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Black-ish on iTunes: Get Season 2 free now through Wednesday

August 15, 2016 Lori Acken

Black-ish fans — or folks wanting to give the outstanding ABC series a try following its three Emmy nominations — you can get the show’s stellar Season 2 for free on iTunes. But only if you act fast. ABC Studios will make all 24 episodes available at no cost now through Wednesday, August 17. During Season 2, black-ish was recognized by the American Film Institute as an AFI Television Program of the Year, and received the coveted Peabody Award. In July, the show received three Emmy nominations, including a second consecutive nod for Anthony Anderson for Outstanding Lead Actor in a […]

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Better Late Than Never: Winkler, Shatner, Foreman and Bradshaw Tour Asia. Hilarity Ensues.

August 13, 2016 Lori Acken

Better Late Than Never premieres Tuesday, Aug. 23 at 10/9CT. Henry Winkler and William Shatner are sitting on a bus in Thailand, watching George Foreman and Terry Bradshaw sing karaoke duets. No, it’s not the start of an epic joke. Or the kind of post-bender dream that makes you wonder if you should give up the sauce entirely or indulge a bit more often. It’s just one of the excellent adventures the four legends of sports and entertainment tackle together in NBC’s new Winkler-coproduced series Better Late Than Never. Inspired by the Korean reality smash Grandpas Over Flowers (that’s not a […]

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The Jim Gaffigan Show Returns on Father’s Day

June 18, 2016 Kellie Freeze

2016 is Jim Gaffigan’s year. The comedian has joined KFC’s rotating list of celebrity Colonel Sanders (and is definitely more believable as the finger-licking dandy than skinny chickens Norm McDonald and Darrell Hammond), is killing it as a pitchman for the Chrysler Pacifica (I actually logged on to check out the swagger wagon and must admit, I’m interested), and this weekend, the funnyman’s semi-autobiographical series, The Jim Gaffigan Show returns to TV Land with back-to-back episodes. And the series is doing everything right in promoting itself. Gaffigan has been making the rounds of TV talkshows and offered up his clean […]

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Curb Your Enthusiasm Will Be Back for Season 9

June 14, 2016 Jeff Pfeiffer

In what is, I’m sure, some “prett-ay, prett-ay, prett-ay, pretty good” news for fans, HBO announced today that Larry David’s Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm will be back for a new season, its ninth. With 80 episodes to date, Curb Your Enthusiasm is HBO’s longest-running scripted comedy or drama series. “We’re thrilled that Larry has decided to do a new season of Curb and can’t wait to see what he has planned,” said Casey Bloys, president of HBO programming. When asked why he decided to come back, David quipped, “In the immortal words of Julius Caesar, ‘I left, I did nothing, I […]

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Pitstop in Louisiana led Billy Ray Cyrus to Still the King

June 12, 2016 Barb Oates

Johnny Cash was onto something in 1992 when he wrote Billy Ray Cyrus a letter of encouragement. Cash praised him for crediting God for his success and made comparisons between him and Elvis. Sure seems serendipitous as Cyrus starts the next chapter in his TV career. Now almost 25 years later, Cyrus stars as Vernon, a washed-up country star who stumbles into the role of a preacher and an Elvis impersonator in CMT’s new comedy Still the King, debuting on CMT Sunday, June 12 at 9pmET. Cyrus reflects a lot on what Cash told him. “I look back at that […]

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Wrecked — Lost Meets Laughs in New TBS Comedy

June 9, 2016 Lori Acken

Wrecked premieres with back-to-back episodes Tuesday, June 14, at 10/9CT on TBS. Sure, Lost was some seriously iconic television, but it was also just so … earnest. For their new TBS comedy Wrecked, creators Jordan and Justin Shipley also bring down a plane on a deserted isle, but swap out the supernatural navel-gazing for a whole bunch of funny. In the half-hour laugher, which filmed in Puerto Rico, a goofy batch of Thailand-bound travelers must learn to live with one another — and without modern comforts — post-plane crash. Among your companions on this ill-fated trip: • About A Boy‘s Zach Cregger […]

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UnREAL Lifetime’s Firebrand Dramedy Tackles Race and Men’s Rights in Season 2

June 6, 2016 Lori Acken

When Lifetime’s UnREAL premiered last summer, critics and audiences fell hard for the bold, Peabody-winning dramedy’s willingness to grab Bachelor-esque style programming by the you-know-whats and guide it not-so-gently to a good long look in the mirror. Equal parts social commentary and whip-smart entertainment, Season 1 took on matters of mental health, body image, feminism, fidelity and sexuality — and what people will do to one another for the sake of a buck — with searing style. • MORE: What you need to know about UnREAL Season 2 For Season 2, UnREAL creators Marti Noxon and Sarah Gertrude Shapiro opted to steer […]

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Devious Maids — James Denton Joins The Cast In Season 4!

June 6, 2016 StayTuned Staff

Lifetime’s telenovela Devious Maids returns for Season 4 tonight and fans hoping to see executive producer Eva Longoria in front of the cameras get their wish in the premiere. Longoria’s former Desperate Housewives costar James Denton also joins the cast as Peter, a movie studio chief. More good news, Devious Army: fan favorite Nathan Owens returns as Jesse, who finds himself in a love triangle with Marisol (and possibly Denton’s Peter?). Meanwhile, now that Spence (Grant Show) has lost his memory, he thinks he’s still married to his ex-wife Peri (Mariana Klaveno) and believes Peri’s lies that Rosie (Dania Ramirez) is just the […]