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Cycling High: Doping to Win
Documentary

“Cycling High”: Inside the Lance Armstrong scandal

April 16, 2013 Ryan Berenz

Cycling High: Doping to Win on National Geographic Channel Sunday, April 21, at 7pm ET goes inside the doping scandal that brought down cyclist Lance Armstrong, looking at the science, eyewitness testimonies, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) Report and expert interviews to piece together the conspiracy and how it fell apart. From the National Geographic Channel press release: WINNING AT ANY COST!?! BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS. EPO. INJECTIONS. DECEPTION. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL GOES INSIDE THE STORY OF THE SCIENCE AND SCHEMING BEHIND LANCE ARMSTRONG’S EPIC FALL FROM GRACE Cycling High: Doping to Win Premieres on NGC Sunday, April 21, at 7PM ET/PT […]

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Drama

Second soundtrack from ABC’s “Nashville” to be released May 7

April 16, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Big Machine Records and ABC Studios have announced that a second soundtrack from ABC’s hit drama Nashville will be released May 7. The project, titled The Music of Nashville (Season 1, Volume 2) will feature new music from Connie Britton (who plays Rayna Jaymes on Nashville), Hayden Panettiere (who plays Juliette Barnes), Charles Esten (Deacon Claybourne), Jonathan Jackson (Avery Barkley), Clare Bowen (Scarlett O’Connor), Sam Palladio (Gunnar Scott) and Stella Sisters Lennon and Maisy Stella (Maddie and Daphne Conrad), who all perform in each episode weekly. Producers T Bone Burnett, Buddy Miller, Gabriel Witcher, Garth Fundis, Frank Liddell, Dan Auerbach […]

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Reality TV

Storage Wars returns tonight for Season 4 on A&E, Jeff Dunham guest stars

April 16, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Storage Wars Tuesday, April 16 A&E, 9 & 9:30pm ET Despite all the off-screen drama — including the suicide of one cast member, and another cast member suing the producers claiming the show is fake — Storage Wars returns tonight for Season 4 with two new episodes. In “Auctioning for Dummies,” Darrell Sheets finds his way back to Stanton, Calif., after having scored the biggest haul in the show’s history. Viewers will also see one of the final appearances of Mark Balelo, who was found dead in February in the garage of his Simi Valley business after inhaling exhaust fumes […]

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Reality TV

Urine Drinker wins Strangest “My Strange Addiction”

April 16, 2013 Ryan Berenz

The Urine Drinker from TLC’s My Strange Addiction continues to claim the accolades from our readers. After winning the 2012 Channel Guide Viewer’s Voice Award for Most Outrageous Program Title, the top seed in the Strangest “My Strange Addiction” Tournament stomped through the field to ascend the throne as Sovereign of the Strange. Click here to view the full tournament matchups, results and bracket.

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News & Current Events

Boston Marathon bombing affects prime-time lineup, late-night monologues

April 15, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Monday’s bombing at the Boston Marathon, during which three people were killed and scores were wounded, led NBC to preempt a new episode of its hit drama Revolution for a prime-time news special covering the fallout. All other non-news networks stuck with their regular schedules, and The Daily Show and The Colbert Report — shows which might have had some difficulty maintaining their regular tone of skewering the news — were on repeat. Jay Leno, David Letterman and Jimmy Fallon were also all in repeats, but Conan O’Brien was new, and the Boston-area native had some remarks about the tragedy: […]

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Documentary

Ken Burns takes new approach to powerful themes in “The Central Park Five”

April 15, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Famed filmmaker Ken Burns may be most known for his documentary productions focused on various historical periods of America, but they often also touch on elements and themes that run throughout our nation’s history, including the present day. This ability to find the common issues that America has dealt — and continues to deal — with is one of the things that makes Burns’ films so compelling. So while his latest effort, The Central Park Five, may seem a departure for him — and it is, at least technically, not relying heavily on black-and-white photos from long-ago eras, or narration, […]

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Movies

On Demand DVD New Releases April 15-21

April 15, 2013 Meredith Ennis

On Demand DVD New Releases April 15-21: Celebrate sending off your taxes with a movie! There’s a handful of new releases to choose from this week, including the Oscar-winning Django Unchained. If documentaries are more your speed, try Sushi: The Global Catch; for kids, consider A Monster in Paris or the animated Iron Man:Rise of Technovore. 33 Postcards A man is surprised when the young Chinese orphan he has sponsored for many years arrives in Sydney unexpectedly to thank him. Guy Pearce, Zhu Lin, Claudia Karvan (NR, 1:34) 4/15 3 Blind Saints When Sam’s latest scheme blows up, he and his cohorts Jamal and Frankie have […]

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Drama

Can Syfy’s “Defiance” usher in a new era of interactive storytelling?

April 15, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Updated April 15, 1:08pm CT Given the popular Syfy shows that its three executive producers — Kevin Murphy (Caprica), Michael Taylor (Battlestar Galactica) and Rockne S. O’Bannon (Farscape) — have been involved with, the ambitious new Syfy series Defiance at the very least should have plenty of fan interest. Add to that the fact that it unfolds as not only a series but also a multi-platform video game, and that should really have fanboys and -girls intrigued. Defiance is set in 2046, when Earth has been transformed and its landscape permanently altered by the sudden and tumultuous arrival of seven […]