Jeff Pfeiffer, Author at StayTuned Magazine

“Ghost Adventures” — Live

June 25, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

By Jeff Pfeiffer Following in the tradition of shows like Ghost Hunters and Most Haunted, the Travel Channel series Ghost Adventures will be embarking on its first live investigation this Halloween season. Airing live Oct. 30 from 8pm-3am ET, the special features the Ghost Adventures team of Zak Bagans, Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin as they voluntarily lock themselves inside one of America’s most haunted locations — the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia — to examine the reported ghostly activity at the landmark. Built during the Civil War, the asylum is the second-largest hand-cut stone building in the world. […]

Oscar Doubles Its Best Picture Pleasure

June 24, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

By Jeff Pfeiffer In an announcement today, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Sid Ganis stated that the 82nd Academy Awards, which will be held March 7 of next year (and broadcast on ABC once again), will have 10 feature films vying in the Best Picture category — twice the usual five we have been accustomed to for over half a century.

E! To Draw In More High-Five’n White Guys With “Maxim” Partnership

June 18, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

By Jeff Pfeiffer In the wake of its very successful partnership in May on the TV special Maxim Hot 100, E! and Maxim magazine (well, technically, the less-sexy-sounding Moving Pictures DPI, which is the production division of the mag’s publisher, Alpha Media Group) have announced a two-year partnership to produce similar celebrity-driven programming, with “a minimum” of six hour-long television specials promised. Two specials have been greenlit for 2009. Maxim’s Celebrity Beach Watch premieres this fall and tracks the hottest celebs on the most exotic beaches. Maxim’s Hottest Moments 2009 will be a year-end review combining the most absurd and […]

Looking For A “Loser”

June 16, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

By Jeff Pfeiffer NBC’s The Biggest Loser is launching a 15-city cross-country search to find new contestants for Season 9 of the weight-loss competition series, set to air in early 2010 (Season 8 begins this September). Casting producers are looking for outgoing and charismatic family teams of two (parent/child, siblings, husbands and wives, couples, cousins, in-laws, etc.). Individuals who don’t have a partner can audition on their own. Candidates must be at least 18 years of age, and legal U.S. residents. The casting teams will attempt to see the first 500 people in line, and you will not be allowed […]

National Geographic Channel’s Got The “Hook”-Up Again

June 12, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

By Jeff Pfeiffer “The biggest fish we’ve seen! A real-life Loch Ness monster.” That’s how biologist Zeb Hogan describes a creature encountered in one of the new summer episodes of National Geographic Channel‘s popular Hooked series, which journeys across the globe with anglers and scientists to see the most extreme encounters in megafishing, and the research being done to protect these fish.

Get Your “Ass” On Oxygen!

June 11, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

By Jeff Pfeiffer Tying in with its new So You Think You Can Dance/Biggest Loser hybrid series called Dance Your Ass Off, premiering June 26, Oxygen is featuring a site that will allow users to submit videos of themselves, um, dancing their asses off. The new series features full-figured contestants who are paired with a professional dance partner who train them for weekly performances. Judges score the routines, and then contestants weigh in to reveal their weekly weight loss. The dance and weight scores are combined for an overall total, which determines who is sent home each week. The last […]

“Futurama” Has A Bright Future

June 11, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

By Jeff Pfeiffer Matt Groening and David X. Cohen’s brilliant animated comedy Futurama is having a Family Guy-type resurrection as it will be returning to production on 26 new half-hour episodes more than six years after its last original episode aired on FOX. The episodes will be running on Comedy Central beginning in mid-2010, with a broadcast run also possible. Comedy Central has been airing reruns of the series since 2006, along with the Futurama movies made since its cancellation. It has been the movies’ blockbuster performance on DVD and Comedy Central that helped revive interest in bringing back the […]

“Shark Week” Adds Bite To Summer TV

June 11, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

By Jeff Pfeiffer (aka RabbitEars) First of all — yes, yes, it’s true. RabbitEars is really me. I’ve hidden long enough! But be honest with yourself. You’re not too surprised, are you? After all, have you ever seen RabbitEars and me at the same place, at the same time? But now to the main business at hand. Discovery Channel has announced the return of its summer favorite, Shark Week, in August. Just as many sharks need to keep swimming to survive, so this ratings juggernaut has moved ever forward since its debut back in 1988. And as in previous years, […]

Crossing Over With Disney

June 10, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

By RabbitEars On July 17, Disney Channel presents what it is calling “the crossover event of the summer.” It’s very likely kids and tweens will agree with the hype, since this event — called “Wizards on Deck With Hannah Montana” — will be intersecting three of the network’s hit series into one 90-minute telecast that brings together the stars of Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverly Place and The Suite Life on Deck. Miley Cyrus, Emily Osment, Selena Gomez, David Henrie, Jake T. Austin, Jennifer Stone, Dylan Sprouse, Cole Sprouse, Brenda Song and Debby Ryan will be on hand for the […]

Interview: Teddy Sears Of TNT’s “Raising The Bar”

June 8, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

By Jeff Pfeiffer Court is back in session tonight as TNT begins airing season two of Raising the Bar. The series follows the cases and lives of young lawyers who work on opposite sides — the public defender’s office and the district attorney’s office. Cases this season tackle issues such as hate crimes, drug dealing and child pornography. Among the lawyers doing battle in court is Richard Patrick Woolsley, played by Teddy Sears. Richard could have been a high-priced lawyer at his father’s firm, but he chose to channel his legal expertise toward helping the indigent as a public defender. […]