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TCA: Dean Geyer and Jacob Artist join “Glee”

July 23, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

  As FOX’s hit series Glee enters its fourth season this fall, it will be back to school for newcomers Dean Geyer (pictured bottom) and Jacob Artist (pictured top) as they join the show when it returns on a new night — Thursday, Sept. 13, at 9pm ET/PT. In the season premiere, Rachel (Lea Michele) lands in New York City to attend NYADA and meets Brody Weston (Geyer), a handsome upperclassman who shows an interest in her. Meanwhile, back at McKinley, Puck’s (Mark Salling) bad boy younger half-brother, Jake Puckerman (Artist), tries out for the glee club, but his attitude […]

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Cartoon Network brings “Black Dynamite” animated series to Adult Swim

July 17, 2012 Matthew Grimm

Cartoon Network’s late-night Adult Swim block goes into lulls where it seems to bide its time between cool new ‘toons, over-hyped one-season wonders and new seasons of its stately franchises (still waiting on Season 5 of One of the Best Things on TV, The Venture Brothers), often filling the gap with live-action Dadaist crap by some guy who knows the Tim & Eric Awesome Show yayhoos. I’m not sure what category Black Dynamite, the animated adaptation of Scott Sanders, Michael Jai White and Byron Minns’ over-the-top 2009 blaxploitation-spoofing feature film, will fit into just yet — other than it is […]

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Standup comedian Steve Byrne comes home for “Sullivan & Son”

July 12, 2012 Channel Guide Contributor

By Kate O’Hare Viewers who have been longing to turn on their TV sets and visit a place “where everybody knows your name,” as the Cheers theme song says, may find what they seek when TBS premieres Sullivan & Son on July 19 at 10pm ET. Standup comedian Steve Byrne calls on his background as a guy who’s half-Korean and half-Irish to star as Steve Sullivan, a Wall Street corporate attorney who returns home to Pittsburgh with his sophisticated New York girlfriend for the 65th birthday of his Irish-American father, Jack (Dan Lauria), the owner of a neighborhood bar, which […]

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MeTV and Antenna TV also honor Ernest Borgnine

July 10, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Ah, those sentimental folks over at MeTV and Antenna TV. Gotta love ’em. And you’ve gotta love the fact that each network is remembering Ernest Borgnine in its own special way. MeTV goes first, airing the 1964 movie McHale’s Navy this Saturday, July 14 at 5pm ET. (Thank God they’re not airing the 1997 revisit.) The film — spawned by the popular series that still airs in syndication today — finds the crew of PT-73 in a pickle when they back a losing horse in a race, then don’t have the scratch to pay off the winners. Then, Sunday, July 15 starting […]

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VOD Spotlight: The gang returns for more “Pie” in “American Reunion”

July 10, 2012 StayTuned Staff

There’s almost always a risk in going for the second or third sequel in a film series. Audiences have become jaded against the quick cash-in, and are quick to anticipate a depreciation in quality. But it’s been nine years since we last checked in with the American Pie gang, and it’s safe to say that things aren’t going to be the same for most of them. In American Reunion, we’re brought up to date with what’s going on in the lives of that randy bunch, now in their 30s. Writers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, who penned the Harold & […]

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TCM to honor Ernest Borgnine July 26

July 9, 2012 StayTuned Staff

In a salute to the extensive lifelong career of Hollywood great and Academy Award winner Ernest Borgnine, who passed away at the age of 95 this past weekend, TCM will feature an all-day marathon of some of Borgnine’s most memorable performances, as well as TCM’s Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine special. Lineup for the memorial day of programming Thursday, June 26, will be as follows: 6am: The Catered Affair (1956) 8am: The Legend of Lylah Clare 10:30am: Pay or Die 12:30pm: Torpedo Run 2:30pm: Ice Station Zebra 5:15pm: The Dirty Dozen 8pm: Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine 9pm: Marty 10:45pm: From Here to Eternity 1am: The […]

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TV Land to pay tribute to Andy Griffith with marathons

July 3, 2012 StayTuned Staff

If the news of Andy Griffith’s passing today at age 86 leaves you in the mood to relive the classic TV show that became his most treasured work, TV Land has you covered. From 8am-1pm Wednesday (And, seriously, how amazingly appropriate is it to pay tribute to Andy Griffith on this most American of holidays?), and 11am-8pm Saturday and Sunday, the network will air marathons of The Andy Griffith Show. Also, check out TV Land’s Facebook page, which will also pay tribute to the TV giant. Photo: Credit: Viacom

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Barry Williams and Danny Bonaduce battle “Bigfoot” — and each other — in a Syfy original

June 29, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

It’s been kind of a ’70s flashback week here at Channel Guide. One of my compatriots, Lori, got to finally interview her teenage crush Leif Garrett, while I got to screen Syfy’s latest original movie, Bigfoot, which casts Barry Williams of The Brady Bunch and Danny Bonaduce of The Partridge Family. And in a way, the film somewhat resembles, in plot, anyway, one of those ’70s “nature strikes back” movies that had an environmental message. Of course, it’s filled with the usual Syfy cheese, too. Bigfoot takes place in Deadwood, South Dakota, where Bonaduce plays an obnoxious radio host (not […]

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Matt LeBlanc shines as Matt LeBlanc in Showtime’s “Episodes”

June 29, 2012 Tom Comi

Many actors struggle to find consistent work after appearing on hit TV shows, but Matt LeBlanc seems to have come up with the perfect blueprint for how to avoid the dreaded typecasting pitfall. First, you try a spinoff as that same character — as he did with Joey after Friends ended its reign — and when that doesn’t work, you find a show in which you simply play yourself. The second time is apparently the charm, because LeBlanc not only received a Golden Globe for his performance in the hit Showtime show Episodes, but he is now on one of […]