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Dance Moms recap: Mutiny On The Abby

January 8, 2013 Lori Acken

Tonight’s episode of Dance Moms begins with another parking lot conference, during which the mothers decide it’s their job to determine whom the competition team will be at the studio that belongs to Abby Lee. Even Holly’s onboard. She says they must stand up for what is right. Like telling a business owner how to run her business. To put their plan into action, they begin by gliding silently past an incredulous Abby and hiding out in the ladies room. Then they come out of the ladies room. They sit across from Abby and have themselves a silent pout. Atta […]

Double Divas on Lifetime follows LiviRae Lingerie owners Molly Hopkins, Cynthia Richards

January 8, 2013 Barb Oates

Double Divas on Lifetime opens the doors to Atlanta-based LiviRae Lingerie, a specialty store that touts: “Got Boobs? LiviRae’s Got Bras.” Molly Hopkins and Cynthia Richards are the owners of LiviRae Lingerie and have long-been a standout with their custom bras and hands-on approach to fitting a woman correctly. Double Divas airs on Lifetime Tuesdays at 10pm ET/PT. The series comes from the producers of Say Yes to the Dress and follows Hopkins and Richards in action at LiviRae’s as they interact with clientele in a funny, touching and completely candid way. Cynthia is the Thomas Edison of custom lingerie. […]

Dance Moms recap: Angels and Demons and A Guy Named Mark

January 1, 2013 Lori Acken

Well, all you Dance Moms fans who skipped out on Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition, you missed yourself quite a spectacle. Not to mention some context about Abby’s snazz-tastic new look and Hollywood attitude — and all the helpless AUDC references I am going to make until I get it out of my system. But back in Pennsylvania, it’s the first day back after competition season break and there are hugs all around — except that Kelly and the Hyland girls are nowhere to be found. Christi, however, has been growing out her hair, looks like Jill cut hers, and I […]

Neve Campbell plays a small-town cop with scary secrets in Lifetime’s “An Amish Murder”

January 1, 2013 Lori Acken

With her fresh-scrubbed beauty and natural self-possession, actress Neve Campbell makes a believable ex-Amish heroine in Lifetime’s new original film, An Amish Murder. The twisty mystery, based on Linda Castillo’s best-selling novel Sworn to Silence, features the Party of Five favorite as Kate Burkholder, an Amish exile from tiny Painter’s Mill, Ohio, who comes back home as its chief of police and finds herself embroiled in a gruesome serial murder case that dredges up horrific memories from her youth. Joined by a visiting detective (Rookie Blue’s Noam Jenkins) with demons of his own, Burkholder finds it increasingly difficult to separate […]

Josh Shipp brings his teen-taming ways to Lifetime’s “Teen Trouble”

December 27, 2012 Lori Acken

Josh Shipp should have grown up a thug. Abandoned at birth and shuttled from one abusive foster home to the next, he was suicidal and addicted by the time he hit adolescence. Instead, thanks to the intercession of his final set of foster parents who took him at age 14 and allowed him be jailed for forging checks, Shipp defied his demons and became a leading interventionist for families and teens in crisis. In Lifetime’s sobering new reality show, Teen Trouble, the now 31-year-old father of two travels to the homes of kids on the brink to help them and […]

“America’s Supernanny” Deborah Tillman’s holiday survival guide for parents

December 17, 2012 Lori Acken

Christmas is but a week away, and if your kids are going a little off the deep end while waiting for the Jolly Old Elf himself — or if you’re dreading the long car or plane ride to Grandma’s — child expert Deborah Tillman, star of Lifetime’s America’s Supernanny: Family Lockdown, offers these words of advice. How to survive car trips/flights with young children Remember that preparation is the key: • Stories on audiotapes are a terrific way to pass the time and educate at the same time. • Car games like “I Spy” are fun for children. • Allow […]

Shelley Long reunites with George Wendt for Lifetime’s “Merry In-Laws”

December 14, 2012 Lori Acken

Shelley Long is a self-professed proud pushover for appearing in holiday films. So when she was asked to play Mrs. Santa Claus herself — opposite a certain former costar — in Lifetime’s new original film Merry In-Laws, she considered it a little Christmas miracle. “I love doing Christmas movies and I’ve easily done half a dozen — probably more,” Long chuckles. “The minute they say it’s a Christmas movie, it approaches my heart. So I read it and I thought it was very cute and fun — and then somebody mentioned that maybe George was going to do it. And […]

Brianna Haire wins Season One of Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition!

December 13, 2012 Lori Acken

Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition has named it’s first champ — and she is 13-year-old Brianna Haire of Temecula, California. In Tuesday night’s emotional final, the consistent, kind Brianna bested technical wiz Madison O’Connor and 7-year-old series lightning rod Asia Ray to win a $100,000 cash prize and full scholarship to the Young Dancer Program at New York’s Joffrey Ballet School. Before naming her the show’s Season 1 winner, AUDC judge and Dance Moms star Abby Lee Miller praised Brianna’s warrior attitude and ability to take and apply correction. But it was the girl’s emotional openness on and off the stage […]

Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition finale: Brianna wins!

December 11, 2012 Lori Acken

We’ve reached the end of the road Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition fans. The final curtain. And Abby’s determined to send the best dancer possible to the Joffrey Ballet School on the wings of her good reputation and name. How determined? This determined: Determined. We start with Mads calling dad to report the good news of her place in the final three and to check in on Grandma. Coreen tells us that Madison has been in dance since the age of 3 and competing since age 6. The duo are hoping for victory so Joffrey can be a stepping stone to Madison’s […]

Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition recap: Cirque du No Way!

December 4, 2012 Lori Acken

And we’re down to the final four on this week’s Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition! Abby even knows who she’d pick for a winner — a dancer with Amanda’s feet, Brianna’s strength, Asia’s face and Madison’s leaps and turns. But given that no such creature exists, let’s get on with the competition. This week, the challenge is balance. The theme is The Circus. And the product placement is Paramount’s only-in-theaters 3D movie experience Cirque du Soleil’s World’s Away — which the girls are going to be the very first people to get a peek at. But this isn’t just a special treat for […]