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Reality TV

Recap: Naked And Afraid “All or Nothing” Season 5, Episode 5

This week, two new brave survivalists have accepted the challenge in Naked And Afraid “All or Nothing.” Their home for the next three weeks is West Nalaut, the Philippines. This tropical paradise is hella hot and humid hides many creepy-crawly (and deadly) secrets in its lush jungles including dengue fever-carrying mosquitos and the Philippine cobra, whose bite can kill a human in less than 30 minutes. Let’s meet the chosen two… Jeremy McCaa Age: 38 years old Occupation: Construction Current Residence: Monroe, Louisiana Relationship Status: Married Survival Skills: Hunting, Animal tracking, Primitive shelter building, Friction fire My favorite thing about Jeremy? […]

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Drama

Recap: The Affair Season 2 Episode 5 — Do you see me?

Here’s the thing about a fiery romance (and, oh, aren’t they all at the get-go?). Eventually most cool into something more … temperate. Practical. A durable partnership warmed by the embers of that earlier passion if the pairing good. A daily disappointment if it’s not. In the fifth episode of Showtime’s The Affair Season 2, we see Alison’s and Cole’s take on a day that demonstrates this  — and though we don’t see the same events from differing perspectives, what happens to each gives aching insight into who these two people really are at their core. If we believe what we see. We start with Alison, who, […]

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Historical Programming

Walking the talk — how Saints & Strangers’ native American cast learned to speak Abenaki

Saints & Strangers executive producers Gina Matthews and Grant Scharbo had a quagmire on their hands. Setting out to create the most authentic retelling of the Thanksgiving story ever committed to film — on a blistering schedule — the pair also knew they didn’t want to risk stereotypes for the sake of time. Especially when it came to honoring their Native American characters. • MORE Saints & Strangers: Think you know the Thanksgiving story? We’re on set as NGC tells the real tale. “It was a big debate up until two weeks before the actors were starting whether we would […]

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Drama

Saints & Strangers: Think you know the Thanksgiving story? We’re on set as NGC tells the real tale

The two-night event Saints & Strangers premieres Sunday, Nov. 22, and Monday, Nov. 23, at 9/8CT on National Geographic Channel. Vincent Kartheiser is doing his best to be patient. Sporting coarse Pilgrim garb, a full beard and shoulder-length tresses (no Mad Men, this!) as Plymouth Colony leader William Bradford on NGC’s Saints & Strangers, Kartheiser finds the speech he is about to deliver — one arguably launching American free market commerce — interrupted by a loud buzzing sound emanating from somewhere on the Stellenbosch, South Africa, wine farm on which the project’s main sets are nestled. The buzzing stops. Kartheiser […]

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Fall TV 2015

Ash vs Evil Dead Episode 1 recap: “El Jefe”

Happy Halloween, and welcome to our first Ash vs Evil Dead recap. Ash is back, baby! Director Sam Raimi kicked off the series Ash vs Evil Dead in fine form, with his legendary manic camerawork, some references to the Evil Dead films, and plenty of the humor (particularly from Bruce Campbell’s performance) and gore that we’ve come to know and love from the cult classic films. When I talked with Campbell earlier this summer on the set of Ash vs Evil Dead, he told me that the decision to make the series a half-hour one was “in order to keep […]

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Sports

2015 TCS New York City Marathon TV schedule

A big weekend of sports in New York City includes the 2015 TCS New York City Marathon on Sunday, Nov. 1, beginning at 9am ET on ESPN2 and in the New York City TV market on ABC7. Sunday’s New York City Marathon TV coverage begins at 7am ET with pre-race shows on ESPN3 and ABC7. The race itself airs on ESPN2, WatchESPN, ABC7 and abc7ny.com from 9am-12:30pm ET, and continues  with post-race coverage from 12:30-2pm ET on ESPN3, ABC7, WatchABC, and abc7ny.com. Nationally, ABC airs a 2015 TCS New York City Marathon compilation show from 4-6pm ET. There is also a […]

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Binge Watching

Why I Should Binge “Weeds”

WHAT IS Weeds ABOUT? Who is in it? Where is Weeds now? Why is it binge-worthy? Must-sees Most shocking episodes That line was so great A quirky, dark crime comedy/drama that focuses on a suburban California mother who make ends meet after her husband’s death by selling marijuana to friends, neighbors and anyone else who comes along. Original TV Home: Showtime Number Of Seasons: 8 (August 2005 to September 2012) Total Episodes / Time Table: 102 (approx. 30 minutes each) = approx. 51 hours. Viewing Strategy: You can watch the entire series in 25 to 26 days by watching four […]

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Lifestyle

Leah Remini talks Scientology, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes on tonight’s 20/20

Actress turned memoirist Leah Remini will talk about her new book, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology — and the dramatic end to her 30-year association with the Church of Scientology — tonight on ABC’s 20/20. Remini’s hourlong interview with ABC News anchor Dan Harris premieres at 10/9CT on ABC.  In a promo clip released by the network, she is candid about the personal impact of turning her back on the Church she joined with her family when she was young. “The decision to leave is you are giving up everything you have worked for your whole life; I feel that people need to understand that this has […]

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Drama

Recap: How to Get Away with Murder Season 2 Episode 6 — Two Birds, One Millstone

The puzzle for this game of How to Get Away with Murder Clue acquired a few more pieces in another jaw-dropping episode last night. We begin with a flashback to two weeks prior with an emotional Frank by Annalise’s side as she is taken into the hospital. His demeanor changes as he heads back to his car, which just so happens to have a dead (or so we think?) Catherine in the back seat! Fast-forward to present day where Frank and Laurel just wrapped up another round of bedroom Olympics. Frank heads for the shower, leaving Laurel snooping around his phone and […]

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Comedy

“A big jolly splatterfest” — Talking “Ash vs Evil Dead” with Bruce Campbell and Lucy Lawless

It was just past the first day of winter in New Zealand when I arrived at a location called Riverhead, just outside of Auckland, to begin watching the filming of the new Starz series Ash vs Evil Dead, which airs Saturdays beginning Oct. 31. Coming from the northern U.S., I didn’t find the weather to be quite what I was used to as “winter.” It was very pleasant: sunny, temps in the high 50s, low 60s Fahrenheit. The nice climate added to the loveliness of the filming location, a scenic pine forest. As a fan of the original Evil Dead […]