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How I Met Your Mother recap: “Something New”

May 14, 2013 StayTuned Staff

For an episode called “Something New,” How I Met Your Mother resorted to pretty much all its old tricks in its eighth season finale. Except, oh OK, we did get to see the mother, even if Ted hasn’t quite gotten to meet her. It starts a week before Barney and Robin’s wedding as the two of them try to have a nice dinner but instead encounter an obnoxious couple played by Casey Wilson (Happy Endings) and Keegan Michael Key (Key & Peele), who are actually billed as “Obnoxious Woman” and “Obnoxious Man.” They do obnoxious things like demand Barney and […]

Discovery premieres first independently produced landmark natural history series, “North America”

May 14, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

“We called [North America] the most extreme continent, and we always talked about it being an extreme continent, and every single month there was something else to remind us of why that was true.” — Huw Cordey, North America series producer “By all measurement, [North America] is the most extreme continent on the planet.” — North America executive producer Keith Scholey In separate conversations with Huw Cordey and Keith Scholey, producers of Discovery Channel’s new seven-part natural history series North America, the word “extreme” came up quite a bit. Over the course of three years producing the series, they and […]

NBC primetime schedule 2013-14

May 13, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

NBC has put out its lineup of primetime shows for the upcoming 2013-14 season, including returning series, and eight new dramas and six new comedies. NBC hopes its schedule this upcoming year will be bolstered by its coverage of the Winter Games in February 2014. NEW NBC 2013-14 SERIES About a Boy — Based on the Nick Hornby novel (which was also made into a Hugh Grant film), this midseason comedy stars David Walton as Will Freeman, the ultimate man-child whose life is changed by a needy single mom (Minnie Driver) and her oddly charming 11-year-old son (Benjamin Stockham). The […]

FOX primetime schedule 2013-14

May 13, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Along with other cool announcements like next summer’s 24: Live Another Day, Kevin Reilly, chairman, entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company, this morning unveiled the FOX primetime slate for the upcoming 2013-14 season. Along with five live-action comedies, FOX will be debuting four dramas, as well as its first event series. Plenty of FOX favorites will also be returning to the schedule next year. NEW FOX SERIES 2013-14 Dads — A new live-action, multi-camera comedy from Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild. Stars Seth Green and Giovanni Ribisi as two successful gaming entrepreneurs and childhood best friends whose lives get […]

On Demand DVD New Releases May 13-19

May 13, 2013 Meredith Ennis

Cloud Atlas is certainly the most ambitious of this week’s titles. With a budget of over $100,000,000, the film is one of the most expensive independent films made to date. Nominated for a Golden Globe award, the film involves cast members playing multiple roles, covering different time periods, races and even sexes, and was shot with two separate but parallel filming units, with unique crews for each. On Demand DVD New Releases May 13-19 Back to 1942 A deadly drought in 1942 takes its toll on central China’s Henan province during the war against Japan. Tim Robbins, Adrien Brody, Daoming Chen (NR, 2:15) […]

FOX is bringing back “24” as 12-episode event series “24: Live Another Day”

May 13, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

FOX announced today that its iconic series 24 will have its clock restarted in Summer 2014 with the airing of 24: Live Another Day, a 12-episode event series representing 24 hours. Kiefer Sutherland will return to reprise his role as Jack Bauer from the Emmy-winning 24 series in this upcoming miniseries that FOX says will resume Jack Bauer’s story several years following the events of the final season of 24, which ended in 2010. 24: Live Another Day will reunite Kiefer Sutherland with showrunner Howard Gordon, and, according to a FOX release, “retain the real-time, pulse-pounding, fast-paced format with split […]

Disney releases preview of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D”

May 12, 2013 StayTuned Staff

The Marvel Universe is attempting to bring its recent dominance of the big screen (e.g. The Avengers, Iron Man 3, the upcoming Thor: The Dark World) to TV with Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. from Joss Whedon. Bringing cheer to the hearts of fanboys everywhere is the front-and-center presence of Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg), who appeared to have met his demise at the hands of Loki in last summer’s The Avengers. But really, why are you reading this intro anymore, just watch the clip. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player

2013 NCAA Lacrosse Championship TV schedule

May 11, 2013 Ryan Berenz

The 2013 NCAA Lacrosse Championship TV schedule includes coverage of all 15 games of the men’s tournament May 11-27 on ESPN networks. Coverage of the women’s tournament airs May 24 and 26. 2013 NCAA Lacrosse Championship TV schedule from ESPN: ESPN’s Coverage of the 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Championship Presented by Northwestern Mutual (Subject to change) Date Time (ET) Game/Commentators Network(s) Sat, May 11 Noon First Round: Lehigh at No. 5 seed North CarolinaEamon McAnaney & Paul Carcaterra ESPN2 / WatchESPN 2:30 p.m. First Round: Yale at No. 8 seed Penn StateJoe Beninati & Stephen McElduff […]

Breaking Amish Brave New World preview

May 10, 2013 Lori Acken

The producers of TLC’s Breaking Amish appear to have learned something from the uproar that ensued when the real backstories of their five young cast members threatened to derail the tale they were hoping to tell, even before the series debuted. That is: These men and women are interesting enough without having to return or reduce them to a sort of “what is this food-cooker thing?” bumpkinhood that no one was buying anyway. As its second season — called Breaking Amish: Brave New World — premieres Sunday night at 10/9 CT, the series takes on a more somber, documentary-style feel […]

Family Tree: HBO brings Christopher Guest mockumentary style to TV

May 10, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Family Tree Sundays beginning May 12 HBO, 10:30pm ET The Christopher Guest troupe of actors from films like Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and For Your Consideration seem like a little family all their own. So it’s only appropriate that they finally got around to making a show about a family. With Family Tree, Guest brings his celebrated improv mockumentary style to HBO, along with actors such as Michael McKean, Fred Willard, Bob Balaban and Ed Begley Jr., in a story about 30-year-old Tom Chadwick (Chris O’Dowd), a British man who has recently lost his job and his girlfriend. […]