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NBA Playoffs Preview: “Shaq Must Be Spinning In His Grave”

April 19, 2007 Ryan Berenz

I owe the title of the NBA playoff preview post to TNT’s NBA analyst Reggie Miller. This is the same Reggie Miller who, during a pregame show, asked guest Stevie Wonder, “What do you expect to see in tonight’s game?” Keep up the good work, Reggie. The playoff matchups are set and the first games get started on Saturday. Here’s the weekend’s schedule of Game 1s, along with our pick for the series winner: Saturday (All times Eastern) New Jersey at Toronto, 12:30pm, ESPN. Our Pick: Vince Carter will not get a nice welcome back in Toronto, and the Raptors […]

8 Questions With … Walton Goggins

April 19, 2007 Channel Guide Contributor

1. What has been your strangest fan encounter? Walton Goggins: Whenever you pass people, you get that stare — that look, and you know that it’s about to come. [A] guy ran up to me in New York and says, “Speak! Speak!” And I said, “Please, get out of my face!” And he said, “Oh, I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry. I’ve only heard you speak in an Italian accent!” He was from Italy and he was a big fan of the show. 2. You’re at a magazine rack and can pick three magazines. What are they? This is exposing […]

HE DIDN’T HEAR HIM!!

April 18, 2007 Channel Guide Contributor

Rest easy, America. Simon Cowell is not a heartless meanie! See? Even the children love him! In a FOX conference call today, executive producer Ken Warwick explained — and explained again … and again — that despite appearances in last night’s broadcast, the often blase judge did not (did you get that? DID NOT!) roll his eyes at a remark made by contestant Chris Richardson regarding this week’s tragedy at Virginia Tech University. “Simon didn’t hear him!” Warwick repeatedly exclaimed. Turns out, Simon was reacting to Richardson’s justification of his nasally performance as a conscious, recognizable singing style — a […]

All The News We Couldn’t Fit In Print

April 17, 2007 Jeff Pfeiffer

Channel Guide Magazine: The Blog is on the air! (or, at least on your computer screen). As you know, TV is changing so quickly that everything cannot be captured in a monthly print product like Channel Guide. That’s why we’ve launched this blog to keep you informed of updates to programs you’ve read about in the guide, news on upcoming programs, and otherwise cool info that we just did not have room for, but which we know you all would love to hear about. We’ll also keep you updated on the latest HD and multicultural news. And away we go […]

ESPN Gives You Skip Bayless In Glorious HD!

April 16, 2007 Ryan Berenz

ESPN today announced several upcoming changes to its morning and daytime lineup, most of which do not affect the large portion of the sports-loving populace who actually hold down steady jobs. Beginning May 7, ESPN2’s Cold Pizza, which we already sort of suspected was not long for this world, is renamed ESPN First Take and moves its studio from New York City to Bristol, Conn. During First Take, there will be debate segments called 1st and 10 (not to be confused with the old HBO series starring O.J. Simpson). These segments will feature two commentators from a rotating group consisting […]

Newcomer Jonas Armstrong Is On Target In BBC America’s “Robin Hood”

April 16, 2007 Ryan Berenz

When I met British actor Jonas Armstrong at a Los Angeles-area hotel, he had just celebrated his birthday on New Year’s Day (he was reportedly the first child born in Ireland in 1981). “I took my little brother away on holiday. We went to Egypt,” he says of his birthday celebration. “I have to say that I was a bit pissed off, because I just turned 26, my brother’s 19. So you kind of have a short list of what you want on a holiday, and on that that short list of what there was, we didn’t manage to check […]

Rebel Scientist Is Unafraid Of The “Big Bad Wolf”

April 16, 2007 Jeff Pfeiffer

Shaun Ellis is a wolf behavior expert with a unique approach to studying the creatures — he lives with them and becomes part of their world. Now, before you shrug and say that this is another Grizzly Man just waiting to happen, it should be known that Ellis is not living with the wolves in the wild, but in captivity at a wildlife park in England; wolves are more social animals than bears; and Ellis — though he may look a little odd as he strolls through a luxury hotel in his fatigues during a network press tour — actually […]

The Beautiful People, The Beautiful People

April 13, 2007 Channel Guide Contributor

MSNBC is premiering a reality series?! I’m SHOCKED! I’m OUTRAGED! Reality TV on a NEWS network?! OK, OK, who am I kidding? Being the reluctant reality junkie that I am, there was never really a question of whether or not I’d watch another show about The Beautiful People. Going in to episode 1 of Models NYC, which premieres with a special sneak peek this Saturday, April 14 (regular episodes air Mondays beginning April 16), I had high expectations. After all, I’m still nursing the pain of losing VH1’s erratic, dramatic bitch-fest The Agency. MSNBC, I decided, had to bring something […]

The 4th OT: First Edition

April 13, 2007 Ryan Berenz

Inspired by the Vancouver Canucks’ playoff win over the Dallas Stars 18:06 into the fourth overtime yesterday morning, we’re calling our Friday TV sports weekend preview post “The 4th OT.” And by the end of the week, we feel like we’ve been through 4 OTs ourselves. I’ve read reports that some Versus affiliates actually cut away from that game sometime in the 4th OT to air infomercials. I remember in my prime hockey-watching years trying to stay awake for the playoff OT marathons and usually failing. I would’ve been incensed had I actually stayed awake to see the sudden-death goal […]

Quickies

April 11, 2007 Channel Guide Contributor

Baby Phat mogul Kimora Lee Simmons is getting her own show on Style Network. Scheduled to premiere this summer, the series will “peek inside the hip-hop halls” of her fashion empire, take us inside her personal life with her daughters (ex-husband Russell Simmons got no mention in Style’s press release), and promises “to open a lot of women’s eyes to the possibilities life has to offer.” No doubt, we’ll get a crash course in the former talk show host and model’s “fabulosity.” On MTV, what happens in Vegas … happens in Vegas again. The network has announced that, in addition […]