TV Talk: Capt. Phil Harris Remembered, The Muppets Honored
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Prime Time, Reality, Cable,
-The death of Deadliest Catch‘s Phil Harris will be addressed in several specials beginning June 22. Discovery Channel will air interviews with the captain’s colleagues and family on July 20.
-Syfy, already the future home for a cooking show, is getting into the junk business. The network has ordered Hunting Hollywood, a series about Hollywood memorabilia.
-What do Neil Patrick Harris, Tina Fey and The Muppets have in common? They’ll all get stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next year. Other TV celebrities include Oprah and Danny DeVito.
-E! is letting one of its stars do more than just look pretty for the channel. The Spin Crowd, about a reality series about a PR agency, will have Kim Kardashian as a producer.
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Hot in Cleveland Fires Up TV Land Ratings
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Comedy, Prime Time, Cable, Ratings,
TV Land’s much-marketed comedy series, Hot in Cleveland, burned up the cable network’s ratings during its Wednesday night premiere.
The pilot episode scored 4.75 million viewers for the channel, making it the most-watched broadcast in TV Land history.
Hot in Cleveland is an ensemble comedy starring Wendie Malick, Jane Leeves, Valerie Bertinelli and Betty White. It airs on TV Land on Wednesdays at 10:30 pm EST.
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Stars Unite for Gulf Spill Telethon
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Prime Time, Specials, Cable,
Once again, celebrities will be uniting for a good cause—and they weren’t asked by George Clooney to do so.
On Monday, CNN will broadcast a Larry King Live special focused on the BP oil spill. The telethon - Disaster in the Gulf: How You Can Help - will allow viewers to contribute to one of three different charities (The Nature Conservancy, United Way, or the National Wildlife Federation). Donations raised will “go to aid in rebuilding the Gulf Coast.”
Those helping King with the two-hour event include Ryan Seacrest, Chelsea Handler, Sting, Tim McGraw, Kathy Griffin, Alyssa Milano, Deepak Chopra, Pete Wentz, Ted Danson, Robert Redford, Harry Connick Jr., Jenny McCarthy and Philippe Cousteau.
The special will air from 8 to 10 p.m. Eastern.
Read More | E! Online
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TV Extensions, Renewals and Cancellations (6/17)
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Drama, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Cable, Showtime, TNT-HD, Renewals,
Here’s an update on the shows you’ll be seeing more of in the months to come:
RENEWALS
- Breaking Bad (AMC) - Season 4
- The Closer (TNT) - Season 6 **premieres July 12**
- Ghost Hunters (Syfy) - Season 7
- Jerseylicious (Style) - Season 2
- Little People, Big World (TLC) - Season 6
- Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Showtime) - Season 4 **this will also be the final season**
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Review: Hot in Cleveland a Little Lukewarm
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Comedy, Prime Time, Cable, Gossip, Video,
TV Land’s highly-promoted comedy, Hot in Cleveland, premiered Wednesday night. The series has Betty White‘s huge popularity, three more very respectable female comedy stars, and a gigantic marketing budget behind it. But did it deliver true TV heat?
The opening scene of the pilot introduced viewers to three great-looking, stylish women: Wendie Malick’s Victoria Chase, a former daytime TV star; Jane Leeves as Joy Scroggs, the “eyebrow queen of Beverly Hills” and Valerie Bertinelli’s Melanie Moretti, book author.
The sequence began with a series of predictable, female-oriented jokes - age and looks, mainly - but Wendie Malick’s delivery made the scene more believable. The setup: three best friends going to Paris together for a couple of weeks of fun. They traded quips until Melanie (Bertinelli) had an unfortunate run-in on the airplane with her ex-husband, on his way to Paris with his new fiancée. More melodrama ensued when the plane ride became increasingly turbulent. As they began careening toward certain death, Victoria vowed to stop being vain, Melanie to stop being afraid and Joy to stop complaining. The plane landed safely in Cleveland, and that’s when the show really began.
