Kellie Freeze, Author at StayTuned Magazine

USA Announces “Playing House” Season 2

December 9, 2014 Kellie Freeze

Break out the hedgehog cupcakes and unwrap your wheel of Spanish Manchego, the gods have heard our prayers. Playing House will return for Season 2! The announcement just came to me a few minutes ago and after I ran around the office, doing a jig and high-fiving myself, I wanted to spread the word: TV’s funniest comedy is returning to TV. (watch Lennon and Jessica’s LOL season 2 announcement here) I know that I bitched and whined a lot (and may have called the people who make programming decisions at USA Network bad names), but now we can rejoice and […]

ABC’s “The Great Christmas Light Fight”

December 8, 2014 Kellie Freeze

Tonight on ABC, families who deck their halls on an epic scale compete for bragging rights — and cool cash as The Great Christmas Light Fight returns for Season 2. In each of tonight’s back-to-back episodes, four families from around the country showcase their elaborate light displays in the hopes of winning $50,000. Celebrity designers Michael Moloney & Sabrina Soto (both from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) judge the amazing displays that feature thousands of choreographed lights, dozens of inflatables and plastic sculptures and living nativities. Tonight’s first episode (airing at 8pm, ET) features four families from across the country showcasing their […]

Group From “Operation Change” In Matt Nathanson Video

December 8, 2014 Kellie Freeze

I know several people with hearing loss, so any time I see a link for a video of a person hearing for the first time, I watch. It is amazing and inspiring to witness someone’s joy when experiencing something that I take for granted. Around the world, hearing loss is a sentence to silence; in the developing world, something as simple as a trip to an audiologist is an unaffordable expense. Singer Matt Nathanson traveled with the Starkey Hearing Foundation to give the gift of hearing to impoverished people in Lima, Peru. His experience was recorded and became the music […]

My Little Pony Special: A Very Minty Christmas

December 5, 2014 Kellie Freeze

Attention, Bronies and wishful residents of Ponyville, your favorite equines have a new ponyventure in time for Christmas! My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas premieres December 13 at 7pmET on Discovery Family. Make sure to set your DVR too: after you watch it once, you and your loved ones will clamor to watch it again and again. The hour-long family adventure features two new songs that will make you forget all existence of a certain Disney princess with a panache for spewing ice from her frigid fingers — this winter, it’s going to be all about the ponies. Since […]

SundanceTV’s ‘One Child’ Premieres Friday

December 4, 2014 Kellie Freeze

Where do your loyalties lie — with the people who share your genetics or the people with whom you’ve shared your life? Thus asks SundanceTV’s gripping two-night miniseries One Child, in which a Chinese-born woman goes on a dangerous journey of discovery when she gets a plea for help from half a world away. Mei Ashley (Katie Leung) is a promising British university student and the beloved adopted daughter of academics (Elizabeth Perkins and Donald Sumpter). Her life goes into a tailspin when she gets a desperate message: Her birth mother begs for help as Mei’s brother has been wrongly […]

Lifetime’s ‘The Red Tent’ Is Beautiful and Timeless

December 4, 2014 Kellie Freeze

When author Anita Diamant’s novel The Red Tent was published, readers praised the book for giving a voice to women who had been all but ignored in ancient and sacred texts. The bestseller has become a book club favorite because of its cross-generational appeal and frank exploration of the lives of women — especially concerning ancient fertility and birthing rituals. Now Lifetime gives history’s forgotten women a face in the four-hour, two-night miniseries The Red Tent by re-envisioning the lives of biblical women whose actual histories have been lost to the sands of time. In The Red Tent, the bond […]

Pixar And ABC Team Up For “Toy Story That Time Forgot.”

December 1, 2014 Kellie Freeze

America’s favorite playthings are back in a new animated adventure, Toy Story That Time Forgot. In the new ABC special, a post-Christmas playdate takes an unexpected turn when the season’s hottest action figures turn out to be dangerously delusional. Many actors in the Toy Story franchise — like Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack and Wallace Shawn — reprise their famous roles in the 30-minute special. This time, Trixie the triceratops, voiced by Kristen Schaal, takes center stage as she leads the effort to get the lost toys back to Bonnie’s room. “It was delightful to get to spend more […]

7 Questions With … Candace Cameron Bure

November 26, 2014 Kellie Freeze

Candace Cameron Bure is America’s sweetheart. We watched her grow up on Full House (oh how I wanted that Pillow Pet) marveled at her on Season 18 of Dancing With the Stars and fall in love with her every time we see her in a holiday romantic comedy. By Candace’s own account, she’s stared in five Christmas movies, and her latest, Christmas Under Wraps airs Saturday, Nov. 29 on Hallmark Channel. “I am a huge Christmas fan and Christmas movie fan,” she admits. “I just love them because Christmas is such a heartwarming time of year. And there’s magic in […]

Star-Filled Figure Skating Special Sunday on ABC

November 26, 2014 Kellie Freeze

On Sunday, the holidays arrive on ABC on blades of steel. Pandora Unforgettable Holiday Moments on Ice skates into your home featuring the world’s favorite figure skaters. Musical Guest stars include Lou Gramm from Foreigner and Paul Rodgets from Bad Company and the event is hosted by Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi and two-time Olympian Michael Weiss. Skaters: Meryl Davis & Charlie White Evan Lysacek Brian Boitano Ilia Kulik Kimmie Meissner Michael Weiss Alissa Czisny Ryan Bradley Elena Leonova & Andrei Khvalko I can watch Meryl and Charlie skate all day long and never get bored. They are grace […]

Allison Williams Soars in Peter Pan Live!

November 26, 2014 Kellie Freeze

When Peter Pan flies through the Darlings’ nursery window in next week’s Peter Pan Live!, it will be the realization of star Allison Williams’ childhood dream. The actress reveals that when she learned that she had earned the lead in NBC’s lavish production, “I couldn’t believe that this dream that I’ve had for so long was actually being realized on such an incredible, interesting stage!” NBC to Air Special: The Making of Peter Pan Live! Wednesday, Nov. 26 at 8pmET The role of devil-may-care Peter is a far cry from her best-known role: uptight Marnie Michaels on HBO’s Girls. But Williams […]