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Reality TV

Big Women: Big Love Episode 1 Recap: Curly Fries and Creepy Guys

A new year, a new obsession-worthy show. If you’ve like me and caught Big Women: Big Love Episode 1, you’ve already counting down the days until episode 2. It has everything you want in mindless reality TV, beautiful single women (some of them self-loathing) who make questionable choices in their search for love.  The only big difference here from other reality shows in TV, is that these women are big. Like much of the population, these women are overweight. But unlike most reality TV (and much of TV in general) this demographic has been largely ignored, or relegated to the […]

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Five Women Search for Soulmates on “Big Women: Big Love”

The search for true love is a difficult one, but five plus-sized beauties open their loves and hearts as they embark on this very personal journey. Lifetime’s new docuseries, Big Women: Big Love, premiering Jan. 1, shines a light on the lives of plus-size daters and presents an unflinching look into the romantic adventures of five brave singletons. I love dating shows. I simply love watching people fall in love. I am a softie, a romantic, and I root for the lovelorn. Plus-size faces aren’t regularly seen on the TV landscape, so more than watching these women achieve their goals […]

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TV News & Program Updates

Who’s Performing on New Year’s Eve TV?

Put on your dancing shoes, or even your party sweats! This year’s hottest New Year’s events promise performances from the world’s biggest stars to enjoy as the backdrop for your own wild NYE bash or from the quiet comfort of your couch. Let’s go around the dial and check out the night’s lineups. Related: Netflix Helps Parents Trick Their Kids On New Year’s Eve ABC — Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2015 It’s more than a mouthful of a title — it’s an event chock full of music’s biggest stars! The night boasts Times Square performances […]

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TV News & Program Updates

Netflix Helps Parents “Fool” Their Kids On New Year’s Eve

This year, Netflix has my back. I’m one of the 34% of parents* who trick their children into thinking that the New Year is at a time other than midnight. In years past, we’ve run down to wherever the assembled group of kids are playing and feigned that we’ve been having such a good time, that time has flown by and it’s “magically” midnight. Throwing confetti pell-mell lacked the pomp and circumstance of the grown-up celebration a few hours later, and this year, that’s where Netflix comes in. To help parents in their time-shifting ruse, Netflix has created an on […]

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Family

Hallmark’s “Home & Family” Celebrates 500th Episode

Hallmark’s daytime Emmy-nominated series, Home & Family is always entertaining viewers with its mix of cooking segments, celebrity interviews, DIY projects, musical performances and more. The series is the only lifestyle series on cable to produce a new show every weekday. Now the talk show can add another accomplishment to it’s list: celebrating its 500th episode. I asked Cristina Ferrare and Mark Steines about memorable moments from their first five hundred episodes and about their dynamic chemistry. How does it feel to be about to shoot your 500th episode? Cristina: It’s been 500 episodes of just pure fun! I was […]

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Family

Disney’s Christmas Day Celebration gets “Frozen”

If the big guy in red doesn’t fulfill all of your holiday wishes, turn on ABC to get a blustery treat as Disney’s annual Christmas parade and special gets a Frozen makeover. This year’s 31st annual Christmas Day special has been renamed the Disney Parks Frozen Christmas Celebration in a nod to last year’s movie smash. Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts hosts the celebration from Walt Disney World in Florida with musical performances from Train, Ariana Grande, Lucy Hale, Trisha Yearwood and more. GMA Contributor and ESPN football analyst Tim Tebow will also report from Florida. Meteorologist Rob Marciano will […]

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Holiday

The CW To Air Star-Studded Jingle Ball 2014 on Dec. 18

The Z100 Jingle Ball is an annual holiday concert that features the year’s hottest pop stars in a sassy, sexy concert. Everybody who is anybody is there performing or presenting. Musicians who perform during the annual Jingle Ball know they’re what’s hot right now. This year’s Jingle Ball airs Dec. 18 on The CW and features mega-watt musical performances and incredible guest presenters. This is a much buzzed-about concert and one of the larger, non-award show music events of the year. What Jingle Ball 2014 moment will everyone be talking about the next day? (My guess is the absolutely scandalous […]

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TV News & Program Updates

After 6 Seasons, White Collar Comes To A Close

I sat in on a conference call with Tim DeKay and recent Golden Globe nominee for his work on the HBO movie, The Normal Heart, Matt Bomer and both gents opened up about the exciting and emotional series finale of White Collar, airing Thursday, Dec. 18 at 9pm ET. Related: Mark Ruffalo talks HBO’s The Normal Heart DeKay promises that the entire finale is jaw-dropping, “Do not walk away — and I know you wouldn’t anyway — but do not walk away until the final second of the episode. We’ve got some great twists and turns, some wonderful moments.” The […]

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Animation

Disney Celebrates 20 Years on Broadway

I love to sit in a darkened theater, eagerly anticipating the rising of the curtain, with my eyes wide and my ears piqued as I wait to be transported to another world. Movies are great, but there is nothing as viscerally entertaining as live theater. And for me, the apogee of entertainment is the Broadway musical. Disney grants unprecedented access to its Broadway best, when Jesse Tyler Ferguson hosts Backstage With Disney on Broadway: Celebrating 20 Years. The special, airing on Sunday, Dec. 14 at 7pm ET takes viewers behind the scenes with the Broadway casts of The Lion King, […]

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Competition

New Web Series “Model Turned Superstar” to Award $1 Million

UPDATE: The Premiere of Model Turned Superstar has been moved to Jan. 10, 2015 Television has found terrific success in reality competitions where individuals are plucked from obscurity and handed instant riches and fame, and now that familiar formula is moving online with a few fun and sexy twists. And models. Lots of the world’s most beautiful models. The seven week series Model Turned Superstar, from executive producer and billionaire mogul Andy Khawaja, brings together nearly 100 gorgeous models from around the globe to compete for a $1 million prize.  Beginning Dec. 15  Jan 10, Watch Model Turned Superstar Here! […]