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Food TV

“The Chew” on ABC April 7-11

The Chew serves up everything food — from cooking and home entertaining to food trends, restaurants, holidays and more — all aimed at making life better, fuller and more fun. The Chew features celebrity chefs Mario Batali, Michael Symon, and Carla Hall, entertaining expert Clinton Kelly and health and wellness enthusiast Daphne Oz (who is currently on maternity leave). For the week of APRIL 7 – 11 1pmET Monday, April 7– “Pour Some Sugar On Me”– Country super group Little Big Town assist Mario Batali in making sticky, sweet cinnamon rolls; Carla Hall visits Nashville, TN’s Cupcake Collection. Tuesday, April […]

FOX Saturday Baseball Game of the Week 2013 schedule
Sports

What happened to FOX Saturday Baseball?

Baseball fans looking to tune in to nationally televised MLB games on Saturday afternoons will have to look in a slightly different place this season. The traditional FOX Saturday Baseball Game of the Week that aired on broadcast TV throughout the entire regular season has been cut back significantly. FOX airs only 12 Saturday games in 2014 (schedule is below), with an expanded schedule of games now airing on FOX Sports 1, including most Saturdays. FOX airs eight consecutive Saturdays of MLB regional games in primetime beginning May 24 and leading up to July’s All-Star Game in Minneapolis. FOX will […]

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Competition

Food Network star-mentors seek out America’s Best Cook

Few of us would argue that there’s anything quite as satisfying as a great home-cooked meal. Food Network hopes that watching talented home cooks hone their skills at the hands of famous mentors will come close. This month, the network introduces America’s Best Cook, a six-episode competition that features past and current Iron Chefs Alex Guarnaschelli (Team East), Michael Symon (Team North) and Cat Cora (Team South), plus The Great Food Truck Race’s Tyler Florence (Team West), coaching teams of amateur kitchen whizzes chosen from across America to see who can serve up the country’s best home cook. • RELATED: […]

ACM Awards
Awards Shows

49th Annual ACM Awards air Sunday on CBS

Of the 300 or so country music awards shows on TV this year, the ACM Awards are definitely among the 10 most worth watching. Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton cohost The 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards ceremony honoring the biggest names and emerging talent in country music at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. In addition to Bryan and Shelton, others also scheduled to perform are Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert, George Strait, Keith Urban and The Band Perry. Bryan will also perform with Florida Georgia Line at a live remote during the awards telecast, airing live […]

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Reality TV

Guntucky Is Back With A Bang

If you like firearms and fireballs, you’ll love Kentucky’s Knobb Creek Gun Range, where according to mohawk-coiffed Steven Sumner, “We shoot guns, we blow stuff up, and we like it.” The colorful Sumner family returns to CMT for a second season of Guntucky (Saturdays 9pmET/PT) with eight, gun-shooting episodes. Each week, customers from around the world visit Knobb Creek to try out, pawn and purchase a broad range of legal firearms. And they blow up random stuff! Each episode is filled with slow-mo gunfire and explosions as well as touching and poignant moments where the Sumners make their customers’ gun-filled […]

Game of Thrones Season 4
TV News & Program Updates

Vengeance fuels “Game of Thrones” Season 4

By Dorothy Strauss After the death-fest that was Season 3, things must lighten up in Season 4 of Game of Thrones, right? Not likely, but fans savor the anguish. The deaths of Robb (Richard Madden) and Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley) will have repercussions not only for the now-leaderless North, but also for Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane), who still wants the Iron Throne for himself. Season 4 Trailer: Devils   Joffrey Baratheon (Jack Gleeson) seeks to keep the throne via a marriage to Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer). Among the wedding guests will be Oberyn Martell (played by newcomer Pedro Pascal), who […]

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Food TV

“Kimberly’s Simply Southern” Is Cooking Sweet Eats In Season 3

Little Big Town member Kimberly Schlapman serves up a third season of tasty southern cooking. Kimberly’s Simply Southern returns to Great American Country on Monday April 7 (4pmET/PT) for a new season of homecooked recipes, regional ingredients and celebrity sous-chefs. Schlapman — a founding member of Grammy-winning band, Little Big Town — might be the spunkiest and most adorable chef on TV and her show, Kimberly’s Simply Southern perhaps the most charming. It’s fitting that Kimberly visits a Georgia honey farm, because she, like this show, is incredibly sweet. Season 3 starts off with a visit to Kimberly’s hometown where […]

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Talk Show

David Letterman announces retirement from “Late Show”

On Thursday’s installment of Late Show with David Letterman, the longtime host announced that he will be retiring from the show when his latest contract is up in 2015. Letterman has been a fixture on late-night television for over 30 years, helming NBC’s Late Night from 1982-93, and then Late Show on CBS starting in 1993. RELATED: Stephen Colbert will succeed David Letterman as The Late Show host During his announcement, which came following his opening monologue, Letterman sat casually at his desk, interacting with longtime band leader Paul Shaffer and reflecting on how long the two of them have […]

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Sports

The Masters 2014 dates, times and TV channels

Golf’s first major tournament of the year, The Masters, returns to Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., April 10-13. ESPN and CBS share coverage of the tournament. ALSO SEE: Golf Channel Masters Week TV coverage highlights Golf’s first major tournament of the year, The Masters, returns to Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., as the top players in the game compete for the coveted green jacket and a place in golf history. Australia’s Adam Scott, the first Aussie to ever win The Masters, is defending champion. He’ll compete against the likes of Henrik Stenson, Jason Day, Phil Mickelson, […]

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TV News & Program Updates

Discovery Channel to get even more “live”

If you were one of the millions who thrilled to last year’s Skywire Live with Nik Wallenda, in which Discovery Channel chronicled wire-walker Wallenda’s effort to walk across a portion of Grand Canyon (pictured below); and, if you’re looking forward to the network’s next live special, Everest Jump Live, coming in May, then you will be happy to learn that Discovery has announced that the live, adrenaline-fueled events such as these will continue. At its upfront presentation this morning, Discovery Channel, among other announcements, said that Nik Wallenda will return to the network in a new live event this fall, […]