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Movies

On Demand DVD New Releases July 14-20

On Demand DVD New Releases July 14-20 A big week for documentaries, on a wide variety of subjects … and a couple of other fictional tales. A Brony Tale Vancouver-based voice artist Ashleigh Ball has been the voice of numerous characters in classic cartoons such as Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, Cinderella and more. When she was hired to voice Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, she had no idea she would become an Internet phenomenon and major celebrity to a worldwide fan-base of grownups. This documentary gives an inside view of the Pony fan-world, and an intimate […]

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Reality TV

Naked And Afraid: Cambodia Recap. Season 3, Episode 3

When I imagine Naked and Afraid: Cambodia, I think mosquitoes, and rain, and snakes. So much fun. Do you think areas that Naked and Afraid visits ever tout the amount of misery that is shown in the show? I would never like to visit any of the places shown on N&A, it all looks so desolate and even the places that are lovely, are infested with plague-carrying bugs. I once got over 350 mosquito bites while visiting Minnesota and that ended my desire to visit nature … ever. Let’s meet this week’s people who are braver than me… Carrie Booze […]

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Documentary

NGC’s ‘Going Deep with David Rees’: Everything old hat is new again

Leave it to the guy who (literally) wrote the book on sharpening pencils — and gets plenty of folks to pay him $15 to artfully sharpen a single Ticonderoga No. 2 — to spend his time at the Television Critics Association press tour teaching reporters to fold the perfect paper plane. And then cheerfully asking us to throw the finished products at him en masse. As the star of National Geographic Channel’s family-friendly new series Going Deep with David Rees, which premieres Monday, author/cartoonist/comedian David Rees sets out to shed fascinating new light on such mundane tasks as tying your […]

TCA

NBC touts new fall offerings at TCA Summer Press Tour

The broadcast portion of the 2014 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour began Sunday with NBC presenting talent and executives from its new fall shows. Among the highlights of the sessions: In the NBC executive session, NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt, NBC Entertainment President Jenniger Salke and NBC President of Alternative and Late Night Programming Paul Telegdy announced that Christopher Walken will play Captain Hook in NBC’s Peter Pan live event in December. We danced with joy. NBC will import Red Nose Day from the UK, and do a programming event in May 2015 to raise funds for charity. And […]

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Lifestyle

LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian: Vh1’s LeAnn & Eddie is for real and for laughs

Watching country crooner LeAnn Rimes and her husband, actor Eddie Cibrian, calmly handle a grilling by reporters during the Television Critics Association press tour panel for their new VH1 docuseries LeAnn & Eddie, it’s clear that the pair have dealt with pretty much everything critics — TV or otherwise — have to dish out. • Preview the first episode of LeAnn & Eddie here Tabloid staples since their romance began on the set of the 2009 Lifetime movie Northern Lights (while both were married to others), the pair decided to create a reality show to give a tongue-in-cheek — but, […]

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Interview

Marley Shelton stars in Lifetime’s The Lottery

The year is 2025 and the world is in a state of desperation and panic, as women have stopped giving birth in the new conspiracy thriller series The Lottery. Marley Shelton stars in Lifetime’s The Lottery, premiering Sunday, July 20 at 10pm ET/PT, as Dr. Alison Lennon — the doctor responsible for giving the world some new hope. It’s been five years since a baby has been born. Maternity wings are empty. Kindergarten classes have ended. The global fertility crisis has devastated the most fundamental dream of having a family. And as the possibility of human extinction looms, one scientist — […]

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Animation

“Astroblast!” Launches on Sprout

Get ready, parents of space-obsessed preschoolers, a new show that is perfect for little astronauts launches this weekend on Sprout, the first 24-hour preschool network. On Saturday, July 12, the network will blast off with the launch of their new original animated series, Astroblast! The show takes preschoolers and their parents on hilarious adventures through outer space, following a cast of animal characters including Comet, Halley, Sputnik, Radar, Jet and Sal the Octopus. The team runs the Astroblast! Space Station, the coolest hangout in the galaxy. Through the crew’s friendship, the series imparts important messages about how to embrace differences, […]

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Drama

FX’s “The Strain” offers unique take on the vampire genre

The catalyst for the beginning of the 13-part FX series The Strain is the arrival of a mysterious airplane, but co-executive producer Carlton Cuse, whose hit series Lost also involved a mystery about a plane, says that this was purely coincidental. “I wasn’t involved in the creation of that idea,” Cuse laughed during a recent interview, “but I think it’s a really good idea.” He’s right about that; the opening sequence of a plane somehow landing in New York City — with all of its passengers and crew seemingly dead — is a gripping, creepily atmospheric scenario, written and directed […]

FIFA World Cup Final 2014
Sports

FIFA World Cup Final 2014 date, time and TV channel

The FIFA World Cup tournament began a month ago with 32 of the world’s best national soccer teams, and that field has been narrowed down to the final two teams who will face off in the championship match in Rio de Janeiro. Germany takes on Argentina in the final on Sunday, July 13, with game time set for 3pm ET on ABC (English) and Univision/Univision Deportes (Spanish). On Saturday, July 12, at 4pm ET on ESPN/Univision, Brazil will play the Netherlands in the tournament’s consolation third-place match. Brazil would like a strong showing in this match in front of the […]

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Reality TV

Catfish Season 3 Finale recap: Bianca and Tia

The Season 3 finale of Catfish ended with an episode unlike the others. The story begins with Bianca, who lives in North Carolina, and her 5-month relationship with Brogan through Facebook. Both ladies are into body modification and Bianca is head over heels for Brogan’s tattoo artwork and piercings. Bianca never thought of asking Brogan to video chat because she always thought of it as an awkward ordeal herself. However, once Bianca got over that mindset and asked Brogan to video chat with her, Brogan magically disappeared and deactivated her Facebook account. While Bianca tried her best at moving forward […]