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“Dance Moms” recap: French Diss

August 8, 2012 Lori Acken

Or … “The one in which I find out what that ‘Alouette’ song I learned in Girl Scouts really means.” But first, did everyone come through two weeks with no new Dance Moms okay? Everybody good? Catch a little Olympics action? Or … whatever else they air on Tuesday nights? And now we’re back, but Paige and Kelly aren’t. Turns out, they’re at the doctor for the foot Paige crunched backstage at last episode’s competition in Lancaster. Abby uses this information as a teaching moment: The girls have to understand that their bodies are their instruments. Or Abby’s instruments, anyway. Little talented tools […]

HGTV’s “Design Star” winner Danielle Colding prepares to “Shop This Room”

August 7, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Through the magic of television scheduling, Danielle Colding went from winning Design Star to hosting her own HGTV series, Shop This Room, just 10 days later. The real story was a lot more complicated than that, of course. Colding had to keep her victory a secret for weeks while she worked to put Shop This Room together. The New York-based designer joins us for a brief Q&A about how it felt to win Design Star, and what she hopes to accomplish with her new show, which airs Saturdays at 8pm on HGTV. Channel Guide Magazine: First off, describe the feeling […]

Chuey Martinez brings “All You Can Meat” to Travel Channel

August 7, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Meat. It’s a word that insires passion in many directions. Some are against it. Some can’t get enough of it. And then there are people like Chuey Martinez, for whom it’s virtually a way of life. Martinez, radio DJ and host of ESPN’s Born & Raised series, has let his love for meat take him all over the country, and en route, he’s come up with a six-part series for Travel Channel called All You Can Meat, premiering — with two back-to-back episodes — Aug. 12 at 10pm, before moving to its regular timeslot at 9pm on Aug. 19. In […]

PBS celebrates Julia Child’s centenary

August 2, 2012 StayTuned Staff

I have my share of memories of Julia Child — from watching her truss a bird or flambée a dish in the pan when I was a kid, to that famous picture of her wielding a cleaver overhead, to eventually learning how to cook some of her recipes. For many of us, she’s been around all our lives, either cooking or even as the subject of good-natured parody. (Remember that hilariously bloody Saturday Night Live sketch with Dan Aykroyd playing her?) But make no mistake: Julia’s influence on the world of home cooking can never be overestimated, and we are […]

DIY Network’s “Hollywood Builders: Total Recall” shows how the world of the blockbuster came to life

August 1, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Why did Colin Farrell sleep overnight on the set of Total Recall? Could it be true that a set buyer who is able to shop with $100,000 a day might not have a dream job after all? These questions and more are answered in Hollywood Builders: Total Recall, a one-hour special premiering at 9 tonight on DIY Network. Viewers will learn that it costs $10,000 a week just to keep the set flush in screws. Scenic artists will reveal how they made certain stunt props, like the one Farrell has to crash through in one dramatic scene. The movie’s […]

Can men live without women? Lifetime shows us in “The Week the Women Went”

July 27, 2012 Barb Oates

Seriously, a week without women? No big deal, right? Not the case, as Lifetime documents in The Week the Women Went — a four-episode series the network is hyping as “a social experiment of biblical proportions,” slated to premiere on Tuesday, Aug. 14 at 9pm ET/PT [although the network has changed this premiere date twice already]. Based on a similar British series that aired on the BBC, the project takes place in the small town of Yemassee, South Carolina, located about 250 miles southeast of Atlanta. Of a town of roughly 1,000, about 150 women agreed to participate, packing up […]

TCA: Katie Couric offers bucket list for her upcoming ABC talk show “Katie”

July 26, 2012 Lori Acken

“I haven’t done this for a while,” said Katie Couric, looking enviably youthful and lovely — and just a trifle nervous — as she surveyed the roomful of television writers and critics assembled to hear her discuss her upcoming ABC talk show, Katie. Couric began by giving props to singer Sheryl Crow who wrote and performed Katie‘s peppy theme song which accompanied the video clip that preceded Couric taking the stage. “Sheryl’s someone who I admire a great deal and has experienced a lot in her life and is enormously talented,” she said, “so I was absolutely thrilled when she said […]

“Dance Moms” recap: Jill Is Going To Cost Me A Lot Of Money In Therapy

July 24, 2012 Lori Acken

Boy howdy, do things get rolling quickly on this little crankfest! I haven’t even come close to maxing out my admiration for the drama mama’s fashion choices when the studio door opens and evil strolls in. I mean, Jill. Sporting Linda Evans’ Dallas hairdo. And another pon-shirt. And approximately half her body weight in eye makeup. The Ladies of the Loft are appalled! See? Appalled! Jill is undaunted. She wants back in at the ALDC and she doesn’t care what she has to do to get there. Including barging in on Pyramid time, causing the Abster to declare her officially […]

DIY Network gives a makeover to “America’s Most Desperate Landscape”

July 18, 2012 StayTuned Staff

For the fifth straight year, DIY Network combed the nation’s decrepit home fronts in search of America’s Most Desperate Landscape. Host Jason Cameron (Man Caves) reviewed entries from viewers coast-to-coast who hoped to win the $25,000 yard makoever. Patty and Cas Stochmal of Derby, Conn., who had Jason and his crew give their yard a major two-day transformation that included creating a new retaining wall out of boulders, a new driveway, new concrete steps, a new walkway to the front door, building a 10×14 screened-in porch, and adding more than 100 plants. America’s Most Desperate Landscape airs tonight at 9 […]

Lifetime announces new docu-series “Prom Queens”

July 12, 2012 Lori Acken

Girlie-reality lovers, what’s better than a Tuesday night with Lifetime’s Dance Moms? A Tuesday night with Lifetime’s Dance Moms and Prom Queens! The network is planning to follow its dance-and-drama docuseries smash with the brand-new true-life series about teen girls from eight American high schools vying to become the queen of their respective proms. The show will document the extreme lengths to which these ladies — and often their equally hell-bent mothers — will go to achieve the pinnacle of high-school social superstardom. Prom Queens is created by the folks who brought you The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Beverly […]