Barb Oates, Author at StayTuned Magazine

Bella Thorne and Zendaya talk about new movie “Frenemies”

January 10, 2012 Barb Oates

Shake It Up stars Bella Thorne and Zendaya continue to diversify their wardrobes and their young resumés in the latest Disney Channel original, Frenemies, premiering Friday, Jan. 13 at 8pm ET/PT. The film webs together three unique storylines that follow different pairs of friends in their best and worst times. The two girls star as inseparable friends who are elated when a bigwig publisher wants to turn their fashion blog “Geekly Chic” into a magazine. The only catch is that the publisher is only willing to bring one of them onboard as senior editor. This results in a Bride Wars […]

TLC’s newest series “Hook, Line & Sisters” focuses on Alaskan commercial fishing crew

December 28, 2011 Barb Oates

While Deadliest Catch gave TV viewers an unprecedented look into the dangers of the crabbing industry, TLC turns its cameras on the wild and unpredictable competitive world of deep-sea commercial fishing and the too-close-for-comfort challenges one family faces in the new series Hook, Line & Sisters debuting Thursday, Dec. 29 at 9pm ET/PT. The Anderson family isn’t your typical Alaskan commercial fishing crew. While their ship is helmed by family patriarch and captain Dean Anderson, a third-generation fisherman, his crew is dominated by females, including Dean’s wife Susan and their daughters Sierra, 26, and Memry, 21. Each summer they take […]

Zach Anner on Oprah, OWN and his new TV series “Rollin’ with Zach Anner”

December 12, 2011 Barb Oates

What’s with Oprah, The Price is Right and the Olive Garden? Zach Anner, comedian and winner of Your Own Show: Oprah’s Search for the Next TV Star shows us in his offbeat travel series Rollin’ with Zach. The series debuts on OWN beginning Monday, Dec. 12 and will air through December on Mondays at 8pm ET/PT. Anner, who has cerebral palsy, became an Internet sensation with his quick smarts (he did an impromptu interview with Oprah that got national attention) and comic flare (in a hilarious audition tape where he cited himself as having “cerebral palsy – the sexiest of […]

Kourtney Kardashian to name baby after mom Kris Jenner?

December 8, 2011 Barb Oates

Kris Jenner, the showbiz matriarch, doesn’t mind whether her daughter has a boy or a girl as long as the little one is healthy, but she would be honored if the tot shared her moniker. Kris said: “It should be Kris, of course. Half of me wants it to be two boys or two girls, [because] that’s fun for a little playmate. And then, of course you want what they don’t already have, but I am happy either way. Just [a] healthy [baby]!” If Kourtney – who already has a 23-month-old son, Mason, with her boyfriend Scott Disick – decides […]

“Glee” star Lea Michele says Bullies made her change name

December 8, 2011 Barb Oates

Glee actress Lea Michele was originally born with the surname Sarfati, but cruel taunts at school resulted in her altering her name for her first audition, and she has kept her stage moniker ever since. “Sarfati. That’s my real last name. It’s Sephardic, which is Spanish/Jew. I don’t use it a lot because I got ‘Lea So-fatty’, ‘Lea So-farty’ at school,” she explained to Jay Leno during an appearance on The Tonight Show. “When I was little and I went on my first audition, they were like, ‘And may we have your name,’ and I was like, ‘Lea Michele’. And […]

“Party At Tiffany’s” star Tiffany Young lets cameras into Pink Pastry Parlor

December 2, 2011 Barb Oates

Pink Pastry Parlor in Atlanta is home to an amazing young woman who never gave up on her childhood dream. The parlor is the brainchild of Tiffany Young, 30, who at an early age sketched designs of a place that catered to just about every wish a young girl could have from dress up, baking and manicures, to sleepovers with friends, walking a fashion runway, dancing and more. Tiffany is a party planner extraordinaire and her Pink Pastry Parlor is the subject of OWN’s new series Party At Tiffany’s, premiering with two back-to-back episodes on Saturday, Dec. 3 at 10pm […]

Largest, most extreme Christmas trees in world profiled on TLC

November 23, 2011 Barb Oates

By Barb Oates Follow @ChannelGuideBO “Extreme” anything is a good way to capture people’s attention, and TLC’s Extreme Christmas Trees lives up to its name by profiling the insanity involved in some of the biggest, most expensive and most dangerous undertakings when it comes to Christmas trees. If you Google “tallest Christmas tree in the world,” you’ll get over a million reports back that stake claim to some variation of the largest, biggest or best tree from Mexico to Dubai. According to TLC producers, Rio de Janeiro holds the record for the tallest tree on water (also known as the […]

Where to watch Natalie Wood, Christopher Walken and Robert Wagner films now

November 18, 2011 Barb Oates

By Barb Oates Follow @ChannelGuideBO With all the new headlines surrounding Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken and the reopening of the investigation into Wood’s death, a quick trip down memory lane to catch up on the trio’s film resume is in order. Below is a detailed list of the trio’s impressive film resume, specific to when and where you can watch their films in the next few weeks. This isn’t their complete body of work, just upcoming airings of their films. In recent news, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department formally announced it was reopening the investigation into […]

Dr. Andrew Jacono gives hope to victims in “Facing Trauma”

October 25, 2011 Barb Oates

By Barb Oates Follow @ChannelGuideBO Bring your Kleenex to the premiere of Discovery Fit & Health’s new series Facing Drama Wednesday (Oct. 26) at 10pm ET. The series shares the true stories of women who have been left disfigured (primarily on their face) as a result of some violent circumstance. Their angel is Dr. Andrew Jacono, a world-class New York facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon, who has dedicated a portion of his practice to pro bono work that helps victims of devastating acts of domestic violence and crime, as well as senseless accidents. Although graphic in times in retelling the […]

Hallmark’s “Jingle” toy and TV special to top kids’ 2011 holiday gift list

October 21, 2011 Barb Oates

By Barb Oates Back in August, I returned from the TV critics press tour with an interesting new toy. It was a plush little husky pup named Jingle that had a red tag attached to it urging you to: “Press my button to hear how I work.” Jingle sat on my desk for months and was greeted with much adoration and intrigue (OK, annoyance for some) as my colleagues and visitors pressed his little red button and were told: “Jingle’s ready for you to read his story to him.” Jingle is a Hallmark creation and is accompanied by an interactive […]