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MTV’s Colin Nash on Buckwild: “We aren’t trying to make a show about the state of West Virginia”

December 29, 2012 Lori Acken

Everybody in tiny Sissonville, WV — population 4,028 at last check — knows affable, hardworking young Shain Gandy as the town’s “unofficial mayor” who skipped out on being prom king so he wouldn’t miss work. Beginning Jan. 3, MTV audiences will know him as the central star of the network’s newest kids-on-the-loose docuseries, Buckwild. But, says Colin Nash, MTV’s West Coast vice president of series development, this isn’t simply a downhome Jersey Shore. “It offers a completely new and unique world that our audience hasn’t really seen before,” he explains of the show brought to him by Zoo Productions and […]

Josh Shipp brings his teen-taming ways to Lifetime’s “Teen Trouble”

December 27, 2012 Lori Acken

Josh Shipp should have grown up a thug. Abandoned at birth and shuttled from one abusive foster home to the next, he was suicidal and addicted by the time he hit adolescence. Instead, thanks to the intercession of his final set of foster parents who took him at age 14 and allowed him be jailed for forging checks, Shipp defied his demons and became a leading interventionist for families and teens in crisis. In Lifetime’s sobering new reality show, Teen Trouble, the now 31-year-old father of two travels to the homes of kids on the brink to help them and […]

7 Questions With … Hines Ward of “Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off”

December 26, 2012 Lori Acken

He’s the legendary Pittsburgh Steeler who broke records (and one opponent’s jaw) on the field, then broke hearts in the Dancing With the Stars ballroom before retiring from the NFL last May to become an NBC football analyst. Now Hines Ward is testing his game in a whole new arena — the kitchen — as a contestant on Season 2 of Food Network’s Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off, battling Johnny Weir, Kathy Najimy, Carnie Wilson, Gilbert Gottfried and others for celeb-chef supremacy. “I thought it would be good that people can see a side of me that they don’t normally get […]

Randy Fenoli returns for a new season of “Say Yes to the Dress”

December 19, 2012 Lori Acken

When Say Yes to the Dress star [search phrase=”on” term=”Randy Fenoli”]Randy Fenoli[/search] was a 9-year-old boy bored by the cows and hay bales on his family’s Illinois farm, he defied his mother’s warning not to touch her new sewing machine and made her a dress. The next day she handed him a pattern for a skirt and he escaped the fields for good. When he was in his third semester at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, Fenoli won a contest usually reserved for older students — plus the attention of famed bridal designers Paul and Vivian Dessy Diamond, who […]

NBC and Telemundo broadcast 2012 Miss Universe competition live

December 18, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

The 2012 Miss Universe competition — the 61st annual event — airs live 8-10pm ET Dec. 19 from Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino’s Theatre for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas, and both NBC and Telemundo will be on hand with live broadcasts of the pageant, which will be seen in approximately 190 countries and is expected to have more than 1 billion viewers worldwide tune in. NBC For NBC’s coverage of the 2012 Miss Universe competition, Bravo’s Andy Cohen will return as host, and will be joined by Giuliana Rancic of E! and Style Network. Jeannie Mai of Style’s […]

“America’s Supernanny” Deborah Tillman’s holiday survival guide for parents

December 17, 2012 Lori Acken

Christmas is but a week away, and if your kids are going a little off the deep end while waiting for the Jolly Old Elf himself — or if you’re dreading the long car or plane ride to Grandma’s — child expert Deborah Tillman, star of Lifetime’s America’s Supernanny: Family Lockdown, offers these words of advice. How to survive car trips/flights with young children Remember that preparation is the key: • Stories on audiotapes are a terrific way to pass the time and educate at the same time. • Car games like “I Spy” are fun for children. • Allow […]

Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2012 airs on CBS

December 4, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Tonight, Dec. 4, CBS not only airs Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for the kids, but also offers the decidedly more risque Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2012 at 10pm ET/PT. Last year’s Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show garnered its best ratings ever in adults 18-49 and women 18-34, and averaged 11.5 million viewers. Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2012 looks like it should at least duplicate those numbers. Not only does it have a popular show like Rudolph as a lead-in, but it has the traditional can’t-miss elements of of beautiful women in sexy, over-the-top lingerie, combined with three top singers performing. The […]

TV medium John Edward, psychic Char Margolis read “Katie” audience

November 14, 2012 Barb Oates

Psychic mediums John Edward and Char Margolis will read studio guests as part of the Katie show tomorrow. The popularity of TLC’s hit series Long Island Medium featuring Theresa Caputo has certainly cast a renewed spotlight on the abilities of mediums. Caputo is currently enjoying a sold-out national tour in between seasons of her recently renewed series. But long before Theresa there were a few other TV mediums that captivated viewers and skeptics alike; two of them — John Edward and Char Margolis — will be appearing on Katie Couric’s talker Katie on Thursday, Nov. 15. Edward and Margolis will […]

Yvette Walts talks “Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition,” her hopes for Hadley — and THAT situation with Kristie Ray

November 13, 2012 Lori Acken

Suffice it to say that no one is more surprised than Yvette Walts to discover that the primary villainess of Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition is not the notoriously starchy star of the show, Dance Mom’s Abby Lee Miller — but rather the bubbly blond Walts herself. The Evansville, Indiana, native and 28-year dance industry vet says she thought her 12-year-old daughter Hadley was vying for a spot on a new reality show called “My Kid Can Dance” and had no idea Miller would be even be involved when they hopped a plane for Los Angeles. But Abby Lee was only one […]

TLC’s “Jersey Brides” say @#$! yes to the dress

November 12, 2012 Lori Acken

If TLC’s Bride Day Friday’s are just a tad too tame for you, maybe you should say yes to the network’s new Jersey Brides, instead. Set at Bijou Bridal‘s Paramus, New Jersey, location and starring the store’s owners, adorable sisters Joyce and Julie Jou (that’s them below) — plus their good-natured consultant and dress designer Leigh Price — Jersey Brides spotlights the lively dress pursuits of ladies whose primary goal is Jersey’s special brand of pizazz. Or as the Jou sisters put it: “Bling. Boobs. And booty.” In the first half-hour, viewers will meet Jessie, a lifelong Jersey girl who says that she […]