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As real as it gets – Sundance Channel’s “Push Girls” – Angela Rockwood, Auti Angel, Tiphany Adams, Mia Schaikewitz

June 1, 2012 Barb Oates

Beautiful, smart, opinionated and … paralyzed? It’s certainly not your typical docuseries cast, but that’s what caught the attention of Sundance Channel as it looks to shatter stereotypes by documenting the lives of four dynamic women — Angela Rockwood, Auti Angel, Tiphany Adams and Mia Schaikewitz — in its new series Push Girls, which debuts Monday, June 4 at 10pmET/PT. Unfiltered and very, very personal, the series follows four confident and inspiring Los Angeles women who are paralyzed from either the waist or neck down. The series is the brainchild of one of its stars — Angela Rockwood — a model […]

NBC to air Justin Bieber’s first network special, “All Around the World”

May 30, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Superstar Justin Bieber will star in his first-ever network special, Justin Bieber: All Around the World, airing in two parts: beginning June 20 from 8-9 pm ET, and concluding on June 21 from 8-9pm ET on NBC. The program combines documentary and musical performances, and follows his tour around the globe as he showcases his new album Believe, including its No. 1 single, “Boyfriend.” The special goes behind the scenes of the tour, and for the first time, shows what life is like through the eyes of Bieber with what the release calls a “Justin-cam.” The tour’s itinerary includes seven […]

Anthony Bourdain bolting from Travel Channel to CNN

May 29, 2012 StayTuned Staff

“As long as it’s interesting, then I’ll keep doing it. But the minute it becomes a job, I will stop.” — Anthony Bourdain, on continuing his work on Travel Channel’s Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations It wasn’t much more than a month ago that Anthony Bourdain was talking with great satisfaction about the launch of Season 8 of his signature series for Travel Channel, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. He may not be stopping, but Bourdain will be changing venues. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the renowned chef, restaurateur and acerbic travel writer will be leaving Travel Channel for — hopefully — […]

“Tattoo School” in session on TLC

May 24, 2012 StayTuned Staff

No one wants to be an aspiring tattoo artist’s first job. (Just ask that guy that got tied up in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.) But tattoo artists have to start somewhere, and a new series on TLC illustrates just where, for one group, the needle first meets skin. Tattoo School premieres tonight at 10pm ET/PT, and is set in the renowned World’s Only Tattoo School in Shreveport, La., where students undergo a two-week intensive course to learn and hone the craft of tattooing. At the center of Tattoo School is Dr. Bill Pogue, who, with his 38 years […]

Animal Planet’s “Monster Week” begins tonight

May 21, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

From May 21-28, Animal Planet will showcase legendary and not-so-legendary monstrous creatures with episodes of some of its popular shows, such as River Monsters, Finding Bigfoot and Call of the Wildman, along with a couple of new specials, during a programming stunt it is calling Monster Week. Monster Week lineup is listed after the video; all times are ET/PT. May 21: River Monsters — “Pack of Teeth” (8pm); “American Killers” (9pm). In “Pack of Teeth,” Jeremy Wade goes to southern Africa to investigate rumors of a deathly fish that lurks in the vast, crocodile-filled swamps of the Okavango delta. Then, […]

Animal Planet spins tale of “Mermaids: The Body Found”

May 18, 2012 StayTuned Staff

I have to admit, there’s something about the notion of science entertainment that rubs me the wrong way. Maybe it’s not the entertainment itself, but the venue in which it’s presented. A while back, Animal Planet presented Charlie Foley’s project Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real, and did very well with it. Now Foley and his team are back with a follow-up. Mermaids: The Body Found (premiering Sunday, May 27 at 9pm ET/PT) is an engrossing two-hour film supposing that a radical, unknown species of marine life bearing human-like attributes had been found in the stomach of a shark, and in […]

“Raw Faith” explores former minister Marilyn Sewell’s long journey to happiness

May 18, 2012 StayTuned Staff

For something that seems to play such a prominent role in society, spirituality doesn’t often get the serious and honest exploration it does in Raw Faith. The documentary, which premieres May 20 at 8pm on Documentary Channel, follows two years in the life of Portland minister Marilyn Sewell, who devotes almost all her time and energy to helping the members of her unitarian congregation, to whom she is beloved. She does so to the detriment of her personal life, causing her grown sons to proclaim their bitterness toward the church for stealing their mother away from them. After 17 years, […]

Memorial Day 2012 programming

May 16, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Here’s a look at the various specials and movies airing on and around this Memorial Day, which remember those who have served in the military, and particularly those who were lost. All times are Eastern. Programming subject to updates; check back for changes and additions. My Vietnam Your Iraq (encore) — PBS, May (check local listings). Vietnam War veterans who have children who served in Iraq tell their stories. The program showcases the pride and fear a family shares when one is deployed. The War (encore) — PBS, May (check local listings). Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s epic, seven-part 2007 […]

Getting Fatter: “The Weight of the Nation” addresses obesity epidemic

May 14, 2012 Barb Oates

Americans are truly getting fatter. Obesity is now one of our country’s most pressing health issues with more than two-thirds of U.S. adults age 20 and over being either overweight or obese. Equally staggering is the fact that nearly one-third of our nation’s children and adolescents age 2 to 19 are also overweight or obese. Obesity-related health costs are around $147 billion annually. The only good news in all of this is that the award-winning HBO is making its multipart documentary series on this topic, The Weight of the Nation, available for free to everyone at their website hbo.com/theweightofthenation. The […]

Joan and Melissa Rivers subject of “E! True Hollywood Story” on Mother’s Day

May 13, 2012 Barb Oates

Joan and Melissa Rivers get candid and very personal in this moving interview about their life and relationship. The Mother’s Day edition of E!’s True Hollywood Story — airing tonight (May 13th) at 10:30pm on E! — has the duo taking a break from the wisecracks, and instead sharing honest and revealing stories about their lives. The two talk about Joan’s early beginnings, when she defied her family to pursue her dreams of entertainment: “We [Joan and her parents] had terrible fights about me wanting to be in the business. And I ran out, I drove to NY. And I parked […]