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Kate Gosselin: Looking for a Date
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Prime Time, Reality, ABC, Cable, Gossip, Rumors,
UPDATE: Kate Gosselin’s rep says there is no truth to the rumors that Kate is working toward a dating reality series with ABC, stating: “She doesn’t want to do a dating show; she was never going to do a dating show.”
Rumors are circulating that Kate Gosselin, recently-divorced mom of eight, is working on another reality series deal. An unnamed source says the famed reality mom is “working on a deal to do a new reality dating series on ABC.”
TLC’s Kate Plus 8 has been bringing in solid numbers for the cable network, and Kate already made a splash on ABC during her Dancing With the Stars stint, earning a lot of press during her time on the show. Is she ready to anchor her own prime time reality series? Gossip suggests that ABC thinks so.
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Quote of the Day: Anthony Bourdain Compares Food Network to MTV
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Food & Home, Cable, MTV, Gossip,
“Just like there’s not much music on MTV, there aren’t many chefs on Food Network. Their brand is really, I think it’s clear, not chef-driven. For a period of time, the last thing they wanted, it seemed, was anyone who actually worked in a restaurant or cooked professionally or was authoritative on the subject of food. I think they figured out very quickly that their audience liked to look at barbecue and certain types of foods, particularly familiar ones, that they could imagine sinking their teeth into, so there’s the sort of porn aspect. Then of course, they wanted friendly familiar personalities that made them feel better about themselves.”
-No Reservations’ Anthony Bourdain explaining why he’s not a huge fan of the Food Network. (His show airs on the Travel Channel.)
(Make sure to check out our other notable quotes.)
Read More | Entertainment Weekly
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TV Talk: Pawn Stars Cashes In, Maura Tierney Returns to TV
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Action, Drama, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Cable, HBO, News, Ratings,
-People love sifting through old crap. Monday’s episodes of American Pickers and Pawn Stars broke audience records for the History Channel. Pawn‘s 5.9 million viewers was the network’s largest ever.
-Meanwhile, True Blood sucked up more viewers for its third season premiere. Sunday’s debut attracted 5.1 million viewers, up 38% from Season 2’s open. (That doesn’t count the additional 1.3 million who watched the 11:00 replay.)
-A cancer-free Andy Whitfield will begin preparations for Spartacus’ second season. Production on the show had been put on hold when Andy was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
-Former ER star Maura Tierney is scheduled to star in ABC’s The Whole Truth. She was originally supposed to be part of NBC’s Parenthood, but had to drop out due to breast cancer treatments.
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TV on DVD: June 15, 2010
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Action, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, Cable, CBS, FOX, TNT-HD, WB, Family Guy, DVD,
Here are some of the TV on DVD options available this Tuesday:
- American Dad (Volume 5)
- Everwood (Season 3)
- Family Guy (Volume 8)
- Hawthorne (Season 1)
- Here’s Lucy (Season 3)
- Johnny Bravo (Season 1)
- Leave It to Beaver (Season 3)
- MacGyver: The TV Movies
- My Three Sons (Season 2, Vol. 2)
- Raffles (Complete Collection)
- Sanctuary (Season 2)
- Secret Life of the American Teenager (Season 4)
- Trial & Retribution (Set 4)
- X (Complete Series)
Make sure to also check out the DVD and Blu-ray film options for this week.
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This Week on TV (6/14-6/20)
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Food & Home, Kids, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Bravo, Cable, FOX, NBC, Showtime, Top Chef, Video,
MONDAY (6/14)
- Little People (TLC, 8pm): “A county inspector pays a surprise visit to Roloff Farms and threatens to shut it down before the start of pumpkin season.” A reopening appears as likely as the Great Pumpkin’s arrival.
- Cake Boss (TLC, 9:30pm): “A cake shaped like a pink hearse is created.” It’s like they say, you’ll end up in what you eat.
- The Real Housewives of New Jersey (Bravo, 10pm): “It’s in the cards that Jacqueline will host a poker night, where Danielle’s ex-flame spills more scandalous gossip.” Thank goodness for staged sex tapes, otherwise these ladies would have nothing to talk about.
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