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“The Dotted Line” on ESPN examines professional sports agents

October 11, 2011 Tom Comi

By Tom Comi Follow @ChannelGuide Many casual sports fans know little about the role of sports agents other than what they gleaned from the Tom Cruise movie Jerry Maguire, but filmmaker Morgan Spurlock is proving with his new ESPN documentary there is much more — both good and bad — than meets the eye. Premiering tonight at 8pm ET, The Dotted Line delves into a profession that many people consider one step below Wall Street bankers. Sports agents are the sharks that athletes pay to get them as much money as possible.These are the negotiators who stand between the owner […]

Discovery premieres new Steve Jobs documentary this Sunday

October 11, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

To celebrate the innovative genius of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who passed away last week at age 56, Discovery Channel is airing a one-hour documentary called iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World, premiering this Sunday, Oct. 16, at 8pm ET/PT. MythBusters stars Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman host the special, which features interviews with people whose lives and livelihoods were forever changed by Jobs, including: * Those at the front lines of the birth of personal computing, and former Apple employees and executives, including Lee Felsenstein, founding member of the Homebrew Computer Blub; Daniel Kottke, a friend who traveled […]

How to contact “My Naked Secret” USA

October 6, 2011 StayTuned Staff

Follow @ChannelGuide Based on the enthusiasm shown for the forthcoming series My Naked Secret (premiering Oct. 7) on our Fall TV Preview, we followed up with Discovery Fit & Health to ascertain just how participants are selected for this series, focusing as it does on people with physical conditions that significantly impair them psychologically and emotionally. We’ll be talking with them about that process in the not-distant future, but for now, some of you who had expressed interest in participating in the series will be happy to know that we’ve expedited the application process a bit for you. What is […]

“My Naked Secret” comes to terms with emotional as well as body issues

October 5, 2011 StayTuned Staff

by Karl J. Paloucek Follow @ChannelGuideK Since we first announced the upcoming premiere of Discovery Fit & Health’s My Naked Secret as part of our Fall TV Preview, people have been wondering how they can get on the show and giving the series a bit of anticipatory buzz. We don’t have anything to do with the production of My Naked Secret (which, incidentally, premieres Friday, Oct. 7), but we’re working on getting an answer regarding applications to be on the show for those of you who might be so inclined. In the meantime, we can shed more light on this […]

“Sin by Silence” spotlights domestic violence

October 5, 2011 StayTuned Staff

Women are going to prison at an alarming rate. Over the last quarter century, they’ve represented the fastest-growing segment of America’s prison population, and of that entire group, nearly 80 percent are survivors of domestic violence. For many of these women, the path to prison started with abuse in the home and ends with a justice system that prohibits evidence of battery from being used in their own legal defense. A new documentary by director Olivia Klaus, Sin by Silence — premiering on Investigation Discovery Oct. 17 — focuses on the people behind those statistics, and shows how the law […]

TCM’s Stephen King doc traces horror master’s cinematic influences

October 3, 2011 StayTuned Staff

By Stacey Harrison Follow @ChannelGuideSRH In its A Night at the Movies series, TCM set out to explore film genres in-depth. Having already tackled thrillers and epics, the series gets into the Halloween spirit with tonight’s entry, A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King. Filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau, who has directed all the Night at the Movies documentaries, knew that there was no better source to talk about horror cinema than the man who has terrified audiences for decades with novels like Carrie, The Shining, The Dead Zone and dozens of others. In the one-hour special, which premieres […]

Latest Ken Burns documentary explores the Prohibition era

October 1, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

By Jeff Pfeiffer Follow @ChannelGuideJP There is a scene near the end of the 1987 film The Untouchables when Kevin Costner’s T-man character Eliot Ness — whom we have just seen, along with his team of agents, help bring gangster Al Capone to justice — is asked by a reporter what he would do if the talks of ending Prohibition become reality. Thinking for a moment, Ness then says with a hint of a smile and a bit of relief, “I think I’ll have a drink.” That sentiment was likely shared by many citizens by the time America’s 13-year “Noble […]

“Nazi Collaborators” coming to Military Channel

September 28, 2011 StayTuned Staff

In the last decade or two, much of American television has had its roots in series that launched in Britain, and we’ve certainly imported our share of UK series for broadcast here. But rarely do we import something this potentially incendiary. Oct. 4, Military Channel will premiere the 13-part series Nazi Collaborators, exploring the unsettling and often unasked questions of how thousands of non-Germans could have chosen to collaborate with the Nazis. The answers are varied and often as controversial as the questions. Hindsight is always 20/20, of course, which the makers of Nazi Collaborators obviously know full well. In […]

First episode of Ken Burns doc “Prohibition” to debut on PBS for iPad, PBS apps

September 22, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

PBS has announced that starting tomorrow (September 23), it will be offering the first episode of the fascinating new Ken Burns documentary Prohibition on the free PBS for iPad and PBS apps for the iPhone and iPod touch. The entire three-part series airs nationally October 2-4, with each episode also streamed live, timed to the national broadcast. Episodes 2 and 3 will be available on PBS for iPad and PBS apps for iPhone and iPod touch the day after each TV airdate, and will remain available through October 7. PBS for iPad and PBS apps for iPhone and iPod touch […]

Have two hours? See “History of the World in Two Hours”

September 20, 2011 StayTuned Staff

You could do a whole lot worse than to spend your Sunday night checking out the entire history of our so-great-yet-so-small planet. Sunday, Oct. 2, to be precise, H2 will present History of the World in Two Hours, tracing the story of us and this stone we inhabit in space from the time of the Big Bang to the dawn of life, from the Precambrian through the Mesozoic eras and up to what we know as human civilization today. And it will all unfold in a minuscule 120 minutes. Every beat in the story will present a connection from the […]