Jeff Pfeiffer, Author at StayTuned Magazine

TCM will remember Eli Wallach with 11-hour film marathon

June 25, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

Famed character actor Eli Wallach passed away Tuesday at the age of 98. To remember the award-winning actor, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will air an 11-hour film marathon featuring five of his performances on June 30 starting at 9am ET. TCM Eli Wallach Film Marathon — June 30 (All Times ET) 9am: Kisses for My President (1964) — The first female president has to deal with her husband’s bruised ego. Fred MacMurray, Polly Bergen and Eli Wallach star. 11am: Act One (1963) — George Hamilton stars in the true story of playwright Moss Hart, a poor Brooklyn boy who joins […]

TBS celebrates “Seinfeld” 25th anniversary with week of best episodes

June 25, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

It isn’t hard to find the classic sitcom Seinfeld airing somewhere; it still runs in syndication, and TBS broadcasts a number of episodes on most nights. But the week of June 30-July 5, TBS will narrow down its airings to 25 of the series’ most popular and acclaimed episodes, in honor of the comedy’s 25th (!!) anniversary (Seinfeld first aired on TV, as The Seinfeld Chronicles, on July 5, 1989). TBS will air four of the best Seinfeld episodes each weeknight from June 30-July 4, culminating on the 25th anniversary of the show’s first broadcast, with five episodes on July […]

2014 Critics Choice Television Awards: Date, time, channel, nominees, presenters

June 18, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

The 2014 Critics Choice Television Awards — the fourth annual ceremony held by The Broadcast Television Journalists Association to honor programs and performances from the preceding year — will air live on The CW June 19 at at 8pm ET (tape-delayed PT). The awards honor the best of TV that aired between June 1, 2013, and May 31, 2014. Cedric the Entertainer (pictured) serves as host. Among the other awards presented, the 2014 Critics Choice Television Awards will honor Ryan Murphy with the Louis XIII Genius Award, for his work on everything from American Horror Story and Glee, to the […]

FOX News Channel interviews Hillary Clinton tonight

June 17, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

FOX News Channel’s Bret Baier and Greta Van Susteren will team up on a live interview with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tonight on the network starting at 6:45pm ET. The joint interview, titled Special: FOX News Interview with Hillary Clinton, will begin on Baier’s Special Report, and continue with Van Susteren during On the Record until 7:15pm ET. According to FNC, the half-hour interview will cover an array of topics, including Clinton’s book Hard Choices, the upcoming 2016 presidential election and the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya (this latter point may elicit some interesting comments from Clinton, given the […]

Stanley Cup champs Los Angeles Kings appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live; NYC mayor to make good on bet with L.A. mayor

June 16, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

On the Monday, June 16, installment of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, key players from the Los Angeles Kings will visit following their Stanley Cup victory over the New York Rangers. Conn Smythe winner Justin Williams, along with teammate and scorer of the double-overtime winning goal, Alec Martinez, will talk to Kimmel about their second NHL championship in three seasons. The Stanley Cup trophy itself is also expected to make an appearance. And, also appearing on tonight’s Jimmy Kimmel Live will be New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who will be making good on a bet he made with Los […]

“Legion” spinoff “Dominion” chronicles ongoing battle between humans and angels

June 12, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

In Syfy’s Dominion, we see archangels whose names may sound familiar depending upon your upbringing, but they aren’t often engaged in the most angelic behavior. The sci-fi/fantasy series is based on the 2010 feature film Legion, in which the archangel Gabriel waged a war of possession against mankind. Archangel Michael chose to side with humanity against Gabriel. Dominion is set 25 years after the events of Legion, with Alex Lannen (Christopher Egan), the child seen at the end of the film, revealed to be the “chosen one” that had been whispered about. Alex is a soldier in Vega (formerly Las […]

Greta Van Susteren looks back at O.J. Simpson murder case

June 12, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

Twenty years ago, on June 13, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were found murdered outside Brown’s condo in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. This set off the highly publicized investigation and trial of Nicole’s ex-husband — former football star O.J. Simpson. This June 13, FOX News Channel’s Greta Van Susteren looks back at that case, coverage of which helped launch her own television career, in a special called Greta Investigates: O.J. Simpson, premiering at 7pm ET. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comIn the hourlong program, Greta Van Susteren reviews and gives new insight into her exclusive 2004 […]

2014 World Cup Spanish-language coverage in U.S.

June 12, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

Univision will feature all-encompassing 2014 World Cup Spanish-language coverage from Brazil across its broadcast, cable and digital platforms. Download a FREE FIFA World Cup 2014 TV schedule printable version including the full schedule of World Cup matches on ESPN and Univision networks! On the broadcast side, the Univision Network will feature 56 live matches, all simulcast on Univision Deportes Network, with a team of announcers including Enrique “El Perro” Bermúdez, Félix “El Gato” Fernández, Jesús “El Profe” Bracamontes, and Luis Omar Tapia, among others. There will also be numerous World Cup-related specials and regular segments in Univision’s entertainment and news […]

Big Smo recap Episode 1: “Go Big or Go Home”

June 11, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

I wasn’t sure what to think when the preview screener for A&E’s new reality series Big Smo arrived on my desk. I had been unaware of the genre of music Smo performs — a crossover of country music, Southern rock and hip-hop known as “hick hop” to some people, as Smo tells us in the premiere episode. And following the premiere, I still don’t fully know what his sound is like, as the episode didn’t have too much of Big Smo’s original music in it, except for snippets at the end. We get inklings in the premiere that Smo is […]

Spike Guys Choice 2014: Date, time, honorees

June 10, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

Taped last Saturday, June 7, Spike Guys Choice 2014 will air on the network June 11 at 9pm ET/PT. This is the eighth annual installment of the ceremony that celebrates all things “guy.” Among the notable honorees at Guys Choice 2014 are Sandra Bullock, who is awarded the “Decade of Hotness” honor — “one of the night’s highest honors,” according to a Spike TV release. As you can see from the photo of Bullock here, she and other Guys Choice honorees receive an award known as “mantlers.” Bullock received her award on Saturday from Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant and Keanu […]