By Lori Acken Follow @ChannelGuideLLA After last week’s jewelry-sale-and-junk-van debacles, Laura thinks it’s time to enlist a third party to help her and Todd with their communication issues the way Dean has helped them with their financial issues. Todd balks at first, but gives in and agrees to go.
By Lori Acken Follow @ChannelGuideLLA Addressing gathered journalists at the summer Television Critics Association press tour, Oprah said it was time to own up to what was happening at OWN. The Oprah Winfrey Network — OWN for short — debuted in January with much fanfare, lots of retread programming and tepid ratings, disappointing her massive fan base and the media superpower herself. So with her legendary syndicated show ended, Winfrey named herself CEO of the struggling network and set to work melding it with her longstanding Harpo Productions. “I can tell you now, I am officially in,” Winfrey told the […]
By Lori Acken Follow @ChannelGuideLLA I knew it! I said! Way back in episode …well, whatever episode it was where the Big New York Casting Agent came! I said this: “So now that I’ve accepted this new reality in this new reality show, I feel equally secure in tossing this prediction: Despite the fact that she has done nothing but dance joyfully, express her love for her peers and look splendid in an inappropriate pile of brown eye-shadow — Maddie is about to get her comeuppance at the hands of Chloe. I say this for several reasons. One, because that would make […]
When I picked up the phone to interview Jeanne Tripplehorn about her pivotal role in Five — Lifetime’s star-saturated film anthology that is the showpiece of its long-running “Stop Breast Cancer For Life” initiative — it was Tripplehorn who began asking questions. “They sent me some information,” she said of the PR folks at Lifetime who connected us. “You are a breast cancer survivor?” I told her I am. “Congratulations!” said the actress, who plays Pearl, an oncologist whose mother’s death inspired her to specialize in breast cancer — and who is the one character that ties all five films […]
By Lori Acken Follow @ChannelGuideLLA Make no mistake, boys and girls — science is fun. Tonight on Nat Geo’s Rocket City Rednecks, Travis finds himself pondering how to save the Earth from a planet-smashing comet. And, it turns out, a planet-smashing comet is a lot like a gargantuan watermelon.
In light of Amanda Knox’ successful bid for acquittal for the murder of her roommate — and her subsequent return home to Seattle — Lifetime Networks will re-air their controversial made-for-TV film Amanda Knox: Murder On Trial In Italy with text updates to reflect the retrial and Knox’ turn of fortune. The film, which stars Hayden Panettiere as Knox and Marcia Gay Harden as her mother, will air on Lifetime Movie Network Thursday at 10pm and Friday at 2am, and on Lifetime Network at 10pm on Saturday, Oct. 8. Even before it’s February premiere, the film faced fierce opposition from […]
By Lori Acken Follow @ChannelGuideLLA Everybody’s been there. You get a little cash in the bank — a tax return, an unexpected windfall, a little dab of financial breathing room — and the universe seems to sense it. Something breaks down. A kid need braces. And suddenly your cushion-cash is in someone else’s coffers. On tonight’s episode of Downsized, the Bruces are driven to the breaking point by escalating cash demands — and teaching the triplets to drive. Each parent makes a startling decision that reflects their vastly different ideas about when to save and spend.
By Lori Acken Anne Burrell — Mario Batali’s right-hand woman on Iron Chef America who’s gone on to star in Secrets of a Restaurant Chef and Worst Cooks In America — is awed that Food Network’s faithful fan base has turned her and her pals into the rock stars of the gustatory set. Now she’s looking to return the favor. Tomorrow marks the release of Burrell’s first cookbook, titled Cook Like A Rock Star, which spotlights Burrell’s infectious wit and fearless personality — and her sincere belief that you can cook well, too, with a little friendly guidance. “That’s what the message […]
They may be beaming in the publicity shot above, but don’t let the sunny smiles fool you. In a season that has seen expert negotiator — and unapologetic daddy’s girl — Ashley leave the ranks of American Jewelry and Loan, then return at Dad Les’ behest, albeit with plans to split the business in two and send brother Seth packin’, it’s hard to imagine that things could get tougher for the Gold family. Never mind all the testy sellers that frequent their shop and make the family’s own hair-trigger tempers worse. On Tuesday night’s Season Finale of truTV’s Hardcore Pawn, […]
By Lori Acken Follow @ChannelGuideLLA If you’ve been wondering what happened to Matt and Amy Roloff and their rapidly-growing kids since the family’s popular TLC series, Little People, Big World ended last year, the network has good news. The Roloffs are back for a series of four hourlong specials intended to give their faithful fans (myself firmly among them) closure on what were some pretty major — and heartrending — cliffhangers in the series finale.
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