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“Treme” more than just a gig for star Wendell Pierce

April 16, 2010 StayTuned Staff

By Stacey Harrison It’s usually hyperbole to say that an actor was born to play a certain part, but in the case of Wendell Pierce and Treme, it might just be true. David Simon and Eric Overmyer, creators of the New Orleans-based drama that debuted on HBO on Sunday and has already been renewed for a second season, wrote the role of Antoine Batiste specifically for the gregarious actor, who is best known for his role as cigar-chomping homicide cop Bunk Moreland on The Wire. A New Orleans native, Pierce knew the rhythms of the city and the characters, and […]

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The music of “Glee”: Sectionals

December 11, 2009 StayTuned Staff

Before we get started with this week’s recap — which, is already late (sorry) — here’s a reminder that Glee is now on hiatus until spring 2010. New episodes are slated to start airing April 13 on FOX. Also, the show’s second soundtrack, Glee — The Music, Vol. 2, was released this week, so head over to iTunes to download it. Now, on with the show. Mercedes (Amber Riley) gets things off to a rollicking start with her ballad, “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” from Dreamgirls. Even Jennifer Hudson’s most ardent fans can’t question this faithful rendition, […]

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Dexter: Gator Stew

November 10, 2009 StayTuned Staff

By Elaine Bergstrom I’m blogging from Cleveland this week where the front news coverage is all about Anthony Sowell, dubbed “The Cleveland Strangler.” Seeing his victims smiling in old photos on the front page of the Plain Dealer and watching the local news cams hovering over the police and the search dogs hunting for more bodies or the prayer vigils being held almost nightly in the community in which Sowell found his victims, my thoughts move to the Ice Truck Killer, to Trinity and to the Bay Harbor Butcher, Dex himself.

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Family

What to watch this Halloween season

October 12, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

**This was our 2009 Halloween preview. To see what’s coming up for Halloween 2010, click here. Whether you’re looking for hardcore horror, family-friendly frights, or something in between, here’s a selection of some of the shows and movies to get you in a macabre mood this Halloween season. For more detail on the scary movies listed here, and to search for others throughout the month, visit our online movie database. Goosebumps — Cartoon Network, weekdays at 4:30pm ET through Oct. 29. Episodes from all three seasons of the show that adapted R.L. Stine’s spooky book series for television. The Othersiders […]

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Morgan Spurlock talks about his “Simpsons” doc

July 26, 2009 StayTuned Staff

By Stacey Harrison Contrary to initial announcements (and its title), the documentary commemorating the 20th anniversary of The Simpsons will not be in 3-D or on ice. It will, however, be the latest project of provocateur filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who shot to fame with by chronicling his monthlong McDonald’s-only diet in Super Size Me and conducted other sociological experiments in the weekly FX show 30 Days. He was at Comic-Con in San Diego (where just a few Simpsons fans have been known to gather) over the weekend auditioning superfans and grand impersonators to take part in the project. Spurlock took […]

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Thu Tran Raps As “Food Party” Wraps Up … For Now

July 13, 2009 StayTuned Staff

by Karl J. Paloucek She’s the focal point of one of television’s coolest shows in recent memory. Thu Tran, creator and star of Food Party on IFC, is a bundle of energy with an obsession for all things cute, cool and food-related. We interrupted her lunch to get some answers from this artist and visionary responsible for some of the most lunatic television we’ve seen in years, to find out her views on cannibalism and to ask about the fate of her utterly absurd series. How do you feel about the season you’ve just finished on IFC? I thought it […]

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Consider Yourself Invited To IFC’s “Food Party”

May 26, 2009 StayTuned Staff

If I could pick one thing everyone should have in their lives on a regular basis, near the top would be a bit of surrealism. If I could pick a second, it might as well be puppets. (Note that the two concepts rather complement one another.) Well, just in time for summer, IFC brings both your way in a new Internet transplant of sorts, Food Party, premiering June 9 as part of the IFC Automat. Created and hosted by upload artist Thu Tran and a group of her art-school buddies, the series follows her adventures in and around her colorful, […]

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The CW Announces Fall Season Schedule

May 21, 2009 StayTuned Staff

by Karl J. Paloucek Whether The CW is playing it safe in this troubled economy or it’s just basing its new work on its current successes (I’d like to think the latter, though it’s probably a bit of both), for you fans of the young-adult-skewed network, it doesn’t matter. All you need to know is to expect more of the same. In 2009, its cult-of-beauty lineup expands in some VERY familiar directions. Among the new shows announced: Melrose Place (Tuesdays, 9pm ET/PT) Yep, it’s happening. Not only has The CW succeeded in reinventing Beverly Hills, 90210 with its own version, […]