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“Transformers Prime” EP opens up about struggles to get 1st season right

October 14, 2011 StayTuned Staff

By Stacey Harrison Follow @ChannelGuideSRH Tonight’s season finale of Transformers Prime, which airs at 8:30pm on The Hub, will represent the culmination of a long, arduous road for not only the characters, but the creative team behind the show. Executive producer Jeff Kline says his team had just under a year to launch what he calls “the most complicated CGI show really ever attempted” for TV in about half the time that would normally be allotted. It was part of not just a new version of the Transformers franchise, but of an entirely new network. The Hub, a partnership between […]

Fans of cuteness are the winners when Animal Planet pits “Puppies vs Babies”

October 14, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

By Jeff Pfeiffer Follow @ChannelGuideJP This Saturday, Oct. 15, at 10pm ET/PT, Animal Planet’s Puppies vs. Babies begins its first installment of three one-hour specials that seek to determine which is cuter — baby humans or baby animals. (Although it is called Puppies vs. Babies, trailer clips seem to also include toddlers and older kids in the mix with babies, along with kitties in addition to puppies). Wherever you fall in the debate (I’m not afraid to take a side — go puppies!), it’s a good bet you’ll be awwwing all throughout this battle, which takes the 16 most popular […]

Tonight on “Rocket City Rednecks”: Listening in on spies and aliens

October 12, 2011 Lori Acken

By Lori Acken Follow @ChannelGuideLLA I’m still not completely recovered from last week’s watermelon trebuchet and drinking pee on Mars … but, happily, it’s time for two new episodes of NatGeo’s laugh-and-learn hit Rocket City Rednecks to teach me something new. And this time, we don’t want to go in search of life on other planets — we just want to talk.

Goodbye “Good Eats”: Alton Brown on putting the show on paper and what he’s cooking up next

October 11, 2011 Lori Acken

By Lori Acken Follow @ChannelGuideLLA Yes, Alton Brown knows how sad you are about the impending end of Good Eats, his long running, game-changing Food Network megahit. He hears about it at each performance of his month-long Good Eats 3: The Later Years book tour, which has him cracking up — and educating — audiences in different cities across the country nearly every evening in October. But rest assured, lovers of Brown’s acerbic wit, large vocabulary and quirky sense of narrative — you haven’t seen the last of him. Not by a long shot. “My wife is the president of our company […]

Tonight on “Downsized”: It’s crying time

October 11, 2011 Lori Acken

By Lori Acken Follow @ChannelGuideLLA After last week’s jewelry-sale-and-junk-van debacles, Laura thinks it’s time to enlist a third party to help her and Todd with their communication issues the way Dean has helped them with their financial issues. Todd balks at first, but gives in and agrees to go.

VOD Spotlight: The merry menagerie of “Zookeeper”

October 11, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

From kids who baptize their cats and dogs so that they will go to heaven to adults who mortgage the house to keep favorite pets alive, we love our animals. Zookeeper takes the opposite approach — a situation where animals are so in love with their keeper that they reveal the secret that they can […] […]

“Super 8’s” Joel Courtney logs time on “R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour”

October 5, 2011 StayTuned Staff

When your first showbiz experience is playing the lead in a summer blockbuster directed by J.J. Abrams and produced by Steven Spielberg, it might be easy to get a bit spoiled. But Joel Courtney, who turned out to be the perfect choice to lead Super 8‘s ensemble of young up-and-coming talent, says he’s adjusted just fine to other projects, thank you very much. He’s wrapped production on a new Tom Sawyer film, where he’ll play Mark Twain’s icon of boyhood, and is currently filming the fantasy adventure The Healer. In the meantime, you can catch the 15-year-old rising star in […]

Tonight on “Downsized”: the Bruce’s emergency fund runs dry

October 4, 2011 Lori Acken

By Lori Acken Follow @ChannelGuideLLA Everybody’s been there. You get a little cash in the bank — a tax return, an unexpected windfall, a little dab of financial breathing room — and the universe seems to sense it. Something breaks down. A kid need braces. And suddenly your cushion-cash is in someone else’s coffers. On tonight’s episode of Downsized, the Bruces are driven to the breaking point by escalating cash demands — and teaching the triplets to drive. Each parent makes a startling decision that reflects their vastly different ideas about when to save and spend.

“Little People, Big World” returns to TLC with the first of four new specials

October 2, 2011 Lori Acken

By Lori Acken Follow @ChannelGuideLLA If you’ve been wondering what happened to Matt and Amy Roloff and their rapidly-growing kids since the family’s popular TLC series, Little People, Big World ended last year, the network has good news. The Roloffs are back for a series of four hourlong specials intended to give their faithful fans (myself firmly among them) closure on what were some pretty major — and heartrending — cliffhangers in the series finale.

Brandy sees a bit of herself in cast of “Majors & Minors”

September 30, 2011 StayTuned Staff

By Stacey Harrison Follow @ChannelGuideSRH On tonight’s episode of Majors & Minors, airing 8pm on The Hub, the kids will get sound advice from someone who knows all about becoming a pop star at a young age. Brandy first hit the big time in 1994 with hits like “I Wanna Be Down” and “Baby.” She also found fame on TV in Moesha, starred in feature films and more recently has been a judge on America’s Got Talent and strutted her footwork on Dancing With the Stars. But as much as she was able to help the youngsters now wanting to […]