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“Dance Moms” finale recap: Behind Barres

April 4, 2012 Lori Acken

And so it ends … with another come-from-behind triumph for Chloe, a day of reckoning for Abby, an applause-worthy lecture from Dr. Holly and a ballet instructor who looks like Robert Goulet. But, it doesn’t end for long, since all-new eps will be back in June — and so will Abby despite her tearstained little hissy-pissy tonight. Mark my words. We ended last season — and several episodes this season — thinking Maddie and Mac might not be back, and there they were without a mention of The Troubles come the season 2 premiere. We may see Abby being fanned […]

Lifetime’s hit original film “The Client List” returns as a weekly series

March 30, 2012 Lori Acken

In 2010, actress Jennifer Love Hewitt and Lifetime teamed up to put a timely twist on the network’s oft-lamented “woman in peril” film fodder. Hewitt executive-produced and starred in The Client List, a sobering tale of a housewife who resorts to desperate means to save her house from foreclosure and her family from financial ruin. Though some derided the ripped-from-the-headlines tale as tawdry, the film touched a nerve with viewers, garnering impressive ratings and earning Hewitt a Golden Globe nomination for her performance. This month, The Client List returns as a 10-episode series that reunites Hewitt with venerable actress Cybill […]

“Dance Moms: Miami” pics — meet the moms!

March 29, 2012 Lori Acken

The countdown has begun to Tuesday’s scorching debut of Lifetime’s Dance Moms: Miami, immediately following the tear-soaked “Abbygeddon” season finale of the wildly popular Pittsburgh flagship. • Dance Moms: Miami first pics! And we finally have official pics of the Miami mamas! Ladies and gents, meet Anicia Gutierrez, Debi Epstein, Abby Small, Brigette Bernier Triana and Susan Kennedy! Anicia is the mother of adorable, tiny Kimberly Kopke: Debi is the mother of Hannah Epstein, shown here in the red shorts with instructors Angel Armas and Victor Smalley and her duet partner, Sammy Small: Below is Sammy with her mom, Abby, and her […]

“Dance Moms” recap: There’s Just One Me In Team

March 28, 2012 Lori Acken

Does anyone else besides me remember how we were feeling when we reached the eleventh episode of Season 1? The Maddie-versus-Chloe showdown had reached a fever pitch, with the two duking it out onstage in a stunner of a Black Swan duet, battling for solo supremacy, and about to face off in the competition of their lives. No, not Nationals. Noooo, not for a spot in the Joffrey ballet school. Not even for the top of the all-hallowed pyramid. Nay, they were throwing down for a spot in a music video for a girl named Lux! Turns out we were talking […]

“Dance Moms” recap part 2: A Big Baby Wrote Me A Letter

March 22, 2012 Lori Acken

Aaaaaand we’re back. At the halfway mark, we’re finally in Chicago at the Co. Dance competition and convention, and — if Abby is to be believed — unofficial gathering of the Abby Lee Miller fan club, which is everyone. Sadly, she has traded out my dearly beloved lip necklace for a set that looks like slices of a bright blue geode formed themselves a chain gang for committing a crime of fashion. • Missed part one? Read it here. Yep-per, this does appear to be one fancy-pants competition. The stage is beautifully appointed and lit, which will make a nice change […]

“Dance Moms” recap part one: Ode To A Whole Bunch Of Clowns

March 21, 2012 Lori Acken

Oh fer the … First Lifetime takes away the next-day full-episode video on their own website and now it’s gone from iTunes and Amazon, too? And just when I was starting to enjoy being able to exchange the laptop for a bowl of popcorn (snackies AND missiles that can be launched at Abby without harming the flatscreen!) and call the play-by-play come morning at my desk. A fistful of greasy kernels in your general direction, Lifetime. You guys know my memory’s not that good. Cough up those shows. In any case, I’m guessing this one may have a laundry list of […]

“Dance Moms” recap: Warts, Miami And All

March 14, 2012 Lori Acken

Or Dance Moms recap: The Pony, The Swim and A Jerk. Again with the decisions! Whatever you want to call it, this week’s episode begins with Abby blaming last week’s loss at Fire & Ice Elite on the girls, rather than the fact that they did her choreography flawlessly despite having to do it in their judge-mortifying, fan-dancin’ underpants. Which is everyone’s fault but the girls’ and that’s a fact. The pyramid is a complex affair with lots of qualifiers. Bottom of the bottom is Big Mac, who, says Abby, should act “bigger and longer.” A perfectly zen Mac looks like […]

“America’s Most Wanted” gets additional 20 episodes on Lifetime

March 13, 2012 Lori Acken

Bad news for bad guys on the lam! With 12 criminals apprehended since America’s Most Wanted returned to television on Lifetime in December, the network has announced that it will air 20 new episodes of John Walsh’s long-running series. The partnership’s latest arrests, New Mexico fugitives Rufus Byers and Elizabeth Kay Gade, were apprehended less than a week after being profiled on an AMW sex-trafficking special that aired Feb. 24. Byers and Gade were wanted in connection to separate human trafficking and prostitution cases. “America’s Most Wanted has made an immediate impact on Lifetime and, more importantly, John Walsh’s courageous fight to raise much […]

“Dance Moms: Miami”: first pics

March 8, 2012 Lori Acken

Well, things certainly look happier and more cooperative. Maybe it’s the balmy air and sunshine. Or maybe it’s an illusion. Lifetime has released the first pictures from its upcoming spinoff, Dance Moms: Miami, which will premiere April 3 at 10:30 ET following the 90-minute spring finale of the network’s runaway train wreck hit Dance Moms. Based at the sultry south Florida city’s Stars Dance Studio, Dance Moms: Miami follows the triumphs and travails of the school’s owners, renowned contemporary dance teacher Victor Smalley (an instructor on Season 6 of So You Think You Can Dance) and choreographer Angel Armas as they train a diverse group […]

“Dance Moms” recap: Bra Ma Bull

March 7, 2012 Lori Acken

I actually lost sleep last night thinking up titles for this episode’s blog, for there was so much from which to choose — not the least of which of was Cathy proclaiming her husband “The Sausage King of Canton.” “My Beef With Jerkies” was a close runner-up. But for all the hoopla with “Chloe In The Dried-Meat Cat Suit” — easily Cathy’s biggest vengeance victory yet — it was pretty hard to ignore the “I See London, I See France-tastic”-ness of those “Topless Showgirl” outfits Abby dreamed up for the group dance. Which — if you’ve been watching Dance Moms […]