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TLC tells the story best: My Teen Is Pregnant and So Am I …

June 11, 2013 Barb Oates

TLC debuts new series My Teen Is Pregnant and So Am I beginning Tuesdays, June 11 at 10pm ET Seriously, would this not be your worst nightmare? First the disappointment that your teen daughter is pregnant, and then learning you’re going to have a baby, too. Leave it to TLC to find families in this situation (well, they did find Honey Boo Boo) and document their lives in My Teen Is Pregnant and So Am I. The six-episode series (airing Tuesdays at 10pm ET beginning June 11) chronicles their intense emotional journey as they fight through their battles and lean […]

Introducing Medium Martini, Long Island Medium recap “Girls Night In”

June 10, 2013 Barb Oates

Cheers to Long Island Medium Theresa Caputo and her new signature drink the Medium Martini. In the Long Island Medium Season 4 episode “Girls Night In,” Theresa decides to host a girl party — free of the Larrys — where good eats and good conversation with friends would be the focus of the evening. Her harshest critics — Larry Sr. and Larry Jr. — scoffed at the idea, mocking Theresa on not having the hosting abilities to pull it off. “My mom is completely out of touch on how people have a good time,” Larry Jr. tells. Now in my […]

Long Island Medium Season 4 recap “The Gambler”

May 27, 2013 Barb Oates

Long Island Medium Season 4 recap of “The Gambler” Original airdate May 26, 2013 Let’s get a slight distraction out of the way … anyone else thinking that Theresa’s nails are getting just a little obnoxious? Seeing Theresa with candles, those nails and the spiritual aura she creates before a reading is starting to remind me of the old fortuneteller from the local carny. Yikes, clip those things already! In Long Island Medium “The Gambler,” the episode starts with Larry Jr. taking Theresa out for breakfast to butter her up before asking if he could have his pals over to […]

Theresa Caputo connects with negative energy: Long Island Medium Season 4 recap “The Royal Flush”

May 20, 2013 Barb Oates

Long Island Medium Season 4 recap of “The Royal Flush,” original air date Sunday, May 19. Theresa Caputo continues to amaze in Long Island Medium Season 4. In “The Royal Flush,” Theresa experiences a spiritual first when she connects with a negative energy that calls her a whore. The reading started out as any normal reading where Theresa greeted Fran and Jamie, a mother and daughter who came for a private reading. While Theresa ran through her normal shtick on how she works and how she only channel souls that walk in God’s white light, she wasn’t really prepared for […]

Jo Frost talks ‘Family SOS with Jo Frost’ on TLC

May 20, 2013 Lori Acken

As TV’s beloved Supernanny, Jo Frost spent seven seasons coming to the rescue of parents whose tots were creating havoc — but she says she did much of her best counseling when the cameras were off. So Frost pulled the plug on the long-running ABC hit and began contemplating a new show in which she could assist all kinds of clans, not just those in need of the “naughty step.” “I wanted to focus on a format that would allow my expertise to be shown on every level, and I wanted to be able to create a format that allows me […]

Breaking Amish Brave New World preview

May 10, 2013 Lori Acken

The producers of TLC’s Breaking Amish appear to have learned something from the uproar that ensued when the real backstories of their five young cast members threatened to derail the tale they were hoping to tell, even before the series debuted. That is: These men and women are interesting enough without having to return or reduce them to a sort of “what is this food-cooker thing?” bumpkinhood that no one was buying anyway. As its second season — called Breaking Amish: Brave New World — premieres Sunday night at 10/9 CT, the series takes on a more somber, documentary-style feel […]

Toddlers and Tiaras Season 6 premieres June 5 on TLC

May 9, 2013 Lori Acken

Toddlers and Tiaras, TLC’s jaw-dropping reality hit that introduced America to Eden Wood and Honey Boo Boo returns for a sixth season of spray-tanned pageant tots, overbearing parents, Pixy Stix and tantrums June 5 at 9pm ET/PT. And Boo Boo Mama June, you and your Go-Go juice are about to enjoy a little vindication. T&T fans, get ready for the phenomenon of “Tinker Tea” — Mountain Dew, bottled sweet tea and Pixy Stix powder, all mixed together and served up in a nice pink sippy cup. To a two-year-old. A two-year-old who has been starting her day with another sippy […]

My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding Season 2 finale preview

May 3, 2013 Lori Acken

It’s time for a two-hour, two-episode Season 2 finale, My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding fans, and it all begins Sunday night, May 5, at 8/7CT. In the first, “All Bets Are Off,” we have the dual tales of Romanichal bachelors Rodell Stanley, 20, and Teddy Lee, age and last name unknown. Rodell isn’t going to be a bachelor much longer, though, because he’s planning to marry 16-year-old Dorothy Martin, baby sister of the birthday-king twins Tommy and Teddy from the “Double Wedding, Double Trouble” episode a few weeks back. Even though Rodell professes to have lascivious thoughts about every […]

Breaking Amish Brave New World — we talk with Kate and Sabrina

May 1, 2013 Lori Acken

Even before it hit the airwaves last fall, TLC’s reality shocker Breaking Amish stirred up a hotbed of controversy. On a near-daily basis, reporters and former friends of the five cast members revealed the truth behind the supposedly naïve Amish and Mennonite twentysomethings getting their first taste of life in New York City. The show became an instant smash. Now Amish-exile newlyweds Abe and Rebecca Schmucker, rising model Kate Stoltzfus and rebel Jeremiah Raber, and the show’s sole Mennonite Sabrina High are back for a second season called Breaking Amish: Brave New World, which premieres May 12. Attempting a fresh start […]

My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding preview: taboo romances and second chances

April 19, 2013 Lori Acken

On this Sunday’s My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding, my favorite Traveller, Pat Baby, reveals what happened since his Season 1 appearance — plus a same-sex gypsy couple decides to make it official and a Romanichal woman shunned by her community for marrying a gorger hopes their daughter’s elaborate christening will mend fences. In Huntsville, Ala., Romanichal gypsy Tommy and Roma gypsy Ivan are planning their wedding. Both left their communities behind after being bullied by family and friends for being gay, and together they’ve built a happy life and a close-knit family of gorger friends. In proper gypsy-wedding fashion, […]