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Channel Guide interviews Leif Garrett!

July 5, 2012 Lori Acken

In the interest of full disclosure, I was one of the approximately 40 bazillion teenage girls who plastered their bedroom walls with posters of Leif Garrett throughout the ’70s and ’80s. In fact, I had it so bad for the sleepy-eyed, flaxen-haired heartthrob that my best bud and I would spend hours throwing suction-tip darts at the images and smooching whichever one we hit. So when I finally scored an interview with Garrett, Channel Guide‘s copy chief, Jill, encouraged me not to share that particular story — or as she sagely put it, “Don’t lead with the crazy.” I […]

7 Questions With … Les Gold of truTV’s “Hardcore Pawn”

July 3, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Les Gold has to be a tough guy a lot in his business, running a pawn shop in rough-and-tumble Detroit. This is the side audiences have seen and grown to love over five seasons of truTV’s Hardcore Pawn, which follows the daily goings-on at American Jewelry & Loan, which Gold owns and operates with his two grown children Ashley and Seth. But there’s also an undeniable warmth to Gold as well, and as he took some time to answer our “7 Questions,” this was the side we got to know. Outside this conversation, he revealed that he’s working on a […]

“Impractical Jokers” to return to truTV for Season 2

June 21, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Get ready for more hidden-camera hilarity as truTV has ordered a second season of Impractical Jokers. The series, featuring four lifelong friends who take dares to a ridiculous level, will return in December with 15 new episodes, according to a release. Stars Brian “Q” Quinn, James “Murr” Murray, Joe Gatto and Sal Vulcano announced the pickup with a special video to their fans posted on their Facebook fan page. RELATED: truTV’s “Impractical Jokers” mixes “Candid Camera” with “Jackass”

7 Questions With … Ron Shirley of truTV’s “Lizard Lick Towing”

June 8, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Talking with Ron Shirley is, to borrow one of his phrases (a.k.a. “Ronisms”), more fun than a possum in a persimmon tree. The burly Southerner is back for another season of truTV’s Lizard Lick Towing, which the network bills as an “actuality” series about the goings-on at a repossession business in rural North Carolina. The series returns for a brand new season at 10pm June 11. 1. You’re at a magazine rack and can only pick three titles. Which ones do you choose? MAD Magazine, Field & Stream and People. 2. Aside from Lizard Lick Towing, of course, if your […]

Sneak Peek: “Impractical Jokers” returns to truTV March 29

March 22, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Ever since it premiered in December, we’ve been getting lots of comments and questions about Impractical Jokers. With its irreverent, but oddly warmhearted, mixture of Candid Camera and Jackass, the show about four lifelong friends who love to prank each other in public has won over fans. They’ll be happy to know the series returns to truTV March 29 with new episodes at 10pm and 10:30pm. Here’s a sneak peek.

Watching the NCAA Tournament in Las Vegas

March 16, 2012 Tom Comi

It wouldn’t be March without the madness of the NCAA college basketball tournament, and I admit I never thought there would be anything more exciting than attending these games in person. Until this week. I had the pleasure of being in Las Vegas yesterday for the first 16 games of the second round, and I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. Thousands upon thousands of sports fans descend upon Sin City with the hope of riding the play of college athletes to financial glory. Being a giant sports fans but not a savvy gambler, I showed up to […]

“Duke ’91 & ’92: Back to Back” Sunday on truTV

March 9, 2012 Ryan Berenz

College basketball fans may have a love/hate relationship with the Duke Blue Devils, but there’s no doubting that the program is one of the most successful and influential of the past 20 years. On Sunday, March 11, at 8pm ET on truTV, former Duke standouts Christian Laettner and Grant Hill team up to present Duke ’91 & ’92: Back to Back, a documentary about Duke’s repeat NCAA championship seasons in 1991-92. The film also features teammates and coaches revealing never-before-told stories, including highlights from the team’s 20-year reunion. Coming off the 1990 loss to UNLV in the championship game, some […]

2012 NCAA Tournament TV schedule

March 6, 2012 Ryan Berenz

Click here for the 2012 NCAA Tournament TV Schedule Which will it be this year: an NCAA men’s basketball tournament dominated by the high seeds or a tournament with brackets busted by the underdogs? The tournament’s script seems to ebb and flow between the two extremes in recent years, with the strongest (2008) and the weakest (2011) Final Four fields in history happening in only a three-year span. Historically, if you add up the seeds of Final Four teams, you typically get a number between eight and 11. A look at recent tournaments reveals how much that number has fluctuated: […]

NCAA Tournament Selection Show Sunday on CBS

March 6, 2012 Ryan Berenz

CBS has a big day of college basketball on Sunday, March 11, as the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament field is set. The broadcast day on CBS includes the Road to the Final Four show at 12pm ET, followed by the Atlantic 10 Championship Game at 1pm ET, the Big Ten Championship Game at 3:30pm ET and the NCAA Basketball Championship Selection Show at 6pm ET. Immediately following the selection show, truTV will air Infiniti Hardcore Brackets at 7pm ET, a one-hour show analyzing the brackets and giving viewers unprecedented access to the selection process. Press release from CBS and Turner […]

truTV’s “Impractical Jokers” mixes “Candid Camera” with “Jackass”

December 14, 2011 StayTuned Staff

By Stacey Harrison Follow @ChannelGuideSRH Only best friends could humiliate each other so thoroughly. That’s the thinking behind the new hidden-camera comedy series Impractical Jokers, which features four longtime bros who put each other through dares aimed at maximizing public humiliation. This is accomplished by sending each man out individually and having what he says and does be dictated to him by his cackling buddies, who are feeding him their demands through an earpiece. In trying to get customers at a White Castle counter to leave tips, that means having to be flirtatious, staying completely silent, or even saying everything […]