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Taylor Swift talks CMA Awards, “Red,” “Ronan” and “Never Ever Getting Back Together”

November 1, 2012 Channel Guide Contributor

By Jay Bobbin If it’s not officially the Season of Swift, it certainly is close. With her fourth album, Red, just out — and including “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” the first tune she’s placed at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100, though she’s been in that slot six times on the magazine’s country-song chart — Taylor Swift again is proving herself one of the most energetic, as well as creative, young talents in the entertainment world today. In a month that also sees her in the running for five honors in MTV2’s telecast of the MTV European […]

NBCUniversal networks to air a benefit telethon for Hurricane Sandy relief

November 1, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Updated Nov. 2, 2012, 3:48pm CT In response to the widespread devastation caused by Hurricane/Superstorm Sandy, the networks of NBCUniversal — including NBC, Bravo, CNBC, E!, G4, MSNBC, Style, Syfy and USA Network — will join forces to air a one-hour live benefit telethon called Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together this Friday, Nov. 2, from 8-9pm ET. Today anchor Matt Lauer will host the event, which will be broadcast from the New York studios of NBC at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. The telethon airs live across the East Coast and will be tape-delayed on the West. Additional networks may join the broadcast […]

Green Day’s “The Forgotten” video from “Breaking Dawn Part 2” soundtrack debuts on MTV

October 30, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Green Day’s new music video for “The Forgotten,” the first video from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 soundtrack, including footage from the film, will make its premiere tonight, Oct. 30, at 6:55pm ET/PT on MTV and MTV.com. This marks Green Day’s first contribution to a Twilight soundtrack. The soundtrack to Breaking Dawn Part 2 from Summit Entertainment, along with Chop Shop Records and Atlantic Records, will be released on Tuesday, Nov. 13, three days before the film’s premiere on Friday, Nov. 16. The film is the final installment in The Twilight Saga. “When we were asked to be […]

“Sabado Gigante” celebrates 50th anniversary Oct. 27 on Univision

October 25, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running variety show in television history, Univision’s Sábado Gigante began in 1962 on a Chilean TV network, created and hosted by Mario Kreutzberger (better known as “Don Francisco”), and eventually became an international hit. Sabado Gigante will be celebrating its milestone 50th anniversary with a special programming event this Saturday, Oct. 27, on Univision. The four hours of festivities are set to begin at 7pm ET with a red-carpet broadcast covering the arrivals of international stars and Univision personalities attending the anniversary gala. This portion of the show will be hosted […]

“American Idol” Season 12 online auditions reopen today

October 12, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Starting today, Oct. 12, though Sunday, Nov. 4, American Idol hopefuls have one more chance to audition for the show’s upcoming 12th season, which begins in January on FOX (with recently announced judges Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban, along with returning judge Randy Jackson). Online auditions are being taken during these dates, and entrants should submit an audition video online, featuring them performing a song of their choice a cappella. Videos are limited to one submission per person. All auditioners must be between the ages of 15-28 (on June 5, 2012) and a legal U.S. citizen or a […]

“Ted Nugent’s Gun Country” airs on Discovery tonight

October 10, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Controversy sells, as most of us know. And for the same reason that this blog entry is being written right now, Discovery Channel is giving airtime to Ted Nugent for his special, Ted Nugent’s Gun Country, premiering tonight at 10pm ET/PT. In the one-hour special, the Motor City Madman — a famously outspoken NRA member, advocate of hunter’s rights and firearms proponent — will allow viewers an inside look at American gun culture from his perspective. Ted Nugent’s Gun Country travels to Nugent’s Spirit Wild ranch outside Waco, Texas, to see how he and his family take maximum advantage of […]

VOD Spotlight: An incredible cast: “Rock of Ages”

October 9, 2012 StayTuned Staff

According to director Adam Shankman, Rock of Ages’ journey from stage to screen got its start when he found himself swept up by the crowd’s enthusiasm for the stage version. “The audience was having the best time I’d ever seen at a show,” he recalls. “Everybody knew the lyrics to all the songs and was out of their seats and singing along and having the time of their life. That enthusiasm, that sheer emotion, convinced me to make the movie.” The golden era of Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip, when hair bands ruled the rock scene, is a part of Shankman’s […]

Shooter Jennings and Grace Potter talk Ovation’s “Johnny Cash: Song By Song”

September 28, 2012 Lori Acken

Shooter Jennings could barely see over a church pew when his father, country music legend Waylon Jennings, had a falling out with Shooter’s godfather — Waylon’s manager — and asked the little boy to pick himself a new one. Shooter chose a guy who always made him feel important — his dad’s friend and sometime bandmate Johnny Cash. Meanwhile, a Vermont schoolgirl named Grace Potter who got the giggles over Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue” would rediscover the artist as a young aspiring rock star when she heard Cash’s 2003 Rick-Rubin-produced remake of the Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt,” that […]

“Ladies and Gentlemen … Marie Osmond” intros Hallmark’s new host

September 21, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Marie Osmond is on the cusp of a new adventure. Finally hosting her own series, Marie, on Hallmark Channel as of Oct. 1, she’s ready to take on the latest challenge going into her fifth decade in show business. But before she does, she hits Hallmark Channel tonight at 9pm ET/PT with the premiere of an introductory special, Ladies and Gentlemen … Marie Osmond, describing what it’s like, exactly, to live her life. As she opens her life to the public and invites America into her onscreen living room, Osmond is excited and understandably a little nervous. “I believe you […]

“i.am.mars: Reaching for the Stars” documents Mars will.i.am broadcast

September 13, 2012 StayTuned Staff

It’s one of the most exciting missions in NASA’s history, and certainly one that’s been capturing the public’s imagination. The latest mission to Mars has renewed considerable interest in the space program, and inspired at least a few television programs here on Earth to help viewers at home to share in the excitement of the discoveries that are taking place as I write this. Science’s offering, i.am.mars: Reach for the Stars, premiering Wednesday, Sept. 19 at 10pm ET/PT, documents the artistic and technical process that led to recording star will.i.am’s newest single, “Reach for the Stars” becoming the first song […]