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“Duck Dynasty” takes command of Best Redneck Series in the Viewers Voice Awards

November 10, 2014 Channel Guide Contributor

There’s just no resisting that Duck call. Duck Dynasty, that is. With Season 7 set to premiere on Nov. 19 and an ever-expanding line of merchandise that features everything from board games to bottled wine, the bearded Robertson men and their lovely ladies continue to command America’s attention. And their countrified reality show handily won our 2014 Viewers Voice Awards for Best Redneck Series, shooting down its closet competition, the ill-fated Honey Boo Boo crew, by nearly 30 percent! Duck Dynasty, A&E 46.7% Call of the Wildman (Turtleman), Animal Planet 17.0% Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, TLC 13.5% Alaskan Bush […]

“The Little Couple” wins Best Family Values in the Viewers Voice Awards

November 10, 2014 Channel Guide Contributor

Channel Guide readers have big love for The Little Couple — and for good reason. In a TV landscape filled with eyebrow-raising parenting of both the scripted and unscripted varieties, the TLC hit’s Jen Arnold and Bill Klein have set the standard for demonstrating a loving and supportive marriage, joyful parenting and how to handle — and overcome — tremendous challenges as a rock-solid, real-life, utterly charming team. When the show’s seventh season premieres Dec. 2, Jen has been cancer-free for six months, returning to work and happily ticking off several parental rites of passage with Bill, when the pair […]

Project Runway: Threads Episode 3 Recap: The Ultimate Accessory

November 7, 2014 StayTuned Staff

This week on Project Runway: Threads, Vanessa introduced three new contestants to the grand prize package totaling $25,000 and a chance to launch their design career. The teens going thread-to-thread this week were Zachary, Emily and Colette. They start off by displaying the pieces of work they brought with them from home for the “Show Us Your Style” challenge. Vanessa and Ingrid will be the judges and decide who will win an advantage in the week’s challenge. The first competitor is 15-year-old Zachary from Berkeley, Calif. He explains that his look was inspired by Marie Antoinette and that his designs […]

We talk Food Network’s Holiday Baking Championship with host Bobby Deen!

November 7, 2014 Lori Acken

It’s only natural that Bobby Deen would relish his role as host of Food Network’s Holiday Baking Championship, premiering Sunday night at 9pm ET/PT. “Thanksgiving and Christmas are wonderful holidays for my family,” says Paula’s youngest boy of his food-centric clan. “We all gathered in Statesboro, Ga., every year for Thanksgiving at my Uncle Bernie and Aunt Glennis’ house and everyone would bring desserts. There was a 6-foot buffet table in the dining room that was covered from end to end with cakes and pies and gooey bars and any kind of cookie that you could imagine. That’s such a […]

Preview: Season 4 of Moonshiners starts with “Secret Summit”

November 4, 2014 Barb Oates

Our favorite backwood bad boys return! Season 4 of Moonshiners is looking pretty spirited with plenty of logistical problems (a water source is imperative) coupled with looming danger (yes, that’s a cop car right around the corner and, yes, Jim Thom is recognizable). The gang’s all back — Tim Smith, Tickle, Jim Tom, Roy, Josh, Bill, Chico, Tyler, Jeff and Mark. Discovery cameras return to Appalachia to film their day-to-day lives in the multimillion-dollar industry of illegal distilling. Season 4 of Moonshiners starts tonight (Tuesday, Nov. 4) with a one-hour special Secret Summit: The Kickoff at 8pmET followed by the […]

Interview: Sue Aikens of NGC’s Life Below Zero: The Thaw

November 3, 2014 Lori Acken

The next time you complain about the price of milk at your local market — or having to dash there to get it — consider what Life Below Zero star Sue Aikens endures to provide the grocery staple to the hunters, scientists and other outdoor enthusiasts she hosts at her “unique and twisted bed-and-breakfast,” Kavik River Camp, 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. “As a business, I have to have everything for the people that stay there be store-bought, brought-in, authorized and cleared foods,” Aikens explains. “So I have to plan for maybe 50 people a day. How much […]

Richard Blais on Hungry Games: “I’m learning more as a chef!”

October 9, 2014 Lori Acken

It’s October — the burnished gold, bonfire-scented heart of autumn. So odds are pretty good you’re gobbling up anything you can get your hands on that’s all about the apples or labeled “Pumpkin Spice.” Even if, if you ask me, 90 percent of the latter tastes more like drugstore aftershave than anything related to actual pumpkin seasonings. So what is it about the mere mention of fall that makes us crave all things sweetly spicy. What is it that makes us crave anything at all? That’s the heart of the matter of Food Network’s fun and fascinating new series Hungry Games, hosted […]

Gypsy Sisters season finale: Will Kayla, er, segue back into married life? (exclusive clip)

October 2, 2014 Lori Acken

It’s been a festive and feisty — albeit short — Season 3 for TLC’s Gypsy Sisters. And on tonight’s season finale, the ladies are gearing up for Kayla to recommit to her’s and Richard’s marriage in a beachside ceremony in Ocean City, MD. • MORE: Channel Guide talks Gypsy Sisters Season 3 with Nettie Stanley and Kayla Williams! But first — in true Gypsy Sisters fashion — a few high jinks must ensue, this time beginning with the two (and in the case of the cautious bride-to-be, four) wheel variety. Predictably, Annie and Mellie take to their new rides like […]

Exclusive clip: Mellie returns to the pole (sort of) in an all-new Gypsy Sisters

September 25, 2014 Lori Acken

With one week to go until the Gypsy Sisters finale, Kayla calls the gang with some happy news. All their prodding for her to reestablish communication with her estranged husband Richard has done the trick and the two are planning to recommit to one another. • MORE: We talk a new season of Gypsy Sisters with Kayla Williams and Nettie Stanley! “It’s just been a rough road with Richard for the past year, but it’s all extremely self-explanatory for the very beginning of our season clear to the end,” Kayla told us in a recent interview. “It wasn’t easy filming […]

Meet Amish Barbie and her castmates on TLC’s Breaking Amish Season 3

September 18, 2014 StayTuned Staff

The Amish are back on TLC — and this time they’re Brooklyn bound! Breaking Amish Season 3 premieres tonight at 10/9CT, featuring five new cast members looking for a chance at a new life and achieving their dreams. Pretty Miriam, 26, is a single mother from Ohio who dreams of a career in the construction field. Having endured constant taunting from her community for giving birth outside of marriage, Miriam must decide choose two options — go to confession for her disobedience or leave her son with her family to pursue a fresh start in New York. Since Miriam only wants a better life for her little boy, she […]