TV News

No Picture
Recap

Strike two! The Walking Dead Season 7 premiere recap

October 24, 2016 Lori Acken

So now we know, Walking Dead fans. Lucille, indeed, struck twice. Two hits for Negan. And no balls for our formerly fearless leader, Rick Grimes. STOP READING HERE IF YOU HAVE YET TO WATCH AND STEERED CLEAR OF THE TWITTER-VERSE. The barbed-wire bat’s first fatal blows — wielded by Jeffrey Dead Morgan’s cool, calculating and deeply bemused Negan — took out Sgt. Abraham Ford (farewell, Michael Cudlitz), who offered his leather-clad killer this suggestion as his skull was bashed in: “Suck. My. Nuts.” Way to go out in style, Sarge. I salute you. Negan took Abe’s kiss-off pretty well — most probably because “Red” was already […]

No Picture
Movies

On Demand DVD New Releases Oct. 24-30

October 24, 2016 Meredith Ennis

On Demand DVD New Releases Oct. 24-30 Captain Fantastic Ben has chosen to raise his family in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. He trains them both physically and intellectually to be outstanding individuals. An unfortunate event forces him into the world and away from his paradise, and challenges his way of life. Viggo Mortensen, George MacKay, Samantha Isler (R, 1:58) 10/25 Lights Out A mysterious figure terrifies Martin when the lights are out, mimicking the experience of his sister Rebecca when she was young. Now the brother and sister will come face-to-face with the entity that has an attachment to their mother. Teresa […]

No Picture
Preview

Morgan Spurlock’s Rats Is Engrossing, Disgusting, Can’t-Turn-Away TV

October 22, 2016 Barb Oates

Leave it to Morgan Spurlock — the Oscar-nominated documentarian who brought us Super Size Me and 30 Days — to take on rats. His new “horrormentary” Rats is a wildly entertaining look at these sinister little beasts that are taking over the world. Rats premieres on Discovery Channel Saturday, Oct. 22 at 9/8p. Spurlock was inspired by New York Times best-selling author Robert Sullivan’s book Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants, for which Sullivan spent a year investigating rats and the people (sanitation crews, exterminators, activists) who interact with the creatures along an […]

No Picture
Comedy

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is BBC America’s cure for the common cop show

October 21, 2016 Lori Acken

Call Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency the cure for the common cop show. Based on the 1987 novel by Douglas Adams — the same guy who brought you The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — this cheeky dramedy stars Wood (Wilfred) as lovable loser Todd Brotzman, a bellman who lands in the middle of a bizarre murder investigation helmed by the highly unusual titular character, played by Penny Dreadful’s Samuel Barnett. Blessed with psychic abilities that make him suspect everything is connected — and the people skills of a hyperactive first-grader — Gently also believes he and Brotzman were cosmically destined to […]

No Picture
Drama

Channel Guide TV critics, staff predict who will die in The Walking Dead Season 7 premiere

October 21, 2016 StayTuned Staff

Lucille will deliver some devastating heartache on the Season 7 opener of The Walking Dead (Sunday, Oct. 23 at 9/8c on AMC). Fans of the series have been waiting months to find out who got Negan’s bat in the Season 6 cliffhanger. Count us in there, too. The staff at Channel Guide Magazine has been rewinding, freezing, analyzing and discussing that final “eeny, meeny, miney, moe moment.” Here are our predictions of who will die in The Walking Dead Season 7 premiere. Ryan Berenz says it will be Abraham … At the end of the Season 6 finale, my first instinct […]

No Picture
Interview

WWE Champion AJ Styles on His Phenomenal Year

October 21, 2016 Scott Fishman

AJ Styles is like that actor who honed his craft, finally landed a dream role after almost two decades and won an Academy Award for his efforts. In WWE, the Oscar equivalent is the WWE World championship, which the 39-year-old acquired in less than a year while working for the company. It’s been a phenomenal 2016 for the SmackDown Live performer. “Who would have thought within a couple of months of being in WWE that I would be wrestling in the main event for the WWE World Championship and be the WWE World Champion,” Styles said during a media call to promote the […]

No Picture
Comedy

People of Earth: TBS’ Interplanetary Laugher Gets Weird in the Best of Ways

October 21, 2016 Lori Acken

Ozzie Graham is seeing things. Well, one thing, really. A deer — just like the one he smacked with his car outside of teensy Beacon, N.Y. Only the buck didn’t stop there. He randomly reappears. And sometimes multiplies. And sometimes talks. The situation leaves crack reporter Ozzie (played with delicious deadpan by The Daily Show’s Wyatt Cenac) relegated to writing click-bait one-offs while he gets over his … weirdness … from the crash. And, thus, lands him back in Beacon to check out the members of Starcrossed, a support group for folks who believe they’ve had alien encounters. But — […]

No Picture
Streaming

Amazon and American Girl Explore Civil Rights in An American Girl Story — Melody 1963: Love Has to Win

October 21, 2016 Kellie Freeze

Amazon presents its first collaboration with the American Girl franchise with an original tale based on the character Melody Ellison, whose adventures revolve around her deep love of Motown and her dreams of music stardom. This special is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video and is a brave departure from AG’s typically frothy tales, and focuses on Melody’s experience as part of the Civil Rights movement as a child of color. Melody 1963 centers around a 10-year-old girl Melody whose innocent eyes are opened to the racial inequality surrounding her, including bullying by peers, her mother’s mistreatment at work, and […]