Jeff Pfeiffer, Author at StayTuned Magazine

Edie Falco’s Latest Character Is Unlike Any TV Nurse You’ve Seen

June 8, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

How does one follow up an act that led to the creation of a classic television character? For Edie Falco, most recently seen in her challenging, Emmy-winning turn as Carmela Soprano, another TV project was just what the doctor — or, in this case, nurse — ordered. “After The Sopranos, I read a whole lot of stuff,” Falco tells me. “I read some interesting movies. Nothing really grabbed me. I kept thinking, ‘Oh, I guess you do movies now.’ And then at some point I realized how much I really did love doing a series. I went back into it […]

New Jonas Brothers Video Debuts Sunday

June 5, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

By RabbitEars The music video for the Jonas Brothers’ new single “Fly With Me” will debut this Sunday, June 7, at 8pm ET/PT on Disney Channel. The song appears on the group’s new album, Lines, Vines and Trying Times, which releases June 16. “Fly With Me” is featured on the end credits of the film Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian. The music video will also feature behind-the-scenes home video footage from the Jonas’ rehearsals, and a sneak peek at their upcoming concert tour, which kicks off June 20 in Dallas.

“Biggest Loser” Video Game In The Works

May 29, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

By RabbitEars Software company THQ Inc. is developing a video game based on NBC’s hit series The Biggest Loser. It will be available Oct. 19, exclusively for Wii and Nintendo DS. The show’s trainers, Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels, will be featured in the game, in which players will be led through a series of comprehensive workouts and given nutrition goals to help them transform their lives through diet and exercise. Show host Alison Sweeney will also be included in the game.

Preview: Nature’s Most Amazing Events

May 29, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

By RabbitEars Don’t forget this weekend to tune in to Discovery Channel‘s great new miniseries Nature’s Most Amazing Events. Discovery co-produced the series with the BBC, their production partners on Planet Earth. That series set the bar for natural history programming so high that I wasn’t sure if this new series would be quite as awe-inspiring. While Planet Earth remains on a level of its own, this series comes very close to it and is still the best nature show — or any show period — you’re likely to see this year. And it is unique in that each of […]

Daytime Emmy Award Nominations Announced

May 15, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

By RabbitEars Nominations for the 36th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards were announced yesterday. PBS led the way with 56 nominations, followed by ABC with 50, syndicated shows with 49, CBS with 30, NBC with 20, Nickelodeon with 13, Disney Channel with 10 and Food Network with 10. Several other networks followed with single-digit nominations. The awards ceremony, hosted by Vanessa Williams, will air August 30 on The CW.

Best Of SNL’s Short Films To Air In Primetime Special

May 12, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

This Saturday sees the season finale of Saturday Night Live, but the laughs are continuing into prime time the next night, May 17 at 9pm ET, with NBC’s premiere two-hour special Saturday Night Live Just Shorts. Andy Samberg hosts this program that, for the first time, puts together the greatest short films from the series’ past 34 years. The historic special will feature many fan favorites, including “Synchronized Swimmers,” starring Martin Short and Harry Shearer; Robert Smigel’s “TV Funhouse”; and the Emmy-winning digital short “Dick in a Box,” with Justin Timberlake. Also included are “Lazy Sunday,” “Japanese Office,” “United Way” […]

And Now, A Public Service Announcement

May 8, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

NBC’s award-winning series of public service announcements called “The More You Know” is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, making it the longest-running network public service campaign. Since 1989, hundreds of stars, and two U.S. presidents, have taken part in these messages designed to raise awareness of critical social issues. You might know them; they go along the lines of something like these: Now, these PSAs are part of the season finale of The Celebrity Apprentice, airing this Sunday on NBC. Joan Rivers and Annie Duke, the two remaining finalists, will be creating their own “The More You Know” messages, […]

Ryan Murphy Fills FOX With “Glee”

May 8, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

Ryan Murphy, creator of Nip/Tuck and Popular, is back with a new series, and it looks to be another winner. But with Glee — making a sneak preview debut May 19 after the final performance show of this season’s American Idol, then returning to air regularly in the fall — don’t look for the same of what made those first two shows hits. “I’ve done sort of eight years of darkness and really adult stuff [with Nip/Tuck],” Murphy recently told reporters on a conference call, “and I was like, ‘Okay, I want to try something different. I want to do […]

Ken Burns’ Walk Through The “Parks”

May 6, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

I just had a chance to screen an hourlong preview of Ken Burns’ next project following his amazing film The War from a few years back. Premiering Sept. 27 on PBS, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea continues Burns’ obvious fascination with American history, and both the everyday and well-known people who lived through it, but also adds splashes of a larger, colorful canvas to the intimate archival photos and film footage he has been so masterful at presenting in the past. It’s the story of the history of America’s national parks — which the film describes as an idea […]

NBC Announces New Series, More Returns

May 4, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

By RabbitEars At this morning’s “In Front” held in New York City before advertisers, NBC announced six new series for the 2009-10 TV season, along with four returning series pickups. Returning are Heroes, Southland, Parks and Recreation and six episodes of Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday (NBC caught lightning in a bottle last year with Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and Will Ferrell as George W. Bush; we’ll see how the next batch of Weekend Updates fares). These returns are in addition to the previously announced pickups of The Office, 30 Rock, The Biggest Loser, The Celebrity Apprentice, Law […]