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Lifetime premieres Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances hosted by Clive Davis

January 16, 2015 Lori Acken

Saturday night is all about Whitney Houston on Lifetime. Immediately following the world premiere of the all-new biopic Whitney — directed by Angela Bassett and starring Yaya DaCosta in the title role — the network will air a pair of specials delving into the life, loves and career highlights of the late pop superstar. • RELATED: Lifetime’s ‘Whitney’: Angela Bassett on telling Houston’s love story in her directorial debut Bobby Brown: Remembering Whitney will feature an exclusive, no-holds-barred interview with Houston’s ex-husband Bobby Brown by Access Hollywood‘s Shaun Robinson that covers his and Houston’s marriage, their highs and lows, and the ultimate downfall of their romance. […]

Arlen Escarpeta on being Bobby Brown to Lifetime’s ‘Whitney’

January 15, 2015 Lori Acken

When Arlen Escarpeta arrived for his first audition to play R&B star Bobby Brown in Lifetime’s Whitney Houston biopic Whitney, he was surprised to discover his scene partner was none other than the film’s director, celebrated actress Angela Bassett. RELATED: Lifetime’s ‘Whitney’: Angela Bassett on telling Houston’s love story in her directorial debut “My first audition was a blessing,” smiles Escarpeta, 33, during a chat at a press breakfast for the film during the Television Critics Association press tour. “I’m reading opposite Angela Bassett — she’s in the room! That in itself was an accomplishment for me.” He made an impression. The Oscar-nominated Bassett, who makes her […]

Get Pumped For Pigskin With CMT’s Ultimate Kickoff Party

January 9, 2015 Kellie Freeze

If you’re hungry for football, CMT’s got something to whet your appetite before Monday’s College Football National Championship game between The Oregon Ducks and The Ohio State Buckeyes. In partnership with College Football Playoff, CMT presents a star-studded concert featuring performances by Toby Keith, Lady Antebellum (featuring singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc), Big & Rich, Brett Eldredge, Jake Owen, Maddie & Tae and Thomas Rhett. Hilarious Actor/comedian Rob Riggle (Dumb & Dumber To, 22 Jump Street, Fox NFL Sunday) will host the concert and country star/ TV personality Jessie James Decker (Redneck Island) will be CMT’s social correspondent for the event broadcast from the […]

Lifetime’s Whitney: Angela Bassett on telling Houston’s love story in her directorial debut

December 29, 2014 Lori Acken

Celebrated actress Angela Bassett was dining with her pal and Betty & Coretta producer Larry Sanitsky when the prolific filmmaker mentioned his struggle to find the right director for his newest project — a biographical film about the late pop superstar Whitney Houston. Bassett, who bonded with Houston when they filmed 1995’s Waiting to Exhale and hoped to spread her wings in the entertainment industry, wondered if fate had come calling. “To be at the helm of this, you go in knowing that she’s so beloved and she’s so magnificent that there are going to be some who are not going […]

Channel your inner von Trapp with tonight’s The Sound of Music Sing Along on ABC

December 21, 2014 Lori Acken

If you think you know every last word to every single song in the 1965 Rodgers and Hammerstein family classic The Sound of Music, here’s your chance to test that theory. Or maybe your renditions go something like “Edelweiss, edelweiss, la la lala la laaaaaaaa laaaaaaa!” and you’d like to remedy that. Tonight ABC presents The Sound of Music: Sing-A-Long, a special edition of the beloved film featuring subtitles to its Grammy-nominated soundtrack that allow you to channel your inner Fräulein Maria or Captain von Trapp with confidence. First broadcast on television on ABC in 1976, the five-time Oscar winner […]

We talk Galavant — and Alan Menken — with Joshua Sasse!

December 18, 2014 Lori Acken

And now for something completely different: A TV comedy that’s a little bit Disney romance and a whole lot Mel-Brooks-meets-Monty-Python reverie — all set to rollicking music by Disney’s celebrated song guy, Alan Menken. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Galavant, a four-week, star-studded musical hoot featuring Psych’s Timothy Omundson as King Richard and Joshua Sasse (Rogue) as the titular knight Galavant — a duo locked in tuneful, comical battle for the love of Madalena (Mallory Jansen), the savvy beauty who owns both their hearts. Or their hormones, at any rate. “A friend of mine said it’s a bit like The Princess […]

The CW To Air Star-Studded Jingle Ball 2014 on Dec. 18

December 17, 2014 Kellie Freeze

The Z100 Jingle Ball is an annual holiday concert that features the year’s hottest pop stars in a sassy, sexy concert. Everybody who is anybody is there performing or presenting. Musicians who perform during the annual Jingle Ball know they’re what’s hot right now. This year’s Jingle Ball airs Dec. 18 on The CW and features mega-watt musical performances and incredible guest presenters. This is a much buzzed-about concert and one of the larger, non-award show music events of the year. What Jingle Ball 2014 moment will everyone be talking about the next day? (My guess is the absolutely scandalous […]

HBO’s “Saving My Tomorrow” special is an insightful, impactful family treat

December 15, 2014 Lori Acken

If you ever need to have yourself a stern lecture about a very important subject, let me suggest that you get it from 8-year-old Hippocrates Polemis, one of the young stars of HBO’s spectacular, song-filled family special Saving My Tomorrow which premieres tonight. Like his ancient namesake, the dark-eyed little fellow has a fine grasp on what is — and isn’t — good for us. Sporting a “ICARE For The World” t-shirt and a smudge of lunch on his face, Hippocrates reminds us — with all the gravitas of your high-school principal — that we can’t just travel through galaxies […]

Disney Celebrates 20 Years on Broadway

December 13, 2014 Kellie Freeze

I love to sit in a darkened theater, eagerly anticipating the rising of the curtain, with my eyes wide and my ears piqued as I wait to be transported to another world. Movies are great, but there is nothing as viscerally entertaining as live theater. And for me, the apogee of entertainment is the Broadway musical. Disney grants unprecedented access to its Broadway best, when Jesse Tyler Ferguson hosts Backstage With Disney on Broadway: Celebrating 20 Years. The special, airing on Sunday, Dec. 14 at 7pm ET takes viewers behind the scenes with the Broadway casts of The Lion King, […]

Holiday music programming on TV 2014

December 1, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer

Happy holidays! Here are some of the notable new and returning holiday music specials airing on TV in 2014. All times are Eastern. RELATED: CHANNEL GUIDE’S 2014 HOLIDAY PROGRAMMING GUIDE Music Choice: Sounds of the Seasons — Through Jan. 6, 2015. Featured on the channel are old time favorites including Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams, Mitch Miller, Gene Autry and many more. Music Choice: Soft Rock — Through Dec. 31. Holiday hits from artists including Rod Stewart, Carrie Underwood, James Taylor, Kelly Clarkson, Michael Bublé and many more along with MC exclusive acoustic versions. […]