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Dan and Michelle Hamill on a big new season of Our Little Family

September 15, 2015 Lori Acken

When Dan and Michelle Hamill introduced viewers to life with their three adorable kids — big brother Jack and twins Cate and CeCe — in February, it was little surprise that folks promptly fell head over heels for the Annapolis, MD, family, all of whom were born with achondroplasia. Now the Hamills and their charming TLC unscripted series, Our Little Family, are back for Season 2 with a fresh batch of fun. Summer vacation has arrived for Jack, the girls are cherubic (and potty trained!) chatterboxes and new adventures await. We caught up with Dan and Michelle last week to talk Season […]

Melissa Joan Hart Says Goodbye In “Melissa & Joey” Finale

August 5, 2015 Kellie Freeze

Melissa Joan Hart shares how she feels to be ending her ABC Family comedy, Melissa & Joey, after four seasons. Hart not only starred in the series, she also served as its executive producer. “It was like graduation on an adult level,” she says. “We’d been together for 6 years so with these goodbyes; it was this ever-present feeling that every moment counted. Every moment, we were all so there, so awake, so alive.” Hart also admits that she left the series with a few mementos. “I took a lot of things from the set — don’t tell ABC Family. […]

Disney Channel’s Dark And Delightful “Descendants”

July 31, 2015 Kellie Freeze

What happens after “happily ever after”? In Descendants, if you’re the hero and heroine of a Disney fairy tale, you live in the enchanted kingdom of Auradon — a land of beauty and possibility. But if you’re one of Disney’s legendary villains, you are exiled to the miserable and forbidden Isle of the Lost. Now, a benevolent young king — himself the heir of Beast and Belle from Beauty and the Beast — offers a chance at redemption to the four offspring of Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Cruella de Vil and Jafar with the opportunity to attend prep school in […]

Alana Stewart talks Stewarts & Hamiltons on E!

July 23, 2015 Lori Acken

Alana Stewart has two dashing ex-husbands, three gorgeous kids and a multifaceted, four-decade career. Now the former Mrs. George Hamilton (he of the legendary tan), who next became Mrs. Rod Stewart (the Brit-rock bad boy turned debonair crooner of standards) and is currently enjoying life as a confidently independent woman, has a family-centric show on E! Stewarts & Hamiltons features George, Alana and her kids — reformed bad boy Ashley Hamilton, practicing bad boy Sean Stewart and single mom Kimberly Stewart — plus Ashley’s half-brother George “GT” Hamilton Jr., giving a frequently comic look at what life is really like […]

Now Available: New Episodes of Amazon’s Kids Series “Annedroids”

July 2, 2015 Kellie Freeze

This morning, Amazon released Season 2 of its Emmy-nominated children’s series Annedroids. The series follows a STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering and Math) curriculum and there is much rejoicing in the Freeze household today — this season features 13 all-new, 30-minute episodes. The live-action adventure continues with tween scientist Anne (Addison Holley, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood) and her friends creating experiments in Anne’s fantastic junkyard laboratory. When Nick (Jadiel Dowlin) and Shania (perpetually hilarious Adrianna Di Liello) return to school after spending their summer in the junkyard, Anne finds new ways to stay in touch using Pidgely, a pigeon with a broken wing […]

Six Pilots Released For Potential Amazon TV Series For Kids

July 1, 2015 Kellie Freeze

Amazon has released pilots for six new children’s programs and wants our help in deciding which should pilots should be further developed into a series. Viewer feedback of the pilots will help choose the next wave of rewarding and award-winning programming for kids available on Amazon’s Watch it Now service and for subscribers to Amazon Prime. All pilots are now available (free!) via the Amazon Instant Video app for TVs, connected devices and mobile devices, or online. Check out the diverse slate of programming that Amazon is considering: Which series would your kids want to watch? I checked the six […]

We talk TLC’s I Am Jazz with transgender teen activist Jazz Jennings!

June 30, 2015 Lori Acken

When Jazz Jennings was 6 years old, she showed Barbara Walters and a 20/20 crew her ultra-girlie room, then warbled a bit of her favorite song, “In My Own Little Corner” from Cinderella: “In my own little corner, in my own little chair, I can be whatever I want to be. On the wings of my fancy, I can fly anywhere, and the world will open its arms to me.” It was a poignant moment for reasons well beyond the charming sight of a pretty little girl singing a princess song to her famous guest — because Jazz Jennings was […]

Exclusive Interview With “Teen Beach 2” Stars!

June 26, 2015 Kellie Freeze

Get out your dancing flip-flops and get ready to boogie! Tonight, Disney Channel’s brightest young stars go back to the beach in Teen Beach 2! In the next chapter to the 2013 smash, Teen Beach Movie, modern-day teens Brady (Ross Lynch) and Mack (Maia Mitchell) get a real world visit from their retro surfer and biker pals from the beach party film within a film, West Side Story. I chatted with Mollee Gray who returns to her role as sunny surfette Giggles and Ross Butler who joins the cast as brainy hunk, Spencer and both shared amazing stories about their time shooting […]

BOOM! Explosive New Game Show is Da Bomb!

June 24, 2015 Kellie Freeze

On BOOM!, FOX’s new trivia game show, you either get money or you get messy! Teams of family members, friends or even coworkers try to defuse bombs by clipping wires corresponding to the correct answers of trivia questions. Those who correctly answer the increasingly difficult questions stay clean and earn cash. But a wrong answer turns sloppy; if a contestant clips an incorrect wire, the bombs unleash an explosion of gross proportions as chili, chocolate pudding or even pizza sauce bursts forth. “When you know you have a very physical manifestation of your wrong answer exploding in your face, it […]

Sprout’s Chica takes on “Game of Thrones”

June 15, 2015 Kellie Freeze

Sprout knows that parents are often asleep loooong before the grownup stuff comes on TV. And once I’ve missed the first few seasons of a hit show, will there ever be enough hours for me to catch up? Thankfully, in celebration of last night’s very grown-up Game of Thrones season finale, Sprout’s beloved Chica has released her own take on the award-winning series. Check out the clever chicken — she makes an impressive Daenerys Targaryen — as she and a pal play “Game of Phones,” “Game of Stones,” and “Game of Tones.” This may be the only way I’ll ever have time […]