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VOD Spotlight: Everest

January 19, 2016 Meredith Ennis

In May of 1996, climbers from two commercial expeditions began their final ascents toward the summit of Mount Everest. Out of nowhere, a violent storm places the adventurers in a blizzard that was unlike any other ever experienced by the climbers. In these extreme conditions, the teams faced wind and freezing temperatures in an epic battle to survive against nearly impossible odds. Everest documents the awe-inspiring journey of these two teams of climbers. But beyond telling the story of what the climbers faced, the team responsible for making the movie — both cast and crew — faced their own battle […]

#TCA16: PBS partners with NPR on Election 2016, gears up for Post-Downton Era

January 19, 2016 Ryan Berenz

PBS announced new programming initiatives for 2016 at the TCA Winter Press Tour: PBS has entered into a strategic partnership with NPR to share news content between the two organizations as part of its PBS Election 2016 news, public affairs, documentary and digital programming surrounding the year’s politics. PBS and NPR team up to integrate content on PBS.org (beginning in February) and on the Politics section of NPR.org. PBS announced 16 for ’16 (working title), a 16-week documentary series that spotlights unforgettable presidential and vice-presidential candidates whose campaigns weren’t successful but earned them a significant place in the history books. Subjects […]

Hollywood Medium Tyler Henry explains how he sees dead people

January 18, 2016 Barb Oates

Imagine being a 10-year-old kid and waking up in the middle of the night with a sudden feeling that your sick grandmother is going to die (like, now). For Tyler Henry, who turned 20 just days ago (Jan. 13th to be exact), that was his first introduction to his gift. Henry is the subject of E!’s new entertaining series Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry, premiering Sunday, Jan. 24 at 10pmET/PT. Cameras follow him on some very personal readings with celebrities like Jaime Pressly, Monica Potter, Boy George, WWE Diva Natalya, Margaret Cho and Tom Arnold. Here we question him a […]

On Demand DVD New Releases Jan. 18-24

January 18, 2016 Meredith Ennis

On Demand DVD New Releases Jan. 18-24 The Diary of a Teenage Girl A teenage girl has her first sexual experience with an older man and grabs hold of the sexual being she has become. Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Christopher Meloni (R, 1:42) 1/19 Everest A mountain scaled by few, summited by even fewer and as unpredictable as anything you can imagine. This is Everest. Climb with Rob Hall and the Adventure Consultants team, who, along with many others, set off toward the peak of this majestic mountain only to be met by treacherous weather and a fight for survival. […]

Shameless Season 6, Episode 2 Recap: #AbortionRules

January 17, 2016 Karen Ruud

Last week Fiona found out the truth that Debs was keeping her pregnancy from her. Let’s recap how that went down with a recap of Shameless Season 6, Episode 2: #AbortionRules. Fiona & Sean: Waking up all stressed out with the newly acquired truth that Debs is actually knocked up, Sean tries to get Fiona to relax by doing naughty things to her and forcing himself on her. No, not in a rape way, in that loving “you really need to relax” boyfriend way. So she gives in, and then it’s quick to rise (no pun intended) so that she […]

#TCA16: Netflix’s Ted Sarandos calls “Making a Murderer” a “remarkable turn of events”

January 17, 2016 Jeff Pfeiffer

You may well be among the large group of people who, since Christmastime, has been inundated with raves, opinions and theories from friends and family about the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer. Or, you yourself may be one of those people who has become addicted to the true crime series, which was filmed over 10 years and follows the story of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who served 18 years in prison for the sexual assault and attempted murder of Penny Beerntsen, and who was exonerated in 2003. Avery was then arrested in 2005, and convicted in 2007, of the […]

#TCA16: FX presents “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”

January 16, 2016 Ryan Berenz

FX’s 10-episode limited series The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (premiering Tuesday, Feb. 2, at 10pm ET/PT) dramatizes one of the seminal news stories of the 20th century: the events surrounding the arrest and trial of former football star O.J. Simpson for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994. Based on Jeffrey Toobin’s book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson and from executive producer Ryan Murphy, the series assembles a stellar cast, including John Travolta, Cuba Gooding Jr., David Schwimmer, Sarah Paulson, Courtney B. Vance, Bruce Greenwood, […]

#TCA16: Zach Galifianakis is a rodeo clown? We’re sold!

January 16, 2016 Ryan Berenz

Zach Galifianakis is a rodeo clown. Need we go on? In the new FX new single-camera comedy Baskets (premieres Thursday, Jan. 21, at 10pm ET/PT), Galifianakis plays Chip Baskets, a man with a dream of becoming the world’s most celebrated circus clown. Inspired by the famous European circus performers of the 1800s, Chip attends a prestigious clowning school in Paris. But the Parisian clown scene proves too costly — the upscale French clown-nose boutiques are pricey — and Chip is forced to leave the school. He returns to Bakersfield, Calif., where he lives in an extended stay hotel while looking for […]

Why Discovery should cancel Alaskan Bush People, but won’t

January 15, 2016 Ryan Berenz

Go Here For All Of Your AWESOME And EXXXTREME Alaskan Bush People Needs! Do the Alaskan Bush People get paid? We asked! Read our interview with the Brown family. I’ve been out of it for a little while. Did I miss anything? On Monday, Juneau Superior Court Judge Philip “The Hammer” Pallenberg laid down a sentence of 30 days in jail to Billy Brown and son Joshua “Bam Bam,” plus 40 hours of community service each and fines and repayments totaling more than $21,000 combined. The taxpayers of Alaska will get their money back (sort of) and the Browns can never […]

#TCA16: Tyler Perry talks #OscarsSoWhite controversy

January 15, 2016 Jeff Pfeiffer

Tyler Perry was at the Television Critics Association (TCA) Winter Press tour on FOX day today, to discuss his role as host and narrator for the upcoming spring music event The Passion — a telling of the final days of Jesus as set to modern music, inspired by a hugely successful Dutch event. After the panel, Perry talked to a scrum of reporters and addressed one question about the controversy of no person of color being nominated for an acting Oscar this year. The Academy has historically been seen as slighting minority actors, and in recent years that has inspired the sarcastic […]