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“Family Game Night” sweepstakes offers trip to live taping, chance to be on show

Fans of Family Game Night will want to watch The Hub‘s marathon of the popular game show Sunday, April 7, from 7pm ET-midnight. During that time, The Hub will present a secret code word each hour of the five-hour marathon. Viewers can then enter the code at hub world.com/fgn — by 11:59pm ET Thursday, April 11 — where they will be in the running to win a trip for four to Los Angeles to see a live taping of the show and win $1,000 cash. Then the winning fan will have the chance to be selected from the audience to […]

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Little People Big World special ‘Conquering Mount St. Helens’ airs March 19

Little People Big World fans, our favorite family is back in an inspiring one-hour special Little People, Big World: Conquering Mount St. Helens that premieres Tuesday, March 19, at 10/9CT on TLC. And new empty-nesters, you might want to keep a couple of tissues handy just in case. When we rejoin the Roloffs, we learn that Amy is having a hard time adjusting to the quiet, now that twin sons Zachary and Jeremy and daughter Molly are all away at school, and youngest son Jacob is busy doing his own teenage thing. When her trainer suggests that a performance goal might […]

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The Little Couple Returns April 30 on TLC

The Little Couple are about to become a little family! Dr. Jen Arnold and her husband Bill Klein, stars of the beloved TLC reality show, told People magazine today that they have adopted a toddler who also has a form of dwarfism. The couple’s path to becoming parents to 3-year-old William will be featured in the show’s sixth season, which makes its long awaited premiere April 30. “We are thrilled to announce that we have adopted a beautiful young boy from China,” the couple told People in an exclusive statement. “We are so proud to welcome William to our family and […]

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ABC Family to air weekend of classic animated Disney movies

Easter weekend will be a special treat for fans of beloved, classic animated Disney movies, as ABC Family will be showing Alice in Wonderland (1951), Mulan (1998), The Lion King (1994) and Beauty and the Beast (1991) Saturday, March 30, and Sunday, March 31. The Disney movies weekend kicks off with 1951’s Alice in Wonderland, March 30 at 5:30pm ET/PT (encore March 31 at 3:30pm ET/PT). It’s the animated adventure about young Alice, who finds herself in the strange, scary and whimsical world of Wonderland. Alice in Wonderland features the voices of Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn and Sterling […]

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Pastor Rick Warren brings his lessons for a purpose driven life to Oprah’s Lifeclass Feb. 24

His inspirational book The Purpose Driven Life has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide and been translated into more than 50 languages since its 2002 debut. Now Pastor Rick Warren drops by Oprah’s Lifeclass to give viewers an even deeper understanding of how to put his words and ideas into meaningful action. The episode airs this Sunday, February 24 at 9pm ET/PT on OWN.. As the founder of Southern Californa’s Saddleback church — which now boasts some 20,000 members and numerous satellite congregations — Warren has made it his life’s mission to help people answer the question that is the subtitle of his tome: […]

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Celebrity Wife Swap: Kate Gosselin, Kendra Wilkinson trade lives in season premiere

ABC announced today that  Celebrity Wife Swap will return Tuesday, Feb. 26 with a doozie of a switch-up: former Playboy Bunny turned reality star Kendra Wilkinson and former Jon & Kate Plus 8 star Kate Gosselin. Since Gosselin’s been serving as single mom to 12-year-old twins Cara and Mady, and 8-year-old sextuplets Aaden, Collin, Joel, Leah, Alexis and Hannah since her 2009 divorce from Jon Gosselin, it’s hard not to argue that she got the better deal, moving in with Wilkinson’s husband, former NFL star Hank Baskett and their toddler son Hank, Jr. The apparently fearless Wilkinson — who will display her […]

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Westminster Dog Show coverage returns to CNBC and USA Network in 2013

Updated Feb. 13, 2013, 9:10am CT CNBC and USA Network will once again have live coverage of the famed Westminster Dog Show, now in its 137th year in 2013. In the past, the two networks have split coverage on opening night of the show, with CNBC picking up the last two hours so USA could flip over to WWE Raw. This year, the networks are perhaps trying to head off any confusion and loss of viewers that switchover may have caused by simply giving CNBC coverage of the entire Opening Night on Feb. 11, and having USA Network take over […]

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NFL Characters Unite on USA Network Friday

“NFL Characters Unite” on USA Network Friday, Feb. 8, includes NFL stars Larry Fitzgerald, Jameel McClain, Troy Polamalu and Justin Tuck discussing how they overcame prejudice, bullying and discrimination. The second annual NFL Characters Unite documentary airs on USA Network Friday, Feb. 8, at 7pm ET as part of the network’s Characters Unite Month to stand up to intolerance, bigotry, bullying, discrimination and hatred. The NFL has partnered with Characters Unite for this documentary special, featuring stories from players Larry Fitzgerald, Jameel McClain, Troy Polamalu and Justin Tuck. From the Characters Unite press release: On Friday, February 8 at 7/6c, […]

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Puppy Bowl ratings: Ninth installment brings in event’s largest audience ever

While a record 164.1 million people watched some Ravens win the Super Bowl, millions of other fans were watching animals of another sort in a different type of bowl. Animal Planet’s annual Puppy Bowl embarked on its ninth installment as counter-programming to the NFL game, and this year it also took in its biggest audience ever. Animal Planet says that Puppy Bowl IX brought in more than 12.4 million unique P2+ viewers over the 12 hours that the Puppy Bowl marathon ran (the original two-hour run, then several re-airs), a record for the programming event. During the now-infamous blackout during […]

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Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl has grown into a big dog in pop culture

Just as the Super Bowl started out as a fairly small event and has now exploded into a global marketing phenomenon — and almost an unofficial holiday in America — so, too, has Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl grown into a commercial powerhouse of Great Dane size. The first airing of the Puppy Bowl in 2005 was intended as counter-programming to the Super Bowl, and was a pretty quiet, relatively low-key affair — almost ambient programming, just puppies at play, accompanied by some calming music. But, just as you can often tell how large a puppy will get by the size […]