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Mom’s the word for The Little Couple star Jen Arnold

September 24, 2013 Lori Acken

Before I even ask a question, Dr. Jennifer Arnold cheerfully warns me that she is going try to pay unfailing attention during our interview, but she can make no guarantees. I can’t exactly blame her. As a longtime fan of The Little Couple, the TLC series in which Arnold stars with her businessman husband Bill Klein, I’m almost as smitten with the couple’s recently adopted 3-year-old son Will as they are. And Will’s mom is on Mom Duty. “If I get a little distracted that’s because I’m watching Will right now because the nanny just left,” Arnold chuckles, and I […]

We talk with Bill Klein of TLC’s The Little Couple!

September 23, 2013 Lori Acken

Like most working couples with a rambunctious toddler, The Little Couple’s Dr. Jennifer Arnold and Bill Klein are quickly mastering division of duties. Parental duties. Work/home duties. And on the day I interview them, all of the above plus the obligations that come with starring in their beloved unscripted series that boasts a devoted following of fans who consider the Arnold-Klein family a part of their own. So Bill and Jen talk to me in shifts. While Arnold works as a pediatrician and neonatologist at Houston’s Texas Children’s Hospital and the couple’s son Will hangs out with his nanny, businessman […]

“The Watsons Go to Birmingham” a moving family film

September 20, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

This week marked the 50th anniversary remembrance of the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. — a notorious, racially motivated crime that killed four little girls and helped gain support for the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. That event marks a pivotal scene in the Hallmark Channel original movie The Watsons Go to Birmingham, premiering Sept. 20 at 8pm ET. The film, based on the Newbery Honor-winning book by Christopher Paul Curtis, also touches on other key civil rights moments from 1963 that we are commemorating this year, including the Birmingham marches and […]

“The Middle” coming to ABC Family

September 16, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

ABC Family will begin airing episodes of its mothership ABC’s hit family comedy The Middle starting Sept. 17. The show will air on ABC Family weekdays at 5pm ET/PT. To kick off The Middle‘s arrival on ABC Family, a marathon of the sitcom will air on ABC Family Sept. 16 from 11am-7pm ET/PT. The Middle revolves around frazzled mother Frankie Heck (Patricia Heaton), her calming husband Mike (Neil Flynn) and their three crazy kids: oldest son Axl (Charlie McDermott), an underachiever; socially awkward middle daughter Sue (Eden Sher); and quirky youngest son Brick (Atticus Shaffer). The sitcom is told from […]

Hub Network celebrates Friday the 13th with Spooky Googly Eyes Marathon

September 13, 2013 StayTuned Staff

The Hub Network is getting a little goofy — er, googly, to celebrate Friday the 13th. The macabre calendar day will feature a marathon of episodes from Goosebumps and R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour, which seems natural enough, but they’ll be back with a twist. As part of the Spooky Googly Eyes Marathon, the episodes will feature characters (and creatures) who have had immense googly eyes added to their appearance. Here, maybe it’s just better if you take a look and see for yourself. The Friday the 13th Spooky Googly Eyes Marathon runs from 5pm-8pm ET tonight on The Hub […]

Kenan Thompson to host Hub Network Halloween Bash

September 9, 2013 StayTuned Staff

It’s been awhile since Kenan Thompson entertained kids and families for a living, but I’m guessing he’ll have no trouble finding his rhythm again when he hosts “Hub Network’s First Annual Halloween Bash.” The Saturday Night Live funnyman, known for recurring characters like the would-be Scared Straight criminal who steals all of his hard-luck stories from movie plots, and “Weekend Update” fixture Jean K. Jean, got his big break clowning around on Nickelodeon’s kid-friendly ’90s sketch show All That. He then found success partnering up with fellow cast member Kel Mitchell for Kenan & Kel and the feature film Good […]

“Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.” presents different spin on Marvel hero

August 16, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Everyone knows Hulk likes to smash. But now you’re going to hear him talk about it. In Marvel’s Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., the mean green Avenger (Fred Tatasciore) shows his family side, teaming up with a unique group of crime-fighters who all share a fondness for large-scale mayhem. There’s his cousin She-Hulk (Eliza Dushku), his son Skaar (Ben Diskin), along with Red Hulk (Clancy Brown) and A-Bomb (Seth Green). They join together to battle enemies too huge for your everyday puny superheroes to handle. Oh, and all those muscles and egos will be living under one roof, also handling […]

Dance Kids ATL: TLC special spotlights a new generation of hip-hop dancers

July 22, 2013 Lori Acken

Dance Kids ATL premieres Wednesday, July 24, at 10/9 CT on TLC. When Sindy Schneider was an up-and-coming dancer in Atlanta, she and her friends were frustrated by the lack of a professional organization in the region devoted exclusively to hoofers hoping to make it in the business. They decided to start a network of their own, assembling 40 dance pals into a Yahoo e-group they called Dance 411. A month later, the group had grown to 500 members eager to share information, tips and contacts, and Schneider knew she was onto something. Dance 411 began hosting classes and, in […]

Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove TV series comes to Hallmark

July 2, 2013 Barb Oates

“New York Times” Best-Selling Author Debbie Macomber Cedar Cove TV series comes to Hallmark Channel July 20 What a burst of sunshine. New York Times best-selling author Debbie Macomber is one of those people who always see the glass as half full, finding happiness in the simplest of things. “I’m a generally happy person,” she admits. “When [Wayne and I] were first married, he would wake up and he would say, ‘Do you have to shine so bright in the morning?’” The author of over 100 novels continues to shine, and even brighter, this month as Hallmark Channel rolls out […]

Miss You Can Do It: HBO documentary spotlights special girls, special pageant

June 24, 2013 Lori Acken

Because I am the mom of a bright, beautiful daughter who lives stylishly with severe cerebral palsy, I watched the screener for HBO’s new documentary Miss You Can Do It at home, just in case of emotional overload. And, as I expected it would, the film — about former Miss Iowa Abbey Curran and the pageant she created for young ladies with physical and mental challenges — made me cry. Not out of sympathy or even catharsis — but for myriad happy reasons. The film, from director Ron Davis (Pageant) deftly balances the challenges faced by children with special needs […]