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Gypsy Sisters Season 3 premieres Aug. 21 on TLC

July 28, 2014 Lori Acken

The beautiful, brawling Stanley sisters and their extended clan return to TLC in the two-hour Gypsy Sisters Season 3 premiere, Thursday, August 21 on TLC. And it looks like Nettie and Kayla may have mended their fractious relationship — at least for the moment. Unless Mellie’s wearing a helmet for reasons that don’t involve skydiving or motorbikes. According to the press release for the new season, Stanley family ties are more tenuous than ever as Kayla’s 17-year marriage to Richard is tested even as she and Nettie try to put the fist-flailing and social media scandals of the recent past behind them. And while baby Richard […]

Bravo announces three-part Real Housewives of New York City reunion

July 22, 2014 Lori Acken

Following tonight’s doozie of a The Real Housewives of New York City Season 6 finale, Bravo will air a three-part reunion beginning Tuesday, July 29 at 9pm ET/PT. Hosted by Andy Cohen, the reunion specials bring Aviva Drescher, LuAnn de Lesseps, Sonja Morgan, Carole Radziwill, Ramona Singer, Kristen Taekman and Heather Thomson together to talk about the season’s plentiful jaw-dropping moments. On tonight’s RHONY finale — already much-discussed because of Aviva’s leg-tossing tantrum at Le Cirque — Sonja confronts Harry and LuAnn about their alleged night together and Kristen unapologetically uses nepotism to land a modeling gig. After the finale LuAnn, Ramona and Heather join Andy to talk it over on a special Watch What […]

Who Do You Think You Are? returns to TLC July 23

July 21, 2014 Lori Acken

Think you know everything about your favorite celebrities? TLC’s intriguing NBC import Who Do You Think You Are? unearths familial facts and secrets that famous folks didn’t even know themselves. Having already delved into the sometimes dark, sometimes delightful personal histories of Sarah Jessica Parker (who discovered that her 10th great-grandmother was accused in the Salem witch trials), Rob Lowe (who learned his fifth great-grandfather fought for the British in the American Revolution but died a patriot), Paula Deen (whose third great-grandfather was a slave owner) and others, the show’s emotional new season includes Valerie Bertinelli (Hot in Cleveland), Jesse […]

Marcus Lemonis: “I learn more about myself” on CNBC’s The Profit

July 15, 2014 Lori Acken

Marcus Lemonis, Chairman/CEO of Camping World and Good Sam and the star of CNBC’s The Profit says his entire business career has been about being accessible to people who need his help — even when his live-in girlfriend warns him that it’s going to burn him out. Speaking to reporters at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, Lemonis said he gets more than 1,000 email pitches a day, and culls even more from Twitter, but the entrepreneurial spirit is what drives him — in himself and in the struggling and prosepctive business owners with whom he works. It’s also […]

LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian: Vh1’s LeAnn & Eddie is for real and for laughs

July 11, 2014 Lori Acken

Watching country crooner LeAnn Rimes and her husband, actor Eddie Cibrian, calmly handle a grilling by reporters during the Television Critics Association press tour panel for their new VH1 docuseries LeAnn & Eddie, it’s clear that the pair have dealt with pretty much everything critics — TV or otherwise — have to dish out. • Preview the first episode of LeAnn & Eddie here Tabloid staples since their romance began on the set of the 2009 Lifetime movie Northern Lights (while both were married to others), the pair decided to create a reality show to give a tongue-in-cheek — but, […]

“Belly Up!” Premieres On Cooking Channel Tonight!

June 16, 2014 Kellie Freeze

Chef Eddie Russell believes that every neighborhood needs a great bar, but in the competitive restaurant industry, local watering holes need to get folks to belly up, or they’ll go belly up. In his new series, appropriately titled, Belly Up!, Russell helps distressed bars realize their full potential and fill their dining rooms. I spoke with showrunner Jill M. Williams and she revealed, “Tonight the premiere episode is in Charleston, SC and it is a bar that is rapidly going under. It desperately needs Chef Eddie’s help. And it really is kind of a mish-mash, the food and the décor […]

Deadliest Catch: We talk with Sig and Mandy Hansen!

June 10, 2014 Lori Acken

On tonight’s all-new Deadliest Catch, two captains’ kids take giant steps forward in their familial legacies. More than three years after her captain Phil Harris’s tragic passing, the Cornelia Marie returns to the fleet with Harris’ son Josh — the boat’s new owner — in the wheelhouse. And aboard the Northwestern, captain Sig Hansen welcomes a familiar new greenhorn — his beautiful, blonde 18-year-old daughter, Mandy, who has convinced her parents to let her work aboard the boat for a few days of the opilio crab season while her school’s on winter break. Having spent four summers working aboard the boat during the salmon […]

Marriage Boot Camp Reality Stars recap episode 2: A burning ring of fire

June 6, 2014 Lori Acken

Welcome back to Marriage Boot Camp Reality Stars, boot campers. Everyone remember where we are after last week? Which is mostly that Tanisha and Clive established themselves as the problem campers and no one wants to pitch their tent — OK, their luxury mansion suite — by T &C’s tent because they are very, very, very loud. Or at least Tanisha is. • RELATED: Marriage Boot Camp Reality Stars episode 1 recap: Meet the campers! But it’s a new day and everyone but the problem campers has gathered in the kitchen for breakfast and a discussion of how, in addition […]

Marriage Boot Camp Reality Stars recap episode 1: Meet the campers

May 30, 2014 Lori Acken

WE tv’s new Marriage Boot Camp spinoff — Marriage Boot Camp Reality Stars — is the product of the most solemn vow of reality TV stardom: Extend those 15 minutes of fame till death do you part. And for at least one of the fair-to-partly famous couples taking part, that last part may happen sooner rather than later. The first couple to arrive at the fabulous mansion that serves as home base for camp directors Jim and Elizabeth Carroll — the press release carefully calls them “experts” but doesn’t mention exactly in what, and neither sports any professional suffixes after their names — is former Bad […]

Long Island Medium Tweet To Win contest part of season finale

May 18, 2014 Barb Oates

Theresa Caputo will end the fifth season of her hit TLC series with the episode Long Island Medium On the Road: New Orleans, which airs Sunday, May 18 at 9pm ET. Corresponding with the season finale will be a live Long Island Medium Tweet to Win contest where viewers who tweet using the hashtag #LongIslandMedium will have a chance to win a free reading. The Tweet to Win contest will begin at 8pm ET and go through 11pm ET. During the live event, Theresa will randomly select two winners during segments within the commercial breaks and will announce them live […]