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Dixie Chicks: The insult heard around the world

March 25, 2011 Tom Comi

By Tom Comi It’s been said that time heals all wounds, but the Dixie Chicks would beg to differ with that sentiment. Eight years after lead singer Natalie Maines made controversial comments about being embarrassed to hail from the same state (Texas) as then-President George W. Bush, the group is still feeling the effects. On Saturday, March 26 at 9pm ET/PT, CMT re-airs the 2006 documentary Shut Up & Sing, which details the trio’s dramatic fall from the top of the charts. Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Robinson went from being the top-selling female group of all time to receiving […]

BIO unveils new Charlie Sheen special, “Bad Boy on the Edge,” Sunday

March 17, 2011 StayTuned Staff

By Stacey Harrison Flipping through the channels the other night, I happened upon the Charlie Sheen episode of Biography and thought, “Boy, this could sure use some updating.” Apparently the folks at BIO felt the same way, as they’ve announced a one-hour original special, Charlie Sheen: Bad Boy on the Edge, to premiere Sunday at 9pm. Though it will span the volatile actor’s nearly 30-year career in Hollywood, where he has “made a living following his own bliss” (a rather elegant way of putting it, don’t you think?), the network’s press release understandably focuses on the material it has about […]

Discovery announces “Deadliest Catch” fan festival

March 16, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

CatchCon 2011, a fan festival devoted to the hit Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch, will drop anchor April 9 at Bell Harbor Conference Center in Seattle from noon-6pm. Fans will have the chance to meet the captains, tour the actual boats the brave the frigid Bering Sea, go behind the scenes into the lives of Alaska crab fishermen and catch an advanced preview of the new season of Deadliest Catch, which premieres on Discovery April 12.

Discovery releases U.S. promo for “Human Planet”

March 16, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

Discovery Channel’s upcoming series Human Planet comes from the makers of the awesome Planet Earth and Life series, and it looks like another winner. Where those other series chronicled animal life on our planet, Human Planet, as its name implies, explores how human beings have become the most adaptable species of all. Each of the series’ six hours is tied to life in a particular habitat, looking at mankind’s relationship with nature and how people have found ways to survive and thrive in the extremes of our planet. The Discovery/BBC co-production was shot in 70 locations over four years. Here […]

ESPN’s Selection Sunday includes “The Fab Five” documentary

March 10, 2011 Ryan Berenz

By Ryan Berenz While CBS has the rights to air the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Selection Show that reveals the 68-team field for the 2011 NCAA Tournament, the ESPN networks won’t be outdone on Selection Sunday. Coverage begins on Sunday, March 13, at 11am ET on ESPN2 as they countdown the hours to selection time on College GameDay. Once CBS has gone off air at 7pm ET, ESPN will examine the brackets and preview the teams and matchups on Bracketology Presented by Staples. Following the tournament selection coverage, ESPN airs The Fab Five, a two-hour documentary on Michiganplayers Juwan Howard, […]

HBO presents “Runnin’ Rebels of UNLV” documentary March 12

March 9, 2011 Ryan Berenz

By Ryan Berenz The new HBO Sports documentary Runnin’ Rebels of UNLV, premiering Saturday, March 12, at 9:3pm ET, looks at the success and controversy of the UNLV men’s basketball team during head coach Jerry Tarkanian’s tenure from 1973-1992. Tarkanian led UNLV to the Final Four four times and won the 1990 NCAA championship. But Tarkanian spent much of his time as coach battling with the NCAA over recruiting violations. Here are full details and highlights from HBO: HBO SPORTS® DOCUMENTARY RUNNIN’ REBELS OF UNLV, THE STORY OF A COLLEGE BASKETBALL DYNASTY AND ITS CONTROVERSIAL COACH, JERRY TARKANIAN, DEBUTS MARCH […]

Academy Awards: Winners and Losers

February 28, 2011 Tom Comi

By Tom Comi Since the Academy Awards is all about who does and doesn’t walk away with the coveted Oscar, we decided to look at the evening from a TV-watching experience and declare who we thought stepped up and who didn’t. Red Carpet Winner: Robin Roberts was a pro at handling the live interviews, and she showed a great knowledge of the nominated movies and the nominees. You would think that would be a prerequisite for working the red carpet, but sadly that has not been the case over the years. Red Carpet Loser: We adore Tim Gunn and greatly […]

Perry’s new show proves “Friends” cast still has clout

February 9, 2011 Tom Comi

By Tom Comi As Matthew Perry’s new comedy series Mr. Sunshine premieres tonight on ABC, it really makes you marvel at how resilient and fortunate he and his fellow castmates from the hit show Friends have been over the years to keep getting work. Most actors from popular sitcoms are typecast and subsequently have trouble finding work. And you need to look no further than the cast of Seinfeld in which stars like Jason Alexander and Michael Richards have struggled to land steady jobs since leaving the show. But with the Friends cast, all of them have been fortunate enough […]

Photographer Peter Lik Finds Home On Weather Channel

January 6, 2011 Barb Oates

By Barb Oates (Pasadena, Calif) TCA Press Tour – Australian photographer Peter Lik is one of the most celebrated landscape photographers of our day. The Weather Channel will showcase his talent and travels in a new action adventure series set to debut in late March. The 13-episode, as-yet-to-be-titled, series will follow Lik across the U.S. in search of the most dramatic landscapes sculpted by nature. “I’ve taken over, you know, two million photographs in my life, probably a lot more that I forgot about, but there’s only a few select, that .001 percent that actually make it onto the gallery […]

Animal Planet to get “INFESTED!”

December 15, 2010 StayTuned Staff

Debuting Jan. 9 on Animal Planet, the three-part miniseries INFESTED! features true stories of ordinary people plagued by frighteningly extraordinary infestations. Among the unwelcome critters are mice, scorpions, spiders, bedbugs, rats, roaches, raccoons and snakes, all of which are filmed in reenactments with macro-lens photography for maximum up-close effect. Each episode of INFESTED! relives the unimaginable, intimate nightmares of three families with three different types of infestations and a boatload of dread. Cameras show an up-close image of a cockroach planted on the bristles of a toothbrush and a mass of reproductive mice running through clothes, on children’s toys and […]