Jeff Pfeiffer, Author at StayTuned Magazine

Here’s a new clip from TLC’s “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo”

August 13, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Because, after last week’s series premiere, we know at least 2.2 million of you might be interested, here’s a new clip from one of this week’s back-to-back episodes of TLC’s latest hit, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, airing Wednesday at 10pm ET. The clip seems to combine two of the worlds in which TLC is interested — young beauty pageant contestants and their families, and extreme couponing — as June, Honey Boo Boo and the family visit the Piggly Wiggly: RELATED STORY: INTERVIEW WITH JUNE SHANNON

The Olympics aren’t over until NBC says they’re over!

August 13, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

After paying $1.1 billion to license the U.S. broadcast rights to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London (plus another $200 million in production costs), it makes sense that NBC would want to continue milking the event for all that it’s worth, even though the “happy and glorious” Games officially came to a close yesterday. This is especially true given how ratings for the Games have outperformed expectations, leading NBC Sports Chairman Mark Lazarus to even speculate last week that there might be “a small chance we could make a little bit of money.” (Initial projections had the network losing […]

Telemundo Mexico vs Brazil gold medal match coverage sets network Olympic viewing record

August 12, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

“God bless soccer,” said sportscaster Andrés Cantor, as he prepared to call last Saturday’s historic Olympic men’s gold medal soccer match between Mexico and Brazil at Wembley Stadium in London. Telemundo might be expressing the same sentiment, now that ratings are in for their coverage of that event. The network reports that the “Great Golden Final” — which Mexico won, 2-1, to give the country its first Olympic soccer gold medal — ranked as the most-watched Olympic event in Telemundo’s history, averaging 3.6 million total viewers and 2.2 million adults 18-49, according to Nielsen. The match also ranked as the […]

Michael Phelps to improve his (golf) stroke on “The Haney Project”

August 11, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Apparently, Olympics legend Michael Phelps doesn’t have as smooth a stroke on the golf course as he does in the swimming pool. Recently crowned the most decorated Olympian in history with 22 career Olympic medals after winning four golds and two silvers in London, the U.S. swimmer today announced plans for the next stage of his career: to play the world’s greatest golf courses and improve his golf game under the watchful eye of Golf Channel’s Hank Haney. Season 5 of The Haney Project — which begins production in September and will start airing on Golf Channel in February 2013 — will […]

Telemundo to broadcast “The Great Golden Soccer Final” – Mexico vs. Brazil men’s Olympic gold medal match

August 9, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

This story was updated at 2:50pm CT on Aug. 9. This Saturday, Aug. 11, at 9am ET, Telemundo will broadcast the gold medal Olympic men’s soccer match between Mexico and Brazil — what the network is calling a “dream final” since it is a historic match widely anticipated among soccer fans and U.S. Hispanics. The winner will take the Olympic gold medal for the first time in their country’s history. Telemundo has been getting dream ratings of its own in its coverage of Olympic soccer, and of the Olympics in general. Its broadcast on Tuesday of the semifinal soccer match […]

Syfy’s “Paranormal Witness” scares up Season 2 tonight

August 8, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Fans of paranormal reality shows may have gotten a little bummed in the last week, with the season ends of Syfy’s School Spirits on Aug. 1, and Haunted Highway last night. But don’t give up the ghost! Syfy has all your creepy needs ready to be fulfilled some more starting tonight with the return of its hit series Paranormal Witness, which airs its second season Wednesdays at 10pm ET/PT starting tonight. RELATED: PARANORMAL WITNESS SEASON 3 BEGINS WITH DEVILISH EPISODE Season 2 of Paranormal Witness will feature 12 episodes — twice as many as in its inaugural season, when it […]

NGC special offers exclusive animation of historic Curiosity Mars rover landing

August 6, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Early this morning Eastern Time (Aug. 6), the Mars Science Laboratory (a.k.a. the Curiosity rover) successfully landed on Mars. Built to last years and do things on the Red Planet that have never been done before, Curiosity has been hyped as rocket science on steroids. The $2.5 billion mega rover boasts a nuclear power supply, is equipped with a full laboratory that can test samples for organic building blocks of life and can trek across miles of rugged terrain while beaming back to Earth images in high-definition 3-D. Weighing in at nearly a ton, five times heavier than its predecessors, […]

“American Masters” Gore Vidal episode streaming and on-air for limited time

August 3, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

PBS has announced that starting today, Aug. 3, it will be making the 2003 documentary American Masters: “The Education of Gore Vidal” available for streaming on the American Masters website and PBS Video to commemorate the life of the eclectic intellectual who passed away July 31 at the age of 86. The web stream will be available for one week, through Aug. 9. This episode will also air on PBS in select markets beginning Aug. 3 at 7:30pm ET, through Aug. 12 (contact your local PBS station for airdates or check local listings). The Education of Gore Vidal celebrates the […]

Gabby Douglas talks about her historic gold medal on “Today” (video)

August 3, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

This morning on NBC’s Today, 16-year-old U.S. Olympian Gabrielle “Gabby” Douglas talked to host Savannah Guthrie about her historic win yesterday at the Summer Olympic games in London, where Gabby became the first African-American to win a gold medal in the gymnastics individual all-around competition. During the interview, Gabby explains what she was thinking and feeling during the event, and she displays during the interview the same beyond-her-years poise with which she executed so brilliantly on the field of competition. And, of course, she flashes her now-famous smile on a few occasions. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and […]

“Survivorman” Les Stroud returns to Discovery Channel

August 2, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

After a nearly four-year absence, filmmaker and outdoor adventurer Les Stroud returns to Discovery Channel Aug. 19 with new episodes of his series, Survivorman. As before, Stroud will again be venturing into the wild with no food, no water and no crew, relying on his years of training, raw instincts and sheer will to survive. He films each journey himself, dragging 65 pounds of camera gear every step of the way. This time, Stroud spends 10 days surviving alone in some of the world’s harshest environments, with each location playing out in two one-hour episodes: “Mexico” Part 1 premieres Aug. […]