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“Top Secret Weapons Revealed” on Military Channel

August 8, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Warfare brings about devastating destruction, but also tends to bring certain technological advances, often in tandem with weapons development. A new series on Military Channel will take a look at some of the great weapons of the past to see how they shaped not only the conflict at hand, but weapons technology as a whole — sometimes even changing history in the non-military sphere. Top Secret Weapons Revealed premieres with two back-to-back episodes Tuesday, Aug. 14 at 9pm and 10pm ET/PT. (The following week, Top Secret Weapons Revealed moves to its regular timeslot at 10pm.) In the premiere episode, “In Search […]

Syfy’s “Paranormal Witness” scares up Season 2 tonight

August 8, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Fans of paranormal reality shows may have gotten a little bummed in the last week, with the season ends of Syfy’s School Spirits on Aug. 1, and Haunted Highway last night. But don’t give up the ghost! Syfy has all your creepy needs ready to be fulfilled some more starting tonight with the return of its hit series Paranormal Witness, which airs its second season Wednesdays at 10pm ET/PT starting tonight. RELATED: PARANORMAL WITNESS SEASON 3 BEGINS WITH DEVILISH EPISODE Season 2 of Paranormal Witness will feature 12 episodes — twice as many as in its inaugural season, when it […]

Chuey Martinez brings “All You Can Meat” to Travel Channel

August 7, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Meat. It’s a word that insires passion in many directions. Some are against it. Some can’t get enough of it. And then there are people like Chuey Martinez, for whom it’s virtually a way of life. Martinez, radio DJ and host of ESPN’s Born & Raised series, has let his love for meat take him all over the country, and en route, he’s come up with a six-part series for Travel Channel called All You Can Meat, premiering — with two back-to-back episodes — Aug. 12 at 10pm, before moving to its regular timeslot at 9pm on Aug. 19. In […]

NGC special offers exclusive animation of historic Curiosity Mars rover landing

August 6, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Early this morning Eastern Time (Aug. 6), the Mars Science Laboratory (a.k.a. the Curiosity rover) successfully landed on Mars. Built to last years and do things on the Red Planet that have never been done before, Curiosity has been hyped as rocket science on steroids. The $2.5 billion mega rover boasts a nuclear power supply, is equipped with a full laboratory that can test samples for organic building blocks of life and can trek across miles of rugged terrain while beaming back to Earth images in high-definition 3-D. Weighing in at nearly a ton, five times heavier than its predecessors, […]

“American Masters” Gore Vidal episode streaming and on-air for limited time

August 3, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

PBS has announced that starting today, Aug. 3, it will be making the 2003 documentary American Masters: “The Education of Gore Vidal” available for streaming on the American Masters website and PBS Video to commemorate the life of the eclectic intellectual who passed away July 31 at the age of 86. The web stream will be available for one week, through Aug. 9. This episode will also air on PBS in select markets beginning Aug. 3 at 7:30pm ET, through Aug. 12 (contact your local PBS station for airdates or check local listings). The Education of Gore Vidal celebrates the […]

PBS celebrates Julia Child’s centenary

August 2, 2012 StayTuned Staff

I have my share of memories of Julia Child — from watching her truss a bird or flambée a dish in the pan when I was a kid, to that famous picture of her wielding a cleaver overhead, to eventually learning how to cook some of her recipes. For many of us, she’s been around all our lives, either cooking or even as the subject of good-natured parody. (Remember that hilariously bloody Saturday Night Live sketch with Dan Aykroyd playing her?) But make no mistake: Julia’s influence on the world of home cooking can never be overestimated, and we are […]

“Survivorman” Les Stroud returns to Discovery Channel

August 2, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

After a nearly four-year absence, filmmaker and outdoor adventurer Les Stroud returns to Discovery Channel Aug. 19 with new episodes of his series, Survivorman. As before, Stroud will again be venturing into the wild with no food, no water and no crew, relying on his years of training, raw instincts and sheer will to survive. He films each journey himself, dragging 65 pounds of camera gear every step of the way. This time, Stroud spends 10 days surviving alone in some of the world’s harshest environments, with each location playing out in two one-hour episodes: “Mexico” Part 1 premieres Aug. […]

“Marley” looks at the life of reggae’s patron saint

August 2, 2012 StayTuned Staff

It’s been more than 30 years since the quintessential Jamaican singer/songwriter/musician Bob Marley died at the age of 36 from malignant melanoma. But in the intervening years, the beats he and the Wailers laid down have never seemed to fade. Generations of reggae and ska fans have been introduced to his work, and his star in the firmament of Jamaican music has never been eclipsed, nor is it likely to be. Yet in spite of this young talent’s astounding and tragically short career, his full story has never been told definitively on film. Finally, Marley takes on the challenge. With the […]

Discovery Channel’s Shark Week turns 25

July 31, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Most sharks need to keep swimming to survive, and just as these fascinating fish keep on moving forward, so too does Discovery Channel’s annual summer programming event honoring them — Shark Week, which celebrates its 25th anniversary when it kicks off Aug. 12. The first ever Shark Week program, Caged in Fear, aired on Discovery July 17, 1988. In the still-young world of cable TV in the late 1980s, Discovery was looking for innovative ways to draw viewers in to the network, eventually playing off people’s intense curiosity about the natural world — in particular, predators such as sharks — […]

Can men live without women? Lifetime shows us in “The Week the Women Went”

July 27, 2012 Barb Oates

Seriously, a week without women? No big deal, right? Not the case, as Lifetime documents in The Week the Women Went — a four-episode series the network is hyping as “a social experiment of biblical proportions,” slated to premiere on Tuesday, Aug. 14 at 9pm ET/PT [although the network has changed this premiere date twice already]. Based on a similar British series that aired on the BBC, the project takes place in the small town of Yemassee, South Carolina, located about 250 miles southeast of Atlanta. Of a town of roughly 1,000, about 150 women agreed to participate, packing up […]