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Big Women: Big Love Episode 1 Recap: Curly Fries and Creepy Guys

January 5, 2015 Kellie Freeze

A new year, a new obsession-worthy show. If you’ve like me and caught Big Women: Big Love Episode 1, you’ve already counting down the days until episode 2. It has everything you want in mindless reality TV, beautiful single women (some of them self-loathing) who make questionable choices in their search for love. The only big difference here from other reality shows in TV, is that these women are big. Like much of the population, these women are overweight. But unlike most reality TV (and much of TV in general) this demographic has been largely ignored, or relegated to the […]

Five Women Search for Soulmates on “Big Women: Big Love”

January 1, 2015 Kellie Freeze

The search for true love is a difficult one, but five plus-sized beauties open their loves and hearts as they embark on this very personal journey. Lifetime’s new docuseries, Big Women: Big Love, premiering Jan. 1, shines a light on the lives of plus-size daters and presents an unflinching look into the romantic adventures of five brave singletons. I love dating shows. I simply love watching people fall in love. I am a softie, a romantic, and I root for the lovelorn. Plus-size faces aren’t regularly seen on the TV landscape, so more than watching these women achieve their goals […]

Rob Lowe gets “Beautiful And Twisted” On Lifetime

December 30, 2014 Lori Acken

Full disclosure: I love me a juicy Lifetime original movie. If it’s based on the kind of salacious true-crime tale that launched several salacious true-crime TV networks, so much the better. If it features Rob Lowe behind the wheel of the Batmobile, and arguing with his onscreen wife while sporting only a pair of Batman briefs … color me sold with a capital S. “Here’s the thing — if you want me to say yes to a part, if I get to wear Batman underpants, it’s a safe assumption that I’m gonna say yes,” jokes the famously self-deprecating Lowe (see […]

Lifetime’s Whitney: Angela Bassett on telling Houston’s love story in her directorial debut

December 29, 2014 Lori Acken

Celebrated actress Angela Bassett was dining with her pal and Betty & Coretta producer Larry Sanitsky when the prolific filmmaker mentioned his struggle to find the right director for his newest project — a biographical film about the late pop superstar Whitney Houston. Bassett, who bonded with Houston when they filmed 1995’s Waiting to Exhale and hoped to spread her wings in the entertainment industry, wondered if fate had come calling. “To be at the helm of this, you go in knowing that she’s so beloved and she’s so magnificent that there are going to be some who are not going […]

Dance Moms Season 5 premieres with two-hour event

December 29, 2014 Lori Acken

Could it be the revenge of Kelly and Christi is finally upon us? In the preview clip for the Jan. 6 season 5 premiere of Lifetime’s once-mighty Dance Moms, just four of the series’ original dancers — Maddie and Mackenzie Ziegler, Nia Frazier and Kendall Vertes — appear in the studio, and Kendall’s mom Jill forewarns of former Dance Moms Christi Lukasiak and Kelly Hyland’s plan to “destroy the ALDC.” Even the splashy graphics announce that ABBY’S EMPIRE IS FALLING APART! But first, let’s have a little Girl Talk. Part Two. Before the Season 5 premiere episode — pointedly titled “99 Problems But A […]

Project Runway: Threads Episode 7 Recap: Cover Look

December 11, 2014 StayTuned Staff

This week on Project Runway: Threads, Vanessa introduced three new contestants to their prize package totaling $25,000 and a chance to launch their career in designing. Host Vanessa Williams shoe and clothing designing expert, is joined each week by Christian Siriano the youngest designer to win Project Runway, YouTube fashion guru Ingrid Nilsen and special guest Gina Kelly, fashion director for Seventeen Magazine. With the prize package including $10,000 for any Joann fabric and craft store, a scholarship for a summer program offered by FIDM, a Brother home set of sewing and embroidering machines and having one of their designs […]

Wally Lamb’s “Wishin’ and Hopin'” comes to Lifetime

December 6, 2014 Lori Acken

Fans of Wally Lamb’s hefty New York Times bestsellers She’s Come Undone, The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is True may have been a bit suspect when he penned a slim little Christmas novella in 2010. Then they opened the book and fell in love with the ’60s-era tale of Felix Funicello (proud cousin of Annette) and his fellow fifth-graders at St. Aloysius Gonzaga Catholic school, whose insular worlds are rocked by the arrival of French-speaking substitute teacher Madame Frechette and worldly Russian classmate Zhenya. Executive produced by Lamb and starring Molly Ringwald, her Sixteen Candles […]

Project Runway: Threads Episode 6 Recap: Monster Mashup

December 5, 2014 StayTuned Staff

This week on Project Runway: Threads, Vanessa introduced three new contestants to their prize package totaling $25,000 and a chance to launch their career in designing. Host Vanessa Williams, shoe and clothing designing expert, is joined each week by Christian Siriano, the youngest designer to win Project Runway, YouTube fashion guru Ingrid Nilsen and special guest Jasmine Snow, senior fashion editor for Seventeen magazine. With the prize package including $10,000 for any Jo-Ann fabric and craft store, a scholarship for a summer program offered by FIDM, a Brother home set of sewing and embroidering machines and having one of their […]

Lifetime’s ‘The Red Tent’ Is Beautiful and Timeless

December 4, 2014 Kellie Freeze

When author Anita Diamant’s novel The Red Tent was published, readers praised the book for giving a voice to women who had been all but ignored in ancient and sacred texts. The bestseller has become a book club favorite because of its cross-generational appeal and frank exploration of the lives of women — especially concerning ancient fertility and birthing rituals. Now Lifetime gives history’s forgotten women a face in the four-hour, two-night miniseries The Red Tent by re-envisioning the lives of biblical women whose actual histories have been lost to the sands of time. In The Red Tent, the bond […]

Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever

November 25, 2014 Kellie Freeze

America’s favorite sourpuss is leaping from the world of Internet memes to the small screen in her first movie, Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever. Grumpy Cat found stardom when a picture of the kitty with the permanent scowl first appeared online. And when owner Tabatha Bundesen posted a YouTube video, she reveals, “Within 36 hours we had over a million views, and within three days, we were getting media requests.” But Grumpy the cat is actually not grumpy. “She’s actually very calm and sweet,” says Bundesen. “Grumpy is actually only a reputation.” In the Lifetime holiday film, Grumpy Cat lives […]