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Exciting Release Of NFL Schedule To Save Us From NHL Playoffs

April 11, 2007 Ryan Berenz

The NHL playoffs begin tonight on Food Network Versus, and I was afraid I was going to have to pay attention. Fortunately, the NFL had its annual schedule release orgy on NFL Network today, so I can now focus on Chicago Bears Ws instead of the impending Detroit Red Wings first-round playoff L. Looking at the schedule, here are the 10 games I’m most interested in. There are even some that do not involve the Chargers!: Nov. 29 — Green Bay at Dallas, NFL Network. It might be a stretch for top 10, but this is really the only NFL […]

Drew’s Back!

April 11, 2007 Channel Guide Contributor

The highlight of last night’s two-hour Dancing With the Stars marathon wasn’t the repeat performance of Joey Fatone and Kym Johnson’s passionate paso doble, or the Big & Rich mini-concert, or even cohost Samantha Harris’s announcement of her pregnancy, if you can believe it. Getting the biggest reaction in the ballroom during the latest results show was, in fact, a surprise appearance by Season 2 winner Drew Lachey, who joined the pros for a ho-down to the country duo’s “Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy). Fortunately, Fatone, Apolo Anton Ohno and Ian Ziering are good enough that the Drew visit […]

Operation: Soul Mate Is About To Begin

April 11, 2007 Channel Guide Contributor

Normally, I can’t stomach dating shows like The Bachelor, Joe Millionaire, Outback Jack or the awful Who Wants To Marry a Millionaire. All that oohing, ahhing and adoration from supposedly intelligent and accomplished women – over a guy they met an hour ago – turned my stomach. But this time around, the combination of Doctor/Triathlete/Philanthropist/Lieutenant McDreamy Andy Baldwin and the pack of alternately hilarious and relatable women of The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman has sucked me right in. Let’s recap: At last week’s drunken meet-and-greet, 25 lovely ladies in varying levels of evening gown undress fawned over “Andy! Andy! […]

FOX Subjects Us To Scooter Earlier Than Usual

April 10, 2007 Ryan Berenz

Ah, Scooter. How we’ve missed you. As mentioned in our post last week (we’ll blog more prodigiously from now on, we promise*) FOX had a media call with MLB announcers Joe Buck, Tim McCarver and Mark Grace to talk up the FOX MLB Saturday “Game of the Week” which started on Saturday (go figure). Here are the goods from the press call: Buck Will Convince You He’s Not A Homer Or Die Trying: “The Cardinals are not going to have the year that they had last year and win the Central. There’s no way. Considering how they finished — the […]

Explore The “Cities Of The Underworld”

April 6, 2007 StayTuned Staff

As any sanitation worker can likely attest, there is a lot going on under our streets. But it isn’t all modern pipes and recently constructed sewer access tunnels. Instead, many of the great cities of the world have beneath them labyrinths of old catacombs, hidden water supplies, dungeons, tombs and even forgotten cities that have miraculously survived the ravages of time and formed the foundations — often literally — of the modern cities above them. These range from ancient ruins beneath Old World cities to the hidden places beneath modern American ones. Each has its own hidden wonders, many of […]

MLB And Cable TV Have Made Peace. You May Resume Your Daily Lives Now.

April 5, 2007 Ryan Berenz

The widely publicized and criticized exclusive deal between Major League Baseball and DirecTV is exclusive no more, as MLB decided to cut cable companies in on the action last night. Hooray for John Kerry! Perhaps now he can get back to whatever it is that he should be doing. Speaking of MLB cable deals, we were reminded today that TBS has the rights to the NLCS, something that I thought would rouse much more ire in Joe Baseball Fan than it has. I’ve grown particularly fond of watching the LCS in my den (which is not cable equipped) with my loyal smellhound, falling asleep to […]

Make It Work, Chicago!

April 4, 2007 Channel Guide Contributor

Today we have a very special treat. Or maybe just a special treat for me? Yesterday I hopped a train to the Chicago casting call for Project Runway — and I have a complete report from the trenches (also known as: a hallway). I even got a few moments with the endlessly quotable Tim Gunn, and did my best to avoid asking, “Where’s Andrae?” The first question came up when I ventured into the ballroom staging area and starting chatting up the folks in line. Does winning the University of Kansas’ own Project Runway — judged by Season 2’s Nick […]

Ah, So This Is What They Call “Web Logging”?

April 4, 2007 Ryan Berenz

Wow. We are finally “web logging,” or as the kids call it, “blogging.” This is the first post of what I hope will be an entertaining and informative blog on sports as it relates to the medium of television. As the Cubicle QB at the helm of this blog, I hope to provide you with: News and commentary on the TV sports business: new TV contracts, sports TV schedule announcements, Joe Theismann firings/hirings, wacky sports (e.g. Rock Paper Scissors) coming to TV, and senseless disputes between sports leagues and television entities Highlights and lowlights from TV coverage of the big sports events, […]

Watching Nature Wake Up

April 1, 2007 Jeff Pfeiffer

Having set our clocks forward in March already, we humans may feel like spring has sprung unusually early. But animals, not governed by clocks and watches, are going along with their familiar patterns quite nicely. Often we are so busy with our lives that we may not notice the amazing natural transformations that occur during this season of rebirth, but a six-week Animal Planet event will help change that. Spring Watch USA airs Saturdays beginning April 21, and it’s almost like a nature reality series. Filmed prior to broadcast each week, the show has cameras across the country that capture […]

Queen Latifah’s New Movie Celebrates What’s Important In Life

March 31, 2007 Jeff Pfeiffer

Getting To Know Queen Latifah What’s Your Favorite Sports Team? Have to be the [New York] Giants. If You Could Only Have Three Shows On Your TV, What Would They Be? It would have to be Grey’s Anatomy … let’s [also] go with CSI … and somebody’s 6 o’clock news so I know what the hell is going on! Have You Ever Been Starstruck By Anyone? Prince. What Has Been Your Strangest Fan Encounter? This girl once gave me a bat. A dead bat wrapped up in a nice box. I think she was witch — San Francisco, you know, […]