Articles by Ryan Berenz

About Ryan Berenz

Member of the Television Critics Association. Charter member of the Ancient and Mystic Society of No Homers. Squire of the Ancient & Benevolent Order of the Lynx, Lodge 49, Long Beach, Calif. Costco Wholesale Gold Star Member since 2011.

Discovery Channel Alaskan Bush People recap: Shots Fired

November 19, 2015 Ryan Berenz

Go Here For All Of Your Fish-Punching Alaskan Bush People Needs! Do the Alaskan Bush People get paid? We asked! Read our interview with the Brown family. Just another beautiful day in the bush, my friends. I have no idea what the plea deal [Update: Rejected!] means for the longterm future of the show. Discovery went with an all-out media blitz for the Season 3 premiere, and I’ve seen the Browns covered in outlets I’d never seen before. With the fraud case now out in the (sorta) mainstream, lots of people are learning about Alaskan Bush People for the first time. Scandals and […]

Tally ho! Imagination runs wild with “Nature Cat” on PBS Kids

November 18, 2015 Ryan Berenz

Brothers David and Adam Rudman have long worked on Sesame Street (David is Cookie Monster’s puppeteer and Adam is a writer), and they’ve created Nature Cat, an animated kids series for PBS inspired by their own adventures playing outside as kids. “We wanted to do Looney Tunes with a nature curriculum,” David says. “And we felt like that’s a great way to get kids interested in going outside and inspired to go out in nature.” Nature Cat (premiering Nov. 25 on PBS; check local listings) is about an exuberant housecat who goes outside with his animal pals to explore the outdoors […]

What happened to Universal Sports Network?

November 17, 2015 Ryan Berenz

Universal Sports Network, the channel largely dedicated to Olympic sports, figure skating, winter sports, cycling and more, went dark Nov. 16. Fortunately, all the sports properties that Universal Sports Network had broadcast rights to have been acquired by the NBC Sports Group and will air on NBCSN, NBC Sports Live Extra and Universal HD. “Acquiring these valuable media rights builds on our long-term investment in the Olympic Games through 2032, and reaffirms our commitment to Olympic sports and the stories of the great athletes who compete in them,” said Gary Zenkel, President, NBC Olympics, in a statement from NBC Sports […]

2015 College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon TV schedule on ESPN networks

November 16, 2015 Ryan Berenz

The eighth annual College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon Nov. 16-17 includes 20 live games and other college basketball studio programming across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SEC Network and WatchESPN. Action begins Monday at 5:30pm ET with women’s matchups featuring UConn at Ohio State (ESPN2) and Florida State at Florida (SEC Network). Men’s game action begins Monday night with Tennessee at Georgia Tech (ESPNU). ESPN’s College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon concludes with the State Farm Champions Classic from the United Center in Chicago, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, beginning at 7:30pm ET with the Kentucky Wildcats at the Duke Blue Devils, followed by the Kansas Jayhawks vs. […]

Do the Alaskan Bush People get paid? We asked!

November 13, 2015 Ryan Berenz

Visit The New Home For Alaskan Bush People Recaps And More At TV Insider! The possibility had been on the table for a while, and I finally took up the opportunity to do a phone Q&A with the entire Brown family of Discovery Channel’s Alaskan Bush People. I didn’t know what to expect, and I wasn’t exactly sure what I’d do with the interview after it was done. I knew it definitely wouldn’t be a promotional puff piece. The Browns are a family with a lot of off-camera issues, and there are so many inconsistencies between what we’ve seen on TV and what’s been reported […]

College football TV schedule and highlights: Week 11 Nov. 12-14

November 12, 2015 Ryan Berenz

🏈ALSO SEE: 2015 Weekly College Football TV Schedules And Highlights 🏈 College football TV schedule and highlights: Week 11 Nov. 12-14 Marquee games in italics. Thursday, Nov. 12 7:30pm ET Louisiana Lafayette at South Alabama, ESPNU Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech, ESPN Friday, Nov. 13 9pm ET USC at Colorado, ESPN2 Saturday, Nov. 14 12pm ET Georgia at Auburn, CBS No. 11 Florida at South Carolina, ESPN North Texas at Tennessee, SEC Network Texas at West Virginia, ESPNU No. 3 Ohio State at Illinois, ABC Kansas at No. 15 TCU, FOX Sports 1 Maryland at No. 13 Michigan State, ESPN2 Purdue […]

AMC’s genre-bending “Into the Badlands” lives by the sword

November 12, 2015 Ryan Berenz

It’s hard to pin a label on AMC’s new six-part action drama series Into the Badlands, premiering Sunday, Nov. 15, at 10pm ET/PT. It has the dystopian future politics of The Hunger Games. It has the antiheroes of Westerns like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It has the warrior’s spiritual journey of Kung Fu. It has themes of family bloodlines and ambition like in Game of Thrones or Shakespeare’s history plays. It has the moral codes of classic samurai films, and fight sequences reminiscent of The Matrix and Hong Kong martial arts movies. Into the Badlands fuses together […]

Discovery Channel Alaskan Bush People recap: Block and Tackle

November 11, 2015 Ryan Berenz

Go Here For All Of Your Fish-Punching Alaskan Bush People Needs! Do the Alaskan Bush People get paid? We asked! Read our interview with the Brown family. “If they can stay alive. It will be the biggest summer of their lives,” says our dear narrator. No, he’s not talking about some new teen slasher movie. He’s talking about Season 3 of Alaskan Bush People, premiering on Discovery Channel Wednesday, Nov. 11, with “Block and Tackle,” which disappointingly has nothing to do with football. But it has everything to do with summertime in Southeast Alaska. The Brown kids while away the days in flights […]

Discovery Channel Alaskan Bush People recap: Endless Summer

November 11, 2015 Ryan Berenz

College football TV schedule and highlights: Week 10

November 7, 2015 Ryan Berenz

🏈ALSO SEE: 2015 Weekly College Football TV Schedules And Highlights 🏈 College Football Week 10 TV Highlights Marquee games in italics. Saturday, Nov. 7 12pm ET Penn State at No. 21 Northwestern, ESPNU Texas Tech at West Virginia, FS1 Illinois at Purdue, BTN Duke at North Carolina, ESPN2 Vanderbilt at No. 10 Florida, ESPN Kentucky at Georgia, SEC Network No. 5 Notre Dame at Pittsburgh, ABC No. 11 Stanford at Colorado, Pac-12 Network 3pm ET Virginia at Miami (Fla.), ESPN3 3:30pm ET No. 16 Florida State at No. 1 Clemson, ABC Arkansas at No. 18 Ole Miss, CBS Army at Air Force, […]