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Covert Affairs: Piper Perabo talks Annie and Auggie romance

August 13, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Piper Perabo says she always knew that Annie and Auggie would get together on Covert Affairs. But the long-awaited romance is proving trickier to handle than she thought. For the characters, that is. Being in the spy world necessitates that the popular pair keep a lot of secrets from each other, and not being able to be completely honest will no doubt take its toll. But Perabo says she and costar Christopher Gorham, who plays the blind CIA operative trusted with guiding Annie (Perabo) through her dangerous missions, have been through all this before. “Chris and I have been acting […]

Doomsday Castle: NGC spinoff is Doomsday Preppers for the MTV crowd

August 12, 2013 Lori Acken

When a colleague and I encountered the cast of National Geographic Channel’s new Doomsday Castle at a recent network event, we thought we’d stumbled on the cast of an MTV reality series and their rather intense agent who’d gotten off the elevator on the wrong floor and decided to stick around for the eats. Instead, we’d happened on Brent Bruns Sr. and half of his ten children — Brent II (no juniors in this clan), 41; Ashley, 24; Lindsey, 22; and twins Dawn-Marie and Michael, 20 — the latest in NGC’s growing stable of doomsday preppers. In the series intro, Brent […]

FOX Sports 1 shakes up the sports TV landscape Aug. 17

August 12, 2013 Ryan Berenz

On Saturday, Aug. 17, at 8am ET, SPEED will become FOX Sports 1, a new national sports network featuring live college football, auto racing, UFC, soccer, news shows and more. On the same day, FUEL will become FOX Sports 2. If you’ve watched even a few minutes of sports on FOX or any of its regional sports networks, you’ve no doubt heard the hype about FOX Sports 1. On Aug. 17, SPEED will become FOX Sports 1, a new national general sports network available in close to 90 million homes*. With new sports networks cropping up everywhere, it’s easy to […]

The Newsroom recap: News Night with Will McAvoy

August 12, 2013 Matthew Grimm

Episode five of this season’s The Newsroom proved to be a low-key affair, diverging from Season 2’s framing device of the investigation into the actual investigation of Operation Genoa for a real-time, slice-of-life look at the goings on at Atlantis Cable News during one broadcast – little of it seemingly relevant to creator Aaron Sorkin’s marginal attempts to create a linear story this season. Things have jumped ahead in time in the Newsroom continuum, to 2012. Jim (John Gallagher Jr.) is back in the swing at ACN’s New York office; Maggie (Alison Pill) is back from Africa after being horribly […]

On Demand DVD New Releases Aug. 12-18

August 12, 2013 Meredith Ennis

On Demand DVD New Releases Aug. 12-18 This week, there’s lots of familiar faces gracing the big screen: The Big Wedding alone features Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Susan Sarandon, Katherine Heigl, Amanda Seyfried and Robin Williams! In addition to Robert Redford, The Company You Keep includes Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, Nock Nolte, Stanley Tucci, Chris Cooper and Terrence Howard. Angela Bassett and Morgan Freeman are in Olympus Has Fallen, and Julianne Moore is in What Maisie Knew. The Big Wedding Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton play a long-divorced couple who must fake being married at the wedding of their adopted son […]

Clear History on HBO pits Larry David against Jon Hamm

August 10, 2013 Barb Oates

Clear History on HBO finds the “Mad Men” honcho Jon Hamm battling it out with Larry David. It’s been a while for Larry David fans. The Curb Your Enthusiasm star has taken his usual time between projects, this time exerting his creative energies on the HBO comedy film Clear History debuting Saturday, Aug. 10 at 9pm ET/PT, which he cowrote. David stars as hippie-looking marketing executive Nathan Flomm from a startup electric car company — he looks like “The Dude” from The Big Lebowski or, as costar Danny McBride says in the film, “the guy who kidnapped Elizabeth Smart.” He’s […]

We talk Cutthroat Kitchen with Alton Brown!

August 10, 2013 Lori Acken

Yes, Alton Brown’s new Food Network series Cutthroat Kitchen features top-notch chefs competing to create prize-winning dishes. But here’s where it swerves into ingeniously original territory. It’s up to them to determine what their final prize is. And, much of the time, what they’re willing to do to earn it. Which, Brown says, makes Cutthroat Kitchen as much a game show as it is a cooking competition. If you’ve heard about the show or seen the promos and still find yourself a little flummoxed about how the whole thing goes down, here’s the gist. A different quartet of chefs competes […]

Official Sharknado 2 title announced

August 9, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

After soliciting Twitter submissions for the subtitle to its announced sequel to the surprise pop-culture hit Sharknado, Syfy said yesterday that the title will be: Sharknado 2: The Second One (they say they waded through over 5,000 Twitter submissions before deciding on this one). Thomas Vitale, executive vice president, programming and original movies at Syfy, said, “Since Twitter played such a huge role in the success of the original movie, we wanted to use that platform to ask our fans to name Sharknado 2. This response is another reminder of how Sharknado has become a pop culture phenomenon. We want […]

PBS at 2013 TCA Summer Press Tour

August 8, 2013 Ryan Berenz

PBS at 2013 TCA Summer Press Tour: A roundup of announcements, initiatives and new programming coming to PBS in late summer and fall 2013. Paula Kerger, PBS president and CEO spoke of the network’s 5-percent rise in prime-time ratings, and audience growth both on air on online. While that’s nice, she says the network’s real measure of success is the public service of education, information and entertainment it provides to a diverse audience. She’s proud of the impact that the network’s programming has had with engaging discussion and debate on gun control in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school […]

AMC’s ‘Low Winter Sun’ pits cop against cop in a gritty psychological puzzle

August 7, 2013 Lori Acken

For fans of AMC’s addictive brand of “welcome to the dark side” storytelling, the network’s new drama Low Winter Sun has a dead-serious role to fill. The atmospheric character study, starring Mark Strong (Zero Dark Thirty) and Lennie James (The Walking Dead) as Detroit cops bound together by murder, must ease us out of the final episodes of Breaking Bad and into a new season of The Walking Dead without letting us get too bereft about the former or too impatient for the latter. And, says James, who plays Sun’s seminary student turned morally ambiguous cop Joe Geddes, it’s just […]