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FA Cup final on U.S. broadcast TV for first time ever with FOX airing

May 9, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

At long last, during the 150th anniversary of England’s Football Association, the final of the FA Cup — the world’s oldest soccer competition and England’s main domestic cup tournament — will air in the United States for the first time ever on broadcast television (granted, television hasn’t been around during the entire existence of the FA, but still). In America, FOX will air the 2013 FA Cup final, between Manchester City and Wigan Athletic, live this Saturday, May 11, at 12pm ET. Gus Johnson calls the action of the FA Cup final, with analysis from former England international standout Ian […]

“Monumental Mysteries” host Don Wildman talks about new Travel Channel series

May 8, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Monumental Mysteries Thursday, May 9 Travel Channel, 9pm ET Don Wildman is at it again. The adventurous gadabout who has hosted Off Limits and Mysteries at the Museum is back on Travel Channel with Monumental Mysteries, which explores well-known American monuments and the conspiracy theories that have sprung up around them. For instance, where does the phrase “if you believe that, I’ve got a bridge to sell you” come from? Or is it possible that the origins of Bram Stoker’s vampire masterpiece Dracula stem from a New England murder case? You’ll find out this and more in this engrossing series. […]

Roundup: TV shows renewed or canceled for 2013

May 8, 2013 Barb Oates

TV shows renewed or canceled 2013: It’s that time of year when the broadcast nets are making the call. Will Revenge be renewed for 2013? We think so. Is Nashville canceled? No chance, right!?! Of the new series that debuted over the 2012-2013 season, only a handful, to date, have gotten renewed for a sophomore season. Those series officially seeing a sophomore season include NBC’s Revolution and Chicago Fire, FOX’s The Following and The Mindy Project, CBS’ Elementary and The CW’s Arrow. As for the rest, we will be updating when the networks officially announce the show’s fate. Here’s a […]

Seth MacFarlane to guest-voice on “The Simpsons” season finale

May 8, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Seth MacFarlane will have his voice featured on all of FOX’s Animation Domination shows on the night of May 19 when he provides a guest voice to the long-running hit The Simpsons in its Season 24 finale (MacFarlane, of course, will also be featured in the one-hour season finales of his own series The Cleveland Show and Family Guy that same evening). There had been some good-natured (?) ribbing between The Simpsons and Family Guy during the early years of Seth MacFarlane’s show, with Family Guy sometimes joking along the lines of, “The Simpsons did this first,” while some Simpsons […]

mun2 musical reality series “Alerta Zero” premieres May 11

May 8, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

mun2’s new music reality series Alerta Zero premieres this Saturday, May 11, at 3pm ET, and follows Memo Ibarra — the former lead singer of Regional Mexican group Alacranes Musical — as he forms his new Chicago-based group, Alerta Zero. The series includes 10, one-hour episodes that follow the eight-member band as they strive to hit the charts once again. Based in Chicago, the bilingual and bicultural bandmates will be seen in town with their manager, Oscar Diaz, and veteran publicist Iris Corral, who are on a mission to expand the band’s fan base. In Episode 1 of Alerta Zero, […]

Rock My RV with Bret Michaels on Travel Channel: Bret gives us the details

May 8, 2013 Lori Acken

Poison frontman Bret Michaels says he’s logged over 3 million miles in a host of rolling homes — from the cozy Winnebagos of his Butler, Pa., youth to the most luxurious Prevost tour buses when he grew up to be a rock star. In fact, the open-road lifestyle is so much a part of Michaels’ DNA that if you hope to get an offstage glimpse at him when he tours your town, don’t look in the lobbies of luxury inns. “When all my other bandmates stay at hotels on our days off, I actually stay [on the bus] at the […]

Sony Movie Channel airing Ray Harryhausen tribute marathon May 11

May 8, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Special effects legend Ray Harryhausen passed away yesterday, May 7, at the age of 92. Famed for a brand of stop-motion model animation known as “Dynamation,” Harryhausen brought to life cinematic creatures of all sorts, from monsters of Greek mythology in films like Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and Clash of the Titans (1981), to prehistoric beasts in movies such as The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953) and The Valley of Gwangi (1969), to everything in between. Along with innovating new filming practices, Ray Harryhausen is credited with creating the physical looks and movements of dinosaurs, aliens and other creatures […]

Bill Hader: Kristen Wiig returning to host “SNL” will be “a blast”

May 8, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Kristen Wiig will be back on Saturday Night Live this week as host, and her old co-star Bill Hader couldn’t be happier. “That’s going to be a blast,” he said in a phone interview last week. “I love it when old cast members come back and host, like when [Amy] Poehler came back and hosted, and Tina [Fey] and Maya Rudolph and Jimmy Fallon. Dana Carvey, when he came back, it was unbelievable. Specifically, the people who were cast members when I was a cast member, you have an automatic shorthand with them. It’s very relaxing. You’re not going, ‘Oh, […]

Dance Moms Season 3 Tell All recap: Children and Violence

May 7, 2013 Lori Acken

Did everyone enjoy “The Mother of All Specials” that preceded tonight’s Dance Moms: Tell-All Reunion Part One, Dance Moms fans? Did it give you a better understanding of why Abby Lee is the way Abby Lee is — or make you more confused, since Mother Miller is calm and kind and often appears as puzzled by her daughter as we are? Did it make you nostalgic for when Dance Moms was more funny and fun, and less cutthroat and stressful —and we got to have Dance Moms fashion moments? Did it make you want to pop Abby’s dad in the […]

“Polygamy USA” follows Arizona Fundamentalist Mormons

May 7, 2013 Ryan Berenz

“Polygamy USA” on National Geographic Channel follows a community of Fundamentalist Mormons in Centennial Park, Arizona. Premiering Tuesday, May 7, at 9pm ET/PT on National Geographic Channel, Polygamy, USA goes inside the daily lives of a Fundamentalist Mormon community in Arizona, in which plural marriages are widely practiced as a religious tradition. The series focuses on the lives of three men in the community and their families: Arthur Hammon One of the founding fathers of Centennial Park. He helped build the town 30 years ago after he and others separated with a nearby community over a religious dispute. Arthur now […]