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Kim Kardashian lands love interest role on “Drop Dead Diva”

January 27, 2012 Lori Acken

Maybe an actual angel from heaven — or at least purgatory — will finally be the one to win Kim Kardashian’s heart for good. Or least for a multiple-episode story arc. On a fictional television show. Kardashian has landed a guest-starring role on the fourth season of the Lifetime favorite Drop Dead Diva, playing Nikki, the new paramour of Jane’s adorable guardian angel, Fred (Ben Feldman, right). But the very unreal gent faces some very real romantic challenges when Nikki teams up with his former dream girl — and Jane’s bestie — Stacy (April Bowlby) in a new business venture. “I’m […]

“Dance Moms” recap: Brooke turns away

January 25, 2012 Lori Acken

Considering how well the gang did against the Candy Apples on the Apples’ home turf last week, you’d think everybody would be in a better mood ’round the ol’ Abby Lee Dance Studio. Not so. After Abby Lee demands the girls and Moms give themselves a big round of applause for indeed making the Apples into applesauce, the mood turns somber again. We’re going back to Starbound in New Jersey, but this time we’re going as National Champs. So let’s start on a high note and begin the journey with the Pyramid of Doom. First up in the bottom row […]

Updated! “America’s Most Wanted” makes three captures since Lifetime debut

January 24, 2012 Lori Acken

Lifetime has announced that America’s Most Wanted — John Walsh’s venerable crime-fighting series, which was dropped by FOX last June — has garnered its first captures since being picked up for a 25th season by the female-skewing network in December. Antonio Barnes and Earl Jackson — who’d been on the lam since an Oct. 2009 shootout in Washington, DC, that killed two people and injured five — were apprehended Jan. 14 in Charlotte, N.C., after an AMW viewer saw them on the show’s Jan. 6 episode and called its information tip line. Multiple local and federal law enforcement agencies were involved […]

“Dance Moms” recap: Return of the Candy Apples

January 18, 2012 Lori Acken

Forgive me, Dance Mom Nation, for I am an episode behind, having been sequestered at a hotel in Pasadena covering the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour. I’m all caught up now and will recap the premiere (I think. Eventually.), but in the interest of staying current, let’s forge ahead with last night’s humdinger, “Return of the Candy Apples.” • Watch “Return of the Candy Apples and other full episodes of Dance Moms online Before I dive in, let me issue a correction to early posts in which I said Brooke and MacKenzie did not return for this second season. […]

“Dance Moms: Miami” coming soon says Lifetime

January 17, 2012 Lori Acken

Watch your Pilates-toned backs, Bravo Housewives! Looks like Lifetime has found a lady-centric reality franchise of its own in the Dance Moms. With the popularity of the original Pittsburgh-based Dance Moms reality spectacle (now airing its second season Tuesday nights at 9) at a fevered pitch, Lifetime has announced it will air six hour-long episodes of Dance Moms: Miami, set at the sultry south Florida city’s Stars Dance Studio. 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 train a diverse group of […]

Lifetime shakes things up for “Project Runway All Stars”

January 5, 2012 Tom Comi

For those who complain that their favorite shows run out of steam due to over-exposure, Lifetime might have come up with a suitable solution by bringing back some designers from previous seasons of Project Runway but with a new host, mentor and judges. Fans who tune in to Project Runway All Stars tonight at 9pm ET will see some of the favorite and least favorite contestants from the past several years, but what they won’t see is host Heidi Klum, mentor Tim Gunn or judges Michael Kors and Nina Garcia. Stepping in for this series will be model Angela Lindvall […]

“Project Runway All Stars” Says ‘Auf’ With The Old, In With The Old?

December 21, 2011 StayTuned Staff

Fans are in for a real shakeup when the new Project Runway All Stars premieres on Lifetime, Jan. 5. No Heidi Klum. No Michael Kors. No Nina Garcia. And — gasp — no Tim Gunn. Instead, the Project Runway spinoff will feature model Angela Lindvall as host, Marie Claire’s editor in chief Joanna Coles as mentor, and designers Isaac Mizrahi and Georgina Chapman as judges. Not to worry, though. There will still be plenty of familiar faces. The returning “All Stars” are some of the most beloved designers — Mondo Guerra, Austin Scarlett, Sweet P — from seasons past, and […]

Christi Lukasiak talks “Dance Moms” Season 2!

December 14, 2011 Lori Acken

“A year ago, I was sitting on my porch with a Flip camera talking about how crazy my dance studio is,” laughs Christi Lukasiak, cuddling her toddler daughter Clara while on break from shooting a brand-new episode of the runaway Lifetime reality hit Dance Moms. “A year later, we’re on national television and heading into our second season!” • MORE: Lifetime announces plans for Dance Moms: Miami Fans recognize the bold, blond thirtysomething as unofficial leader of the posse of four put-upon mothers united by their daughters’ training at the nationally known, Pittsburgh-based Abby Lee Dance Company — and the […]

“Dance Moms” returns to Lifetime January 10

December 6, 2011 Lori Acken

From Lifetime: Ever since it wrapped its hit first season shrouded in sequins, costumes and fiery catfights, die-hard fans have been clamoring for more of Lifetime’s fast-rising docu-series Dance Moms. Last summer’s most talked about show, featuring infamous dance instructor Abby Lee Miller, her world-class students and their mothers, Dance Moms will take its long-awaited leap back into the world of competitive dance on Tuesday, January 10, 2012, at 9pm PT/ET. • MORE: Read Channel Guide’s exclusive interview with Dance Mom Christi Lukasiak! Dance Moms will debut prior to the premiere of Lifetime’s new fashion competition series 24 Hour Catwalk, […]

“America’s Most Wanted” finds a new home on Lifetime

November 3, 2011 Lori Acken

And you thought Lifetime was just a girly-girl movie network. Giving A&E, TLC, Discovery I.D. and other networks featuring true-crime series a run for their money — and their diverse viewership — the network has announced that it is the new home of the granddaddy of the fugitive-hunting-TV genre, John Walsh’s America’s Most Wanted, which was cancelled as a weekly series by Fox in June. Walsh will return to host the series’ remarkable 25th season, which will feature 20 all-new, late-breaking cases and continue its signature effort to empower the viewing audience to help authorities hunt down America’s most dangerous criminals. […]