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“7 Questions” With … Jim Jefferies of FX’s “Legit”

January 14, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Aussie comic Jim Jefferies says his FX series, Legit — which premieres at 10:30pm Thursday — is basically about him as he was five years ago. That was when booze and women were paramount in his life, and he was wondering whether this comedy thing was going to work out. But now he’s in a stable relationship with the mother of his newborn son, and star of his own sitcom, a gleefully vulgar affair that also features a surprising amount of tenderness. You’re at a magazine rack and can only pick three titles. Which ones do you choose? Empire. I’ll take a Rolling […]

Kevin Hart’s Real Husbands of Hollywood premieres Tuesday on BET

January 11, 2013 Lori Acken

BET has assembled some bona fide comedy kings – and princes, too — in an all-new, star-studded Tuesday night lineup featuring Kevin Hart’s semi-improv Real Husbands of Hollywood and Second Generation Wayans, a scripted comedy starring (and culled from the lives of) Damien Dante Wayans and Craig Wayans, nephews of the legendary Wayans brothers. Billed as “the fakest reality show on television,” Real Husbands of Hollywood turns the tables on one of reality TV’s most prolific — and over the top — franchises, putting the newly divorced Hart, Nick Cannon (for the sake of the premise of the show, we’ll call him […]

NBC’s new Michael J. Fox series will debut in fall

January 7, 2013 Lori Acken

At yesterday’s NBC executive session at the Winter TCA press tour, NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke announced that its half-hour sitcom from Michael J. Fox has begun production. Written by Sam Laybourne (Cougar Town, Arrested Development) and directed by Will Gluck (Easy A), the as yet untitled show is based on Fox’ own experiences as a husband. dad and famous guy who is grappling with Parkinson’s disease. Slake said that while Fox will play a newsman — not an actor — who left the spotlight because of the effects of the disease, the show will mirror his own ability to […]

“A Christmas Story 2” isn’t the only Ralphie sequel out there

December 19, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Despite its numerical designation, the recently released A Christmas Story 2 isn’t the only way to see the continuing adventures of Ralphie Parker. Did you know, for instance, that Jean Shepherd — whose writings served as the basis for A Christmas Story and several other Ralphie tales — actually reunited with director Bob Clark for My Summer Story back in 1994? Or that Shepherd himself appeared in other TV versions of his works, acting as a Greek chorus to the homespun proceedings? If you’ve never seen Shepherd — or didn’t realize you did in A Christmas Story (he’s the man at […]

VOD Spotlight: Seth MacFarlane’s “Ted” influenced by Muppets

December 11, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Seth MacFarlane has had such a visible presence in recent years with his animated series Family Guy, The Cleveland Show and American Dad! that it was only a matter of time before his producing/writing talents would spill over onto the big screen. Fans of his series work should easily relate to his live-action comedy, Ted. The film stars Mark Wahlberg as John Bennett, a man whose childhood wish for his beloved teddy bear to come to life was granted in his youth, but whose relationship with his stuffed pal has gotten a lot more complicated over the years. Now, almost […]

When is Christmas Vacation on TV 2012?

December 10, 2012 Channel Guide Contributor

When is Christmas Vacation on TV 2012? National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation airs on ABC Family Dec. 12, 13, 20, 21 and 25. While it’s got some adult language and content, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation remains one of those annual must-see holiday classics. It’s served as a cautionary reminder that no Christmas is perfect, no matter how hard we might try to make it that way. (It also reminds us how NOT to do exterior illumination and how NOT to empty an RV’s toilet tank.) Catch an edited-for-TV version during ABC Family’s 25 Days of Christmas. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation ABC […]

VOD Spotlight: “Hope Springs” a trip for Meryl Streep

December 4, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Some people are fond of saying that age is just a number. But for some couples, age just makes you numb. This is essentially the starting point of director David Frankel’s film Hope Springs, written by Vanessa Taylor (Game of Thrones), about a long-married couple, Kay and Arnold (Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones), who have lost their spark over the years. “Kay wants to reconnect with her husband, Arnold,” Streep explains. “She wants to feel connected, to feel intimately involved with him, to feel that he’s intimately interested in her. But I think Arnold, if you asked him, wouldn’t […]

VOD Spotlight: “ParaNorman” a rollicking, ghostly adventure

November 27, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Why can’t we all just get along? Well, for one reason, if we could, we wouldn’t have movies like ParaNorman to watch. It’s a story of a person labeled as “different” who makes a difference in his community. And as good and wholesome as that sounds, it’s also a movie full of ghosts, zombies, a number of other freaks and a witch’s 300-year-old curse — which means it’s full of fun. Norman (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee) is a young kid who, unfortunately for him, sees dead people wherever he goes, and has taken a pasting for it at home, at […]

“A Christmas Story”: A TBS tradition continues

November 20, 2012 StayTuned Staff

If TBS ever stops doing its annual 24 Hours of A Christmas Story, I will be very disappointed. It’s arguably the greatest Christmas movie of all time. (Yeah, yeah, It’s a Wonderful Life — but it only gets played once or twice a year. And does anybody actually ever catch it from before the point where George jumps in the river?) A Christmas Story is relatable to almost anyone who’s grown up in a home where traditional Christmas was observed. Full of the flights of fancy that childhood engenders, somehow Jean Shepherd’s story about Ralphie and his “mania” for a […]

VOD Spotlight: “A Christmas Story 2” continues Ralphie’s saga

November 20, 2012 StayTuned Staff

It’s a little hard to imagine a sequel to A Christmas Story this long after the 1983 film’s original release. But A Christmas Story wasn’t an immediate success in its day, and it’s only been over the passage of time that the film has acquired the patina of a holiday classic. Bearing that in mind is likely what the filmmakers of A Christmas Story 2 would suggest before comparing the current release to its predecessor. Download a FREE Holiday TV programming calendar There was a sequel prior to this film — 1994’s It Runs in the Family (later retitled My Summer […]