional, lovable neighbors, and their overindulgences with wine and the oddities […]

McGhee sextuplets focus of new OWN series “Six Little McGhees”

December 14, 2012 Barb Oates

The McGhee sextuplets are the focus of OWN’s newest docuseries Six Little McGhees premiering Saturday, Dec. 15 at 10pm ET. High-school sweethearts Mia and Rozonno McGhee wanted one thing in life — a family. After trying to conceive on their own, they turned to fertility treatments that blessed them with sextuplets. Cameras invade their busy, busy Ohio home, capturing what it’s like caring for six babies now approaching their terrible twos. “It is a shocker that I’m doing this every day, especially after seeing a glimpse of the recording to see how busy my life really is,” Mia tells us. […]

Is Discovery Channel’s Amish Mafia real?

December 11, 2012 Barb Oates

Is the Amish Mafia real? Well, if you believe everything on TV, this new series from the award-winning Discovery Channel might be just for you. Amish Mafia makes a sneak peek on Discovery Channel tonight at 10:30pm ET/PT, and then moves into its regular timeslot on Wednesdays at 9pm ET/PT beginning Dec. 12. The opening scenes of the show describe the Amish mafia as a secretive subculture that operates within its own set of rules and values. To ensure the safety of innocent Amish members, a disclaimer also runs that says “select reenactments of events must be used” and to […]

Who are these TLC Sin City Rules women?

December 9, 2012 Barb Oates

If you thought the Housewives could get nasty, wait until you get a glimpse at the women on TLC’s Sin City Rules. Tough, smart and ruthless, these women have made their mark on Las Vegas and want everyone to know it. The series airs on TLC Sundays at 10pm ET but will move to Tuesdays at 10pm ET beginning Jan. 1. Sin City Rules follows the lives of Amy Hanley, Lana Fuchs, Jennifer Harman, Alicia Jacobs and Lori Montoya —five high-powered women whose egos and personalities are even bigger than their pocketbooks. Meet the women of TLC’s “Sin City Rules” […]

Holiday TV movies 2012 – official list of new original movies

November 21, 2012 Barb Oates

This is one list that keeps growing every year, the holiday TV movies 2012 list. Sure, we’ve got the classic holiday movies we view annually and that have long been a part of our family traditions, but a handful of networks are convinced that simply isn’t enough. This is the season in which a handful of networks go into overdrive churning out new holiday TV original movies. Here’s just a sampling of what’s new for the 2012 holiday TV movie season. Keep in mind that many of these movies have multiple air dates throughout the season, so search our TV […]

I Want “Ted” – that cute little bear is so NOT kid friendly

November 18, 2012 Barb Oates

Seth MacFarlane was writer, director, producer and voice star of 2012’s hit comedy Ted. This somewhat endearing, completely raunchy, live-action/CG-animated film is about a grown man whose childhood teddy bear is a live, talking, walking bear. Mark Wahlberg plays John Bennett, a 30-year-old man, who still hangs with his best buddy Ted (that’s his teddy bear). Ted’s foul-mouth and reckless ways have been a long distraction to John, and an increasing annoyance of John’s only-so-patient girlfriend, Lori Collins (Mila Kunis). As John struggles to figure out a way to navigate adulthood, it will take the unexpected help of his boyhood […]

Bullying, murder victims offer forgiveness in GMC’s “I Forgive You”

November 16, 2012 Barb Oates

I forgive you. Those are three extremely powerful words and the premise GMC network (the “uplifting entertainment” net) developed their newest project around. In the documentary pilot I Forgive You, premiering Sunday, Nov. 18 at 9pm ET (repeating 10pm ET, 11pm ET), viewers will witness some very remarkable and inspirational — and true — stories of forgiveness that show the best in human nature. “In none of these stories did people come forward and beg for forgiveness,” said executive producer Arnold Shapiro, the Oscar and Emmy award-winning producer for Scared Straight! “In all of these stories, the forgiveness was voluntarily […]

TV medium John Edward, psychic Char Margolis read “Katie” audience

November 14, 2012 Barb Oates

Psychic mediums John Edward and Char Margolis will read studio guests as part of the Katie show tomorrow. The popularity of TLC’s hit series Long Island Medium featuring Theresa Caputo has certainly cast a renewed spotlight on the abilities of mediums. Caputo is currently enjoying a sold-out national tour in between seasons of her recently renewed series. But long before Theresa there were a few other TV mediums that captivated viewers and skeptics alike; two of them — John Edward and Char Margolis — will be appearing on Katie Couric’s talker Katie on Thursday, Nov. 15. Edward and Margolis will […]

Long Island Medium Season 3 finale recap, Caputo family goes to college

November 7, 2012 Barb Oates

Long Island Medium Season 3 finale, “Hello College,” culminated with Theresa Caputo in tears as she hugged Victoria goodbye at her new college. It was a bittersweet event for the Caputo clan as they helped Victoria pack, unload and get settled in her new home. No surprise that tough-buy Larry took it the hardest, letting out a sob, as he kissed and hugged his little girl goodbye. Theresa told us earlier this year that sending Victoria off was a milestone for the family: “We all did pretty good with Victoria leaving for college, of course we cried!!! But she is […]