April 2010

It’s the beginning of the end for The Tudors as the hit historical drama begins its fourth and final season on Showtime (HD) April 11. When we left court at the end of Season 3, Henry (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) had just annulled his marriage to Anne of Cleves. Then he took his ire out on his closest adviser, Thomas Cromwell, and had him executed for arranging the failed marriage. And Henry had just taken a liking to Katherine Howard, a young woman with a questionable past and a short future. For Season 4, Joely Richardson joins the cast in the […]

Just because she’s now officially lucky in love, recently engaged star Hilary Duff says she isn’t about to stop playing the girl searching for her soul mate. In Beauty & the Briefcase, which premieres April 18 on ABC Family, Duff plays Lane Daniels, an ambitious New York fashion writer who gets a crack at the big time when she successfully pitches a cover story to Cosmopolitan. Her assignment is to go undercover in the business world — which is overrun with eligible men in suits — and find true love. Lane is looking for the perfect man for her, someone […]

Bill Goldberg has mixed it up with some tough opponents in his career — Hulk Hogan, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Trump — and now he’s setting his sights on a much more relatable foe: “crappy garage syndrome.” As the new host of DIY‘s Garage Mahal — which starts its second season April 9 — the former wrestling superstar acts as ringleader to massive renovation projects aimed at decrepit, filthy garages and transforming them into glorious living spaces. This often means there’s a theme involved, and some of this season’s makeovers include turning garages into a British pub, a Vegas casino, […]

Baby boomers represent one quarter of Americans. Well educated and economically savvy, most are hardly the epitome of old codgers in rocking chairs. And while retirement communities, particularly in the Sun Belt, have been growing for years, it’s taken a bit longer for Hollywood to give boomers a series all their own. Now there’s the reality series Sunset Daze, premiering April 28 on WE tv. It follows a group of retirees in sun-drenched Surprise, Ariz., who make it clear that getting older doesn’t have to mean losing that sense of adventure. A boomer myself, I was more than happy to […]

A near-deserted street in Chicago’s market district is hardly the spot where one would expect to find an upscale restaurant known for cutting-edge cuisine. The experience in Moto’s sleek and stark dining room can last up to five hours. During it, customers are treated to edible menus that taste deliciously like crostini or cotton candy, fish that cooks in insulated polymer boxes at the table, red wines spun into white in a centrifuge, and sugarless desserts as sweet as anything coming from a French pastry chef. Chef Homaru Cantu’s unique approach to cuisine is featured in the series Future Food, […]