Arnie
Documentary

Preview: Golf Channel’s “Arnie” documentary tribute to Arnold Palmer

Golf Channel’s Arnie three-night documentary tribute to Arnold Palmer examines Palmer’s rise to becoming one of the most beloved figures in sports. Arnie premieres Sunday, April 13, at 10pm ET following Golf Channel’s Live From The Masters tournament roundup with the first installment, “Arnie & His Army.”  The series continues Monday, April 14, with “Arnie & His Majors” and concludes Tuesday, April 15, with “Arnie & His Legacy.” Golf Channel spent the past year traveling with Palmer and collected hundreds of hours of archival film footage, including never-before-released Palmer family videos. Arnie also features more than 100 interviews with luminaries […]

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Reality TV

CMT announces Dog and Beth On the Hunt Season 2 premiere date

Dog and Beth On the Hunt Season 2 will premiere June 14 at 9pm ET/PT on CMT, the network has announced. Season 2 will feature 15 hourlong episodes that spotlight world-famous bounty hunters Duane “Dog” and Beth Chapman, their son Leland Chapman and Leland’s 19-year-old son Dakota traveling across America to help other bondmen upgrade their knowledge, skills and equipment and — as the title suggests — hunt down some of the country’s most dangerous and elusive criminals. According to CMT, the new season will feature Dog introducing the latest high-tech surveillance gear and ballistic gear, and a special episode […]

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Documentary

NGC special looks at the hunt for Boston bombers

As we approach the one-year anniversary of the horrific Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, National Geographic Channel (NGC) will air a two-hour “factual drama” that relives the hunt for those behind it. Called Inside the Hunt for the Boston Bombers, the special, debuting April 13, includes unprecedented access to authorities, including Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick; former Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino; William B. Evans, former superintendent and current commissioner of the Boston Police Department; Edward F. Davis, former commissioner of the BPD; and Richard C. DesLauriers, former special agent in charge of the FBI, Boston Division. NGC says that Inside […]

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Movies

TCM remembers Mickey Rooney with 24-hour film marathon

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will remember Mickey Rooney this Sunday, April 13, with a 24-hour marathon of his classic films beginning at 6am ET. Rooney passed away April 6 at the age of 93. According to TCM, the memorial tribute to Mickey Rooney will include some of his most iconic performances, including Boys Town (1938) and its sequel Men of Boys Town (1941); the first two films in the Andy Hardy series, A Family Affair (1937) and You’re Only Young Once (1938); Babes on Broadway (1941), one of Rooney’s many pairings with Judy Garland; Captains Courageous (1937); and National Velvet […]

2014 MTV Movie Awards
Awards Shows

Power of the popcorn: 2014 MTV Movie Awards preview

Given that the summer movie season actually starts right … about … now, the MTV Movie Awards were bumped up from their traditional June slot to April last year. Now Hollywood could maximize pitching its wares to that young demo with all the disposable income and the time to dispose of it. Get More: 2014 MTV Movie Awards, Latest Movie News   It must have worked. The MTV Movie Awards are back this month (airing live on MTV on Sunday, April 13, at 9pm ET (tape-delayed PT), with Conan O’Brien hosting at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. Their unique […]

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Lifestyle

My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding preview: sister brides and Al Burke raps

On tonight’s My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding, a pair of thoroughly modern gypsy sisters plan a double wedding to their gorger fiancés, and a 34-year-old Irish Traveller tries make a splash in the world of rap music. Louisville sisters Kayla, 21, and Kandace, 20, already live with their fiancés, much to their traditional Romanichal mother Sandy’s dismay. Evan, 19, is Kayla’s man; they’ve been together for three years. Steven, 22, is Kandace’s man. Together five years, they already have two kids. In addition to fretting over their living in sin and having babies out of the bonds of matrimony, […]

Stephen Colbert
Talk Show

Stephen Colbert to take David Letterman’s “Late Show” seat

That didn’t take long. Merely a week after David Letterman announced he will retire as host of The Late Show on CBS in 2015, the network today announced it as found Letterman’s successor in Comedy Central’s popular The Colbert Report host Stephen Colbert. Clearly CBS wasn’t too concerned about the recent #CancelColbert campaign (though in a roundabout and unintended way, that campaign got what it wanted). RELATED: David Letterman announces retirement from The Late Show Here’s the press release from CBS with the announcement: CBS ANNOUNCES STEPHEN COLBERT AS THE NEXT HOST OF “THE LATE SHOW” The CBS Television Network […]

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Documentary

Years of Living Dangerously: Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron present a powerful look at climate change

Though it’s produced by a veritable Hollywood power squad — Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Cameron and Jerry Weintraub — and stocked with celebrity correspondents, the real stars of Showtime’s stunning climate-change docuseries Years of Living Dangerously are the everyday souls from around the globe whose lives have been irreparably changed by the weather. While the verity of global warming has been a polarizing issue even before the Kyoto Protocol made greenhouse gases a matter of international policy, the show’s creators and advisers wanted their story to be one of the power of people, not politics. “Politics are covered, but the path […]

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7 Questions With...

“Orphan Black” star Jordan Gavaris answers our 7 Questions

Golden Globe-nominated Tatiana Maslany and costar Jordan Gavaris hit the ground running, literally, in Season 2 of the clone conspiracy-drama Orphan Black, returning to BBC America Saturdays at 9pm ET/PT beginning April 19. Gavaris, whose character Felix (aka Fee) adds the witty banter when dealing with his foster sister Sarah (Maslany) and her club of clones, tells us that this season brings new challenges. “He has a big decision to make and it’s not an easy one,” Gavaris says of Felix. “The relationship between him and his sister is going to be tested in really profound ways. It was very […]

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Casting Calls

Casting call for “Summer Time Share” seeks teens and single parents

An official casting call for Summer Time Share — the next “major network” docu/reality series — was made from Doron Ofir Casting. If you are a teen with a single parent or a single parent with a teen and would love the opportunity to be whisked away on a summer you’ll surely remember (and possibly the rest of the world, too) — now’s your chance. Doron Ofir Casting is currently casting for Summer Time Share and describes the adventure as: “a perfect opportunity for single parents and their teenage kids to embark on an idyllic summertime adventure, meet new people, […]