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Preview: National Geographic Channel presents The 2000s: A New Reality

July 9, 2015 Lori Acken

The 2000s: A New Reality premieres July 12-13 at 9/8CT on National Geographic Channel. On the heels of its popular miniseries’ The 80s: The Decade That Made Us and The 90s: The Last Great Decade — which wove pop culture, politics and national and world events into a fascinating tapestry of how the decade impacted us individually and as a whole — National Geographic Channel takes another ten-year step into the past with The 2000s: A New Reality. The two-night event, which airs Sunday and Monday nights examines the decade that brought us a new era of terror on home and foreign soil, […]

Shark Week 2015 premiere specials schedule

July 3, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

Shark Week is back on Discovery Channel, and this year the programming event will air even earlier than ever before, running July 5-12 on the network. Discovery says that Shark Week 2015 will feature 19 hours of primetime programming, the most hours in the event’s 28-year history. Shark Week 2015 Premiere Specials (All Times ET/PT; Descriptions from Discovery) Shark Trek — Sunday, July 5 at 8pm Dr. Greg Skomal, Massachusetts’ senior marine fisheries marine biologist, tags Great White sharks off the coast of Cape Cod and attempts to determine their swim patterns once they leave the Massachusetts coast. As patterns point to the […]

Not Shackled By Forgotten Words: CNN brings Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me to television

June 24, 2015 Lori Acken

CNN presents the television debut of the feature-film documentary Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me Sunday at 9/8CT. Glen Campbell’s music has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. My parents played his LPs on the weekends and gave me change to play “Wichita Lineman” and “Gentle On My Mind” on the jukebox at the local bowling alley and supper clubs. The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour was required family viewing — and a very good time, indeed. And as I got a little older, my friends and I bellowed Campbell’s crossover hits “Southern Nights” and “Rhinestone […]

Now Casting: New Episodes Of MTV’s “True Life”

June 18, 2015 Kellie Freeze

Casting directors are currently casting for the return of MTV’s Emmy-winning docuseries, True Life. The groundbreaking series has covered over 140 topics from drug use, money issues, sexual topics to simple social behavior like visiting the Jersey Shore and this season, the show will cover a number of interesting and complicated situations and the show’s casting directors are looking for people between the ages of 16-28 who are looking to talk about their unique lives and perspective. If one of these topics pertains to you, , or your life is so interesting that people always tell you, “You should be on TV,” email mtvtruelifestories@gmail.com […]

PBS celebrates the arrival of “Go Set a Watchman” with American Masters: Harper Lee

June 12, 2015 Lori Acken

Harper Lee’s fans were stunned — and then thrilled — by recent news that a rumored early manuscript by the beloved To Kill a Mockingbird scribe was unearthed and being readied for publication. With Go Set a Watchman set for release on July 14 (and in celebration of To Kill a Mockingbird‘s 55th anniversary on July 11), PBS will present an updated edition of Mary McDonagh Murphy’s glorious documentary Harper Lee: Hey Boo, which aired on the network in 2012. American Masters: Harper Lee will premiere July 10 at 9/8CT (check your local listings to confirm the air time in your area). According to the book’s publisher, HarperCollins, Watchman takes […]

Whack jobs: AMC’s “The Making of the Mob: New York”

June 11, 2015 Ryan Berenz

ALSO SEE: Funny How? AMC Celebrates The Silver Anniversary Of Goodfellas AMC goes to the mattresses for Mob Mondays starting June 15 at 10pm ET/PT (following a special 25th anniversary airing of Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas) with the eight-part docuseries The Making of the Mob: New York, a look at how young hoodlums in the early 1900s built organized crime empires. Ray Liotta narrates the series, which includes dramatic reenactments, archival footage and exclusive interviews. Among the more notorious mobsters featured are: Charles “Lucky” Luciano The juvenile delinquent turned bootlegger headed up The Commission in 1931 that put the “organized” in […]

Where is Documentary, “The Man With No Penis”?

June 11, 2015 Kellie Freeze

The saying may be, “Don’t judge a book but it’s cover,” but in my world, I follow my own saying — “DO set your DVR based on the title.” So when I heard of the Discovery Life documentary, The Man With No Penis, first I checked to see if it was an April Fool’s joke, and second I called “dibbs” amongst my coworkers. I love watching any series with an intriguing title especially when medical documentaries introduce viewers to fascinating people with incredibly rare medical conditions. I adored the funny and charming story of Jonny Kennedy who suffered from the […]

My Brother’s Keeper initiative subject of new Discovery/OWN special

June 10, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

President Barack Obama will appear in a new Discovery Channel/OWN special that looks at the My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) initiative, the principles of which include ensuring all youth complete their post-secondary education and training and are employed once they’re out of school. Titled Rise: The Promise of My Brother’s Keeper, and appropriately airing on Father’s Day, June 21, the program explores the lives and families of boys and young men of color from four programs around the U.S. that are living the principles of the MBK initiative. The film, directed by Dawn Porter (Gideon’s Army), also addresses President Obama’s challenge to cities […]

Grossly engrossing! National Geographic Channel unveils the world’s first T rex Autopsy

June 5, 2015 Lori Acken

National Geographic Channel’s Sunday-night special T Rex Autopsy takes guts … and turns them into geek-out, gruesome fun wrapped up in a hefty education in all things Tyrannosaurus rex. Mixing cutting-edge CGI effects with top-notch science — and scientists — the network will reveal how the 65-million-year-old, teeny-armed rock stars of the dinosaur world lived, the challenges they encountered and why they died. Billed as “part gruesome monster film and all real science,” T. Rex Autoposy “stars” an impressive 43’ x 13’ beastie nicknamed Edwina lovingly created over 12,000 hours by Crawley Creatures of Walking with Dinosaurs fame. And they spared the scientists no detail of […]

“Treetop Cat Rescue”: Animal Planet series follows duo who save treed felines

May 29, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

If you live in Washington state, home of some of the largest trees in the country, and your cat ends up in one of those trees, who do you call? If the trees are too tall for your local fire department to help with, and if Superman isn’t around, how can poor kitty ever get back down to the ground? Turns out that expert tree climbers and cat communication experts Shaun Sears and Tom Otto are on the case, and a new Animal Planet series, Treetop Cat Rescue, chronicles their adventures in trying to rescue frenzied felines from the canopy. More from Animal Planet: […]