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“CBS This Morning” hosts need to work on chemistry together and with guests

January 9, 2012 Tom Comi

There are always going to be kinks that need to be worked out when a new show is launched, so it’s no real surprise that CBS This Morning is very much a work in progress. But if the show is ever going to succeed, the three hosts — Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Erica Hill — are going to have to develop a much better rapport with one another and their guests. Premiering today at 7am ET, the two-hour program replaced the ratings-challenged Early Show with the goal of somehow competing with NBC’s The Today Show and ABC’s Good Morning […]

NBC, Facebook team up for GOP debate on “Meet the Press”

January 6, 2012 Tom Comi

David Gregory is taking his NBC show Meet the Press on the road Sunday, where he will serve as a moderator of a debate featuring the remaining six candidates vying for the Republican Party nomination. And making things more interesting, viewers can pose the questions that will be asked on the air. Being broadcast live from New Hampshire at 9am ET, the event is being co-sponsored by Facebook. Voters wanting to have a say in what the politicians are asked can go here to submit their questions. Some pundits think this is now a two-person race between Mitt Romney and Rick […]

“Real Time With Bill Maher” returns at perfect time

September 16, 2011 Tom Comi

By Tom Comi Follow @ChannelGuide Some comedy shows try to incorporate political jokes, and some political shows attempt to inject humor — but no show on television merges the two as successfully as Real Time With Bill Maher. And with so much going on these days politically (including the GOP primaries being in full swing), nothing could make me happier than to see the cutting-edge HBO show return tonight (10pm ET live, with an immediate replay). Some people might label Maher as a comedian, others as a pundit, and others as a satirist. I don’t think he conveniently fits into […]

TCA Summer Press Tour: MSNBC hosts predict the next president

August 2, 2011 Ryan Berenz

By Ryan Berenz Follow @ChannelGuideRAB Before getting into Tuesday’s NBC Universal TCA panels, just have to mention what an awesome party NBCU threw at The Bazaar at SLS Hotel Beverly Hills last night. After grabbing some seafood hors d’ouvres, I found a table and sat down, and was joined shortly by The Singing Bee judge Ben Folds and his wife. I chatted with him, and talked about the Ben Folds Five show I remembered seeing at Milwaukee’s Summerfest about 12 years ago. Folds mentioned that he loves playing Summerfest. “That’s a pretty drunk crowd there,” he says. The man knows […]

Keith Olbermann re-enters cable news fray tonight

June 20, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

By Jeff Pfeiffer Like him or loathe him — and there seem to be few who fall in between — you can’t deny that Keith Olbermann has gotten attention throughout his career, whether as a sportscaster or as a political commentator. The fiery Olbermann’s passion and intellect cannot be questioned, though his strong independent streak (some would say bordering on anti-authority) has helped lead to his departures from several gigs over the years, most recently from MSNBC in January. In his last few months at the network, Olbermann seemed frustrated by the confinement he appeared to feel at not being […]

Starz makes Kelsey Grammer the “BOSS” in October

June 14, 2011 Lori Acken

By Lori Acken Follow @ChannelGuide The teaser for Starz upcoming scripted drama series BOSS features a somber Kelsey Grammer as dicey-but-productive fictional Chicago mayor Tom Kane striding through an austere looking building and silently ruminating on the sacrifices he’s made to reach the top of the Windy City’s power pyramid. Aw. Poor flag-on-the-lapel-wearin’, give-it-all-up-for-his-town kind of guy! Then he says, “Sacrifices are easy when you’re holding the knife.” Oh. Oh oh. Something ain’t right with this fella.

Bill Maher, Jane Lynch recreate Weiner exchanges

June 13, 2011 Tom Comi

By Tom Comi Follow @ChannelGuide If there was any doubt that Jane Lynch is currently one of the brightest stars in Hollywood, one needn’t look any further for proof than her recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher. While every other comedian was making the same old tired jokes about Congressman Anthony Weiner’s verbal sex exchanges with a Las Vegas blackjack dealer, Maher decided to use his cable platform — and Lynch’s deadpan delivery — to recreate the dirty talk line for line. And fortunately for those of you with HBO, you can see a replay tonight at 8pm […]

CNN investigates “WikiWars”

June 10, 2011 StayTuned Staff

Julian Assange started a worldwide controversy when he began releasing sensitive information through his whistle-blower website WikiLeaks. Confidential information related to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq infuriated the public, both for its contents and for the fact that it was released at all. Is Assange’s self-stated mission to change the world by fighting corruption through exposing secrets a benefit or a danger? In short, is he a hero, a villain, or both? CNN correspondent Kaj Larsen reports on Assange’s unconventional life in a one-hour documentary, CNN Presents — WikiWars: The Mission of Julian Assange, which debuts Sunday at 8p.m. […]

“Freedom Riders: American Experience” celebrates a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights movement

May 13, 2011 StayTuned Staff

by Karl J. Paloucek Usually, when buses are mentioned in conjunction with the Civil Rights movement, the image of Rosa Parks comes to mind. PBS commemorates a different anniversary of mass transit’s role in social change when it presents Freedom Riders: American Experience May 16. The film, produced, written and directed by Stanley Nelson, tells the story of how, over the course of six months in 1961, 400 black and white Americans boarded buses and risked arrest, beatings and death by traveling together on buses and trains through the Deep South, in deliberately peaceful violation of the Jim Crow laws. […]

Osama bin Laden’s DVR foreshadows his death

May 3, 2011 Tom Comi

By Tom Comi After 10 years of searching for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by various agencies, many Americans had probably given up hope that he would ever be captured. But a lot can be determined by looking at a person’s TV-viewing habits, and the recently discovered DVR found at bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan suggests he knew the end was near. Channel Guide Magazine was able to obtain the DVR through top-secret sources*, and it turns out that the world’s most wanted man was quite the fan of American television. Here are some of the shows that he had […]