Lori Acken, Author at StayTuned Magazine

CBS invites you to Flaunt Your City on NCIS: Los Angeles

March 10, 2011 Lori Acken

By Lori Acken NCIS: Los Angeles fans, here’s your chance to get your face — and your city — on the season finale of your favorite show. Today through April 1, CBS Television Studios and Instagr.am invite viewers to “Flaunt Your City” and upload photographs of your favorite unique or iconic hometown hotspots via Instagr.am using these instructions: 1. Download the Instagr.am app to your iPhone (only available on iPhone, iPad and iTouch) 2. Follow the NCIS: LOS ANGELES cast on Instagr.am 3. Take photo of your favorite hometown spot with the app 4. HASHTAG your photo with #NCISLA 5. Upload […]

Bravo’s upcoming “Platinum Hit” hits South By Southwest

March 9, 2011 Lori Acken

By Lori Acken Platinum Hit, Bravo’s answer to American Idol for folks who write the songs the whole world (or at least someone who might make it a chart-topper) sings is bringing it’s show to Austin’s South By Southwest music frenzy, even before the series’ TV debut. Hosted by Jewel and judged by erstwhile Idol judge Kara DioGuardi along with a plethora of celebrity guests, Platinum Hit follows 12 musicians as they battle through weekly challenges that require them to write and perform lyrics from multiple musical genres. In the end, one ultimate hitmaker will write themselves a musical ticket […]

PBS Celebrates The Heyday Of The Troubadour And The Legends Whose Careers Were Launched On Its Stage

March 2, 2011 Lori Acken

“By 1970, the heart of ’60s rock was going down. The Beatles were breaking up. The Stones were inactive. So rock ‘n’ roll was losing its energy. It needed time to take its breath. And when it was taking its breath, that’s when this singer/songwriter movement was at its most powerful,” says Robert Hilburn, former music critic for the Los Angeles Times, in the opening moments of American Masters: Troubadours: Carole King/James Taylor & The Rise of the Singer-Songwriter, premiering on PBS March 2. Watch the full episode. See more American Masters. For the next hour and a half, fans […]

Glee’s Jane Lynch: post-Bowl episode will be a blast … maybe literally

February 3, 2011 Lori Acken

By Lori Acken Speaking with journalists via conference call Thursday afternoon, Glee star Jane Lynch says that her character, cheerless cheer coach Sue Sylvester, will come through this Sunday’s post-Super Bowl episode with a bang … and possibly a whimper. Or a Sue Sylvester version of a whimper, anyway. Which pretty much means that rooms shall be demolished. Lynch called the upcoming “The Sue Sylvester Shuffle” episode — in which Mr. Schuester and Coach Beiste scheme to unite the glee club and and the football team, while Sue’s desperation to win cheerleading Nationals reaches dangerous levels — “a Glee episode on […]

Bravo’s “Inside The Actors Studio” lands Jim Carrey after 17 years of trying

January 5, 2011 Lori Acken

From Bravo: Bravo starts the year off on a high note as Golden Globe-winner Jim Carrey, one of the most sought-after guests in “Inside the Actors Studio” history, takes the hot seat on Monday, January 10th at 8pm ET/PT. Host James Lipton first invited Carrey 17 years ago to appear on the show and on the night of the memorable taping, told the audience Carrey is worth the “17 years of foreplay.” Leaving no stone unturned, Lipton courses through Carrey’s early days as a class clown in school to the janitorial job he had to take in order to support […]

Bravo announces new real-time Twitter initiative

December 7, 2010 Lori Acken

From Bravo: Expanding on its robust offerings of real-time engagement tools such as the Talk Bubble and the interactive iPad app Bravo Now, Bravo Media collaborated with Twitter to launch @BravoTV, a real-time social media experience and interactive site where fans can engage with each other 24/7 about their favorite Bravo shows and Bravolebrities. Additionally, TelevisionWithoutPity.com will launch Talk Without Pity, a social media dashboard for the TV junkie, where users can find, consume, and participate in real-time virtual watercooler buzz surrounding their favorite programs and performers. The announcement was made by Lisa Hsia, Senior Vice President of Bravo Digital […]

Mega-Fan Eric Close Stars In First-Ever Film Based On A Garth Brooks Hit

November 30, 2010 Lori Acken

Munching a raspberry scone on the set of Unanswered Prayers, the new Lifetime original film premiering Nov. 29 and based on the 1990 smash by country music superstar Garth Brooks, Eric Close happily recounts the first time he met the singer. “Back in ’92, I was working on a soap opera on the NBC lot and I was friends with a person who worked on the Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” Close recalls. “So I used to hang out with her and I got to meet a lot of the guests. Well, Garth was a guest on the show one […]

Big Bang Theory fans: CBS.com announces “Soft Kitty” contest

November 17, 2010 Lori Acken

Soft Big Bang Theory fans, warm Big Bang Theory fans, happy Big Bang Theory fans — or at least those of you willing to film yourselves singing the now famous “Soft Kitty” song from Season One’s “The Pancake Batter Anomaly” episode — you could score yourself a trip to L.A. to watch a taping of the hit CBS series. All you have to do is log on to CBS.com by Jan. 6 and upload a 30-second video of yourself singing the feel-good ditty, which Sheldon’s mom used to sing to her sick boy, for your chance to win. CBS.com users […]

Oxygen begins casting “The Glee Project”

November 17, 2010 Lori Acken

NEW YORK – November 16, 2010 – Oxygen Media and Casting Duo, in association with Robert Ulrich, casting director of “Glee,” will begin the casting search for “The Glee Project” with open calls in Chicago on Saturday, December 18 and Sunday, December 19 and in Dallas on Saturday, January 8 and Sunday, January 9. Aside from these open calls, the team will also be reaching out to the next wave of professional performers through official industry channels in order to ensure everyone is included in this opportunity. “The Glee Project,” where performers will compete for a multi-episode guest-starring role on season three of hit […]

Lifetime And Garth Brooks Team Up For First-Ever Film Based On A Garth Brooks Hit

November 1, 2010 Lori Acken

Fellow fans of Garth Brooks’ deeply personal ballads, our prayers have been finally answered. When Lifetime debuts its original film Unanswered Prayers, based on music legend Garth Brooks’ 1990 No. 1 smash, on Nov. 29, it will mark the first time a Brooks hit has ever been adapted for film. Why so long, when Brooks’ themes of love and loss and Regular Joe life seem like such a natural fit for the movies? “In ’92, ’93 when the song was out, we got a lot of requests to do it, but everybody kind of wanted to have it as the […]