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Isabella Rossellini creates “Mammas” for Sundance Channel

May 10, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Mammas Sunday, May 12 Sundance Channel, 5:30pm ET Usually when someone I’m interviewing excuses themselves for a minute, it can really interrupt the flow of the conversation. That extra time it takes to get back on track could lead to me missing out on some great nugget they were about to throw my way. But when it’s Isabella Rossellini, and you overhear her speaking beautiful Italian to her son, it’s just a pleasure to sit and listen. I called the actress to learn more about her new series of short films, Mammas, premiering on Sundance Channel on Mother’s Day. It […]

“The Young and the Restless” to air special tribute episode to Jeanne Cooper

May 10, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Actress Jeanne Cooper passed away this week at the age of 84. The Emmy-winning actress was best-known and beloved for her role as Katherine Chancellor for more than 39 years on the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless (the show’s longest-running cast member), which will honor her life with a special tribute episode on May 28. Cast members, friends and family of Jeanne Cooper will gather on-set next week to shoot a celebration of the life of their late friend. As part of the tribute, the cast of The Young and the Restless will share their favorite memories […]

PHOTOS: The girls of Big Break Mexico

May 10, 2013 Ryan Berenz

Meet the ladies of GOLF CHANNEL’s Big Break Mexico golf skills competition series premiering May 13 at 9pm ET and airing Mondays. Season 19 of GOLF CHANNEL’s golf skills competition series Big Break has six men and six women in a mixed team format at Playa Paraiso Golf Club in Riviera Maya, Mexico. The winner receives an exemption to a 2013 PGA or LPGA tournament, plus cash and other prizes. LPGA great Lorena Ochoa makes a guest appearance and takes on Big Break’s signature Glass Break challenge for the first time. The six ladies appearing in Big Break Mexico are quite […]

Ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro subject of PBS film “Life on Four Strings”

May 10, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Thirtysomething, fourth-generation Japanese-American Jake Shimabukuro is the subject of the compelling portrait Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings. Jake Shimabukuro is a ukulele virtuoso, and you may have heard of and seen his YouTube video (which was posted anonymously) of him in Central Park playing “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” on his uke (see video below). The video exploded into a viral hit (currently over 11.7 million views), and Jake Shimabukuro is now an international star and crossover artist, working to transform previous notions of his instrument’s potential. “[The ukulele is] such a young instrument,” Jake Shimabukuro told reporters at […]

NBC Dateline special to examine the Jodi Arias case

May 10, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Tonight, Friday, May 10, at 9pm ET on NBC’s Dateline, the newsmagazine will air “Obsession: The Jodi Arias Story,” an in-depth look into one of the most-followed murder trials in recent years. The hourlong program will tell the full story of Jodi Arias, the 32-year-old Arizona woman who admitted to killing her former boyfriend, Travis Alexander. The Dateline release says it has new details and interviews surrounding Jodi Arias’s obsession with Travis Alexander, her four-month-long trial that ended with a guilty verdict this week, and the country’s fascination with the torrid relationship that ended in murder. Dateline correspondent Josh Mankiewicz […]

Bob Saget Showtime special “That’s What I’m Talkin’ About” airs tonight

May 10, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Bob Saget: That’s What I’m Talkin’ About Friday, May 10 Showtime, 10pm ET Ever since he became the standard bearer of cheesy, squeaky-clean middlebrow humor with his protracted stints on Full House and America’s Funniest Home Videos, Bob Saget has delighted in showing the world how truly filthy he can be. From his memorable cameo in Half Baked to his increasingly raunchy standup specials, Saget has reveled in puncturing the image of his most famous gigs. He continues that streak tonight with That’s What I’m Talkin’ About, where he will strum around the stage with a guitar trotting out silly, […]

Toddlers and Tiaras Season 6 premieres June 5 on TLC

May 9, 2013 Lori Acken

Toddlers and Tiaras, TLC’s jaw-dropping reality hit that introduced America to Eden Wood and Honey Boo Boo returns for a sixth season of spray-tanned pageant tots, overbearing parents, Pixy Stix and tantrums June 5 at 9pm ET/PT. And Boo Boo Mama June, you and your Go-Go juice are about to enjoy a little vindication. T&T fans, get ready for the phenomenon of “Tinker Tea” — Mountain Dew, bottled sweet tea and Pixy Stix powder, all mixed together and served up in a nice pink sippy cup. To a two-year-old. A two-year-old who has been starting her day with another sippy […]

Katie Leclerc stars in Beverly Lewis “The Confession”

May 9, 2013 Barb Oates

Katie Leclerc stars in Beverly Lewis The Confession: The Amish return to the spotlight in the Hallmark Channel original film The Confession (premiering Saturday, May 11 at 9pm ET). The film is an adaptation of best-selling author Beverly Lewis’ second novel in her Heritage of Lancaster County book series. Katie Leclerc (Switched at Birth) stars as Katie Lapp, a naive, young Amish woman shunned by her township, who goes looking for her birth mother, who is dying of cancer. Sherry Stringfield (ER), who starred in the first film of the book series — The Shunning — reprises her role as […]

Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell returns tonight with guest Melissa Harris-Perry

May 9, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell Thursday, May 9 FX, 11pm ET/PT Rising star W. Kamau Bell returns with a new batch of episodes of his late-night talk show that unapologetically discusses politics, pop culture, race, religion, sex, the media — you know, all that stuff you’re not supposed to bring up at parties. Tonight’s guest on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell will be MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry, who was the center of a controversy for saying in a network promo that “”we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong […]

THE PLAYERS Championship 2013 TV schedule

May 9, 2013 Ryan Berenz

THE PLAYERS Championship 2013 TV schedule includes live coverage of all four rounds from TPC Sawgrass May 9-12 on GOLF CHANNEL and NBC. The Stadium Course at TPC at Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach in Florida is the site of golf’s “Fifth Major,” THE PLAYERS Championship. The top players in the game compete on one of the most challenging courses, famous for its signature island green on par-3 Hole 17. A total of 11 high-definition cameras will cover the hole for GOLF CHANNEL and NBC. Additional broadcast details are available on the GOLF CHANNEL press release. Host Dan Hicks and […]