Kellie Freeze, Author at StayTuned Magazine

Preview: Super Bowl XLIX Commercials

January 28, 2015 Kellie Freeze

Super Bowl XLIX is less than a week away, and we’re already seeing some of the big-budget ads that will play during the big game. Each 30-second spot costs advertisers $4.5 million, so it’s no wonder that companies try to get a little more bang our of their advertising buck by getting eyeballs on their messages prior to gameday. Releasing commercials prior to the game also allows advertisers to create a longer message than the pricy 30-second spots that will air on Super Bowl Sunday. As commercials become available, we’ll post them here. And check back on Monday, Feb. 2, for […]

Oprah To Re-air Episode For 70th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation

January 27, 2015 Kellie Freeze

In Commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, OWN will re-air a memorable episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show on Friday, Jan 30 at 10pm ET/PT. In the episode, which originally aired in 2006, Oprah and and Nobel laureate, New York Times bestselling author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel travel to Auschwitz, Poland to speak about the relevance of the Holocaust today. In A Special Presentation: Oprah and Elie Wiesel At Auschwitz Death Camp, close to 61 years after he left the concentration camp, Wiesel returned to Auschwitz to see what remains, what it means to […]

Rev Your Engines for BBC America’s “Mud, Sweat and Gears”

January 26, 2015 Kellie Freeze

BBC launches a new reality competition series where teams of car nuts transform ordinary autos into extraordinary vehicles. Each week, hosts Tom “Wookie” Ford and Jonny Smith captain teams of two and in 24 hours, the teams reconstruct the cars and navigate them through three extreme challenges (that promise tons of stunts!) In Episode 1, the teams create the ultimate cop cars. Jonny is joined by two hot-rodding brothers from Detroit and they choose to start with a Jaguar in homage to 1970’s British police dramas. Wookie and his team of California racers opt for a Pontiac Firebird, like the model used […]

Kids TV: Bella and the Bulldogs on Nickelodeon

January 23, 2015 Kellie Freeze

I really wanted Bella and the Bulldogs to be great. I really did. I would have settled for it to be good. But instead it’s more of the same. I had high hopes for Nickelodeon’s newest live-action comedy, Bella and the Bulldogs the laugh track-backed story of a girl as she bolts from the sidelines to the headlines as the quarterback of her middle school football team. When I read the show’s logline, I imagined an opportunity for Nickelodeon to step away from the bouncy-haired starlets who make up its cavalry of talent and portray an athlete as someone who […]

New Judges and Audition Info for “So You Think You Can Dance”

January 22, 2015 Kellie Freeze

Today, So You Think You Can Dance announced that two-time Emmy Award-winning choreographer and Multi-platinum recording artist Paula Abdul and Multi-platinum recording artist Jason Derulo will join Nigel Lythgoe on the judges table for the show’s twelfth season. “I’m delighted that Paula Abdul and Jason Derulo will be joining me at the judges’ table this season on SYTYCD,” says Executive Producer and judge Nigel Lythgoe. “Paula is an incredible artist and she brings the perfect combination of expertise and heart to the panel. Jason’s insight, humor and creativity will add a new perspective to the panel that we haven’t had before.” The […]

Sunday’s Hallmark Hall of Fame Movie Takes Viewers “Away & Back”

January 22, 2015 Kellie Freeze

In the lead up to Valentine’s Day, the Hallmark Channel has released its second Hallmark Hall of Fame movie since the franchise moved to the channel in December. The network’s latest offering is about love, loss and … swans. When a family of swans make their home on the Peterson family’s farm, it’s love at first sight for 10-year-old daughter Frankie. But when one of the swans perishes, leaving behind a nest filled with eggs, possessive and protective ornithologist Ginny rushes in to save them. “She may be great working with birds, but she’s terribly insensitive when it comes to […]

Tom Colicchio is Searching for America’s “Best New Restaurant”

January 21, 2015 Kellie Freeze

Chef Tom Colicchio is well known as a restaurateur of dining meccas including Craft and Gramercy Tavern, and as the head judge of Top Chef. Now he is hosting Best New Restaurant, a new culinary competition on Bravo, where delicious food is only part of the battle. In the cutthroat culinary world, where 60 percent of new restaurants close or change ownership within three years of opening, 16 of America’s top young restaurants are vying to be called the best. But the competition looks at much more than food. Colicchio warns that even if the food is stellar, a restaurant […]

TCA: MasterChef Junior- New Judge And Season 3 KidTestants

January 17, 2015 Kellie Freeze

It is no secret that I prefer MasterChef Junior to its adult counterpart, and thankfully, the folks at FOX believe the same. After the success of the show’s second season, a third season was quickly ushered to air, and a fourth season has just finished casting and will commence production in the next few months. This season, chef Joe Bastianich has left the MasterChef judging panel, but Christina Tosi, from Momofuku Milk Bar has joined the franchise and we’ll see her in the show’s next cycle (MasterChef, Season 6) where she will join Chefs Gordon Ramsay and Graham Elliot. Also […]

TCA: Backstrom Panel “Everyone Has an Inner Backstrom”

January 17, 2015 Kellie Freeze

“Everyone has an inner Backstrom,” says creator of FOX’s new dark comedy, Hart Hanson. Star Rainn Wilson deadpans for even Hanson, usually known as a “genial Canadian, “There is a Backstrom waiting to burst out of his chest like an alien.” Amid peals of laughter from the assembled media at the Television Critics Association’s (TCA) winter Press tour, Hanson sputters, “I don’t like when Rainn talks about me.” When he first heard of Hanson’s project, Rainn Wilson was wrapping up the final season of The Office, an was looking forward to a break. Wilson said his agents implored him to read the […]

Parks & Recreation’s Aziz Ansari Reveals What he Wanted to Steal From Set…But Didn’t

January 16, 2015 Kellie Freeze

At the conclusion of the hilarious Television Critics Association winter press tour panel celebration the finale season of Parks and Recreation, I grabbed Aziz Ansari and asked him if he’d ganked anything from the P&R set at the series’ conclusion. Surprisingly, the comedian hadn’t. “I always meant to,” he confessed. “But I forgot.” When I asked him what he wished he’d taken, Ansari said that Tom had an Entertainment 720 Rubik’s cube that he really liked. The prop had the faces of the Entertainment 720 peeps on it. Ansari thought for a moment and then said that maybe he should contact someone […]