TV News - Page 596 of 1160 - StayTuned Magazine

“American Masters” profiles its first sports figure with Billie Jean King documentary

September 10, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

When tennis star Serena Williams won her fifth U.S. Open title on Sunday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, she received $3.6 million — the same amount that Rafael Nadal would receive the next night for winning the men’s singles title of the tournament. It was not always the case that the women’s champion received the same amount of prize money as the men’s champion. There was not even always a separate women’s tennis tour — that is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. The developments in the tour, the prize money and many other strides for […]

World Cup Qualifier USA vs Mexico TV channel

September 10, 2013 Ryan Berenz

World Cup Qualifier USA vs Mexico TV channel: ESPN airs live coverage of the USA vs. Mexico World Cup Qualifying match from Columbus Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, Sept. 10. ESPN media platforms combine to present coverage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match between USA and Mexico on Tuesday, Sept. 10, from Columbus Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. A special 90-minute ESPN FC preview show airs at 5:30pm ET on ESPN2, followed by a one-hour pregame show beginning at 7pm ET, with live match coverage at 8pm ET on ESPN and WatchESPN. Spanish-language coverage of USA […]

VOD Spotlight: “Star Trek Into Darkness” Has Something For Fans New And Old

September 10, 2013 Meredith Ennis

Star Trek Into Darkness is not, to use a cliché, your father’s Star Trek. Unless you were born between 2009 — when J.J. Abrams first took the helm of the franchise and offered up a cinematic “reboot” of the beloved TV/film series — and now, the new film may not exactly be “your” Star Trek either. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, audience members with no real ties to previous versions of the Enterprise’s crew and history can enjoy Star Trek Into Darkness for what it is: an entertaining sci-fi/action film that doesn’t require prior knowledge of […]

Kenan Thompson to host Hub Network Halloween Bash

September 9, 2013 StayTuned Staff

It’s been awhile since Kenan Thompson entertained kids and families for a living, but I’m guessing he’ll have no trouble finding his rhythm again when he hosts “Hub Network’s First Annual Halloween Bash.” The Saturday Night Live funnyman, known for recurring characters like the would-be Scared Straight criminal who steals all of his hard-luck stories from movie plots, and “Weekend Update” fixture Jean K. Jean, got his big break clowning around on Nickelodeon’s kid-friendly ’90s sketch show All That. He then found success partnering up with fellow cast member Kel Mitchell for Kenan & Kel and the feature film Good […]

Boardwalk Empire Season 4 premiere recap: “New York Sour”

September 9, 2013 Matthew Grimm

From the get-go of Season 4 of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, we are reminded of why there is little else like this on television. It is a nighttime exterior shot, a restaurant in a remote part of America awash in a snowstorm, so lushly designed and framed it might be a Hopper painting. It is just as rich a painting inside, where two cold-eyed types in suits and hats sit at the counter, while a distracted owner listens to barely tuned-in strains of radio. When the bigger, talkier one starts needling the owner, we feel something pointless and violent could happen […]

Esquire Network to take over Style on Sept. 23

September 9, 2013 Barb Oates

Esquire Network to take over Style! No, the launch of Esquire Network, which was originally suppose to happen in April, hasn’t been delayed again. Instead the new network is going to be a part of some organizational changes at NBCUniversal, one that involves rebranding Style Network as Esquire Network and keeping G4 in tact (at least for now). If you recall, G4 was originally going to be scrapped for the more modern men’s lifestyle network, instead on Sept. 23 Esquire Network will take over Style Network. NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment president Bonnie Hammer issued a statement to staff today detailing that […]

How to get on Million Second Quiz, when does it air, play at home

September 9, 2013 Barb Oates

How to get on Million Second Quiz, when does it air and everything else you need to know. From Andy Warhol’s famous expression about fame (what is it 15 seconds of fame? Or 15 minutes?) to what does the “A” stand for in NATO, anything and everything is fair game in NBC’s groundbreaking new competition series Million Second Quiz Monday, premiering tonight (Sept. 9) at 8pm ET. Contestants will get a shot at winning up to $10 million — the largest prize in game show history. Hosted by Ryan Seacrest, the show will be televised live from Times Square with […]

ESPN Monday Night Football schedule 2013

September 9, 2013 Ryan Berenz

Monday Night Football schedule 2013: ESPN’s coverage of Monday Night Football kicks off with a doubleheader on Monday, Sept. 9, with Philadelphia at Washington and Houston at San Diego. Full ESPN Monday Night Football schedule and highlights below. Monday Night Football kicks off its regular season on Monday, Sept. 9 (7:10pm ET kickoff), with a doubleheader featuring the Philadelphia Eagles and new head coach Chip Kelly visiting FedExField to take on the Washington Redskins and quarterback Robert Griffin III. The second game has the Houston Texans visiting San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium to take on the Chargers. Paul Brown Stadium in […]

The Newsroom recap: “Election Night, Part 1”

September 9, 2013 Matthew Grimm

In “Election Night, Part 1,” the penultimate episode of Season 2 of HBO’s The Newsroom, it is, indeed, election night 2012, the culmination of two largely wasted years of presidential campaigning, with Barack Obama soon to hand Mitt Romney his own ass with a choice of two sides. But that’s not important right now. Because the confounding, long, thorny, pointlessly abusive thing between News Night anchor Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) and his executive producer Mackenzie McHale (Emily Mortimer) is coming to a head with what appears to be a whimper versus the firing squad both she and I think the […]

“Exploding Sun”: Reelz movie unleashes a big fireball of cheese

September 9, 2013 StayTuned Staff

With Reelz’s spate of disaster-themed movies and miniseries that it’s rolled out this year, the temptation has been to write them all off as hopelessly cheesy cash-ins and retreads. Yet while Ring of Fire, Eve of Destruction, Delete and CAT. 8 certainly have all had their moments of camp, none has really quite tread into Syfy Original Movie territory. As much as we might like it to be different, there can only be one Sharknado. But for better or worse, Exploding Sun might finally earn that reputation. It’s not so much the premise, which admittedly does smack a bit of Airplane II: The Sequel. […]