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The Hub Network and Awkward Family Photos team up for “Awkward Family Movie Week”

February 28, 2014 Kellie Freeze

My family has taken some very strange Christmas card photos. Most embarrassing are several years where my siblings and I posed in swimsuits. Swimsuits!!! One year, we were in swimsuits on a golf cart. Why?!? And then there was the year when several of us straddled a Civil War cannon… I am not alone in my family photo embarrassment. And, if you think your family photos are mortifying, the Hub Network and Awkward Family Photos can prove that compared to the ones they’ve seen, your family (and mine) is completely normal. During its weeklong “Awkward Family Movie Week,” the Hub […]

The Little Couple on their new child, new challenges and new lease on life

February 21, 2014 Lori Acken

In December, when fans learned that The Little Couple’s Dr. Jennifer Arnold was battling a rare uterine cancer just as she and her husband Bill Klein brought their second adopted child, daughter Zoey, home from India, they wondered what would become of their favorite TV family — and their favorite TV show. The answer: Not even two lively toddlers and an exhaustive cancer battle can keep the Klein-Arnold clan down. Realizing that they’d always intended to make a show that educated and entertained, Bill and Jen decided to chronicle this challenging chapter in all new episodes beginning Tuesday, March 4 […]

Feline Internet star Lil BUB gets TV special on Animal Planet

February 8, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

Lil BUB, the 2-year-old cat who has become an Internet and social media phenomenon over the past few years, is now set to cutely conquer the TV airwaves with her new Animal Planet program, Lil BUB’s Special Special. In the half-hour special, BUB takes advantage of an empty house when her owner is away for the night. Lil BUB invites her assortment of furry friends over for a slumber party to watch rock star Andrew W.K.’s new clip show Party Animals. Amy Sedaris also appears as a special babysitter hired by Lil BUB’s owner to keep an eye on things. […]

When does The Little Couple return? Photos from the season premiere

February 5, 2014 Lori Acken

TLC announced today that The Little Couple will return for its most emotional season yet beginning Tuesday, March 4 at 10/9 CT. The one-hour season premiere follows Jen and Bill as they travel to India with their 3-year-old son Will to finally bring their newly-adopted toddler daughter Zoey home. When Jen faces a sudden and frightening health crisis that forces her to fly home to Texas, Bill must stay behind with Will and complete the adoption process on his own. Back home in Texas, Jen learns she is suffering from Stage 3 choriocarcinoma, a rare cancer that evolved from a non-viable pregnancy she had in […]

Puppy Bowl 2014 celebrates event’s 10th anniversary

January 2, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl 2014 is the 10th anniversary edition of the hugely popular (12.4 million viewers last year) Super Bowl Sunday counter-programming event. Puppy Bowl helped popularize the trend of networks airing special programming “bowls,” and Puppy Bowl X will now also have cute competition from Hallmark Channel’s first Kitten Bowl, airing on the same day (Feb. 2). How does Animal Planet look to stay leader of the pack with Puppy Bowl X? Aside from the usual cuddly canine competitors and the Kitty Halftime Show, Puppy Bowl 2014 will have new additions, including penguin cheerleaders and even the first […]

New “Haunting Hour” episode features “Homeland” star Jackson Pace

December 12, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Jackson Pace has had a lot of great experiences starring in the hit Showtime drama Homeland, where he plays Chris Brody, the son of returned soldier Nicholas Brody. But something he hadn’t done yet was leave the United States. That changed with his assignment for R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour, which filmed its latest episode, “Toy Train,” airing this Saturday at 7:30pm ET, in Vancouver. “Canada is such a beautiful place,” Pace says. “On my day off I had the chance to zipline at Grouse Mountain. The location we shot at was literally on the border. If you were allowed […]

Extreme holiday decorating is focus of ABC’s Great Christmas Light Fight

December 9, 2013 Barb Oates

It’s a holiday showdown as extreme holiday decorating is the focus of ABC’s The Great Christmas Light Fight, a new competition series beginning Monday, Dec. 9 at 9pmET. Never have cameras captured the intense planning, drive and pure spectacle of “extreme” holiday decorating like this. We’re talking about those festive individuals — those beacons of holiday spirit — who put a whole new meaning to Christmas decorating by adorning just about anything and everything with lights and holiday trimmings. ABC has found 20 of America’s most enthused home decorators and will pit them against each other in the new, short-run […]

Cake Boss Buddy Valastro helps struggling bakeries in Bakery Boss on TLC

December 2, 2013 Barb Oates

Cake Boss’ Buddy Valastro is taking to the road in his new series Bakery Boss on TLC debuting Monday, Dec. 2 at 9pm. It looks like Cake Boss superstar Buddy Valastro is picking up some cues from Gordon Ramsay when it comes to turning around the baking industry and helping save struggling family establishments. Valastro hits the road on a mission to help save a number of family-run neighborhood bakeries from extinction. He’s unapologetic for calling out problems and problem people as he sees them (although that’s nothing new for Valastro as he does that on a regular basis at […]

When is Frosty the Snowman on TV 2013?

December 2, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

When is Frosty the Snowman on TV 2013? CBS will again be airing the beloved 1969 special starring that “jolly, happy soul” Frosty the Snowman, along with the 1992 special Frosty Returns: Frosty the Snowman — Friday, Dec. 6, 2013, at 8pm ET/PT, and Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013, at 9pm ET/PT on CBS. Frosty Returns — Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013, at 9:30pm ET/PT on CBS. ALSO SEE: Holiday TV schedule 2013 FREE download (Descriptions below from CBS) Friday, Dec. 6 (8:00-8:30 PM, ET/PT) Saturday, Dec. 14 (9:00-9:30 PM, ET/PT) FROSTY THE SNOWMAN — Frosty, that “jolly, happy soul” whose old […]

CMA Country Christmas 2013 date, time, channel, performers

December 2, 2013 Lori Acken

CMA Country Christmas 2013 airs tonight, Dec. 2, at 9/8pm CT on ABC Hunter Hayes, Trace Adkins, Luke Bryan, Sheryl Crow, Lucy Hale, Jake Owens, Kellie Pickler, Mary J. Blige, Rascal Flatts, Lady Antebellum, Darius Rucker and Michael W. Smith are among the performers scheduled to appear on tonight’s CMA Country Christmas hosted by Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles. The stars perform holiday favorites and share their own family traditions and happy memories in the 2-hour holiday celebration, which taped in front of a live audience at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., in early November. Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robertson and the rest of […]