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“My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding” preview: Girl fight!

June 2, 2012 Lori Acken

Well, My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding fans, like the ads are promising, this is the episode we’ve been waiting for. At long last, we’ll get the story behind the infamous chick fight in the series’ opening credits. And — of course — it involves everybody’s favorite gypsy wild child Mellie Stanley. • UPDATE: Read Channel Guide’s exclusive interview with Mellie Stanley! This time around, it’s her 20-year-old nephew Heath — eldest son of Mellie’s sister Nettie — who is planning the wedding, an event with which everyone in the clan is delighted. At first. Then Nettie gets wind that her live-in […]

Baron Ambrosia finds a new kingdom on Cooking Channel

June 1, 2012 Lori Acken

He’s the Culinary Ambassador of the Bronx. The Quaffer of Culinary Consciousness. He’s Baron Ambrosia! He’s also Justin Fornal, a Connecticut-born, Bronx-based independent filmmaker who found a brilliant way to combine a lifelong love of food and film into one over-the-top and always hungry character. “I was with my filming partner Joe Bly in Washington Heights,” Fornal says of the first day that Baron Ambrosia drew a breath, “and we had this idea for a character who was very much like myself but at the same time had a different history and wasmuch older and had a dubious past that […]

“Dance Moms” star Christi Lukasiak talks Chloe, Joffrey and the show’s new season!

June 1, 2012 Lori Acken

The last time I spoke with Dance Moms’ Christi Lukasiak, the show’s second season was soon to premiere — and Lukasiak was still trying to wrap her head around her near-overnight transition from devoted mom perpetually trapped in a tyrant’s dance studio to devoted mom perpetually trapped in a tyrant’s dance studio on TV’s most talked-about train wreck. My research entailed being an earnestly devoted viewer of the show. • Read Channel Guide‘s first interview with Christi Lukasiak Six months later, on the cusp of the season’s summer premiere, Lukasiak, her comrades in the parents loft at Pittsburgh’s Abby Lee Dance Company, and […]

Adam Richman seeks out America’s best sandwich

May 30, 2012 Lori Acken

Adam Richman’s face is mere inches away from a toaster oven in the bustling kitchen of Kroll’s West, the 70-year-old, go-to food spot for Green Bay Packer fans and “butter burger” lovers that sits in the shadow of the legendary Lambeau Field. But it’s not the burger he’s after on this late April afternoon — it’s the beloved Wisconsin eatery’s prime rib sandwich, a beefy monstrosity accented with a mélange of peppers and onions and a cup of rich au jus. As Cheryl Dorner, the folksy restaurant’s charming manager — and Richman’s costar for this segment of his new Travel […]

“Dance Moms: Miami” finale recap: Mamas & Mia!

May 30, 2012 Lori Acken

Anybody else think this season flew by? I think this season flew by. Yes, that means that we can get back to business with Abby Lee and her disobedient minions, but still. Finales are always sad. Well, usually. Speaking of always sad — it’s time for The List. Victor’s still tickled about how well we all did in San Antonio, but still … this week we have to own it. Er, own what? Doesn’t matter — since Angel wasn’t there to see the ownership of San Antonio with his own eyes, he doesn’t believe it anyway, so whatever it is, it […]

Anthony Bourdain bolting from Travel Channel to CNN

May 29, 2012 StayTuned Staff

“As long as it’s interesting, then I’ll keep doing it. But the minute it becomes a job, I will stop.” — Anthony Bourdain, on continuing his work on Travel Channel’s Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations It wasn’t much more than a month ago that Anthony Bourdain was talking with great satisfaction about the launch of Season 8 of his signature series for Travel Channel, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. He may not be stopping, but Bourdain will be changing venues. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the renowned chef, restaurateur and acerbic travel writer will be leaving Travel Channel for — hopefully — […]

“My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding” preview: Murphy’s Laws

May 25, 2012 Lori Acken

The first time American television audiences were introduced to Murphy Village in North Augusta, S.C., it was via the news and a young woman who was part of the culture, but not the community. Madelyne Gorman Toogood, an Irish Traveller like the residents of the village (of which she was never a resident), was caught by security cameras savagely beating her 4-year-old daughter in the parking lot of an Indiana department store in late 2002. And suddenly every major news outlet wanted to know what went on inside this highly secretive society that — contrary to Toogood’s actions — prides […]

“Tattoo School” in session on TLC

May 24, 2012 StayTuned Staff

No one wants to be an aspiring tattoo artist’s first job. (Just ask that guy that got tied up in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.) But tattoo artists have to start somewhere, and a new series on TLC illustrates just where, for one group, the needle first meets skin. Tattoo School premieres tonight at 10pm ET/PT, and is set in the renowned World’s Only Tattoo School in Shreveport, La., where students undergo a two-week intensive course to learn and hone the craft of tattooing. At the center of Tattoo School is Dr. Bill Pogue, who, with his 38 years […]

G4 to count down the Top 100 Video Games of All Time in weeklong series

May 24, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

From June 11-15, in a five-part series airing in hourlong episodes at 8pm ET each night, G4’s The Top 100 Video Games of All Time will look at an industry that began in arcades, pizza parlors and shag-carpeted living rooms and has grown into a multi-billion dollar business that dominates the entertainment landscape — video games. Whether it’s addictive Facebook games, iPad apps, MMOs, console blockbusters, and/or nostalgia for a home gaming system that one grew up with, nearly everyone of a certain age has a connection to video games, and this special looks to count down the greatest of […]

Meet Food Network’s “Invention Hunter” Steve Greenberg

May 18, 2012 Lori Acken

Gadget Nation author and “Innovation Insider” Steve Greenberg grew up in a family that celebrates invention — and a great meal. So it’s only natural that Greenberg — who parlayed a gig as a TV reporter into a career heralding gadgets — would find a way to combine his passions and give inventors a boost to boot. This week, he and his pal, Patrick Raymond — founder of the Inventors Association of Manhattan and former Executive Director of the United Inventors Association — debuted their new Food Network series Invention Hunters, which follows the duo as they scout out potential million-dollar kitchen gizmos […]