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We talk TLC’s I Am Jazz with transgender teen activist Jazz Jennings!

June 30, 2015 Lori Acken

When Jazz Jennings was 6 years old, she showed Barbara Walters and a 20/20 crew her ultra-girlie room, then warbled a bit of her favorite song, “In My Own Little Corner” from Cinderella: “In my own little corner, in my own little chair, I can be whatever I want to be. On the wings of my fancy, I can fly anywhere, and the world will open its arms to me.” It was a poignant moment for reasons well beyond the charming sight of a pretty little girl singing a princess song to her famous guest — because Jazz Jennings was […]

Paige Hemmis Makes Her Wedding A “Home & Family” Affair

June 19, 2015 Kellie Freeze

A wedding is an event to be shared with family and friends, but for designer Paige Hemmis and singer Jason Short’s nuptials, they’ve invited millions of people to join the celebration. Hemmis, a lifestyle expert on Hallmark Channel’s daytime talk and lifestyle program Home & Family, and Short, a member of the Australian pop/opera music group ARIA, will share their union in a very special Home & Family primetime event on June 22. “The love that the cast and crew has for each other on this show envelopes anyone who visits our set,” says Hemmis. “That is exactly the kind of […]

Where is Documentary, “The Man With No Penis”?

June 11, 2015 Kellie Freeze

The saying may be, “Don’t judge a book but it’s cover,” but in my world, I follow my own saying — “DO set your DVR based on the title.” So when I heard of the Discovery Life documentary, The Man With No Penis, first I checked to see if it was an April Fool’s joke, and second I called “dibbs” amongst my coworkers. I love watching any series with an intriguing title especially when medical documentaries introduce viewers to fascinating people with incredibly rare medical conditions. I adored the funny and charming story of Jonny Kennedy who suffered from the […]

Ellen DeGeneres Wants to Set You Up on “First Dates”

May 27, 2015 Kellie Freeze

If you’re a single looking for love, NBC and Ellen DeGeneres want to set you up on an incredible first date. Ellen is bringing the UK’s smash hit First Dates to the U.S., and she’s looking for single men and women ages 18-65+ who are looking for love and would be open to setting set up on a fun first date. You know that everything that Ellen does is light-hearted, fun and over-the-top and I imagine that the folks lucky enough to be selected will get to experience a once-in-a-lifetime date. And I’d trust Ellen waaaaay more than the matches […]

Hoarders Family Secrets star Matt Paxton: “This year … it will all make sense”

May 22, 2015 Lori Acken

When Lifetime debuts its Hoarders reboot, Hoarders: Family Secrets, Thursday night, fans of the A&E original will be pleased to see some very familiar faces have returned to the Hoarders fold — including extreme cleaning specialist Matt Paxton. Paxton says that even though A&E pulled the plug on Hoarders in 2013, reruns on the show’s new Lifetime home have kept the series — and serious discussions about this very real mental disorder — alive. “It’s been pretty surreal to see the response on social media — for me, on social media it never ended,” Paxton says. “New people were finding the show and they were […]

Dance Moms Australia Special Part 1 recap: Making Astras of Ourselves

May 19, 2015 Lori Acken

Even though we’ve been reading about it and watching stuff on YouTube for months now, its time for the official Jeff Collins-crafted version of the ALDC’s Australian misadventures, Dance Moms nation. Everyone got their comfortable walking shoes … and their passport? No, no everyone does not. We start out in the dark of night at LAX where Abby is two hours from departure and a million light years from knowing where hers — plus her driver’s license and her credit cards — is. Er, what seasoned traveler heads to the airport without checking and rechecking boarding passes and necessary I.D.? Isn’t […]

Submissive Wives’ Guide to Marriage

May 15, 2015 Channel Guide Contributor

Married ladies out there, what’s your secret to marital bliss? Is it compromise? A willingness to be open with your feelings, as well as to listen attentively to his? Or is it catering to his every whim, and submitting to him? Putting on a smile, even when you’re feeling down, and having sex despite the fact that you just.can’t.right.now? Wait … the last 2 sentences don’t apply to you? Hmmm … you sure you’re doing this wife thing correctly? This Sunday May 17, at 9pm ET/PT (8pm CT), catch Submissive Wives’ Guide to Marriage on TLC. This hourlong special focuses […]

Nat Geo Wild Three-Night Event: Is Your Dog A Genius?

May 15, 2015 Kellie Freeze

Is your bichon a brainiac? Is your elkhound like Einstein? Might your four-legged friend who eats from your unattended garbage be one of the most intelligent beasts in the animal kingdom? Nat Geo Wild and dog scientist Dr. Brian Hare hope to answer those questions in Is Your Dog a Genius?, a three-night event that explores and explains the goings-on inside the minds of dogs. Dr. Hare — an evolutionary anthropologist and codirector of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, coauthor of The Genius of Dogs, and cofounder of Dognition, a doggie IQ testing site — uses his research to help […]

American Masters honors 75 years of the ABT with Ric Burns’ American Ballet Theatre: A History

May 15, 2015 Lori Acken

At the very start of Ric Burns’ duly masterful American Masters documentary American Ballet Theatre: A History, which premieres tonight on PBS, dance historian Jennifer Homans offers up this assessment of the dancer’s experience: “If you are a dancer and you stand at the barre in these positions which have been prescribed for over 400 years and you go through this ritual — it’s a ritual of repetition, a ritual of physical discipline — you have to focus purely on the body. On what’s going on inside you. As you do that, you sort of end up letting go of all […]

New Hoarders season Hoarders: Family Secrets premieres with a live intervention on Lifetime

May 14, 2015 Lori Acken

Good news for fans of A&E’s gross-out guilty pleasure Hoarders, which ran on the network from 2009 to 2013 — and even featured a quick glimpse of our magazine (see image at right). The series is back with a brand-new name, Hoarders: Family Secrets, a bold new format and a new home on Lifetime, which currently airs repeats from past seasons. Hoarders: Family Secrets will kick off May 28 with an hourlong special focusing on two complex cases — a Massachusetts family and a relapsed hoarder on the brink of being jailed — and feature live segments culminating in the show’s first-ever live intervention. Throughout the season, some […]