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TV News & Program Updates
Your Ugly Bridesmaid Dress Could Win You $5,000 From WE tv!
By ButtonKnows Got an ugly bridesmaid dress? Of course you do! If you’re an adult female, ya probably got a stable of ’em cowering in the back of your closet or a box in the basement. And though the corresponding photos are embarrassing, the right one could make you $5,000 richer — courtesy of WE tv’s Ugliest Bridesmaid Dress photo contest. All you need to do to enter is visit www.we.tv before noon on April 13, 2009, create a user name and password, and upload an original picture of yourself adrift in a cloud turquoise tulle … or a violet […]
Awards Shows
Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert, Tim McGraw, Heidi Newfield, Rascal Flatts, Sugarland And Taylor Swift To Perform On The “44th Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards” Live From Vegas, April 5, On CBS
Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert, Tim McGraw, Heidi Newfield, Rascal Flatts, Sugarland and Taylor Swift are set to perform on the 44TH ANNUAL ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS, to be broadcast live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Sunday, April 5 (8:00-11:00 PM, live ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network. The event honors country music’s top talent as well as the industry’s hottest emerging talent. Reba McEntire will return to host the show for a record eleventh time. McEntire has won 12 Academy of Country Music Awards — including the Entertainer of the Year Award — and has been […]
Music
Fleetwood Mac Fans! Stevie Nicks Guests On BIO’s “The Chris Isaak Hour” Thursday At 10pm ET
By ButtonKnows I know me some Fleetwood Mac and I love me my Stevie Nicks. So much so that my purse is crafted (by Karla of Chicago’s “Bagitude,” not me and some duct tape) of an actual Rumours album cover in homage to the multiple discs I wore out and replaced. And I still wish I would have tried a little harder to convince my only daughter’s dad to let me name her Rhiannon. A little, anyway. So fellow fanatics, let me spare you some opening-credit sweats — the Stevie Nicks that appears on Chris Isaak’s retro-cool sofa in Thursday […]
Drama
“Breaking Bad” Fans: AMC Wants You To Get Down(loads) With Your “Bad” Selves
Breaking Bad addicts, are you counting the minutes until the second season of the best show on TV premieres March 8 (if you’re not, I’ve got my hands on the first three episodes and, honeys, you should be)? Happy news — thanks to Sony Pictures Television and AMC, fans of the Emmy® Award-winning series are now just a few clicks away from some fun little fixes. Start at amctv.com to catch five original mini episodes penned by Vince Gilligan, Kate Powers, and Gennifer Hutchinson, and directed by John Shiban. The “minisodes” feature the series’ regular cast members in storylines that […]
Documentary
“Biography: Mötley Crüe” Debuts On BIO Tonight At 10ET/8PT
Move over, Bret Michaels — Vince, Tommy, Mick and Nikki have scored some TV time and a hit disc too. Biography: Mötley Crüe premieres tonight on BIO, featuring exclusive concert, tour and personal footage; music videos and photographs; and interviews with all of the band members — plus commentators including the band’s manager Allen Kovac, Billboard Magazine’s Christa Titus, author Neil Strauss (“The Dirt”), photographer Neil Zlozower and concert promoter Ron Delsener. Featured music includes “Shout at the Devil,” “Too Fast for Love,” “Kickstart My Heart,” “Looks That Kill,” “Home Sweet Home,” “Girls, Girls, Girls,” “Dr. Feelgood” and “Saints of […]
Reality TV
A&E Can Touch This: “Hammertime” Is Coming To Prime Time
By ButtonKnows Time to dig your shiny harem pants out of the rummage pile and resurrect your stripey fade, my fellow post-Boomers! Because there ain’t no reality show star like a past-his-prime rap star with a brand new gig (especially one who’s too legit to quit), A&E is at work on a docu-series following the life of “U Can’t Touch This” artist Stanley “MC Hammer” Burrell, Mrs. Burrell and their family of seven, scheduled to air later this year. “Hammertime” will feature 11 half-hour episodes that lay bare the life of Hammer, who rapped and danced his way into the […]
Drama
Lou Diamond Phillips To Guest On “The Beast”
Posted by ButtonKnows Former Numb3rs star Lou Diamond Phillips will match wits with Patrick Swayze’s Agent Charles Barker in an all-new episode of A&E’s The Beast, premiering Feb. 26 at 10pm ET/PT. {SPOILER ALERT: Plot points after the jump}
Sports
Showtime and Strikeforce … Fight! … Nice!
Posted by ButtonKnows If you’re like me and believe that there can never really be too much MMA on TV, especially as pro wrestling struggles to hold my attention (OK, yes, we’ve been broken up for a while), you may want to make sure that Showtime subscription is all paid up. Ken Hershman, Senior Vice President and GM of Sports and Event Programming for Showtime Networks and Scott Coker, founder and CEO of MMA event producer Strikeforce announced today that they will reunite to create an all-new franchise of mixed martial arts programming to air on the premium network. The multi-year […]
Soap Operas
General Hospital Fans: Get Your Phil Once More!
Posted By ButtonKnows Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back when I was living in a pink-shag-carpeted box of a dorm room at the UW Eau Claire, my beloved roommate Puz and I fought about just one single thing — the superiority of General Hospital versus Guiding Light and which would lay claim to the 2pm time slot on our single TV. She — and GL — won the argument on the lure of the Beth/Phillip/Lujack love triangle alone. Eventually my passion for daytime drama was thwarted by the necessity of daytime job. Still, some 20 years later, my heart did a nostalgic little pitter […]