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Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition Season 2 episode 8 recap: Shootout at the AUDC corral

October 22, 2013 Lori Acken

Another day, another counter on my screener, so let me just apologize for that right off the cuff, Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition fans. Also, let me thank all of you who engaged in such a spirited debate in the comments section of last week’s blog and for keeping it largely civil, since a large portion of the discussion was about a kid. A frequently obnoxious kid, to be sure. But a kid all the same. I think we can all accept she probably didn’t come out of the womb that way. And the editing room doesn’t help. But it’s also […]

Project Runway All Stars: We talk with new host Alyssa Milano

October 22, 2013 Lori Acken

Alyssa Milano became a household name as the Who’s the Boss? tomboy who graduated to smoldering roles in nighttime soaps like Melrose Place, Charmed and ABC’s summer hit Mistresses. But it’s her passion for fashion — and a bit of luck — that scored Milano her newest role, helming the third season of Lifetime’s Project Runway All Stars, which premieres Thursday at 9pm ET. “That’s actually a really interesting story — and it just goes to show you that you never know what’s going to happen from something that you do,” Milano explains. “I guest-hosted an episode of Fashion Police […]

Chasing Nashville premieres Oct. 22 on Lifetime

October 21, 2013 Lori Acken

With country music hopefuls routinely besting their pop-oriented rivals on singing competitions like The Voice and American Idol, it’s no wonder Lifetime has turned its cameras on young girls hoping that they’re next Carrie Underwood. Chasing Nashville, which premieres Tuesday at 10pm ET/PT, focuses on a group of Appalachia-based warblers as they navigate family pressures, teenage drama and self-doubt for a shot at working with some of Nashville’s top producing talent. • Miss the premiere? Read the catch-up here If the pilot is any indication, Chasing Nashville isn’t quite as over-the-top as the network’s Dance Moms — but with plenty […]

Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition Season 2 Episode 7 recap: Wicked step, mother

October 15, 2013 Lori Acken

This week on Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition, the theme is modern fairy tales. Goldilocks here says she’s got this bad boy wrapped up because she’s a princess from head to toe. Duh. Abby says fairy tales are magical. Tiffany says they’re crap, and it’s guaranteed to be the JoJo Show. Duh. Abby says the sole prince among the princesses is going to have to work extra hard for his fairy tale ending after the stunt he pulled last week. You know, the one where he tried to remain loyal to his twin brother and Abby was all Off With His […]

Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition recap: Broadway, babies

October 8, 2013 Lori Acken

This week on Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition, Cindy is sick of Shari saying “McKaylee,” the theme is Broadway and Rachelle has forgotten her pants. This can only mean one thing — this is Sas we’re dealing with right here, boys and girls. Star of the Broadway stage. Where pants are optional. With a dashing wiggle of her baby brows, JoJo informs us she should already be on Broadway because she is good at singing, dancing and speaking well. Also, wiggling her eyebrows. This week’s skill is versatility and the challenge winner scores the first solo of the season. Rachelle will […]

Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition recap: Hop On Prop

October 1, 2013 Lori Acken

Welcome back, Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition fans. Have we all recovered from last week’s ousting of Kalani? Not Abby. She tells the remaining dancers that this week, we aren’t going to spotlight a particular skill because the theme is all about being unconventional. Then she summons Kalani and Kira from backstage and Abby bestows upon her weeping favorite the precious call-back card. Take THAT, doubting Manno and Richy! Even though Abby herself admits that she never thought she’d use it. She says Kalani didn’t blow it, Richy and Rak did, and she couldn’t live with that. Melanie says Kalani has […]

Witches of East End: Julia Ormond and Jenna Dewan-Tatum play magical mother and daughter in new Lifetime series

September 27, 2013 Lori Acken

Bewitching Hour: Julia Ormond And Jenna Dewan-Tatum Play Magical Mother And Daughter in Lifetime’s “Witches of East End.” Joanna Beauchamp is the fiercely protective single mom of two beautiful daughters — sexy, saucy bartender Freya and sweet-natured librarian Ingrid. Though the girls are grown, Joanna has good reason to keep them close. After all, she has given birth to and buried them a dozen times over the course of several centuries and she isn’t eager to do either again. See, the Beauchamp women are witches cursed to repeat a seemingly unbreakable cycle of birth and death, and Joanna is desperate […]

Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition recap: What happens with Vegas

September 24, 2013 Lori Acken

With nine dancers remaining to battle for the Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition crown, Abby announces that this week’s theme is Las Vegas and the skill is flexibility. Kalani says she’s super-duper flexible, so this should be a cakewalk. Er, dangle. Whatever. Abby reminds everyone that when she says flexibility, she means flexibility not only of the body, but of the mind. Then Shannon Beach, who has toured with Katy Perry and Justin Bieber and says that every one of the dancers is capable of having a career like hers, appears to school the dancers in the silks. Speaking of rock […]

Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition recap Season 2 Episode 3: Gods and Mortals and Monsters

September 18, 2013 Lori Acken

As we begin episode 3 of Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition, we get a look at two very different moms — Angela, who says that Richy saving Chloe from elimination last week was really God tapping her girl on the shoulder, and Melanie, who, with a gleam in her eye, says that there are a lot of moms there who don’t want her daughter Haley to succeed. I think they mostly don’t want Melanie the Mouth to succeed, but I guess they’re a package deal. Then Abby shows up to inform the rank and file that the theme this week is […]

Dance Moms Season 3 reunion recap: A change is gonna come

September 17, 2013 Lori Acken

So this is it, Dance Moms nation. The last words from the Pitt Crew until Season 4 arrives sometime after the new year. Will you miss me as much as I’ll miss you? Will you miss anyone over the age of 30 that has to do with this show, or are you happy to have the break? And are you ready to brave Hurricane Abby? Because here we go. We start out with JC, Executive Producer Superstar and Abby alone on the stage and a recap of the Leslie/Christi disaster last week in New Orleans. Abby says they succeeded in […]