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Documentary

Showtime’s Time of Death presents an absorbing, emotional look at what it’s really like to die

Twenty-five-year-old Nicole “Little Lencioni has a beautiful face, an instrument-filled house of her own in Santa Cruz, CA, a surfboard, a motorcycle and a devoted circle of ultra-cool friends. She should be having the time of her life. Instead, Little’s life now revolves around death — namely, her mother’s. Maria Lencioni, age 48 and also the mother Nicole’s teenage half-siblings Julia and Andrew, has been battling stage IV breast cancer for the past four years — 2 years longer than the doctors expected. She says her children motivate her keep up the fight, even though 50 medications have failed to […]

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Drama

Scandal recap: Episode 5 – “More Cattle, Less Bull”

Scandal recap: Episode 5 — “More Cattle, Less Bull” Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) continued her off-and-on love for the president (Tony Goldwyn) in a phone call. After another Sunday dinner with her father, Eli Pope (Joe Morton), which went ever-so-cheerfully, Olivia quickly started drinking wine in her humble abode. What seemed very obvious as the scene started, she felt the need to vent her sadness in a call to the president and approached the garbage where her secret phone was thrown away earlier in the show. The call showed the president and Olivia relieving themselves of their stressful daily lives. […]

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Comedy

Mike and Molly Season 4: Date, time, TV channel, preview and more!

Mike and Molly Season 4 premieres at 9pm Monday, Nov. 4, on CBS. When it debuted in 2010, the buzz on Mike & Molly was that it had the audacity to treat overweight people as — gasp! — regular people, and make them the focus of the show as opposed to just the usual buffoonish sidekicks. It’s not that Mike Biggs (Billy Gardell) and Molly Flynn (Melissa McBride) were the first overweight couple on TV (remember Dan and Roseanne?), but there hadn’t been many shows that made their weight so central to the plot. The lovable cop and loving schoolteacher […]

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Sports

Cup of China 2013 figure skating TV schedule

Cup of China 2013 Figure Skating TV schedule: NBC airs the ISU Grand Prix Series Cup of China men’s and ladies’ free skate events on Nov. 3 from 1:30-3:30pm ET. From the NBC Sports Group press release: NBC’S COVERAGE OF 2013 ISU GRAND PRIX OF FIGURE SKATING SERIES CONTINUES WITH 2013 CUP OF CHINA Stamford, Conn. – November 1, 2013 – NBC continues its coverage of the 2013 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series with the 2013 Cup of China. Coverage of the men’s and ladies’ free skate begins at 1:30 p.m. ET on Sunday. Highlighting the field for […]

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Sports

Miami at FSU, Florida vs Georgia top college football TV Week 10

Miami at FSU, Florida vs Georgia top college football TV Week 10: CBS airs Florida vs. Georgia rivalry game. ABC airs No. 7 Miami at No. 3 Florida State. EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Fla., hosts the rivalry game between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Florida Gators (CBS, 3:30pm ET), two SEC football powerhouses who’ve played each other nearly every year since 1915. Georgia has won the last two meetings, including a 17-9 victory last year. Another big ACC rivalry game between unbeaten teams from the state of Florida takes place at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee as the No. 7 […]

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7 Questions With...

7 Questions With Billy Gardell of CBS’ “Mike and Molly”

After a decade in showbiz spent establishing himself as a standup comedian and doing guest parts on TV and movies, Billy Gardell finally got his big break with Mike and Molly. The CBS rom-sitcom first garnered attention in 2010 for its normalizing portrayal of overweight people, but as it begins Season 4 is now simply regarded as a popular show, one that helped launch Gardell’s costar Melissa McCarthy into superstar status. Gardell, a proud Pittsburgh native, took some time to answer our “7 Questions,” keeping his usual good cheer about him despite the current woeful state of his beloved Steelers. […]

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Drama

Killing Kennedy movie interviews: Rob Lowe, Ginnifer Goodwin, Will Rothhaar

“I love history,” Rob Lowe tells me, “because you know somebody didn’t make it up. It actually happened.” Sometimes, those historical events that actually happen are tragic in nature, occasionally to the point of impacting an entire nation. Such was the case with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963 — 50 years ago this month. As not only a student of history, but particularly as an admirer and voracious studier of Kennedy and the whole “Camelot” era, Lowe was drawn to his starring role as the iconic president in Killing Kennedy, premiering Nov. 10. The […]

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Awards Shows

CMA Awards 2013 date, time, channel and more!

ABC will present the 47th Annual CMA Awards live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 6, from 8-11pm ET. Country superstars Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood will cohost for the sixth consecutive year. Scheduled performers include The Band Perry, Lady Antebellum, Eric Church, Florida Georgia Line, Tim McGraw, Kacey Musgraves and Entertainer of the Year nominees Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton, George Strait and Taylor Swift. Special collaborations for the broadcast include Miranda Lambert and Keith Urban; Hunter Hayes and Jason Mraz; Swift, Vince Gill and Alison Krauss; and the Zac Brown Band with Dave Grohl. Newly inducted Country […]

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Horror

Best Halloween shows on TV Oct. 31, 2013

For the non-Netflix audiences who rely on linear television to provide them with an eerie evening of TV treats, this list of the best Halloween shows on TV for tonight — Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013 — is for YOU! While these aren’t all “Halloween” related, each do provide the best creeps and scares to leave you satisfied. So sit yourself down in front of that tube and let the creepfest begin! Here are 8 picks you can’t got wrong with! (All times listed below are Eastern.) 1. The Returned Sundance Channel, 9pm Topping my list is Sundance Channel’s new series, […]

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Documentary

JFK assassination 50th anniversary TV programming

50 years ago this month — on Nov. 22, 1963 — President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas by, it is presumed, Lee Harvey Oswald (himself later shot and killed by Jack Ruby). The JFK assassination caused political, social and emotional upheavals throughout the world, especially, of course, in America. But while the JFK assassination is an event embedded forever in American history, the 50-year distance may put its significance out of the reach of generations born well after the fact. Rob Lowe, who plays JFK in the film Killing Kennedy, told me in a recent interview, “I don’t think [younger […]