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Elvis Presley on Encore: Network shines the spotlight on The King’s movies all month long

May 2, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Elvis Presley made 31 movies between 1956-69, and while his celluloid career will never be as celebrated as his musical output, it’s hard not to crack a smile when thinking about good-time movies like Viva Las Vegas, Blue Hawaii and, of course, Clambake. Throughout May, Encore will have those titles during an event the network has dubbed The Elvis Collection: Whole Lotta Elvis, which will feature 24 of the King’s films, with one airing each night. The event includes the 1981 docudrama This Is Elvis (May 14), as well as an all-day marathon of Elvis movies May 25. In addition […]

Preview MTV’s “Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous”

May 2, 2013 Ryan Berenz

Comedian Bo Burnham stars in MTV’s new comedy series Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous (premiering Thursday, May 2, at 10:30pm ET/PT) as Zach Stone, a recent high-school grad who decides to pursue stardom instead of going to college. He hires a camera crew to film him throughout his daily life as he tries every imaginable stunt to get noticed and become and instant celebrity. MTV Shows Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous stars Bo Burnham as Zach Stone; Kari Coleman (The Amazing Spider-Man) as Mrs. Stone; Tom Wilson (Back to the Future) as Mr. Stone; Cameron Palatas (Disney Channel’s […]

SEC Network launching in August 2014

May 2, 2013 Ryan Berenz

SEC Network launching in August 2014 in a 20-year agreement between ESPN and the Southeastern Conference, which gives ESPN multiplatform rights to the SEC’s 21 sports through 2034. The Southeastern Conference and ESPN have signed a 20-year agreement for the SEC Network, a multiplatform network launching in August 2014. The announcement was made Thursday by SEC Commissioner Mike Slive and ESPN President John Skipper. The new TV and digital network will feature: Around-the-clock SEC content, including more than 1,000 events in its first year TV coverage of 45 SEC football games, more than 100 men’s basketball games, 60 women’s basketball […]

The Americans FX: Producers speak out about Season 1 finale, Season 2

May 2, 2013 StayTuned Staff

The Americans ended its Season 1 run Wednesday night with a suspenseful, action-packed finale, “The Colonel.” It was a lot easier to watch knowing that the engrossing Cold War drama, which follows KGB spies Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) living deep undercover near Washington, D.C., and posing as a married couple, has been renewed for Season 2. Executive producers and writers Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields, who were very happy to get out of the writers room for a while, spoke with reporters this week about the finale and where the show might go from here: WARNING: THE […]

“Billy the Exterminator” star pleads guilty to drug charge

May 2, 2013 StayTuned Staff

William Bretherton, star of the A&E reality series Billy the Exterminator, was put on probation for a year, fined $500, and was given a 60-day suspended sentence after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of possessing synthetic marijuana, the Associated Press reported. As part of his plea deal, Bretherton has agreed to undergo substance-abuse evaluation and treatment. His probation also requires community service and regular drug and alcohol testing. Bretherton and his wife, Mary, were arrested last year in Louisiana and booked with one count each of possession of synthetic marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Prosecutors dropped charges against Mary Bretherton […]

Breaking Amish Brave New World — we talk with Kate and Sabrina

May 1, 2013 Lori Acken

Even before it hit the airwaves last fall, TLC’s reality shocker Breaking Amish stirred up a hotbed of controversy. On a near-daily basis, reporters and former friends of the five cast members revealed the truth behind the supposedly naïve Amish and Mennonite twentysomethings getting their first taste of life in New York City. The show became an instant smash. Now Amish-exile newlyweds Abe and Rebecca Schmucker, rising model Kate Stoltzfus and rebel Jeremiah Raber, and the show’s sole Mennonite Sabrina High are back for a second season called Breaking Amish: Brave New World, which premieres May 12. Attempting a fresh start […]

Kentucky Derby 2013 TV schedule

May 1, 2013 Ryan Berenz

Kentucky Derby 2013 TV schedule includes more than 14 hours of coverage on NBC and NBC Sports Network, plus Derby week programs on NBCUniversal cable networks. The 139th Kentucky Derby takes place Saturday, May 4, from Churchill Downs in Louisville, for the first leg of horse racing’s elusive Triple Crown (sweeping the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes). Verrazano, Orb, Revolutionary, Normandy Invasion and Goldencents are among the top contenders in the starting gate. I’ll Have Another won last year’s Kentucky Derby and Preakness, but his Triple Crown chances were scratched when tendonitis forced him out of the Belmont. […]

Marc Maron gets real on IFC’s “Maron”

May 1, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Maron Friday, May 3 IFC, 10pm ET Marc Maron is in a good place. Such a simple sentence, but it’s taken so much to make it a reality. A few years ago, the acerbic comedian was reeling financially and emotionally from his second divorce and a floundering career. That’s when almost on a lark he started inviting fellow comedians — many of whom he’d been friends with, and in some cases he had become jealous of for their success — over to his garage for interviews that he recorded for a modest podcast. WTF With Marc Maron eventually became an […]

Behind the Candelabra: Steven Soderbergh, Michael Douglas and Matt Damon on the year’s most talked-about telefilm

May 1, 2013 Lori Acken

Depending on how you look at it, the genesis for Behind the Candelabra, HBO’s extravagant and surprisingly emotional Liberace biopic, happened nearly 14 years ago — or more than 40. The film’s director, Steven Soderbergh, 50, says he watched the beloved pianist and “World’s Greatest Showman” with his parents as a kid and recognized that this was no ordinary entertainer. Revisiting those old clips years later, Soderbergh knew his opinion hadn’t changed a bit. By then, he was filming his 2000 Oscar-winning smash Traffic with Michael Douglas. “I was in the middle of playing the drug czar and Steven said, […]

Daytime Emmy Awards 2013 nominations announced

May 1, 2013 StayTuned Staff

The Daytime Emmy Awards 2013 nominations were announced Wednesday, and the top networks were CBS with 50 nods, PBS with 44 and ABC with 43. Nearly half of those CBS nominations came from The Young and the Restless, which was the top individual earner with 23, followed by ABC soap General Hospital (19) and NBC’s Days of Our Lives (17). PBS’ Sesame Street also earned 17, including one for Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash, who has been dogged by accusations of improper conduct toward minors. Game show host Monty Hall of Let’s Make a Deal fame, and the late legendary producer […]