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Dance Moms Cares and holiday special premiere Dec. 10 on Lifetime

November 13, 2013 Lori Acken

• UPDATE: The Dance Moms Cares special, previously scheduled for Dec. 10, will now air sometime in January 2014, per the show’s publicist. Abby Lee Miller fans, if you’re wondering how to tide yourself over between next Tuesday’s Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition Season 2 finale and the Jan. 1 Dance Moms Season 4 premiere, here’s your answer. On Dec. 10, Lifetime will present a double bill of Dance Moms goodness … er, badness … er, both … with the Dance Moms Holiday Special: ’Twas The Fight Before Christmas and the Dance Moms Cares special. The Dance Moms Holiday Special: ’Twas The Fight […]

Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition recap Season 2 episode 11: Malice in Wonderland

November 12, 2013 Lori Acken

With one week to go to the finale, we’ve reached the point of Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition where the show should theoretically be about dance alone. Am I right? The also-rans have gone home. The remaining dancers are all deserving. The mothers are well-behaved … well, except for Cindy. But her big problem was JoJo and Jessalynn, and they’re back in Nebraska. So nothing but earnest, honest competition and great dancing, yes? No. Cindy just said she would do whatever needs to be done to win this thing. There will still be hysteria. • RELATED: Dance Moms Cares and Dance Moms […]

We talk with Helena Hunt of Lifetime’s Chasing Nashville

November 12, 2013 Lori Acken

Seventeen-year-old Helena Hunt is the lanky wisp of a hippie girl with a sweet voice and a penchant for playing the banjo whose steadfast commitment to her own laid-back style made her an instant fan favorite on Lifetime’s new docuseries Chasing Nashville. “It really just kind of fell in my lap,” Hunt says of her unlikely overnight rise from Clyde, N.C., high-school student to reality TV star. “My chorus teacher was actually contacted by the production company and they just said they were looking for girls my age that could play instruments and sing. She told them about me, and […]

A Country Christmas Story: Dolly Parton stars in new Lifetime holiday film

November 7, 2013 Lori Acken

Lifetime launches its annual holiday programming slate “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” in sweet country style this Saturday night with A Country Christmas Story, featuring the legendary Dolly Parton. The all-new original film stars newcomer Desiree Ross as Grace, a 14-year-old biracial girl from a small Appalachian town who dreams of country music stardom. With the support of her good-natured grandmother Sarah (Mary Kay Place, The Big Chill), her community and her church choir director Mr. Hanley (Ross McCall, White Collar), Grace plans to enter a singing competition at Parton’s Dollywood theme park. Though her girl is clearly talented, Grace’s no-nonsense […]

Chasing Nashville recap: Welcome to Music City

November 5, 2013 Lori Acken

On this week’s Chasing Nashville, it’s time for the ladies to start making their way to Nashville to work with Keith Thomas. He says that less than one half of one percent of hopeful singers are ever offered a recording contact and he’s hoping one of the girls is among the lucky few. Back in Pikeville, it’s time for Savannah’s birthday party, but her parents are arguing over Robyn taking Savannah to Nashville. When the Presleys show up at the party, Robyn tells her dismayed daughter she invited them because they’re new in town. While poor Lauren Marie sits in […]

Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition recap Season 2 episode 10: Livin’ La Diva Loca

November 5, 2013 Lori Acken

Welcome back, Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition fans. Was everyone still awash in the glow of Rachelle’s good deed, using her callback card to save Trinity, when we started this week’s competition with Abby and her pink feathery boa? I know I was. And it didn’t last but a minute. Abby reminds the dancers that there are no more callback cards left, so eliminations from here on out are final. Then she tells them that this week’s theme is Divas, and the skill is performance. Anybody care to guess who we hear from first? La la la la la la … […]

Chasing Nashville recap Season 1 episode 2: ‘Chance of a Lifetime’

October 30, 2013 Lori Acken

We pick up this week’s Chasing Nashville where we left off — the first round of the Hillbilly Days singing competition is over and the next day’s finals are looming. Nashville music exec Keith Thomas says he isn’t just there to hand out checks to the top three performers — he’s there to find talent to take back to Nashville for an upcoming showcase. Savannah says she isn’t nervous about the outcome because she’s been here before and knows the drill. Helena says she’s just happy she made it, because she’s such a plain Jane compared to the other girls. […]

Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition recap Season 2 episode 9: A nightmare on Mom Street

October 29, 2013 Lori Acken

Welcome back to the JoJo Show, er, Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition (now 100% boy-free!), dance fans. And the mini mouth that roared is once again the first one we hear from — reminding us that all of the moms here love hating on her and then demonstrating exactly why that is the case. Abby informs us that each of the remaining five dancers has something special but even she’s not sure which is Abby’s Ultimate yet. Has to be one you can send to the Joffrey with a straight face, Abby. Just making sure that’s still out there. This week’s […]

Dance Moms Season 4 premiere date announced

October 25, 2013 Lori Acken

The new season of Dance Moms will premiere Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014, at 9pm ET/PT, with new episodes airing Tuesdays at 9pm ET/PT. And as the series’ take-no-prisoners star Abby Lee Miller warned the ALDC moms and Dance Moms fans in the Season 3 reunion, she’s taking her show on the road for a nationwide casting tour in search of elite young dancers for her competition team for the new season. Here’s the rest of the Season 4 announcement straight from Lifetime: With the threat of new dancers coming into the company, the dance moms will stop at nothing to make […]

Chasing Nashville recap: Small Town, Big Dreams

October 22, 2013 Lori Acken

I’ll admit it right out of the gate. I’m worried that Lifetime’s new reality series, Chasing Nashville, might devolve into the “Singing Moms” version of Dance Moms — squabbling mothers living vicariously through their talented kids. But I hope I’m wrong, because I’m a sucker for younger buskers trying to make it big and because it took mere minutes for me to become attached to two of the show’s core cast members, Autumn Blair and Helena Hunt. Blair is a 17-year-old coal miner’s daughter from Chloe, W.Va., who dreams of making it big in country music so her dad can […]