Jeff Pfeiffer, Author at StayTuned Magazine

TLC’s Duggars visit Asia in three-part special leading in to “19 Kids and Counting” Season 7

February 20, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Asia is about to get a little bit more overpopulated, following today’s announcement that the Duggars — the huge family from Arkansas who have become fan favorites in their TLC reality series 19 Kids and Counting — will be visiting the continent in a three-part TLC special airing on the network in March. Titled 19 Kids and Counting: Duggars Do Asia, the special will follow the 25-strong Duggar family as they experience Japan and China, obviously cultures quite different from their own. Following these three specials, Season 7 of 19 Kids and Counting will begin on TLC April 2. In […]

Discovery series “Weed Country” and “Pot Cops” look at marijuana growers, law enforcement

February 19, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Updated April 2, 2013, 2:21pm CT When I recently got an email featuring the phrase “Weed Wednesdays” in the subject line, I was kind of hoping it might be from my HR department, announcing a new morale-building initiative. But, actually, it was from Discovery Channel, touting a couple of new marijuana-themed series beginning this Wednesday, Feb. 20, with Weed Country, then continuing in April with Pot Cops, both of which look at the underground world of marijuana growers and the authorities who try to kill their buzz. Weed Wednesdays will kick off with Weed Country this Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 10pm […]

“Downton Abbey” Season 3 finale averages 8.2 million viewers

February 19, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

PBS announced today that the much-buzzed-about final episode of Downton Abbey Season 3, which aired in the United States this past Sunday, drew an average audience of 8.2 million viewers, according to Nielsen Fast National data, with a 5.2 household rating. The finale for Downton Abbey Season 3 was 50 percent above the Downton Abbey Season 2 finale (5.4 million viewers, 3.5 household Fast National rating) from February 2012. According to PBS, Downton Abbey Season 3 consistently drew an audience of more than quadruple the PBS primetime average, and it exceeded the average rating of Downton Abbey Season 2 by […]

“Game of Thrones” traveling exhibition to tour international venues

February 19, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

With Season 3 of HBO’s hit fantasy drama Game of Thrones just around the corner (premiering in America March 31), fans of the incredible world originally created in the novels of George R. R. Martin can enjoy an immersive experience in the Kingdom of Westeros with the Game of Thrones Exhibition, which will be traveling to various international venues beginning in March. Presented by HBO and international partners, the exhibition is free to the public and focuses on key characters from five of the noble houses featured in Game of Thrones (Stark, Lannister, Targaryen, Baratheon and Greyjoy), showcasing more than […]

Discovery Channel’s “Gold Rush” goes live for Season 3 finale

February 19, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Discovery Channel’s current No. 1 series, Gold Rush, will be digging up a first this week as it airs its first ever live event to cap off its third season and reveal which crew finally struck it rich and hit the mother lode. Gold Rush Live will be a two-hour live event from Portland airing Friday, Feb. 22, at 8pm ET/PT. After three years of digging the glory hole, Dakota Fred continued his hunt for an ancient waterfall and started to see the best gold yet just as winter set in. Were his hopes of walking away a millionaire dashed […]

NGC’s “Inside Combat Rescue” series embeds with Air Force pararescue men in Afghanistan

February 18, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

For the first time in its history, the United States Air Force has allowed cameras to follow its Pararescuemen (or PJs, as they are known for short), to war. Their actions in combat will be chronicled in the new six-part National Geographic Channel (NGC) series Inside Combat Rescue, premiering Feb. 18 at 10pm ET/PT, and airing Mondays. Inside Combat Rescue follows the PJs — highly skilled airmen with advanced medical training — along with their leaders, Combat Rescue officers, and their Pave Hawk helicopter teammates, as they fly into the heat of battle during a four-month deployment in Kandahar, Afghanistan. […]

Kate Upton and Genevieve Morton talk SI Swimsuit 2013 Travel Channel special

February 16, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

The famed Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue came out this week with its latest installment — its 50th edition, and the first to feature photo shoots of the models on each of the seven continents (including the first-ever fashion shoot on Antarctica, where this year’s cover model Kate Upton was photographed). It was a huge undertaking, according to SI Swimsuit 2013 editor MJ Day, who says that in addition to 230 hours and over 90,000 air miles, the production incorporated crews of anywhere between 12 and 15 people per shoot, along with 400 to 800 bathing suits at any given time. […]

Science Channel to debut “Russian Meteor Explosion” special

February 15, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

At this point, TV programs related to today’s Russian meteor explosion are coming more quickly than meteor sightings during my last attempted viewing of the Perseid meteor shower. Not only is The Weather Channel re-airing a program about meteors tonight, but Science Channel just announced that it is airing a special called Russian Meteor Explosion tomorrow night — Saturday, Feb. 16, at 8pm ET/PT. Talk about fast turnaround! RELATED: THE WEATHER CHANNEL RE-AIRS “METEORS” EPISODE OF “DEADLIEST SPACE WEATHER” In case you didn’t hear, earlier today a meteor weighing nearly 11 tons streaked across the sky and broke up over […]

The Weather Channel re-airs “Meteors” episode of “Deadliest Space Weather” tonight

February 15, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

In the wake of the disastrous meteor that just exploded over Russia today, The Weather Channel has tweaked its schedule for this evening, Feb. 15, and will be re-airing the “Meteors” episode of its new series Deadliest Space Weather at 9pm ET (repeating at midnight ET). With more people likely to be interested in and curious about space objects such as the Russian meteor, and the asteroid that is passing near our planet, it seems like a good time to re-air this episode. “Meteors” looks at such objects from space and tries to determine if they are a continuing, serious […]

Rachel Maddow hosts MSNBC documentary “Hubris: Selling the Iraq War”

February 15, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Updated March 19, 2013, 11:18am CT As we approach the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War, journalist Rachel Maddow looks at the key government decisions that led the United States into the war, through a new documentary called Hubris: Selling the Iraq War, premiering Feb. 18 at 9pm ET on MSNBC. UPDATE 3/19/13: MSNBC will be re-airing Hubris: Selling the Iraq War Friday, March 22, at 9pm ET, followed by Talking Hubris at 10pm ET, hosted by Chris Hayes. Hubris: Selling the Iraq War is based on the book Hubris, co-written by NBC News National Investigative Correspondent […]